Other Favorite Webcomics/Animations?

[enigma3433]

Aside from CCC, what are your favorite webcomic series or animations? One of my favorite things to do is to discover an awesome new webcomic and spend hours reading through the backlogs, and watching the artist's style develop. Also if you have a running series feel free to plug it.

A few of mine:

Dresden Codak - Sci Fi and Transhumanist themed webcomic by Aaron Diaz. One of the most beautifully drawn and well written endeavors I've seen. He updates infrequently but it's always high quality. The current story is called "Dark Science" and follows an inventive genius, who, beset by financial troubles, is forced to move the bureaucratic hell of Nephilopolis. Check out this one-off, "Lantern Season" to get a taste of what it's about.

Homestuck - This one is difficult to describe, since it's a vast project undertaken by the incredibly industrious Andrew Hussie. It's modeled after old text adventure games, where each page is a single panel with a "command" that advances the story to the next panel. However there are frequent flash animations as well as walk-around video game bits. Hussie plays a lot with the format, frequently breaking fourth (and fifth) walls and introducing new meta-concepts into the story.

The story itself is convoluted but exhilarating, with frequent jumping around the timeline(s). It's basically about four adolescents who start playing a video game that begins to change their world, eventually leading to the apocalypse. Their only chance is to continue playing and try to create a new universe to live in, all the while tormented by mysterious internet trolls and an ancient demon.

If you're going to give this one a shot I'd actually recommend reading Hussie's earlier comics like "Problem Sleuth" and "Jailbreak" first, since Homestuck contains a lot of references to them (and they're both hilarious).

Gunnerkrigg Court - by Tom Siddell. Pretty much Harry Potter except with characters, themes, and plot I like a lot better. Plus some steampunk for the win. It follows the life and education of a girl who begins to question the emptiness and despondence of the world she lives in. It also features one of my favorite god-like entities in all of fiction, Coyote.

So, check them out. Or not. And I'd love to learn about your favorites.

[rlp]

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[Akrim]

blockhead: its probably one of the funniest things I've ever watched but its something that i know a certain kind of person will like. its hard to explain so i just recommend you watch an episode and see if you like it.

[ditch]

I'm a regular reader on several:

XKCD: I'm sure many of you have heard of it. It's nerdtastic. Notes: The "Random" button will never fail you, and don't forget rollover text.

Johnny Wander: A really good "Those funny moments in life" type of thing following Yuko and Anath, who have set out on their own into the "Adult world." Most of it is hilarious anecdotal stuff. Other friends and room mates come and go a bit, though several stay fairly consistent. My favorite one is John, with his love for Ikea furniture and lines like, "You should shoot him where it hurts. Anywhere." I've bought more than one piece of merchandise from them because I like it so much.

Hark! A Vagrant: Artist Kate Beaton knows how to crack some really good jokes. Subjects include: Colonial-time oddities, different takes on superheroes (I love her "Wonder Woman personality), and silly interpretations of what a story is about just by looking at the picture on the book cover. I've bought merchandise from here due to fandom.

Sandra and Woo: This is a really feel-good comic with awesome characters. Sandra find out soon after getting a new pet raccoon (Woo) from an abusive owner, that Woo can talk! Much hilarity ensues, as despite being able to talk, Woo is still very much a raccoon. Combine this with characters like her friend Larisa, who knows how to fiendishly take advantage of people, and Cloud who's parents named him after the Final Fantasy character (and trained him appropriately too), and this comic becomes very lively very fast. I fell in love with it after the first 10 pages.

Yellow Peril: A comedy about office workers who are in an ongoing struggle to "get revenge" with their dehumanizing work. It's a bit on the lewd side for my taste, but it updates very frequently and is still very good.

[chopz]

3rd Wish: Isn't around anymore, but was a semi-manga style comic about a guy is granted 3 wishes for ANYTHING. He wishes for an extremely beautiful girlfriend, I think to be rich was the second (its been a while) and the story is of him trying to decide on his last wish.

Megatokyo: Still running today! A wonderful comic about 2 hardcore gamers that get stuck in Japan. It has everything from magic girls, ninjas, giant monsters and confusing love triangles.