Favorite Online Comics?

[Kevin Scrivner]

I recently discovered Buzzboy, the World's Most Upbeat Superhero at

http://www.buzzboy.net/

Very much in the Tick mold. Anybody else run across some fun Champions inspiration online?

[Hermit]

Hmm, Dotcomics no longer works for me from Marvel. Someone else, on the old Boards, posted a link to "Liberty : All American Girl" Which I actually kind of liked.

[Evil Steve]

I'm partial to the now ended Japanese Beetle. Lighthearted and odd, but not quite Tick-odd.

http://www.worldfamouscomics.com/beetle/

Go to the archives and start at the beginning.

[BobGreenwade]

My personal favorite isn't superhero related (or directly related to anything adventure-oriented for that matter), but is a lot of fun and a good source of ideas for animal-based gags and computer puns:

Kevin and Kell (http://kevinandkell.com)

[Balok]

<a href="http://www.sluggy.com">Sluggy Freelance</a>

It's not for everyone, and occasionally, it gets really weird. But I find it fun.

[Arthur]

Originally posted by Balok
<a href="http://www.sluggy.com">Sluggy Freelance</a>


The only time I ever really liked it was when they did a crossover with User Friendly. That was a riot. If anybody has the gifs from that run, I'd love to get a copy.

User Friendly is one of my faves:

www.userfriendly.org

[Hermit]

Ah, here's that Liberty site. :)

http://powerheroes.com/3d_comic.htm

[Monolith]

I do not have a favorite online comic, but I have been following the adventure of Valiant and Pillbug! :)

www.kestrelarts.com/comic.htm

[SuperPheemy]

There's three that I follow now-a-days.

John Kovalic's Dork Tower www.dorktower.com
Scott Kurtz's PvP www.pvponline.com
and Barry Smith's Angst Technology www.inktank.com

[EvilGM]

Here are mine:

Clan of the Cats (http://www.clanofthecats.com/)
The Devil's Panties (http://thedevilspanties.keenspace.com/)
Diesel Sweeties (http://www.dieselsweeties.com/)
Fans! (http://www.faans.com/)
Flipside (http://www.flipsidecomics.com/comic.html)
Geebas On Parade (http://geebasonparade.keenspace.com/)
It's Walky (http://www.itswalky.com/)
Kung FOOL! (http://kungfool.transpect.net/index.php)
Mystic For Hire (http://pagancity.com/index.shtml)
Scary-Go-Round (http://www.scarygoround.com/)
Something Positive (http://www.somethingpositive.net/)

Of these, Clan of the Cats, Flipside, It's Walky and Mystic For Hire (currently on hiatus while the author deals with real life problems) could easily be HERO System campaigns. Geebas on Parade is about LARPing, and Fans! is about a bunch of SF fans. The rest are assorted silliness. :)

[Crimson-Hawk]

My personal favorites?

Megatokyo (http://www.megatokyo.com)
Mac Hall (http://www.machall.com)
Under Power (http://underpower.non-essential.com)
Amuse Me! (discontinued, http://amuseme.microorganism.org/)
Penny Arcade (http://www.penny-arcade.com/)
Bob & George (http://www.bobandgeorge.com/)
8-bit Theater (http://www.nuklearpower.com/)
Okashina Okashi - Strange Candy (http://strangecandy.keenspace.com/)
Lovarian Adventures (http://www.lovaria.com/)
Sinfest (http://www.sinfest.net/)
Literally Speaking (http://literallyspeaking.keenspace.com/)
Little Mistakes (http://littlemistakes.keenspace.com/)

And, if I can ever get off of my arse, I have my own "webcomic" (Project 51) I'm trying to motivate myself to continue. Once I finish updating my website to accomodate all of my projects, it will be at http://www.angelfire.com/comics/project51.

[TheEmerged]

Survivor, the comic series (http://www.thesketchpad.net/survivor6/). I don't even watch the show, and this is quite often hilarious.

Someone already linked PvP. Scott can be a little uneven, but when he's on he's one of the funniest strips out there.

Day By Day (http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/Default.aspx) by Chris Muir, which is quickly earning a reputation as the new Doonesbury.

