tangaroa | Webcomic links (Reply)

It's been about a year since I listed a bunch of webcomics that caught my interest. I've found a few more good comics since then, so 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 either weekdays or MWF.
Freefall -- Another long-time favorite 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.
Namesake -- The worlds of fantasy and reality collide as a woman is transported to Oz and brings some magic back with her. 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.
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:

Daily

Precocious -- An Ozy and Millie clone with no Ozy and about a dozen Millies. Updates weekdays.
Sinfest -- Another long-time favorite. Quick philosophical jabs. Updates weekdays.
Supermassive Black Hole A* -- Story-oriented sci-fi with a unique art style. Updates weekdays.

2-3 days / week

A Redtail's Dream -- A young man and his transmogrified dog wander through dreamlike fantasies that resemble their snowbound home. Updates MWF.
Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures -- Don't be turned off by the furries, this is a good strip. Updates MWF.
What It Takes -- A young woman does what it takes to survive after the apocalypse. Updates MWF.
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.
Paranatural -- Middle-school students fight evil spirits, with enough silliness to make it entertaining. Updates Mondays and Fridays.
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.
Not A Villain -- A somewhat-reformed hacker tries to re-enter a MMORPG following a global apocalypse that she probably caused. Updates WF.
XKCD -- Stick figure comics for people with a college education. Updates a couple of times a week.

Weeklies

Aikonia -- A wizarding school is corrupted by a being from the realm of magic. Updates Mondays.
Puck -- A naive elf lives a quite normal and mundane life, leading to comedy. Updates Mondays.
Ava's Demon -- A brilliantly drawn interstellar fantasy. Updates Thursdays.
Kila Ilo -- Cute little alien criminals search for a secret weapon on Earth. Good mix of drama and comedy. Updates about once a week.
Moron County -- Wacky hijinks ensue, constantly. It's like a badly drawn Sluggy. ~~Updates MWF.~~ Updates weekly.
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.~~ Updates sporadically.
Wonderella -- A Wonder Woman parody with a rude, obnoxious superheroine. Updates Saturdays.

Other worthy time wasters:

Archipelago -- A deeply story-oriented fantasy with about a thousand strips of story behind it. Updates weekdays.
But I'm A Cat Person -- Pokemon with more interesting characters and much better worldbuilding. Updates MWF.
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 ended, but is now running a sidestory three days a week.
Cucumber Quest -- The sweetest and cutest adventure ever. This is totally awesome in its own way. Updates MWF.
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.
Exiern -- A soft-core porn comic successfully had a plotline grafted onto it. Updates TTh.
Quantum Vibe -- A scientist and his assistants are chased across the solar system by corrupt competitors and other criminals. Updates weekdays.
Galaxion -- A spaceship jumps across dimensions to find a parallel Earth that has suffered a catastrophe of some sort. Updates once a week.
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.
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 a medieval fantasy world. Updates weekly.
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.
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.
Shadow Binders -- Magical forces teleport a teenage girl back and forth between Earth and a fantasy world. Updates weekly.
Skin Deep -- When people start transforming into mythical creatures, it tends to disrupt their lives. Updates weekly.
Shades of Gray -- A drama about students at a starship academy. Good worldbuilding. Updates once a week.
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.
Two Kinds -- A story-based furry strip in a medieval fantasy setting. Updates once a week.
Uh Oh, It's a Dinosaur! -- A cute little dinosaur cutely explores the world. Updates a few times a week.
Winters in Lavelle -- A brother and sister are trapped in a medieval world. Updates about once a week.
Wizard School -- A villain tricks a Hogwarts-like school into accepting a complete jerk with no powers as his heroic archnemesis. Updates MWF.

Dropping from consideration:

The Abominable Charles Christopher -- A well-drawn look at the lives of woodland creatures and an infantile Bigfoot; but I stopped reading it. Updates Wednesdays.
Accursed Dragon -- A half-lizard warrior and a young sorceress go adventuring; but it got to be too full of itself and I lost interest in the story. Updates Monday through Thursday.
Commander Kitty -- A jerkass starship captain tries to be a hero. Updates sporadically.
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. And I stopped caring about any of the plotlines.
Messenger -- Survivors in a post-apocalyptic future, angels, and genetically engineered kangaroo-humanoids. ~~It had an interesting plot, but it stopped updating.~~ It's updating again, but I lost interest.
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. It seems to be spinning its wheels.
Heart-Shaped Skull -- A confused young witch tries to understand herself. The grayscale Jhonen Vasquez-inspired artwork is pretty, but I lost interest in the story.
Nicky510 -- A Calvin and Hobbes clone with no Hobbes; but there were more misses than hits in the punchlines and not enough sitcom to keep my interest. Updates weekdays.
Sins Venials -- An amusing fantasy with lots of good gags; but it got a wicked case of Cerebus syndrome and lost my interest. This was not in last year's list, but I'm demoting it to purgatory anyway.

Good comics that rarely update:

Annyseed -- A vampire who was turned as a teenager in the 1950s goes back to high school in 2009. ~~Updates about once a week.~~ On hiatus.
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.
Gastro Phobia -- An Amazon warrior and her son travel through ancient Greece in this comedy strip. It seems to have stopped updating.
Kaspall -- Humans and furries live together in a gritty world. Heavily plot-oriented. ~~Updates Mondays.~~ On hiatus.
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.
The N00b -- An Adventurers clone in a MMORPG setting. Updates about once a month.
Paradigm Shift -- A police officer turns into a werewolf, gets found out, and goes on the run with her partner. ~~Updates Tuesdays.~~ Updates in batches whenever the author can get around to it.
Piled Higher and Deeper -- An amusing look at higher education.
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.
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.~~ On hiatus.
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.

Dead comics

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.~~ On permanent hiatus.
Dark, Brooding, Mentally-Disturbed Man -- A hilarious parody of DC Comics. ~~It's updating again, but irregularly.~~ It stopped updating again.
Escape From Terra -- Sci-fi with decent plots and anviliciously unsubtle anarchist/libertarian political propaganda. Canceled due to health and money issues.
Intragalactic -- A Star Trek parody turned outer-space sitcom with lots of good lines. It seems to have stopped updating and the domain expired and got squatted.
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.
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.

Good comics that officially ended:

Call this a hall of fame.

Adventurers -- One of the first comics to make fun of RPG tropes and to do a good job at it.
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.
Darwin Carmichael Is Going To Hell -- An average guy lives in a modern society where mythological creatures are commonplace. Cute artwork.
Dawn of Time -- A mostly silent strip about people and dinosaurs living together.
Dominic Deegan -- A medieval fantasy strip with sorcery and the occasional bad pun.
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.