Author Topic: Webcomic Recommendations (Read 23793 times)

Fenrir · « **Reply #100 on:** January 07, 2015, 11:34:11 PM »

Yeah i only read a softer world, smbc and dinosaur comics anymore
I liker doghouse diaries well enough as a less good form of humour but it really turned to shit lately. And i say this about nothing but the simpsons basically.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #101 on:** January 18, 2015, 06:17:59 AM »

Came my way via random Facebook share. There's enough Disney fans here that it's worth a link. Some are gold, especially the most recent one.

http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/tagged/Pocket-Princesses

Fenrir · « **Reply #102 on:** February 21, 2015, 10:03:03 AM »

Does anyone still understand like more than one xkcd strip out of four?

It's funny how this popular , nerdy but still understandable comic has become this ridiculously exclusive thing. it still has the same fanbase , that now tries to pierce the meaning of every comic together over at "explain xkcd" like it's a riddle instead of a comic, because trying to get the joke alone is now a fool's errand.

I can't say this makes for particularly fun times.

I think most of the fanbase is still sticking around because once in a while you get a ridiculously ambitious, innovative comic.

Btw pbf has started re-updating lately. Pbf, still great, etc

Cotigo · « **Reply #103 on:** February 21, 2015, 10:56:59 AM »

Uh, really? I haven't read it in a while, but going back the last ten comics...

1489 - Physics joke that I get enough from context to get the joke (though not find it funny) even though I only really know the names of the forces beforehand.
1488 - Flowchart joke
1487 - Joke about Tornado hitting a merry go round being fun
1486 - Haha Vacuum has TWO meanings
1485 - Hahah OK this one is pretty great just go read it yourself. No a priori knowledge needed to get the joke (maybe only funny to native English speakers / Americans?)
1484 - Knowledge needed to get the joke is at the header of the comic. Wordswordswords but pretty funny.
1483 - Ha, ha, language changes!
1482 - I guess if you don't know that music is comprised of notes ... or I guess don't know note names, this would be obtuse?
1481 - Point to Fenrir, I don't understand any of the API gobbledy gook, but I'd argue that that is the joke itself.
1480 - Hipster anti-anti-SuperBowl comic. Americans only I guess.
1479 - Ha ha, computers do stupid things.
1478 - Point to Fenrir

Yeah some of them are obtuse but most of them have jokes that are pretty easy to understand even if you're not knowledgeable in the field they're drawing from. I'd argue that the bigger problem with XKCD is that except for the one I linked none of them are really that funny.

Fenrir · « **Reply #104 on:** February 21, 2015, 11:46:45 AM »

I might have used hyperbole, and there might be times when I think there has to be something more than the joke I'm seeing.
Look at that stupid flowchart though

SnowFire · « **Reply #105 on:** February 26, 2015, 11:36:39 PM »

Quote from: Fenrir on February 21, 2015, 10:03:03 AM

Does anyone still understand like more than one xkcd strip out of four?

Yes. Helps if you're a computer programmer and/or have a casual knowledge of physics, though, for the two biggest wells of jokes.

As Zenny already said, the bigger issue with xkcd is that it isn't always all that funny. Like, throwing in a cool geeky reference on the side? Great, people who notice it will find it funny and it'll be invisible otherwise. (Munroe does this way better than so many other writers, who can't bear the thought of someone missing any of their precious content.) However sometimes it's all just a dumb "check out this reference" thing, and sometimes it's just randomly preachy but not in a way I agree with. (The Super Bowl PSA was fine because it was an interesting thought, for example, but if it was something I disagreed with, eh.)

Captain K. · « **Reply #106 on:** February 28, 2015, 01:31:24 AM »

Enough talk about shitty xkcd, Let's Speak English instead!

http://www.marycagle.com/index.php?id=1

Captain K. · « **Reply #107 on:** March 18, 2015, 06:54:38 AM »

I don't remember if I've mentioned Paranatural before or not, but yeah, it deserves a mention for this if nothing else. Frieza backpack.

http://www.paranatural.net/index.php?id=335

Excal · « **Reply #108 on:** April 13, 2015, 07:56:28 AM »

Captain K... has stolen my bookmarks.

Captain K · « **Reply #109 on:** April 13, 2015, 10:38:42 PM »

and your heart

Excal · « **Reply #110 on:** April 23, 2015, 06:15:43 AM »

Moving on from Daleks that know way too much about my heart, I present to you all Tower of God. It's a Korean comic about a boy called the 25th Bam who enters a tower that's kinda a cross between HunterxHunter and SaGa 1. As such, nifty martial arts fighting happens fairly often, complete with some low key mystical powers. However, there's two main twists. First, most of the fights are part of tests or competitions, which means that each one has something going on besides "Beat the other guy up" which changes the tempo and makes for nice twists. Also, the person who writes it obviously likes intrigue, so why everyone is doing what they're doing is important. This also leads into the key themes, trust and betrayal.

The first season is really just a gripping introduction to the world and how things work. While the second season (It feels like it should be on the third season, but season 2 is still chugging along) introduces the main plot and widens the focus.

Captain K · « **Reply #111 on:** July 07, 2015, 10:07:27 AM »

This makes way too much sense: http://nonadventures.com/2015/06/20/the-some-of-all-fears/

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #112 on:** July 07, 2015, 01:46:46 PM »

Sometimes, Wonderella manages a quietly brilliant streak amid its outrageously deconstructive fury.

NotMiki · « **Reply #113 on:** July 07, 2015, 05:00:50 PM »

Nice.

Grefter · « **Reply #114 on:** July 07, 2015, 11:19:02 PM »

Just want to note, Canada has been trying to do that for decades now with the tech shootings. It has taken a real push from some real douchebags to keep the shooters name relevant.

Also just 2 comics later Wonderella drops some more truth bombs

http://nonadventures.com/2015/07/04/whine-enthusiast/

That shit is ice cold.

Captain K · « **Reply #115 on:** August 20, 2015, 11:21:27 AM »

If you haven't been reading The Last Halloween you should be.

http://www.last-halloween.com

But she also writes a random/blog comic

http://www.jspowerhour.com/

which is occasionally brilliant:

http://www.jspowerhour.com/comics/73

Captain K · « **Reply #116 on:** May 27, 2016, 07:09:03 AM »

This is a great little story.

http://www.broken-telephone.com/comic/cover

Cotigo · « **Reply #117 on:** January 21, 2017, 12:13:23 AM »

Today is a godawful tragedy.

The last page of Dr. McNinja has been posted.

If you never checked out it, now would be the time. The comics were always best read in chunks, and now all the chunks are there. Go read it.

NotMiki · « **Reply #118 on:** January 21, 2017, 09:34:48 PM »

Quote from: Makkotah on January 21, 2017, 12:13:23 AM

Today is a godawful tragedy.

The last page of Dr. McNinja has been posted.

If you never checked out it, now would be the time. The comics were always best read in chunks, and now all the chunks are there. Go read it.

NotMiki · « **Reply #119 on:** October 19, 2017, 08:46:02 PM »

https://twitter.com/hastingsfunnies

doot doot new Christopher Hastings webcomics

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Author Topic: Webcomic Recommendations (Read 23793 times)