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So I'm doing this about once a year now.

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

Blindsprings -- After a 300-year absence, a legendary young princess returns to a world that has banned magic. Updates Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
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. Then she gets sent back, and the magic follows her. Updates Mondays and Thursdays.
What It Takes -- A young woman does what it takes to survive after the apocalypse. Updates MWF.

Weeklies

Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures -- Don't be turned off by the furries, this is a good strip. Updates weekly.
Piled Higher and Deeper -- An amusing look at higher education. Updates about once a week.
XKCD -- Stick figure comics for people with a college education. Updates about once a week.

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.
Stand Still, Stay Silent - After disease destroys most of civilization, the Scandinavian survivors explore a world fraught with monsters and magic. Updates weekdays.
Supermassive Black Hole A* -- Story-oriented sci-fi with a unique art style. Updates weekdays.

3 days a week

Awaken - Rebels hide from a government that keeps monster attacks a secret. Updates MWF.
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.
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.
Sins -- An amusing fantasy with lots of good gags. Updates MWF.
Snow By Night -- Two tricksters abuse the trust of a snow elemental for their own ends. 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-minded girl as its master. Updates Mondays.
Jupiter - A powerful alien robot, who acts as the Earth's benevolent overlord, begins to break down. 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.
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.
Alice and the Nightmare - - A Wonderland resident goes to university to learn how to shape dreams. Updates Tuesdays 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.
The Last Diplomat - An unprepared woman is soulbound to a monster to be the only person who can communicate between them. 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.
Daughter of the Lilies - A masked mage with a secret joins a D&D party. Updates WF.
Opportunities In Space - An alien fugitive gets in the way of a team of assassins at a meeting between extraterrestrial and Earth diplomats. Updates WF.
Kill Six Billion Demons - A sorority girl gets dragged into a war in the demon-occupied remains of Heaven. Updates W,Sat.
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.
Inhibit - The government forces people with superpowers to wear inhibitors. The teenagers don't like it. Updates Wednesdays.
The Meek -- Magic, intrigue, good artwork, good comedy, returning after a long hiatus. Updates Wednesdays.
Parallax - A grumpy teenager gets a supersuit and has to fight monsters. Updates Wednesdays.
Spare Keys for Strange Doors - A pair of magicians investigate paranormal mysteries in the modern world. 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.
Lighter Than Heir - A superhero's conceited daughter enlists in the military. 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.
Uh Oh, It's a Dinosaur! -- A cute little dinosaur cutely explores the world. Updates one or two times a week.
The Monster Under the Bed - a boy falls in love with the title character. NSFW. Updates Sundays.
Accursed Dragon -- A half-lizard warrior seeks knowledge of his curse. Updates about once a week.
Cassiopeia Quinn - The adventures of a silly-minded spaceship thief. Updates about once a week.
Goblins -- Minor D&D creatures learn to level up and decide to go on their own adventures. 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.
Shades of Gray -- A drama about students at a starship academy. Good worldbuilding. Updates weekly.

Purgatory:

Antihero For Hire - A parody of superhero comics, from the maker of Adventurers. Updates Mondays and Fridays.
Moron County -- Wacky hijinks ensue, constantly. It's like a badly drawn Sluggy. ~~Updates weekly.~~

Good comics that rarely update:

Aikonia -- A wizarding school is corrupted by a being from the realm of magic. Updates Mondays.
Blade Bunny - The adventures of a ditzy ninja. Updates about once a week. 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.
The Fourth - A video-game villain plots to prevent the hero from defeating him again. On hiatus.
Gastro Phobia -- An Amazon warrior and her son travel through ancient Greece in this comedy strip. Updates a couple of times a month.
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 extraterrestrials, 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.
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.
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.
StarDrop - A kind-hearted space princess runs away to Earth. Updates about twice a month.
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.