What webcomics do you follow?

[137beth]

Simply put, what webcomics do you currently follow? What comics have you read in the past that you enjoyed?


My list of comics is separated by how often I check them. The following are the comics I check whenever there could be an update: if the update schedule is irregular, I check every day, otherwise I check every update day.

Darths and Droids
www.darthsanddroids.net

Dinosaur Comics
www.qwantz.com

Dumbing of Age
www.dumbingofage.com

Girls With Slingshots
http://www.girlswithslingshots.com

Gunnerkrigg Court
www.gunnerkrigg.com

Namesake
www.namesakecomic.com

Order of the Stick
www.giantitp.com

Rain
www.rain.thecomicseries.com

Sister Claire and Sister Claire MIssing Moments
www.sisterclaire.com

Slightly Damned
sdamned.com

Tamberlane
https://www.tamberlanecomic.com

Undivine
undivinecomic.com

Widdershins
www.widdershinscomic.com

XKCD
www.xkcd.com



And here are the comics I follow, but only check once a month:

Aether
www.aether.thecomicseries.com

Alice and the Nightmare
www.aliceandthenightmare.com

Band vs Band
www.bvbcomix.com

Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
www.missmab.com

Daughter of the Lillies
www.daughterofthelilies.com

Gloomverse
gloomverse.smackjeeves.com

Headless Bliss
www.headlessbliss.com

[Redacted due to the forum rules]
www. [redacted due to the forum rules] .com


Heroes of Thantopolis
http://heroesofthantopolis.com/

Inhibit
inhibitcomic.com

Kiwi Blitz
www.kiwiblitz.com

[Redacted due to the forum rules]
www. [redacted due to the forum rules] .com


Mare Internum
www.marecomic.com

Mezzacotta
http://www.mezzacotta.net/halloffame.php

Monsterkind
www.monsterkind.enenkay.com

Monster Lands
http://www.monster-lands.com

Monster's Garden
http://monstersgarden.com

Never Heroes: Yellow Hearts
https://sparklermonthly.com/series/never-heroes-yellow-hearts/

No End
www.noendcomic.com

Paranatural
www.paranatural.net

Radio Silence
http://www.radiosilencecomic.com

Recoil
recoil.smackjeeves.com

Sleepless Domain
www.sleeplessdomain.com

Speak of the Devil
www.speakdevil.com

Strong Female Protagonist
www.strongfemaleprotagonist.com

The Property of Hate
thepropertyofhate.com

This is Not Fiction
www.thisisnotfiction.com

XKCD What If?
what-if.xkcd.com

Here are the comics which are not actively updating, but which I still occasionally.

32
stuckat32.com

Acethexis
acethexiscomic.com

Blindsprings
http://www.blindsprings.com/

Guilded Age
http://guildedage.net

Heartless
http://heartless-comic.com

Let's Speak English
http://www.marycagle.com

Lilith's Word
www.lilithword.com

Shortpacked
Shortpacked

Supernormal Step
www.supernormalstep.com

Yellow Hearts
https://sparklermonthly.com/series/yellow-hearts/



Finally, here are the comics I have read that have had no updates for at least two years.

Abstruse Goose
www.abstrusegoose.com

Darken
www.darkencomic.com

That Deaf Guy
http://www.thatdeafguy.com/

Zap
www.zapcomic.com

Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire
www.dominic-deegan.com

[Manga Shoggoth]

Astonishingly few these days...


Girl Genius (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php)
Heavenly Nostrils/Phoebe and her Unicorn (http://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn)
XKCD (http://www.xkcd.com/)
OOTS (http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html) (obviously)
Everyday Heroes (http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/) (Albeit with a glacial update rate at the moment)
Friendship is Dragons (http://friendshipisdragons.thecomicseries.com/)

[Rogar Demonblud]

OOTS (of course)
Girl Genius
Sluggy Freelance
Darths and Droids
Irregular Webcomic
Grrlpower
The Specialists
3 Minute Max*
Aaron Williams' three (PS238, Use Sword on Monster, Full Frontal Nerdity)*
Two Lumps

I used to read a few others (Flipside, Empowered, Erfworld, etc) but gradually stopped checking for updates.

*updates randomly

[PopeLinus1]

OotS, hey I’m on this forem!
Xkcd
Homestuck, if I have the time,
And finally, although it’s not technically a webcomic, I read Pearls before swine like a webcomic using gocomics

[JeenLeen]

Here's mine, by day:

Mon/Wed/Fri: Penny Arcade, Sam & Fuzzy, El Goonish Shive, XKCD, Girl Genius
Mon/Thurs: Grrlpower
Tue/Fri: Strong Female Protagonist
Varies: PvP Online, Weregeek, Erfworld, Order of the Stick
Daily: SMBC, Questionable Content (though I don't check these as often since I don't feel comfortable checking them at work)

Check occasionally but forget sometimes: whatever's on Sorcery 101, Thunderstruck (well, it updates 1/month now)

[DigoDragon]

"Behold, an ordinary webcomic (http://www.atomic-robo.com/)!"

Rusty & Co (http://rustyandco.com/). is also quite good.

[Leewei]

I read many of those already mentioned, above.

Add Kill Six Billion Demons (https://killsixbilliondemons.com/) to the list. It's a blast to read.

[halfeye]

I have somewhere between two dozen and thirty bookmarked that I check every day, mostly they don't update on most days. I have a subfolder I check weekly, most of them don't update. After that, I check the webcomiclist (http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/latest/) daily, it lists updates by the hour as they happen, but it sometimes drops a comic without notification (I'm not registered with them, it may play differently if you are registered, or not, I don't know), I was assuming that Girls with slingshots was on hiatus, but it seems that's also been dropped.

<edit>

I may or may not bookmark Girls with Slingshots, I sometimes do that, quite a few of my bookmarks no longer show up in the webcomiclist(dot)com, but quite a few do and have to be skipped there.

[Anteros]

Sluggy Freelance, OOTS, Will Save World For Gold, Penny Arcade, Erfworld, and Tower of God.

Out of those, I can only recommend OOTS, Will Save World for Gold, and Tower of God. The others aren't very good at all, but I'm still reading them out of habit. Most of them start out good though.

[halfeye]

Just dumped "I roved out ..." because "please hit my tits hard" is a male fantasy that should not be endorsed.

[Anteros]

Just dumped "I roved out ..." because "please hit my tits hard" is a male fantasy that should not be endorsed.

Some people are actually into things like that you know.

[halfeye]

Some people are actually into things like that you know.

If a male wrote a female saying "please hit my tits hard" that would be wrong. If a female wrote that to make money by pleasing males, that would be wrong.

The people who are into that, are probably wrong uns.

Yeah, it's maybe a fantasy, but the line between fantasy and reality can get blurred, and then we're talking about at least abuse, leading possibly to murder.

[Anteros]

If a male wrote a female saying "please hit my tits hard" that would be wrong. If a female wrote that to make money by pleasing males, that would be wrong.

The people who are into that, are probably wrong uns.

Yeah, it's maybe a fantasy, but the line between fantasy and reality can get blurred, and then we're talking about at least abuse, leading possibly to murder.

I don't think it's your place to pass judgement on what consenting adults do with each other or what they enjoy.

I also don't think this is the place for this argument though, so let's drop it.

[halfeye]

I don't think it's your place to pass judgement on what consenting adults do with each other or what they enjoy.

I also don't think this is the place for this argument though, so let's drop it.

No, let's move it.

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?546819-Consent-means&p=22734594#post22734594

[SaintRidley]

At this stage, I've cut down a bit and haven't added a new comic to my rotation in years.

Order of the Stick
Questionable Content
Sluggy Freelance
Scarygoround
SMBC
Oglaf
Sinfest
Menage a 3
Goblins

I think that's about it as far as regular basis stuff.

[SirKazum]

I regularly follow many that have already been mentioned - OOTS (obvs), SMBC, XKCD, Dinosaur Comics, Darths & Droids, Sinfest, Oglaf. Others I used to follow and/or may drop in on once in a while include aforementioned Erfworld, Aaron Williams stuff (FFN, Nodwick), Rusty & Co., Pearls before Swine.

As for those not mentioned above... first of all, honorable mention to the now-finished Dr. McNinja (http://drmcninja.com/) - possibly the best serial webcomic out there - and 8-Bit Theater (https://www.nuklearpower.com/8-bit-theater/). Those two are dearly missed.

Speaking of which, Chris Hastings of Dr. McNinja is now publishing some comics (either 5 or 1 series, depending on your point of view) on Twitter, under @hastingsfunnies (https://twitter.com/hastingsfunnies). They're alright, maybe not quite warmed up yet, I dunno. The format is a bit clunky though.

Other than that, I'm following:

Cyanide and Happiness (http://explosm.net/) - can't believe nobody posted this yet.

