What webcomics do you follow?

[Anonymouswizard]

Let's see, currently it's:
OotS (duh)
XKCD
El Goonish Shive
and First Fantasy*, mainly because this one's made by a RL friend.

I also check Darths & Droids and Irregular Webcomic occasionally, significantly prefering to just binge the new comics every few months.

* Yes, it is obviously inspired by Final Fantasy.

[Onyx]

I follow:
1. Twisted Dark
2. Delve
3. Grrl Power

[137beth]

First Fantasy*, mainly because this one's made by a RL friend.

I also check Darths & Droids and Irregular Webcomic occasionally, significantly prefering to just binge the new comics every few months.

* Yes, it is obviously inspired by Final Fantasy.

Looks interesting, I may read that later.

Also I recently caught up on Slightly Damned, which is really good.

[Bohandas]

recently Started reading

Future Pig
Magpie House Design
21st Century Fox

[Lector87]

Awkward Zombie
Collected Curios
Elf and Warrior
Girl Genius
Johnny Wander
Megatokyo
Nerf Now
Order of the Stick
Paranatural -> recommend to all, current favorite
Penny Arcade
Three Panel Soul
Two Guys and Guy
Unsounded
Vattu
XKCD

[halfeye]

I have somewhere between two dozen and thirty bookmarked that I check every day, mostly they don't update on most days. I have a subfolder I check weekly, most of them don't update. After that, I check the webcomiclist daily, it lists updates by the hour as they happen, but it sometimes drops a comic without notification (I'm not registered with them, it may play differently if you are registered, or not, I don't know), I was assuming that Girls with slingshots was on hiatus, but it seems that's also been dropped.

<edit>

I may or may not bookmark Girls with Slingshots, I sometimes do that, quite a few of my bookmarks no longer show up in the webcomiclist(dot)com, but quite a few do and have to be skipped there.

Now Questionable Content and El Goonish Shive have been dropped, that's ridiculous, a couple of months ago they were tagging QC as most visited, and EGS can't have been that far behind.

I don't understand what their financial strategy is. I know I'm not paying them, do they only list comics that pay them? I cleared out my cookies, and that made no difference, so presumably it's not based on who I am.

[farothel]

Order of the Stick
Girl Genius
Darth's and Droids
Weregeek
Yet another fantasy gamer comic
Userfriendly
Sandra and Woo (and their other comic Gaia)
PHD comics
PvP (and their other comics Table Titans and Binwins Minions)
Menage a Trois
Looking for Group
Irregular webcomic

Quite a list now that I list them all down. Although maybe not compared to some other lists I've seen here.

[137beth]

Now Questionable Content and El Goonish Shive have been dropped, that's ridiculous, a couple of months ago they were tagging QC as most visited, and EGS can't have been that far behind.

I don't understand what their financial strategy is. I know I'm not paying them, do they only list comics that pay them? I cleared out my cookies, and that made no difference, so presumably it's not based on who I am.

I don't really trust any of the automated services that supposedly track webcomic updates. Not because I think they have some ulterior motive, but because I know that any such software is going to have bugs. At some point, it will stop detecting updates for a comic I like, even though the comic is still updating. That's why I don't rely on thewebcomiclist or any similar sites like Piperka, Comic Rocket, or Top Webcomics. I will sometimes use Piperka or Comic Rocket to get an estimate of how many pages a comic has before I start reading it, because I like to have some idea of how long it is going to take me to read through the archives, but I don't use them to tell when a comic has updated.

For tracking updates to the comics I follow, I just use a plain txt file. In the file I record the name of each comic, the update schedule (if the comic has an update schedule), the URL, the date of the last page I read, and the URL of the last page I read. It requires me to keep track of more information myself, but it's less likely to break due to a software bug.

[Rogar Demonblud]

For those who read 3 Minute Max but haven't checked the site lately, the strip is on indefinite hiatus until Kiki's cancer fight is resolved.

A 15 month old with stage 4 cancer. I mean, what...can you do?

[Anonymouswizard]

Looks interesting, I may read that later.

Hope you enjoy(ed) it. Honestly my friend gets enough grief with that comic, I continually point out that his art would improve a lot if he just went for something like cross hatching for his shading.

Plus he's noted I have the weirdest ship in the fandom...

