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SmilingSwordSmilingSword Member Posts: 827
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Hello my fellow forum brethren,
are there any webcomics you follow religiously?
Here are some of mine

Goblins
http://www.goblinscomic.org/

Goblins is set in a D&D based world, may actually be FR, considering Drizzt is mentioned at one point.
Anyways it's a fantasy comedy that pokes fun at some of D&D's rules and such, it's about a bunch of goblins who get sick of adventurers destroying their warcamp and stealing their treasure "which is always put in the poorly locked chest in plain sight in the middle of the camp" and so they decide to take adventure levels themselves.
Yeah this is a great read, it's been going for years so there is a quite alot of content.

Guilded Age
http://guildedage.net/

Guilded Age is another fantasy comic, set in a somewhat more MMORPGry kind of world.
Alot of content in this one too.
it's really good, give it a look

Stand Still, Stay Silent
http://www.sssscomic.com/

This one is amazing, can't stay anything about it without spoiling, so just go read it.

Atomic Robo
http://www.atomic-robo.com/

Looks and feels like a light hearted, funnier, brighter version of Mike Mignola's Hellboy.
It's about a Atomic Robot created by Nikola Tesla.
At one point he fights a talking velociraptor, who thinks it's a time traveler, need I say more?

Sinfest
http://www.sinfest.net/

This was probably my favorite webcomic for years and years.
Then it somehow got less funny and kinda weird.
Anyways the earlier stuff is still really good.

So tell me what your reading, I'm up to date on all my comics and need something new.

Comments

  • JuliusBorisovJuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,754
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    http://mangafox.me/manga/vagabond/

    I guess it was expected, though:)

    Overall, I read a lot of manga online, not only the Vagabond. In fact, I read nearly every title here: http://www.readmanga.today/hot-manga
  • SmilingSwordSmilingSword Member Posts: 827
    @bengoshi
    Yeah I'm also a huge manga lover,
    really been enjoying Nanatsu no Taizai and Shokugeki no Soma lately.
    Who would of thought a cooking manga, could be so very good?

    OH oh oh and Feng Shen Ji, is freaking awesome.
  • deltagodeltago Member Posts: 7,811
    I use to read a lot but am down to two: Goblins and Order of the Stick. Both because they dont have regular updates and I dont fall behind them like I do with other ones.

    Ones I have abandoned are:
    Two Lumps
    The Zombie Hunters
    Looking For Group
    Failure to Fire
  • DreadKhanDreadKhan Member Posts: 3,857
    I read some, most of the ones I like don't update terribly often anymore, or never updated terribly often, though Sinfest continues its nearly perfect record I suppose, I think 1 downtime for Tatsuya is rather admirable. He's reached a new plateau in the last few years, it's often a bit over people's heads I suspect, but he was ALWAYS making more jokes than people realized; Thats the job of decent satire.

    Nobody mentioned Dresden Codak yet, very good comic. The story progression is so slow it's almost best to read it in clumps every year or two, but he claims his output will be increasing, and so far, it has. The quality is really, really good, both of the writing, jokes, and art.

    I'll probably check out what happened in Scout Crossing someday, I'm letting it build up a bit before reading it. It's more or a comic book rather than short strips, and those read well in clumps, as we all know.

    Not mentioning Order of the Stick on a site like this is a crime. The author even had published source material for Eberron, I have a pretty cool book he contributed to. Explorer's Handbook or something, very nicely done.
  • BelgarathMTHBelgarathMTH Member Posts: 5,653
    edited April 2015
    Yes, Order of the Stick is so obvious, I wondered if you left it off your initial list on purpose, thinking "OotS goes without mentioning."

    http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html

    I read Goblins for a while, but I didn't like the graphic depictions of violence and torture as it progresses, and some of the humor is a little too blue for my taste, so I stopped reading it. I might check out some of the others you mention.

    These two are good for Star Wars and Lord of the Rings fans. The authors use scenes from the movies and replace the dialogue and narration to make it look and read as though a group of bad tabletop RPG players and their harried, frustrated DM are playing them.

    Darths and Droids:
    http://www.darthsanddroids.net/archive1.html

    DM of the Rings:
    http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612
  • reedmilfamreedmilfam Member Posts: 2,808
    And we missed this one:

    http://yafgc.net/comic/bob-meets-gren/

    It's also run for a long time, and pokes fun at a lot of D&Disms.
  • Amber_ScottAmber_Scott Member Posts: 513
    Fun fact: I wrote some stories and articles for the Order of the Stick website. I think my story is still on the homepage. Rich helped me get my first job with WotC.

    I used to read 8-bit Theater religiously; I think it's still archived. I love Darths & Droids and DM of the Rings.

