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aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Angels 2200 [Date] 9/25/03 [Comments] | The creators of this comic have a passion for drawing a) digitally rendered space fighters and b) sexy anime chicks. Consequently, we are served here a story of the distant future in which a virus has killed off nearly all the men, and a war between earth and it's distant colonies is brewing, now fought entirely by the women in fighter squadrons and carrier ships. Angels 2200 focuses on a young and untested squadron, underdogs in a "Top Gun" story. So far they have met, been pushed through hurried training, had time for their sterotypical personalities to interact and bonded as a unit, and had their first real combat. Cliches aside, there's a serious story arc going on, with hints of military intrigue right down to the tag line for the comic: "They were meant to be cannon fodder. They became heroic cannon fodder". Nonetheless, you will need nothing more to recommend this comic except for a) digitally rendered space fighters and b) sexy anime chicks. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Electric Sheep Comics [Date] 10/2/03 [Comments] | Welcome to the exciting era of the Internet. Many of the comics by the author of this collection are stunningly computer rendered, so it must be about computers, or the future, or something. In fact, it looks a lot like the illustrations you used to see in that rag Omni. In fact, it is actually about the illustrations in that rag Omni. I was fortunate enough to get in on the joke early by picking the fabulous story The Guy I Almost Was to read first, in which the slick myth of the glamorous future is debunked through a story of the not-so-recent past. The author is at it again with the current Delta Thrives, only this time it's a story set in the distant future but stuffed chock full of embarrassingly anachronistic "internet" terminology. Additional "Omni" references include plenty of androgenous nudity, sex, drugs, trippy SF themes and blatant liberalism. It's all very well done, and generally put together in such a way that it won't take forever to download, except for the newest stuff. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Pretty Magic [Date] 10/9/03 [Comments] | Pretty Magic is one of a particular entire subgenre of web comic, but there is still no other comic on the web quite like it. The niche is "comics that make fun of 'Magical Girl' anime". This is a beloved easy target on the web; the rigid structure that defines the Magical Girl story, coupled with the seriousness with which they are cranked out, inspires twin challenges to the wag of mocking the formula by tweaking it, while nonetheless adhering to it as closely as possible to make the point. Thus you get your choice of Magical Girl animal, wand, and mysterious boy, and you take the stock situations and crank the absurdity dial up as high as you can. Additional style points are then awarded for then taking what you've done and finding a way to weave in an actual interesting story or mystery. Many of the results on the web are dazzling and even stunningly drawn. However, I was attracted by the amateur style of the art in Pretty Magic; as you know I really enjoy watching new artists evolve and try things out. By now, it's gotten pretty good and continues to improve. The writing gets all the extra style points; I find the satire pretty funny and am hoping that the artist can keep the comic going so I can get more of the backstory. However, as I was digging through the archives, I learned that the artist has a very interesting earlier work, and in fact is quite fascinating himself. For me, this has added much to my appreciation for this comic, and allows forgiveness for it's despair-inducing update schedule. About midway through the archive, there is this filler image and unenlightening explanitory text. What is BGC? Who is this "Brian" and why is he smiling in such a geeky way? And what is that strip of toilet paper or whatever it is that he's holding? Well, we never get an answer to that last one, but the link in the text takes you to a comic called "Boy Girl Club", which is the author's first comic, apparently done while he was in high school. The character bios for this comic tell us: "Brian Young is ... well, he is me. I really don't know what to say to describe myself. I guess the best way to learn about who I am is to read the comic. I mean, I'm in just about every one of them." The comic tells the story of boy who is gay and has many friends in his high school, but is in love with a guy (Jerome) who doesn't like him and continuously maintains his heterosexuality. Jerome frequently beats up Brian to try to make him leave him alone, and is homophobic enough that he drives a car with license plates that say "Not Gay". The smitten Brian will not let up though, until he is driven away so cruelly that he decides to commit suicide. I won't tell you how it turns out, but it is absolutely brilliant. But what is eerie is that it seems to be *the