Webcomic links

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When my comics routine starts to involve hunting through five pages of topwebcomics.com for the comics that I've started following since the last time I updated my webcomics list, it's time to build a new list.

The top tier:

• Sluggy Freelance -- My favourite strip for a long time, still a high quality comic even though it has switched its focus from silly gags to serious long-term plots. Updates MWF.
• El Goonish Shive -- A goofy strip that did a good job of turning serious. Updates either weekdays or MWF.
• Freefall -- Another long-time favourite of mine, still going strong with three-panel gags in a future setting. Updates MWF.
• Girl Genius -- A comic with an interesting storyline and plenty of Sufficiently Advanced steampunk technology. Updates MWF.
• Gunnerkrigg Court -- An excellent fantasy/story comic. Updates MWF.
• Unsounded -- A charismatically bratty thief and her warlock-lich bodyguard get caught up in different adventures while attempting to complete a simple deliver-a-message quest. The artwork and worldbuilding are the best of any comic in this list. Updates MWF.
• Widdershins -- Magic and adventure in 19th-century England. Updates MWF.
• Paranatural -- Middle-school students fight evil spirits, with enough silliness to make it entertaining. Updates Mondays and Fridays.
• Magellan -- A superhero academy comic with a huge cast of interesting characters. Updates Wednesdays and Fridays.
• Rusty and Co. -- A hilarity-filled spoof of Dungeons and Dragons. Updates Wednesdays.

Runners-up:

2-3 days / week

• Cucumber Quest -- The sweetest and cutest adventure ever. This is totally awesome in its own way. Updates MWF.
• Grrl Power -- This comic about a team of superpowered women has shown the potential to be either a good comic or a very bad one. So far it has been good. Updates Monday and Thursdays.
• Namesake -- The worlds of fantasy and reality collide as a woman is transported to Oz and brings some magic back with her. Updates MWF.
• Not A Villain -- A somewhat-reformed hacker tries to re-enter a MMORPG following a global apocalypse that she probably caused. Updates WF.
• Supernormal Step -- A young woman is pulled into a world where cartoon fantasy is mundane, and she now has superpowers like everybody else. Updates Mondays and Thursdays.
• What It Takes -- A young woman does what it takes to survive after the apocalypse. Updates MWF.

Weeklies

• XKCD -- Stick figure comics for people with a college education. Updates about once a week.
• Piled Higher and Deeper -- An amusing look at higher education. Updates about once a week.
• Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures -- Don't be turned off by the furries, this is a good strip. Updates weekly.
• Aikonia -- A wizarding school is corrupted by a being from the realm of magic. Updates Mondays.

Other worthy time wasters:

Weekdays

• Precocious -- An Ozy and Millie clone with no Ozy and about a dozen Millies. Updates weekdays.
• Quantum Vibe -- Futuristic sci-fi gag-a-day with serious storylines. Updates weekdays.
• Supermassive Black Hole A* -- Story-oriented sci-fi with a unique art style. Updates weekdays.

3 days a week

• Blindsprings -- After a 300-year absence, a legendary young princess returns to a world that has banned magic. Updates Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
• Blood Splattered Socks - A boy is pushed forward in time and lives with his older self. MWF.
• But I'm A Cat Person -- Pokemon with more interesting characters and much better worldbuilding. Updates MWF.
• Sins -- An amusing fantasy with lots of good gags. Updates MWF.
• Wilde Life -- A man moves into a new town full of magic and mystery. Updates MWF.

Mondays

• 164 Days -- An airship adventure. Updates Mondays.
• Children of Eldair -- Three young women are transported from modern Earth into a magical elven kingdom. Updates Mondays.
• The Din -- After all high technology begins emitting a deadly force, the world reverts to a lower technology level and begins rebuilding. Updates Mondays.
• The Forgotten Order - An ancient magic doll takes a simple-winded girl as its master. Updates Mondays.
• Kaspall -- Humans and furries live together in a gritty world. Updates Mondays.
• Mystery Babylon -- A perpetually grumpy demigoddess kicks ass in a medieval fantasy world. Updates Mondays.
• Puck -- A naive elf lives a quite normal and mundane life, leading to comedy. Updates Mondays.
• Replay -- Freckled foxgirl and friends fight bloody battles with demons. Updates Mondays.
• The Specialists - A team of American superheroes trains to fight Nazi supervillains in World War II. Updates Mondays.
• Three Minute Max -- A man with the power to stop his heart for three minutes becomes a teleporting superhero. Updates Mondays.

