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Isn't that one super NSFW?
Only 90% of it.
It is line wearing a codpiece, but wrong.
Yes
There aren't many.. any webcomics that make me come back and read the archives from time to time. Oglaf is the exception.
Sithrak! An insane god for an unjust world!
Kill Six Billion Demons is my favorite right now. Gorgeous, sprawling, complex artwork from start to finish, philosophically interesting, bordering on pretentious but I love it. I sometimes read this one while wearing my VR headset to properly examine certain pages close up.
Johnny Wander is the homepage for an incredible artist/writer duo. I've really been enjoying their latest story Barbarous, but their archives are a bit of a pain to navigate to find the starting point for each story. Worth the pain though.
Octopus Pie has been over for a few years but is always worth returning to. Woman lives in New York, people are weird, and New York has a lot of people. Reading this one will make you feel good, Do Not Skip.
Sleepless Domain is an interesting one, generally a cutesy story with an anime, leaning towards chibi art style but focused around a set of brutal murders that happen towards the front end of the story and the survivor's guilt that follows.
Gunnerkrigg Court is hard for me to describe but gets a re-read from me every few years. A surreal examination of why we tell stories and The Power Of Friendship? It's been going so long that I half suspect it's not going anywhere and is just an excuse to keep chugging for as many years as its author needs it to, and also half suspect it's imminently ending in the next few months. I don't think I really have a problem with it either way; it's written very well.
I also want to add Questionable Content. Someone else mentioned it before but I think it needs linking to. It's one of the first webcomics I picked up so it's hard for me to judge it fairly, but even having evolved so much since the early days I think there's something to love about every stage of its development. It was just easy reading about hipsters listening to music and drinking coffee, and then somewhere along the way it became a sci-fi story too and goodness I love it.
Put another one for "Kill Six Billion Demons". when i first saw it i finished it in the same day. I'm now subscribed to the rss and happy for each new page.
I'm partial to weird fantasy, dunno what your tastes are. YMMV. Some of these are old!
Gunnerkrigg Court - long-running, fantastic worldbuilding, intricate plot. steampunky urban fantasy.
Wilde Life - small-town mystery, light spooky vibes but mostly feel-good. Relationship focused.
Girls with Slingshots - complete! comedy about a friend group. LGBT+ themes, sex positive. A bit raunchy, if that's not your bag.
Skin Deep - urban fantasy. Neat worldbuilding, long running.
Broodhollow - another small-town mystery, but more legit creepy. Plot of the murder-hauntings-cults variety.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things - comedy. premise is a temp agency for brawny fictional characters & villains trying to get normal dayjobs. Takes the piss out of common tropes.
Awkward Zombie - comedy. No plot, just comics about video games & other things the artist is into.
Johnny Wander - 4 comics in a trenchcoat, but they're all pretty cute. Started as an autobio comic with the occasional original fiction story mixed in, but they've all been separated out for easier reading now.
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal - complete! romance about two dudes on a cross-country roadtrip. Touches on some heavy topics, but has some humor too.
A lot of these are hosted by sites that host other comics, so you can follow that rabbit hole pretty far. Also some artists will link to other comics they like in the about/notes pages, good way to find other stuff.
Kill 6 Billion Demons is an absolute classic. Good enought to have made it into print trade paperbacks, but still free online. The visual style and wild world building are truly a joy to behold. You also get a bit of the sparky web comic flavor while still holding together an excellent long term story arc with serious plot.
https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/kill-six-billion-demons-chapter-1/
Xkcd, Saturday morning breakfast cereal, something positive, questionable content, and Junior scientist power hour are my favorites.
Free Fall was a very good sf web comic whose first story arc is completed, so jump right in. Several interesting non-human characters.
Girl Genius is one of my favorite. https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php
I'll check it out! Thanks!
It's been running for about 20 years so there are a lot too go through. There are a few filler stories along the way which are good and bad but the main story is really well written and illustrated and pretty different than most stories I've read.
Personally a big fan of hiveworks for finding new comics. If you like story focused ones, I like Widdershins, Sakana, Daughter of the Lilies, and Wilde Life. I read way too many webcomics, so let me know if you need more!
I'm showing my age here, but 8-bit theater is fun
https://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/02/episode-001-were-going-where/
Oh wow, that takes me back. That and RPG World, by lil’ baby Ian Jones-Quartey.
Sigh. Times are tough.
Can I sell you on web novels instead? Worm and The Wandering Inn are a decent starting point.
Digger by Ursula Vernon has been around for a while but it's my favourite.
Bato.to
Have you read Vattu? It's hands down one of my favorite comics ever.
Stand Still, Stay Silent is also pretty good.
Love ssss
Where can I find those?
https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/vattu/list?title_no=686233
Have fun!
Edit: Fixed link, the ampersand is still broken on Lemmy.
My favorite are Dr. Frost and Solo Leveling
Penny Arcade has been around forever so they have a deep backlog of gaming/nerd culture related comics.
Kind of peaked in the mid 2000s though.
Schlock Mercenary (complete)
Goblins
Freakangels
Grrl power
Order of the stick
Oh God, Order of the Stick got real deep. Starting at the beginning will be great for at least a day.
If you need a comic that won't run out, you can try EGS. A comic about teens running into a wide variety of supernatural stuff.
https://www.egscomics.com/
It's been running since 2002 and still going. And while the early arc are pretty rough in both art style and writing quality, it gets progressively better as the author matures.
Another comic I love is Sleepless Domain, a dark magical girl story about a locked down city that comes under monster attack every night.
https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/
I found both of these through https://hiveworkscomics.com/ which is another, though smaller comic repository like Webtoons.
Irregular Webcomic: it's mostly reruns these days with new strips twice a week. Still, there is a lot of material to get caught up on.
I enjoy Adventures of God if you want another webtoons comic
Something Positive is great and fun to start from the beginning.
Queen of Wands ended a while ago but was entertaining.
Dumbing of Age is fun, but the creator has also made several other comics based on a lot of similar characters. You can check them out too.
To go a different style, 8bit theater and adventurers are a blast if you like the RPG parody style
Adding to this: Order of the Stick. Starts as RPG parody, becomes a serious adventure with comedic tones. Currently on the final arc.
@LaunchesKayaks my favs:
https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/
https://questionablecontent.net/index.php
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/
Long histories, interesting characters/world building, cool art.
I Roved Out. Extremely NSFW, it would be categorized as porn. It is an incredible story, and is so despite the porn. The sex is so interwoven with the story, I can't imagine a SFW version could ever be constructed, which is shame because it's such good art, and such a great story. I can't praise it enough. If graphic sex doesn't bother you, I highly recommend it.
Blastwave. Short, so if you binge it it'll be over quickly.
There have been other great recommendations I won't repeat, but these two have exceptional art.
Edit someone else beat me to recommending Blastwave. It's good.
Unironically Homestuck if you're going to be in bed for a few weeks
I've heard good things about Homestuck. Isn't it interactable? I don't have my laptop, so it'd need to be compatible with mobile until my parents bring over my computer.
everything is fine
Astral Aves sort of stopped updating a while back, but what there is of it is absolutely amazing.
What are your preferences? Currently I'm reading this
https://bato.to/series/133684/the-killing-vote
https://bato.to/series/103401/a-bona-fide-killer
https://bato.to/series/118271/granny-official
https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/my-reason-to-die/list?title_no=3993