Webcomics (not necessarily recommended by Firesnake)

This shall be on the discussion of Webcomics. If you have another form of internet media that you happen to like, such as an online film or written series, please, go ahead and make a thread to share your views on it with the rest of the forum.

I shall first start with a list of webcomics I currently have favorited. Alas, I lost a number of series when transferring from the desktop, but these are the series that I am currently reading, or plan to do an archive binge of before deciding whether to add them to my list of webcomics to read as updated or not. Most of the so-called "Webcomics to read" have already been read at least partway through the archives. Those that have been partly read and remain on the "webcomics to read" list can be assumed to be of decent quality, though I make no guartantees against cerebus syndrome that occurs after the point at which I decided to put a hiatus on reading.

The definitions of most, if not all unrecognizable words and/or phrases may be found on the TVTropes wiki. I may add a glossary or color-coding system for these words, and perhaps a multi-star ranking system, though scoring them well may be difficult, as it adjusts based on mood. The opinions given herin are as goodan average of my recent opionions of the webcomicas I could write out.

One need not read all the way through this, I post it merely for reference in later discussions.





The Comics
Megatokyo
An otaku and a lunatic end up spending all their money on an unexpected trip to Japan. The Otaku falls in love with a waitress who happens to be an up-and-coming seiyuu, the lunatic meets an evil little girl who once destroyed the west coast servers of an MMORPG and falls in love with the otaku's boss (a former voice actress and singer with issues), and six or eight other people all with interconnected pasts get more and more dramatic and flanderized as the series progresses at the rate of one chapter per in-comic day when the writer who supplied the humor left.

VG Cats
An idiot and a psychopath comment on games. They're both cartoon cats, and have a bunch of weird associates. The comic in which Doctor Hobo appears.

Ctrl+Alt+Del
Two gamers on a coach and a watermlon comment on games. They lose the watermelon onthe second day, the gamer who was out-of-touch with reality finds a girl, builds a robot from an x-box, and founds the church of gaming. They might still have the linux-using roomate with the pet penguin, but he's not been out of his room in years. Suffering severe cerebus syndrome in recent years.

PVP Online
A bunch of people at a gaming magazine. And a troll. A literal troll. Zany antics occur. Some drama.

KittyBot
Archives are currently down. Was pretty cool for a while, but the upgrades have taken over a year now.

Questionable Content
A bunch of people, mostly with various forms of insanity, live in an alternate universe Massachusetts where it's normal for PCs to be midget robots and Vespas to turn into battle mech. Comment a lot on indie music. Some drama the whole way through. Much drama every three or four storylines as of about comic 500.

Sam and Fuzzy
A down-on-his-luck taxi driver is friends with what appears to be a living teddy bear, who likes selling stuff ilegally and lauching at the expense of others. Gains an extremely complex storyline once the demon posessing their fridge eats two members of the ninja mafia. Much has happened since then.

Sluggy Freelance
A goofball, an inept mad scientist, a switchblade-wielding rabbit, a perfectly sane girl, a witch, and a space alien are friends. Mostly-zany antics ensue. Some drama, but it's tastefully done.

Penny Arcade
Two gamers on a couch comment on games and gam,ing politics. Cursing and schadenfreud abound.

3PanelSoul
Slice-of-life comic in three-panel strips. The spiritual successor to Mac Hall

xkcd
Stick figures and math and science jokes. Rare recurring characters, such as black hat man (evil incarnate), and ____hat ____, _____ incarnate as determined by the hat. I love this comic.

No Need For Bushido
Group of people in some sort of feudal japan accidentally turn out to be a focal point in the coming war.

Looking For Group
An elf meets an evil warlock and his friends, and they try to save the world together. Pretty interesting.

Least I Could Do
By the same author as Looking for Group. If an average slice-of-life comic were slices of apple pie, this one would include LSD, viagra, and chocolate-frosted sugar bombs.

8-Bit Theater
Final Fantasy I, if the light warriors were all psychotic, stupid, or both. Almost always hilarious.

The Whiteboard
A polar bear who runs a paintball store and makes coffee and mountain dew in a miniature nuclear reactor.

Dungeons and Denizens
A minotaur working in a typical 3.5 edition D&D dungeon. Infrequent updates. Rarely funny.

Circle versus Square
Shapes are the characters. Things happen. At forst it's just circle vs. square, but then other shapes are added. Nearly always funny. Bonus: Wakcher: an archive of silly quotes that updates twice a day.

Crispy Gamer
The adventures of the characters from the PVP webcomic while playing World of Warcraft. Really infrequent updates.

Digital Unrest
Random stuff about video games. Only sometimes funny.

Dueling Analog
Random stuff about video games. Only sometimes funny.

the Warehouse
Random stuff. Stick figures with rectangles for bodies. Often funny.

