Soulriders 5.0: Legend of the Unending Games

You know, I read a lot of webcomics.  So do most here.

I even think we may have done this before.  But then that's probably because I exist quantumly at too many fora.

Anyhow, randomness of the moment...a thread topic where I shall ramble on a webcomic each moment.  Possibly more.  Possibly less.  A moment is a really short unit of time after all and doesn't include the awesomeness that is very long run on sentences of doomed plushie lords.  Something like that.  Why hasn't anyone made a comic starring Liddo?  He's totally set for it.  Get him in his star van.

Randomness off!  To kick this off, I'd like to talk about Girl Genius (http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/index.php), the latest of Phil Foglio and his wife who've been doing comics forever and are perhaps best known for their works in Dragon magazine "Phil and Dixie".  Notably, he has a pretty distinctive/unique art style as far as I can say compared to most others that I've read.  It's not manga styled, nor is it really what I've seen in the comic books often.  It's pretty nice and relaxing to look at all said and goes well with the story.

What is girl genius?  it's a story that, in their own term, is about adventure, romance, and mad science.   A world where 'sparks' (Genius inventors), rule with their mad science, battling it out for territory and inventing new devices.  This is a land of myth and monsters, held technically in the medieval era, but also an era of clockwork machines, robots with guns, and all sorts of anachronistic devices.  Enter Agatha Clay.  Genius spark.

Or complete ditz.  Hard to tell at first, given everything she touches falls apart, and she's the bottom of the pecking order at her school.  Disaster strikes though, as her prized pendant is stolen, and the mighty Klaus army occupies the city, taking her protecter..as her inborn talents begin to manifest once more.

The series has been in print for a number of years now, but the authors decided whimsically, to go ahead and try out this whole web shtick thing.  So they're releasing pages online of both beginners (year 1 on) and advanced (year 3 on) classes simultaneously 3 times a week.

mmm, sluggy next.
Not enough sluggy chatter these days.  Despite shadow rabbit guardians.

Dracos
Randomrandom...hatesdocumentation.

Sluggy.

Is it not nifty?  Worship the comic!

Or something like that.  Sluggy is one of those comics that've been going for a very long time.  Eight years I think now.  It's positively ancient as far as webcomics go.  It's also one of those (not so) rare comics that's run as a business.  Huh, much like the last one actually, though Pete Abrams doesn't have this long history in print comics proceeding him.

It follows a small group of wackos.  Their friends.  Their adventures.  Parodies, long stories, short jabs.  Pete is, at his heart, an Entertainer.  Anyone who's heard him speak knows this.  "You guys aren't enjoying my webcomic?  How can I make it more enjoyable for you guys?"

Personally, I'm a rarity.  I like pretty much all of his stuff.  I don't like Ian McDonald, which did saturday's for a spell, but other than that?  It's neat stuff.  I think he does epic well.  I think he does short comedy well.  And most clearly, I think he's a master at interweaving plot threads  over 5-6 year periods.

Right now, he's doing some pretty second year style comics.  We've got Bun-bun.  We've got Torg.  We've got Kiki.  And we've got crazy roadside antics as a group of shadow guardians tries to annhilate them.  Six days of kookiness a week even as the story moves towards wrapping up a long arc that's been set up for years.

Saturday's are currently handled by the talented Clay who is filling a void that was formed in sluggy through the depth of storyline.  Saturday's forget about all the dark stuff that happened.  Takes things back to a lighter time and keeps with the lighter comedy by someone pretty talented at that.

dracos

I first came across Phil Foglio when playing Magic cards.

He is pure genius.

-J

Gunnerkrigg Court

Main page (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/)
First page of the comic (http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1)

Gunnerkrigg Court is the adventures of Antimony Carver at a British boarding school. The school itself is located in a large industrial-looking complex, easily the size of a city. (In this regard, it is much like Gormenghast castle, or the castle in Ico.) For a science-centric school, though, a whole lot of mythological things keep happening...

Fun and inventive, and the art style is great. I don't want to say any more than this, because you really deserve to come at it without preconceptions. Trust me, it's genius.

Goblins

http://www.goblinscomic.com/

Goblins is a D&D parody comic that started out with puns and grew from there into sort of an epic adventure, leaning more towards comedy than drama but having parts of both.  Like most D&D comics, it plays with the fourth wall a bit and much of the earliest humor is derived from such.  That said, it plays well to a concept that is rarely tackled and tends to be very enjoyably sympathetic.  Its tagline "Life through their eyes" says it all really.  Goblins in his universe are a good deal more capable than what I'm used to, but they are also significantly more human in such.  Brushing on a few standard serious themes that go along with it, it follows a set of goblins whose tribe has been savaged by standard level one adventurers and their break with tradition to go off and become 'the first goblin adventuring party' complete with generic cover style posing.