[halfeye]

I don't really trust any of the automated services that supposedly track webcomic updates. Not because I think they have some ulterior motive, but because I know that any such software is going to have bugs. At some point, it will stop detecting updates for a comic I like, even though the comic is still updating. That's why I don't rely on thewebcomiclist or any similar sites like Piperka, Comic Rocket, or Top Webcomics. I will sometimes use Piperka or Comic Rocket to get an estimate of how many pages a comic has before I start reading it, because I like to have some idea of how long it is going to take me to read through the archives, but I don't use them to tell when a comic has updated.

Software has bugs sometimes, software often has bugs, not all software has bugs. In the main bugs are unpredicable and do random things. Stopping detecting updates of a comic that's still updating is not random in that sense, it's something that might be a bug once, but if it happens every time and all the time, it's a policy decision being spun as a bug to avoid explaining the policy.

For tracking updates to the comics I follow, I just use a plain txt file. In the file I record the name of each comic, the update schedule (if the comic has an update schedule), the URL, the date of the last page I read, and the URL of the last page I read. It requires me to keep track of more information myself, but it's less likely to break due to a software bug.

I can't be bothered with that. Some of the comics I read update daily, some every weekday but not the weekend, some mondays, wednesday and friday, some monday and thursday, others other combinations, then they have days or weeks off, or skip, or whatever, so in general they are not reliable enough to care which day they are due to be out on. I have an update once a week or less folder for ones that do that, and I check that once a week, the rest I check daily, because they are just too random in their timing to do anything else.

[Bohandas]

Knife Quest

[Vinyadan]

Long live RSS feeds. I have no idea why not everyone uses them.

[-D-]

Unsounded
Hero Oh Hero
Kill Six Billion Demons
Order of the Stick
....
That's about it. I do glance at Erfworld from time to time and Menage a 3, but those are rarer. There are others but they update too sparingly so I dropped them (Dresden Codak, Broodhollow, Mare Internum).

[2D8HP]

Besides the wonderfulBesides the wonderful Order of the Stick

I also subscribe to (warning sometimes they're NSFW):

Dork Tower


Existential Comics


Full Frontal Nerdity

and

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

And I haven't figured out how to subscribe to them but I regularly view:

Oglaf (warning, seldom safe for work)

and

XKCD


And my favorite webcomic that's no-longer made is:

DM of the Rings

[Dziadek]

"Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes"
"OOTS"
"xkcd"
"Friendship is Dragons"


and more rarely:

"Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal"
"The Bouletcorp"
"Penny bible fellowship"

And used to follow "DM of the Rings"... though it is inaccurate, because it was already finished by then.

[137beth]

I am currently making my way through the archives of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things.

Anyways, it's time for me to update my list:

Spoiler: My list, version 1.3

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The following are the comics I check whenever there could be an update: if the update schedule is irregular, I check every day, otherwise I check every update day.

Darths and Droids
www.darthsanddroids.net

Dinosaur Comics
www.qwantz.com

Dumbing of Age
www.dumbingofage.com

Girls With Slingshots: Chasers
http://www.girlswithslingshots.com

Gunnerkrigg Court
www.gunnerkrigg.com

Namesake
www.namesakecomic.com

Order of the Stick
www.giantitp.com

Rain
www.rain.thecomicseries.com

Sister Claire and Sister Claire MIssing Moments
www.sisterclaire.com

Tamberlane
https://www.tamberlanecomic.com

Widdershins
www.widdershinscomic.com

XKCD
www.xkcd.com



And here are the comics I follow, but only check once a month:

Acethexis
acethexiscomic.com

Aether
www.aether.thecomicseries.com

Alice and the Nightmare
www.aliceandthenightmare.com

Band vs Band
www.bvbcomix.com

Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
www.missmab.com

Daughter of the Lillies
www.daughterofthelilies.com

Headless Bliss
www.headlessbliss.com

[Redacted due to the forum rules]
www. [redacted due to the forum rules] .com


Kiwi Blitz
www.kiwiblitz.com

[Redacted due to the forum rules]
www. [redacted due to the forum rules] .com


Mare Internum
www.marecomic.com

Monsterkind
www.monsterkind.enenkay.com

Monster Lands
http://www.monster-lands.com

Monster's Garden
http://monstersgarden.com

Never Heroes: Yellow Hearts
https://sparklermonthly.com/series/n...yellow-hearts/

No End
www.noendcomic.com

Paranatural
www.paranatural.net

Radio Silence
http://www.radiosilencecomic.com

Sleepless Domain
www.sleeplessdomain.com

Slightly Damned
www.sdamned.com

Speak of the Devil
www.speakdevil.com

Strong Female Protagonist
www.strongfemaleprotagonist.com

Stuck at 32
stuckat32.com

This is Not Fiction
www.thisisnotfiction.com

Undivine
www.undivinecomic.com

XKCD What If?
what-if.xkcd.com

Here are the comics which are not actively updating, but which I still occasionally.

