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This is my 'click thro 'em all so I don't have to type in addresses' list. Explanations below. News SitesDan's DataHardOcp Slashdot Drudge Report ComicsSluggy FreelanceSchlock Mercenary Shivae.net Tiffany Ross' Webcomic Portal Freefall 21st Century Fox Wings of Change Nip and Tuck Under the Lemon Tree Tales Of the Questor Real Life Megatokyo Fallen Mac Hall Apple Geeks Tall Tails No Rest for the Wicked Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures! Tailsteak's Comics and Thoughts The main news sites I useDan's DataDan reviews computer stuff, audio stuff, gadgets, toys and answers your questions! His charming style and professional integrity makes his site the place to learn about science and technolgy. HardOcp My favorite computer hardware site. Cutting edge reviews, massive integrity, and fun reporting. Slashdot The leading tech news aggregator and commentary community. The online equivalent of eight guys talking about what's cool. Lots of info and geeky news. Drudge Report The place to catch all the latest mainstream news. Top webcomicsIt's hard to say these are better then the rest, they are just the ones I enjoy the most. Of all the comics here, most are hard to understand with out knowing the back-story. Each of these comics has an archive you can go back and read through; which is half the fun of finding a new webcomic. You might notice a common theme if you read through these, besides most of them being sci-fi, gamer or furry, they are all serial story strips.Furry means anthropomorphic, ie, talking animals. Sluggy Freelance You're in for a lot of reading if you're going to catch up on Sluggy Freelance. It's one of the older pillars of the webcomics community. That said, it's weird, and occasionally inappropriate, especially if the person who glances over your shoulder doesn't know Sluggy. Occasional skin, drinking, supernatural beings. Sci-fi adventure. Riff, Torg and crew go about their very abnormal lives. Daily. Megatokyo Megatokyo is what got me started on anime, and it's a good place to start. Beautiful artwork, entertaining story. Some drinking. Anime/gamer sitcom. Piro and Largo are stuck in Japan, making ends meet and just being themselves, for the amusement of is all. M-W-F. 21st Century Fox A vision of the future, with a fox and a giraffe riding in the coolest Thunderbird. I particularily like the use of music in the storyline. Objectionable content might be occasional skin, but it's not really skin 'coze it's covered with fur. Sci-fi Furry sitcom/adventure. Jack and crew go about their futuristic lives. M-W-F. Schlock Mercenary I'll bet you didn't know Mormons could be as cool as Howard the cartoonist is. Sci-fi, guns, computers, punk-goth leanings, and we haven't even gotten to the comic yet. Schlock is large caliber comedy, set in the far future. Probably one of the more accessible comics without having to read the archives. Objectionable content: some drinking, violence. Sci-fi action adventure. A band of mercenaries plying their trade and staying alive as they traverse the galaxy. Daily. shivae.net Any more, if Tiffany Ross draws it, I'll read it. If I had to choose I'd say she's by favorite cartoonist. Shivae.net is her main portal to the numerous comic strips she draws. Alien Dice Unlike her other strips with interrelated stories, this one stands alone. You definitely have to read the archives to get into this one. Would you start reading a novel in the middle? Tiffany calls her strips GNIPs, graphic novels in progress. Some violence, some liberated hemlines. Sci-fi adventure. Lexx plays a game, and is a piece in a game, fighting to stay alive. Variable update schedule, M-T-F or every weekday. Akaelae Akaelae, No Angel and SoS need some explanation, they are related, along with several other strips that are finished. To minimize your confusion you should read this page first. http://www.shivae.net/misc/shivguide.htm Akaelae is explaining the past experiences of the main group of characters these comics follow. No Angel is following the current experiences of the humans of the group in the present. SoS follows the current happenings of a Cyantian transport ship and it's crew. Objectionable content: not much violence. Wolves, foxes, skunks, mice, sharks, dragons. Furry sci-fi all around. Awesome artwork. No Angel Humans with wings. Sink or Swim They're kangaroos. These last three are all by the same cartoonist, who is apparently a politically conservative Christian, which adds another layer of appeal for me. Updates are currently daily. I anticipate these comics all week. Both the humor and artwork is top notch. Nothing morally offensive to speak of. Nip and Tuck Rural life surrounding two fox brothers. It's nice to read a story that isn't full of combat, extraordinary circumstances and save-the-world heroics. Modern rural setting. Under the Lemon Tree An ordinary bear, except his subconscious has split into seven parts and came to life. Modern urban setting. Tales of the Questor A young raccoon is trying to be a hero in a world where that's not a paying job anymore. Fantasy. The