The Non-Adventures of Wonderella (http://nonadventures.com/) - publishes VERY infrequently these days, like once a few months. Really good though, check the archives. If you're interested in following it but can't be bothered to check back in every so often and not see any updates, follow @wonderella (https://twitter.com/wonderella) on Twitter - it's definitely my favorite Twitter account.

Scenes From A Multiverse (http://amultiverse.com/) - only technically, since it's been on a hiatus for a rather long time. The author's going through a really rough patch, so no knowing when (or if) it's coming back. It's really good though - but be advised, it tends to get political often.

The Perry Bible Fellowship (http://pbfcomics.com/) - VERY infrequent updates, though they've been coming at progressively shorter intervals lately. I'd say it's the best gag-a-day webcomic in existence, bar none.

Red Meat (https://www.redmeat.com/) - posts regularly on a weekly basis (Tuesdays), although it's mostly reruns by now - actually new comics come only once in a while. Of course, you won't notice it if you're new. Really good gag-a-day comic with regular characters, if you're into dark humor.

I mostly use RSS to follow these. It's the best way I've found to keep abreast of updates without having to regularly check the websites. It doesn't exactly have the best support though, so it glitches out sometime...

[Casimir-Ivanova]

Yeah I look at a few.
Dan and Mab's Furry adventures.
Girl Genius.
OOTS.
XKCD.
The Punchline is Machismo.

[Vinyadan]

32, Accursed Dragon, Drowtales, EGS, Girl Genius, Goblins, Gunnerkrigg Court, How to be homeless, Lackadaisy Cats, OotS, Questionable Content, Rusty & Co., Strong Female Protagonist, Slightly Damned, Sluggy Freelance, some of the comics on the Sorcery 101 website, Star Power, The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon, XKCD, Banished!, Unsounded, Funny Farm.

Concluded: Digger, DrMcNinja, Girls with Slingshots, probably more I can't think of right now.

Many of these comics have been on a downward spiral for a while. I probably will stop reading XKCD soon. Accursed Dragon had an awesome first part and an unreadable second part. Drowtales has a host of problems with plot fragmentation and unnecessary time skips. QC's writing has been going downhill for a while. Sluggy Freelance is better than it has previously been, but not as good as it was in its early years.

There also are a few that I think are neat, but don't have a large plot to keep me in, so I tend to forget about them, like Sequential Art.

[Tutorix]

In addition to some of the comics others have mentioned,

Dresden Codak
Wormworld Saga

Updates to these are infrequent but worth the wait. Worth checking in twice a year basically. Actually I think OOTS works better on that frequency too, it's easier to track the plot if you read a lot of them at once.

[2Comic2Furious]

Another vote for The Adventures of Dr McNinja probably being the finest webcomic ever made.

As for a few of the others:

Exiern (http://www.exiern.com)

Spying With Lana (http://www.spyingwithlana.com)

Puck (http://www.puckcomics.com)

Yesterday Bound (http://www.yesterdaybound.com)

In the interests of being open, since starting reading all these webcomics, I've become (online) friends with all of the above linked webcomic creators and even exchanged occasional emails with Christopher Hastings, most recently commiserating about what happened to Gwenpool and what a shame it was.

[Demica Fatali]

I've really petered out on most of the webcomics I read lately but I still check in on these:
Transfusions (warning, vampire BL)
A Tale of Two Rulers
Far to the North
Trying Human
Manly Men Doing Manly Things
Penny Arcade
Adulthood is a Myth

[Honest Tiefling]

I read a bunch, but usually on and off. I'm casting a vote for Boumeries (http://comics.boumerie.com/) is a comic that is hard for my dyslexic self to spell, but is a slice of life comic from a geek who likes videogames and has children. I assume we have a few of those lying around here and there.

Secondly...Handbook of Heroes (http://www.handbookofheroes.com/)...Because we've ALL seen players like those. Don't lie.

[tlhopbow]

Thanks for all the suggestions!

[aandy]

This list is going to be the end of me...

Too many options, not enough time!

[Rothkal]

I've followed quite a few over the years. First webcomic I followed (and later stopped following) was Planet Zebeth. My collection grew from there. I use Firefox and open all the links in tabs. While loading, I start my daily routine around the house and come back to them all loaded. Not all of them are necessarily the highest quality, some started by people who started young, getting better with writing and their art style. Opinions will differ, but they are entertaining to me. Minor spoilers in the descriptions of some.


http://www.awkwardzombie.com/ Is mostly about video games and how silly some things can be, contradictions, and so on.

http://www.blitzphoenix.com/ Not too old of a webcomic, can be binged in a couple hours to the most recent page. Teen gets "kidnappped" by his mother, gets experimented on, trying to figure out new interesting life. I'm interested in seeing where it will go.

http://www.missmab.com/ Based on characters in a MuD, became a bit of slice-of-life and drama with some adventure thrown in occasionally. Look at the first comic compared to the latest for how the artist has improved over the years. Its wild to think about.

http://www.egscomics.com/ From the website itself, "A strange comic about a group of teenagers and the bizarre, often supernatural, situations that they face. Includes a continuing storyline with non-linear joke comics on the side. WARNING: Often ignores the laws of Physics." Lots of foreshadowing in earlier chapters show the artist has a overall story in mind.

http://www.erfworld.com/ I don't need to say much about this one that hasn't already been said.

http://freefall.purrsia.com/default.htm Another very long-running comic. Having trouble coming up with a good description of this one in only a line or two. Alien ship captain bribes someone to get an engineer, the two subtly influence each other with very different morals/ethics.

http://www.giantitp.com/ Once again, not much to say on this one if you're here.

http://goblinscomic.com/ This one has come off and on my reading list a couple times. Goblins form an adventuring party in a DnD world.

http://guildedage.net/ Currently in its last chapter as we've been told by Word of God. Adventurer's trying to get by, eventually forming a guild. Has connections between a real world/MMO world, but treats the MMO world stuff as a fantasy world and not a game.

http://twokinds.keenspot.com/ One of those that has matured with age. Incredibly powerful magic user gets amnesia and has a change of personality, trying to regain lost memories.

http://www.housepetscomic.com/ A comic that keeps it light-hearted (for the most part). Pets can walk and talk, but are still pets.

http://invisiblebread.com/2011/04/crafty/ No real continuity between stips, mostly one-off jokes.

http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/latest.html DnD based comic similar to, and inspired by, Order of the Stick.

http://mokepon.smackjeeves.com/ A kids Pokemon journey, going through the Kanto region. Roughly follows the same physical path as Red/Blue, but with some twists for the events along the way.

http://www.nerfnow.com/ Video game comic, mostly one-offs with the occasional storyline.

http://www.nuzlocke.com/pokemonhardmode.php I'm holding out hope for this one to take off again, as unlikely as it is. Was about a year between updates last time. Pokemon adventures through various regions. Most of the early references are to "Lost", so if you're not familiar with that show some of the humor will be lost.

http://www.poisonedminds.com/ More mature comic, R-Rated. First comics are gags before the story begins. Quite an upgrade to the art over the years.

http://www.powernapcomic.com/ Company creates a pill that eliminates the need for sleep in most people. Doesn't work for a small percent of the population. Follows the story of one person before it gets weird.

http://runewriters.com/index.php Fantasy world where people who can use magic are "runewriters". Magic type is inherited at birth. Follows a group of people trying to find cures for their miscasts, where a mistake is made and has unfortunate side effects.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/#comic Gag strips with no continuing story.

http://www.savestatecomic.com/ Another video-game comic that I'm on the fence about, may be removing this one from my list soon. Video-game addicts living video game addict lives.

http://www.skindeepcomic.com/ Mythical creatures hide amongst the normal population. Starts out following one person's change. After the first couple chapters (Orientations parts 1-5) it mellows out a fair bit.

http://www.sdamned.com/ Person gets killed and is sent to be judged. Isn't pure enough for heaven, is sinful enough for hell, so they get sent to the ring of the slightly damned. Heavier on the story later in the run.

http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com Bunch of kids get superpowers thanks to an unknown event. Superheroes and Supervillains pop up. Follows a retired superhero who wants to lead a more normal life and make the world a better place.

http://acityinaplace.com/ Post-apocalyptic world following the protagonist trying to survive.

http://willsaveworldforgold.com/ DnD comic based on 4th edition rules, and sticks to them pretty closely.

https://loadingartist.com/ Gag stips that almost always try to take an unexpected twist.

http://www.howtobeawerewolf.com/ Protagonist has been a werewolf for most of her life, but never knew of others like her. Gets found by a someone much more in the know.

http://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/ Protagonist moves to small town to get away from the city, turns out the house is haunted and other things around town.

http://www.joshuawright.net/index.html Several different comics here. Each probably worth checking out, a fair bit of variety.

http://thunderbirdcomic.com/ Wild west setting with some magic and gods.

http://www.godslavecomic.com/comic/ Protagonist frees ancient trapped god, based on Egyptian lore. Agrees to help god, story ensues.

http://www.handbookofheroes.com/ Gag comics based on DnD. If you;ve played table top games, you can relate to most of the jokes.

