what are everyone's favorite webcomics
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what are everyone's favorite webcomics
use the comments so other people can see the recommendations too! <3
Kill Six Billon Demons: a college gal gets caught up in some Big Cosmic Bullshit. Some crazy impressive landscapes, colors and action sequences, with an inspired setting, cosmology and plot to match. I’ve lapsed a bit but I really gotta catch back up. My favorite character’s name is a pun, and I love and hate this fact in equal measure.
Stand Still, Stay Silent: a bunch of lovable goofs are on a salvage mission at the end of the world. Gorgeous art, one of the few webcomics I’ve ever read that really grapples with its characters not all speaking the same language. I still think about the panels where the prologue jumps to the start of the main action. Things take a turn in the third act.
barbarous owns. horny with fantastic writing and excellent art. https://johnnywander.com/comic/barbarous-chapter-1
seconding Stand Still Stay Silent as a fantastic post-apocalyptic fantasy series. the world-building is spectacular. it's kind of depressing where the author ended up, though.
I use the piperka.net for keeping up with webcomics, and it has a great big directory listing. Beyond that, I keep up with homestuck 2, square root of minus Garfield, and xkcd
Phantomarine, Cassiopeia Quinn, and Rock Cocks (NSFW warning for this one) are some great ongoing comics. For completed works I always gotta shoutout to Mare Internum (warning for lots of heavy stuff; suicidality, abuse, body horror, etc).
Current reading list:
Yellow Brick Ramble - The Marvelous Land of Oz retold as an explicitly trans story. A bunch of the Oz deep cuts are going way over my head, but I'm really enjoying it. https://yellowbrickramble.com
Pragmatist - Currently slice-of-life school stuff, with some fun characters, but seems like some kind of paranormal plot's about to surface. https://lenney.xyz/pragmatist/
Ventura City Drifters - Sports manga take on university women's basketball. Really like the cast. https://tapas.io/series/Ventura-City-Drifters/info
Laika's Comet - Charming adventure comic about a travelling handywoman in a fantasy postapocalyptic world. https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/laikas-comet/list?title_no=857623
we went and read the entirety of Yellow Brick Ramble, that was fun! thank you!
Ten Earth Shattering Blows: A fantasy comic with some great action scenes following a young noblewoman traveling well out of her depth to try and kill a witch, and an extremely buff warrior woman who has her own agenda. Its world feels rather mad max at times, and has some really imaginative landscapes and set pieces.
Wilde Life: An urban fantasy story following Oscar Wilde (not the poet, just shares the name) moves to a remote town in Oklahoma to get away from some dramatic life events, and promptly stumbles into a series of fantastical encounters with ghosts, werewolves, witches, and more. The characters are fun and likeable, and the plot can shift between fantastical and grounded elements in a very natural feeling way.
A Redtail's Dream: Since people have already recommended Stand Still Stay Silent I feel like I should bring up the authors previous comic (which is complete). Drawing heavily from Finnish mythology it follows a lazy asshole and his lovable dog who are tasked with rescuing all of their friends and neighbors from a series of dream realms after a young fox god is left in charge of the northern lights and breaks reality.
Sword Interval: A fantasy action comic that is very hellboy inspired, following Fall Barros as she sets out to become a monster hunter and take down the Lich that killed her parents. Along the way she has to contend with secrets regarding who and what she is, the manipulations of a shadowy agency, and the looming threat of apocalypse. It concluded a while ago and is a pretty fun ride from start to finish.
a webcomic by a couple of my friends, Lovespells:
a slowburn romance in a fantasy world about two lesbians who fall in love with each other and are too clueless to realize they've fallen in love.
https://www.tumblr.com/lovespells-comic
we particularly enjoy the bit about her having magical chronic fatigue
yeah! I’m glad you enjoyed! esther is one of my favorite characters!
yes! we've been reading Freefall since the 90s and still enjoy it
yes! we think it was one of you who recommended it to us a while ago, we're all caught up on it :D
I thought of another one:
(closing out old tabs and saw this)
There's a crowdfund for “Sleepless Domain” book 2, collecting chapters 5–8 of what's been published on the website: https://hivemill.com/products/sleepless-domain-book-2
It includes an option to buy books 1 and 2 together at a reduced combo price.
Deliberately biasing these recommendations towards slightly unusual stuff:
Exvulnarum - imaginative, strange fantasy comic about an incredibly terrible curse. Some very bad things happen to some very nice people. https://exvcomic.com
A Miracle of Science - mad science is a memetic disorder that yields wonderful, incredibly important technology and it is the duty of the Vorstellen Police to find and apprehend people addicted with Science Related Memetic Disorder (before their attempts to take over the world bring them into direct military conflict). Also Mars is a hive mind and the mafia on Venus appear to have watched a bunch of really old movies because they have affected some quite snazzy outfits. https://www.project-apollo.net/mos/
Always Human - sci fi romance between two very cute and likeable girls. The art is gorgeous. https://m.webtoons.com/en/romance/always-human/list?title_no=557
Kaspall - across the multiverse, every now and then a portal might randomly open up and swallow a random person. Those people all find themselves falling out the other end into the magical world of Kaspall. Fortunately there is an Outworlder's Office dedicated to helping them integrate into the society they have just been dropped into. Things are a bit more messy than usual because there's a serial killer in town and also some weird crimes going on. Dark but also warm, compassionate and hopeful. https://kaspall.com/cover
and Spare Keys for Strange Doors - same author as Kaspall. Follows a couple of freelance magical consultants, dealing with mishaps and occasional crimes. https://sparekeyscomic.com/
Out of Placers - funny, irreverent fantasy comic about a bunch of oddballs living in a merchant city. The cast are a mix of humans and weird creatures, particularly "yinglets", a fictional species of scatterbrained critters currently haphazardly making their way into sapience. The main viewpoint character is a likeable though unsuccessful young gentleman who gets very much more involved in local politics than he was expecting, due to a bizarre magical incident https://www.valsalia.com/comic/prologue/01/
would you believe we read A Miracle of Science years ago? we liked it!
thanks very much for such detailed recommendations - it's clearly gonna take us a long long time to look through everything all y'all have mentioned, and we super appreciate everyone's responses even if we didn't answer in detail