Heartless
http://heartless-comic.com

Let's Speak English
http://www.marycagle.com

Lilith's Word
www.lilithword.com

Mezzacotta (Hall of Fame only)
http://www.mezzacotta.net/halloffame.php

Shortpacked
Shortpacked

Supernormal Step
www.supernormalstep.com

Yellow Hearts
https://sparklermonthly.com/series/yellow-hearts/



Finally, here are the comics I have read that have had no updates for at least two years.

Abstruse Goose
www.abstrusegoose.com

Darken
www.darkencomic.com

That Deaf Guy
http://www.thatdeafguy.com/

Zap
www.zapcomic.com

[Celestia]

The webcomics I currently read:

Cucumber Quest: A fun and heartfelt adventure story that often parodies rpg video games. Very similar sense of humor as Paper Mario. Beautiful artwork. One of my favorites.

Cyanide and Happiness: A gag a day stick figure comic that makes jokes covering a very wide spectrum of topics. Often juvenile and/or provoking.

Darths & Droids: A campaign comic based on Star Wars. Despite the genre, it spends more time parodying Star Wars than rolepaying games and gamers. This was fine when it did Phantom Menace, but it hasn't been as good since. I still enjoy it, though.

El Goonish Shive: A high school slice of life comic heavily featuring magic and body transformation. Also, most of the characters are gay. One of my favorites.

Friendship is Dragons: A campaign comic based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Can sometimes be difficult to follow when they switch stories.

Gaia: A high fantasy adventure story with a mystery/conspiracy twist. Eventually becomes hard to follow due to character bloat.

Girl Genius: A steampunk tale featuring mad scientists and monsters in an alternate history Europe.

How to Be a Werewolf: An urban fantasy story featuring werewolves in a sleepy small town. Still relatively new. Great artwork.

Order of the Stick: Duh. One of my favorites.

Pieces of Eights: A D&D inspired adventure story about pirates and magic. Interestingly complex characters.

Sandra and Woo: A slice of life comic about a girl and her pet talking raccoon.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: A gag a day comic primarily focused on science, math, and philosophy jokes. Very large archive.

Spinnerette: Starts out as a parody of superhero comics but then just kinda becomes a superhero comic. Eventually suffers the problem of remembering its own continuity when major character moments are suddenly forgotten later.

Star Power: A superhero comic in spaaaaace. The web comic equivalent to a B movie: hilariously bad.


Currently, I am doing an archive binge of Sister Claire. It is a fantasy adventure story with indescribable amounts of character and emotion. I don't know how many times it has made me cry, and I love every moment of it. This may just be my new favorite comic of all time. I highly recommend it to everyone. It is also very, very gay. It has more gay characters than El Goonish Shive, and that's saying something.


Past comics that are now complete:

1/0: A slice of life comic that explores the concepts of existentialism, nihilism, and identity. Very good read if you're into that sort of thing.

DM of the Rings: The original campaign comic based on Lord of the Rings. In my opinion, it was the only one to really get it right. This also has the distinction of being the only comic that made me laugh so hard I literally fell out of my chair. One of my favorites.

Girly: A chaotic and absurdist adventure/slice of life comic featuring pure insanity. Gets NSFW at times. One of my favorites.

Star Mares: A My Little Pony/Star Wars parody comic that I recently found thanks to this forum. I quite enjoyed it.


There are many other comics I've read to be sure, many that I dropped for one reason or another, many that I finished that didn't leave much of an impact on me, but these are the ones I felt worth mentioning.

Also, if anyone has any suggestions for comics featuring lesbians, hit me up.

[jwhouk]

Web comics, JustinMcBotface.