So what's good about it?  Its a nice fantasty comic and the writing is pretty good, pleasant to follow with characters that are easy to care about and like.  There's a few going plots, not all involving the goblin mains and generally painting the picture of a living fantasy world complete with people with clear motivations beyond "I'm good, you're evil" and whatnot.  The art is generally excellent, as is the donation comics he runs to help pay for the site following a goblin that tempts fate, dying if he fails to get enough donations.  So far, he's had no fear of that though.

Anyhow, I've been enjoying this and encourage folks to take a look.

Big Ears is the fucking most awesome level 2 goblin paladin -ever-. =D

On the subject of Sluggy Freelance, I used to enjoy that comic. I do not do so anymore. Have not for a couple of arcs in the past. It is sad.

Yeah.  Its kind of switched genres.  again.  I haven't found any good laughs in a fair bit.  Still read it hopefully.  The five day a week setup really keeps it in said arcs even longer.

Comment if it turns awesome again then, that way I can just ignore it completely for now. As it is, I'll occassionally look in, give a quick browse, get bored, forget about it. If you're following it though, you can keep me updated without me having to bother. ^_~

Sure thing.  It's part of my daily habit so yeah.

Dracos
Riff makes a shitty romanitc tension character

<Dracos> Hey, Dannycat, why don't you add lackadasiy (http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/) to the SR webcomics thread?

Bah, ye got to talllk about it for a second.

Anyhow, Lackadaisy is this comic involving gin running.  Sort of 1920s.  Pretty neat, though it apparently moves at molasses speed.

The artist works on other stuff aside from the comic, though. Actual high-quality artwork stuff, like this (http://tracyjb.deviantart.com/art/Feathers-and-Tinctures-30039284) or this (http://www.foxprints.com/tracy/story/).

Puppy Kitten Grand Adventure! Surprisingly well-plotted-out.

Story 1:
http://www.divshare.com/download/3601458-1fa

Story 2:
http://www.divshare.com/download/3601459-cc4

Resurrecting thread, because, why not? =)

Just finished reading Petty's Nuzlocke comic (http://pettynuzlockelg.smackjeeves.com/), which I thought was pretty neat (it's complete too).

For those unfamiliar with nuzlocke webcomics, they're webcomic adaptations of pokemon runs, in the case above it was one of Leaf Green. There's a little challenge to nuzlocke runs though, you're only allowed to capture the first pokemon you face in each area, and if a pokemon faints, it's considered 'dead' (you have to release it).

Here's the original webcomic (http://www.nuzlocke.com/), which started as a Ruby run, but is currently moving onto a Fire Red run. This site also hosts a few other comics of other people's nuzlocke runs. Quality and humor varies from comic to comic, I personally enjoyed Petty's the most, though the original is kinda enjoyable too.

It's kind of a neat challenge to take if you play the pokemon games too, and haven't heard of it before. Not like you -have- to draw a webcomic to go along with your game run after all!

Huh, I haven't seen dannycat around in ages.  Nostalgia.

Huh, that's kind of a neat concept.  Will have to look at it.

Huh, you replied pretty fast, Mr. Huh-huh! =p

Well, yes.  I happened to be on then :)

I follow Giant in the Playground pretty regularly - www.giantitp.com

A excellent DnD webcomic.

Hehe; Drac and I were just complaining about the decline of that series the other day.

We really should review.

Order of the Stick is pretty decent, mostly, but I miss when Roy being the hero meant he could do stuff.  You know, _hero_ stuff. :\

Is he alive again? Last time I read it Varsuvius(?) had just derailed a campaign by offing the big bad in a fit of pique.

Roy's been alive for a while now (It was right around last year when he came back in the comics actually).

I still enjoy OotS, though as for Roy being a hero...well, to be fair, he's not the main protagonist anymore. While he's still in charge of the group, the main protagonist has been Elan for a while, the torch got passed on and so forth. That the current arc is about Elan's dad obviously wouldn't help with his screentime, though the main problem with the comic is the irregular/slow posting schedule as it really kills pacing. New comics -have- started to come out a bit more regularly recently, so hopefully that'll help a bit in coming months (assuming its kept up anyhow).

http://www.errantstory.com/

Rather good, IMO.  Started reading this after the artist finished with Exploitation Now, stopped sometime in 2004 because real life interfered, then suddenly remembered that it existed last month.

For whatever reason, I could never get into Order of the Stick.  I get that it's a venerable DnD comic, painstakingly crafted throughout the years before the rise of the commercial internet, blah, blah, blah.  I pretty much only read it as filler when the site was hosting Erfworld and waiting for a new comic of that; when Erfworld moved, I lost interest. 

