Cyanide and Happiness

[filkertom]

invader_tak_1 points us to an insanely wonderful web comic: Cyanide and Happiness. (You have to see the animated short, "Waiting For The Bus".)

Time for our periodic Web Comics Recommendation thread. Whatcha readin'?

Comments

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

In no particular order: Schlock Mercenary, Sluggy Freelance, Questionable Content, Real Life Comics, Wapsi Square, Freefall, The Wotch, El Goonish Shive, Rick's Comics Blog (at shipsinker.com), Flaky Pastry, Skin Horse, Arthur King of Time and Space (currently on working-sabbatical from usual format), a few other odds and ends, and of course the stuff WLP produces ourselves.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

XKCD of course. Schlock Mercenary. Also Questionable Content. Girls with Slingshots. Lots of stuff really but those are the stand-outs.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is my current source of weirdness.

Webcomics: They should be black and white and about crime.

[blake-reitz.livejournal.com]

World of Hurt (http://worldofhurtonline.com/2009/04/13/woh-thrillseekers-title-pg/): Promoting itself as the #1 Blacksploitation comic on the web, I'd be hard pressed to disagree. It really does have the inking style of a B&W 70's exploitation comic. Unrelated note: Marvel's old B&W comic magazines from the 70s are amazing. Seriously, some of the best art I've seen.

She Died in Terrebonne (http://www.agreeablecomics.com/kimimura/?p=9): Keven Church's new webcomic. To early to tell if it's going to be straight up mystery, thriller, or who knows what. Still, the man writes a mean blog.

Registered Weapon (http://registered-weapon.com/2009/01/12/the-beginning/): Another comic where crime talks precedence, but more of a buddy cop dynamic. With the classic team-up of old grizzled cop on the edge, and a cash register that was turned into a sentient robot that became a police detective. You should read it. I'm not saying anything, but a policeman threatens to eat a cat right there on page one.

[darkwolf69.livejournal.com]

Favorites (in alpha):

Ask Dr. Eldritch
Girl Genius
Looking For Group
Order of the Stick
Questionable Content
Two Lumps
XKCD

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

In no particular order:

QC
XKCD
Punch an' Pie
9 Chickweed Lane
Evil Inc.
Kevin and Kell
Least I Could Do
The Gods of Arr-Kelaan
Something Positive
Sinfest
Abstruse Goose
Striptease!
Frazz
Funky Winkerbean
Misfile
Girl Genius
FBorFW reruns/redos

ETA: Forgot:
Diesel Sweeties
Freefall

I've just started to read Girls With Slingshots (based on the recent crossover at SP, but want to catch up before deciding whether it goes into the full-time queue.

[phecda.livejournal.com]

I can't say enough about Templar, AZ -- Spike is a genius.
Also, Lovecraft is Missing, The Bunny System, Crimson Dark, and old chestnuts Something Positive and Two Lumps. Oh, and Girl Genius, of course.

Started reading Girls with Slingshots because of the crossover with SP, and while it's been an enjoyable read, not sure if I'll keep up with it.

[saganth.livejournal.com]

Ctrl+Alt+Del (which is odd because I don't play video games at all), and Girl Genius.

Speaking of which, has anyone noticed that GG has stopped its LJ notices???

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Ummm... no, because they haven't (http://girlgeniuscomic.livejournal.com/80449.html).

[saganth.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. then how come the notice that a new page is up no longer shows in my list of friends' posts? I certainly didn't delete them... :(

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

For some reason, LJ isn't handling a lot of the syndicated feeds correctly at the moment; see the second item here (http://www.livejournal.com/support/).

[maiac.livejournal.com]

User Friendly

XKCD

Questionable Content

Girl Genius

Pibgorn

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

I'm following some fifty webcomics at the moment; setting aside the usual suspects, I'd like to put in a good word for Digger (http://www.diggercomic.com/) and Skin Horse (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php).