rest of the best Freefall One of the nicest comics. No combat and heroics. A talking wolf, a robot and an alien fix up a spaceship. Very accessible for a webcomic beginner. No objectionable content. SF comedy. M-T-F Wings of Change Lots of straight up fantasy adventure with little combat. Written by a female which would explain why the strip has emotions instead of hack and slash action. Quite nice. Objectionable content: some violence. Fantasy adventure. W-Su ? Real Life This comic loosely follows the real life of the cartoonist, except for the time travel, and anything else that would be of humorous benefit. Objectionable content: occasional bad language. Quite gamer-centric. Nifty paperless artwork. Week daily. Mac Hall This comic could almost be a study of young adult psychology. That isn't intentional, the comic is meant to appeal to collage age "adults." More vulgarity and adult situations than I like, but vulgarity and crud because that's the way the age group talks and lives. Stunning artwork by the way. Collage students who's every day occurrences are humorized. No backstory. Bi-weekly. Apple Geeks Apple Geeks has almost the same description as Mac Hall, except a little more Applefan centered. Just as good and bad on all counts. The artwork is amazing! Tall Tails This is a comic book, it updates at a page a week. Its professional stuff, but with all the elements I like: a furry fantasy setting, action adventure balanced with consequences and conscience. Objectionable content: graphic violence. Ravenwood's band of adventurers is on an epic quest, it's unsure who will survive, or if they'll win at all. No Rest for the Wicked This comic wins the award for most clever and original fairytale I've ever read. The plot is all the classic fairytales merged together and drawn beautifully. Really this is an amazing comic, Andrea Peterson has taken the dry ancient gems and brought them to life. I do not think her comic is a parody; it's what fairy tales are meant to be. Objectionable content: none! Updates Thursday nights. Fallen The gal who does this comic is one of the best artists on the web. The story is a graphic novel, archives required. The setting is Sci-Fi in a fantasy world. Fallen is hard to define. The art style is anime, the story is top grade fantasy except it's in a sci-fi setting, it isn't adventure, it isn't comedy (although it is funny at times), it might have romance eventually, it doesn't look like it will be a save-the-world story, it's rather mysterious (the plot, not the comic), it makes you say 'wow' without having amazing things happen. There's not much to do but be in suspense and wait for the next update. Objectionable content: Violence, some language and fantasy theology, depending on your opinions of the genre. Updated sporadically. Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures! Tailsteak's Comics and Thoughts Comics online'Getting into' comics online was an interesting process. First I read Dilbert. Then a tech info site linked to a User Friendly comic, and I started reading that. If I remember correctly, UF mentioned Bruno the Bandit in a news item, and Bruno the Bandit's author mentioned Sluggy Freelance and GPF in a news item. I then realized Bruno and GPF both had a little drop down menu at the top of their pages that had a bunch of web comics on it, themselves included. I tried some, and came to learn about many of the comics here. Turns out Keenspot (www.keenspot.com) hosts multitudes of webcomics, and you can go from one to the other with the drop down menu. This saved me from having to type in twentysome urls. So I could go to keenspot, click on Schlock, go read through all the keenspot comics, then go to Freefall and read through the comics I like in its link page, then go to Real Life, and read the comics it links to. Now with this page I have them all in one place.Somewhere along the line I quit reading Dilbert and the syndicated strips on its drop down menu. Most all syndicated strips are online too. There are lots of very funny syndicated strips, but for some reason, they aren't appealing enough to read daily. I think it's the camaraderie webcomics have. Most of them have author's notes where they talk about what's going on in their lives, they mention when they're sick, answer fan questions, plead when they are running out of money, share links to interesting things. Webcomics advertise on each other's sites and excitedly tell you when they get to meet other webtoonists in person. Webcomics is about giving something for free, in exchange for adoration, and donations. Syndicated comics and their sites give the feeling of being owned, with their homogenous site design and month to half-month archives. Because of being published in magazines and newspapers, syndicated comics tend to be less story based, and more gag and one-liner based. Most of the webcomics I read are long story format. With a little looking around, it is apparent there are more free webcomics than a person could read if that's all they spent their time doing. As you can see, I already read a lot, and am satisfied with what I've found. |