Pure and utter genius: the webcomic subnormality. Subtitled “comix with too many words since 2007”. It is updated about weekly by the author, Winston Rowntree.
Recurring characters are the sweet pink-haired girl, the impatient and destructive Sphinx, and the sexy nerd. The artwork meanders between just narrative, clever and wordy, the short and silly, and totally psychedelic.
And this one is for all the writers out there.
Enjoy!
se… i’ve never particularly liked that one, as far as comics go. it was a thing on another fourm for a brief time to see how much of the words you could remove and still get the same jokes. I have ALWAYS found this strip to be my favorite though. In Defense of Weird
Not too sure it’s completely awesome, but I also ‘discovered’ Subnormality via Cracked.com, and as usual ended up reading all the archived strips over a week or so (and I did the same w/ Basic Instructions).
Subnormality is the definition of Hit or Miss, some comics you can skip over and some are good. The cartoonist does rely a bit too much on time-travel themes (apparently a standing sight gag is to have a sign on the time machine stating something like ‘Do NOT use to Kill Hitler’), however one time travel stripthat was kinda cool had a couple in Ancient Egypt with the wife going on about how great and advanced Egypt is compared to it’s predecessors - in the end the wife was wondering how great the future will be, and the husband states that the future may be so bad that people travel back in time to live their life in past eras, revealing that he’s wearing a watch and so he himself is a time-traveller. (this reminded me of that Start Trek TOS episode ‘All Our Yesterdays’ where the inhabitants of a doomed planet time travel back to earlier eras of their planet’s history - maybe that’s where the cartoonist got the idea).
Also the cartoonist eventually does confess that he doesn’t like Nickelback…(“No. 23 - Yeah, We Get it, You Don’t Like Nickelback”), and I also presume that he doesn’t much like Stephen Harper either - that comic had too many words - on the other hand when the Postman tells the Sphynx that she should definitely eat Stephen Harper, that was more succinct…