― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic Fluro, Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link
(Tell us more about Daily Dinosaur Comics, Vic? That's the only one mentioned so far that I haven't heard of.)
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Essentially it's a strip which uses the same pictures every day, only changing the words. Withing this limitation it crafts strips of unearthly beauty.
― Vic Fluro, Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic Fluro, Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually, I've scanned back through the archives and stuff that I thought was kind of "meh" in the daily format is great when you read it in a big chunk, like the whole thing with the haunted house and the Harry Potter parodies.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 6 August 2004 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link
That hasn't stopped me from digging through the entire archive like a big fool, so it must have something going for it, much like a car crash.
― Vic Fluro, Friday, 6 August 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
PvP does have way too many moments where Kurtz-the-guy overshadows Kurtz-the-cartoonist, but the best moments are still better than most current newspaper comics. (I realize that these days that's faint praise.)
MegaTokyo, I have no idea how to explain. A lot of weeks, I skip it altogether, and then start reading again without catching up on the old strips. It was definitely better in the beginning, and the art isn't consistent enough any more for that to be my reason for reading. I dunno. You've got me.
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 7 August 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD!!! HELLO, SEXXY WORLD!!!!!
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 7 August 2004 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 7 August 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
It's old.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Fred (Fred), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link
What webcomics are you guys currently reading? (guilty pleasure + not) Like anything you've still got on your RSS feed or do that few month at a time reading session thing? Here are all of mine (way more guilty pleasure* than actual pleasure at this point):
AchewoodComic Critics (thru the Comics Should Be Good feed)Pearls Before Swine (newspaper comic, not webcomic, but in my RSS feed)Penny ArcadePvPQuestionable ContentTom TomorrowxkcdMedium LargeHapple Tea
*Meaning here that it gave me pleasure at one point, or I fell into soap opera'y relationship to the comic and now I just read it because I've been reading it for so long. Only comics in this list I'd strongly go to bat for in the last year are Medium Large + Achewood. Looking for something new and exciting!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, and of course Axe Cop, but I only read that once in awhile.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not sure if my not knowing a word of russian is coloring my view, but I can't think of a better site than caricatura.ru
http://caricatura.ru/parad/vasilenko/pic/15489.gif
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://caricatura.ru/black/alex_gordin/pic/684.jpg
I really like that whoever did this probably did it during a boring lecture on the back of the xeroxed study materials.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I think my favorite is Dinosaur Comics!
― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I used to read Dinosaur Comics every day, but the shtick wears off imo after awhile.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i should stress that the comics on caricatura.ru have a wider range than just people brandishing weapons. (no offense to axe cop)
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 20 July 2010 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
There seems to be a huge concern in axe cop about people joining each other's teams and whatnot -- it is secretly a comic about the formation of community!
― Mordy, Friday, 23 July 2010 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Just noticed that Jason Little's Motel Art Improvement Service (aka Bee) is going to print via Dark Horse next month... good for him!
― Nhex, Friday, 5 November 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://marvel.com/news/story/15347/fear_itself_deadpool
Chris Hastings (Dr. McNinja) writing Deadpool
― Nhex, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.romanticallyapocalyptic.com/
I love it.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Wasn't sure at first, but I was convinced by this one:http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/001/d/7/romantically_apocalyptic_05_by_alexiuss-d2hvyon.jpg
― You're fucking fired and you know jack shit about horses (James Morrison), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Kerr found this one and posted it on the chatz thread. It's amazing:http://nedroid.com/2009/05/party-cat-full-series/
― Mordy, Monday, 11 April 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link
The Nedroid stuff is hilarious sometimes.
I think the only webcomic I read regularly now is Hark, A Vagrant. http://www.harkavagrant.com/
― Bill, Monday, 11 April 2011 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Kate Beaton is awesome.
Anybody ever read Bad Machinery? A lot of webcomics wear out their welcome with me really quickly, but Bad machinery is a long-form serial narrative and quite enjoyable if you don't mind something that adults and teens could both like: http://scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20090921. That narration drops out really quickly (was surprised to see it there).
