Best Webcomics (In My Not-So-Humble Opinion)

01-11-2010

I’ve spent far too much of my time recently going through webcomics (finding new ones and reading them until I get bored, or until the end), and thus I figure I can tell you which ones I think you should really go and read in a best list. Thus I present you with (in unordered format):

  • The Phoenix Requiem

    a Victorian-inspired supernatural fantasy story about faith, love, death, and the things we believe in.

    adorable, adorable drawings. It’s so my favourite graphic novel.

    In-Progress, currently up to page  542

  • The Meek

    a graphic novel about Angora, an inexperienced young girl who has been sent on a quest to save the world.

    it’s like a disney movie, but in comic form.

    In Progress, currently up to page 65

  • Dreamless

    drawn by the same person as The Phoenix Requiem, it’s a really interesting, cool idea

    In Progress, currently up to page 54

  • Inverloch

    the story of inverloch centers around a young man named Acheron, from a horned wolf-like race called the da’kor.

    it’s really cute and sweet and interesting and has magic and elves (and it’s also Sarah Ellerton’s first webcomic – author of The Phoenix Requiem)

    Complete, 761 pages

  • XKCD

    a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language

    because how can you not have it on this list?

    Active, currently up to strip 687

  • Questionable Content

    an online comic strip that is ostensibly about romance, indie rock, little robots, and the problems people have.

    it’s QC, it’s funny and sarcastic and regularly updated :)

    Active, currently up to strip 1576

  • Rock Paper Cynic

    a thrice-a-week webcomic, a sporadic fiction blog, and a monthly music release

    it’s often either amusing or scarily close to the truth

    Active, currently up to strip some-number-or-other-they-use-dates-not-numbers-grr

  • Marry Me

    an online graphic novel created and written by Bobby Crosby illustrated by Remy “Eisu” Mokhtar

    Written by Bobby Crosby, author of Dreamless, it’s hilarious and quirky and cute

    Complete, 91 pages

  • A Softer World

    a comic that was created by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau so that people would recognize them as important artistic geniuses.

    it’s sort of oldschool style sweet

    Active, currently up to strip 518

  • Geek Hero Comic

    a comic about Randall (friends call him Randie), a hardcore geek with the sweetest heart.

    the geekiness amused me muchly

    On hiatus, up to strip 232

Ones I’ve recently been through (the first >100) and gotten bored of (but figured I’d put up here to show you how much of my time has been eroded by the pursuit and research of webcomics):

Tell me, are there any I’ve missed, or that I’ve been tragically deprived of and should be reading right now? Because I’m more than happy to remedy things in the event of that situation :)

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Comments

  1. Rasmus says: February 10, 2010

    Pray tell, did you get bored of Glitchtown just because you simply thought it got boring, or because I stopped updating (i.e. because it ended)? :)

    • phoenix says: February 11, 2010

      Hey! :)
      I read through all the comics (until you stopped updating, naturally), and the humour’s good and the drawings are rather the awesome, the only thing that really meant I didn’t put it on my top list was that it ended so early, and that for the most part the comics have pretty routine plot lines. Although the meta stuff and the ‘there’s no need to panic’ arc at the end were freaking epic :D

  2. Rasmus says: February 11, 2010

    Thank you very much, that means a lot ^^

  3. Larry Latham says: March 3, 2010

    Hope you’ll take a look at my comic. Lovecraft is Missing and see what you think. There are 78 pages up, but I am on hiatus until April 2, to be able to get ahead on posts.

    • phoenix says: March 6, 2010

      I’ve read through the first 10 or so, and it looks interesting, I’ll read through more as I find spare time in between blogging and studying and the like. I’ll aim to get caught up before you un-hiatus it :)

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