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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Flaser on January 19, 2005, 05:00:40 am
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What are your favorite webcomics, your feelings...err...ideas about them?
Do you regurarly read some or just browse through a couple every once in a while?
Puns or Story?
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Red or Blue?
Anyway this issue can't be touched without mentioning Mega Tokyo and Penny Arcade some of the ancient and popular webcomics out there.
I still read MT regularly though I was never into Penny.
My recent facorite is Errant Story and just found the creator old and finished comic Exploitation Now which is a nerdish blast AFAIS.
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You favorites/nemesis?
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FIREFO... eh, FOXFIRE!
Sorry, it had to be mentioned. :D
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Originally posted by Tiara
FIREFO... eh, FOXFIRE!
Sorry, it had to be mentioned. :D
:lol:
i've attracted that much of a following? :nervous:
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Weeeeeeell, I'd say it's only Tiara, but...
"nottheAxe ! NottheAxeTHEEEERRRREEEE !"
*owie*
As I was saying, the stle is not that bad, and, contrary to many webcomics, there's a story, so, it's not that surprising that you have a fanbase :)
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Sexylosers is where it's at :p.
Seriously, I'd have to go with Sluggy Freelance. 8 books, a HUGE fanbase, a switchblade wielding mini-lop, and a completely progressive storyline. I have been following Sluggy for over a year and a half, and it is still just as good, if not better than it was a few years ago. Granted that back then, it was like a first season of any Star Trek series. Good, but not very established; characters werent far developed at all.
Anyway, if you were to read this comic today, do NOT look at todays comic until you have read every single daily comic from August 25, 1997. Thats alot of comics. If you dont decide to read the past 8 and a half years of the comic, your experience will be both confused and spoiled... Especially now. Nothing sucks more than watching the last few minutes of a movie, then wanting to watch the first part with all questions already answered.
With that said...
I love you, Pete.
www.sluggy.com
/shameless pimp
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Just finished
(http://www.exploitationnow.com/images/enbutton.gif)
Exploitation Now (http://exploitationnow.com) it was nince had tons of jokes, but still managed to convay some sort of storyline.
Though as much as I've seen of Errant Story I've got to say Poe was learning the ropes with that one, sine ES seems to go above and beyond EN on all front.
It ran for 2 1/2 years, anime, gaming and webcomic backroud is necesarry to get all the jokes, but I think nothing an 'average geek™' couldn't handle.
Still EN is a nice read and has some of the proface cynism I so love in
(http://underpower.non-essential.com/links/UP_neko_banner_long.gif)
Underpower (http://underpower.non-essential.com).
PS.:
If you're new to the net or was a hermit for the last couple of years since '98
(http://underpower.non-essential.com/links/mt_banner_small.gif)
Megatokyo (http://www.megatokyo.com)
PS.2: @Genryu
I guess web-doujin/manga would be more to your liking then, since just like the paper-based-source these do have progressive stories.
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Wheee! Double post....now delete it.
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http://blacktapestries.keenspace.com/
http://www.kaerwyn.com/comic/
http://www.digitalwar.co.uk/
http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/index.php
http://www.radioactivepanda.com
no blurbs.. just read 'em.. that is all
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www.pvponline.com
www.nuklearpower.com
The Order Of the Stick
www.kevinandkell.com
Only ones I read atm :P
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www.sinfest.net
www.butternutsquash.net
www.meninhats.com (if he's only update once in a while)
www.youdamnkid.com
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www.megatokyo.com
www.penny-arcade.com
www.machall.com
www.pvponline.com
www.little-gamers.com
www.vgcats.com (if you haven't read this before, do so :D)
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i dont, unless you count www.dilbert.com
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Weeee...
http://www.adventurers-comic.com/
http://www.countyoursheep.com/
http://www.dominic-deegan.com/
http://www.gpf-comics.com/
http://www.itswalky.com/
http://www.megatokyo.com/
http://www.nuklearpower.com/
http://www.sluggy.com/
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Diesel Sweeties (http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php)
I am ten ninjas.