Chaospet
Random stuff. Stick figures with oval bodies. Often funny, though less than the Warehouse. Some politics and/or psychology. Recurring stabbings.

Moo&Keo
A head with feet and hands and a cow's head with hooves and hooves. Drawn by someone I know. Can be funny. One update per week is always pointeless with poor art.

Sequential Art
A graphic designer, a catgirl, and a rather perverted penguin all live together. A ditzy genius squirrel joins the ensemble, and it turns out their houde is cursed with tiny shadow-people living in the basement. Bonus comic: How To Play: A sarcastic look at certain video games.

Applegeeks
A bunch of people, one of whom happens to be a robot. The main character is often delusional, and in the less serious story arcs it's really funny. The few more serious story arcs are good, too.

Sunday at Ten
Probably two humans, probably a half-elf, and a medusa live together and participate in a bunch of different stories and fourth-wall breaking. Has declined verily in recent years.

the Archive of Doctor McNinja
He's a doctor and a ninja. Descended from irish farmer-ninjas. His secretary is a gorila. He trains with Jet Li to punch out dracula on the moon, for just a random example of the storylines. Just read it.

Paradox Lost
Two kids and a metroid, a bunch of corporate workers/ninjas, and a humanoid alien and her ship's holographic personaiety all are part of the strip. I don't read it much any more.

The Dreamer
The american revolution. With drama. I never rreally got into it, but a girl I dated really liked it.

Rob and Elliot
They're Rob and they're Elliot. They're Rob and they're Elliot. One is relatively normal, the other's insane. Not laboratory mice, though, just human. One update per week. funny about 3/4 of the time but only on average,it does go through unfunny spells.

Rooster Teeth
The exaggerated daily lives of the mostly messed-up people who produce the Red Vs. Blue Machinima series.

The Book of Biff
An unfortunate man with really long eyebrows sees the results of many mistakes, from forgetting not to look in the toaster when the toast is on fire to forgetting that his rocket ship won't fit in the garage. I find it quite funny.

Freefall
A happy-go-lucky squid-like alien in a humanoid biocontainment suit, an impressionable robot, and an experimental law-abiding genetically engineered humanoid wolf start up and run a delivery service. I like the seris, though it takes a while for anything to happen.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Randomness and schadenfreud. Don't forget to mouse over the red button below recent strips, it's like a visual alt text.

Order of the Stick
A group of self-controlled Player Characters adventure in a world based on D&D. Breaks the fourth wall a lot. Lampshades pretty much everything. I love this comic. A good deal of drama in some arcs, but it's cool.

Level 99 Comic
Two people who I'm pretty sure are gamers. The female is insane and the male is... less insane. Very rare updates. Used to be funny, now it's kind of hard to tell with the really, really infrequent updates.

Something Positive
A bunch of insane people. Schadenfreud and dark humor abound. I try to read through the archives every so often, but haven't managed to get more than halfway through before something unrelated stops me reading it.

Awkward Zombie
The author's views on whatever video game is currently being played. Also chronicles the lives of the characters from Smash Bros.

Misfile
A guy who likes to race cars wakes up one day as a girl. A girl in the same town wakes up the same day two years younger than she should be. It turns out that a deadbeat angel had messed up the local reality before gettong kicked out of heaven for a while. As they try to get the angel back to fix his mistak without his brother finding a=out and being compelled to rat him out to the archangels, cars are raced, people fall in love, And a conspiracy is uncovered that seems to be orchestrated by an as-yet unknown celestial being.

Real Life Comics
Follows the perfectly normal life of the artist. The dimensional machines, sentient computers, and giant space station of evil built by his friends notwitrhstanding. Fourth wall is broken at least twice a week. Good comic.

Snafu Comics
People who hate other people./ Occasionally, a comic is actually about video games. I don't know why I still have this favorited. It was funny for a few days like... a long time ago. Now it's not.

El Goonish Shive
A kid who studies anime-style martial arts and unexpectedly has a real twist occur with an uncursing crystal, his best friend (a mad scientist), a shapeshifting squirrel girl, and a bunch of their friends (one of whom is a "magic" user, where magic is considered science even if it's completely unexplainable, and a bunch of shapeshifting space aliens have a really weird daily life and fight archenemies whilst uncovering a conspiracy. Much fun is had with a shapeshifter ray. Better than it sounds, really.

Webcomics to Read list
The 10 Doctors
All ten incarnations of The Doctor from Doctor Who are collected in a webcomic special that occurs at the end of season 2 of the revived series. Pretty okay.

Adventurers!
People in an RPG. Bad art. Haven't read much of it, but it seems funny.

Chainsawsuit
By the author of Checkerboard Nightmare and AStarslip Crisis. I don't recall anything else.