author's own story*, (rendered in exaggerated form) starting as a typical idle comic that kids draw about themselves and their friends, except in this case the author is a homosexual in a straight world. BGC becomes a poignant exploration of human frailty and emotions. The comic is sympathetic to all it's characters, even the ones who can't stand the often annoying hero, and also somehow musters up real humor in almost every strip. And then he sums it up in the last comic of the series (before he switched to a different idea and started a fantasy story with the same characters). Having read all this, it is really something to hit that "Sketchee" link and go over to the author's own website, with his current blog and links to his more recent work. He's still at it several years later, having disasterous relationships, but somehow taking all that emotion and channeling it into all kinds of art. The comics aren't his only outlet; he also does music and sculpture, so there's lots of interesting stuff to click on around the site. Pretty Magic goes on long hiatii when Brian is working on something else or something goes wrong in his emotional life, so check Sketchee every once in a while to check out what's going on. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Errant Story [Date] 10/16/03 [Comments] | After Exploitation Now ended, I was pretty aghast at what replaced it. Not a boring fantasty/adventurers type story! There's only about 400 D&D comics like this on the web, the characters are all cliches, the plot seems to move glacially, there's not much in the way of jokes, and it isn't even in color. It seemed so opposite of what made this author's first comic so beloved on the internet, and destined to end early. However, something intesting has happened; he proved me wrong by sticking with it. Slow or not, there is definitely a plot, and it's got more than a couple of layers. Poe has rewritten the cliched "elves and middle earth" backstory in an admittably new way, with more of an "elder gods" feel and the jumble of anachronisims seems to be working in a hip way. The update rate has been unfailing, which is major points for something I didn't expect to last, so let's check it out and see where it's going to go. Plus, it's got the cat with bat wings. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Neko the Kitty [Date] 10/23/03 [Comments] | What is it with punks and their cute webcomics? Well, Gar is not so much a punk, but a couple of his cute friends are. And the cat is very cute and punk also. This comic unflinchingly explores this dual nature of cats, and it's a raging success. Cat lovers, be alerted! The cat is spot-on, but actually most of the characters are pretty lovable too, so I'd say that in general that it's one of the more humorous comics that I read these days. This is one of the few comics that gives you the additional punch line of a title line for each comic, delivered without fail so far for every comic. The filler comics are actually very funny too, thanks to the freedom granted by surreality. Lastly, the site has something you rarely see anymore: a clean and functional layout. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Limited Space [Date] 11/13/03 [Comments] | Alright! The author of the fabulous Robot Stories has managed to successfully spin off a character into a whole new comic. Although relying on the same cut-and-paste style as the original to keep up the output volume of comics, this is still an impressive achievement. Much like the difference between the Simpsons and Futurama, the new strip uses the freedom of science fiction to portray our world gone mad. Update 1/30/03 This comic was abandoned shortly after I recommended it. I actually never got the chance to give it a link on the WWN. The archive is still there, so enjoy. Update 11/13/03 Limited Space is BACK, baby! Since January, the characters from Limited Space have continued to make appearances in Robot Stories, eventually becoming an integral part of the story. But now that Neil has made the switch to Keenspot, and a slightly different URL, the story continues under the Limited Space nameplate. Robot Stories now rattles on toward a predicted "ending" as a side project at the old URL. Actually, you should check out the old site just to try out one of the best navigation consoles on a web page EVER; among its many features are links to both the old and new comics. Update 1/8/04 On Sabattical while the author reconsiders his motivation. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Double Happiness [Date] 11/27/03 [Comments] | To review any comic by Jason Shiga is to try to find a way to recommend everything by this artist. I have yet to find any other review of Shiga's work that doesn't use the word "genius", so there, I've gotten it over with immediately. My theory as to why he inspires this impression on anybody who meets him is that his sense of humor is so odd and geeky while being completely interwoven into everything he does. Unfortunately, like with most geniuses I have encountered, his output can be intermittant, and it is only because of his newest regularly available work that I can write a review. The base of the Jason Shiga world is his own website, Shigabooks.com. This site contains mostly reviews, written by the artist himself, of his earlier hand-printed comics. The comics described are mostly out of print and not available on the web site, but the reviews are screamingly hilarious. And, as you read, you will begin to get a taste of how math and humor combine in Jason's world. There actually are some samples of comics on the site, all good especially the compelling Bus Stop, which is representative of Jason's highly recognizable drawing style, pacing and humor, and is also unfinished. The Shigabooks site used to contain a journal, now a LiveJournal, which is perhaps the funniest I could ever possibly recommend. In absolutely deadpan tones he describes attempting to overcome shyness in his everyday life by analyzing it mathematically. Just read it. When I discovered shigabooks, his then Magnum Opus was in the process of moving to Modern Tales, one of the grandfathers of pay webcomic sites that is still going strong and which you should join. I never saw "Fleep" at the time because it was in transition and I couldn't figure out its update schedule; the really good news however is that it is now available in full for free back on shigabooks.com! Fleep's review on the website, which was all I could find for about a year however, is such a work of art on its own that I feel compelled to quote it in entirety here: Fleep is everything I wish that a comic strip could be. It's ambitous, mysterious and utterly masturbatory. About a quarter of the strips feature the main character working through various math problems. They are some of the most dramatic math problems you'll ever see in a comic strip. I believe that Fleep is my best strip to date. It is also a complete commercial disaster. The editors at "Asian Week" felt that the theme of the strip didn't really jive with the rest of their newspaper and decided to cut the run at number 28. I imagine all along, they really wanted an Asian Boondocks or Cathy. But gosh darnit, I did the best strip I could and if I did what they wanted it wouldn't have been the best. I really thought there were enough people out there like me who would just fall in love with the strip. But I think it just confused people. After all that, it seems all the more ironic that Jason's shiny new comic, Double Happiness, again at Modern Tales (the most current comic is always free for you cheapsters out there), would have made Asian Week's editors happy. It's the story of a chinese american who moves to SF and hangs out with some friends there in it's vibrant chinatown, but is ashamed when they discover that he doesn't actually know much chinese language or culture. They of course are not offended, but set out to help him learn to fit in. It's a beautiful story, and it inspired me to do a web search on "Hokkein" and learn something I didn't know before about chinese history and people. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Alum Falls [Date] 12/04/03 [Comments] | As with the best of art, Alum Falls is not so much a comic as a multidimensional experience. The artist has passed away, so it will not ever update again, but I hope you have as much fun as I did exploring both the large body of work contained on this site, and the trails that lead to the equally interesting story of the author himself. Alum Falls is the story of a boy, John Snavely, growing up in a midwestern town in the 50's. It is told from the perspective of his journal, over a period of about two years of high school. Accompanying each journal entry are one or two pictures depicting the events, one could argue that it's a book with pictures rather than a comic, but I've clicked away nearly a whole week exploring the archives so I've earned the right to call it what I want. Snavely seems to spend most of the summers wandering around the town after dark with his friends, or going down to the pool to hang out with the girls. Eventually he gets a girlfriend, they break up, life goes on from there. It is as long and confused as any real journal would be, and the author has managed to capture with stunning clarity the turmoil of adolescence, when it feels like you are being boiled by your own emotions. He also experiments with the format when needed, once putting his older self in the comic, plays with the art, sometimes puts in asides as hypertext links, and also occasionally reveals the story from other points of view such as the girl's, casting the details with touching delicacy. There is more going on in this work than just an illustration of somebody's journal. The author was working on putting the whole postwar american experience in perspective, tying together historical as well as literary knots. See if you can recognize some of them. If you follow the links from this site, you begin to learn that his own, nonfictional life was pretty much the postwar american experience. He was born about the same time as his character and lived in a small town, went to Yale, worked for civil rights in the 60's, got in touch with his father's WWII story, and got in on the ground floor of a computer startup back in the DOS days. I think he was trying to figure out how it all fit together when he was writing Alum Falls, and it's a shame it can never be finished. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Staccato [Date] 12/11/03 [Comments] | Brand new on the Web and looks a little bit like a "college paper" strip from the plot (but it can't be, because he went to University of Md, my Alma Mater, and I would have noticed it), this comic is distinguished by the crisp, cleanly inked artwork and rowdy characters, most notably "Basketcase". But best of all, the author of this comic seems to be at forefront of today's webcomic world. He personally knows the authors of many other comics, and has a link to a previously unheard-of excellent comic on his page just about every day. >Update 12/11/03 Not a lot of updates recently (my original review is about a year old I guess), but I check this comic hopefully every week. I recommend you start with the archives. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Okay Pants [Date] 12/18/03 [Comments] | Yay, another cute punk comic! This one is better than all the others because it's cuter. The author, Julie, appears as a hollow-eyed "Pippi Longstocking" punk, with her friend Bello, a mushroom with teeth. This comic's meloncholy humor comes out in the first episode, as our heroine accidently squashes a tiny gremlin on the thorns of a rose as she and the mushroom are going out to dinner; the deceased's tiny husband angrily demands that somebody now volunteer to babysit his kids. I love the fact that this comic is such an experiment that it could go just about any direction any day. Mondo major points for drawing Julie not in the same outfit all the time. Excellent playful tone and surrealist humor. Hasn't been going too long so you can enjoy the whole archive immediately. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Desert Rocks [Date] 1/1/04 [Comments] | Proof that the World Wide Web is big enough for really important things to get lost in. This is a graphic novel, updated weekly, apparently. It's on sabatical until next week, but that hopefully will give you enough time to read the archives and catch up with the story. It starts with a guy, possibly a refugee, who is drifting around somewhere in the Middle East taking odd jobs and having small adventures. He meets up with a couple of women doing some kind of hippie pilgrimage, travelling on foot to visit a series of temples. You begin to get the sense that it's not actually in the Middle East, because the men and women in this comic interact with no hint of tension or inequality. A map eventually appears in the comic, and we get the final proof that Desert Rocks is, as advertised, not set in "the real" world. However the economics, religion, politics and every other aspect of human nature in the environment of Desert Rocks are exceedingly realistic. More importantly, the characters are becoming more and more interesting as their backgrounds are revealed. Although it's gone for two years and 100 pages, this novel seems to be just beginning, so I hope to continue to be impressed by the quality and style for years to come. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] A Miracle Of Science [Date] 1/8/04 [Comments] | A Miracle Of Science is my perfect anime story. There's a bedrock hoary cliche (mad scientists) approached from a hip oblique angle (a futuristic police agency dedicated to combatting mad scientists) in a cool world governed by nerdy realistic physics (about 200 years in the future) with lots of interplanetary travel (Mining stations around Jupiter, a breakaway advanced colony on mars), a handsome but angsty hero, a cute and mysterious female agent (from the martian equivalent of the earth mad scientist police) with near-super powers, folded layers of intrigue and strategy, and scenes of breathtaking beauty and coolness ("nobody's ever re-entered the martian atmosphere without a spacecraft before"). Edit the URL to jump up to the authors' main page and view the earlier work, it's a lot of fun too! | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Demonology 101 [Date] 1/15/04 [Comments] | A soap-operaey story of a middle school girl who also happens to be a demon trying to live a normal girl's life despite being caught in the middle of an epic battle between the forces of good and evil. Sort of like a cross between "Charmed" and "All Purpose Cross-Cultural Cat Girl Nuku-Nuku". This ambitious story was started for fun but continued until the artist's style became confident enough to begin branching out professionally. It's now up to 5 chapters, and will end when the current chapter concludes. I found this one thanks to first finding her current Modern Tales story, Ice, which I would have liked to recommend separately except I've been doing a few too many Modern Tales reviews lately and not everybody is a subscriber (though you should be). Faith has of the best links pages I've seen recently, the source of my last two finds and many more. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Gods And Undergrads [Date] 1/22/04 [Comments] | I have to recommend the art on this comic. It is beautifully done while still unabashedly cartooney, and I love all the bright colors. However the main reason this comic stands out from others is how girly it is. I read plenty of comics by women and have seen spot-on women characters, but no other comic simply depicts everyday life in college the way this one does. Things like staying up all night with your roommates, meeting the cute guys at parties, or just getting up and going to classes. It very effectively serves the purpose of making the characters seem more real and drawing you unsuspectingly into the plot. It was also interesting to read the author's previous works and blog and learn about her interest in Greek mythology, which makes clearer the threads of the larger story which are being woven into the start of the comic. Anyway, she apparently goes to school in Maryland, and even went to SPX which I had to miss again this year, so yay local talent! | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Spare Parts [Date] 1/29/04 [Comments] | Speaking of talented women artists, the married team of Isabel and Terrence Marks are at it again. Terrence's Unlike Minerva had pretty much settled down to the "Drawn by Isabel" show, and this did not make me sad in the least. Isabel can really draw, and in particular the female characters. You could tell that she was supplying a woman's touch to the writing too, although the majority of the whimsy clearly was still Terrence. The story ended on a romantic upbeat, and now they're trying something new, this time with - *gasp* - human characters. Thankfully it's the same Godotian ride as before, and the characters are even more adorable looking than I would have thought possible. So, if by this time you too are an Isabel Marks fan, you probably have already checked out her solo comic Namir Deiter, an all-furry girlfest which continues to run regularly despite all the other stuff she's been doing. Really, she had quite a little empire on line for a while, with several comics including the sorely missed journal comic "Bubble", and I get the impression that she was instrumental in setting up The Nice. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] 8:1 [Date] 2/5/04 [Comments] | It looks like a three-panel comic, but in terms of artistic quality, story, and depth of characters Eight To One is a graphic novel, one that I check on Tuesdays and Fridays from 12:01 AM until it updates. The story of two burnouts bouncing around their town together trying to locate some shred of emotion in their lives, it hasn't been publishing long, but every single strip is a brilliant set piece, gorgeously drawn. It would be a silly string of sterotypes if the characters didn't actually have an emotion or two. Oh yeah, the main character is named "Charles". | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Gods Of Arr-Kelaan [Date] 2/19/04 [Comments] | The Gods of Arr-Kelaan contains some really neat writing. It's not that the concept is so new (somebody get some windex so that we can wipe Terry Pratchett's fingerprints off this comic), but the characters, particularly the shell-shocked and slightly ticked-off hero, are fleshed out well beyond their D&D-ish origins. How they react to every situation and interact is refreshingly down-to-earth, making it easy for the reader to imagine themselves in this epic. Our hero last remembers that he was on a spaceliner on a routine cruise, now he has woken up on a strange planet posessing nearly god-like powers. As he eventually encounters others who were on his ship he learns that they too have discovered their own super abilities, and each one has come up with a slightly different idea of what to do with themselves. All of this happens in the ampitheater of the fearful and superstitious local population, resulting in a multileveled exploration of mythology, along with an overarching question of whether they will discover what happened and get home. Now, the link above is to "Volume 3", currently in progress, which it turns out is a good place to start because the author has become familiar enough with his characters that he doesn't belabor introductions, and the story takes front and center stage where it belongs. However, the backstory is just so interesting that you want to read more about it, and guess what, you can! Volume 0 is being serialized at Strippers Corner, and Volume 2, about 100 pages, is available in a slightly shrunk but fast-loading format in the author's own website at DrunkDuck.com. For Volume 1, you will have to buy the book. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Reckless Life [Date] 2/26/04 [Comments] | Fun Comic. Reckless Life cuts a distinctive edge, with a retro, cool 60's graphic design. Set in the future, but not obnoxiously so, as anything is "normal" in Vegas in any time. Great anti-hero; Locke is little more than a small time criminal, good at what he does and no reason to hold back. Bullets fly, there are great long footchases, shifting alliances and nefarious characters. Host of a little new webcomic empire, one of two in "Misfit Media", the other is good too. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Under Power [Date] 3/11/04 [Comments] | You know those goths who sit in the lobboy at cons smoking all day and night? This is their comic. Part Pulp Fiction, part "Mystery Men". This is a comic where the guys are cool with a 9mm in each hand, and the women are short with fairy wings and are to be feared for their ability to rip your skin right off your body. The story line advances glacially, but really it's just an excuse for some mind-boggling artwork. This guy is so artistically talented that his "filler" artwork blows most comics' regular artwork completely away. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Checkerboard Nightmare [Date] 3/25/04 [Comments] | Great name, actually a pretty nice setup, very slick looking. I was ambivalent about it, due to the fact that the humor seems to consist of 100% fourth-wall jokes. The premise is explored from every possible angle, sort of like Toy Story in reverse, where the webcomic character feverishly desires to become popular and famous, and somehow tap into that rare vein of marketing success that many authors can see but few can achieve. He's a great antihero, and self-centeredly uses his supporting cast like the props that they are. Every once in a while he'll bitterly drop the name of a "competitor" or make some in-the-know reference; it's the perfect webcomic reader's webcomic. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Dominic Deegan [Date] 4/1/04 [Comments] | There must be thousands of black and white Otaku-driven anime-look comics on Keenspace alone. This one, however, this one stands higher than most thanks to adhering to a different formula than you might expect. The main character is a seer with a long scarf and a lot of magic tricks up his sleeve. As you begin to realize, the tone is a lot more "Dr. Who" than "DragonballZ", starting with the rescue of an "ugly duckling" girl who becomes his adventuring companion. And of course there's bonus points for a talking cat, and lots of puns. Start reading from the beginning (where my link points) because the stories build on each other and the current story is already up to Sluggy-level complexity. Or to read the most current, click here | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Irregular Webcomic [Date] 4/8/04 [Comments] | One of the most regularly updated comics on the Net. Made using lego characters and sets in order to realize one of the funniest, yet geekiest senses of humor out there. First two strips begin it perfectly: "Hey! There's comics on the Internet!" [time passes] "Ha ha ha ha ha ha! .... (then later:) What a waste of time!" (The next comic:) "I should make my own web comic...Nah, too geeky... I'll stick to roleplaying". The next comics are of his miniatures, but soon it graduates to the infinite possibilties offered by the legos. Many jokes are based on knowledge that is so obscure that the author can't wait to provide a little lesson in the "annotations", which I strongly suggest you turn on. Yes, you can turn them on or off; in addition to everything else, this is one of the best-organized viewing system for comics ever devised. My favorite comics so far are the ones with the author himself, but you can choose from a variety of storylines including the we received Star Wars storyline. So start reading and SET NERDINESS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN!!!!!!!! | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Reach Up Low [Comments] | Naively beautiful, Reach Up Low is a Kubrickian story set in a post apocalypic future where humanity is fleeing earth. It shows all the signs of having been fully planned out, but on a student's schedule it's update rate is uneven. Follow the author's advice and start at the beginning, then check this gemlike comic weekly. Update: project on hold, probably indefinitely. The archives are still available, though moved to a different address; the link to the left has been updated accordingly. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Dork Tower [Comments] | The Penny Arcade of RPG comics, previously found only in obscure magazines that only hard core gamers knew how to get, now available for free online! Despite all that, it's actually funny. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Questionable Content [Date] 4/29/04 [Comments] | An extrodinarily cute comic about a young post-college kid (generation Z?) trying to figure out what to do with his life. He meets a girl he can talk about bands and shows with, they become roommates and friends and romantic tension ensues. Not as many points off as would be usual for the inexplicable robot character in this otherwise present-day setting, since he hasn't been resorted to for plot filler too much yet. The characters are all immensely likable and sympathetic, and you want to just squeeze them! | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Alpha Shade [Date] 5/6/04 [Comments] | An otoku-born semi-weekly comic with friggin unbelievable art, that also gloriously realizes the essence of japanese anime narrative. This is what WWI would have been like if it were fought by women in tight fitting uniforms. With floating battleships. And godlike psychic talking cats. And there's something about dragons. The comic commendably portrays the frighteningly senseless bloody death of war unflinchingly along with romantic images of hardware, so although it's not for the faint of heart it's definitely refreshingly worth reading. The story so far has progressed with masterful patience; we haven't even begun to see a hint to answers to the story's central mysteries yet. The authors are masters of graphics-rich internet content, and at least half of their web site is solid Flash with bells and wistles out the wazoo. They do their weekly rant in streaming audio. However they have thoughtfully provided an ordinary HTML version of their pages for those of us stuck in the dark ages. There's a great precursor story to read, which is important because the update rate has slowed to a trickle and I don't have time to download the newest windows media player so I can listen to their rant and find out why. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Station V3 [Date] 5/27/04 [Comments] | Station V3 brings the same gentle smiles and classic comedy as "Mutts" to a science fiction setting. Station V3 is a boring, tiny refueling station way off regular shipping lines, staffed with a less-than brilliant crew. To give you an idea of the humor, the comic starts with the introduction of a main character, a leafless plant brought on board to brighten up the decor. Bureacratic hi-jinx result. The charming pace seems to have resulted in completely reliable daily delivery for about a year now, such that there's now a humorously identical spinoff called Station Z7, hosted on DrunkDuck because apparently Keenspace wan't slow enough for the author's tastes. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] You Say It First [Date] 6/3/04 [Comments] | If you've been reading this site or my LiveJournal, you know that I'm a fan of Isabel Marks. I like her drawing style and the fact that she is producing about four comics at once these days with her husband Terrance Marks, the inventor of the innovative Unlike Minerva which ended several months ago. You Say It First continues the story of that (recently re-archived) comic. After a shocking first week in which the characters from the Minerva Theater are somewhat unrealisticly thrust into the real world and scatttered to the four winds, the story is pared down to just the Brisbane and Kimberly story. Their relationship has been very interesting up to this point as it slowly evolved. It began as humorously adversarial and moved logically from there into flirtation until both of the characters began to come to the realization that there might be something between them. Now the story continues, with a brilliantly mature writing style that ignores none of the baggage from the earlier part of the story while examining the difficulties of developing their relationship further under stressful real-life conditions. Kimberly's character is fleshed out more, while you feel for Brisbane's confusion as he tries to figure her out, caught in her protective layers of mystery and his own uncomfortable situation of having to rely on her for a place to live. All this and it still succeeds in being funny every day. The art is fantastic, and what a hilarious URL! | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Tuesday [Date] 7/10/04 [Comments] | This is probably the second most fascinating example of the "Stick Figure" genre. Michelley and her friends have spindly legs and arms, balls for feet, and big round heads, but wear clothes and have cool hair. It's visually compelling, setting the atmosphere for the easygoing stories, where the characters mostly just hang out. There's an archive, but it takes a trick of navigation to get to the old archive which has the older and extremely cool stories. Update 6/5/03 Tuesday hasn't updated for a while, but both the old and the new archives are still up, and the old archive, strangely, has a new link to something interesting, possibly by the same author although it's hard to tell. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Captain SNES [Date] 6/17/04 [Comments] | The intriguing title of this comic is one of the many things about it that I don't get. Nonetheless, I find this comic so hilarious that I wait every day for it to be updated, and I was very sad when it went static just shortly after I finished reading the entire archives. But it's back now! Captain SNES is the story of an unlikely hero who finds himself transported from the real world into a video game world. The artwork is another victorious example of "pixel" art; each character is no more than a few bytes in size. Like most pixel art, you can't even tell what's going on unless you stand back a bit... I find this visual tribute to the video game universe to be one of the best running jokes of the comic. However, there are also several humorous video game references, character cross overs, and fourth wall violations, all with a fresh and quirky sense of humor that I really enjoy. