Web Comics--Recommend

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I’m sure this has been done before on the board, but stuff like this is always fun so I don’t think anyone will mind.

I like XKCD and I like that one with the dinosaurs that’s the same images each installment.

Please recommend other webcomics. I ask because I am going to go add them to my Google Reader account. They shall become a part of my daily morning reading regimen.

I’m not a fan of comics with story arcs, not for my daily casual entertainment anyway. But hey, if one is really seriously awesome enough to change my mind, I want to hear about it.

If there are any that are particularly somehow really bizarre or surreal, I’d like to hear about them too.

So, the starting “likes” are XKCD and the dinosaur one, as well as bizarre or surreal comics, with a “dislike” regarding comics with a story arc. Recommendation generation algorithm go! I mean, dopers, go!

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This thread has made me realize that nearly every comic I follow regularly save XKCD is a story-based comic. Well, except for Penny Arcade, which is good if you’re a gamer.

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Cyanide and HappinessFunny stuff.

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The XKCD and Dinosaur Comics sites both have other comics recommended by their author on the main page, have you checked those?

The Perry Bible Fellowship is recommended by both. No continuing story arc whatsoever and very much surreal.

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Try “Questionable Content”. Some indie-band in-jokes but on the whole I found it easy enough to follow. Also “Least I Could Do”.

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A couple off the top of my head:

Wondermark Brilliant artwork. Better jokes. Remember to read the Alt-Texts.
A Softer World Offbeat and odd. Kind of like XKCD. Alt-Texts here as well.
Men In Hats Although it isn’t updated anymore, the extensive archive is still available. I love the authors closing remarks on this comic.
The Order of the Stick A longer running strip with a couple long story arcs. A good read, although hardly ever laugh out loud funny. There’s always a thread about this comic here.
Marmaduke Explained Joe Mathlete explains what is wrong with the comics in the newspaper. The archive is a pain to navigate but some really funny jokes.

Yeah…I might spend a bit too much time reading comics.

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Oh yeah, I do have one. PartiallyClips.

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Schlock Mercenary

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Subnormality.

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All Knowledge is Strange: A Pictorial Almanac of Necessary Facts.

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Yay! I get to recommend Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio. It’s a “gaslamp fantasy” (steampunk) with a fairly large archive to go through. Lots of fun, great art, hilarious story.

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See, if the OP was looking for story-based comics I’d have recommended GG and about 20 others, but he’s specifically looking for one-offs.

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Most of the comics I read have storylines, alas. But I can recommend Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Very offbeat and hilarious. Sometimes has science jokes, but without the self-consciousness of xkcd.

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The three webcomics I read these days are xkcd, dino comics and Abstruse Goose

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If you like absurdist history, you might like Hark, A Vagrant (by Kate Beaton). Art seems a bit crude at first but the facial expressions are golden. Here are a few starters.

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I have come to tell you of Digger.

I have read the entire archive (three years’ worth of comics) in one day. That was yesterday.

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PartiallyClips has an excellent Links page, which covers a lot of good webcomics of all sorts.

But if you like surreal one-offs, you might try Red Meat, Bob the Angry Flower or the far more obscure Head Injury Theater, especially if your tastes run to the darker side of funny.

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It’s somewhat of a niche comic, but I’d recommend Brawl in the Family.

Most webcomics out there are hip, ironic, and they tend to pull a lot of humor out of self-reference and postmodernist interpretations of humor and storyline. Not BitF. BitF is very simple and straightforward, eschewing the sort of jokes that can be told directly to the reader, but in return gaining the ability to work with (and really redevelop) old, cliched jokes that you would think are devoid of humor. But BitF will frequently make those old jokes funny again. And although it is simple, that is not to say that it is ugly. For example, look at this comic, where Diddy Kong has been hired as Kirby’s lawyer. The last frame perfectly parodies the famous OBJECTION while still keeping the simian features of Diddy intact.

*Note that while it’s usually a gag-a-day, occasionally he’ll dip into storylines. But those usually only last 2 or 3 comics, and rarely more than 7.

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Not really a storyline comic, but recurring characters, and certainly surreal:
pictures for sad children

Also Odd-Fish, where I especially love the artwork and puns.

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Seconded, because it is really funny and because my nephew is one of the author/artists.