Let's see:

• Between Failures by Jackie Wohlenhaus (Mon-Wed-Fri)
• Bloom County by Berkley Breathed (Daily)
• Coffee With Jesus at Radio Free Babylon (Weekly, Sort of)
• Dork Tower by John Kovalic (Sporadically Weekly)
• DRIVE comic by Dave Kellett (Weekly)
• Freefall comic by Mark Stanley, color by George Peterson (Mon-Wed-Fri)
• Girl Genius by Phil & Kaja Foglio (Mon-Wed-Fri)
• Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell (Mon-Wed-Fri)
• JL8 by Yale Stewart (Weekly, Sort of)
• Order of the Stick by Rich Burlew (Duh)
• Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques (Mon thru Fri)
• Sandra And Woo by Oliver Knorzer & Powree (Mon/Thu)
• Sheldon Comics by Dave Kellett (Irregularly three times a week)
• Times Like This by Thomas Overbeck (Rarely, though he's updated a bit as of late)
• Wapsi Square by Paul Taylor (Mon thru Fri)
• The Whiteboard (courtesy of Doc's Paintball Shop) (Mon thru Fri)

[Bohandas]

Did I memtion
MercWorks
and
Deathbulge?

[Lethologica]

Ongoing:

Spoiler

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The Blackblood Alliance
Blade Under Mask**
Broodhollow*^
Carciphona
Darths & Droids^
Derelict*
Discord*
Dresden Codak**^
Fisheye Placebo**
Friendship is Dragons^
Freefall
Girl Genius^
Goblins
Godslave^
Gone with the Blastwave**
Gunnerkrigg Court^
Handplates^
Henceforward** (KumaFromTaiwan)
Kill Six Billion Demons*^
Kiwi Blitz
Kubera^
Lackadaisy**^
Order of the Stick^
Mercy** (Shiniez)
Pepper and Carrot**^
Prequel^
Questionable Content
Scurry^
SIN (Quirkilicious)
Sister Claire^
Sleepless Domain
Snow By Night
The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn*
Strong Female Protagonist
Thieves Can't
Tower of God
Twokinds
[un]Divine*
Unsounded^
xkcd
Wild Skies**
Wilde Life
The Wormworld Saga**
Woven (Lark and Wren)

*: Haven't caught up yet
**: Hiatus / extremely slow updates
^: Recommended

Completed:

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8-Bit Theater^
Ability*
Alice Grove
The Archipelago
Bibliography* (Elagune)
Digger^
DM of the Rings^
Dr. McNinja^
Dreamless
Freakangels^
Guilded Age^
How I Killed Your Master*
Inverloch
Let's Speak English^
Nimona^
Nuzlocke White (Ky-Nim)
One Over Zero^
The Phoenix Requiem^
Ramen Empire*
Sunstone
Take Off!
Tales from the Trenches
Thaumaturge* (Elagune)

*: Comic left unfinished
^: Recommended

Intermittent:

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Penny Arcade
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Dinosaur Comics
Cyanide & Happiness
Robot Hugs
Dungeons & Doggos
Hark, a Vagrant

Dropped/On Hold:

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anti-HEROES
Ava's Demon
City of Somnus
Collar 6
D&D Aangvanced
DICE
Empowered
Erfworld
Flaky Pastry
Flipside
The Forgotten Order
Gaia
The Gamer
Grand Line 3.5
Homestuck
Magician
MegaTokyo
Off-White
Planetouched Play D&D (Marlowe)
Plume
Poppy O'Possum
Problem Sleuth
Romantically Apocalyptic
Sandra and Woo
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Star Power
Sundowner

This is convenient, if a little worrying. Maybe I'll just maintain this post in lieu of organizing my bookmarks.

[Starbuck_II]

Dice
The Gamer
Tower of God
are my favorites this moment.

[solidork]

I am completely obsessed with Check Please! and am really surprised no one has mentioned it yet. It's a slice of life story about a college hockey team at a fictional school in Massachusetts; specifically about Eric Bittle, a Georgian former figure skating champion who loves baking and hates getting checked, which is a problem if he wants to keep his athletics scholarship.

It's got action, (sometimes they play hockey) a queer romance for the ages (enemies to friends to lovers *sighs dreamily*) and plenty of laughs. The story is currently at the start of the protagonists senior year, and it will end when he graduates. The main comic is easily short enough to read on one sitting, and the art is beautiful.(Ngozi's backgrounds are INSANE) It's had three very successful Kickstarters, and the first two years are being published by FirstSecond in less than a month!

Check it out!

checkpleasecomic.com

[137beth]

Finally finished making my way through the archives of Guilded Age. I thought it was okay, but not great. I don't think I've ever played any Blizzard games, though, which probably limited my understanding of some of the references.

[Bohandas]

The Square Root of Minus Garfield

[137beth]

I think it's time for me to update my list:

Spoiler: My list of webcomics, version 1.4

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My list of comics is separated by how often I check them. The following are the comics I check whenever there could be an update: if the update schedule is irregular, I check every day, otherwise I check every update day.

