Webcomics list 2020

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The top tier:

• 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.
• 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 -- Adventures of a charismatically bratty thief and her warlock-lich bodyguard. The artwork and worldbuilding are the best of any comic in this list. Updates MWF.
• Wilde Life -- A man moves into a town full of magic and mystery. Updates MWF.
• Paranatural -- Middle-school students fight evil spirits, with enough silliness to make it entertaining. Updates Tuesdays and Fridays.
• Widdershins -- Magic and adventure in 19th-century England. Updates TF.
• Daughter of the Lilies -- A masked mage with a secret joins a D&D party. Updates WF.
• Rusty and Co. -- A hilarity-filled spoof of Dungeons and Dragons. Updates Wednesdays.
• Out-Of-Placers -- Magic transforms a guardsman into a yinglet. Updates about twice a month.

Runners-up:

• Crimson Dark -- Adventures in outer space. Updated MWF.
• Grrl Power -- A team of superpowered women fight evil, aliens, and their own egos and idiocy. Updates Monday and Thursdays.
• Gunnerkrigg Court -- An excellent fantasy/story comic. Updates MWF.
• Quantum Vibe -- Futuristic sci-fi gag-a-day with serious storylines. Updates weekdays.
• Twin Dragons -- Two young dragons were born into modern human society. Updates Mondays.
• 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.
• Sleepless Domain -- A magical girl searches for the monster that killed her teammates. Updates TTh.
• Spare Keys for Strange Doors -- A pair of magicians investigate paranormal mysteries in the modern world. Updates Wednesdays.
• Kill Six Billion Demons -- A sorority girl gets dragged into a war in the demon-occupied remains of Heaven. Updates W,Sat.
• Magellan -- A superhero academy comic with a huge cast of interesting characters. Updates Sundays.

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.
• El Goonish Shive -- A goofy strip that did a good job of turning serious. Updates either weekdays or MWF.
• The Hunters of Salamanstra -- a legendary warrior's younger sister attempts to takes her place in an adventuring guild.
• 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.
• Star Power -- An astronomer becomes a galactic superhero. Updates MWF.
• Yoyoka's Quest - A teenager leaves her home to go on an adventure. Updates MWF.

Mondays

• 164 Days -- An airship adventure. Updates Mondays.
• Celestial Chronicle Shion - Psychic starship captains fight orcs in outer space. Updates Mondays.
• The Forgotten Order -- A magic doll takes a simple-minded girl as its master. Updates Mondays.
• Harpy Gee -- An adventuring elf girl and her goblin cat settle in a human town. Updates Mondays.
• Leaving the Cradle - Earth makes first contact with aliens by shooting down a visiting shuttle. 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.
• 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.
• The Daybreak Protocol - A rookie soldier and her robotic companion search for a way to reactivate their city's guardian. Updates Tuesdays.
• Inhibit -- The government forces people with superpowers to wear inhibitors. The teenagers don't like it. Updates Wednesdays.
• Neon Rabbit - An asteroid gives a woman super powers and a demonic appearance. 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.
• Castoff -- A shy demonic-looking librarian runs from a charge of treason. Updates Thursdays.
• Vindicaris - Two elementals go on a robbery and murder spree. 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.
• Beyond the Western Deep -- War brews between neighboring kingdoms after a soldier betrays his allies. Updates Saturdays.
• 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.
• 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.
• XKCD -- Stick figure comics for people with a college education. Updates about once a week.

Purgatory:

Because I ought to cut back.

• 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 Mondays and Thursdays.
• Children of Eldair -- Three young women are transported from modern Earth into a magical elven kingdom. Updates Mondays.
• Exvulnerum -- A spoiled rich brat goes on an adventure with a man who cannot die. Updates MF.
• 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.
• Parallax -- A grumpy teenager gets a supersuit and has to fight monsters. Updates Wednesdays.
• Snow By Night -- Two tricksters abuse the trust of a snow elemental for their own ends. Updates MWF.
• 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.
• Synthetic Life -- An android attempts to pass for human. Updates Tuesdays and Fridays.
• Tangled River -- Colonists live on an alien planet after their technology has broken down. Updates Wednesdays.
• What It Takes -- A young woman does what it takes to survive after the apocalypse. Updates WF.

Good comics that rarely update:

• Blindsprings -- After a 300-year absence, a legendary young princess returns to a world that has banned magic. Updates Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.
• Brain in a Jar - A scientist awakens to find an artificial intelligence as her only companion. Updates about twice a month.
• Dresden Codak -- A mix of cyberpunk, fantasy, and humor. 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.
• Fisheye Placebo - A young hacker is manipulated by the resistance to an authoritarian government. Updates a few times a year.
• Galaxion -- A spaceship jumps across dimensions to find a parallel Earth that has suffered a catastrophe of some sort. Updates Tuesdays.
• 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.
• Sammy - A cyborg and her mechanic go exploring a colonized alien world. Updates about twice 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 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.

Good comics that ended:

• Cucumber Quest -- The sweetest and cutest adventure ever. This is totally awesome in its own way.
• The Last Cowboy -- After first contact with extraterrestrials, the human population was devastated by disease. This is the aftermath.
• 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.
• Sunfall -- The Sun God dispatches his rebellious teenage daughter to the world of men to learn the ways of mortals..
• Uh Oh, It's a Dinosaur! -- A cute little dinosaur cutely explores the modern world.
• Wingless: The Dovecote Princess -- A princess steals a magic book and runs away to become a knight, the first two of many bad decisions.

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