Favorite Online Comics?

Kevin Scrivner · March 26, 2003

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 · March 26, 2003

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 · March 26, 2003

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 · March 26, 2003

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

Balok · March 26, 2003

Sluggy Freelance

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

Arthur · March 26, 2003

Originally posted by Balok
Sluggy Freelance

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:

http://www.userfriendly.org

Hermit · March 26, 2003

Ah, here's that Liberty site.

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

Monolith · March 26, 2003

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

http://www.kestrelarts.com/comic.htm

SuperPheemy · March 26, 2003

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

John Kovalic's Dork Tower http://www.dorktower.com

Scott Kurtz's PvP http://www.pvponline.com

and Barry Smith's Angst Technology http://www.inktank.com

EvilGM · March 26, 2003

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 · March 26, 2003

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 · March 26, 2003

Survivor, the comic series. 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 by Chris Muir, which is quickly earning a reputation as the new Doonesbury.

Nodwick, by Aaron Williams, who just started a wonderful new cartoon called PS238 -- 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 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

BNakagawa · March 26, 2003

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

keithcurtis · March 26, 2003

Some of my favorites:

Gaming Stuff

Knights of the Dinner table Online Webstrips

THE Gaming strip

DORK TOWER

More Gaming goodness

RPG World

What do the characters in a Computer RPG think about their world?

Real Life

More computer RPG, but funny

Adventure stuff

The Wandering Ones

Post-Apocalypse fun. Good source for survival and tracking trivia

Sci-Fi Merc.s

Give it a try...

retro Sci Fi fun

Over now, but a lot of anime stuff if you can wade through the soft porn of the earlier strips

Other Stuff

Ozy and Millie

Insightful gag strip

Sinfest

The Left...

Day by Day

...and the right

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

Glen Sprigg · March 27, 2003

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 · March 27, 2003

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 · March 27, 2003

http://www.queenofwands.net/

Since someone else mentioned Something Positive.

Hermit · March 27, 2003

read it

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.