― rob, Monday, 11 April 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Whoa - I didn't even know John Allison had anything new. I loved Bobbins and Scary Go Round, I don't know when I lost track of him!
― Bill, Monday, 11 April 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
OH man, I envy you getting to read a whole bunch of it at your own pace! I've not read his earlier stuff, but my brother who reads a lot of webcomics thinks Bad Machinery is a big step up from SGR.
― rob, Monday, 11 April 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
SGR definitely went through good and bad patches. I really don't know how I missed this! This is a good week to find out about this, I have a big block of free time on Thursday.
― Bill, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been digging Allison's work for a few years now -- I really think he's brilliant.
Daily webcomic checks: Bad Machinery, Diesel Sweeties, Scenes from a Multiverse*, WIGU and/or Overcompensating depending on what Rowland is focusing on at the time.
*currently sporadic while Rosenberg's wife is going through a difficult pregnancy
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
A lot of webcomics wear out their welcome with me really quickly
Also, I'm with you on this. This was probably what happened with me and Sluggy Freelance, mentioned at the top of the thread, and I still have Order of the Stick in Google Reader because when I first saw it I thought the whole conceit of "D&D characters talk and think in game-mechanics terms" was hilarious, but I haven't actually clicked on the link to read the comic in ages. I don't think it got worse, the novelty just wore off.
― Bill, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Bad Machinery so good!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Bad Machinery is definitely a step up from his previous stuff, which was always pretty fun. Shame to hear that it may not be successful enough for him to keep doing it.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm really tempted to just slowly link-dump this thread... forever
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Shame to hear that it may not be successful enough for him to keep doing it.
Wait, what?
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I never got into scarygoround at the time but I've been following Bad Machinery for the past few months and really like it. The author is a master of the end-of-week cliffhanger, too; the last several end-of-week episodes have got me slightly jittery over the weekend wanting to know what will happen next, which is something I've only had fairly rarely from webcomics before.
(Have since been reading the sgr archives in an attempt to fill that craving, and I like sgr and have no idea why I never read it at the time, but it's definitely not gripping me as much as BM)
BM and Cat & Girl are the only ones I'm checking recently. Have had other favourites, some of which I got bored of, some of which just stopped being updated. And I read BM every time it updates, whereas once a month or two I'll think "not checked C+G for a while" and have a binge.
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 12:00 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
http://sgrblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/super-static-feedback-party.htmlhttp://sgrblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/thanks.html
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
how often does BM update?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Mon-Fri at the moment. It was Mon-Thurs up to last week, but now he's experimentally doing 2 shorter strips on Thurs+Fri instead.
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Very cool! I love a good frequently updated comic!
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 12:24 (thirteen years ago) link
what's the name of the sci-fi comic with a vague interest in posthumanism - ? sort of halfway manga-styled? semi-experimental page layouts? whimsical sense of humour? never updates?
― thomp, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 12:49 (thirteen years ago) link
When did WGW go off script and get personal with anyone here? Unless you're all taking these twee-ass strips to heart and finding your chivalry threatened when they're called out for the shit they are.
I probably need to just take my business over to this thread since both the dolans and the "kids have fun" strips can join hands together and be as one there:
What's the worst online comic strip?
― pplains, Monday, 30 July 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
honestly, i'm just tired of seeing him troll every thread. dude needs to chill (on ILX, i have no business knowing about his personal life)
― Nhex, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
Whiney only trolls on the threads where I disagree with him.
― pplains, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, not true at all.
― Nhex, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
goofy pls
― am0n, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/O0E87.png
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://harkavagrant.com/nonsense/SF1.jpg
― Mordy, Monday, 6 August 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
Patrick Farley's NSFW flash comic The First Word is a hold-onto-your-hats bit of amazement. Wow.
― What percentage of my speech is meaningful? (R Baez), Sunday, 25 November 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
whoa, neat. some inventive animations/transitions
― Nhex, Sunday, 25 November 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
man, that guy's been doing those FOREVER; i remember apocamon from what must've been just around 2000
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 November 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
tbf though, this is a lot better IMO than the stuff he did in the early '00s
― Nhex, Sunday, 25 November 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
oh no doubt! definitely channeling some corben there.
