(“President, CEO, Revolutionary”) is
now by far my favorite “day by day” online comic. At first, I
especially liked the cat/dog cartoons, now I simply love it all. While
it's usually updated daily, it will be on an unexplained and unannounced
hiatus occasionally.
is set in a video game company, but many of its jokes circle
around everyday situations and human relationships rather than the
games. The comic goes back to 1998, reading all the back issues is an
amusing and interesting walk down memory lane.
Geek humor at its purest, and the prove that you don't have to be able
to draw to create a successful online comic. It does have some sort of
storyline, so it makes some sense to read it from the beginning, but
every strip is funny by itself as well.
Of course, Dilbert cannot really be called an online comic. But
about a month's worth of it can be read on the web. It is updated daily
with absolute regularity.
A spoof on a well-known and well-hated software company,
but not only.
It's quite funny and the artwork is unconventional. More than other
webcomics it deals with topics of the day. It was here that I first
learned about Ellen Feiss, the
Greek ban on computer games, or Brazil going open source. The artist,
by the way, was editor in chief
of the OS/2 e-Zine in 2000.
While you are there, be sure to check out Kernel Panic, too.
The link is in the top right corner of the page.
It started out as a game-related comic, but became so less and
less. While Monday to Friday seems to be the basic pattern, there
are usually just three or four new comics per week.
I guess you could say that this is for the Macintosh world what
Userfriendly is for Unix. It's not the only computer-related comic
seeing things from a Macintosh point of view, but, IMHO, the best,
even if Nitrozac has done a lot of recycling occasionally.
The story of two hapless Americans in Tokyo. Only
annoyance are the constant and endless delays in the intriguing storyline.
For this reason, it is more fun to read the what's finished by now in a
row than try to keep up. Of course that's true for many comics. For 2002,
they won the Cartoonists' Choice Awards
for best comic, best writing, best serial comic, and best dramatic comic.
No other comic scored more than two awards.
A postapocalyptic survivalist story with a mystic
touch. Definitely worth reading, and there is quite a lot to read, too:
strip #500 was published 2002-07-16. The first 365 installments are
available as a book ($12.95). Updated Monday and Friday.
As of 2006-04-01, the comic is the top
result of a google search for singaporean airhostess photos,
nobody really known why.
[2006-06-25, 2006-05-28, 2006-04-08]
"You can't go wrong with condoms and Satan worship." Originally,
this was the continuous story of one guy, Jay, who moved from California
to Texas, and his various adventures.
How to tell if you had sex with a goth, when the other person is gone
next morning.
There is a crucifix stuck to the sheets with dry K-Y Jelly.
There is a Siouxsie CD stuck on Repeat in your stereo.
There is a blue pubic hair stuck between your front teeth.
With Comic #500, James L. Grant closed down this story but later
continued drawing what is now more akin to editorial cartoons.
When the site moved to keenspace, part of the original story was
offline for a while. As of 2003-06-03, everything is back again,
though it's not quite easy to find the
first panel.
2005-09-28, the Jay storyline came back,
though it was less of a storyline than it used to be.
Currently there's little hope for further updates.
[2006-03-07, 2006-03-02, 2006-02-27]
delves into the world
of sexual perversions. I personally find it rather funny but
have to admit that necrophilia, exempli gratia, might be a major
turn-off for some people. Due to health problems the comic has
ceased to be updated.
[2005-11-23, 2005-09-13, 2005-07-17]
Joe Average, "everyman
extraordinaire", by Aaron M. Holm
The story of a college boy who is
not very satified with his life. Then, when he'd imagine it least, he
finds a girl friend and things start to change… Trivial, you say?
Might be. But funny. Unfortunately the artist got bored with the comic
as soon as his character got lucky, even though there were some other
storylines still open, and for a while it was hardly updated at all.
In February 2003, there were daily updates again, but not for long.
In early November updates started again after the longest break yet,
but, as it seems, only to tell us that the strip will be shut
down.
[2004-11-04, 2004-11-03, 2004-11-02]
The story of an elf posing as an exchange student. Updated only
about every two weeks, not so good for a continuous story.
But for this fact it might well have made it into my favorites.
It is on hiatus since 2003-03-21. There are now two new comics
on the site, The Dregs of Society and Holy Vampyr.
Other Comics
These are comics I read for a while and then got bored with,
or comics that were not really my thing but might well be yours.
Descriptions have usually been written in 2001/2002.
Some of them have ceased to be updated in the meantime,
but all of them are still up.
Girl Genius by Phil & Kaja Foglio
is a steampunk fairy tale of sorts. It features steam-powered robots
(clanks), Victorian underwear, and of course the eponymical
girl genius.
