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[filkertom]

As prompted by bryanp, what are your favorite web comics these days? Mine include:

• Sheldon
• Girl Genius
• Kevin & Kell
• Partially Clips
• User Friendly
• Something Positive (today's is frickin' amazing)
• Least I Could Do
• Questionable Content
• XKCD
• Sabrina Online

I also should make more time for these:

• Erfworld
• Accidental Centaurs -- although today is really not the day to catch up, apparently John's dog passed away yesterday. Terribly sorry, m'friend....
• Schlock Mercenary

Yours?

Comments

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

Indeed, he does. At this point I'm wondering how many webcomics we have in common besides Girl Genius, Something Positive and Sheldon. Or if there's a fairly common list among fannish types for that matter.

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

"Sheldon" so rocks my world.

[voiceofkiki.livejournal.com]

Another you should make time for... Sluggy Freelance. Close to my heart for obvious reasons. www.sluggy.com It was my first webcomic and still my fave.

Others I love: PartiallyClips, Erfworld, XKCD, CTRL-ALT-DLT, and some others I read with less frequency.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

That's kind of a personal decision with me. Lots of people love Sluggy. And I used to. But about two and a half years ago, it just went off the frickin' rails. It made no sense to me whatsoever, and when I go back and look at those strips it still doesn't. It's making more sense lately than it has in about two years... but still not enough for me to love it.

[voiceofkiki.livejournal.com]

Understandable. It's a personal decision for me, too. That's why I'm still with it. But I do understand what you're saying.

[moquif.livejournal.com]

I agree. Sluggy was fun for a while. Then something happened and it jumped the shark. I think it started with the house covering a portal to a netherworld dimension. It just hasn't been fun for a while. I might have dropped it but it's one of the first web comics I started reading on a regular basis and I didn't want to give it up. Guess I'm a sentimental fool. As long as they keep making it, there's hope.

I also read GPF, User Friendly, Evil Inc, Gene Catlow, Nukees (though that's starting to be like Sluggy too in the sense it's loosing its tough), and Jesus and Mo.

[raven-ap-morgan.livejournal.com]

I don't read many, but I make a point to read "Questionable Content", and qcjeph is on my friends list.

Raven

[reyl.livejournal.com]

XKCD speaks much truth, but so does Sinfest. I heart Devil.

[fair-witness.livejournal.com]

Excluding the ones also on your list:

Punch an' Pie. (http://www.punchanpie.net/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi)
Shadowgirls (http://shadowgirlscomic.com/?p=33)
The Zombie Hunters (http://www.thezombiehunters.com/index.php?strip_id=1)
Ozy and Millie (http://www.ozyandmillie.org/)

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

ConScrew (http://www.conscrew.com/) and Kara Dennison's other comics don't get enough readership. Neither does and Fragile Gravity (http://www.unseenllc.com/). I'm also fond of Dresden Codak (http://www.dresdencodak.com/), Irregular Webcomic (http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/), and Shaenon shaenon Garrity, late of Narbonic (http://www.narbonic.com/), has just started a new comic called Skin Horse (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php).

Oh, and Fans! (http://www.faans.com/). Perpetually.

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Dresden Codak is too frickin' beautiful.

Zounds!

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

I concur!

[vik_thor]

Friendly Hostility is my big one that noone has mentioned yet.

Oh My Gods!

Devil's Panties (and Jennie's other strips.)

Digger by Ursula Vernon. (Also a great artist, aside from her webcomic.)

[alymid.livejournal.com]

Nice to see another "Hostile" . . . I have been reading that for years . . . well since Boy Meets Boy . . .

[timewalker.livejournal.com]

In addition to xkcd and QC,
The big ones - Penny Arcade and PvP.
Also Shortpacked and Real Life Comics.
Hijinks Ensue
Theater Hopper
Joe Loves Crappy Movies
ugh, too lazy for links this morning....

[quadrivium.livejournal.com]

Girl Genius and Order of the Stick. I've also had fun with Darths and Droids. :-)

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

I'll second Order of the Stick :). 8-bit Theater ranks up there for me, Sabrina Online, Something Positive, Looking for Group is pretty good as well.

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna have to come back here and follow some links, obviously.

My list includes six of your first seven (minus Least I Could Do), plus these:

Little Dee
Freefall
Dork Tower
Nodwick
Full Frontal Nerdity
Sinfest
WayLay
The Perry Bible Fellowship
Questionable Content

Over at DC's new Zuda site, I like Bayou and Avast Ye.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Anne's been inflicting that PBF stuff on me since you got her the book. That's demented. I love it.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Ozy and Millie is wonderful.

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

sockyinsockland is consistently cute/funny, and silentkimbly has some really bad visual puns. Sinfest (sinfestfeed) rarely fails to make me smile.

