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Of which there are virtually none. I know we've had this thread at some point before, but I'm hoping to some new and exciting web-comics have sprung up since then. But probably not.

Anyway, my contributions:

The Abominable Charles Christopher, by Karl Kerschl, which is like an even more lushly illustrated version of Bone (or Pogo, I suppose. Basically, it's got a bunch of talking animals in a forest), featuring a mute and endearingly useless yeti. Doesn't really seem to be going much of anywhere at the moment, but it's still a lovely and often very funny read.

Jailbreak, part of MS Paint Adventures, by Andrew Hussie. A (sort of) interactive graphical text adventure game comic. It involves people getting peed on a lot, which is a lot funnier than it sounds.

And, of course, Kate Beaton and Dinosaur Comics, which remain very good. Penny Arcade remains shite, Perry Bible Fellowship hasn't been updated in ages, and I refuse to read Achewood or XKCD because the art is SO BAD.

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Phil & Kaja Foglio just wrapped up Vol. 8 of their Girl Genius story on Wednesday; Friday's strip kicked off a 2008 holiday story, presumably as an interlude before Vol. 9 starts up.

Have only just subscribed to Chris Eilopolis' Misery Loves Sherman.  Don't know if it's any good yet or not, but I've always enjoyed his art style since his 24-Hour Comic Day strip about Calvin with Harold's Purple Crayon.

I genuinely enjoy North World, even if its stuck in a bit of a rut at the moment.  It started off great and has someplace interesting to go, but is treading slowly.  It's got a slight Smax meets Replacement God vibe.

Not yet sold on Cameron Stewart's slowly going crime comic Sin Titulo, as I haven't read the whole thing yet, but it's gorgeous.  Also slow but interesting to look at is Stuart Immonen's odd "fine art under fascism" strip, Moving Pictures.

I shant link to Dykes to Watch Out For or Max & Lily, because they're both on hiatus, and won't mention Copper, because Phil is sure to.  But I seem to remember some Tintin-stylee webcomic about treasure and adventure and classic '30s cars, but I don't seem to have it have it bookmarked any more.  It didn't have a feed at the time, which is probably how I lost it.  Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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http://wondermark.com/ makes me laugh every time.  And www.shortpacked.com is often funny but showing signs of wear now.  www.unshelved.com is possibly only funny if you're a librarian.

On the subject of crap webcomics though, I'm sick of the plethora of stick figure comics out there.  The first time it was cute, the 70th is tedious.  If you can't draw and you think you're funny, do standup.

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Pop Culture Shock Therapy is amusing.

Order of the stick is very good if you're into RPG humour, and despite being stick figures, is particularly well rendered.

re: Achewood/XKCD - your loss, really.

Most reading stuff already mentioned in thread but I have been enjoying the nerd-targeted ADVENTURES OF DR MCNINJA and JESUS CHRIST: IN THE NAME OF THE GUN, the latter in which the Son of God teams up with Ernest Hemingway in a time suit to fight Nazis.

JESUS CHRIST: IN THE NAME OF THE GUN,

"Blood of the Lamb, Motherfucker"

Ok, that's funny.

I'm a bit tired of all this kewl Gorillas vs Lesbians vs Picts in Space, though. Tell me there's (at least) a bit of a history behind it

Story, I meant. Need more coffee.

Wow, Charles Christopher is cracking. Pity it's a weekly as they tend to grind along slowly and lose me.

DR MCNINJA is just about off-beat and off-message enough that the central NINJAS ARE KEWL conceit has been backgrounded - there seems to be more of that in print comics still (though lead times may explain the Slowpokiness of some of those publishers, I guess).

JC is just something I chanced on one day, it's far from perfect, but competent enough and worth the five seconds it takes to read it three times a week.

Also, Nabiel Kanan's doing a webcomic called ABOUT CHARLOTTE at nabielkanan.com, but it updates about once every geological era.

