Webcomic links

[tangaroa]

I fell back into a webcomics habit again. Here's an updated list.

The top tier:

• Sluggy Freelance -- My favorite 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 weekdays.
• El Goonish Shive -- A goofy strip that did a good job of turning serious. Updates irregularly but usually 3-5 times per week.
• Sinfest -- Another long-time favorite. Quick philosophical jabs. Updates weekdays.
• Precocious -- An Ozy and Millie clone with no Ozy and about a dozen Millies. Updates weekdays.
• Piled Higher and Deeper -- An amusing look at higher education.
• XKCD -- Stick figure comics for people with a college education. Updates a couple of times a week.
• Freefall -- Another long-time favorite of mine, still going strong with three-panel gags in a future setting. Updates MWF.
• Gunnerkrigg Court -- An excellent fantasy/story comic, probably the best comic on the web. 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. Updates MWF.
• What It Takes -- A young woman does what it takes to survive after the apocalypse. Updates MWF.
• Girl Genius -- A comic with an interesting storyline and plenty of Sufficiently Advanced steampunk technology. Updates twice a week.
• Magellan -- A superhero academy comic with a huge cast of interesting characters. Updates Wednesdays and Fridays.

Good Weeklies:

• 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.
• Supernormal Step -- A young woman is pulled into a world where comic-book fantasy is mundane, and she now has superpowers like everybody else. Updates Mondays.
• Darwin Carmichael Is Going To Hell -- An average guy lives in a modern society where mythological creatures are commonplace. Cute artwork. Updates Tuesdays.
• Spare Keys for Strange Doors -- Imagine X-Files if Mulder and Scully could cast magic spells. That's what this comic is like. Updates Thursdays.
• 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.
• 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.
• Wonderella -- A Wonder Woman parody with a rude, obnoxious superheroine. Updates Saturdays.
• 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.

Runners-up:

• Dominic Deegan -- A medieval fantasy strip with sorcery and the occasional bad pun. Updates weekdays.
• Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures -- Don't be turned off by the furries, this is a good strip. Updates MWF.
• Moron County -- Wacky hijinks ensue, constantly. It's like a badly drawn Sluggy. Updates intermittently but usually MWF.
• Puck -- A naive elf lives a quite normal and mundane life, leading to comedy. Updates Mondays.
• 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.
• Widdershins -- Magic and adventure in 19th-century England. Updates MWF.

Good comics that rarely update:

• Dresden Codak -- A mix of cyberpunk, fantasy, and humor. Updates once a month.
• Dark, Brooding, Mentally-Disturbed Man -- A hilarious parody of DC Comics. It's updating again, but irregularly.
• City of Reality -- An amalgamation of the superhero, sci-fi, and magic fantasy styles in a utopian society with a sentient sock-puppet mayor.
• Intragalactic -- A Star Trek parody turned outer-space sitcom with lots of good lines. It seems to have stopped updating.
• Gastro Phobia -- An Amazon warrior and her son travel through ancient Greece in this comedy strip. It seems to have stopped updating.
• Goblins -- Minor D&D creatures learn to level up and decide to go on their own adventures. Updates about once a week but with three major and separate plot lines going, which means each plot might get an update once a month.
• Hurrocks Fardel -- A witch accompanies a dragon bound to human form on a quest to find the means to unbind him. Hasn't updated in about a year.
• Messenger -- Survivors in a post-apocalyptic future, angels, and genetically engineered kangaroo-humanoids. It had an interesting plot, but it stopped updating.
• Nobody Scores -- Bad things happen in funny ways. The last bad thing was that the author ran out of ideas. It stopped updating a while ago.
• Superhero Girl -- A young woman superhero breaks the traditional superhero conventions by being a fairly normal person. On hiatus.
• 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.
• Winters in Lavelle -- A brother and sister are trapped in a medieval world. Updates irregularly.

Other worthy time wasters:

