tangaroa | Webcomics list 2017

It's time to update my webcomics list.

The top tier:

Blindsprings -- After a 300-year absence, a legendary young princess returns to a world that has banned magic. Updates Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
Freefall -- Sci-fi with three-panel gags and a decade-long plot about the impact of artificial intelligence on society. Updates MWF.
Girl Genius -- Action with plenty of Sufficiently Advanced steampunk technology. Updates MWF.
Gunnerkrigg Court -- An excellent fantasy/story comic. Updates MWF.
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.
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.
Wilde Life -- A man moves into a new town full of magic and mystery. Updates MWF.
Paranatural -- Middle-school students fight evil spirits, with enough silliness to make it entertaining. Updates Mondays and Fridays.
Widdershins -- Magic and adventure in 19th-century England. Updates TF.
Rusty and Co. -- A hilarity-filled spoof of Dungeons and Dragons. Updates Wednesdays.

Runners-up:

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.
Not A Villain -- A somewhat-reformed hacker tries to re-enter a MMORPG following a global apocalypse that she probably caused. Updates Tuesday and Friday.
Quantum Vibe -- Futuristic sci-fi gag-a-day with serious storylines. Updates weekdays.
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 WF.
Spare Keys for Strange Doors -- A pair of magicians investigate paranormal mysteries in the modern world. Updates Wednesdays.
Daughter of the Lilies -- A masked mage with a secret joins a D&D party. Updates WF.
Kill Six Billion Demons -- A sorority girl gets dragged into a war in the demon-occupied remains of Heaven. Updates W,Sat.
Cucumber Quest -- The sweetest and cutest adventure ever. This is totally awesome in its own way. Updates Fridays.
XKCD -- Stick figure comics for people with a college education. Updates about once a week.

Other worthy time wasters:

3 days a week

Atomic Robo -- a robot fights monsters throughout the 20th century. Updates MWF.
Awaken -- Rebels hide from a government that keeps monster attacks a secret. Updates MWF.
Blood Splattered Socks -- A boy is pushed forward in time to live with his older self. MWF.
But I'm A Cat Person -- Pokemon with more interesting characters and much better worldbuilding. Updates MWF.
El Goonish Shive -- A goofy strip that did a good job of turning serious. Updates either weekdays or 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.
Raven's Dojo -- An absurd team of raunchy fighters take on villains when they are not fighting each other. NSFW. Updates about 3 times a week.
Sins -- An amusing fantasy with lots of good gags. Updates MWF.
Star Power -- An astronomer becomes a galactic superhero. Updates MWF.
Snow By Night -- Two tricksters abuse the trust of a snow elemental for their own ends. 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.
Kila Ilo -- Cute little alien criminals search for a secret weapon on Earth. Good mix of drama and comedy. Updates Mondays.
Monster Lands -- A competent axe-woman fights through silly scenarios in a land ruled by an evil queen. Updates Mondays.
Mystery Babylon -- A perpetually grumpy demigoddess kicks ass in a medieval fantasy world. Updates Mondays.
Puck -- An 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