Darths and Droids
www.darthsanddroids.net

Dinosaur Comics
www.qwantz.com

Dumbing of Age
www.dumbingofage.com

Girls With Slingshots
http://www.girlswithslingshots.com

Gunnerkrigg Court
www.gunnerkrigg.com

Namesake
www.namesakecomic.com

Order of the Stick
www.giantitp.com

Rain
www.rain.thecomicseries.com

Sister Claire and Sister Claire MIssing Moments
www.sisterclaire.com

Slightly Damned
sdamned.com

Tamberlane
https://www.tamberlanecomic.com

Undivine
undivinecomic.com

Widdershins
www.widdershinscomic.com

XKCD
www.xkcd.com



And here are the comics I follow, but only check once a month:

Aether
www.aether.thecomicseries.com

Alice and the Nightmare
www.aliceandthenightmare.com

Band vs Band
www.bvbcomix.com

Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
www.missmab.com

Daughter of the Lillies
www.daughterofthelilies.com

Gloomverse
gloomverse.smackjeeves.com

Headless Bliss
www.headlessbliss.com

[Redacted due to the forum rules]
www. [redacted due to the forum rules] .com


Heroes of Thantopolis
http://heroesofthantopolis.com/

Inhibit
inhibitcomic.com

Kiwi Blitz
www.kiwiblitz.com

[Redacted due to the forum rules]
www. [redacted due to the forum rules] .com


Mare Internum
www.marecomic.com

Mezzacotta
http://www.mezzacotta.net/halloffame.php

Monsterkind
www.monsterkind.enenkay.com

Monster Lands
http://www.monster-lands.com

Monster's Garden
http://monstersgarden.com

Never Heroes: Yellow Hearts
https://sparklermonthly.com/series/n...yellow-hearts/

No End
www.noendcomic.com

Paranatural
www.paranatural.net

Radio Silence
http://www.radiosilencecomic.com

Recoil
recoil.smackjeeves.com

Sleepless Domain
www.sleeplessdomain.com

Speak of the Devil
www.speakdevil.com

Strong Female Protagonist
www.strongfemaleprotagonist.com

The Property of Hate
thepropertyofhate.com

This is Not Fiction
www.thisisnotfiction.com

XKCD What If?
what-if.xkcd.com

Here are the comics which are not actively updating, but which I still occasionally.

32
stuckat32.com

Acethexis
acethexiscomic.com

Blindsprings
http://www.blindsprings.com/

Guilded Age
http://guildedage.net

Heartless
http://heartless-comic.com

Let's Speak English
http://www.marycagle.com

Lilith's Word
www.lilithword.com

Shortpacked
Shortpacked

Supernormal Step
www.supernormalstep.com

Yellow Hearts
https://sparklermonthly.com/series/yellow-hearts/



Finally, here are the comics I have read that have had no updates for at least two years.

Abstruse Goose
www.abstrusegoose.com

Darken
www.darkencomic.com

That Deaf Guy
http://www.thatdeafguy.com/

Zap
www.zapcomic.com

Dominic Deegan: Oracle for Hire
www.dominic-deegan.com

[DeadToRide]

I used to read a lot of webcomics, but as my life and work got busier I just started dropping them off my list. OoTS is still on there, Penny-Arcade, that's about it for regular comics.

This thread is a good reminder to check out comics I haven't read in years. Nedroid, Whomp!, PvP...

[Rockphed]

PvP...

I was trying to remember why I stopped reading PvP, but then I couldn't remember why I had started reading it in the first place.

I currently follow:

OotS
The Whiteboard
Miss-melee
Daughter of the Lilies
Freefall
Skin-horse
XKCD
PhDcomics
and
Darths and Droids.

[DeadToRide]

I was trying to remember why I stopped reading PvP, but then I couldn't remember why I had started reading it in the first place.

Scott wrote some, at the time, funny WoW inspired strips. I was pretty entrenched in the game at the time, back in vanilla/early BC, so I that's what got me into PvP. I can't tell you exactly why I stopped reading though. I think there was a period where the strip invested in fairly middling relationship drama stuff, and it just ain't my bag.

[wingnutx]

OOTS
Girl Genius
Power Nap
Lackadaisy
Dresden Codak
Gunnerkrigg Court
Gone With The Blastwave
Unsounded (been a while, though)