Quote from: Jason_Miao on September 06, 2011, 10:01:18 AMI get that it's a venerable DnD comic, painstakingly crafted throughout the years before the rise of the commercial internet, blah, blah, blah.  I pretty much only read it as filler when the site was hosting Erfworld and waiting for a new comic of that; when Erfworld moved, I lost interest. 

Actually, it's not a venerable DnD comic; it started right at the launch of 3.5, if I recall the opening gag correctly.  It's not that old in terms of commercial internet, either.

...I think I just earned another 'older and more jaded' point.

Yeah.  We should.

Yes, Elan is technically the protagonist now (I suppose), but he's not a very good one because at the end of the day, he's still elan, he's a lighthearted guy who goes "Things should work this way" and then has that happen.  His dad's "Ah, I can do that too... and better!"  notwithstanding, he has little pathos, especially held up against Roy.  They were rotating focal characters for a bit, and really the previous arcs (In which Belkar, Varsius and then Haley were front and center) were stronger than Elan's has been so far, and really, still, Roy is more likable as the lead.  Varsius was about growing as a person, Belkar's was as well (and kinda becoming a bit of awesometroll).  Haley's better able to be a lead...

Well, I guess it's also what's at stake.  Belkar had his own death and irrelevance.  Roy has the end of the world and his lich rivalry.  Haley had saving the party and actually killed her rivals.

Hey, Order of the Triangle Lame or whatever, that's right, It should be okay for you guys to die when you lose.  Thanks though for reminding everyone of the "DM whips up a squad of equivilent bad guys who are built to neutralize the players and they never die even when they lose".  I'm sure that somewhere there's folks that find that nostalgic :P

You know, Drac, I think our major complaint is that for a story like this, we just think Determinator > Idiot Hero.



Sorry.  Enough ranting from me on this.

Well, I also begrudge that the bad guys are repeatedly better  than the good guys at the good guy's specialties (and have other stuff as well) in all recent scenes.  Sure, there's some winning by abandoning their specialty, but even so, ...not really?

Quote from: Brian on September 06, 2011, 11:08:04 AM
Actually, it's not a venerable DnD comic; it started right at the launch of 3.5, if I recall the opening gag correctly.

You sure about that?  While the comics in the archives may only go back to that point, my understanding was that it was serialized in Dragon magazine, when those were still being published.

But that's only an impression of something I've heard in online chat, so who knows how accurate that is?

Quote from: Jason_Miao on September 06, 2011, 10:40:09 PMYou sure about that?

I think the confusion here may be 'venerable'.  I guess it is close to a decade old, and I'm having a 'dang kids!  get off my lawn!' moment here.  I think of 'venerable' as 'before second edition'.

I remember second edition.  Ah....

Anyway.  Yeah, OotS launched in 2003, Dragon didn't go under until 2007.

Quote from: Brian on September 06, 2011, 11:13:33 PM
Anyway.  Yeah, OotS launched in 2003, Dragon didn't go under until 2007.

Oh, maybe that's it, then.  I was under the impression that Dragon went under much earlier.

Well, they sure as heck faded away before then.  :p

Anyway, we're drifting, so:

http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/index2.php

Art starts out weak, but does actually get a lot better.  Writing comes and goes, and is mostly pretty good.  It can be slow, and the current arcs aren't as good (IMO) as some of the older ones -- but I very much enjoyed this one (and actually still am).

Huh, I quit reading Gunnerkrigg with the *checks* "From The Forest She Came" chapter. Basically, Chris Carter effect (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChrisCarterEffect).

http://drmcninja.com/ like it sounds like.  Sometimes fairly awesome, occassionally (like today) incoherent.  It's a story that prefers Pizazz over reason, Explosions over common sense.

Quote from: Jon on September 07, 2011, 01:33:53 AMGunnerkrigg ... Chris Carter effect (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChrisCarterEffect).

This is a fair claim.

How about: Copper (http://boltcity.com/copper/)?

No real overarching plot or arcs, but fun art and the occasional cute joke (or just neat thing).  Fluff, mostly.  Probably also not going to get any more pages at this point, but still.

Then again, as long as we're throwing out seriously arc-fatigued comics that had great starts:

Dominic Deegan (http://dominic-deegan.com).  Worth an archive binge until you get tired of it, probably; art starts out shaky and gets ... decent.

This one is NSFW.  Spoilering it so you can't say you clicked before reading (without me rolling my eyes at you, anyway):

Another one that I'm loving to hate now (frustrating in terms of slow updates):

http://www.erfworld.com/

Premise: Overweight main character (This Loser Is You) Parson lives in the real world with a terrible life and wishes he could go into one of his fantasy Turn Based Strategy Games.  In a fantasy universe rife with references and memes, where people live in a Turn Based system dictated to them by the Titans of ancient times, the ruler of a Side needs a new Warlord.

These plot threads meet.