General Protection Fault
by Jeffrey T. Darlington
is a curious mix of geek comic and science fiction, with lots of
references to other comics and movies, but
don't worry, if you don't know them, you won't enjoy it any less.
I found it when I was looking up something about real
general protection fault—and I simply couldn't stop reading.
I sat up all night (updated daily since 1999, there's a lot to read)
and missed a really interesting auction on eBay, but it was worth it.
I read it regularily for a long time,
even when Jeffrey T. Darlington saw it fit to use his comic
mostly to preach the bible in February 2005, but finally he lost me
over too many parallel universe stories.
Schlock Mercenary
by Howard Tayler
is a family-friendly comic about a gang of mercenaries.
Yes, really. And it isn't bad either. But then there was
this strange plot twist involving time travel, and the author
simply lost me. I kept it in the “checked daily” section
for a while, but finally had to admit I didn't really read it
any more.
Like most sensible sophonts, they invented civilization.
With civilization came civility, civil sevice, and of course civil
war. They're in the middle of one right now.
Winger cartoons by Carson Fire
used to be a fairly regular comic with a story, but in summer 2006
it somehow petered out and I lost interest.
Scary Go Round by John Allison. I never really read this
regulyrily. I discovered it once, read the whole storyline, and
never went back. Updated MWF.
She's a Nightmare
by Jesse Chen is a crime story. Technically well done,
characters, story, and artwork are American comic standard fare.
I read the first two books, but was a bit disappointed how the
plot of the second was resolved.
Boy Meets Boy by
K. Sandra Fuhr (like the gay odd couple, only sexier). I read this
one regularily for a while, but got bored at some point. Last issue
was 2004-01-10.
Avalon High by Josh Phillips
shows us life on a Canadian high school. There is a substory by Tae Jensen
that I liked a lot. It is now in the
Guest Series
section. Avalon High has meanwhile closed down, last comic was posted
2004-08-25.
Clan of the Cats by
Jamie Robertson starts out quite good, but I lost interest somewhere
along the line. It's a modern witchcraft story. Since 2005-03-21, it
is on indefinite hiatus, since the artist has been suffering from
panic attacks.
Bob and George by David Anez
is a rather weird strip
based on one video game, Megaman. I have never played this game and read it all
from the beginning and got a good laugh, yes, it actually made me laugh,
that does not happen all that often. But I never really came back afterwards to
see how things developed further. Bottom line: You do not have to know the game
to enjoy this comic, but it leaves no anticipation. You should be familiar
with video games in general, however, especially the older, console-type ones.
Toy Trunk Railroad
circles around model train fandom and is moderately funny.
Kyoki Press is the website of Kaichi
Satake. Mainly, you will find two comics here:
ShadowFall
is a graphic SF/espionage/adventure novel,
The Wings of Cranes and Eagles,
which I find more interesting, is a realistic story from the thirties.
Friendship, flying and war… Tomiji Yoshida yearns to fly. He
gets the opportunity of a lifetime when his father sends him to America to
learn some discipline from a military uncle, and he makes friends with
teenage pilot, Randall Parker. But before he earns his pilot's license,
Tomiji's rebellious nature instead earns him a one-way ticket back to Japan.
With his home country now on the brink of war, how can he save his dream of
flight as well as his friendship with Randall?
The Wings of Cranes and Eagles are currently on hiatus, because the author has
no access to his reference material. ShadowFall is now continued again after
a pause in summer 2002.
Term Unit X is an open source
comic (yes) originating from, as you might have guessed, the Linux community.
The evil multi-national corporate conglomerate empire MegaSoft®
reached out and nuked someone (just about everyone, as it turns out) in 2023
with a nuclear-capable e-mail virus, designed to stop anti-trust suits. It
worked, really, really well. Evil wins.
In 2076, however, Term Unit X, the militant arm of the New League of Nations
Under Coherent Systems (New/ Lonucs) is using a team of specially trained
mutant-hybrids and extraordinary hackers to break into MegaSoft® of North
America (MSNA)'s stronghold in Washington M.S., and free the world from the
hands of MegaSoft®, dangerous code and irritating animated paperclips.
We join our team, led by TermUnitX leader TUX (a cybernetic penguin-hybrid),
alongside Wilder (an over-zealous Gnu-mutant), Ch (a mutant with a penchant
for dressing like the Devil), and Cmdr Tako, one of the United Geek Front of
America's ambassadors from the DashSlot stronghold, as they are descending
into the abandoned Orange Computing Hive in Cupertino, off the Berkeley
Front.
Artwork is not bad. The atmosphere resembles a 3D shooter. If that's your kind
of game and you get off on the hick-hack between afficionados of various operating
systems, you might like this.
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