# Recommend me some webcomics!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 14, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567 "2018-08-14T04:12:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/1 "2018-08-14T04:12:08Z")
Not just any webcomics of course.
Comics have been my staple bedtime reading with the Small(-ish) Boy for a couple of years now. Yes, he does read Real Books ™ on occasion, but not if I push him too hard. We have large amounts of Asterix, Tintin, Calvin and Hobbes, Farside and (_sigh_) WAY too much fsckin Garfield (ie \>1), but the existence of an entire Internet’s worth of extra comic material has expanded our range considerably. However, since we tend to do half-hour chunks at a time, we run through things quite quickly.
Here’s what we’ve enjoyably sucked the marrow out of so far:
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Sluggy Freelance (up till the site redesign, at which point I was very ready to move on. I’m so old I remember when Sluggy was good!)
Schlock Mercenary
Freefall
Lunar Baboon
Hyperbole and a Half (cherrypicked childhood anecdotes)
Pocket Princesses (I have no clue why he liked this. It’s about princesses! It was recommended by his sister! And yet…)
Lunacy\*
Here’s what’s good in a comic:
Science
Cats
Whimsy
Weirdness
Not pointless enough to make my eyeballs bleed (I am NOT admitting to him that there’s fifty centuries of Garfield out there)
Not too much adult content (lunarbaboon was pushing it, but he did have the whimsy down pat…)
Got some suggestions? Hit me with 'em!
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/2 "2018-08-14T05:06:20Z")
I kinda like [Gunnerkrigg Court](https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1). Science fiction meets urban fantasy meets Harry Potterish academy meets other stuff. Central character is a teen( maybe starts as tween )girl just so you know. Artwork improves over the years.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/3 "2018-08-14T05:18:49Z")
[Girl Genius](http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/) is a personal fave. It’s got (mad) science, whimsy, weirdness in spades, an amazing long-form plot, and a very all-ages-appropriate approach to sex and nudity. I’ve been a fan of the creator since he was adapting Robert Aspirin’s Myth-Adventures books into comic form in the '80s, and this comic has a similar sensibility. It’s also where I got my avatar.
Big seconds on _Gunnerkrigg Court_, too.
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### Author:  [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/4 "2018-08-14T05:28:10Z")
All of these are extended stories, not individual gags. Think B5 rather than ST:TOS.
Note that the A Girl and Her Fed does occasionally have sexual situations; however, they’re not terribly explicit. Read ahead if you’re worried.
The Digger comic has wrapped, but there’s something like 8 years’ worth of Hugo-award winning material there. 🙂
[General Protection Fault](http://www.gpf-comics.com/)
[A Girl and Her Fed](http://agirlandherfed.com/)
[Kevin and Kell](https://www.kevinandkell.com/)
[Digger](http://diggercomic.com/)
[Two Lumps](http://twolumps.net/) is not a story comic, but it is about cats.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/5 "2018-08-14T05:45:23Z")
[The Order of the Stick](http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1134.html) is great. Yes, the artwork looks simplistic and the strip starts out as just a joke-a-day format (and the jokes on based on a now defunct version of Dungeons & Dragons). But it grew far beyond its origins and now it’s a first-rate fantasy epic (albeit one still told with stick figures).
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/6 "2018-08-14T05:52:24Z")
Plenty of weird in [Wapsi Square](http://wapsisquare.com/) (and the occasional bit of cheesecake).
[PvP](http://pvponline.com/) has an intelligent cat. The same guy also does two D&D-related strips: [Table Titans](http://tabletitans.com/) and the Friday-only [Binwins Minions](http://tabletitans.com/binwins-minions/).
[UberQuest](http://uberquest.katbox.net/) started out as a parody of MMORPGs such as WoW. Not sure what it is now but it’s still good.
[Misty the Mouse](http://www.mistythemouse.com/) has anthromorphic cats (and mice, of course).
[Sequential Art](https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php) is centered on a sequential artist named Art and his anthromorphic roomies: cat, penguin, assorted squirrels, and tiny shadowpeople.
[Lighter Than Heir](http://lighterthanheir.com/) features flying people who are at war with each other.
[Pulse](http://pulse.webcomic.ws/) is about superheroes in the service of a Professor Xavier expy.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/7 "2018-08-14T05:54:32Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> [PvP](http://pvponline.com/) has an intelligent cat. The same guy also does two D&D-related strips: [Table Titans](http://tabletitans.com/) and the Friday-only [Binwins Minions](http://tabletitans.com/binwins-minions/).
I read PvP for years; unless Scott’s changed the nature of the strip since I stopped reading it, it had a fair amount of adult-ish content, and might not be an ideal choice for the OP.
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### Author:  [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/8 "2018-08-14T06:01:28Z")
The only three I’ve ever reliably read are XKCD for the nerd factor, Axe Cop for the weirdness, and Cyanide and Happiness for the truly sick humor that makes me think they read my mind.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/9 "2018-08-14T06:13:22Z")
If Garfield can count as a webcomic, so can [Breaking Cat News](https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2010/01/01).