It started out great, and the art was pretty decent from the beginning, and got better as the story goes on.  Book one is all webcomics, and is complete (though, the overarching story is NOT complete).  Book two jarred me by shifting to 'every so often, pages are novels, with a line-drawing at the bottom, and not comics at all'.  Not bad, but very unexpected.

Adjusting to the that, the text segments aren't horrible; they can convey a lot more insight into a character's head than you might get with just the comics.

This does lead directly to my current issue, and why I'm not as happy with the current state as the past:

The pace is really starting to suffer now, and quite a few of the last updates have felt totally irrelevant WRT moving the plot forward.  Today's helps, but it seems like every revelation must be followed by a lot of pages of nothing happening.  No Chris Carter effect here, just serious Arc Fatigue on the current Turn (which has lasted, I think, a little more than nine months of real-time).  I'm also a bit irked that (currently) the focus feels 'webcomics only for Parson; you don't GET awesome text insight into him and whatever he's planning; those are for irrelevant side-characters!'.

Hopefully, once the deal with Jetstone and whatever is going on in the Magic Kingdom is finally straightened out, things will move forward again.

Despite my complaints, I do still read it.  You may enjoy at least the start of it, as well.

Quote from: Jon on September 07, 2011, 01:33:53 AM
Huh, I quit reading Gunnerkrigg with the *checks* "From The Forest She Came" chapter. Basically, Chris Carter effect (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChrisCarterEffect).

I still read, but it's become muddled.  I don't know what it is now.  The stories seem unimportant in a way, even to the character's experiencing them.  I don't know where it's going and for the entirety of the current arc I haven't gotten what's there that we should care about?

Oh, here's one that's good.  Just slow: Dead Winter (http://deadwinter.cc/).

Some NSFW pages.

Premise: Suddenly, zombies.

Quote from: Brian on September 07, 2011, 12:50:25 PM
It started out great, and the art was pretty decent from the beginning, and got better as the story goes on.  Book one is all webcomics, and is complete (though, the overarching story is NOT complete).  Book two jarred me by shifting to 'every so often, pages are novels, with a line-drawing at the bottom, and not comics at all'.  Not bad, but very unexpected.

The text bits started as a "Xin can't draw quite that much" thing.  My question is, since he's releasing comic books, what is he going to do then?  Is half of his comic book going to be long strings of text?  Not that I'm going to buy it either way, just wondering since he has this habit of calling himself an enterpreneuer and lecturing about how to run a successful online business and such.

Re: pacing, I get annoyed at that, but then again, this was also a perpetual complaint in book 1 when it was being drawn, especially if you had pages that were mostly establishing scenes.  But if you read it through once it was finished, the pacing works.  So, I'll reserve judgement on that until he's finished with the Jetstone arc.

http://www.exploitationnow.com/deadpool

Deadpool v. Sailor Moon.  Very short (4 pages).

http://comiz-inc.deviantart.com/art/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Cover-189812330?q=gallery%3Acomiz-inc%2F16295723&qo=5

Ran across this somehow this morning.  Still not sure, I blinked and I was in some Legend of Zelda AU that was pretty epic, with Gannondorf as king of Hyrule, The War to Make Peace continuing, and link finding himself with the Mark of the Traitor.

Also Zelda is a sexy/angry drunk princess.

Kinda neat.  Art improves...sometimes laterally (almost a different style at points).

Apparently its been going since December of last year.  So roughly 3 pages a week.  Dunno if it'd be good to read day by day, but some of the scenes are pretty neat.

Quote from: Dracos on September 24, 2011, 12:26:11 PM
http://comiz-inc.deviantart.com/art/The-Legend-of-Zelda-Cover-189812330?q=gallery%3Acomiz-inc%2F16295723&qo=5

Ran across this somehow this morning.  Still not sure, I blinked and I was in some Legend of Zelda AU that was pretty epic, with Gannondorf as king of Hyrule, The War to Make Peace continuing, and link finding himself with the Mark of the Traitor.

Also Zelda is a sexy/angry drunk princess.

Kinda neat.  Art improves...sometimes laterally (almost a different style at points).

Apparently its been going since December of last year.  So roughly 3 pages a week.  Dunno if it'd be good to read day by day, but some of the scenes are pretty neat.

Pretty good. I'm on page 96 right now. Don't care for the art change; so far I think the first art style was *much* better.

But, still, pretty good.

Someone asked me to poke when Sluggy got better.  I think it has. 

Someone also poked to suggest start points after Oceans Unmoving.  Seven + years ago.  Wow, small challenge.  Gonna give a few whacks at it.