While putting this post together I actually did a little cleaning and deleted a couple comics that I was losing interest in. Got a little short on the descriptions near the end, but comics are more a visual medium than text, so check them out if you're interested.




http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/ Comic based on Super Smash Brothers, mostly gags between the characters.

https://www.bgreco.net/kidradd/ One of the webcomics that took advantage of being on the web. Lost of the fun features don't work anymore, but it's still a good read.

http://www.dominic-deegan.com/ Fantasy setting following a seer, making money by telling the future. Lot's of jokes and puns, picks up on the drama/story eventually.

http://raptorvsrex.net/ Raptor has tribe wiped out by a T-Rex, swears revenge.

http://drmcninja.com/ A doctor, who is also a ninja. Get's rather crazy and radical as the comic goes on.

http://www.leftoversoup.com/index.php This one sits in a wierd place for me. It comes across like a blog where each of the main cast are a different part of the author as time moves on, getting preachy at times. I still kept coming back anyway.

https://www.nuklearpower.com/8-bit-theater/ Sprite comic during the height of sprite comics. Fairly entertaining.

[Ibrinar]

Not counting finished ones and anything in my RSS reader where I don't immediately recognize the name (Like NN4B looking up the full name I recognize it though) and some others because I couldn't be bothered to write their names in this list:
Hero oh Hero
Ava's Demon
Cucumber Quest
Darth and Droids
Daughter of the Lilies
Goblins
Kill six billion Demons
Lighter than Heir
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
EGS
Not a villain
Oglaf
Paranatural
Prequel
Power nap
Rusty and Co
Schlock
Slightly Damned
Supernormal Step
The End
Zombie Hunters
Miamaska
Trixe Slaughteraxe
Unsounded
Will save world for gold
Lilith's Word

Lets add some finished anyway
Nimona
8 bit theater
Dr Ninja

Also follow The Zombie Knight and will probably follow the new ones in Worms world.

[rooster707]

Hmm. A lot less than most people here, apparently.

OOTS (:smallamused:)
xkcd
Dinosaur Comics
Girl Genius
Questionable Content
Darths and Droids

Finally checked out Kill Six Billion Demons yesterday, and I’m glad I did. And also somewhat confused. Currently about halfway through an archive binge.

[Peelee]

OOTS.

SMBC.

Used to do a few more, like XKCD and Darths and Droids, but havent seen them in a bit. Should really get caught up in D&D, really. Plenty of story to get through now, I'm sure. Also used to do 8BT, but, well, all good things come to an end. Oh, to be young again. And also a robot.

ETA: God, I hated Questionable Content. The robot was the only good thing about that strip, and it quickly became all about angsty drama I didn't care about.

[SpiderSilkWings]

I have a ridiculously long list that's fluctuated over time as I forget about some and go back to others. On an old PC I used to have a favorites folder that was nothing but a long list of M-W-F webcomics to pull up three times a week. Maybe one day I'll do that again, for now I'm in a weird cycle of constantly rediscovering comics I've loved after they've had a few weeks or months to continue and give me a backlog.

Right now, Monster Pulse, Mare Internum, Mokepon, Rain LGBT, Schlock Mercenary, Freefall, Kiwi Blitz, Sleepless Domain, XKCD, Forward, White Noise by Madsniper, and Unsounded are the ones I'm currently checking consistently.

[Rater202]

Selkie (http://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie/): Life, Love, and Fishies! A story of a family born of adoption. There are feels, but is mostly just a good feel good story.

Favorite Part: Little selkie has just met her new grandparents for the first time and sees that they're black. She looks to her new Blue eyed, Blonde father, and just asks "You're adopted too?"

The story is also notable for depicting bullying realistically(As in, the effects are realistic and the "he has a bad home and just wants friends" trope that really doesn't apply IRL anymore is averted) and resolving that conflict in a way that is both carthartically satisfying and actually helps the problem.

It also has a Spin-Off called the Adventures of Sue and Katherine: Undead Adventurers (http://sueandkathryn.com/comic/sueandkathryn01/) which is a cartoon in Selkie's world. The comics update on Alternate days with Selkie updating Mon-Wed-Fri and Sue and Kat Tues-Thurs-Sat with Sundays off.

[Sinewmire]

Stand Still, Stay Silent (http://www.sssscomic.com)

I can't overstate how great this comic is. Near-future post-apocalytic, set in the Nordic lands. Thanks to the world going dark (horrible gribbly monster virus) the old ways are coming back.

Delves into Finnish folklore, especially, and lots of humour with some really disturbingly gross monsters.

Beautiful art.

[2Comic2Furious]

One of the first, if not the very first for me (and probably through the original miniseries) was Crossed: Wish You Were Here.

It was up for free as it was being published and ended up being superior to all of the printed for sale material, even those written by Alan Moore. You can also buy this as well in print.

The character work is exceptional and the story was first class, though word of warning, it could get quite horrific.

Crossed: WYWH homepage (http://www.crossedcomic.com)

Crossed: WYWH Archive (http://www.crossedcomic.com/category/the-webcomic/)

I miss the forums which were closed down some time ago. A lot of good discussion there.

[Steve Edwards]

binwins minions
Table titans
Camp wedonwantya

[137beth]

Thanks folks, you've given me a lot of good recommendations.

Anyhow, my updated list of comics is:
My list of comics is separated by how often I check them. The following are the comics I check whenever there could be an update: if the update schedule is irregular, I check every day, otherwise I check every update day.

Darths and Droids
www.darthsanddroids.net

Dinosaur Comics
www.qwantz.com

Dumbing of Age
www.dumbingofage.com

Girls With Slingshots: Chasers
http://www.girlswithslingshots.com

Gunnerkrigg Court
www.gunnerkrigg.com

Order of the Stick
www.giantitp.com

Rain
www.rain.thecomicseries.com

Sister Claire and Sister Claire MIssing Moments
www.sisterclaire.com

Supernormal Step
www.supernormalstep.com

Tamberlane
https://www.tamberlanecomic.com

XKCD
www.xkcd.com



And here are the comics I follow, but only check once a month:

Acethexis
acethexiscomic.com

Aether
www.aether.thecomicseries.com

Alice and the Nightmare
www.aliceandthenightmare.com

Daughter of the Lillies
www.daughterofthelilies.com

[Redacted due to the forum rules]
www.[redacted due to the forum rules].com


Mare Internum
www.marecomic.com

Mezzacotta (Hall of Fame only)
http://www.mezzacotta.net/halloffame.php

Monsterkind
www.monsterkind.enenkay.com

Monster Lands
http://www.monster-lands.com

Monster's Garden
http://monstersgarden.com

Radio Silence
http://www.radiosilencecomic.com

Strong Female Protagonist
www.strongfemaleprotagonist.com

Stuc at 32
stuckat32.com

That Deaf Guy
http://www.thatdeafguy.com/

XKCD What If?
what-if.xkcd.com

Finally, here are some completed comics I've read and enjoyed:
Abstruse Goose
www.abstrusegoose.com

Heartless
http://heartless-comic.com

Shortpacked
Shortpacked

[Lacuna Caster]

Stand Still, Stay Silent (http://www.sssscomic.com)

I can't overstate how great this comic is. Near-future post-apocalytic, set in the Nordic lands. Thanks to the world going dark (horrible gribbly monster virus) the old ways are coming back.

Delves into Finnish folklore, especially, and lots of humour with some really disturbingly gross monsters.

Beautiful art.

The art does look fabulous. I'd love to get some time to look into it.

I'll put in another good word for Cucumber Quest. The story's alright, but I don't think any other webcomic can be so damned beautiful.

Wonderella is demented and brilliant. Crossed is pretty hard going, but has it's merits. And although I started a thread about it already, Weapon Brown is a tour de force.

[Fyraltari]

OOTS (duh),
Girl Genius (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/)
Erfworld,
El Goonish Shive, (http://www.egscomics.com/)
XKCD, (https://xkcd.com/)
Existential comics, (http://existentialcomics.com/)
Guilded age, (http://guildedage.net/)
Darths and Droids, (http://www.darthsanddroids.net/)
Maliki, (http://maliki.com/) (many strips have an english translation)
Manly guys doing manly things (http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/) and
Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/)

I also enjoyed Exterminatus Now (http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/) and the half-life and death of Gordon Frohman (http://www.hlcomic.com/first/).

Voilà.

[Clertar]

OOTS
Dresden Codak
Mare Internum
The Meek
Gunnerkrigg Court (every month or two)

[warriorneedsfoo]

Currently Putting a lot of thought into:

Kill Six Billion Demons
Cochlea & Eustachia
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Oglaf
Adventures of Lana
Ten Earth Shattering Blows
Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic


But the webcomic universe is vast, my own is but a speck.

[An Enemy Spy]

OOTS, obviously. Also Darths and Droids and The Draw Play which is comic making fun of the NFL and is of no interest to people who aren't football fans.