    Also, Dork Tower

    And not D&D related, but xkcd and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal are my faves.
  • SmilingSwordSmilingSword Member Posts: 827
    Oh yeah forgot about poorly drawn lines

    http://poorlydrawnlines.com/

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  • MichailMichail Member Posts: 196
    Here are some of my not yet mentioned favorites:
    Girl Genius. A great Steampunk setting story. Even bought a hardcopy volume of it.
    http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20150415

    XKCD, "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language" as the author puts it.
    http://xkcd.com/

    And Weregeek, one about a group of D&D players and their adventures in multiple games and in real life.
    http://www.weregeek.com/2015/04/16/
  • ArchaosArchaos Member Posts: 1,421
    edited April 2015
    I second the Order of the Stick. Amazing webcomic with a simple design on purpose.
    Making fun of DnD rules of 3E and more.

    It's a typical and standard DnD party with typical and atypical party members adventuring.
    With great plot and great villains.

    http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0001.html
  • DreadKhanDreadKhan Member Posts: 3,857
    8-Bit Theater had one hell of a run, and is still impressive. How I Killed Your Master unfortunately stopped updating, but I think most people would agree, The Darkness is a better story to work with, and more creative. I did love the setting for HIKYM though, seemed promising.

    I used to enjoy SMBC, some of the old comics are still great, but I think he crossed one line too many for my taste, but tastes vary. Good sense of humour, but very mean at times, and I'm just not a very mean person anymore.

    I check Sandra and Woo regularly, will be reading Gaia at some point (it's a fantasy setting by the same group). Its not nearly as childish as it seems, and is pretty entertaining in a completely beautiful, almost Utopian form. Strongly recommend it, though it does go a bit far into left field at times.
  • KamigoroshiKamigoroshi Member Posts: 5,870
    Not into Web Comics myself. Somehow, they are just to way damn short to be of any interest for fast readers. Well, at least for me.

    That being said, I'm an avid reader of Web Novels though! Especially after I purchased my new sony tablet for some well deserved on-the-go reading. My current favourite titles are The Epic Tale of the Forsaken Hero, Jobless Reincarnation, Re:Monster, Konjiki no Wordmaster and especially The Seed of Evolution. Oh, how I laughted at the last one's unlucky protagonist. :mrgreen:
  • GreenWarlockGreenWarlock Member Posts: 1,354
    @Kamigoroshi : If the visual form of story telling is not too off-putting for you, I suspect there are any number of web comics that would be worth your attention, with something like a decade or more of regular updates. One that I have been following the last few years has just finished, Girls with Slingshots, if you like a slice-of-life format (something web comics seem well suited to). Howard Tayler does a great job over at Schlock Mercenary of telling a graphic-novel sized story every year, so there are natural jumping on/off points in the story. He has just started on his 15th iteration, so plenty of space opera to dive through, including one of my favorite 'Big Dumb Object' (ring world, dyson sphere kind of territory) stories of the genre. Phil Foglio's Girl Genius is almost mandatory for anyone with a passing interest in steam punk, as one of the earliest prominent steam punk fictions, that happens to be pretty good too. Also publishing in something like an annual graphic novel format, this one started life as a print comic that moved online.

    These are all quite different to what you might get from an extended run of a more traditional newspaper strip, like Dilbert, Garfield or Calvin and Hobbes, where you might get a lot of material, but each day pretty much stands alone and there is running narrative. If your concern about 'too darned short' comes from that direction, I would recommend checking out at least one of the three I mention above to see if the form might hold something for you after all. I read a bunch of those too, but would not recommend them for you :)
  • SmilingSwordSmilingSword Member Posts: 827
    Recent find

    Fey Winds
    http://www.feywinds.com/

    Another fantasy webcomic, this one is funny, smart and the art is freaking amazing.
    Can't believe I only found this now.
    It's also got alot of content, so yeah give it a look
  • BelgarathMTHBelgarathMTH Member Posts: 5,653
    edited May 2015
    I started reading the Dork Tower comic. I just ran into one that mentions Baldur's Gate:
    http://www.dorktower.com/2001/01/02/comics-archive-5/

    And another BG mention a few comics later:
    http://www.dorktower.com/2001/01/03/comics-archive-8/

    And another:
    http://www.dorktower.com/2001/01/04/comics-archive-11/

    IWD in the background of this one:
    http://www.dorktower.com/2001/01/17/comics-archive-44/
  • SmilingSwordSmilingSword Member Posts: 827
    Damn you @bengoshi ,
    I started reading Vagabond. I was sick and spent like two days powering through it. It's such a weird manga, well not weird just classic I suppose. I think I both love and hate it at the same time. Things like the fight with chain and sickle guy really kill me, because it was so pointless and I really liked him and his tiny orphan child.
    Then they do the 70 vs 1 fight and go this is my favorite thing ever.
    Also I just don't understand why he doesn't just hook up with Ostu?
    That I have to be alone to be hardcore bit, really makes no sense.
  • JuliusBorisovJuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,754
    I'm glad and somehow proud you've started reading it:)

    Ostu Otsu...

    In the real life, Musashi never took a wife and instead designated a street kid he met as his heir. At 60 years of age he took his leave of royal patronage, climbed Mt Iwato and went to live alone in a mountainside cave.

    http://www.kisurvivalsystems.com/PDFs/Musashi 1.2.pdf

    So, the Vagabond main character can't have a happy story with Otsu.
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