Webcomics
Hi guys 'n' gals, before I talk a little about web comics I just want to show this:
Forget your COD4 Night vision goggles and your batarangs, Kung-fu rooster is mean!
Now to the comics.
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! WARNING !
I've done my best to find episode from the following comics that are 'safe for work' however there are a couple of instances of bad language included.
The choice in web comics is huge and there's many great ones out there which just don't get the attention they deserve, so I wanted to highlight six of my favorites, perhaps you'll find something new.
O from commisionedcomic.org is a good friend of myextralife.com and missiondeep.com he's also part of the great ELR podcast. The site has just celebrated five years of updates which is mostly made up of storylines that go nowhere and random musings, but O's great sense of humor is more than enough to make up for the dropped storylines.
O doesn't do a whole lot of videogame work, mostly because living in Columbia limits what games he can get a hold of.
Penny Arcade really needs no introduction, Gabriel and Tycho are the kings of the webcomic world with over ten years of updates, their own game and their own convention they are perhaps as mainstream as a web comic can get.
I've only recently discovered Least I could do but it's become perhaps my favorite web comic and something I look forward to every day. Ryan Sohmer is the current artist of the strip which is perhaps one of the more '"adult" of the ones I've listed here, in fact it was pretty hard to find a favorite strip that appeared to be at all suitable to put here, but perhaps that's one of the main reasons I love it. There are a couple of videogame references in the strip, but it mostly just focuses on what a womanizer Rayne (the lead) is.
Sometimes I feel bad for Tim Buckley, his CAD comic strip is so often compared directly to Penny Arcade and he seems to get a lot of hate, perhaps it's some politics with Tim's attitude, but as long as he makes good comics I'll keep reading. The comic used to be very game orientated but over the last year the stories have taken more of a front seat (perhaps to separate it from Penny Arcade), but despite some downer storylines (such as an abortion) there's still some good laughs to be had
The Geeks' web comic. For most people the XKCD comics won't make much sence and I won't pretend that I undertand them all. The technical and geeky nature of XKCD is the entire charm of the comic, as it sure doesn't focus on art, although sometimes a charactor may wear a hat
All the other comics have pretty constant update schedules or people on standby for guest strips when the artists get the PAXflu, but Scott Ramsoomair from VG cats has one of the more sparatic update schedules. Scott's comics are generally videogame related and also pretty darn disturbing
That's my list for today, I know I'm missing some but these are the ones I visit the most and I think that anyone could get enjoyment from the wide range of humor across all these comics, but let me know if there's a favorite of yours I'm missing out here.



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Anywho, I really should check up on that Commissioned Comic though...