Dominic Deegan Oracle for Hire
He's only an oracle-for-hire for a few weeks, total. The rest of the time he's on all sorts of quests.

Exterminatus Now
As described on TVTropes, "what you get when you mis Sonic the Hedgehog, Warhammer 40000, and a truckload of black comedy."

F@nboy$
"Yet another gaming comic" turned "genuinely funny comic with occasional gaming references."

Girl Genius
Lamp-oil steampunk series with Sparks, a race of technopaths. I haven't read more than a few random strips, but they were sometimes funny, and it's supposed to have pretty good story quality.

Instant Classic
Seems to be vaguely similar to Dresden Codak before the Hob storyline, though in more of an old vaudeville-style movie format.

Joyce and Walky!
The Sequel to It's Walky!, which it turn was the sequel to Roomates!

Murphy's Rules
Unusual rules in games and programming that really shouldn't make sense. Diffocult to find any decent archive, but worth it if you can.

Narbonic
I have no idea. Whatever it is,it sounds really good. And it's supposed to be really funny.

Punch an' Pie
The sequel to Queen of Wands, it follows the life of the previous main character's former coworker. Haven't read much of it, but it seems to be similar to the previous comic, which was mostly funny but got you painfully invested in the characters (imagine, at the end of each strip, either laughing out loud or thinking "aw, crud" and feeling sorry for the characters, and you've about got it). This one seems more funny.

RPG World
Characters in a Final Fantasy Style RPG webcomic. Follows the laws of webcomics, anime, and JRPGs. It was treallyy funy at first, but then the author stoped being a good writer, and slowly stopped updating for a while. Updates again every once in a while, but no discernible increase in quality.

Sins
The personifications of the seven deadly sins, and the zany antics that ensue. I think. The current archives start with some pirates storyline halfway through the comic, and I forgot where the original archive is, but I seem tio recall that some of it is pretty funny.

Starslip Crisis
A sci-fi webcomic by the author of Checkerboard Nightmare. CN was mostly pretty random (the main character wanted to star in a webcomic), but I don't know anything about the new series.

Striptease
It started out as a comic about a guy who wants to write a comic. I'm not sure what else happens, becasuse it's been a while since I added it to "webcomics to read" and can't find any summaries of it.

The Cyantian Chronicles
I have no idea, so this is just copypasted from a description of it I found on TV Tropes: The basic history is that there were some scientifically advanced aliens that were dying from a degenerate disease and decided to make some helpers. First they brought humans from earth, next they created plantigrade then digitigrade to help them, taking DNA from Earth animals and splicing it with Human DNA (or is it the other way around?). Next, this group of aliens, called Cyantians, were enslaved by the Moulin Phedra (squid), who genetically engineered some of them to be fighters in a ring, editing them to have strange characteristics, such as regeneration and manipulating energy. After driving the squid off the planet, they set up a patriartical government. And that about takes it up to the current storylines.

Unshelved
A bunch of people working in a library. One acts "snarky" toward patrons who ask the help desk instead ofread the signs, one of them is a technowhiz,and one of them is apparently a giant woodchuck, but no one seems to notice.

YOSH! Comics
Guy that is convinced that he'sa perfectly normal, despite all the strange stuff that happens. It seems that it's a world in which magicis commonplace, but I don't reallyrecall. I do sem to recall that I foujnd it at least somewhat humorous.

College Roomies From Hell
Insane people in a dorm. Assumedly, except for the narrrator. I'm confusing bits of this with bits of Roomies!, so I'll see about reporting bacjk when I get back to reading it. At least one was funny, probably both, and I'm pretty sure Roomies! had a decent story quality.

UserFriendly
The people at Google in its early days. Pretty funny. Breaks the laws of physics and occasionally has a storyline revolving around extreme coffee.

The Zombie Hunters
Exactly what it says on the tin.

The Starship Destiny
Sci-fi pixel comic. May have been funny. I seem to recall that it had a pretty complex story.

1/0
The author is the god of the universe contained within the webcomic. Breaking the fourth wall is kind of the whole point. The first few comics weren't very good, but I think I had already read some of the later comics and liked them.

Drowtales: Moonless Age
A manga-style webcomic set in what was originally the Forgotten Realms setting for D&D.

MAD About U.
A university for mad scientists in training.

Pokemon X
A somewhat funny sprite comic loosely based on Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. I forgot to add it to my favorites list and lost track of it when my computer shut down for an automatic update when I wasn't around to tell it "remind me later." I prefer it for the story and characters more than for the humor, which is generally rather juvenile.



Oh, and I just realized why certain comics I don't like are favorited: Aesthetics. Without them, the favorites list looks wrong. Do not fear, I shall put amark such as a frowny face next to them in the event that I am able to implement a scoring system, and in the meantime, they are clearky matrked in the description/review.