[hiddenkrypt.livejournal.com]

Girl Genus
Penny-arcade
Erfworld / Order of the stick
Xkcd
Questionable Content
Somethingpositive

and three that haven't been mentioned (that I noticed)
Dominic Deegan (http://www.dominic-deegan.com/)
Nukees (http://www.nukees.com/)
Namir Deiter (http://www.namirdeiter.com/)

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

Not very surprisingly, almost everything you list is on my daily (or as often as they post new strips) read list. I also have to highly recommned Wapsi Square (http://www.wapsisquare.com/), although it's best to start from the begining as the "slowly building weirdness" effect is really cool. (Or heck, just order the books! That's how I got my sweetie hooked!)

[fmh.livejournal.com]

You have my favorites on that list already.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

On your list already:
Kevin & Kell is still on my reading list, though I couldn't tell you why. The Great Bird Conspiracy did a lot to ruin the strip.
Sabrina Online is a nice little monthly treat.

Mentioned by others:
Ozy & Millie
Digger
Sinfest (very, very rarely)
Perry Bible Fellowship (should check that more often)

Not mentioned yet (linking to some non-current-comic pages to avoid spoilers):
Carpe Diem (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/graveyardgreg/carpediem/cast.php)
Breakfast of the Gods (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/poyorick/botg/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10960)
Supernatural Law (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/supernaturallaw/index.php)
Newshounds (http://www.newshounds.com)
Suburban Jungle (http://www.suburbanjungle.com)

And a comic that's run its course, but is still worth a browse through the archives of, The Class Menagerie (http://www.theclassm.com).

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

The ones I follow closely (read promply as they update):

Breakfast of the Gods (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/poyorick/)
Dork Tower (http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/)
Erfworld (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0001.html)
Full Frontal Nerdity (http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/index.php?date=2001-11-29)
Nodwick (http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2001-03-27)
Order of the Stick (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html)
PartiallyClips (http://partiallyclips.com/)
Punch an' Pie (http://www.punchanpie.net/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20070221)
XKCD (http://xkcd.com/)

Some others I check on occasionally (incomplete list off the top of my head):

Cheshire Crossing (http://www.cheshirecrossing.net/)
Perry Bible Fellowship (http://www.pbfcomics.com/)
PvP (http://www.pvponline.com/new-readers/)
The Non-Adventures of Wonderella (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/justinpie/wonderella/series.php)

Completed/Abandoned:

Casey and Andy (http://www.galactanet.com/comic/1.htm)
Queen of Wands (http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20020722.html)

(Links to first page of ongoing-plot comics to avoid spoilers.)

(FWIW, about half my userpics are from Erfworld and XKCD, those being the top members of the class of 1)webcomics I like 2)whose creators I know are OK with it as long as they're properly credited.)

[maiac.livejournal.com]

Web-only comics?

I like Pibgorn, by Brooke McEldowney, the artist who does 9 Chickweed Lane. It's a "fantastic saga of adventure both high and low, of forbidden passion and iambic pentameter, of fays, fools, organists, demons, accordions, heaven, hell and Shakespeare, Pibgorn follows the whims and flights of its eponymous fairy heroine as she plies her conviction that there must be more to life than depositing dew drops on dandelions and sleeping under mushrooms." Other main characters are Drusilla, a succubus; and Geoff, a former church organist (IIRC, he lost his job after his bishop's encounter with Drusilla).

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Love Pib. Should've put that up top.

[mouser.livejournal.com]

Evil Inc. (http://www.evil-comic.com/)

[razzle.livejournal.com]

Girl Genius OF COURSE... and also...

Looking for Group (http://www.lfgcomic.com/)
Dark Legacy Comics (http://www.darklegacycomics.com/index.html)
The Noob (http://www.thenoobcomic.com/index.html)
The Blade Order (http://thebladeorder.com/viewpage.php?page_id=10)

And a friend's comic, Side Quests (http://www.sidequests.com/) :)

[docwebster.livejournal.com]

I stopped reading Something Positive for good when he had, during a rather infamous strip, one of his characters advise a Rocky Horror fan protesting the movie not being at their local theater anymore on the proper way to commit suicide. Sorry, but sod that for a lark.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Ozy and Millie
Something Positive
In His Likeness
Order of the Stick
Penny Arcade

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

I have to reorganize and update my "Related webcomics" page to be more iPhone friendly.

Oh, you do realize Schlock has three books out? I have all three, including the recently released Tub of Happiness.

[jss]

In addition to ones already listed:
Two Lumps
Adam and Andy

[ravenclaw-eric.livejournal.com]

I use the Web to follow some strips that no local paper carries, like On the Fastrack, as well as Tumbleweeds (RIP).

My favorite strictly online comics are Girl Genius, La Muse, and Roswell, Texas.

