I’m laid up with a severely broken ankle and leg, and will be laid up for God knows how long. I wanna read webcomics, but I feel like I’m running out of good ones on Webtoon. Anyone have any recommendations or sites to look at?
OGLAF
Isn’t that one super NSFW?
Only 90% of it.
It is line wearing a codpiece, but wrong.
Yes
I have never understood how people find these funny.
There aren’t many… any webcomics that make me come back and read the archives from time to time. Oglaf is the exception.
Sithrak! An insane god for an unjust world!
It reminds me of PLIF and SexyLosers. I may still have an archive of PLIF somewhere.
Every few years, I come back and binge re-read all of Oglaf to caught back up.
Kill Six Billion Demons is my favorite right now. Gorgeous, sprawling, complex artwork from start to finish, philosophically interesting, bordering on pretentious but I love it. I sometimes read this one while wearing my VR headset to properly examine certain pages close up.
Johnny Wander is the homepage for an incredible artist/writer duo. I’ve really been enjoying their latest story Barbarous, but their archives are a bit of a pain to navigate to find the starting point for each story. Worth the pain though.
Octopus Pie has been over for a few years but is always worth returning to. Woman lives in New York, people are weird, and New York has a lot of people. Reading this one will make you feel good, Do Not Skip.
Sleepless Domain is an interesting one, generally a cutesy story with an anime, leaning towards chibi art style but focused around a set of brutal murders that happen towards the front end of the story and the survivor’s guilt that follows.
Gunnerkrigg Court is hard for me to describe but gets a re-read from me every few years. A surreal examination of why we tell stories and The Power Of Friendship? It’s been going so long that I half suspect it’s not going anywhere and is just an excuse to keep chugging for as many years as its author needs it to, and also half suspect it’s imminently ending in the next few months. I don’t think I really have a problem with it either way; it’s written very well.
I also want to add Questionable Content. Someone else mentioned it before but I think it needs linking to. It’s one of the first webcomics I picked up so it’s hard for me to judge it fairly, but even having evolved so much since the early days I think there’s something to love about every stage of its development. It was just easy reading about hipsters listening to music and drinking coffee, and then somewhere along the way it became a sci-fi story too and goodness I love it.
Put another one for “Kill Six Billion Demons”. when i first saw it i finished it in the same day. I’m now subscribed to the rss and happy for each new page.
I have opened all of those to check! Thanks!
I’m partial to weird fantasy, dunno what your tastes are. YMMV. Some of these are old!
Gunnerkrigg Court - long-running, fantastic worldbuilding, intricate plot. steampunky urban fantasy.
Wilde Life - small-town mystery, light spooky vibes but mostly feel-good. Relationship focused.
Girls with Slingshots - complete! comedy about a friend group. LGBT+ themes, sex positive. A bit raunchy, if that’s not your bag.
Skin Deep - urban fantasy. Neat worldbuilding, long running.
Broodhollow - another small-town mystery, but more legit creepy. Plot of the murder-hauntings-cults variety.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things - comedy. premise is a temp agency for brawny fictional characters & villains trying to get normal dayjobs. Takes the piss out of common tropes.
Awkward Zombie - comedy. No plot, just comics about video games & other things the artist is into.
Johnny Wander - 4 comics in a trenchcoat, but they’re all pretty cute. Started as an autobio comic with the occasional original fiction story mixed in, but they’ve all been separated out for easier reading now.
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal - complete! romance about two dudes on a cross-country roadtrip. Touches on some heavy topics, but has some humor too.
A lot of these are hosted by sites that host other comics, so you can follow that rabbit hole pretty far. Also some artists will link to other comics they like in the about/notes pages, good way to find other stuff.
Kill 6 Billion Demons is an absolute classic. Good enought to have made it into print trade paperbacks, but still free online. The visual style and wild world building are truly a joy to behold. You also get a bit of the sparky web comic flavor while still holding together an excellent long term story arc with serious plot.
https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/kill-six-billion-demons-chapter-1/
Seriously though Gone with the Blastwave is something I always come back to once in awhile
Xkcd, Saturday morning breakfast cereal, something positive, questionable content, and Junior scientist power hour are my favorites.
Free Fall was a very good sf web comic whose first story arc is completed, so jump right in. Several interesting non-human characters.
Girl Genius is one of my favorite. https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php
I’ll check it out! Thanks!
It’s been running for about 20 years so there are a lot too go through. There are a few filler stories along the way which are good and bad but the main story is really well written and illustrated and pretty different than most stories I’ve read.
I’m showing my age here, but 8-bit theater is fun
https://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/03/02/episode-001-were-going-where/
Oh wow, that takes me back. That and RPG World, by lil’ baby Ian Jones-Quartey.
Sigh. Times are tough.
Personally a big fan of hiveworks for finding new comics. If you like story focused ones, I like Widdershins, Sakana, Daughter of the Lilies, and Wilde Life. I read way too many webcomics, so let me know if you need more!
Oh shit thanks for so many recommendations!
Can I sell you on web novels instead? Worm and The Wandering Inn are a decent starting point.
Worm is great! Somehow, I started with the first few chapters of someone else’s fan-fic set in the worm-verse, and later found Worm. I was so incredibly confused for a while on what was real (by the original author) and what was the fiction.
Digger by Ursula Vernon has been around for a while but it’s my favourite.
Penny Arcade has been around forever so they have a deep backlog of gaming/nerd culture related comics.
Kind of peaked in the mid 2000s though.
Irregular Webcomic: it’s mostly reruns these days with new strips twice a week. Still, there is a lot of material to get caught up on.
I enjoy Adventures of God if you want another webtoons comic