Pretty sure the Smallish Boy will love them. There will be duplicates, as the artist’s skill set evolved, and she went into syndication recently and began reusing old strips.
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### Author:  [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/10 "2018-08-14T12:35:11Z")
Thanks for all the great suggestions guys. I showed the boy a few of the options tonight, and he’s chosen Order of the Stick (I can’t believe I couldn’t think of that on my own! when there’s an ongoing thread here about it and everything!) for the first offering, with Breaking Cat News queued up after it (and this thread bookmarked for later reference…)
And now I’m off to read something that’s waaay over my son’s head - [Dead Philosophers in Heaven](http://www.dead-philosophers.com) 😃
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/11 "2018-08-14T15:26:06Z")
I gave up on Sluggy Freelance at the redesign too; the new design kept crashing my browser and frankly the ending of the story was so desperately overdue that I just gave up hope of it ever happening.
OotS, Girl Genius and [Erfworld](http://recmgmt.is.fsa.gov.uk/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objaction=overview&objid=55655070&viewType=1)are my go-to webcomics; Erfworld is on an intermittent update schedule at the moment as Rob Balder’s wife is going through some rather serious cancer treatment.
> [@Morgyn](#):
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> The Digger comic has wrapped, but there’s something like 8 years’ worth of Hugo-award winning material there. 🙂
Definitely worth a read, but it depends on how small the boy is. Likewise [The Last Halloween](https://www.last-halloween.com/) may appeal to children with a ghoulish sense of humor - the protagonist is a ten-year-old girl in a world suddenly overrun by monsters - but children younger than 9 or 10 may find some of the content too violent and scary. (Also it updates like one comic every two months, but the entire first book is there to read.)
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/12 "2018-08-14T16:01:53Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> I read PvP for years; unless Scott’s changed the nature of the strip since I stopped reading it, it had a fair amount of adult-ish content, and might not be an ideal choice for the OP.
The OP could read ahead and select specific strips to show the kid. _Misty_ tackles adult themes at times as well.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/13 "2018-08-14T16:11:18Z")
[Texts from Superheroes](http://textsfromsuperheroes.com/) is consistently funny.
[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal](https://www.smbc-comics.com/) deals with some surprisingly deep philosophical concepts and is always bizarre and funny.
[The New Adventures of Queen Victoria](https://www.gocomics.com/thenewadventuresofqueenvictoria/) is also pretty good.
[The Argyle Sweater](https://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater) is a panel in the spirit of _The Far Side_
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/14 "2018-08-14T16:16:51Z")
Erfworld is mostly OK, but it had some _seriously_ adult stuff in the first book.
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### Author:  [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/15 "2018-08-14T16:26:20Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> Erfworld is mostly OK, but it had some _seriously_ adult stuff in the first book.
The whole storyline is rather adult in a sense beyond the usual (i.e. “ooo, bOObies!”) usage, what with the whole discordant combination of a superficially cutesy world grinding through an endless series of brutal wars.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/16 "2018-08-14T16:57:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> If Garfield can count as a webcomic, so can [Breaking Cat News](https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2010/01/01).
As does [Safe Havens](http://safehavenscomic.com). Science and weirdness there; the main cast is currently on a trip to Mars.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/17 "2018-08-14T17:14:22Z")
While [Dr. Fun](https://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/archive.html) long retired to the farm upstate, if you never read them they’re pretty cool.
He did more dog than cat ones but there are some. Examples: [1](https://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df9310/df931015.jpg). [2](https://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200512/df20051213.jpg). [3](https://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200210/df20021001.jpg).
If you enjoy old references to the Internet and culture from 20 years ago, this if for you.
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/18 "2018-08-14T17:16:58Z")
adult comics note they tend to be edgelords in their first few years :
least I could do
something positive
dumbing of age
questionable content
cute comics are :how baby and mother lover
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### Author:  [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/19 "2018-08-14T18:50:36Z")
[Banana Triangle](http://www.bananatriangle.com) is an interesting, confounding diversion.
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### Author:  [@Hapax\_Legomenon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hapax_Legomenon)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-webcomics/819567/20 "2018-08-14T20:51:55Z")
Skin Horse ([http://skin-horse.com/](http://skin-horse.com/)) has science, whimsy, weirdness, and an adorable talking dog; it’s the story of a ‘black ops social services’ government department that tries to help non-human sapients in need. Fans of Girl Genius will probably like it, although it does hew closer to the gag-a-day format.
The previous comic by the same artist, the now-complete Narbonic ([http://narbonic.com/](http://narbonic.com/)), is about a mad scientist and her hapless tech guy. Early art style is a little weird, but very much worth the effort. (My username is a Narbonic reference.)
Another now-completed classic, good for kids: Ozy and Millie ([https://ozyandmillie.org/](https://ozyandmillie.org/)). The adventures of two philsophical young foxes. The artist now does a syndicated strip, ‘Phoebe and her Unicorn’, which has the same kind of humour.
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