[Anteros]

OOTS, obviously. Also Darths and Droids and The Draw Play which is comic making fun of the NFL and is of no interest to people who aren't football fans.

I want to like Draw Play, but it's like 99% just poorly drawn versions of the "jokes" that the NFL subreddit has already beaten to death. I'm pretty sure he does it on purpose to pander to them. I can see how it's entertaining if you don't use that sub much though.

[Rogar Demonblud]

I've started on Freefall again, and am up to the trial.

[5a Violista]

Coincidentally, I've got a list of comics that I've read (as well as how frequently) on this computer desktop. (Aside: it's actually not a coincidence. After thinking about this thread, I decided to go through that Top Webcomics site and list all of the comics that I've read, as well as a few that I couldn't see on there but I still read. Didn't go all the way through the website, though. Then, I organized the list. I won't include the comics that I stopped because I lost interest in them or disliked, and so on...so, here we go.


Erstwhile Tales - I don't actually know if this is available anymore. It was basically a retelling of different old stories from way back when, as drawn by three different artists (they switched artist every story).
The Ten Tailors of Weston Court - http://tentailors.thecomicseries.com/ - The story is basically over; the writer just seems to be adding in a bit to a bonus after-story every couple months or so. It's a background story to The Wolf at Weston Court, where the artist challenged herself to using a limited color palette.
Abby Normal - http://abbynormal.thecomicseries.com/ - was a fun story, but the artist decided to reboot it and I haven't gotten around to reading the reboot. Basically about a couple of undead hanging about in a postapocalyptic world, with really cute art.
- there was this other comic I really enjoyed, but it ended and I can't remember its name. It took place in a college setting, and one of the side characters was invisible...I just remember that I really enjoyed it.



Stand Still, Stay Silent - http://www.sssscomic.com/ - a beautiful comic with neat folklore elements. I started reading it when it when it was starting, but then forgot about it until I no longer had time to catch up
Quantum Vibe - http://www.quantumvibe.com/ - a cool sci-fi that I started reading because I was reading too many fantasy comics. I caught up and...stopped reading
Fey Winds - http://www.feywinds.com/ - a fantasy comic that has a really cool setting. Again...caught up and stopped reading
dream*scar - http://dream-scar.net/ - sort of a supernatural drama story? It has lots of neat concepts but I stopped reading because it seems to update sporadically
Snow by Night - http://www.snowbynight.com/ - I love this story; takes place in Canada and has folklore elements as well, about two guys and a spirit of winter
Damsels Don't Wear Glasses - http://damsels-dont-wear-glasses.com/ - A cool story with...a techo-fantasy-ish setting? I don't really know how to describe it, 'cause I haven't read it in a while. But the main heroine is really cool.
Shadowbinders - http://shadowbinders.clownfishtv.com/ - A neat fantasy comic with cool magic and ... I can't remember why I stopped reading it. Maybe it went on hiatus for a while and I never bothered to come back
The Last Halloween - https://www.last-halloween.com/ - a horror comic with some action. I stopped reading it when it reached a natural break in the story
The Wolf at Weston Court - http://thewolfatwestoncourt.thecomicseries.com/ - A cool story about a tailor who is also a wolf, but the artist's tablet seems to have died this January and can't continue for now



Replay - A postapocalyptic fantasy comic. Has a cool story, but I always seem to forget it exists whenever I have time to catch up on comics
Dumbing of Age - A college-centered comedic comic. I'd read it more often if I enjoyed it more.
PhD Comics - the further I get into my degree, the funner this one gets
El Goonish Shive - kind-of a teen drama with magic in the background?
I Dream of a Jeanie Bottle - A jerkish guy got a genie bottle and transformed into a certain genie from an old TV series.
Sailor Sun - by the same writer as Jeanie Bottle; the story about an unemployed Canadian actor who got screwed over by his employers by permanently transforming him into a woman...(I guess at this point, the main character identifies as a woman, now that the story is reaching its conclusion? Oh, well. Through most of the story, he privately identifies as male, so I'll keep on using male pronouns) Not even his daughter-from-the-future or his long-lost twin sister knows about it, though
Rubi Whipple - Okay, so I just started this one, but it seems cool so far. Just saw its title and thought "Oh, this might be cool."



Not A Villain - A post-apocalyptic story that mostly takes place in VR. It has really good complex characters.
Goblins - updates infrequently, but I still enjoy its story and its progress. D&D-style fantasy?
xkcd - Has really funny comics, thought-provoking comics, and comics that I don't find funny. Lots of math/language/art jokes, so that's cool.
The Order of the Stick - A neat D&D-style fantasy story, with cool characters and a really neat plot
Shotgun Shuffle - A story essentially about a lazy girl looking for employment. But it has really good character development, humor, setting, etc...I enjoy it.
Widdershins - A neat historical fantasy story with a really cool summon-based magic system and a really cool plot
Flaky Pastry - Another fantasy story, but largely focused on three roommates (a chaos-magic elf, a smart girl with animal ears, and a goblin who likes tinkering with stuff) and the messes they cause
Gunnerkrigg Court - A cool techno-fantasy story focused on a schoolgirl; the story has lots of nature vs technology elements in it
Hero Oh Hero - A fantasy story that follows three separate people, switching every chapter. One is a hero-guy who's strong enough to defeat pretty much any magic user (who are pretty strong). One is a kid with weird magic powers being trained under an authoritarian regime that hates magic. The third is a person who has really high dungeoncrawling skills but got lost away from her home town.
Think Before You Think - A modern-day story where a main character reads minds, dates a girl who is incredibly self-conscious, and so on.
Modest Medusa - A cute fantasy story with a snake-girl who ends up in the real world, causing all sorts of trouble for the people around her, especially when the fantasy-world she comes from tries to get her back.
Paranatural - A supernatural story following a teenager who moves into a new town and suddenly gains the ability to see ghosts, leading to him joining a club full of others like him who fight ghosts, when there's a big mystery going on in the background
Mystery Babalon - A story involving angels and demons, taking place in the distant future
Metacarpolis - There's this weird city that has really high levels of strangeness going on; the story starts off with the main character being fired from being a minion
Solstoria - A really cute fantasy story about a girl who has always wanted to be a knight
Sidekick Girl - A superhero comic in which both superheroes and villains work under big corporations specifically for that purpose
Darths and Droids - A screencap comic of Star Wars, with a story of a bunch of friends getting together to play a D&D-like game. It has really good twists if you've seen the Star Wars movies, and also has good character development.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things - A story where all the buff manly guys in games and movies (and so on) are under the oversight of a manly time-traveling dude from the future, in order to help them reintegrate back into society. The story mostly follows the guy in charge and the random average woman he meets, but involves references to Pokemon, Duke Nukem, Zelda (by way of Ganondorf), and so on.
Blood Splattered Socks - A neat story that has time travel as the background plot device
Pilli Adventure - A fun fantasy-like story that takes place in Mexico, following a teenage girl
Cucumber Quest - It has really cute art and a really awesome story. Basically, a parody of the "Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door" game.
Kill Six Billion Demons - It has an amazing setting.
Rusty & Co.- Very D&D episodic story
Lapse - a supernatural drama/horror where, after falling down the stairs and falling unconscious, the main character can see and talk to the ghosts hanging around. These include an old-fashioned ghost, a ghost girl, a skull-monster that wants to hurt her, and a guy who died in an accident.


So...
Wow, that list took a lot longer to describe than I thought.

[Honest Tiefling]

Might I also recommend The Savage Beard of She-Dwarf (http://www.shedwarf.com/comic/chapter-1-page-1/) for the DnD crowd? It's still quite new and silly, but I'm looking forward to where it is going.

[137beth]

Manly guys doing manly things (http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/)

I have seen this comic recommended by numerous people. However, if your profile information is correct, then you are the first male I have heard recommend this comic. A bit ironic given the title:smallamused:



Anyhow,


The following are the comics I check whenever there could be an update: if the update schedule is irregular, I check every day, otherwise I check every update day.

