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sailorzeoInspired by blogofstench a few weeks back, here's my list of webcomics I watch, and attempted explanations of WHY I watch them: (take three: my browser's crashed twice so far trying to post this, and LJ's "saved draft" is just that first sentence up to "webcomics I watch"!!)
While this list is partially to reccomend these comics to others, it's probably going to end up just being a quick list for me when I'm on the road. :)
blogofstench a few weeks back, here's my list of webcomics I watch, and attempted explanations of WHY I watch them: (take three: my browser's crashed twice so far trying to post this, and LJ's "saved draft" is just that first sentence up to "webcomics I watch"!!) Alien Loves Predator--An action figure photography comic, with lots of Photoshop. Life in NYC as observed by roommates Abe (the Alien) and Preston (the Predator). Updated Mondays, as the author and his wife had twins earlier this year.
Blue Zombie--The best way to describe it is to steal the author's description: It is not the tale of a hero out to save the world. It is not the tale of striving to survive in an oppressive society. It's damn sure not about cute fluffy animals. No shounen-ai. No T&A. No over-the-top violence or mystical journeys or inappropriately underaged harems...
Blue Zombie, like it or not, is the story of an undead girl just struggling to get along with the (after)life... If only it were that simple for her.
Instead, she has to put up with unruly and inhuman roommates, an extremely angry, psycopathic and murderous twin sister, nostalgic demon hunters, magic spells gone horribly wrong with explosive results, dating shows, Counter Strike and killer gelatin.
Updates whenever. It's hand-drawn, and the author/artist likes to experiment with different styles and media. Also a note: it's on Comic Genesis, which has funky coding to prevent hotlinking, and despite their tips, I still can't get my firewall to let it through. So I only read it when I feel the need to shut off Zone Alarm. :-P
The Dreamland Chronicles--This was one recc'd by MW, in her list. Holy cown, but it's gorgeous. CGI rendering, and an intriguing story so far. The one drawback is that it's paced a little slow for a daily, as it was originally a comic book and is now being posted page-by-page. Some days, a lot happens, some days, nothing happens. But if you sit down and read the archive all in one shot, it's more like reading the book. Updated daily.
General Protection Fault (GPF) -- Ahh, I love GPF. Maybe it's because Nick and Ki remind me of Matt and myself. :) What started as basically geek humor has evolved into rich, complex storylines. Jeff Darlington is in his eigth year of writing and drawing the strip. It's gone from MWF to TTh, to SMWF, to seven days, back down to MWF, and is currently on hiatus due to a lot of real-life happening at once (a new job, a big move, a new baby born early all within a few months). But hey, there are EIGHT years worth of archives to catch up on! By the time you're all caught up, maybe he'll be, too. :) He also has four book collections out, from Plan Nine Publishing. They cover up to his first year-long storyline, Surreptitious Machinations.
Girl Genius--another book translated to web. The Foglios have two tracks on this: Girl Genius 101, which is the earlier books, and GG Advanced Classes, which are the current web stories, I believe. Steampunk. Beautifully colored, engaging characters, and crazy inventions. Both 101 and Advanced Classes are MWF.
Kevin and Kell--another old one, this strip has been online since 1995!!! Bill Holbrook also draws two syndicated newspaper strips, On the FastTrack and Safe Havens, and he created Kevin and Kell as quality web content. Anthropomorphic. Kevin is a large rabbit married to Kell, a wolf (they met and fell in love online). Kell has a son from a previous marriage, Kevin has an adopted hedgehog daughter (who happens to be a genius), and they have a baby carnivourous rabbit together. Another one with a huge archive, it also has a very complex universe around it, including a role-playing game! Updates daily.
Love Has Fangs--Action figure photography and Photoshop, clever writing, sexually confused vampires, workaholic mad scientists, lots and lots of pink hair, and a vibrating android (I wanna see more of him, MW!!). We've seen a few different incarnations of this storyline, but the current one is totally capturing my interest. Plus, we get some of Boston's history, and information about different types of vampiric undead. It's very well written and played out. TTh
No Pink Ponies--Girl meets guy. Girl falls for guy. Girl opens comic book shop to get closer to guy. WTF?? Some geek humor, some melodrama on the part of Jess (the girl), and overall amusing. Plus a nice take on Wolverine on Sundays. I just started this one, so time will tell if I stick it out. Updated MWF and Sunday
Penny and Aggie--high school drama/angst/comedy with a large ensemble cast. Another one I just started. MWF
Player vs Player (PVP) -- another old one. It's been around since 1998, and is currently updated every day, if sometimes VERY late in the day. Geek humor, gaming humor, general humor, some touching storylines... Scott Kurtz is showing the effect characters can have on their creators recently, with a few deeper, more introspective storylines. In fact, some have seemed so personal, that he's had to put disclaimers on the site denying that they're based on real events happening in his life. They may be based on thoughts he's had, conversations he's had with himself, and his characters are acting out his emotions for him. To me, that's touching, and as long as that same honesty keeps showing through, I'll keep reading.