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

Breakfast of the Gods (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/poyorick)
Dork Tower (http://archive.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower)
Erfworld (http://www.erfworld.com/)
Full Frontal Nerdity (http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/index.php)
Nodwick (http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php)
Order of the Stick (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html)
PartiallyClips (http://www.partiallyclips.com/)
Punch an' Pie (http://www.punchanpie.net/)
(The Non-Adventures Of) Wonderella (http://nonadventures.com/)
XKCD (http://www.xkcd.com/)

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm partial to, in no particular order..
Bunny (http://www.frozenreality.co.uk/comic/bunny/)
The Book of Biff (http://www.thebookofbiff.com/)
Doc Rat (http://www.docrat.com.au/)
Little Dee (http://littledee.net/)
Questionable Content (http://www.questionablecontent.net/)
Schlock Mercenary (http://www.schlockmercenary.com/)
Sheldon (http://www.sheldoncomics.com/)
Sinfest (http://www.sinfest.net/)
Skin Horse (http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php)
Something Positive (http://www.somethingpositive.net/)
Apple Geeks Lite (http://www.applegeeks.com/lite/)
DMFA (http://www.missmab.com/)
Freefall (http://freefall.purrsia.com/)
Girl Genius (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php)
The Whiteboard (http://www.the-whiteboard.com/)
Duncan and Mallory (http://www.radiocomix.com/comix/duncan-and-mallory/)
Rich's Comicblog (http://comics.shipsinker.com/) - Well worth the backlog to read the epic '10 Doctors' comic, btw
The Abominable Charles Christopher (http://www.abominable.cc/)
Bob the Angry Flower (http://www.angryflower.com/)
Too Much Coffee Man (http://www.tmcm.com/)
Zebra Girl (http://zebragirl.keenspot.com/)
A Girl and her Fed (http://www.agirlandherfed.com/)

And , of course, Nothing Comes Naturally (http://nocona.comicgenesis.com) - which should be updated later today once the artist stops dithering around on Livejournal. n.n

[tsu-doshaman.livejournal.com]

I'd put them in order of preference, but there'd be an awful lot numbered "1".

A Girl and Her Fed (http://agirlandherfed.com/)

The Devil's Panties (http://devilspanties.keenspot.com/)

Ctrl+Alt+Del (http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/)

Cyanide and Happiness (http://www.explosm.net/comics/1801/)

Girl Genius (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/)

Girls with Slingshots (http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html)

Penny Arcade (http://www.penny-arcade.com/)

Sam & Fuzzy (http://www.samandfuzzy.com/)

Striptease (http://stripteasecomic.com/)

Too Much Information (http://tmi-comic.com/)

XKCD (http://xkcd.com/)

[eruvanna.livejournal.com]

Eerie Cuties
Sorcery 101
Questionable content
Menage A 3
Weregeek
Girls with Slingshots
Looking for Group

and then the one I credit you for telling me about

Girl Genius

[wingus.livejournal.com]

Shortpacked! (http://www.shortpacked.com/)

YU+ME: dream (http://rosalarian.com/yume/)

I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space!!! (http://rosalarian.com/lesbianpirates/)

The Dreamland Chronicles (http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/)

ThreePanelSoul (http://threepanelsoul.com/)

And Girl Genius, but it's been linked twice, and given that you've done two songs about it, I'd say it's a fair assumption to say you know of it already. ;)

[wingus.livejournal.com]

Gah, forgot The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (http://www.drmcninja.com/)!

[alverant.livejournal.com]

In no order:
Dreamland Chronicles
Evil Inc.
Garfield Minus Garfield (the original one)
Keven & Kell
Least I can Do
Misfile
Slugy Freelance
User Friendly
Candi
Gene Catlow
GPF
Nukees
Sandusky
Dueling Analogs
Inexplicable Adventures of Bob
Partially Clips
Dork Tower
Jesus and Mo
Jump Leads

and a lot of traditional newspaper comics available online. I can recommend all of them to some extent. My major complaint is the irregularity of updates from Jump Leads, Jesus and Mo, Dork Tower, and Partially Clips. I don't care what their schedule is as long as they stick to it. Few things are as discouraging to readership as to go to the same link time and time again and seeing the same comic.

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

You're right, that animated short is wonderful, especially the ending.

I started reading Girls With Slingshots a few months ago, so the S*P crossover worked well for me. Otherwise, my list hasn't changed in the last few months.

I just want to note that Girl Genius has been rockin' the house lately. The ending of this one may be my favorite panel of the year.

Not to mention this splash panel.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Wordy McMotto. If you don't fall in love with Agatha on that splash, well, you must've already been in love with her.

And yeah, the sparky "OOOOOOOOOOH" was beyond tremendous.

[raven-ap-morgan.livejournal.com]

Currently, I only read one - Questionable Content. Might have to look into more...

Raven

Heh. Quite a list...

