Webcomics and similar - A recommendation post

[elfy]

So, I somehow wanted to make this post for ages, I don't actually know why ... most of you probably know most of the comics I will show you here. Anyway, maybe there is one or another you don't know yet.

I want to warn now: There is indeed adult material under the cut and it's a NSFW entry for sure.

It could happen that I expand this entry in the future.
Other recommendations welcome!

Name/Link: http://xkcd.com/
LJ-Feed: xkcd_rss
Type: Single strips, only rarely relating to one another
Updated: I think 3 times a week.
Themes: Math, Science, Pop-Culture
Warning lables: None ... but don't expect to get all jokes.
Story: -




Name/Link: Questionable Content
LJ-Feed: questionablerss
Type: Continuous story.
Updated: Weekdays, daily.
Themes: Relationships, friendship, strange parents, coffee, robots, social awkwardness, ...
Warning lables: Bad language, childish jokes/punchlines
Story: About a group of friends and their relationships. The characters are adorable, most of them are nerds of some kind. Central place is the Coffeshop of Doom, which is owned by one of the characters. Some own little robots which are characters on their own also. Interesting mix of funny/serious, though, serious is on the short side, usually. The comic below is a good example, I think ...




Name/Link: Gunnerkrigg Court
LJ-Feed: ???
Type: Continuous story.
Updated: Updated monday, wednesday and friday.
Theme: A strange school, magic, robots, friendship, demons, secrets ...
Warning lables: Complex story
Story: Annie is sent to a new school and quickly befriends Kat. The school is really not the usual school ... but also don't expect a Harry Potter ripoff or something. There are machines, there is magic, there are demons and a whole lot of different characters and various story archs. Very intriguing, lovely and capturing.




Name/Link: WulffMorgenthaler
LJ-Feed: wulf_morg_new
Type: Single strips
Updated: Daily, I think (weekdays?)
Themes: Failures of humanity/nature
Warning lables: Mean, mean, mean, distasteful
Story: I know, the example comics are more cute than mean, but really, be careful with this one. There are some strips ... well, there are OFTEN strips that easily offend a lot of people and are quite distasteful.






Name/Link: Oglaf. Comics. Often Dirty.
LJ-Feed: ???
Type: Single strips and a loosely overarching background story.
Updated: Every sunday (but sometimes with more than one page - it's always one 'scene' which can have two or even three pages)
Themes: Sex and ... sex. And did I mention sex? Medieval themed.
Warning lables: lots of graphic sex. rape-jokes.
Story: There is a slight background revolving around an apprentice of a sadistic ... queen? Many strips don't belong to that arch (like the one I picked as an example here) and can be understood just so.



Epilogue:



Name/Link: Garfield minus Garfield
LJ-Feed: ???
Type: Single strips
Updated: Twice a week
Themes: Garfield. John.
Warning lables: Weirdness.
Story: Someone photoshops Garfield out of the original Garfield stips. Whats left is a very disturbing, sad and funny strip of a obviously very strange young man ...




Name/Link: We the Robots
LJ-Feed: ???
Type: ?
Updated: ?
Themes: Robots :D
Warning lables: ?
Story: Yeah, I don't know much about this one. Intended to read it a while back, but lost track before I even started (tab gone missing) and I just rediscovered it. I guess it's cute :)




Not really webcomics ...

Name/Link: http://thisisindexed.com/
LJ-Feed: indexed_feed
Type: Single "strips".
Updated: Weekdays daily.
Themes: Anything? Humanity, statistics
Warning lables: -
Story: Well, no story here. You get a daily card showing interesting relationships in little graphs.








Name/Link: http://www.watchtheguild.com/
LJ-Feed: -
Type: Webseries
Updated: Once a week (when a new season is coming out)
Themes: Online gaming, offline problems, friendship, being a nerd
Warning lables: Felicia Day (I like her, but I heard there are people who despise her)
Story: The offline story of a group of online-gamers and their daily worries and quarrels.


German / Deutsch

Name/Link: Zuckerfisch
LJ-Feed: -
Type: Zeitungsstrips
Updated: Wöchentlich?
Themes: Alltag, Hasen
Warning lables: Schwule Hasen
Story: Naomi Fearn erzählt in diesen halbbiografischen Comics die Geschichte von Nomi, ihm Freund und ihren Freunden und von Steffen, dem schwulen Hasen und dessen Freund und ... ja. Es ist sehr bunt :) Und lustig und niedlich.




