Comments on: Comics!

By: Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:59:04 +0000

Hold on, that’s the same one I found – it only has random news items, no comics right?

There’s one like that for Dr. McNinja. No good for reading the comics as they come out

By: fneep

fneep — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:53:38 +0000

I have had no problems with the LFG RSS – Opera updates it regularly although it does claim a syntax error, it still works fine. http://feeds.feedburner.com/LookingForGroup?format=xml

By: Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:32:00 +0000

I’ll check out the ones I don’t know on your list

For the ones I do know; I’ve got issues with Sluggy Freelance (as you said, terrible to get into). I do read Penny Arcade, although usually more for the news/commentary then the wit of the artists (although there are some nice commentary comics).

You know, I used to read Sore Thumbs until it went into bizarre politics which, obviously, I have no intention of trying to understand, so got bored by it all. I also don’t get along with VG Cats, which has had one too many, to be honest, entirely shit comics that make the rest just get worse by association, and he seems to be a pretty one-joke man so nothing ever really seems new since a fair few years back. I still look at it from time to time though, nostalgia I guess.

There’s actually a ton I don’t read any more. It’s interesting not really how my reading habits have evolved, but how the comic writers either haven’t changed, have gotten so bad, or just basically stopped updating their work. Very few ever “finish” – Minus is one, a few others include you or anyone else might want to read if you have a spare day (as if):

Concerned, Inverloch, DM of the Rings, Bollox and 200 Bad comics (worth a shot ) in my bookmarks.

I also missed out Darth and Droids for some reason, which is pretty ace.

Also, on this topic, since I am checking my old bookmarks, Cat and Mouse is a very comic-like set of videos, funny stuff (but not updated in over a year ).

By: Max Battcher

Max Battcher — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:10:05 +0000

There are a lot of webcomics out there… I think everyone has subtly different reads. The big webcomic that I’m a huge fan of is Sluggy Freelance (sluggy.com). It’s something of an intimidating tome to a new reader; there’s still no RSS feed and the comic is one of the oldest serial comics on the internet with 12 years of comics to catch up on. (You really need to read from the beginning.) Totally awesome though, meandering through a wild, often funny, universe.

Beyond Sluggy, here are a few comics from my RSS reader that I read that you didn’t mention: Penny Arcade, Sinfest (I found an unofficial RSS feed that works well), Diesel Sweeties (robots and porn stars all the way down), Sore Thumbs (weird, often quite funny, comic that spans video gaming, politics and just random other stuff), VG Cats (excellent gaming comic).

More recent pick-ups to my reader: Bear Nuts (dooomcat.com; sort of a “care bears” gone wrong comic that is bizarre and fun) and Menage A 3 (basically about what the title suggests its about, but cute and funny and a little nerdy. Gizele, the artist, is amazing and she’s had quite a storied history in webcomics…).