This is right at the end of the Dystopian City 4 U arc, placed at the close, it's at a depressing bit right before Riff hero's it up and the gang gets back together for the first time in ages.  Context for this is that the evil House of Cheese had arranged an assassination on Torg and his group.  Zoe and Riff were blasted into another dimension (City 4 U) and have spent years there, before encountering the evil mastermind of Old and Bitter AU Riff and saving the city.  Torg meanwhile has been operating a clandestine anti-villain group, hunting down a way to rescue them both and bother supervillains worldwide.  Almost all of the Gang comes back together just in time for the last big op to take down House of Cheese.

Probably the best place to start and quickly get context on a lot of things, since Another Year in Life of a Villian is right after it and then the setup for Act 3 takes place.
http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/110630

This is the beginning of the current chapter, retrieving the two main cast members that had been off to the side a while and going into what happened to them.  It's probably a not bad start to come back along.
http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/130311

Getting into it just before storytime and then action scenes of fun:
http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/130423

Without the storytime and context at all, about like 4 pages from demon attack:
http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/130514

This is a good one.  Slacker I think introduced me to it over a few tries.

http://deadwinter.cc/

It's got great art, powerful character, and lots of zombie fighting.  Problem?  Its update rate is glacier.  Not dresden kodak glacier, but closer to 1 page per two weeks glacier.  So once you get through its rather sizable backlog, the show stalls to a halt.  Still, it's worth reading up to present because it's a good ride until then.

Blah, and there was a reference by Brian to this earlier too :P

Oh well, so much for 1 old, 1 new. :)  I thought I didn't spot it.

Not fantasy-centric, exactly (although things like mermaids to appear from time to time) but I've been following Bad Machinery for a little while now.

http://scarygoround.com/?date=20090921

It follows a group of British children interested in solving mysteries. It's light, somewhat humorous, and the art and story have been pretty consistently good. I wouldn't call it the greatest read ever, but it's compelling enough that I keep up with it. Updates four times a week, I think (weekdays except Fridays, maybe?).

http://www.starpowercomic.com/

This is a really new comic, only a few months old.  It's pretty good!  The art is nice and the story is good so far.  I'd suggest a read.

Moved the old thread to be more accessible.

Oh, well that was convenient!

http://www.egscomics.com/  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/ElGoonishshive

El Goonish Shive. Quite possibly my favorite webcomic besides Order of the Stick. It's about the wacky slice-of-life adventures of a group of teens that are in someway, shape, or form involved with the Supernatural. Or Aliens. It has a god and large archive with a steadily improving art style.

As for the title, to quote, "Because [it] Sounds like one big awkward moment."

http://questionablecontent.net/ QC. A longrunning Slice-of-life webcomic with sentient A.I.s integrated into society. It begins with Marten Reed, a depressed loner with his only friends being a Macho Bro Dude, and Pintsize, his pervert of a computer. Then one day, he meets Faye in a bar, befriends her, and after her apartment burns down, offers her to be his roommate. Thus Marten's life grow, he gains more friends and saying any more would ruin it. Go Read.

http://twokinds.keenspot.com/ Another of my favorites. Amnesiac Trace Legacy wakes up in a forest and encounters Tiger-girl Flora. Flora is a Keidran, a race of animal-like bipeds that Humanity is at war with for quite some time. Probably because the Keidran went to war with them first for all the slavery. Trace finds out he was the former leader of the Templars, the Magic Military/government, and basically a villain. So He and Flora a set off on a journey to the town a Lynknoll, a place where it's rumored Keidran and Humans live together in harmony. 

I kept up with QC for awhile. It was okay, but ultimately wasn't my cup of tea. I'd give it a second recommendation, it's not bad at all.

http://www.lackadaisycats.com/comic.php?comicid=1

Lackadaisy Cats - Anthropomorphic bootleggers in Prohibition era St. Louis.  Updates are the proverbial glacial.

Got some really good scenework in there, that comic does.

Been keeping up with these two for awhile since they started.

First is Saint for Rent, www.saintforrent.com A webcomic about a guy named Saint who runs a way-station/Inn for time travelers. It's a bit slow to update but it's well draw an has some animations sometimes. and I find it unique that the same character can be in the Inn multiple times at once with no consequence.

Next is Stand Still Stay Silent, http://www.sssscomic.com/index.php A post-apocalypse story set in Scandinavia 90 years after a virus wipes out most of the world's population and filled it with monsters. It follows an underpaid, under-qualified, under-staffed, rag-tag bunch of misfits hired to head head out into the dangerous outside world and collect the priceless treasure of...Books. Beautifully drawn and updates regularly. The author has a previously finished webcomic based on Scandinavian folklore called A Red Tail's Dream which you can find Here: http://www.minnasundberg.fi/comic/page00.php

Thanks for sharing :)

PBF seems to be updating regularly again.