Scary Go Round--I go back and forth on this one. Sometimes I enjoy it, other times, I don't. The creator switches back and forth between hand-drawn and Illustrator-created, which gives the comic a different look. Lots of archives on it. Updated MTWThF
Shortpacked!--When it started, it was one-off toy-collecting comics from David Willis, the creator of Roomies! and It's Walky! (I think he likes exclamation points) Now, it's been reformed (the "new hotness") into a MTWThF strip about employees at a toy store. There's still lots of toy-based commentary, and it's just a plain FUN strip, especially when you add in his LJ comments underneath the day's comic. Plus, he cameo'd in the strip in a really funny storyline about the TransformersWiki.
Something Positive--I found this through Queen of Wands, which had a number of crossovers with it. QoW has ended, so I wandered over to SP to see what was going on there. The humor is sometimes crass, but the main characters (Davan, PeeJee, Aubrey and Jason) genuinely care about each other, and that appeals to me. Plus, it has a pink boneless kitty. Updates "a lot," according to the site.
The Suburban Jungle--more anthropomorphism. Tiffany Tiger is the nominal star of the strip, although everyone else seems to be getting more screentime of late. The author's had to take a lot of breaks recently, so IMO, it's lost some steam. The storylines are generally good, if not spectacular, and the art is decent. It has a decent archive built up, so maybe the current storyline will be back on track. Currently updating MWF, but subject to change on whim.
Trish Tales: Action Figure Diary--Oh man, I love this. More action-figure photography, but the premise is that action figures are alive, and sold as pets. A woman with two female figures marries a man with two male figures, and now the "siblings" have to learn to get along. Currently updating once a week, Trish (the creator) keeps the humor and the quality high. I love the Christmas episode. "All their plays turn into Wrath of Khan eventually." "Their 'Waiting for Godot' was surreal." :-D Updates on Sundays.
Two Lumps--heh heh heh heh. Maybe it's because I'm a cat person. Then again, maybe it's just seriously amusing. But I LOVE Two Lumps. I find myself either groaning or sliding out of my chair laughing with every strip. And the bathroom door seqence, near the beginning of the archive, STILL puts me in giggles every time I read it. Updates MWF.
Then there are the ones I check occasionally, or are no longer updating. No commentary, just a list:
Absurd Notions
Casual Gamers
Sluggy Freelance
The Mows
Alice!
As If!
Queen of Wands
Akalae
Blue Zombie--The best way to describe it is to steal the author's description: It is not the tale of a hero out to save the world. It is not the tale of striving to survive in an oppressive society. It's damn sure not about cute fluffy animals. No shounen-ai. No T&A. No over-the-top violence or mystical journeys or inappropriately underaged harems...
Blue Zombie, like it or not, is the story of an undead girl just struggling to get along with the (after)life... If only it were that simple for her.
Instead, she has to put up with unruly and inhuman roommates, an extremely angry, psycopathic and murderous twin sister, nostalgic demon hunters, magic spells gone horribly wrong with explosive results, dating shows, Counter Strike and killer gelatin.
Updates whenever. It's hand-drawn, and the author/artist likes to experiment with different styles and media. Also a note: it's on Comic Genesis, which has funky coding to prevent hotlinking, and despite their tips, I still can't get my firewall to let it through. So I only read it when I feel the need to shut off Zone Alarm. :-P
The Dreamland Chronicles--This was one recc'd by MW, in her list. Holy cown, but it's gorgeous. CGI rendering, and an intriguing story so far. The one drawback is that it's paced a little slow for a daily, as it was originally a comic book and is now being posted page-by-page. Some days, a lot happens, some days, nothing happens. But if you sit down and read the archive all in one shot, it's more like reading the book. Updated daily.
General Protection Fault (GPF) -- Ahh, I love GPF. Maybe it's because Nick and Ki remind me of Matt and myself. :) What started as basically geek humor has evolved into rich, complex storylines. Jeff Darlington is in his eigth year of writing and drawing the strip. It's gone from MWF to TTh, to SMWF, to seven days, back down to MWF, and is currently on hiatus due to a lot of real-life happening at once (a new job, a big move, a new baby born early all within a few months). But hey, there are EIGHT years worth of archives to catch up on! By the time you're all caught up, maybe he'll be, too. :) He also has four book collections out, from Plan Nine Publishing. They cover up to his first year-long storyline, Surreptitious Machinations.