[smparadox.livejournal.com]

A Softer World
AARDEHN
AmazingSuperPowers.com
anti-HEROES
Ballard Street
Barkeater Lake
BC
Biro art - another one that has stopped updating
Bloom County Classic
Bound and Gagged
Buck Godot - although that one has run out until such time as Phil does more material on Mr. Zap-Gun-for-Hire
Calvin and Hobbes
Captain Excelsior
chainsawsuit
Chopping block
Courting Disaster
Cross time Cafe - another one that has stopped updating
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Dilbert
Doonesbury
Dungeons & Denizens - another one that has stopped updating
Eek!
Evil Inc.
Cyanide & Happiness
For Better or For Worse
Fredo and Pidgin
Girl Genius
Hello Cthulhu - I think this one is dead, there hasn't been a new one since Christmas 2006
Imagine This
Ink Pen
Killer Spoons - another one that has stopped updating
KUKUBURI
Least I Could Do
Lio
Mike Peters Editorial Cartoons
Monkey Fluids
Mother Goose and Grimm
Mythtickle
Natural Selection - another one that has stopped updating
Non Sequitur
Oh My Gods!
Ok/Cancel
Opus - another one that has stopped updating
Order of the Stick
Ozy and Millie
Penny Arcade
Pibgorn
Pickles
Pinkerton
Questionable Content
Red and Rover
Reddickulous
Rod & Barry
Savage Chickens
Something Positive
Starslip
Sunday at Ten
Tasty Flesh
The Boondocks
The Other Coast
The Perry Bible Fellowship
The Zombie Hunters
Ubersoft
What's New
Wizard of Id
wulfmorgenthaler
xkcd
Zack Hill
AmazingSuperPowers
ButterNutSquash
Odd-Fish
Pictures for Sad Children
The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon
9 Chickweed Lane
Get Fuzzy
Over the Hedge
Pearls Before Swine
Rose Is Rose
Jane's World
Red And Rover
The Other Coast
Zack Hill

Re: Heh. Quite a list...

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Links?

Re: Heh. Quite a list...

[danceswithlife]

And what do you do with the hour remaining in your day :-)
Impressive list.

I'm still drawing

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Angels & Aliens at www.littlelevers.com/Angels Things are starting to heat up a bit there. My current script has explosions.

And we could use a few more readers.

[kilbia.livejournal.com]

http://angryflower.com/
http://www.agirlandherfed.com/
http://www.altermeta.net/
http://www.crispygamer.com/comics/backward/
http://www.dorktower.com/
http://www.evil-comic.com/
http://geebasonparade.keenspot.com/
http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html
http://www.goats.com/
http://www.goblinscomic.com/
http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/
http://www.leasticoulddo.com/
http://www.marriedtothesea.com/
http://www.misfile.com/
http://www.mighthavebeen.net/
http://www.nataliedee.com/
http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/index.htm
http://www.giantitp.com/index.html
http://overcompensating.com/
http://www.partiallyclips.com/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/
http://www.pvponline.com/
http://www.punchanpie.net/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi
http://www.questionablecontent.net/index.php
http://www.reallifecomics.com/
http://www.rockpapercynic.com/
http://www.smbc-comics.com/
http://www.soaprope.com/
http://somethingpositive.net/index.html
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/
http://www.twolumps.net/
http://wapsisquare.com/
http://wigu.com/
http://xkcd.com/
http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/
http://www.dungeond.com/
http://www.erfworld.com/
http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/AccentuateNegative/
http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/choadwarrior
http://www.paranoiddreams.com/
http://www.weregeek.com/

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Babbage And Lovelace seem to have ground to a halt, I hope only temporarily...

[enigmaticfox.livejournal.com]

Trying to think of ones that haven't already been mentioned...these ones are real stand-outs but not well-known:

Gunnerkrigg Court (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/index2.php)
Fans (http://www.faans.com/)
Catena (http://www.catenamanor.com/)
The Phoenix Requiem (http://requiem.seraph-inn.com/)
Lackadaisy (http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php)

Check 'em out, you won't regret it (though they all tend to have a lot of backstory to plow through, else you won't be able to follow it)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[danceswithlife]

I don't think this has been mentioned yet. It took me a few days to get hooked. I especially liked when her son had a crush on Rachel Maddow:

http://www.gocomics.com/thenewadventuresofqueenvictoria

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I follow well over 100 webcomics, at one point I was doing close to 300 (yes, it was too many and was taking too long to read them all). Most of the ones I would suggest are here already, and I still saw a few new suggestions. God I love threads like these. I will dig through my list to see if there are any others worth mentioning here (some are for personal taste only).

A few that I did not see mentioned:

http://www.namirdeiter.com/
http://www.countyoursheep.com/
http://www.gpf-comics.com/
http://www.drmcninja.com/
http://www.dungeond.com/
http://www.erfworld.com/

I did not dig into my once a week pile yet so I may post more.