The Punch’n’Pie that SteveMB listed is Aeire’s (Queen of Wands) new comic. It follows Angela (she of the shortness, polyamory and bisexuality) from QoW.
My regular webcomics (usually read in the morning while I’m eating breakfast) include Penny Arcade, CTRL-ALT-DEL, Kevin & Kell, Wapsi Square, xkcd, The New Adventures of Queen Victoria, Friendly Hostility (and I had followed Sandra’s old comic, Boy Meets Boy, from the beginning as well), Punch’n’Pie, Something Positive (and all of the spinoffs, SP1937, New Gold Dream, and Midnight Macabre), Dominic Deegan, The Order of the Stick, The Noob, Nodwick, Looking For Group, Dark Legacy Comics, Adam & Andy, WTF Comics, and, of course, The Comics Curmudgeon.
Usually, yes, when I find a new webcomic I like I will go through the entire archive, but there have been a few instances where the archive was freaking huge and I decided trying to get through all of it would take way too long.
Unfortunately I’m blanking out right now on recalling examples of such archives, otherwise I’d definitely provide linkage.
I read what I can, but it’s hard to find time. I usually end up checking out whatever new comic is posted on the Portal of Evil message boards. I try to keep up with Listening to 11.975MHz, though.
Yes, if a comic’s worth reading, it’s worth reading it all. Ones I read, some of which have been mentioned:
Order of the Stick, Erfworld, Two Lumps, Questionable Content, Girl Genius, Penny Arcade, Sinfest, Schlock Mercenary, Sluggy Freelance, Scary Go Round, Evil Inc., Penny & Aggie,xkcd, Turn Signals On A Landraider, Goblins.
The one I don’t see mentioned is Digger - I suspect it’s because I caught up while the comic was free, and now the archives aren’t. Pity for others, both the art and story are awesome.
Well - a while ago, I plowed through DM of the Rings, catching it just before the strip ended. Then in the past two weeks, based on y’alls reccomendations, I read all of XKCD and Order of the Stick. Last night I did all of Full Frontal Nerdity.
And wow, Turn Signals on a Landraider, at one point I was caught up on that. I should go catch up again.
Seconded. Girl Genius is one of the best comics I have ever read, period. So far I would willingly put it on par with anything else out there.
But now that I have caught up on the archives I have actually calandered in reading it once a month (I think the story flows better in large chunks)
I also recommend Narbonic. It is finished now, but is equally amazing in a totally different way. (and the directors cut reruns are really interesting)
Thirded.
Can’t remember whether it was Bosda or another doper that put me onto this one, but my thanks to whoever it was.
I not only read it from first to current, I bought the softcovers as well.
Count me as a lone voice of dissent - while I love the story of GG a lot, I don’t think the art is that great - or, to rephrase, it’s not to my taste. I don’t like the clear jointedness of the figures, and the clanks are often too cartoony for my steampunky design sensibilities - I tend to prefer steampunk machines that look as though they might actually work in the real world. A silly nit to pick, I know, but it’s there.
For art, I like the aforementioned Digger. or Sinfest.