Girl Genius--another book translated to web. The Foglios have two tracks on this: Girl Genius 101, which is the earlier books, and GG Advanced Classes, which are the current web stories, I believe. Steampunk. Beautifully colored, engaging characters, and crazy inventions. Both 101 and Advanced Classes are MWF.
Kevin and Kell--another old one, this strip has been online since 1995!!! Bill Holbrook also draws two syndicated newspaper strips, On the FastTrack and Safe Havens, and he created Kevin and Kell as quality web content. Anthropomorphic. Kevin is a large rabbit married to Kell, a wolf (they met and fell in love online). Kell has a son from a previous marriage, Kevin has an adopted hedgehog daughter (who happens to be a genius), and they have a baby carnivourous rabbit together. Another one with a huge archive, it also has a very complex universe around it, including a role-playing game! Updates daily.
Love Has Fangs--Action figure photography and Photoshop, clever writing, sexually confused vampires, workaholic mad scientists, lots and lots of pink hair, and a vibrating android (I wanna see more of him, MW!!). We've seen a few different incarnations of this storyline, but the current one is totally capturing my interest. Plus, we get some of Boston's history, and information about different types of vampiric undead. It's very well written and played out. TTh
No Pink Ponies--Girl meets guy. Girl falls for guy. Girl opens comic book shop to get closer to guy. WTF?? Some geek humor, some melodrama on the part of Jess (the girl), and overall amusing. Plus a nice take on Wolverine on Sundays. I just started this one, so time will tell if I stick it out. Updated MWF and Sunday
Penny and Aggie--high school drama/angst/comedy with a large ensemble cast. Another one I just started. MWF
Player vs Player (PVP) -- another old one. It's been around since 1998, and is currently updated every day, if sometimes VERY late in the day. Geek humor, gaming humor, general humor, some touching storylines... Scott Kurtz is showing the effect characters can have on their creators recently, with a few deeper, more introspective storylines. In fact, some have seemed so personal, that he's had to put disclaimers on the site denying that they're based on real events happening in his life. They may be based on thoughts he's had, conversations he's had with himself, and his characters are acting out his emotions for him. To me, that's touching, and as long as that same honesty keeps showing through, I'll keep reading.
Scary Go Round--I go back and forth on this one. Sometimes I enjoy it, other times, I don't. The creator switches back and forth between hand-drawn and Illustrator-created, which gives the comic a different look. Lots of archives on it. Updated MTWThF
Shortpacked!--When it started, it was one-off toy-collecting comics from David Willis, the creator of Roomies! and It's Walky! (I think he likes exclamation points) Now, it's been reformed (the "new hotness") into a MTWThF strip about employees at a toy store. There's still lots of toy-based commentary, and it's just a plain FUN strip, especially when you add in his LJ comments underneath the day's comic. Plus, he cameo'd in the strip in a really funny storyline about the TransformersWiki.
Something Positive--I found this through Queen of Wands, which had a number of crossovers with it. QoW has ended, so I wandered over to SP to see what was going on there. The humor is sometimes crass, but the main characters (Davan, PeeJee, Aubrey and Jason) genuinely care about each other, and that appeals to me. Plus, it has a pink boneless kitty. Updates "a lot," according to the site.
The Suburban Jungle--more anthropomorphism. Tiffany Tiger is the nominal star of the strip, although everyone else seems to be getting more screentime of late. The author's had to take a lot of breaks recently, so IMO, it's lost some steam. The storylines are generally good, if not spectacular, and the art is decent. It has a decent archive built up, so maybe the current storyline will be back on track. Currently updating MWF, but subject to change on whim.
Trish Tales: Action Figure Diary--Oh man, I love this. More action-figure photography, but the premise is that action figures are alive, and sold as pets. A woman with two female figures marries a man with two male figures, and now the "siblings" have to learn to get along. Currently updating once a week, Trish (the creator) keeps the humor and the quality high. I love the Christmas episode. "All their plays turn into Wrath of Khan eventually." "Their 'Waiting for Godot' was surreal." :-D Updates on Sundays.
Two Lumps--heh heh heh heh. Maybe it's because I'm a cat person. Then again, maybe it's just seriously amusing. But I LOVE Two Lumps. I find myself either groaning or sliding out of my chair laughing with every strip. And the bathroom door seqence, near the beginning of the archive, STILL puts me in giggles every time I read it. Updates MWF.
Then there are the ones I check occasionally, or are no longer updating. No commentary, just a list:
Absurd Notions
Casual Gamers
Sluggy Freelance
The Mows
Alice!
As If!
Queen of Wands
Akalae
While this list is partially to reccomend these comics to others, it's probably going to end up just being a quick list for me when I'm on the road. :)
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Date: Sep. 7th, 2006 08:54 pm (UTC)--MW