# Web Comics--Recommend
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 9, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948 "2009-11-09T21:36:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/1 "2009-11-09T21:36:51Z")
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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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/2 "2009-11-09T22:04:30Z")
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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### Author:  [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/3 "2009-11-09T22:11:05Z")
[Cyanide and Happiness](http://www.explosm.net/comics/15/)Funny stuff.
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### Author:  [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/4 "2009-11-09T22:44:06Z")
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](http://pbfcomics.com/) is recommended by both. No continuing story arc whatsoever and very much surreal.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/5 "2009-11-09T22:46:24Z")
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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### Author:  [@Avast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avast)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/6 "2009-11-09T23:02:47Z")
A couple off the top of my head:
[Wondermark](http://wondermark.com/) Brilliant artwork. Better jokes. Remember to read the Alt-Texts.
[A Softer World](http://www.asofterworld.com/) Offbeat and odd. Kind of like XKCD. Alt-Texts here as well.
[Men In Hats](http://www.meninhats.com/) 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](http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0688.html) 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](http://www.29-95.com/search/apachesolr_search/all?filters=im_vid_6:564&solrsort=created%20desc) 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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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2009, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/7 "2009-11-09T23:18:40Z")
Oh yeah, I do have one. [PartiallyClips](http://www.partiallyclips.com/).
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/8 "2009-11-09T23:34:32Z")
[Schlock Mercenary](http://www.schlockmercenary.com/)
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/9 "2009-11-09T23:54:35Z")
[Subnormality](http://viruscomix.com/subnormality.html).
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### Author:  [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/10 "2009-11-09T23:57:03Z")
[All Knowledge is Strange: A Pictorial Almanac of Necessary Facts](http://e-merl.com/2007-09-07-all-knowledge-is-strange).
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### Author:  [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/11 "2009-11-10T01:00:49Z")
Yay! I get to recommend [Girl Genius](http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php) 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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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/12 "2009-11-10T02:21:35Z")
> [@phouka](#):
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> Yay! I get to recommend [Girl Genius](http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php) 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.
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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### Author:  [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/13 "2009-11-10T05:00:58Z")
Most of the comics I read have storylines, alas. But I can recommend **[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal](http://www.smbc-comics.com/)**. Very offbeat and hilarious. Sometimes has science jokes, but without the self-consciousness of xkcd.
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### Author:  [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2009, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/14 "2009-11-10T07:43:09Z")
The three webcomics I read these days are xkcd, dino comics and [Abstruse Goose](http://abstrusegoose.com/156)
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### Author:  [@Delayed\_Reflex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delayed_Reflex)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2009, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/15 "2009-11-10T08:19:54Z")
If you like absurdist history, you might like [Hark, A Vagrant](http://harkavagrant.com/) (by Kate Beaton). Art seems a bit crude at first but the facial expressions are golden. [Here](http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=209) [are](http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=147) [a](http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=145) [few](http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=140) [starters](http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=61).
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### Author:  [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2009, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/16 "2009-11-10T11:30:58Z")
I have come to tell you of [Digger.](http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=3)
I have read the entire archive (three years’ worth of comics) in one day. That was yesterday.
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### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2009, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/17 "2009-11-10T12:03:46Z")
> [@Bosstone](#):
>
> Oh yeah, I do have one. [PartiallyClips](http://www.partiallyclips.com/).
PartiallyClips has an excellent [Links](http://www.partiallyclips.com/othercomics.php) page, which covers a lot of good webcomics of all sorts.
But if you like surreal one-offs, you might try [Red Meat](http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/), [Bob the Angry Flower](http://angryflower.com/) or the far more obscure [Head Injury Theater](http://www.headinjurytheater.com/comic.htm), especially if your tastes run to the darker side of funny.
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### Author:  [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/18 "2009-11-10T12:42:07Z")
It’s somewhat of a niche comic, but I’d recommend [Brawl in the Family](http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/).
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](http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=609), 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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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/19 "2009-11-10T15:25:40Z")
Not really a storyline comic, but recurring characters, and certainly surreal:
[pictures for sad children](http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=1)
Also [Odd-Fish](http://www.odd-fish.net/viewing.php?&comic_id=1), where I especially love the artwork and puns.
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### Author:  [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-comics-recommend/516948/20 "2009-11-10T15:36:16Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#):
>
> [Cyanide and Happiness](http://www.explosm.net/comics/15/)Funny stuff.
Seconded, because it is really funny and because my nephew is one of the author/artists.
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