Hell, I’m 19, and I had no idea who he was.
Hanners is the cutest thing ever!
You should give Order of the Stick a try anyway. The humor is a lot more versatile than just straight D&D rules jokes. And it’s not “just” a funny strip: it would actually work pretty damned well as a straight-up dramatic fantasy comic.
You should also check out Girl Genius, which is one of the best comics currently being written, in either web or print format. Mad scientists have turned 19th century Europe into a monster-ridden wasteland. Funny, good drama, epic story. A good enough comic that I’ve bought all the compilations to date, despite being able to read it all for free on the internet.
Just curious, did anybody expect otherwise?
And never mind how Dora reacts. What about Marten? And how will Dora react to Marten’s reaction to this? :eek:
Seconded, and thirded and however many more times I need to agree to get you to give OOtS and Girl Genius a shot. I am not a D&D fan, but OOtS is just great storytelling. I don’t get many of the D&D references, but after the first 20 strips or so, it doesn’t matter.
Girl Genius, I am going to agree, is one of the best comics in any format out there, and I would put it in my top 20 comics of all time. It’s up there with Alan Moore and Stan Lee’s classic stuff.
Also, it is finished now, but give Narbonic a read. Good art, and a great story. She is re-running the series with comentary right now, which is occasionally very interesting. But the whole archive is available for fee sans-comentary
And a thanks to Miller, the last webcomic thread he started turned me on to most of my bookmarked webcomics, including QC.
Personally I hope Jeff leaves Dora and Marten’s relationship alone. Give them some tension, but keep them together. I want to see more of the side characters. Let’s expand this little universe!
Shaenon Garrity has launched a new webcomic called Skin Horse. If you liked Narbonic, you should definitly check out Skin Horse. There’s some speculation that the two comics are in the same continuity.
Also from Garrity, a little ten panel gem, Edward Gorey’s “The Trouble with Tribbles.”
I don’t think Marten will have much reaction – Faye’s his former love interest and now good friend. Marten’s too smart and too balanced to be carrying a torch for Faye while at the same time be dating Dora. The only way he’s going to be upset is if he thinks Faye’s making a big mistake being with Sven because he considers Sven to be untrustworthy and liable to hurt Faye. Which I can well see Marten believing, but I think Dora is a much more likely candidate for freakage on this level, and I could even see Marten placating her and telling Dora that its not her business.
One more suggestion for you, What Exit? Schlock Mercenary, by “Ironman” Howard Tayler. It’s a hard science fiction, light comedy strip about a team of interstallar mercenaries. The early art is very, very rough, but he’s improved greatly since then. Which is an inevitable side effect of the fact that he’s updated this comic every single day for nearly eight years, without ever once having a missed day, a repeat, a guest strip, or a filler comic.
The archive for that one should keep you busy for a while.
Either way, what a weekend cliff hanger…
Um, is Monday definitely off for JJ, too?
I am SO glad she finally did it. It was driving me nuts. I actually stopped reading again. Now I have to stay tuned, of course! 
And if you like that, you’ll love Darths & Droids
My favorite strip is by the same guy: Irregular Webcomic. David Morgan-Mar has, I believe, a PhD in physics. In addition to his comics being very funny, they’re also educational. He adds an annotation after most strips, explaining if necessary the science/mathematics/history that inspired the joke. The best part is that he religiously updates the strip seven days a week. However, he doesn’t draw. He uses Lego, and miniature figures to tell his stories.
Shameless thread bumping, but I thought I’d note that if Sven and Faye get together, Dora will murder Sven and Raven will murder Faye.
Heh. “I will murder you so hard you’ll die from it.”
New one is up!
THEY DID IT!
Hanner’s note is adorable.
Hannalore’s motto seems to be “When in doubt, clean.”
I’m amazed that she didn’t freak out about sleeping on someone else’s potentially UNCLEAN couch. I mean, I’m not a super clean freak, but I wouldn’t want to sleep on a single guy’s couch. I would if I was on top of a blanket and some pillows I brought with me or something, but… Seems like Hanners would have wanted to steam clean the thing first.
well, so much for them keeping their forbidden love a secret. I hope neither of them gets murdered too hard.
Well now…we don’t know that. They’re in bed together and apparently unclothed, but it’s possible Faye passed out before anything happened.
photopat, I don’t think Faye was that buzzed the previous evening; she’s been portrayed as having remarkable capacity for alcohol. On the other hand, she is (or was) so severely deprived that maybe a super-potent sex-bomb went off in the kitchen last night and they were both caught up in nookie-madness and may remember little.
On the gripping hand, maybe this is Jeff’s way of avoiding the super-talky way that Marten’s relationship with Dora began. They’ll both wake up sated and smiling, but relaxed about the situation. Maybe this is even a one-off, but I can’t see Faye treating it that way.
Heh, I’m thinking that possibly they didn’t, but that Hanners of course now thinks that they did, a situation ripe with potential for comic misunderstandings …