Darths and Droids
www.darthsanddroids.net

Dinosaur Comics
www.qwantz.com

Dumbing of Age
www.dumbingofage.com

Girls With Slingshots: Chasers
http://www.girlswithslingshots.com

Gunnerkrigg Court
www.gunnerkrigg.com

Namesake
www.namesakecomic.com

Order of the Stick
www.giantitp.com

Rain
www.rain.thecomicseries.com

Sister Claire and Sister Claire MIssing Moments
www.sisterclaire.com

Supernormal Step
www.supernormalstep.com

Tamberlane
https://www.tamberlanecomic.com

Widdershins
www.widdershinscomic.com

XKCD
www.xkcd.com





And here are the comics I follow, but only check once a month:

Acethexis
acethexiscomic.com

Aether
www.aether.thecomicseries.com

Alice and the Nightmare
www.aliceandthenightmare.com

Daughter of the Lillies
www.daughterofthelilies.com

[Redacted due to the forum rules]
www. [redacted due to the forum rules] .com


Mare Internum
www.marecomic.com

Mezzacotta (Hall of Fame only)
http://www.mezzacotta.net/halloffame.php

Monsterkind
www.monsterkind.enenkay.com

Monster Lands
http://www.monster-lands.com

Monster's Garden
http://monstersgarden.com

Never Heroes: Yellow Hearts
https://sparklermonthly.com/series/never-heroes-yellow-hearts/

Radio Silence
http://www.radiosilencecomic.com

Strong Female Protagonist
www.strongfemaleprotagonist.com

Stuc at 32
stuckat32.com

XKCD What If?
what-if.xkcd.com



Finally, here are some completed comics I've read and enjoyed:

Abstruse Goose
www.abstrusegoose.com

Heartless
http://heartless-comic.com

Shortpacked
Shortpacked

That Deaf Guy
http://www.thatdeafguy.com/

Yellow Hearts
https://sparklermonthly.com/series/yellow-hearts/

[donpaul]

Thank you for the post. I really found out some great ones here :)

[Honest Tiefling]

I have seen this comic recommended by numerous people. However, if your profile information is correct, then you are the first male I have heard recommend this comic. A bit ironic given the title:smallamused:


*cough cough* bears! *cough cough*

[Fyraltari]

I have seen this comic recommended by numerous people. However, if your profile information is correct, then you are the first male I have heard recommend this comic. A bit ironic given the title:smallamused:


Really? *Shrugs*

Well it is quite funny. I mean one guy just uses his magikarp as a club until it evolves. "ain't no rule..."

[Bohandas]

Handbook of Heroes (http://www.handbookofheroes.com/)
Uberquest (http://uberquest.katbox.net/)
Slightly Damned (http://www.sdamned.com/)
Boumeries (http://comics.boumerie.com/)
Breaking Cat News (http://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news)
Cat Nine (http://cat-nine.net/)
The Odd 1s Out (http://theodd1sout.com/comic/the-first-comic/)
Smitty Black (https://mspfa.com/?s=1963&p=1)
Magnificatz (http://magnificatz.com/archive)
Problem Sleuth (https://www.homestuck.com/problem-sleuth/1)
Drive (http://www.drivecomic.com/)
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Ozy & Millie
Digger
Something Happens
Swords and Sausages
Happle Tea
Sequential Art
Scenes From A Multiverse
Witchprickers
Deathbulge
Chainroaker
Exploitation Now
Cyanide and Happiness
Existential Comics
All Night Laundry
Bob the Angry Flower
The Oatmeal
Fur Will Fly
Girls With Slingshots
Modest Medusa
Kila Ilo
Polandball
Scandanavia and the World
D&D Kids
Dungeons and Denizens
Widdershins
VG Cats
Housepets
NPC
Freefall
Cthulhu Slippers
Bunnyvomit
The Bunny System
Peter & Company
Dan & Mab
A Tale Yet Unclaimed
Bird and Moon
Channelate
Three's A Company
Two Guys and A Guy
Intragalactic
Newshounds
Optipess
Zoophobia
Dresden Codak
Let's Speak English
Unspeakable Vault of Doom
Mynarski Forest
Skin Horse
The Ballad of Adler Young
Sinfest
Blue Milk Special
Grrl Power
Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy
Murry Purry Fresh and Furry
Jack
SSDD
Kitty Litter
Last Resort
Gamercat
Red Meat
The Misadventures of Hello Cthulhu

[137beth]

Really? *Shrugs*

Well it is quite funny. I mean one guy just uses his magikarp as a club until it evolves. "ain't no rule..."

I mean, I'm not doubting that a lot of people find it funny, and I do plan on trying to read it at some point. I just find it amusing that a comic called "Manly Guys Doing Manly Things" seems to mostly be recommended by women (in the limited sample size of people I've talked to about what comics they read).


<SNIP>

Now that's a lot of comics!

[Fyraltari]

I mean, I'm not doubting that a lot of people find it funny, and I do plan on trying to read it at some point. I just find it amusing that a comic called "Manly Guys Doing Manly Things" seems to mostly be recommended by women (in the limited sample size of people I've talked to about what comics they read).
Well considering the comic is about ridiculously muscled men acting like normal mature people I am not surprised that many women would enjoy it.

Though you should note that I am, in fact, not the first stated male to list it here.



The Punchline is Machismo.

(look at the URL (http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/02222010)).

[Bohandas]

Now that's a lot of comics!

A lot of those though are either ended (NPC, Chainroaker, Intragalactic, Problem Sleuth, Smitty Black), or only update a couple of times a year (The Odd1sout, Happle Tea)

oh, and on that note I left out

My Sister the Dragon (http://sisterdragon.smackjeeves.com/comics/92218/01-prelude/)

from the original list

[Nerx]

Do korean webtoons count?

[Bohandas]

also:
BCDE
SSDD
Darths & Droids
Friendship is Dragons
Practice Makes Perfect
Other M
Dusty Dunes (which doesn;t seem to exist anymore)
Wizdingo (which also doesn't seem to exist any more)
Everignot (which also doesn't seem to exist anymore)
Beastfolk Swamp Adventure (which also doesn't seem to exist anymore)
the original version of Commander Kitty
Red Meat
Spacemoose
Fortuna
Sandra and Woo
Dandy and Company
Goats
Muertitos
Ekolid (defunct)
Otaku Dad
Homestuck
Awkward Zombie
Zombie Roomie
Unicorn Jelly
Holy Bibble [sic] (defunct)
and
Our Little Adventure

[Zyzzyva]

This is not the full list, just the ones that I like enough to shill around to you all. :smallwink:


Curvy, which is complete but now doing a hilarious recounting of the tales of the Narts
Fey Winds ("The cast page describes a fun but basically generic fantasy comic. Every statement on the cast page is a lie.")
K6BD, with the best or at least most bizarre art and setting
Oglaf, which I hopefully don't need to sell to anyone who is not put off by the mere concept
Shattered Starlight (by the author of Fey Winds)
Skin Horse (by the author of Narbonic)
Widdershins (I am still holding out hope for a Lovelace&Babbage crossover or cameo)
XKCD, I hopefully don't need to explain this one


Ones that are finished but deserve another read:


Broodhollow, I guess technically on indefinite hiatus but so damn good. The end of chapter 1 literally made me gasp.
Casey and Andy (fun enough, very mixed and crude art but there's some genuine gems in it)
Digger, lots of fun and some cool mythology
DM of the Rings, like Darths & Droids but with a more consitent tone, and also and ending. :smallwink:
Hark a Vagrant, likewise on quasi-eternal hiatus, with great Canadiana
Narbonic, the best(?) webcomic ever. Like, not even being valley-girl overenthusiastic. I... think? it's quite possibly the best.


Oh, right, also Order of the Stick. :smallbiggrin:

[Fyraltari]

Do korean webtoons count?

Why wouldn't they? Korean-speakers might be interested as would othersif some of those comics come with a translation.

[Bohandas]

Also
Hybridor
Ingress Adventuring Co.
Katran
The Stars Shine Bright
Pokemon: Rising Shadows
PMD: Adventures of Team Sunflower
Interdimensional Port Hole Navigators

edit:
Office Hours
Floating On
Suihira
Muertitos

EDIT: also:

Seel Peel
Electric Bunny Comics/Dingo Doodles
Supermegatopia
My Life With Fel
Twokinds

[Bohandas]

Also
Demon Street
Peritale
Otaku Dad
Raviosa: The Fox Comic
Whomp!
Back
The Last Diplomat
Tove
Cute Comics
Paranatural
Supernormal Step
Dumm Comics
Atomic Robo
Clique Refresh
NPC
Sister Claire
Helvetica
Sam & Fuzzy
Muertitos
Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy

i'm not caught up on even half of these though

[137beth]

Do korean webtoons count?

Of course! Being English-language is not a requirement for this thread.

Anyhow, I'm currently making my way through the archives of This is Not Fiction (www.thisisnotfiction.com), which, despite the name, is entirely a work of fiction.

[Bohandas]

Guilded age, (http://guildedage.net/)

Do the images on this comic load painfully slow for anybody else?

[Darth Tom]

Currently:
OOTS
Girl Genius
Darths and Droids
Garfield
XKCD
Scandinavia and the World
Goblins
YAFGC
Handbook of Heroes
Oglaf (NSFW)
Sacred Pie

Things I have enjoyed in the past but stopped reading for one reason or another:
WoTnow? (ended)
Mac Hall (ended)
Applegeeks (forgot about)
RPG World (ended)
Underpower (ended)
Megatokyo (got bored)
Ctrl Alt Del (got bored)
Dominic Deegan (ended)
El Goonish Shive (forgot about)
CRFH (didn't like the direction)

[Anonymouswizard]

Let's see, currently it's:
OotS (duh)
XKCD
El Goonish Shive
and First Fantasy (http://first-fantasy.smackjeeves.com/comics/2614989/landing-page/)*, mainly because this one's made by a RL friend.