[eleri.livejournal.com]

www.pandaxpress.com
http://www.north-world.com/

[allandaros.livejournal.com]

QC, Schlock, OotS, Sheldon, XKCD, Penny Arcade, Dresden Codak, UF, and Starslip Crisis. Real Life used to be on there, but dropped off. Evil, Inc. is on the verge of getting dropped. And I need to add PBF again.

[darrenzieger.livejournal.com]

I see that XKCD has gotten several mentions, and at least one other person mentioned Sinfest. However, I am stunned by the profound lack of links to
Achewood (http://www.achewood.com).

Also, I'm very much into a relatively new Webcomic called Octopus Pie (www.octopuspie.com). Very clever and beautifully drawn.

I recently put Too Much Coffee Man (http://www.tmcm.com/) back into my rotation, though in the year or two since I last followed it, the focus has shifted to a new, unfamiliar character, and TMCM himself is nowhere to be found.

It's not specifically a Web comic, since it appears in many GLBT-realted print publications, but Dykes to Watch Out For (www.dykestowatchoutfor.com) is as insightful and endearing as ever, and one of the best-drawn graphic narratives in any medium. Also, there's a lively community centered around Alison Bechdel's frequent blog posts.

He doesn't post very often any more, what with his weekly columns for Wired taking up most of his time, but Lore Sjoberg's Lore Brand Comics (http://www.lorebrandcomics.com/) is insanely great when he gets around to it.

I should also mention that I'm developing a Web comic myself. Since it's the first thing even remotely like this that I've ever done, and I can't, well, you know, draw, I probably shouldn't over-hype it. All I'll say now is that it's called Cream of Aluminum Soup and its motto is: better poetry through empiricism. A computer is involved, possibly one or more humans, and, god willin' and the crick don't rise, some sort of sloth.

That is all.

[lizreay.livejournal.com]

Diesel Sweeties, Get Fuzzy, Man-Man, Penny Arcade, PVP, Sinfest, Something Positive, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Two Lumps, VG Cats, Order of the Stick, Punch and Pie, Three Panel Soul, Breakfast of the Gods, Edible Dirt, Looking for Group, Girl Genius, Deranged Comics, Questionable Content, xkcd, Wondermark, Devil's Panties, and Married to the Sea. I have zero morning productivity. :)

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

Interesting roundup. I'd post mine but just about all of them have been listed here, and a few I'll have to check out.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

What, no Army of JACK fans here? http://www.pholph.com go to the START and work through. Tough slog but worth it and 6 years worth of material there so far....

Otherwise Schlock Mercenary, Suburban Jungle, NeverNever, FREEFALL by Mark Stanley.... Girl Genius, Wapsi Square, The Whiteboard by Doc Nickel, Digger, Fifine....

Coons was good but is now on hiatus.....

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

This is what I get for being late to the party!

I have much love for the green bunny reaper-man. :-)

There's a list of the comics I read in my profile. It looks like this:
Sluggy Freelance UserFriendly Kevin & Kell Something*Positive Sinfest Catharsis Jack Ozy and Millie The Order of the Stick Erfworld The Devil's Panties Geebas on Parade Two Lumps PartiallyClips ShortPacked Dork Tower Goblins Home on the Strange Irregular Webcomic! Fragile Gravity VG Cats Wondermark XKCD Weregeek Married to the Sea Comedity Wapsi Square

These comics are listed roughly in the order I started reading them. A couple of these have wrapped in the last month or so, but now I have a convenient place to find some replacements... :-)

[purpleranger.livejournal.com]

Arthur, King Of Time And Space: http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com

The Devil's Panties: http://thedevilspanties.com

Candi: http://www.candicomics.com

One Small Step: http://www.osscomic.com

In The Puddle: http://www.inthepuddle.com

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[trdsf.livejournal.com]

Girl Genius, Order of the Stick, Breakfast of the Gods, Looking for Group and Dominic Deegan, Brewster Rockit and Sinfest for me. If Hello Cthulhu would ever update again, I'd read that. I think that last is the only un-mentioned one here...

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

You've already mentioned a few of my favs;

Dresden Codak (http://dresdencodak.com/)
The Non-Adventures of Wonderella (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/justinpie/wonderella/series.php)
Joe Loves Crappy Movies (http://www.digitalpimponline.com/strips.php?title=movie)
Diesel Sweeties (http://www.dieselsweeties.com/)
Scary Go Round (http://www.scarygoround.com/)
Shortpacked! (http://www.shortpacked.com/)
Templar, Arizona (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/spike/Templar/series.php)

[ms-anthropy.livejournal.com]

www.redmeat.com is the best thing ever, including oxygen.

[sdorn.livejournal.com]

For the grad student and the former grad student, there is Ph.D. Comics.

[filkferengi]

Unshelved is lots of fun.