Nodwick (http://www.gamespy.com/comics/nodwick/index.htm), by Aaron Williams, who just started a wonderful new cartoon called PS238 (http://www.ps238.com/) -- think Champions Elementary School :) Go to this site, start with the links for Fantasy Cartoons, then Nodwick Strips. Go here with an hour or so on your hands, especially if like me you also like DnD.

Daryl Cagle (http://cagle.slate.msn.com/) runs what can best be described as a politcal cartoon clearinghouse. This is another one you should wait until you have an hour or so before you go there the first time :D

[BNakagawa]

Not exactly comics per se, but extremely entertaining: the contents of www.homestarrunner.com

[keithcurtis]

Some of my favorites:

<B>Gaming Stuff</b>
<A HREF="http://www.kenzerco.com/periodicals/kodt/kodtonline_current.php">Knights of the Dinner table Online Webstrips</A>
THE Gaming strip

<A HREF="http://www.gamespy.com/comics/dorktower/">DORK TOWER</A>
More Gaming goodness

<A HREF="http://www.rpgworldcomic.com/">RPG World</A>
What do the characters in a Computer RPG think about their world?

<A HREF="http://www.reallifecomics.com/">Real Life</A>
More computer RPG, but funny


<B>Adventure stuff</B>
<A HREF="http://www.wanderingones.com/">The Wandering Ones</A>
Post-Apocalypse fun. Good source for survival and tracking trivia

<A HREF="http://www.schlockmercenary.com/">Schlock Mercenary</A>
Sci-Fi Merc.s

<A HREF="http://www.errantstory.com/">Errant Story</A>
Give it a try...

<A HREF="http://www.craterkid.com/">Crater Kid</A>
retro Sci Fi fun

<A HREF="http://www.exploitationnow.com/" >Exploitation Now</A>
Over now, but a lot of anime stuff if you can wade through the soft porn of the earlier strips


<B>Other Stuff</b>
<A HREF="http://www.ozyandmillie.org/">Ozy and Millie</A>
Insightful gag strip

<A HREF="http://www.sinfest.net/">Sinfest</A>
The Left...

<A HREF="http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/Default.aspx">Day by Day</A>
...and the right


Keith"You can tell a man by his funny pages" Curtis

[Glen Sprigg]

Originally posted by Hermit
Ah, here's that Liberty site. :)

http://powerheroes.com/3d_comic.htm

Not to brag, but I wrote a story about that character some time ago that the webmaster was kind enough to post on the site: For Honor and Liberty. I've wondered from time to time if anyone else was reading it. Since it's been mentioned here, I'll make a small request for feedback, even though it's been an eon or so since I wrote it.

Glen

[Mutant for Hire]

Okay, here is a list of some of my recommended comics, for those of a gaming bent. I picked those comics that could actually either be a good setting or have interesting background material:

Schlock Mercenary:
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/
This deals with a band of mercenaries in the far future and their misadventures. Sometimes it reads like a SF RPG campaign done as a web comic.

Sluggy Freelance:
http://www.sluggy.com/
The great classic webcomic. Maybe not the first but one of the longest lasting and one of the most consistantly funny. If you're ever running low on campaign ideas, take a stroll over to this comic for source material inspiration. The current storyline has some great RPG potential.

College Roommates From Hell!!!
http://www.crfh.net/
A group of college roommates who deal with haunted appliances, useless mutations, the Devil, Cthulhu's pet and sadistic calculus teachers. People who like Sluggy Freelance will probably want to give this one a look. Like Sluggy, the art/storylines are pretty weak at first but grow a lot better over time.

Starry Ones:
http://www.weirdass.net/
I've plugged this one before. An incredible combination of Lovecraftian Horror with Space Opera. Amazing art, amazing storyline. It's amazing how the author can seamlessly fuse so many different cosmologies together and yet make it feel coherent.

Yin and Yang:
http://yinandyang.keenspace.com/
He's a demigod shapeshifter, she's a powerful sorceress. This is the soap opera of their lives.