Caught up on that.   It is what it is.

http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com

Sometimes a soap-box, but either way an interesting comic checking 'what if' around superpowers.  Follows a young Super-woman type who's decided that punching the bad guys of the world isn't good enough.

namesakecomic.com

Kind of a neat worksetting.  Storybook named characters can walk between worlds, bringing along indistinct powers.

http://www.harpygee.com/index.php?id=1 Kind of a cute comic I glanced through recently.  It follows a friendship seeking elf who lost her magic to her pet magic eating cat and a prince who's become a monster.  Only a couple of story sections in, mostly covering character background at this point as it started last year.

http://namesakecomic.com/ - A story about a Dorthy that isn't Dorthy ending up in wonderland in a world where story worlds are real and those that are namesakes of the original stories can enter them and companion writers can write and change the story.

Quote from: Rukatin on February 13, 2015, 09:41:10 AM
Next is Stand Still Stay Silent, http://www.sssscomic.com/index.php A post-apocalypse story set in Scandinavia 90 years after a virus wipes out most of the world's population and filled it with monsters. It follows an underpaid, under-qualified, under-staffed, rag-tag bunch of misfits hired to head head out into the dangerous outside world and collect the priceless treasure of...Books. Beautifully drawn and updates regularly. The author has a previously finished webcomic based on Scandinavian folklore called A Red Tail's Dream which you can find Here: http://www.minnasundberg.fi/comic/page00.php

Getting started on that right now. I like the worldbuilding thus far. The map pretty much sums it up: http://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=66 (http://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=66)

Some of the characters remind me more of old newspaper comics (in a way that is neither good nor especially bad) than an epic adventure, as they're initially introduced as unrealistic walking gags. Like the guy who was so spaced out that he never realized he's being hired to go out to explore Eldritch Landscape of Horrors until he's already on the boat. Having read Redtail's Dream before this I can trust the author to go somewhere with it.

http://www.truevillains.com/
A splendid webcomic I've found recently and am now keeping up with. It follows the adventures of Sebastian Jalek, a morally ambiguous hero who tries to defeat an evil demon lord terrorizing the countryside and...fails. The price he pays to stay alive? Join the team of evil.
Which is not all as bad as it seems. Sure you do bad things like blowing up towns, raising armies of undead, but while the methods may be evil, the goals are entirely neutral.

What's this? A place to recommend webcomics? How have I not discovered this before? Why, I have hundreds of webcomics bookmar-er....
*cough*
I mean I can recommend a few.

http://soultocall.com/
First up is this little gem here. Soul to Call is creepy, bloody, and full of truly twisted looking, sanity reducing monsters. It's set in a post apocalyptic world where otherworldly beasts and shadows roam, hunting anyone foolish enough to enter their territory. The story stars a girl named Avril, as she hunts for a creature called an Anathema in a forest of ruined buildings where horrific monsters stalk their prey. She runs into a polite, nervous young man named Eli, who has glowing red eyes. The art is really very good and I absolutely love the way the artist draws the character's facial expressions. Definitely not for the faint of heart though. The monsters are twisted and the humans sometimes come to bloody ends.
Updates regularly.

http://daddysgirl.smackjeeves.com/
I really like this one. The art maybe isn't the best, but the storytelling, characters, and dialogue are top notch and I don't say that lightly. Daddy's Girl is about a martial artist named Andy Wilcox. She'd like to live her life in peace and has promised her family that she won't fight anymore, but she can't seem to stand by and let bad people do bad things without delivering a hefty beatdown. Things go from bad to worse when she accidentally puts a mob boss's prize fighter out of commission in a barroom brawl and she's forced to fight in her place. I really like the way the artist draws action sequences.
Finished.

Hmm. I shall have to consider a bit before I recommend any others. My webcomic addiction is a powerful thing, not to be taken lightly.

Quote from: Kaldrak on July 26, 2015, 05:18:39 AM
http://soultocall.com/

That was a fun little read, i'll keep track of it now.

For something of similar taste I have Not Drunk Enough http://www.ndecomic.com/
Relatively new webcomic about a repairman named Logan called in on the nightshift to some big corporate building. He finds that something terrible has happened to it that has left it infested with monsters. Now he has to figure a way to get out alive. Also, blood likes to splatter his face.

Two Guys and Guy http://www.twogag.com/
A Hopeless Loser. An Amoral Sociopathic Scientist. And a Cold Hearted Bitch. Wayne, Frank, and Guy are the 'friends' that make up this gag-a-day comic strip.

Glad you liked it Ruk. I read both of those. They're pretty good.