I also check Darths & Droids and Irregular Webcomic occasionally, significantly prefering to just binge the new comics every few months.

* Yes, it is obviously inspired by Final Fantasy.

[Onyx]

I follow:
1. Twisted Dark
2. Delve
3. Grrl Power

[137beth]

First Fantasy (http://first-fantasy.smackjeeves.com/comics/2614989/landing-page/)*, mainly because this one's made by a RL friend.

I also check Darths & Droids and Irregular Webcomic occasionally, significantly prefering to just binge the new comics every few months.

* Yes, it is obviously inspired by Final Fantasy.

Looks interesting, I may read that later.

Also I recently caught up on Slightly Damned (http://sdamned.com/), which is really good.

[Bohandas]

recently Started reading

Future Pig
Magpie House Design
21st Century Fox

[Lector87]

Awkward Zombie
Collected Curios
Elf and Warrior
Girl Genius
Johnny Wander
Megatokyo
Nerf Now
Order of the Stick
Paranatural -> recommend to all, current favorite
Penny Arcade
Three Panel Soul
Two Guys and Guy
Unsounded
Vattu
XKCD

[halfeye]

I have somewhere between two dozen and thirty bookmarked that I check every day, mostly they don't update on most days. I have a subfolder I check weekly, most of them don't update. After that, I check the webcomiclist (http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/latest/) daily, it lists updates by the hour as they happen, but it sometimes drops a comic without notification (I'm not registered with them, it may play differently if you are registered, or not, I don't know), I was assuming that Girls with slingshots was on hiatus, but it seems that's also been dropped.

<edit>

I may or may not bookmark Girls with Slingshots, I sometimes do that, quite a few of my bookmarks no longer show up in the webcomiclist(dot)com, but quite a few do and have to be skipped there.

Now Questionable Content and El Goonish Shive have been dropped, that's ridiculous, a couple of months ago they were tagging QC as most visited, and EGS can't have been that far behind.

I don't understand what their financial strategy is. I know I'm not paying them, do they only list comics that pay them? I cleared out my cookies, and that made no difference, so presumably it's not based on who I am.

[farothel]

Order of the Stick
Girl Genius
Darth's and Droids
Weregeek
Yet another fantasy gamer comic
Userfriendly
Sandra and Woo (and their other comic Gaia)
PHD comics
PvP (and their other comics Table Titans and Binwins Minions)
Menage a Trois
Looking for Group
Irregular webcomic

Quite a list now that I list them all down. Although maybe not compared to some other lists I've seen here.

[137beth]

Now Questionable Content and El Goonish Shive have been dropped, that's ridiculous, a couple of months ago they were tagging QC as most visited, and EGS can't have been that far behind.

I don't understand what their financial strategy is. I know I'm not paying them, do they only list comics that pay them? I cleared out my cookies, and that made no difference, so presumably it's not based on who I am.

I don't really trust any of the automated services that supposedly track webcomic updates. Not because I think they have some ulterior motive, but because I know that any such software is going to have bugs. At some point, it will stop detecting updates for a comic I like, even though the comic is still updating. That's why I don't rely on thewebcomiclist or any similar sites like Piperka (https://piperka.net/), Comic Rocket (https://www.comic-rocket.com/explore/), or Top Webcomics. I will sometimes use Piperka or Comic Rocket to get an estimate of how many pages a comic has before I start reading it, because I like to have some idea of how long it is going to take me to read through the archives, but I don't use them to tell when a comic has updated.

For tracking updates to the comics I follow, I just use a plain txt file. In the file I record the name of each comic, the update schedule (if the comic has an update schedule), the URL, the date of the last page I read, and the URL of the last page I read. It requires me to keep track of more information myself, but it's less likely to break due to a software bug.

[Rogar Demonblud]

For those who read 3 Minute Max but haven't checked the site lately, the strip is on indefinite hiatus until Kiki's cancer fight is resolved.

A 15 month old with stage 4 cancer. I mean, what...can you do?

[Anonymouswizard]

Looks interesting, I may read that later.

Hope you enjoy(ed) it. Honestly my friend gets enough grief with that comic, I continually point out that his art would improve a lot if he just went for something like cross hatching for his shading.

Plus he's noted I have the weirdest ship in the fandom...

[halfeye]

I don't really trust any of the automated services that supposedly track webcomic updates. Not because I think they have some ulterior motive, but because I know that any such software is going to have bugs. At some point, it will stop detecting updates for a comic I like, even though the comic is still updating. That's why I don't rely on thewebcomiclist or any similar sites like Piperka (https://piperka.net/), Comic Rocket (https://www.comic-rocket.com/explore/), or Top Webcomics. I will sometimes use Piperka or Comic Rocket to get an estimate of how many pages a comic has before I start reading it, because I like to have some idea of how long it is going to take me to read through the archives, but I don't use them to tell when a comic has updated.

Software has bugs sometimes, software often has bugs, not all software has bugs. In the main bugs are unpredicable and do random things. Stopping detecting updates of a comic that's still updating is not random in that sense, it's something that might be a bug once, but if it happens every time and all the time, it's a policy decision being spun as a bug to avoid explaining the policy.


For tracking updates to the comics I follow, I just use a plain txt file. In the file I record the name of each comic, the update schedule (if the comic has an update schedule), the URL, the date of the last page I read, and the URL of the last page I read. It requires me to keep track of more information myself, but it's less likely to break due to a software bug.

I can't be bothered with that. Some of the comics I read update daily, some every weekday but not the weekend, some mondays, wednesday and friday, some monday and thursday, others other combinations, then they have days or weeks off, or skip, or whatever, so in general they are not reliable enough to care which day they are due to be out on. I have an update once a week or less folder for ones that do that, and I check that once a week, the rest I check daily, because they are just too random in their timing to do anything else.

[Bohandas]

Knife Quest

[Vinyadan]

Long live RSS feeds. I have no idea why not everyone uses them.

[-D-]

Unsounded
Hero Oh Hero
Kill Six Billion Demons
Order of the Stick
....
That's about it. I do glance at Erfworld from time to time and Menage a 3, but those are rarer. There are others but they update too sparingly so I dropped them (Dresden Codak, Broodhollow, Mare Internum).

[2D8HP]

Besides the wonderfulBesides the wonderful Order of the Stick (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html)

I also subscribe to (warning sometimes they're NSFW):

Dork Tower (http://www.dorktower.com/2018/07/05/predictive-vindictive-text-dork-tower-05-07-18/)


Existential Comics (http://existentialcomics.com/comic/246)


Full Frontal Nerdity (http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=1771)

and

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/we)

And I haven't figured out how to subscribe to them but I regularly view:

Oglaf (https://www.oglaf.com/rattleplank/) (warning, seldom safe for work)

and

XKCD (https://xkcd.com)


And my favorite webcomic that's no-longer made is:

DM of the Rings (https://shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612)

[Dziadek]

"Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes"
"OOTS"
"xkcd"
"Friendship is Dragons"


and more rarely:

"Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal"
"The Bouletcorp"
"Penny bible fellowship"

And used to follow "DM of the Rings"... though it is inaccurate, because it was already finished by then.

[137beth]

I am currently making my way through the archives of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things (http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/).

Anyways, it's time for me to update my list:

The following are the comics I check whenever there could be an update: if the update schedule is irregular, I check every day, otherwise I check every update day.

Darths and Droids
www.darthsanddroids.net

Dinosaur Comics
www.qwantz.com

Dumbing of Age
www.dumbingofage.com

Girls With Slingshots: Chasers
http://www.girlswithslingshots.com

Gunnerkrigg Court
www.gunnerkrigg.com

Namesake
www.namesakecomic.com

Order of the Stick
www.giantitp.com

Rain
www.rain.thecomicseries.com

Sister Claire and Sister Claire MIssing Moments
www.sisterclaire.com

Tamberlane
https://www.tamberlanecomic.com

Widdershins
www.widdershinscomic.com

XKCD
www.xkcd.com



And here are the comics I follow, but only check once a month:

Acethexis
acethexiscomic.com

Aether
www.aether.thecomicseries.com

Alice and the Nightmare
www.aliceandthenightmare.com

Band vs Band
www.bvbcomix.com

Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
www.missmab.com

Daughter of the Lillies
www.daughterofthelilies.com

Headless Bliss
www.headlessbliss.com

[Redacted due to the forum rules]
www. [redacted due to the forum rules] .com


Kiwi Blitz
www.kiwiblitz.com

[Redacted due to the forum rules]
www. [redacted due to the forum rules] .com


Mare Internum
www.marecomic.com

Monsterkind
www.monsterkind.enenkay.com

Monster Lands
http://www.monster-lands.com

Monster's Garden
http://monstersgarden.com

Never Heroes: Yellow Hearts
https://sparklermonthly.com/series/never-heroes-yellow-hearts/

No End
www.noendcomic.com

Paranatural
www.paranatural.net

Radio Silence
http://www.radiosilencecomic.com

Sleepless Domain
www.sleeplessdomain.com

Slightly Damned
www.sdamned.com

Speak of the Devil
www.speakdevil.com

Strong Female Protagonist
www.strongfemaleprotagonist.com

Stuck at 32
stuckat32.com

This is Not Fiction
www.thisisnotfiction.com

Undivine
www.undivinecomic.com

XKCD What If?
what-if.xkcd.com

Here are the comics which are not actively updating, but which I still occasionally.

