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Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:55AM
Welcome back to the article series you love to comment on (mainly because I yell out on facebook I'll buy pizza and beer for those who comment), Webcomics You Should Be Reading! I've taken you, gentle reader, on a magic carpet ride through a tunnel of funny ranging from the macabre, the vulgar, the hyper-cute, to the thought-provoking-so-much-so-that-the-comment-string-ended-up-an-actual-debate. So, where do we go from there? How about we jump…
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Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:36AM
Howdy folks! We're back here today to take a step into the post-modern... a step into the existential... a step into a parallel dimension. No, not the twilight zone. Today's 'Webcomic You Should Be Reading” is an experiment utilizing one of America's most cherished cartoon characters. Who you ask? Why, it's Jon Arbuckle, the would-be owner of an obese and lazy cat, named Garfield. We're quite familiar with the Garfield strip, aren't we?…
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Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:53PM
Truth time, FOMAFers*, I found this webcomic a couple years late. Now, don't get me wrong, it's still going... but I know out there in cyberspace, someone will snicker when they see this week's choice. I can see them now, sipping a Brandy Alexander, puffing away on a grape cigarello. I can see them, and frankly, I hate them. Anyways, back to the topic at hand. On a recent tour of the internet (which seems to get bigger every day, I tell h'yew…
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Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:53AM
Yup. I'm sick. Twisted. Perverse. Warped. Dare I even say (dare... dare....) a little insane in the membrane. Why you ask? Simply put... someone sent me a link to this crudely drawn little webcomic, and after a single strip, I knew I must share this with the six or seven of you who haven't heard of it. What lay ahead in this article will make some of you angry. Others will throw their hands up in disgust and curse loudly at the screen. But there…
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Fri May 8, 2009 9:56AM
I admit it. No need to twist my arm behind my back and make me cry “Uncle! Uncle! Oh Uncle, why would you twist my arm like this? What have I ever done but love you!!!”...Ahem. I admit to you I am a nerd. A dweeb. A dorkus-milorkus. I have from time to time sat at a table with nothing more than a pile of books, dice, pencils, and Mountain Dew, all to play an evenings worth of Dungeons and Dragons. I have from time to time, fired up a…
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Sat Oct 4, 2008 2:29PM
What if Wonder Woman was a total jerkass? Not evil, or a supervillain, or the crazy Nazi-lady from Whom Gods Destroy, but just a self-centered, self-absorbed jerk?
Justin Pierce answers that question, by showing us The Non-Adventures of Wonderella. [link: http://nonadventures.com/].
Pierce skewers (did you see that? That was totally a pun) bits of DC Comics continuity, along with barely-disguised cameos from both DC and Marvel, and a…
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Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:22AM
I'm back, my gentle compatriots, with another webcomic for you to feast upon! I know what all of you are saying though, as you sit with arms folded in protest-- ”But Marc, you've brought to us a rising list of the sick and macabre! Each new webcomic (be it still active, or dead, or with a glorious hard cover archive hitting shelves) has sunk to new depths of depravity. Have you found another gloriously funny webcomic, or are you simply…
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Sun Apr 5, 2009 8:27PM
I admit it... On the outside, I look like a big meanie. The motorcycle boots, the wallet chain, the free flowing beard... Yeah, it sure looks like I'm one tough cookie. But on the inside, I'm a pile of cutesy goo. Like a Lisa Frank Folder, coated with extra glitter and scratch and sniff stickers abound (and we're talking 'Strawberry Shortcake' scratch and sniff here, not He-Man Masters of the Sniffing-verse). So, today, my inner me wants to…
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Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:29PM
It started as just a gaming comic, but expanded to much, much more. It’s one of the most popular independent webcomics out there. It’s spawned books, cartoons, shirts, and even plush toys. It’s won an Eisner Award. And it shows no signs of stopping after ten years online.
It’s Scott Kurtz’s PvP .
Cole, Brent, Jade, Francis and Skull make up the primary cast, and the staff of PvP magazine, a gaming-centric…
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Mon Sep 8, 2008 1:47PM
Though Star Wars fandom is full of disagreements and divisions, most of us fanboys are in agreement about a few things: Jedi, lightsabers and force powers are awesome. Anything Timothy Zahn writes is going to be better than anything Kevin J. Anderson writes. And Lucas probably would have had a better script for The Phantom Menace if he’d hired a seven-year-old to write it.
Enter the Comic Irregulars (Andrew Coker, Andrew Shellshear, David…
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Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:34PM
Years ago, I was at a comic convention where Jimmy Palmiotti told a story about the most vocal fan he ever encountered: A fellow who apparently was constantly sending letters and posting to message boards about how he read the latest thing Palmiotti had done and it sucked, sucked, sucked. At first he was annoyed, but then Palmiotti realized, hey, this guy buys and pores over everything I ever write or draw. This guy is my biggest fan. So he sent…
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Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:25PM
I recommended this comic to a friend of mine. She wrote back that her office's content filter blocked it as "tasteless and offensive."
This is an entirely accurate statement about Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. What they fail to mention, however, is that it's also hilarious.
SMBC is a daily single-panel comic, in the vein of an R-rated The Far Side. The humor is primarily based on taking the punchline in a completely different…
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Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:24PM
Randy Milholland is a very, very angry man. He distills that anger into the purest form of hate known to man, which he uses as ink. And with that ink, he effects a marvelous transformation of rage into humor, he creates Something*Positive.
Of course, as many an astute reader has noticed, “Your comic isn’t positive at all! It’s mean!”
S*P is based in Milholland’s real life, and follows the adventures of Davan…
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Tue Oct 14, 2008 1:03PM
Roleplaying games are a rich forum for comic material, whether you’re riffing on the setting or the game system itself. Typically, this involves have “players” and the characters they play, and either cutting between them or having the players semi-narrate the action.
Rich Burlew presents the Order of the Stick, a group of PCs whose players remain unseen, but retain full knowledge of the game system that defines their world.
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Wed Feb 4, 2009 7:15AM
It's the trifecta of modern comedy: Sarcasm, Near-Cartoon-Levels-of-Violence, and The Deflowering of Fruit. I speak of a web comic that has consistently delivered all these aspects without fail for over 10 years. Since its creation in 1998, it's spawned graphic novel collections, a charity that has raised millions of dollars for children's hospitals, nearly half of my roommate's funny tee-shirt collection, and its own convention to boot. I speak…
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