My Hero -- A sorceress is assigned to guard the hero she has a crush on, and he turns out to be a jerk. Updates Mondays and Thursdays.
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.
Culture Shock -- A ninja and a medieval knight chase a witch to a modern city. Updates Mondays and Fridays.
Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures -- Don't be turned off by the furries, this is a good strip. Updates Monday and Friday.
Exvulnerum -- A spoiled rich brat goes on an adventure with a man who cannot die. Updates MF.
Gifts of Wandering Ice -- A tribe receives artifacts from a lost civilization. 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.
Galaxion -- A spaceship jumps across dimensions to find a parallel Earth that has suffered a catastrophe of some sort. Updates Tuesdays.
Saffron and Sage -- An adventurer and her fox companion. Updates Tuesdays.
Sleepless Domain -- A magical girl searches for the monster that killed her teammates. Updates TTh.
Sombulus - Three quirky adventurers travel between the Myriad Worlds. Updates TTh.
Cerintha -- A ditzy girl happens to be an excellent swordswoman. Updates Wednesdays.
Inhibit -- The government forces people with superpowers to wear inhibitors. The teenagers don't like it. Updates Wednesdays.
Parallax -- A grumpy teenager gets a supersuit and has to fight monsters. Updates Wednesdays.
Tangled River -- Colonists live on an alien planet after their technology has broken down. Updates Wednesdays.
Castoff -- A shy demonic-looking librarian runs from a charge of treason. Updates Thursdays.
Demon Archives -- A power-armored soldier recovers after his squad is killed. 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.
The Last Cowboy -- After first contact with extraterrestrials, the human population was devastated by disease. This is the aftermath. 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.
Uh Oh, It's a Dinosaur! -- A cute little dinosaur cutely explores the world. Updates one or two times a week.
Doomsday, My Dear -- A hypnotic dictator takes power during a virus outbreak. Updates Saturdays.
Beyond the Western Deep -- War brews between neighboring kingdoms after a soldier betrays his allies. Updates Saturdays.
Next Town Over -- A mysterious bounty hunter chases a sorceror through the Old West. Updates Sundays.
The Monster Under the Bed -- A boy falls in love with the title character. NSFW. Updates Sundays.
Cassiopeia Quinn -- The adventures of a silly-minded spaceship thief. Updates about once a week.
Out-Of-Placers -- Magic transforms a guardsman into a yinglet. Updates about twice a month.
Piled Higher and Deeper -- An amusing look at higher education. Updates about once a week.
Raccoon Girl -- A teenager pretends to be a superhero. 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.

Purgatory:

Because I ought to cut back.

Accursed Dragon -- A half-lizard warrior seeks knowledge of his curse. Updates about once a week.
Alice and the Nightmare -- A Wonderland resident goes to university to learn how to shape dreams. Updates Tuesdays and Fridays.
Ava's Demon -- A brilliantly drawn interstellar fantasy. Updates Thursdays.
Clockwork -- A mechanic is kidnapped by an enemy country to finish the work of his father. Updates Wednesdays.
Dreamrise -- A boy on a space station enters a dreamland. Updates Tuesdays.
Exiern -- A soft-core porn comic successfully had a plotline grafted onto it. Updates TTh.
Goblins -- Minor D&D creatures learn to level up and decide to go on their own adventures. Updates about once a week.
Jupiter -- A powerful alien robot, who acts as the Earth's benevolent overlord, begins to break down. Updates Mondays.
Namesake -- The worlds of fantasy and reality collide as a woman is transported to Oz and brings some magic back with her. Updates Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
Precocious -- An Ozy and Millie clone with no Ozy and about a dozen Millies. 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.
Tethered -- A scavenger and a robot travel through the remnants of society after an apocalypse. Updates Fridays.
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.

Good comics that rarely update:

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 Empathy Drive -- Humans abandoned their interstellar colonies. Updates Tuesdays and Fridays.
The Fourth -- A video-game villain plots to prevent the hero from defeating him again. Updates about once a week.
Gastro Phobia -- An Amazon warrior and her son travel through ancient Greece in this comedy strip. Updates a couple of times a month.
The Last Diplomat -- An unprepared woman is soulbound to a monster to be the only person who can communicate between them. Updates Tuesdays.
Magellan -- A superhero academy comic with a huge cast of interesting characters. Updates Wednesdays.
The Meek -- Magic, intrigue, good artwork, good comedy, returning after a long hiatus. Updates Wednesdays.
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.~~ 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.
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.
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.
Wonderella -- A Wonder Woman parody with a rude, obnoxious superheroine. Updates Saturdays.

Ended:

Shades of Gray -- A drama about students at a starship academy. Good worldbuilding. ~~Updates weekly.~~ Cancelled.
Henchgirl -- The adventures of a sidekick to a low-tier supervillain. ~~Updates Tuesdays.~~ Completed.

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