You should read Questionable Content. It's a webcomic and even two-hundred and fifty strips in it's one of the simpler ones out there. It's cast of characters is small and easy to manage (six regulars, with I think only three others actually appearing in the strip at all so far). It's essentially a relationship drama, which are generally pretty tiring, but this one's still fresh enough to make it worth while.
It doesn't do a whole lot that's new with the genre, and it's got a few indie-band references that I don't always get, but it's got some solid writing and some steadily (and greatly) improving art.
My favorite strip so far is one of the early ones. It reminds me of my favorite Russian restaurant, Propoganda.
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You should also read Wapsi Square. I'll confess that I first looked at it because I saw the enormous breasts on the main character in an ad on another site and just needed to know if the comic was cheesecake and bad T&A jokes.
The comic's kind of short on the cheesecake and has mostly good(?) T&A jokes. I was tremendously surprised at... well, Christ, I don't believe I'm saying this, but hey... tremendously surprised at how... uhm... realistically the main character takes her breasts. She treats the huge things as the pain in the ass I'm told they are. I mean, the damn comic inspired this thrad on the forum for serious discussion of bra-related issues. It just boggles my fuckin' mind.
The comic is about a circle of friends and their lives, a topic I buy into entirely too easily. Sometimes they do some weird stuff with an ancient Aztec beer god. That... doesn't work as well as the other stuff. No favorite strip here, but there's a lot more than two fifty. Still, it's worth checking out.
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Ah yes, Wapsi Square. An uneven yet thoroughly entertaining little gen x/y epic. Originator of the infamous 8-Ball T-shirt. I was actually surprised to see that pop up on your links list. I've been following it at monthly intervals for a while now.
Posted by Erik | December 13, 2004 7:25 AM
Posted on December 13, 2004 07:25
Ben's been reading the PPG Doujinshi, you've been reading Wapsi Square... Why the hell don't you folks tell me about this shit?! I mean you know I dig on the web comics! Yeesh!
You're right, by the way, about Wapsi: it's better to read by the week or the month than it is daily. Which is interesting to think about.
Sluggy and Something Positive are two strips that I never really feel the need to read more than a day or two at a time. Mostly because each strip is fairly dense as far as "what's going on."
I don't feel this way about Megatokyo or Wapsi, where the individual strips are cool but mostly rely on a few strips to really get a flow of story.
Dumb as it sounds, I'm excited to be away from a 'net connection for a few weeks so that, when I come back, I can read a bunch of Megatokyo and Wapsi all at once.
Posted by Jason | December 13, 2004 10:56 AM
Posted on December 13, 2004 10:56
As a matter of fact, I read Wapsi Square too. I also think you would get a kick out of VG Cats (as would anyone who reads Penny Arcade) and Demonology 101, even though it is now retired.
Fans of fantasy comics might also like Falcon Twin and Inverloch. The artwork is excellent.
Posted by Ben of the Azure Sea | December 13, 2004 1:50 PM
Posted on December 13, 2004 13:50
Long have I known of VG Cats. Aside from a few isolated strips here and there, though, I've never been able to get into it. Don't know why.
The others seem interesting, though. I think I'd most like Demonology 101. Pity it's been canned.
Posted by Jason | December 14, 2004 12:48 PM
Posted on December 14, 2004 12:48