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Sluggy Freelance and Schlock Mercenary for me.
I took a look at Gaming Guardians once, too, but I don't have any special love for superheroes, so I didn't like the later parts of it, and they have tragic villain management - when they make a good, [or maybe rather "bad"?] powerful villain, this villain is either going to get killed off or pussified beyond all words. It's incredibly annoying, to be honest. It's a blatant Deus Ex Machina at times.
Though they have one great quote... it makes up for everything, IMO. [I'll paraphrase it]
"What will we tell the press?"
"We will tell nothing. The fate of Japan will be kept a secret, under penalty of death."
US military meeting, after D20 spaceship conquers Japan, fragging Godzilla, too. [he couldn't bear with anyone else devastating Tokyo]
However, if you talk about geekiness, it's hard to get geekier than it.:p
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I'm a regular reader of:
www.achewood.com
www.penny-arcade.com
and
www.dieselsweeties.com
Achewood takes some getting used to (very low key humor), but is without a doubt my favorite
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www.gigaville.com
it's an obscure Metal Gear Solid based comic. It's kinda funny, moreso if you've played the games.
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Chugworth Acadamy (http://chugworth.com/comic.php?id=1) : I simply LOVE the Art. Very silly, with some mature (not overly so) content.
VG Cats (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?) : ****ing Hilarious stuff. Great art, and generally videogame related, if you couldn't already tell.
Mac Hall (http://www.machall.com/) Good stuff. May take a little bit to load, though.
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Mega Tokyo sucks, Penny Arcade is so rarely funny that it isn't funny.
8-bit Theater (http://www.nuklearpower.com/) is a must read (most consistantly funny comic in existance). Errant Story (http://www.errantstory.com) is amongst the best quasi-dramatic comics out there. I say quasi because it's also very funny, made by the same guy who did Exploitation Now!
If you want heavy drama with a supernatural twist (and a lot of high school crap), Demonology 101 (http://faith.rydia.net/) is pretty good, though it's officially finished now. 9th Elsewhere (http://www.9thelsewhere.com/) is good as well, lot less high school, more silly quasi-Japanese stuff. Effectively, Mega Tokyo done by girls that actually know what they're doing. Want some horror elements, try Elsie Hooper (http://www.elsiehooper.com/index.htm). This one's got some really interesting art too.
Pure humor, Parking Lot is Full (http://www.plif.com/). The only comic I've ever found that could claim to be the heir to the Far Side, sadly no longer updated. Sluggy Freelanc (http://sluggy.com)e, Schlock Mercenary (http://www.schlockmercenary.com/) and Sinfest (http://www.sinfest.net/) also deserve humor props. My personal favorite (despite my not knowing much about the sport) is The Whiteboard (http://www.the-whiteboard.com/index.html). A Polar bear addicted to Mountian Dew, what more could you ask for?
Only one comic comes with a dire warning to avoid at all costs. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK (unless you want to gouge out your own eyes): EarthBeta (http://www.earthbeta.com/). You were warned!
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(http://www.redvsblue.com/assets/images/logo.gif) (http://www.redvsblue.com)
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...Is RvB a Webcomic?
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Originally posted by Jetmech Jr.
...Is RvB a Webcomic?
Not to my knowledge :nervous:
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Webseries
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The Doctor Chronicles (http://www.doctorchronicles.com/index2.html) is my personal favourite, though it hasn't been updated for ages.
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VGCats, mainly. I still read MT, even though it hasn't been funny since Largo left, and I've been meaning for about a year to read all of Sluggy Freelance.
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I really like control alt delete....... :D
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I used to enjoy General Protection Fault, but a couple years ago it started morphing into this really lame Sluggy Freelance-meets-Mary Worth mess.
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Well I ready FoxFire once...but that was it.
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VGCats... "That's the longest barrel I've ever seen! Is it pump action?" :lol:
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There's only one daily comic for a real geek:
http://www.userfriendly.org/
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VG Cats (www.vgcats.com)
Schlock Mercenary (www.schlockmercenary.com) (spelling?)
