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Beat ya to it, NAF. But it’s good enough it deserves to be linked twice. Heck, three times, even. It’s one of the few long-running comics out there whose first comic is still a completly accurate descriptor of what the current comic is like.
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Rat’s. I agree it deserves the second mention though. Randy has also managed to have the characters age and mature in a realisitc fashion as the series has progressed while keeping it just as funny as it ever was.
It’s one of the few web comics that I would buy in book form, and one of the few that doesn’t have a book out.
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Thanks for Dr. McNinja! Without that recommendation I wouldn’t now know there’s something called “Maple syrup urine disease!” For real!
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I like Dr. McNinja enough that I bought the shirt. I also had it get recognized in 7-11. Woo hoo!
You must read it. There’s not a lot of material, but it’s so… indescribably beautiful, surreal, sad, funny, peculiar, bizarre, and comforting all at the same time. It feels very much like a spiritual relation of Calvin and Hobbes. If you enjoyed C&H (and really, who hasn’t?) you’ll love Copper.
Another favorite of mine is Gone with the Blastwave, about a seemingly pointless war in the post-apocalyptic ruins of some vast city. Beautiful art and lots of dark humor.
One more somewhat obscure recommendation is Fleep, a short series of strips about a guy who wakes up to find himself mysteriously trapped in a phone booth encased in concrete, and with only uncertain memories of how he got there. He has to use the limited resources at his command to figure out a way to escape.
Can anyone dig up the previous thread on this? I know there were some in there I’ve been meaning to get back to, and the 300 second search is really getting annoying. Note: don’t search “webcomic” in titles only.
In the meantime, I’ve recommended this one before, but Ghastly’s Ghastly Comic is highly amusing. The tagline is “Tentacle monsters and the women who love them.” I didn’t think tentacle rape lent itself to all that much humor, but it’s really well done. Linked comic is SFW, but clicking through the archives will uncover scenes of tentacle sex and or penii.
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Can anyone dig up the previous thread on this? I know there were some in there I’ve been meaning to get back to, and the 300 second search is really getting annoying.
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In the meantime, I’ve recommended this one before, but Ghastly’s Ghastly Comic is highly amusing. The tagline is “Tentacle monsters and the women who love them.” I didn’t think tentacle rape lent itself to all that much humor, but it’s really well done. Linked comic is SFW, but clicking through the archives will uncover scenes of tentacle sex and or penii.
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Ha; yes that’s a good one.
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Can anyone dig up the previous thread on this? I know there were some in there I’ve been meaning to get back to, and the 300 second search is really getting annoying. Note: don’t search “webcomic” in titles only.
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I’m not sure if it’s technically a comic, but I’m very fond of A Softer World – it’s often poetic, sometimes darkly funny, gut-wrenchingly melancholic and I really can’t recommend reading through the whole archive in one afternoon if you’ve got booze and sharp objects in the house. (Though if you absolutely must read through the whole archive in one afternoon, having at least booze at hand is recommended, and at some point, sharp objects just ain’t so bad any more, too.)
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] Sam and Fuzzy, one of the best webcomics out there. It started out as a gag-a-day comic, but has developed one of the tightest story arcs I’ve ever seen while retaining all of the humor. This one really deserves your attention.
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I just got done catching up on the archives for this one. Once the story gets rolling, it really is very good. Bonus: He draws women well. Yow.
I’ve recently been enjoying Nodwick , Full Frontal Nerdity, and particularly PS238. All three are apparently written by the same guy(s).
Nodwick and Full Frontal Nerdity are both comedic D&D/roleplaying comics, the former being about an NPC and his hellish mistreatment at the hands of his party, the middle being a “RPG buddies get together and say stuff” piece, and the latter essentially looking like the K-6 version of **Magellan **, insofar as it’s about an elementary school for the (superpowered) children of superheroes.
Crimson Dark is a great scifi comic about privateers.
I used to hate Misfile, but it’s grown on me as the writing has gotten better.
Another mention here for The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Now In Glorious Extra Colour! ;)), which is brilliantly absurd and never fails to make me smile. I’m seriously tempted to get a shirt, but I just can’t decide which one!
They’re both gaming orientated, and Penny Arcade is (IMHO) the consistently funnier of the two (Ctrl+Alt+Del has recently taken a turn for Teh Serious, which isn’t really what I’m after in a webcomic, but YRMV).
You don’t have to be a gamer to fully appreciate either of them, but it does help with some of the references…