― (alternatively, “Respec’”) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 November 2012 23:44 (eleven years ago) link
corben comparison OTM
― What percentage of my speech is meaningful? (R Baez), Sunday, 25 November 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.tcj.com/webcomics-capsule-reviews-2/
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 February 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/58412851
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/c1ee750cf3a524ee8e5e92a011c4ef2a/tumblr_moipfvh1f01qd18uko1_500.png
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 17 June 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
http://biebercomic.tumblr.com/post/53190105484/biebercomic-sean-t-collins-michael-hawkins
― Mordy , Tuesday, 18 June 2013 03:54 (ten years ago) link
mordy. mordy. no
― Nhex, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 04:51 (ten years ago) link
Nhex and I finally agree on something itt.
― pplains, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
Akkkkk, alterna-lit dudes who write fan-fiction, possibly the worst form of art outside of latte foam sculptures
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/f5ed665773ac517879e54926e5e4fa36/tumblr_my2xcktI9K1rnw5qjo5_500.png
― Mordy , Friday, 20 December 2013 03:59 (ten years ago) link
http://lamezone.net/cosm/img/cosm22.png
― bamcquern, Friday, 20 December 2013 04:19 (ten years ago) link
um.
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 December 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
yeah, that was my reaction.
― Nhex, Friday, 20 December 2013 05:17 (ten years ago) link
reminds me of some of the study group stuff
― Mordy , Friday, 20 December 2013 05:19 (ten years ago) link
http://www.sassquach.com/journal/2013/11/4/boys-night.html
― Dan I., Friday, 20 December 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
yeah, that's written by john landis' kid, who also wrote the movie Chronicle
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 December 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
In January 2012, Variety reported that Disney picked up a pitch Landis made for a space adventure focusing on a brother and sister. The film is set to be produced by Wedding Crashers producer Andrew Panay.[20]
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 20 December 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Zathura 2!
― Nhex, Friday, 20 December 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/7b71582cb166691afb706e99af17e5c2/tumblr_my2j2wR7CG1t9xnk4o1_500.jpg
― Mordy , Friday, 20 December 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
http://shelf-life.ew.com/2014/09/24/acclaimed-webcomic-strong-female-protagonist-is-coming-to-print/?
― Nhex, Friday, 26 September 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
thanks for that nhex, i just power read the first two issues. it's very good!
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 September 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
Strong Female Protagonist is A++ btw; highly recommended.http://blankslatebooks.co.uk/zygote/masterplasty.htmlhttp://harveyjames.tumblr.com/
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
SFP is a gem, glad you likethis harvey james's stuff is pretty cool, great faces and color
― Nhex, Saturday, 4 October 2014 01:26 (nine years ago) link
I also power-read SFP, was fucking great. Very happy to have discovered that.
― emil.y, Saturday, 4 October 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18295369/webcomics-xkcd-questionable-content-dinosaur-comics-90s-internet-social-media
― Nhex, Saturday, 6 April 2019 03:40 (five years ago) link
Recommending - story starts here
https://www.instagram.com/p/CjMM_ONr1JZ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 22 October 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link
Oh, that looks great. Really nice art. It's hard to find good narrative webcomics these days, but I have enjoyed both Ninecrow and Everything Is Fine. They're both horror, Ninecrow has great art but feels a little traditional story-wise, whereas Everything Is Fine isn't amazing art-wise but does manage to be pretty genuinely disturbing at times.
― emil.y, Saturday, 22 October 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
nice to see false knees having a go at a real story
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 October 2022 07:33 (one year ago) link
Ninecrow starts off rough in both writing and art, but gets good by the end. Looking forward to Book 2 whenever it happens. Hoping this gets a Netflix adaptation someday, feels like its made for TV
Everything is Fine is great so far, still going through it
― Nhex, Monday, 24 October 2022 13:52 (one year ago) link