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Originally posted by Raa
VGCats... "That's the longest barrel I've ever seen! Is it pump action?" :lol:
"Wait it's not like that! I'm just checking out his equipment!" :lol:
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Originally posted by Col. Fishguts
There's only one daily comic for a real geek:
http://www.userfriendly.org/
Might actually be tolerable if all the characters didn't get this "Someone please cock-punch me" smirk on their face every time they told a joke. And if the art wasn't utterly dire. Seriously, the guy's been drawing that strip for years and he's barely improved at all. In fact I almost prefer the older strips, where his art style just looks stylized instead of outright bad.
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Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
I've been meaning for about a year to read all of Sluggy Freelance.
Use the W button if you can (on the calander). It'll save time. And you're going to need it. Took me about 4 solid days (on a modem) to read them all, and that was 2 or 3 years ago now (no, I didn't read them 4 days straight, that's just the number of hours it took).
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I've gotten about halfway through the first book. The funny thing is, I actually first encountered it in a book. There was a bunch of them in the back of the Hell's Faire by John Ringo.
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Penny Arcade is pretty much it for me.
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Sacred Pie (http://www.sacredpie.com)
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speaking about webcomics, i'll have to pimp my own just to say that i'll be making 3 updates this week, and attempting to make that a regular schedule for my comic..
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I updated my comic once. I think I even had a schedule. Then I left school and I had so much free time I didn't have enough time to work on updating it.
Although I remember 3/week schedules being quite hard to stick to in the long run, at least for me. Hope you do better than I did. :yes:
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Originally posted by Ransom Arceihn
I updated my comic once. I think I even had a schedule. Then I left school and I had so much free time I didn't have enough time to work on updating it.
Although I remember 3/week schedules being quite hard to stick to in the long run, at least for me. Hope you do better than I did. :yes:
hey, i happen to know somebody who updated their comic 33 times in a week.. it can't be that hard to maintain a 3/week schedule....can it? :nervous: :shaking:
*inks comic #2*
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I guess it all depends on how long it takes for each comic, how dedicated you are and how much time you have. With me it was pretty much a losing battle anyway since I'd already lost a lot of interest in my comic.
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VG Cats (www.vgcats.com).... just read it all, really good. :D
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I feel slightly disturbed after reading Sluggy Freelance from the beginning in one week. I just couldn't stop reading it.
Reading the entire VGCats series last month just doesn't compare to reading 7+ years of a daily comic....
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Sluggy Freelance hit quite a low on these last months. And the saturday strips suck terribly (Meanwhile, on...). Seems like it's getting back on track, though.
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A low? A LOW? The whole Dimension-of-Lame saga was one of the most awesome things Sluggy has done ever.
Granted, I can see how that particular plotline wouldn't appeal to the "ha ha he fell down" demographic. Myself, I appreciate a strip that can do high drama just as well as high comedy.
*poing*
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This episode of Applegeeks caught my eye: http://www.applegeeks.com/comic_archive/viewcomic.php?issue=150
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I liked the whole Holiday Wars storyline the best, but Dimension of Lame wasn't bad at all.
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Penny Arcade, Ctrl-Alt-Del, Real Life, 8-Bit Theater, Poisoned Minds, Freefall, and Foxfire just about does it. And RvB, even though it's not really a comic. Yes, I'm too lazy to post links. :p
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
A low? A LOW? The whole Dimension-of-Lame saga was one of the most awesome things Sluggy has done ever.
Granted, I can see how that particular plotline wouldn't appeal to the "ha ha he fell down" demographic. Myself, I appreciate a strip that can do high drama just as well as high comedy.
*poing*
Yes, it's a low, and considering that Sluggy's lows are the same as most comic's highs, that's really saying something.
Honestly, I think Pete is running out of steam. The comic has been going for so damn long now that it's getting harder and harder to be funny and creative anymore. For the last couple of years I've been convinced that he should begin wraping it up, but he keeps going forward, for good or ill.