XKCD
CAD (Though I have to admit CAD is getting a little weird lately and he can’t seem to decide whether he wants to do a story arc or a non-sequitur, it seems like every other comic is not related to the story. I wouldn’t mind if he picked one and stuck with it for a week, but it’s getting annoying switching back and forth every day now)
QC
(I catch up on Order of the Stick every week or so because it reads better to me with a little buffer. I also read Penny Arcade when I’m bored but don’t feel it’s too exciting most of the time. Anyway now that my webcomic autobiography is done…)
Different Strokes and all I guess (though I have to say indie-tits is just annoying, it’s worse than a freaking sprite comic).
On Penny Arcade-
Read the top newspost here - http://www.penny-arcade.com/2006/01/16/
Not Gabe, but Tycho appears to be Christian after reading that. The attached comic heavily implies Gabe to be one as well, even if they are playing it up for “t3h lulz.”
Well, my impression has been that Tycho had a very religious upbringing (e.g., Bible camp, among other things), but that he has long since left such belief behind (“even as a person for whom the document has lost divinity”). Gabe, though, I can more easily picture as a Christian, but I know of no hard evidence for it either way.
I will jump in here and mention another webcomic that I would not consider “atheist”: College Roomies From Hell, which began as a “laugh-a-day” comic but has become more and more “serious” and convoluted. The author is Maritza Campos, from Mexico, and in the comic you have a (deadly) serious Satan, and what appears to be a (definite) divine presence. However, it manages (in my opinion) not to be corny, preachy or overblown.
Indeed. Most notable, I reckon, are the strips involving Davan’s father visiting the Christian “Hell House” one Halloween, which begin here. In the end, he tells 'em off for their insane in-your-face evangelism and dresses them down for missing the whole point of Christianity.
That’s more or less what I was going to say – it’s not a matter of being “atheistic” as such, but rather a matter of having more latitude to express skeptical or unflattering views about religion.
One strongly religious, even crypto-Christian webcomic is Jack, by David Hopkins. He’s posted over 1200 strips now and you really have to read them from the beginning to get the full feel of the strip, but in a nutshell: the very first genetically-engineered human-animal hybrid eventually leads the extermination of the human race, and as a consequence is damned to be the Reaper for the race of furries that succeeds humanity. Or as I described it in another post, “Heaven, Hell, damnation, redemption, good vs. evil, sexy angels, horrid demons, a tragically flawed hero, several appallingly evil villians, ordinary folk facing temptation, danger and struggle- all in a post-humanity world inhabited by furries!”
Ya know, I think I just read it somewhere in the multitude of news posts of his I have read over the years. Sorry, but I can’t really get any more specific than that, feel free to remain skeptical. [Have A Holly, Jolly Xmas - Penny Arcade](http://This comic) and its attached news post seem to go along with it. Of course, I know that the characters differ from the actual people in a number of ways. I think I read in some ancient interview that the nickname “Gabe” actually comes from the archangel Gabriel, and that a lot of the art he did in his free time had a religious theme.
That one doesn’t seem to be making fun of the religious so much as folks who claim to be psychic, or dowse, or anything else that would earn Randi’s cash. The mouseover text suggests that, anyway. But it’s vague enough that religion could certainly fit under the umbrella.
I have to say, I read a lot of webcomics and I can’t think of any that are expressly atheist. Many rant about religious jerks and other jerks in general, but for the most part I don’t see people attacking religion just for kicks. If any creators are atheist, they generally have the sense to just not make it a large part of their comic. That or they don’t care. QC’s Jeph is one example; he calls himself atheist, and as far as I can remember religion, pro or anti, has never been prominent in QC.
Yeah. “Supernatural Powers” is a pretty broad category. It could include faith healing and praying for rain, I suppose. It would definitly snub the more superstitious sorts of religious beliefs. As in, you’ll be struck by lightning if you say this word.