Heartless
http://heartless-comic.com

Let's Speak English
http://www.marycagle.com

Lilith's Word
www.lilithword.com

Mezzacotta (Hall of Fame only)
http://www.mezzacotta.net/halloffame.php

Shortpacked
Shortpacked

Supernormal Step
www.supernormalstep.com

Yellow Hearts
https://sparklermonthly.com/series/yellow-hearts/



Finally, here are the comics I have read that have had no updates for at least two years.

Abstruse Goose
www.abstrusegoose.com

Darken
www.darkencomic.com

That Deaf Guy
http://www.thatdeafguy.com/

Zap
www.zapcomic.com

[Celestia]

The webcomics I currently read:

Cucumber Quest: A fun and heartfelt adventure story that often parodies rpg video games. Very similar sense of humor as Paper Mario. Beautiful artwork. One of my favorites.

Cyanide and Happiness: A gag a day stick figure comic that makes jokes covering a very wide spectrum of topics. Often juvenile and/or provoking.

Darths & Droids: A campaign comic based on Star Wars. Despite the genre, it spends more time parodying Star Wars than rolepaying games and gamers. This was fine when it did Phantom Menace, but it hasn't been as good since. I still enjoy it, though.

El Goonish Shive: A high school slice of life comic heavily featuring magic and body transformation. Also, most of the characters are gay. One of my favorites.

Friendship is Dragons: A campaign comic based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Can sometimes be difficult to follow when they switch stories.

Gaia: A high fantasy adventure story with a mystery/conspiracy twist. Eventually becomes hard to follow due to character bloat.

Girl Genius: A steampunk tale featuring mad scientists and monsters in an alternate history Europe.

How to Be a Werewolf: An urban fantasy story featuring werewolves in a sleepy small town. Still relatively new. Great artwork.

Order of the Stick: Duh. One of my favorites.

Pieces of Eights: A D&D inspired adventure story about pirates and magic. Interestingly complex characters.

Sandra and Woo: A slice of life comic about a girl and her pet talking raccoon.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: A gag a day comic primarily focused on science, math, and philosophy jokes. Very large archive.

Spinnerette: Starts out as a parody of superhero comics but then just kinda becomes a superhero comic. Eventually suffers the problem of remembering its own continuity when major character moments are suddenly forgotten later.

Star Power: A superhero comic in spaaaaace. The web comic equivalent to a B movie: hilariously bad.


Currently, I am doing an archive binge of Sister Claire. It is a fantasy adventure story with indescribable amounts of character and emotion. I don't know how many times it has made me cry, and I love every moment of it. This may just be my new favorite comic of all time. I highly recommend it to everyone. It is also very, very gay. It has more gay characters than El Goonish Shive, and that's saying something.


Past comics that are now complete:

1/0: A slice of life comic that explores the concepts of existentialism, nihilism, and identity. Very good read if you're into that sort of thing.

DM of the Rings: The original campaign comic based on Lord of the Rings. In my opinion, it was the only one to really get it right. This also has the distinction of being the only comic that made me laugh so hard I literally fell out of my chair. One of my favorites.

Girly: A chaotic and absurdist adventure/slice of life comic featuring pure insanity. Gets NSFW at times. One of my favorites.

Star Mares: A My Little Pony/Star Wars parody comic that I recently found thanks to this forum. I quite enjoyed it.


There are many other comics I've read to be sure, many that I dropped for one reason or another, many that I finished that didn't leave much of an impact on me, but these are the ones I felt worth mentioning.

Also, if anyone has any suggestions for comics featuring lesbians, hit me up. :smalltongue:

[jwhouk]

Web comics, JustinMcBotface.

Let's see:

Between Failures by Jackie Wohlenhaus (Mon-Wed-Fri)
Bloom County by Berkley Breathed (Daily)
Coffee With Jesus at Radio Free Babylon (Weekly, Sort of)
Dork Tower by John Kovalic (Sporadically Weekly)
DRIVE comic by Dave Kellett (Weekly)
Freefall comic by Mark Stanley, color by George Peterson (Mon-Wed-Fri)
Girl Genius by Phil & Kaja Foglio (Mon-Wed-Fri)
Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell (Mon-Wed-Fri)
JL8 by Yale Stewart (Weekly, Sort of)
Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew (Duh)
Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques (Mon thru Fri)
Sandra And Woo by Oliver Knorzer & Powree (Mon/Thu)
Sheldon Comics by Dave Kellett (Irregularly three times a week)
Times Like This by Thomas Overbeck (Rarely, though he's updated a bit as of late)
Wapsi Square by Paul Taylor (Mon thru Fri)
The Whiteboard (courtesy of Doc's Paintball Shop) (Mon thru Fri)

[Bohandas]

Did I memtion
MercWorks
and
Deathbulge?

[Lethologica]

Ongoing:
The Blackblood Alliance
Blade Under Mask**
Broodhollow*^
Carciphona
Darths & Droids^
Derelict*
Discord*
Dresden Codak**^
Fisheye Placebo**
Friendship is Dragons^
Freefall
Girl Genius^
Goblins
Godslave^
Gone with the Blastwave**
Gunnerkrigg Court^
Handplates^
Henceforward** (KumaFromTaiwan)
Kill Six Billion Demons*^
Kiwi Blitz
Kubera^
Lackadaisy**^
Order of the Stick^
Mercy** (Shiniez)
Pepper and Carrot**^
Prequel^
Questionable Content
Scurry^
SIN (Quirkilicious)
Sister Claire^
Sleepless Domain
Snow By Night
The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn*
Strong Female Protagonist
Thieves Can't
Tower of God
Twokinds
[un]Divine*
Unsounded^
xkcd
Wild Skies**
Wilde Life
The Wormworld Saga**
Woven (Lark and Wren)
*: Haven't caught up yet
**: Hiatus / extremely slow updates
^: Recommended

Completed:
8-Bit Theater^
Ability*
Alice Grove
The Archipelago
Bibliography* (Elagune)
Digger^
DM of the Rings^
Dr. McNinja^
Dreamless
Freakangels^
Guilded Age^
How I Killed Your Master*
Inverloch
Let's Speak English^
Nimona^
Nuzlocke White (Ky-Nim)
One Over Zero^
The Phoenix Requiem^
Ramen Empire*
Sunstone
Take Off!
Tales from the Trenches
Thaumaturge* (Elagune)
*: Comic left unfinished
^: Recommended

Intermittent:
Penny Arcade
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Dinosaur Comics
Cyanide & Happiness
Robot Hugs
Dungeons & Doggos
Hark, a Vagrant
Dropped/On Hold:
anti-HEROES
Ava's Demon
City of Somnus
Collar 6
D&D Aangvanced
DICE
Empowered
Erfworld
Flaky Pastry
Flipside
The Forgotten Order
Gaia
The Gamer
Grand Line 3.5
Homestuck
Magician
MegaTokyo
Off-White
Planetouched Play D&D (Marlowe)
Plume
Poppy O'Possum
Problem Sleuth
Romantically Apocalyptic
Sandra and Woo
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Star Power
Sundowner
This is convenient, if a little worrying. Maybe I'll just maintain this post in lieu of organizing my bookmarks.

[Starbuck_II]

Dice
The Gamer
Tower of God
are my favorites this moment.

[solidork]

I am completely obsessed with Check Please! and am really surprised no one has mentioned it yet. It's a slice of life story about a college hockey team at a fictional school in Massachusetts; specifically about Eric Bittle, a Georgian former figure skating champion who loves baking and hates getting checked, which is a problem if he wants to keep his athletics scholarship.

It's got action, (sometimes they play hockey) a queer romance for the ages (enemies to friends to lovers *sighs dreamily*) and plenty of laughs. The story is currently at the start of the protagonists senior year, and it will end when he graduates. The main comic is easily short enough to read on one sitting, and the art is beautiful.(Ngozi's backgrounds are INSANE) It's had three very successful Kickstarters, and the first two years are being published by FirstSecond in less than a month!

Check it out!

checkpleasecomic.com

[137beth]

Finally finished making my way through the archives of Guilded Age (http://guildedage.net/). I thought it was okay, but not great. I don't think I've ever played any Blizzard games, though, which probably limited my understanding of some of the references.

[Bohandas]

The Square Root of Minus Garfield (http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1)

[137beth]

I think it's time for me to update my list:

My list of comics is separated by how often I check them. The following are the comics I check whenever there could be an update: if the update schedule is irregular, I check every day, otherwise I check every update day.

