10 Great Web Comics

I love comics. I really do. Art, story, quick pacing. Awesome. The worse thing about comics? Having to wait a month between issues. Or if you’re like me and wait for the collected volumes then the wait is more like six months to a year. But still I love them. So when I need to fill that void of comic while I await the latest Fables book I turn to the internets. The next best thing to a comic in hand is a comic on screen I say! Not a comic book aficionado? No problem, I’ve got a list here to get you started. There’s a little bit for everyone on this list but be warned, this is no list of Sunday morning funnies. These are hardcore. And highly enjoyable!

By Donyae

[Oh and a note, many of these comics a feature a strong cast of female characters. Not because I’m being all super feminist but because well, girls kick ass]

1) Questionable Content

Indie hipsters, a trendy coffee shop, obscure references and snaky comments. No it’s not your Saturday afternoon, it’s a daily web comic by J. Jacques featuring a cast of hip twenty somethings just trying to make their way through life. Oh and also there are havoc wreaking tiny robots. Join the adventures of Faye, Marty, Dora, and the rest of the gang as they work through their piles of issues, find love, and make fun of the goth kids in the mall. Funny and easy to get into. A great place to start

2) Sore Thumbs

Who loves pop culture? Everyone that’s who. This comic is updated three times a week and follows a loose story sprinkled with cheap shots at whatever is current in the news (E! and otherwise). Owen Gieni and Chris Crosby insert a crazy cast of characters featuring Cecania, the feminist liberal horror tv show host, her brother Fairbanks, the conservative republican to the max, her best friend Harmony, the ditzy doctor, and Sawyer, the hottie hot war veteran with no penis. They involve themselves in odd misadventures while running a game shop. Always worth a giggle, if not an outright belly laugh.

3) Sluggy Freelance

Speaking of spoofs this long running web comic by Pete Abrahms takes the cake. It turns spoofs into long running epics mixed with a delightfully original storyline. The cast is sprinkled with a wild array of characters from a freelance web designer to a Asian college student to an alien from a different dimension to a angry mini lop bunny rabbit that talks. It’s humor goes from smart to toilet and the storyline goes from light hearted to heartbreaking at a click. Worth the five + years of back comics to get to the current punch line.

4) Fart Party

This is the story of a girl. A girl who enjoys fart jokes. Fart party is the loose story of Julia Wurtz’s life as a comic creator and artist as she travels through the world meeting people and breaking up with her boyfriend. She makes entirely inappropriate comments at entirely appropriate times. The sort of things that you know you were thinking but too afraid to say. She has the same struggles that we all do. She just shares hers in comic form.

5) Ninjas Don’t Knit

This is a fairly new comic. It only updates once a week but it’s well worth the look. Since it’s so new you can get in at the beginning and call readers who jump in later posers for only liking it when it became super popular. The creator, Chris Grillo, will dig that by the way. A funny little love story written by a boy. So its mixed with random geek jokes.

6) Something*Positive

There is nothing positive about this group of people. These are the people that your parents warned you against. They’re the people that can make you cry with a single sentence. Or a savage beating, you know whatever seems right for the moment. They’re miserable and they want everyone around them to be that way too. Their biting sarcasm only hurts when its directed at you. Otherwise it’s hilarious. There’s nothing sacred in this comic and somehow, these horrible people remain endearing and lovable. In a rampaging gorilla type way.

7) Kawaii Not

Speaking of cute, this comic is cute overload. It’s sugar puppy frog kittens sprinkled with arsenic. This comic puts the punch into punch line with its very black humor against the sunshine and rainbow cuteness of it’s characters. I dare you not to laugh at a happy candy corn telling you it tastes like death. Funny because it’s TRUE.

8 ) A Softer World

Ever found a box of old photographs and wondered at their stories? That’s’ what this strip does. It gives you the stories. Little glimpses into people that let you know that the world isn’t always much bigger than our own beautifully damaged parts in it. Not always dark, not always funny, but always worth it.

9) Girl Genius

And now for something completely different. Like high adventure? So does Agatha Hetrodyne apparently. She’s the heir to the throne left behind by the greatest heroes the world had ever seen. One problem, the people in charge of things don’t exactly want her taking it up again. Don’t let the blonde hair fool you, she’s smarter than your average, well anybody really. This is a wild steam punk romp in a world not quite unlike or own but filled with mad boys and indestructible monsters. Good times had by all.

10) The Zombie Hunters

Like horror? Then this is the strip for you. Nothing says horror like flesh eating animated corpses. So what makes this strip so special in a world that’s been overrun with zombie books and movies? Nothing except for its cast of awesomely dysfunctional hunters. I mean, you would have to be pretty off your rocker to willingly go out into areas populated by nothing but the soulless shambling bodies of the dead. Oh that and that some of those dead are more than your average flesh eaters. Some of them spit acid. Some of them hunt people like cats. Come for the zombies but stay for the group of people that wear shirts that say, “ I love looting”. Who said the zombie apocalypse couldn’t be a good time?