Name/Link: Die Zeit und Gott
LJ-Feed: -
Type: Beispielcomics für das Buch "Die Zeit und Gott", einzelne Strips.
Updated: -
Themes: Was Gott so treibt ...
Warning lables: -
Story: Nun, es sind kurze Strips die Gott zeigen und was er so treibt. Er erfindet zum Beispiel die Zeit, weil der erste Mensch, den er geschaffen hat (nicht Adam), ihm langsam auf den Sack geht und so kann er dann endlich mal sterben. Leider muss Gott jetzt auch auf die Bahn warten.

Comments

[cos]

This is really cool, and there are a few comics here I haven't seen before. It's also a bit overwhelming, so many new comics all at once. I hope that instead of just expanding this entry, you'll occasionally post about just one webcomic.

[elfy.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah :) Maybe bookmark the entry and come back to the comics bit by bit ;)

[cowboy-r.livejournal.com]

My rec for you: http://www.menagea3.net/

[elfy.livejournal.com]

I'll look into it later!

[bukephalus.livejournal.com]

These are great! Thanks for posting!

[elfy.livejournal.com]

You're welcome :D

[pax_athena]

Cool stuff! And I definitely just spent too much time on http://thisisindexed.com/ XD

[elfy.livejournal.com]

:D
I repaired the link to the indexed_feed here on LJ ^^.

[pax_athena]

Awww, thank you!

[maegwin-of-hern.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendations! I've already known xkcd and Questionable Content before, but I didn't know they were available as LJ-Feeds.

[elfy.livejournal.com]

Glad I could provide them :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/macalla_/]

Sehr klasse - Danke :)

Ich kenn die meisten davon schon. Aber so eine Sammlung ist IMMER nützlich.

Ich könnte noch zwei große (wie in: bekannte) Fantasy-Gamer-Comics beisteuern - kennen die meisten Leute, glaub ich - aber um der Vollständigkeit halber:

Order of the Stick
http://www.giantitp.com/Comics.html

Yet another Fantasy Gamer Comic
http://yafgc.net/

[elfy.livejournal.com]

Kenn ich sogar beide, lese ich nur nicht regelmäßig ... warum weiß ich aber gar nicht ^^. Sollte ich mal ändern.

[chili-das-schaf.livejournal.com]

Sinfest!

http://www.sinfest.net/

[elfy.livejournal.com]

Kenn ich auch schon, les ich nur irgendwie nicht (regelmäßig) ... aber danke für die Erinnerung :D

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Sinfest++

Martial arts fighting Jesus!
God does hand puppets.
The devil girls are sexy

Buddha is cool!

[paperflower86.livejournal.com]

Yay Zuckerfisch! Bin ich auch ein totaler Fan von, hab alle Alben zu Hause stehen.

Kennst du schon "The less than epic adventures of TJ and Amal"? ----> http://www.tjandamal.com/

Unglaublich gute Dialoge, unglaublich gut gezeichnet, einfach nur unglaublich ^___^

[elfy.livejournal.com]

Yay! Ja, ich hab auch alle Zuckerfisch Alben daheim :D Auch alle mit persönlicher Zeichnung drin :DDD
Ich hätte sogar eins doppelt ... also, mit Zeichnung ... ohne persönliche Widmung ... weißt du wen, der Interesse haben könnte? ^^;; Ist glaube ich der erste oder zweite Band.

[paperflower86.livejournal.com]

Nee sorry, hab leider keine weiblichen Comic-fans in meinem Freundeskreis (von Mangas mal abgesehen) und den Jungs ist Zuckerfisch zu girlymäßig.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

I've been reading Warren Ellis's Freakangels. It is a "proper comic" about the Midwych Cuckoos after they become teenagers.

I've also just read the whole of Girl Genius which is fun, very very pretty, but ...

[sukieann.livejournal.com]

Uni Korschenbroich? *rofl*
Die Comics sind echt super!

[zeraphita.livejournal.com]

I love this, thank you!! :)

[lord-caramac.livejournal.com]

Oglaf is still my favourite. ;)