Alright, time for some more recommendations.

http://www.konradokonski.com/SITM/

Stick In The Mud is about a guy named Rod whose longtime girlfriend breaks up with him right before the start of the story. He of course, gets smashed and wakes up with a mighty hangover the next morning, oh and the deed to a bar which he apparently bought while drunk. The twist is that the bar sits over a portal to the underworld and monsters and demons come crawling up from below...to have a drink, because apparently the underworld has piss poor beer. The other characters are John, Rod's lush of a sister who apparently has a history of stealing his girlfriends. Paula, a mellow soul who isn't nearly as one-dimensional a pothead as she first appears. Jellybean, who has some kind of strange aura that attracts women wherever he goes. And finally Lamia, a succubus who is rather bad at her job.

The comic is a bit NSFW as there is nudity and swearing, but it's witty and amusing and irreverent and the art is good. It updates regularly.

The other comic I'll recommend right now is this one:

http://tpoh.smackjeeves.com/

I cannot accurately express just how much I love The Property Of Hate. It's a fantastical journey into a surreal world where thoughts and ideas and concepts have physical forms and simply being near them can cause them to affect you. The main characters are RGB, a snappily dressed man with a cane and an old TV set for a head and Hero, a young girl who he recruits for some enigmatic purpose. The comic is poetic and strange and the writing and the dialogue are both superb and the artwork is really really GOOD.

Oh and the artist/writer is a badass who is currently doing a lot of work with her left hand because she injured her right arm a few months ago. I have yet to see any appreciable drop in quality in the artwork because of it and that is DAMN impressive. I cannot stress enough just how good this comic is. Unfortunately, due to her injury, the interval between comics has increased considerably and the updates have become sporadic.

Mmm.  It's been some time since I last looked at TPOH.  It's still good but at the sametime... yeah hasn't gone much.

http://www.maricomics.com/twbthoth/book Read the well by the house on the hill today.  It's like...15 minutes long tops, beginning to end.  Some cuteness but basically an idea that was stillborn even though its a completely finished webcomic.

Soul to call is kinda neat.  *finishes it*

A Naruto parody, translated from Spanish and using SD characters.  It is not the most hilarious thing I've ever read. Still, there were a few parts that I found to be laugh-worthy (http://bato.to/read/_/125858/raruto_v1_ch2_by_jesulinkcom-fan/8)

Quote from: Jason_Miao on September 03, 2015, 06:34:54 PM
A Naruto parody, translated from Spanish and using SD characters.  It is not the most hilarious thing I've ever read. Still, there were a few parts that I found to be laugh-worthy (http://bato.to/read/_/125858/raruto_v1_ch2_by_jesulinkcom-fan/8)

Ninja water walking technique:

Reading Darths and Droids (http://www.darthsanddroids.net/), a retelling of the Star Wars movies as a tabletop roleplaying game.

It's amusing...though their avatar one was better :)

Just started reading Stick In The Mud.  About 40 pages into it and I'm already hooked for life.  >_>

Quote from: tabyk on December 31, 2015, 12:15:17 AM
Just started reading Stick In The Mud.  About 40 pages into it and I'm already hooked for life.  >_>

Heh, yeah. that's a good one.

Quote from: Rukatin on December 31, 2015, 09:28:35 PM

Quote from: tabyk on December 31, 2015, 12:15:17 AM
Just started reading Stick In The Mud.  About 40 pages into it and I'm already hooked for life.  >_>

Heh, yeah. that's a good one.

Glad I could recommend something you both liked. ^_^

http://imgur.com/a/8W2FU

Xianxia parody webcomic, translated.

The story follows a Dimensional Traveler who suddenly wakes up one day to find himself as the senior disciple of a martial arts sect.   He has supreme skills, supreme talent, and a powerful family background.  And his thought is "Hey, wait a moment.  In xianxia, isn't this the background of someone that gets killed by the Main Character or the Boss to show how powerful they are?"

QuoteXianxia parody webcomic, translated.

Almost every man in this webcomic looks like a woman.

Quote from: Empyrean on April 27, 2016, 06:07:58 AM

QuoteXianxia parody webcomic, translated.

Almost every man in this webcomic looks like a woman.

Heh.  Chinese webcomic drawn in anime style (big eyes, small mouth).  I remember noticing this, and discounted it in the first few strips since there's plenty of manga that does the "every male is a bishounen" thing.

Do you all like ghost stories? I do. Here's a couple of good ones.

http://lapsecomic.com/comic/2011/11/13

Lapse is the story of a young woman named Bianca, who saw a ghost when she was a kid. Things take a turn for the worst when she falls down the stairs and gets knocked out of her body and into the spirit realm. Much of the comic is her trying to deal with other ghosts, many of whom don't properly remember who they are or why they're there. Oh and there's a nightmarish black skull demon thing with glowing red eyes that seems to be after her.

