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 Overread wrote:


Also another finished comic - Redtail's Dream
http://www.minnasundberg.fi/comic/page01.php

If you like this comic, there's another by the same artist. It's a post-apocalyptic story with mutant monster and some magic. For some reason I keep forgetting about it, but I keep coming back.

http://www.sssscomic.com/

 ChargerIIC wrote:
There's been a sudden dearth of updates, but I recommend everyone spend some time read http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/ , which is about what happens to massively muscular protagonists after their big moments.

And the author is like concentrated badassitude, too.

Fully agree with OP in regards to Erfworld and OOTS. Erfworld was really good, but it's just gotten to big, and with the towers now, I have a hard time keeping up. I've been with it since the start though, so I keep with it.

OOTS has aged like a fine wine. It just keeps getting better and better. This latest arc has had some of the best story revelations to date.

Still read CAD on a regular basis. Author is a major toolbag, and the story reset did kind of suck, but his multi-story approach between the video game wars, players 1,2,3,4, and the others keep it all relatively fresh and enjoyable.

Penny Arcade, been reading for over a decade, but it's been slowing down for me. I check it every mon/wed/fri from habit, but little of it gets a laugh out of me anymore. It just seems each strip is more about the authors making fun of each other over things.

MA3 is a guilty pleasure of mine. I stopped reading it for about a year when the entire comic, and it's two spin-offs just went full homosexual (literally, not metaphorically), which just wasn't my thing, but I came back to MA3 and Sandraontherocks and have been enjoying the character growth. Like Erfworld, I enjoy that this comic from day 1 has been about telling a story, when with others like CAD/OOTS, you can tell they started out as campy joke of the week events, that evolved into a continual storyline.

SMBC I'll read occasionally, but as someone else mentioned, there are times it's just "Hey, look at how smart I am, and how smart you're not." and it tends to turn me off of it for a while.

Used to read LFG, but the story just got way to convoluted, and Richard could only do so much to keep my interest. Schlock Mercenary was another one. I think it was into year 11 of daily strips when I stopped reading it. Again, the story just grew to big, and I couldn't keep up anymore.

Ah, MA3, I dropped it like a brick as it became harder and harder to like the characters. Not because of their preferences, but because a lot of the cast has massive spades of jerk or are thrown about by other characters like they're nothing. TV Tropes has some choice comments on the characters.

Penny Arcade I stopped reading quite some time ago, but I keep coming back in hopes that Camp WeeDonWantCha updates again.

 BrookM wrote:


Scary Go Round sadly on a hiatus right now as the artist is writing a new arc, but in the meantime I'm enjoying his monthly Giant Days, revolving around a character who was previously one of the protagonists of his works.

I used to love SGR (all of the Bad Machinery arcs apart from the last couple are gold), but I kind of drifted away from it after the "Into The Woods" arc. It just felt very odd and off-kilter, and not in a good way.

If it's returned to form since then, I might have another look.

 djones520 wrote:
Schlock Mercenary was another one. I think it was into year 11 of daily strips when I stopped reading it. Again, the story just grew to big, and I couldn't keep up anymore.

So it wasn't just me! I read that one for well over a decade but I realised I'd just completely lost track of what was happening and where the characters were or what they were doing. Another problem was that there were just too many smug, always-right God AI's in the setting, who would butt in and instantly sap all drama and tension from a story.

I used to have loads of webcomics on my list, but I drifted away from most of them, other than OotS and Oglaf (I won't link to that last one because it's very NSFW, but it's a really funny fantasy gag comic, and well worth checking out)--so it's good to see so many recommendations here!

Well, Scarygoround might now be back but bobbins.horse is back!

http://bobbins.horse/comic/104

So um.... there's a thing.

Not sure if I could get into that again. Shelly is right up there with Desmond for me personally in terms of likeable characters. A bit too loopy.

There are some interesting suggestions in here, some I've read, some I now should start reading.

I've fallen behind on a lot of the story-arc web comics I follow, usually because of irregular gaps in updating
Like Goblins, the slow updates made it hard to immerse myself back into the story.

A few with post-apocalyptic narratives
Derelict: lovecraftian water world, though I think the artist has suspended the story for the past year.
Romantically Apocalyptic: surreal humor with occasional animated panels.
Scurry: Follows a tribe of house mice after humans have gone away and resources become more scarce, I like the lineless style

Other lineless comic of a more lighthearted fanciful setting The Wormworld Saga, the artist makes good use of the seamless vertical page layout to display a whole chapter at a time.

My life at War: A culture clash with occasional mech warfare, the art improves from where it started...but then I'm biased.