Errant Story:
http://www.errantstory.com/
From the creator of Exploitation Now. In some ways the protagonist bears a strong spiritual resemblence to Lina Inverse of Slayers, except with slightly different vices.

[Stormraven]

http://www.queenofwands.net/

Since someone else mentioned Something Positive.

[Hermit]

Sounds cool Glen. I'm a lazy SOB, but I'll give it a read. I can't be sure how useful my layman's view will be...
But I love a good story.

EDIT: Glen, I PMed you some more details on my opinion (not much, there's a space limit).

For the rest of you, if you have the time, give it a read. It's a good story (at least I thought so), and game wise I can see it as a good solo scenerio to put almost any modern day American Patriot hero up against. And it has a voluptious blonde battling for her life, what could be better? Well, except maybe a voluptious redhead... YMMV. :)

[TheQuestionMan]

Ctrl+Alt+Del
http://www.cad-comic.com/comic.php

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

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

Girl Genius
http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/index.php

Lackadaisy
http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php

Least I Could Do
http://www.leasticoulddo.com/

Ps238 by Aaron Williams
http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ps238/comics/archive.php

Tales pf Pylea
http://talesofpylea.comicgenesis.com/


And a few more when things are slow.


QM

[BNakagawa]

How we got this far without listing Order of the Stick is beyond me.

[Sketchpad]

Has anyone checked out DC Comics new webcomics site over at Zuda Comics (www.zudacomics.com)?

[Twilight]

I'll second PS238 and Girl Genius. :)

[Pyre-Archer]

From Drunkduck.com :

The Weapon: http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Weapon/

Hero by Night: http://www.drunkduck.com/Hero_By_Night/

Culture Shock: http://www.drunkduck.com/Culture_Shock/

Bad Guy High: http://www.drunkduck.com/Bad_Guy_High/

Others (hopefully not listed above)

Grim Tales from Down Below: http://grim.snafu-comics.com/index.php

Star Blazers: Rebirth (Now concluded): http://www.starblazers.com/comicshome.php#

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: http://drmcninja.com/index.html

[CrosshairCollie]

My personal favorite isn't superhero related (or directly related to anything adventure-oriented for that matter), but is a lot of fun and a good source of ideas for animal-based gags and computer puns:

Kevin and Kell (http://kevinandkell.com)

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa279/LolaBonne/Asiancat-1.jpg

Kevin and Kell rock.

Other webcomics on my favorites include:
Bob and George
Nevernever
Freefall
Ozy and Millie

Though only Bob and George are really remotely superheroic ... I often have fun watching a TV show and quoting B&G's 'you can't die if your name is in the title' trope. :)

Oh yeah ... there's also Supermegatopia, of course ... for more parody value. :)

[Alric]

I recommend "Blade of Boudica". But then it's my webcomic so I might be biased...

[Southern Cross]

Here's a list of some interesting webcomics:
A Miracle Of Science (http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/) is a romantic comedy/buddy webcomic set in the year 2148 where the greatest threat to the solar system is a plague of mad scientists.It is now complete.
Dasien (http://www.dasiencomic.com/) is a manga-style superhero comic where the novice heroine is up against the supervillain team the Crimson Gestalt.
Evil Overlords United (http://eou.comicgenesis.com/)
The story of a supervillain team out to conquer the world of webcomics.They didn't succeed,of course.
And what webcomic list would be complete without Freefall (http://freefall.purrsia.com/)?
And Magellan Justice Academy (http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/magellan.php) definitely deserves a mention.
And,last but not least,Mindmistress (http://mindmistress.comicgenesis.com/).

[Sundog]

Currently, I'm reading Schlock Mercenary, Kevin and Kell, Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire and Girl Genius.

[Dr Archeville]

8-Bit Theatre
Dork Tower
Evil Inc.
Full Frontal Nerdity
Girl Genius
Narbonic
Order of the Stick
Saturdy Morning Breakfast Cereal
Schlock Mercenary
Sluggy Freelance
The Starry Ones
Wondermark
XKCD

[MilkmanDan]

Has noone mentioned Austin Andrews' hilarious Gordian Algebra (http://gordianalgebra.com/) yet? It's funny, and he's a Herophile, a double-win.