I like the artwork, especially how expressive all of the body language is. The story is a bit spooky, but not really all that scary, in my book. It seems to mostly deal with the question of what might happen after death, and what you would do if nobody else knew any answers either. What if you still exist, but were tied to an idea or a place, reliving the same scenes, unable to move on? The comic seems to update slowly and there have been a couple of long hiatuses, so be warned. It's currently updating once a week.

http://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/1

Wilde Life is simply gorgeous. It's the story of a guy named Oscar Wilde (no relation to the famous writer), who decides to move out into the country. The small town he moves to is literally called Podunk and there are supernatural things afoot aplenty. It starts with him meeting the resident ghost in his rental house, a charming woman named Sylvia. And THEN things start to get really weird.

The artwork is really really good and the writing is quite witty. I love all of the characters in the cast, from Oscar and Sylvia to a werewolf teenager named Clifford (his wolf shape is red, which amuses the hell out of everyone). There are ghosts, werewolves, spirit bears, strange glowing things, witches, and who knows what else that's going to be introduced down the line. It updates pretty regularly so you should go check it out if you like quality artwork and storytelling.

I'll second Wild Life. I saw a recommendation for it on imgur a little while back and started reading it. Not fully caught up, so can't comment on updates, but it's an interesting story.

I'll third Wilde Life =). It's an absolutely beautiful and fun webcomic. The author started a kickstarter for a print volume of the first arc a little while back, definitely had to support it.

One I've been reading lately is Out There, which I am super behind on but enjoy a lot: http://outthere.keenspot.com/index.html
It's currently on hiatus, but it's a good read so far!

Saw this in imgur. I found it midly interesting:

Scrap and Top-Heavy (https://scrapandtopheavy.com/), a story of a level 20 Knight guiding a level 1 adventurer on the start of a grand journey.

So I've found a couple more webcomics that I'd like to recommend.

First up is this delightfully charming/spooky webcomic called Erma.

https://tapas.io/episode/255222

Erma is a little half human, half ghost girl who has all of the powers of her mother, climbing through TV's and other screens, floating, telekinesis, and going ephemeral on command. She really enjoys scaring people and has a yen for hanging out with obscure/not so obscure monsters, spooks, and other supernatural critters from multiple other media types on occasion. Unfortunately, she also has to go to school and interact with normal kids without traumatizing them.

She's basically Sadoko's daughter from the Ring, though I don't believe her mother's name is mentioned anywhere in comic. There are a lot of references in the one-shots and it's actually really cute. I ended up spending hours reading through the entire archive in one setting. Still ongoing and updated regularly.
(https://img00.deviantart.net/f76b/i/2015/235/9/8/erma_strip__4_by_bjsinc-d96uaj1.jpg)


The second comic I'd like to recommend is called Sleepless Domain.

http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-1-cover

It's a mahou shoujo or 'magical girl' webcomic, though one of the more serious ones. Warning: I like it because the art is really good, even after they switch artists in the third chapter. And I got to really like the main character, a girl who can manipulate water named Undine. They live in a city sealed off from the rest of the world where nightmares roam the streets during the nights and magical girl teams head out to deal with them and protect people. It's a sad story, but it's well told and I'm enjoying it a lot. Ongoing and updated regularly.
(http://www.marycagle.com/uploads/1454141233-01.png)

Read all of Erma and found it very cute.

https://imgur.com/gallery/vomudXy <-- Very short (and sad) sci-fi comic about a world with robots, dogs, and loss.

...and on more cheerful note:

I think I should probably give a shout-out to Loading Artist (https://loadingartist.com/) and Extra Ordinary Comics (https://www.exocomics.com/), both webcomics by a pair from New Zealand.

(https://loadingartist.com/extras-files/fbc_grass.jpg) (https://loadingartist.com/)
(https://www.exocomics.com/wp-content/themes/exocomics/img/bg/header.jpg) (https://www.exocomics.com/)

I've been part of the twitch/discord community for Loading Artist for close to a year now, Gregor makes a lot of funny comics and has a very cool community and engaging twitch channel. His twitch set-up is pretty amazing too, with a lot of custom and dynamic animations. His comics tend to lean towards some darker humor, social anxiety and self-deprecation.

Sometimes, things get a bit...uh, surreal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwHQ4xidwGs&t=173s)? Clip is of a moment when he was wearing a banana suit for halloween season...and got visited by fire alarm inspector. You can watch his clips for other scenes of what shenanigans can happen in his streams.

He does (did?) some gaming streams as well in addition to comic drawing streams, though he's recently been on a month break from streaming due to burn out, and he's currently only doing comic streams after coming back, for the time being.

Li (exocomics' artist) is a member of his community too (and a real life friend of his), and she does more cutesy/slice of life stuff in her comics.

And full disclaimer, part of the reason for the shout out is that  I just became a mod over at Gregor's twitch and discord servers, so yeah, should be a good minion and give him a plug. (Li gets a freebie :p)

Moddy merc :3  Conquer the comics.