Webcomics:
I like a lot of comics. So I thought I'd recommend some of the lesser-knowns.
Planet Zebeth
Yes, a Metroid-based sprite comic. Some people have prejudices against sprite comics; they should read this one. Other people don't; they probably already read it.
Altermeta
One of the prettier comics. You have to admire the author's commitment: He has written a huge book about the planet where the story takes place, its history, geography, astronomy and stuff like that. These antrophomorphic dragons are really cute, too. And let's not forget the community here is one of the best.
Go-girly
Mixing one part sweet romance, two parts absurd slapstick (people hitting each other in the head with giant dildos or mistaking a cow for a stove occur frequently) and three parts insane, yet human characters.
Demonology 101
Completed now, a black and white story about demons and high school kids. Like Buffy, except it's good. :)
It Never Rains
The site has had some problems, and the comic hasn't updated in a great while, but there's plenty of sideshow comics. Besides all that, INR is a very touching and surrealistic story, and the greatest single influence on my art. (Reg could take that as an insult, so let me add he's waay better than me.)
Questionable Content
You think you're an angry, cynical whiner of life? Come again when you have medical stomach problems.
Road Waffles
The art here is something to behold - I wish I could shade like that, and that my scanner would
not eat the shades and spit them out - but what really gets you is the story. It starts as a road trip, and it stays that way in principle, changing constantly until the end. Then comes part two, which I won't get into here because I'm not sure I understand it. >_>
Nowhere Girl
Updated slower than tectonic plates, but what's there is pretty good. Quite original, despite the clichéd theme. Whenever part three is done - maybe this year, maybe next - I'll probably have a lot more to say about it.
Warbucket
A gaming comic, with focus on WarCraft III. Has some brilliant moments, and if you're into War3 it's a given. (I am.)
Angels
It feels like the last two months or some has been a single, nerve-cracking cliffhanger, so you
have to give bonus points for the drama. Otherwise, it's a highly military sci-fi story where all the men appear to have died.
Alien dice
More science fiction, now including a game that's like Pokémon to the power of 10, cute alien boys and one single earthling girl.
Kid Radd
Another finished story, about videogame characters breaking loose into the Internet. Features a lot of humor, and probably the cleverest coding this side of Black & White.
Exmoure
The Battle Forum features one of the more original themes for a comic: You maybe your character, and take part in the roleplaying on the board, and if you're good, you get to be in the comic! (I'm not a member
myself.)
What the Hell?
A runner-up for "Least updated comic", I go for months without looking at it. But it's a solid comic, with very loveable characters.
Men in hats
I like comic names that work as content description. (Unlike my own.) This comic features, simply, men in hats. They stand around talking in the desert, and Jebus, it's hilarious.
Loserz
Could be a very ordinary comic about high school kids, with a few geeky guys and one geeky, really hot girl. But it's got something extra, some deep underwater current
of genuinity that I can't really identify.
VG Cats
Splatter, videogame characters gone insane, splatter, a crazy hobo doctor, more splatter, Chocobo inbreeding and did I mention splatter? One of the most rib-crackingly fun comics I've seen. And it's got kittens for heroes. :3
Elf Only Inn
It's pretty interesting to see how this comic has changed during its course. Otherwise, it's the story of a roleplaying chat room. Isn't that odd?
8-Bit Theater
Okay, everyone knows about 8BT (except the pixel puritans), but it deserves a special mention for the recent dramatic development. Black Belt is dead! :C
Clan Bob
A dead comic. I hope it comes back some day, because it had a smashingly surreal cast whose antics had me hiding under the bed and rolling on the floor laughing, alternatively.
White Ninja Comics
Crazy humor. Gotta love it. To define precisely, the white ninja operates outside the norms of our paradigm. That means you never know what's going to happen, except you won't see it coming.
Sexy Losers WARNING - mature content
This strip is original in quite a few ways. It has numerous, completely unrelated storylines with different characters, it dispenses useful relationship advice, and it has more sex in it than an average porn movie. But here's the real interesting part: The sex isn't the punch line, it's only used to get to the punch line.
Questionable Content
A strip in the school of Scary go round, with a fascinating, trick film velocity development
from the beginning to the present. The author learns to draw, quits his day job and becomes fully committed to the strip with frightening speed, never failing to be funny.
Aikida
On first sight, another comic about a large-chested, violent girl and crazy videogame adventures, but remarkable in its character depth.
Jack
Last but not least, the undisputable king of drama. It's made me cry, it's made me sick to my stomach, and I love it. "Jack" tells us there's something wrong with the world, that it's horrible, unfair, painful and sad, and there's nothing you can do about it except try to be stronger.
Other links:
There are many things on the Internet that aren't comics. In fact, I heard over 60% of it is porn.
The Hunger Site
Click to feed the third world. For free.
How Stuff Works
Want to know how something works? Look here.
Explodingdog
Not exactly a comic, but a loopy, impressionistic nameless stick figure world.
Something Awful
There are stupid people on the Internet. SA lets you laugh at them in Gargantuan quantity.
Bunny with pancake on head
Just a funny picture.
Binary encoder/decoder
Always useful.
Terra in Black
A really, really good song. Especially if you, like me, are mad about Final Fantasy 6.
Final Fantasy: Worlds Apart
Speaking of FF, this is maybe the only site you need if you're a fan of the games.
Grant Morrison
Drug prodigal, spaceship abductee, visionary prophet; the author of The Invisibles, one of the cleverest, coolest and craziest comics around.
GameFAQs
The other "only gaming source you need".
Neil Gaiman
My favourite writer. But I don't have anything fun to say about him. Well, except that when I met him at a book signing, I gave him a tiny green cotton dog for his cats to play with. And he was probably to sleepy to remember ti at all.
Donnie Darko
One of the most underrated movies ever, the site a neccessity to solve it.
ROFL copter!
More disjointed silliness.
Gmail
Heard of Google's new mail system? One gig of free storage space, baby. I have 12 accounts to spare if you want one. (Because I don't have any friends.)
Shiny buttons
here you can show your appriceation of the comic, and make it more popular, by voting for it, or send me money if you feel I deserve it. I don't currently have a plan for donation gifts or anything like that; mostly because I don't want anyone left out of any part of the comic just because they don't have
dough. So, as the comic presently doesn't cost me anything significant to make, I'm just
keeping that Paypal button in case you have money to burn. Trust me, send money. :)
Alternatively you could just drop me a friendly mail of course. (Still skapare@gmail.com)