Darths and Droids
www.darthsanddroids.net

Dinosaur Comics
www.qwantz.com

Dumbing of Age
www.dumbingofage.com

Girls With Slingshots
http://www.girlswithslingshots.com

Gunnerkrigg Court
www.gunnerkrigg.com

Namesake
www.namesakecomic.com

Order of the Stick
www.giantitp.com

Rain
www.rain.thecomicseries.com

Sister Claire and Sister Claire MIssing Moments
www.sisterclaire.com

Slightly Damned
sdamned.com

Tamberlane
https://www.tamberlanecomic.com

Undivine
undivinecomic.com

Widdershins
www.widdershinscomic.com

XKCD
www.xkcd.com



And here are the comics I follow, but only check once a month:

Aether
www.aether.thecomicseries.com

Alice and the Nightmare
www.aliceandthenightmare.com

Band vs Band
www.bvbcomix.com

Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
www.missmab.com

Daughter of the Lillies
www.daughterofthelilies.com

Gloomverse
gloomverse.smackjeeves.com

Headless Bliss
www.headlessbliss.com

[Redacted due to the forum rules]
www. [redacted due to the forum rules] .com


Heroes of Thantopolis
http://heroesofthantopolis.com/

Inhibit
inhibitcomic.com

Kiwi Blitz
www.kiwiblitz.com

[Redacted due to the forum rules]
www. [redacted due to the forum rules] .com


Mare Internum
www.marecomic.com

Mezzacotta
http://www.mezzacotta.net/halloffame.php

Monsterkind
www.monsterkind.enenkay.com

Monster Lands
http://www.monster-lands.com

Monster's Garden
http://monstersgarden.com

Never Heroes: Yellow Hearts
https://sparklermonthly.com/series/never-heroes-yellow-hearts/

No End
www.noendcomic.com

Paranatural
www.paranatural.net

Radio Silence
http://www.radiosilencecomic.com

Recoil
recoil.smackjeeves.com

Sleepless Domain
www.sleeplessdomain.com

Speak of the Devil
www.speakdevil.com

Strong Female Protagonist
www.strongfemaleprotagonist.com

The Property of Hate
thepropertyofhate.com

This is Not Fiction
www.thisisnotfiction.com

XKCD What If?
what-if.xkcd.com

Here are the comics which are not actively updating, but which I still occasionally.

32
stuckat32.com

Acethexis
acethexiscomic.com

Blindsprings
http://www.blindsprings.com/

Guilded Age
http://guildedage.net

Heartless
http://heartless-comic.com

Let's Speak English
http://www.marycagle.com

Lilith's Word
www.lilithword.com

Shortpacked
Shortpacked

Supernormal Step
www.supernormalstep.com

Yellow Hearts
https://sparklermonthly.com/series/yellow-hearts/



Finally, here are the comics I have read that have had no updates for at least two years.

Abstruse Goose
www.abstrusegoose.com

Darken
www.darkencomic.com

That Deaf Guy
http://www.thatdeafguy.com/

Zap
www.zapcomic.com

Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire
www.dominic-deegan.com

[DeadToRide]

I used to read a lot of webcomics, but as my life and work got busier I just started dropping them off my list. OoTS is still on there, Penny-Arcade, that's about it for regular comics.

This thread is a good reminder to check out comics I haven't read in years. Nedroid, Whomp!, PvP...

[Rockphed]

PvP...

I was trying to remember why I stopped reading PvP, but then I couldn't remember why I had started reading it in the first place.

I currently follow:

OotS
The Whiteboard
Miss-melee
Daughter of the Lilies
Freefall
Skin-horse
XKCD
PhDcomics
and
Darths and Droids.

[DeadToRide]

I was trying to remember why I stopped reading PvP, but then I couldn't remember why I had started reading it in the first place.

Scott wrote some, at the time, funny WoW inspired strips. I was pretty entrenched in the game at the time, back in vanilla/early BC, so I that's what got me into PvP. I can't tell you exactly why I stopped reading though. I think there was a period where the strip invested in fairly middling relationship drama stuff, and it just ain't my bag.

[wingnutx]

OOTS
Girl Genius
Power Nap
Lackadaisy
Dresden Codak
Gunnerkrigg Court
Gone With The Blastwave
Unsounded (been a while, though)

[Elvensilver]

Webcomics I regulary check and read, I added links for the ones I didn't already see here.

Fantasy: (from serious to fourth wall breaking d&d ones)
daughter of the lilies,
gaia,
root and branch,
true magic,
pieces of eight,
Handbook of heroes,
http://www.marblegate.webcomic.ws/ (a d&d webcomic without breaking the fourth wall, really funny and great characters)
oots,
goblins,
will save world for gold

Superheroes:
Ghost Kiss
Grrl power,
Spinnerette

Drama with fantasy elements:
el goonish shive,
think before you think,
how to be a werewolf,
sandra &woo,
not a villain,


More realistic stuff (from darkest to lightest and from beautifully to look at to bad)
twisted dark,
http://mildegard.ru/ice_eng.html (post apocalyptic, some good ideas explored here)
radio silence,
http://www.puckcomics.com/ (a comedy comic, strangely compelling)
dumbing of age,
twice the triplets,

gags with a uniting concept?
scandinavia and the world,
xkcd


And some I enjoyed, but that either have a story that is hard to follow a page at a time, or rarely update, or killed some favourite characters...
Unsounded,
Widdershins,
Our little adventure,
Stand still, stay silent,
Gunnerkrieg Court,
Darths and Droids.

[Suzak]

Wow a lot of stuff to check here :)
I personnaly follow The Gamer closely :)

[Rogar Demonblud]

As of a couple hours ago, I am once again reading Irregular Webcomic (http://irregularwebcomic.net/3884.html).

Must resist urge to binge archives...

[Anonymouswizard]

As of a couple hours ago, I am once again reading Irregular Webcomic (http://irregularwebcomic.net/3884.html).

Must resist urge to binge archives...

Same here, I was referencing one of the strips for some reason (I've forgotten what, I think it had to do with burning down the tavern) and noticed that the comics were due to start again on Monday.

So of course I'm keeping up to date with the new comics while rereading the entire archive again. I forgot just how much I enjoyed the Space strips.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Oyah, although I'm discovering how much of the shine has worn off the Mythbusters ones.

[Willie the Duck]

Oyah, although I'm discovering how much of the shine has worn off the Mythbusters ones.

Why is that? I would think the Steve Irwin ones would be the most bad-in-retrospect.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Honestly, no clue. Maybe it has something to do with the show being gone.

And frankly, I consider the Irwin ones to really be the Jane FREAKING Goodall strips.:smallbiggrin:

[Anonymouswizard]

Oyah, although I'm discovering how much of the shine has worn off the Mythbusters ones.

Yeah, although honestly I think it was the weakest theme of the lot even during the original run.


Why is that? I would think the Steve Irwin ones would be the most bad-in-retrospect.

As somebody who never saw Crocodile Hunter, I think they're still hilarious. Although a lot of that is due to the inclusion of Dame* Jane Freakin' Goodall, the strips before her appearance are a lot weaker.

I think that the reason is that Steve Irwin was influential enough that he's what you think of for an Aussie** outdoors type even if you've never heard of him. Even though Steve's death is a tragedy the strips ate obviously a very living parody, and it's clear that DMM has a lot of respect for both Irwin and Goodall.

In Mythbusters the jokes just aren't as funny.

* Which for some reason my phone doesn't recognise as a word.
** Yet it does recognise Aussie.

[Willie the Duck]

In Mythbusters the jokes just aren't as funny.

Got it. I was looking for some subtext in the statement 'shine has worn off' that wasn't there. I was like, 'oh gawds, what have we learned about the Mythbuster guys that I don't want to know about?'

[137beth]

<Snip>
[/COLOR]Widdershins

I'm curious, which of the those categories does Widdershins fall under? Do you think the plot is hard to follow, or was your favorite character killed off?

[Rogar Demonblud]

Got it. I was looking for some subtext in the statement 'shine has worn off' that wasn't there. I was like, 'oh gawds, what have we learned about the Mythbuster guys that I don't want to know about?'

The main problem with Mythbusters is that it's the basically the same joke over and over and over.

[137beth]

Also,
Avibus (avibus.thewebcomic.com)
Moonland (moonland.smackjeeves.com)
Positron (positron.smackjeeves.com)
Saints' Quarter (saintsquarter.com)
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things (thepunchlineismachismo.com)

[Fyraltari]

Manly Guys Doing Manly Things (thepunchlineismachismo.com)

That one looks like it died, to be honest.

[137beth]

That one looks like it died, to be honest.

Probably. However, other comics have come back after very long breaks with no word from the author. Lilith's Word recently returned from a hiatus of almost one year. Monster's Garden when from October 2016 to February 2018 with no updates before coming back. Manly Guys has "only" been gone for seven months.