Girl Genius
Schlock Mercenary
Sluggy Freelance
xkcd
Gunnerkrig Court
Looking for Group
Something Positive
Girls with Slingshots
Basic Instructions (the most consistently funny comic on the Internet, IMO)
Oglaf
In addition to the daily dose of LICD I mentioned above, I also regularly check in with Dork Tower and Full Frontal Nerdity, which haven’t been mentioned yet.
Probably either Girl Genius or Schlock Mercenary. I’m hard-pressed to choose between those two.
Order of the Stick is close, but it loses points for the sporadic update schedule.
It’s a tossup between Schlock Mercenary and Sinfest. I read a lot of webcomics regularly (I have at least 40 in my RSS feed) but those are my top two, with xkcd, QuesCon, Erf and OotS not too far behind.
Menage a 3. You probably should start at the beginning though. It’s a long running funny sexual soap opera; I love the characters in it.
Wonderella is also a great one.
Schlock Mercenary
Questionable Content
Day by Day
The Whiteboard
Least I Could Do
Full Frontal Nerdity
PvP
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Penny Arcade
The Deadlys
Well, most of my favorites are already on people’s lists, so here’s a few that aren’t.
Museum of Mistakes(formerly: Fart Party), about a girl’s life and stuff. Funny, often touching, and very fun to read.
Hyperbole and a HalfOk, it’s more of a blog than a comic, but her drawings are awesome fun.
Subconscious ComicsTruly bizarre comic; the main character is his own subconscious… other characters are parts of his brain, or occasionally body. I stumbled across a paperback of this stuff once ages ago and nobody I asked ever had any idea what I was talking about when I looked for it again. Good stuff.
The Atheist PigReally, you need to ask what it’s about?
MaximumbleStickfigure humor.
+1 “I love that comic too” point for each of the following
Sinfest
Menage a 3
OotS
Freefall <-Surprisingly deep
Wonderella
Looking for Group <-Spider-Dick, Spider-Dick!
Bug (Martini)
Two Guys and Guy
and I think reading XKCD is in the Straight Dope Message Board user agreement somewhere isn’t it?
I tried reading Between Failures for a while but it’s fucking glacial, and I say that as a Questionable Content reader.
Other than that I read xkcd, Wonderella, and lately Leftover Soup. Read Unshelved and OOTS for a while, but skipped two strips and got totally lost.
I used to drop in on Sinfest every so often but stopped when it got self-righteous. It’s particularly annoying because I don’t think feminists are inherently humorless
We all know that.
LICD, QC, GWS, I’ve been reading Misfile for years now but it is sure taking its time about going anywhere, OOTS, xkcd are the ones I have bookmarked. Oglaf isn’t bookmarked, but I catch every episode although since the Apprentice got sidelined it’s not been anything like as good, with the stellar exception of Grier and Navaan teaming up on the Fungod.
Nowadays, I only really manage to follow Something Positive and Questionable Content, as they come up in my livejournal feed.
Pre-daughter, I regularly followed Digger, Gunnerkrigg Court, Punch an’ Pie (follow up to Queen of Wands) and Olaf.
Order of the Stick is the one I most look forward to seeing the installment. I used to be just as keen on seeing the next installment of Weapon Brown (NSFW), but it’s in reruns right now.
Others I follow are Penny Arcade, PvP, Full Frontal Nerdity, Oglaf (NSFW), Menage a 3 (NSFW), Erfworld, Darths & Droids and Diesel Sweeties. Some of those are just out of inertia, though.
Questionable Content tops my list. It is often funny and I like the characters.
I check in on Out There which just changed format and I do not know if I will continue with it.
I like Menage a 3, but it only updates about 3 times a week. Once you have read thru the extensive backlog of material, that is a bit disappointing.
I am finally done with Sinfest (Preachfest). I get it - men are awful with no redeeming qualities. But at least be funny.
All the comics I follow have been recommendations from this forum.
QC is my favorite daily or 3-a-week serial. OotS would beat it except its updates are so sporadic.
I’m surprised at the amount of GWS love. I used to read it before one day realizing that I hated essentially all the characters.
Aw yeah, Gunnerkrigg Court (and Cinnamon Imp mentioned Digger, which is a fantastic, finished(!), comic).
(This is just about my favorite page of Digger)
Glad to see so many people reading Bug Martini.
Some others that haven’t been mentioned:
Unsounded
It’s loosely about a girl from a crime family and her guardian zombie. Loosely. The first chapter is not indicative of the rest of the comic; warning: it’s a not-nice story written about not-nice people and quite a lot of bad things happen to kids. Think of something like A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones. Decent writing and good art, but not always pleasant to read.
False Positive
The only anthology style webcomic I know about and it has short stories in horror/fantasy/sci-fi genres. It reminds me a lot of The Twilight Zone/MOTW X-Files.
No Rest for the Wicked
A story with a large blending of fairy tales. Another one with glacial updates, but it’s still, AFAIK, active.
The Abominable Charles Christopher
Tiny tales of forest creatures (and a sasquatch). The art is lovely; the humor reminds me of Digger.
Nimona
I’M A SHARK! Ahem. A silly comic about a supervillain and his shapeshifting sidekick. There’s nothing about this comic I don’t like.
Paranatural
In the author’s words, “Paranatural is best described as ‘X-Men meets Ghostbusters except everyone’s twelve.’ It’s a comedy/action comic about a group of middle school kids with ghostly superpowers fighting evil spirits and investigating paranormal activity in their hometown.”
Unusually good/fun dialog. This page still makes me laugh. The author does a stream with a couple other webcomic artists whose stuff y’all should see: VIBE and Demon Kings. The guy who does Demon Kings is amazing to watch.
Ok, I think that’s it, hopefully when I finally post this thing there won’t be repeats. =)
Irregular Webcomic
The Whiteboard
Freefall
When I called Between Failures “glacial” I meant the pace, not the update schedule. It updates regularly, but each update takes longer to load in my browser than the amount of in-strip time it covers.
Scandinavia and the World!