I'm loving SUBNORMALITY; the artist is quite good and there's more material there than most webcomics (he tends to throw in big ole walls of text) and a cracked sense of humor. That the mythological Sphinx (a hawt giant lion-eagle-woman who eats people) is one of few recurring characters is a real hoot.

Look for the one with time-traveling nazi's; there's an homage to ACTION COMICS #1 there, featuring just about the last person you'd expect.

Ah thank you, I had a Subnormality binge over the summer but then I forgot what it was called and got a new hard drive so I lost my bookmark. Hooray I have it back.

I recommend Dar, Erika Moen's autobiographical webcomic. It used to be about the daily trials of being a lesbian but then she fell in love with a boy and now it's more about that, life modelling, and nudity in general. Is often hilarious and sometimes scary in the extent to which it mirrors my life.

For 30s adventure, I like Jazz Age Chronicles.

Well, I've now read up to January in SIN TITULO, and I'm thoroughly gripped. The art's great and it's sufficiently weird to keep me interested.

I've seen COPPER in the first Flight anthology; the artwork's lovely, but I didn't really find the story all that engaging, which sums up the rest of the anthology pretty well.

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WONDERMARK! I always forget the name of that. The one that's up today is especially good. "Where we're going, we don't need bike lanes!", "WHOOOOOOO!".

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Schlock Mercenary is still pretty good. I also like Looking For Group, mainly for Richard's antics.

I agree that "lovely, but without a real plot" is a good summary for the FLIGHT anthologies I've read, but I'm not sure that COPPER is really supposed to have an ongoing story.  While most of the webcomics I mentioned were ongoing narratives, each COPPER strip's really supposed to be a one-shot of musing, friendship, and scenery.  Obviously, if that's not your bag, then it's not going to appeal, but I find a monthly dose of insouciant charm to be, well, just that.

JDC: That's not what I was looking for, but it's a nice pointer nevertheless.  Thanks!

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I'm pretty sure that the comic you're talking about Jonny Crossbones.  And you reminding me of it made me check to see if he's started making more strips.  He  has!  Thanks!

Octopus Pie is a nice slice of goofy cynical hipster drama set in NYC.

Dead Winter and The Zombie Hunters are zombie apocalypse stories slowly groing into their own but both contain really nice artwork.

Gunnerkrigg Court is a really nice spin on the young hero at a magical boarding school in the middle of a massive mystery concept.

Kubikuri at Transmission X is delightfully surreal.

Kaspall seems set on developing its own massive contained fantasy/sci-fi universe like Finder.  Kaspall has just gotten started in comparisson to Finder but is off to a good start.

Google bookmarks rock! I find lots of cool sites at work when I'm supposed to be working, and if my computer breaks I have (sort of) a backup. I'd want a backup in case Google breaks, but expect that would be the end of the world anyway.

My problem with Flight's always* been not the lack of story**, but the lack of ideas. It's just totally vacuous.

KG

*Not true.I loved the first one.

**Though there is that too.

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Since you like Max & Lily, have you been reading Dresen's current comic Grace? It's almost at an end, but I've been enjoying it.

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Two of my favs that haven't been mentioned yet is Diesel Sweeties and Sinfest.

Basic Instructions is funny AND useful. What more can you ask?

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1467/ - Cyanide and Happyiness is just twisted enough to appeal to the V. The one where he gets the dove (that i can't find) is worth framing.

Eoin

Cyanide and Happiness is patchy at best. Some of them are hilarious, most aren't.

Yes, but I've yet to find a wecomic that isn't true of. Hell, that's pretty true of Dilbert, the Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes, and for me, they're the holy trinity of comic strips.

Eoin

I've been re-reading some of my Far Side collections over the last couple of days and... man, it's not that good. You could probably boil it down to about thirty different jokes, which are repeated ad nauseum with every possible combination of chickens, cows, cavemen, aliens, dinosaurs, hunters, cowboys, apes and scientists.

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