Other schedules

• Sandra and Woo -- A girl has a number of quirky friends including a talking raccoon. Updates Mondays and Thursdays.
• Sunfall -- The Sun God dispatches his rebellious teenage daughter to the world of men to learn the ways of mortals. Updates Mondays and Thursdays.
• Antihero For Hire - A parody of superhero comics, from the maker of Adventurers. Updates Mondays and Fridays.
• Soul to Call - A rogue travels to a monster infested city to summon a demon, and gets an unusually young and meek one. Updates Mondays and Fridays.
• Exiern -- A soft-core porn comic successfully had a plotline grafted onto it. Updates TTh.
• Galaxion -- A spaceship jumps across dimensions to find a parallel Earth that has suffered a catastrophe of some sort. Updates Tuesdays.
• Henchgirl - The adventures of a sidekick to a low-tier supervillain. Updates Tuesdays.
• True Magic -- In a world ruled by idiots with magic powers, five peasants infiltrate a city to stop academy students from raiding their land. Updates Tuesdays.
• Cerintha -- A ditzy girl happens to be an excellent swordswoman. Updates Wednesdays.
• Clockwork -- A mechanic is kidnapped by an enemy country to finish the work of his father. Updates Wednesdays.
• The Meek -- Magic, intrigue, good artwork, good comedy, returning after a long hiatus. Updates Wednesdays.
• Ava's Demon -- A brilliantly drawn interstellar fantasy. Updates Thursdays.
• Castoff -- A new comic about a shy demonic-looking librarian. Updates Thursdays.
• Wingless: The Dovecote Princess -- A princess steals a magic book and runs away to become a knight, the first two of many bad decisions. Updates Thursdays.
• Kiwi Blitz -- A young mech pilot decides to become a superhero. Updates Fridays.
• Slightly Damned -- As a war between heaven and hell spills out onto the plane of the living, a short humanoid critter and a demon escape from Purgatory and befriend an angel. Updates Fridays.
• Tethered - A scavenger and a robot travel through the remnants of society after an apocalypse. Updates Fridays.
• Wonderella -- A Wonder Woman parody with a rude, obnoxious superheroine. Updates Saturdays.
• Accursed Dragon -- A half-lizard warrior seeks knowledge of his curse. Updates about once a week.
• Blade Bunny - The adventures of a ditzy ninja. Updates about once a week.
• Skin Deep -- When people start transforming into mythical creatures, it tends to disrupt their lives. Updates about once a week.
• Two Kinds -- A story-based furry strip in a medieval fantasy setting. Updates about once a week.
• Uh Oh, It's a Dinosaur! -- A cute little dinosaur cutely explores the world. Updates one or two times a week.

Purgatory:

• Archipelago -- A deeply story-oriented fantasy with about a thousand strips of story behind it. Updates weekdays.
• Goblins -- Minor D&D creatures learn to level up and decide to go on their own adventures. Updates about once a week.
• Misfile -- A clerical error in heaven causes a teenage boy to become a girl and a Harvard-bound graduate to lose two years of her life, although the strip is really about car racing and pretty girls. Updates MWF.
• Moron County -- Wacky hijinks ensue, constantly. It's like a badly drawn Sluggy. Updates MWF. Updates weekly. Stopped updating.
• Sinfest -- Quick philosophical jabs. Updates weekdays.
• Snow By Night -- Two tricksters abuse the trust of a snow elemental for their own ends. Updates MWF.
• Winters in Lavelle -- A brother and sister are trapped in a medieval world. Updates about once a week. Stopped updating.

Good comics that rarely update:

• City of Reality -- An amalgamation of the superhero, sci-fi, and magic fantasy styles in a utopian society with a sentient sock-puppet mayor. Updates TTh. On hiatus.
• Commander Kitty -- A jerkass starship captain tries to be a hero. Updates sporadically. On hiatus.
• Derelict -- A very well-drawn story about a young woman surviving after the Earth was conquered by some kind of monsters or aliens. Updates Mondays. Updates a few times a month.
• Dresden Codak -- A mix of cyberpunk, fantasy, and humor. Updates once a month. Updates a few times a year.
• Dead Winter -- Two cute women enjoy the zombie apocalypse while a subplot attempts to play out The Most Dangerous Game and is not going to let the apocalypse interrupt it.
• Final Arcanum -- An ancient god of chaos seeks the last component it needs to release itself from human form. Updates a couple of times a month.
• Flight of the Binturong -- Sci-fi adventure.
• Gastro Phobia -- An Amazon warrior and her son travel through ancient Greece in this comedy strip. Updates a couple of times a month.
• Hurrocks Fardel -- A witch accompanies a dragon bound to human form on a quest to find the means to unbind him. Updates a few times a month.
• Jikoshia -- A teenage girl travels though a mirror to a fantasy world and becomes a superheroine. Then some of the fantasy world follows her home. On hiatus.
• Kila Ilo -- Cute little alien criminals search for a secret weapon on Earth. Good mix of drama and comedy. On hiatus, previously updated about once a week.
• The Last Cowboy -- After first contact with extraterrestials, the human population was devastated by disease. This is the aftermath. Updates weekly. On hiatus.
• M.F.K. - A woman with magic powers goes on an adventure with an incompetent friend. On hiatus.
• The N00b -- An Adventurers clone in a MMORPG setting. Updates about once a month.
• Power Nap -- In a future where everyone works 20-hour days and takes drugs to avoid needing sleep, an exhausted man who is allergic to the drugs starts seeing hallucinations that leave physical damage behind them. Updates irregularly.
• Ralf the Destroyer -- A newspaper-style comedy about a space alien who was sent to destroy the Earth but procrastinates and never gets around to it. Updates MWF. On hiatus.
• Seed -- A blue-skinned girl investigates the disappearance of the world's gods while hiding from an empire determined to destroy all magic. Updates once a week. On hiatus.
• Shades of Gray -- A drama about students at a starship academy. Good worldbuilding. Updates weekly. On hiatus.
• Shadow Binders -- Magical forces teleport a teenage girl back and forth between Earth and a fantasy world. Updates weekly. Updates a couple of times a month.
• Spindrift - A young woman born to two enemy races becomes a fugitive. On hiatus.
• StarDrop - A kind-hearted space princess runs away to Earth. Updates every two weeks.
• String Theory -- A mad scientist destroys his life. Updates Wednesdays. Updates a few times a month.
• VG Cats and Super Effective -- Comics making fun of video games. Updates rarely.
• White Noise -- A genetically engineered superboy with assassins on his trail tries to survive in a post-apocalyptic future. Updates whenever the author can finish a page, which seems to be never.
• William the Last -- An orphan boy named William enters a world ruled by a mad king who kills anyone with that name. Updates about twice a month.

[Edit Aug 26] Reorganized and added some more links.