• The Abominable Charles Christopher -- A well-drawn look at the lives of woodland creatures and an infantile Bigfoot. Updates Wednesdays.
• Accursed Dragon -- A half-lizard warrior and a young sorceress go adventuring. Updates Monday through Thursday.
• Aikonia -- A wizarding school is corrupted by a being from the realm of magic. Updates Mondays.
• Alone In A Crowd -- A woman who can barely support herself and her little sister adopts an abandoned girl, and this is a cutesy comedy. It works. Updates Tuesdays and Fridays.
• Annyseed -- A vampire who was turned as a teenager in the 1950s goes back to high school in 2009.
• Archipelago -- A deeply story-oriented fantasy with about a thousand strips of story behind it.
• Commander Kitty -- A jerkass starship captain tries to be a hero.
• Cucumber Quest -- The sweetest and cutest adventure ever. This is totally awesome in its own way. Updates a few times a week.
• Escape From Terra and Quantum Vibe -- Sci-fi strips with decent plots and anviliciously unsubtle anarchist/libertarian political propaganda. Both update on weekdays.
• Galaxion -- A spaceship jumps across dimensions to find a parallel Earth that has suffered a catastrophe of some sort. Updates a couple of times a month.
• 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. Updates Monday.
• Heart of a Dragon -- A magic artifact transforms a thief into one of the lost lizard people of Atlantis, and she leads the defense of the last free city on Earth after shadow demons escape from Atlantis and conquer the world.
• Heart-Shaped Skull -- It's hard to tell what is going on, but the grayscale Jhonen Vasquez-inspired artwork is pretty.
• Kaspall -- Humans and furries live together in a gritty world. Heavily plot-oriented. Updates Mondays.
• Kiwi Blitz -- A young mech pilot decides to become a superhero. 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.
• Mystery Babylon -- A perpetually grumpy demigoddess kicks ass in medieval times. Highly reminiscent of Slayers.
• Nicky510 -- A Calvin and Hobbes clone with no Hobbes. Updates weekdays.
• The N00b -- An Adventurers clone in a MMORPG setting.
• Paradigm Shift -- A police officer turns into a werewolf, gets found out, and goes on the run with her partner. Updates Tuesdays.
• ReMind -- A soldier's mind is transplanted into a cat. Updates Mondays.
• Scenes from a Multiverse -- Weird and amusing situations that bear some resemblance to what we are familiar with. Updates most weekdays.
• Shadow Binders -- Magical forces teleport a teenage girl back and forth between Earth and a fantasy world.
• Skin Deep -- When people start transforming into mythological creatures, it tends to disrupt their lives.
• String Theory -- A mad scientist destroys his life. Updates Wednesdays.
• Supermassive Black Hole A* -- Story-oriented sci-fi with a unique art style. Updates often.
• Two Kinds -- A story-based furry strip in a medieval fantasy setting. Updates once a week.

Dropping from consideration:

• DeadFingers -- A straight drama in which tribals are captured and enslaved by a high-tech oppressor society. I simply stopped reading it.
• Evil Diva -- A young demon girl does not want to be evil; but there was a significant shift in art and plot style that I didn't like. Updates MWF.
• Sailor Ranko -- Fanfiction where Ranma Saotome joins the Sailor Scouts. It has not updated in over a year.
• Trying Human -- A story-based strip about alien abductions and romance between aliens and humans in two different time periods; which is all going nowhere and getting less interesting while updates are sporadic.
• Zap In Space -- A goofy idiot gets drafted as captain of a starship; and then it put the title character on a bus and has barely advanced the story beyond that in seven years.

Good comics that officially ended:

• Adventurers -- One of the first comics to make fun of RPG tropes and to do a good job at it.
• Cerintha -- A ditzy girl happens to be an excellent swordswoman and is given the ultimate magic power, and she wants nothing to do with any of it. This comic hasn't officially ended yet but is clearly wrapping up.
• Crimson Dark -- The life of a privateer during a war in outer space. Most of the art is rendered in 3-D. Highly recommended.
• Darken -- Our trustworthy team of adventurers searches for the magical artifacts that the hero needs to become an unstoppable killing machine for Hell.
• Dawn of Time -- A mostly silent strip about people and dinosaurs living together.
• Freak Angels -- Superpowered young adults try to reconstruct some kind of civilization in post-apocalyptic London.
• Garanos -- A woman warrior is involved in a prophecy about an ancient evil.
• Get Medieval -- Spacemen from an advanced society hide from the interstellar mafia in middle-ages France.
• Little Dee -- A cute little girl lives with forest creatures in a newspaper-style comedy.
• Little White Mouse -- A teenaged girl has adventures on an abandoned space station.
• Marry Me -- A pop superstar marries a random concertgoer holding a "Marry Me" sign.
• The Parking Lot Is Full -- Twisted single-panels inspired by the Far Side.
• Ozy and Millie -- Chaos and philosophy go surprisingly well together.
• Today Nothing Happened -- A webcomic about the author's real life. Highly recommended.

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If that's not enough for you...

• Top 100 Web Comics -- Web comic rankings.
• Comicmix March Madness 2012 -- A list of 128 popular web comics.

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[Edit 04/28 -- moved ended comics to bottom. Added six links (three ended).]