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Loserz [Date] 6/24/04 [Comments] | It's kind of hard to write a review of this comic in a family webzine, but since I've been checking it at 12:01 every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for as long as I can remember I guess I better mention it. On the surface, this looks like just another comic by a horny high school guy getting his rocks off by drawing hot slutty high school girls. In reality, 1) the guy is well past high school, 2) despite a cynical outlook on the high school scene, he's put a lot of effort into the characters; they have full stories and their friendship with each other is endearing, 3) he can really draw. The disadvantage is that it's hard to find a safe week to recommend the comic. We just finished up a week in which the cartoonist tried to be as offensive as possible (I had to stop reading this storyline when they brought in a box of kittens for horrible things to happen to). For mature audiences, especially those who can tell the difference between fantasy and reality, but funny as heck. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] return to sender [Date] 7/1/04 [Comments] | As mysterious as it is beautifully drawn. A city dweller happens to see an apartment go up for rent as he walks by, and jumps on it. It's cheap for it's size. His wacky friend notices a mail slot on an interior wall with no corresponding opening on the other size. A letter drops out, containing instructions to go to a strange location. They decide to go, and the letter leads them through a series of impossible coincidences and supernatural events. Then another letter arrives. Surprisingly interesting characters. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Sylvia [Date] 7/8/04 [Comments] | For everybody who had to make do with regular comics before webcomics were invented, Nichole Hollander's comic needs no introduction. Crazy, kitchy, femminist, cat-loving, eerily accurate, Sylvia has been running for decades and is somehow still every bit as funny and life-affirming as ever. I would do web searches for it on the Internet every once in a while (back then we didn't call it "googling"), but for a long time only Nichole's own web site existed, which had only about 5 comics that never seemed to be updated. Now it's published daily in UComics, plus it seems as though Nichole's site is now updated monthly, and they pick from the deep archives which is always a treat. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Accidental Centaurs [Date] 7/15/04 [Comments] | If what you liked about The Gods of Arr-Kelaan was the Gilligan's Islandesqe story of earthlings stuck on an unfamiliar world and trying to get home, you'll like The Accidental Centaurs. Looks like another furry fetish comic, but early on in the story the author has accidently let slip his hard-sf core, and the dash of physics makes the mix good. Two physicists, male and female, blow something up, now they find themselves on a strange planet in the bodies of centaurs, or so it seems. Roll a 20-sided die. Start at the first story because it explains some stuff. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Pathetic Geek Stories [Comments] | It's pretty funny, or tragic, depending on whether you're still bitter. Here's me (top comic). One of the genre of rare and proud comics in which the author illustrates stories sent to her by readers. Warning: True life stories of utter humiliation and embarassment, from about my era of childhood which makes the "Mad Magazine" art style all the more appropriate. Not at all mean, PGS is part of the cycle of healing, each story sent in by a person who has grown up enough to learn from it and laugh about it now. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Gleaners [Date] 7/29/04 [Comments] | An entirely unironic comic about the fun of being a mormon missionary. Apparently all drawn during the author's mission and being posted now for public enjoyment. Very nice web site design, with lots of FAQ information for us uninitiated. The characters seem to all be white men in suits with their hands in their pockets. A disadvantage to be sure, but it somehow contributes to the spooky background aura set up by the comic's title. This is a highly recommended and enjoyable slice of life comic. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Suburban Tribe [Date] 8/5/04 [Comments] | No other comic so perfectly masters the TV sitcom formula as this one. David Spade, Julia Louis Dreyfuss, Lisa Kudrow, and I can't figure out who would play Dave, all work at an ad agency (of course) and have episodic misadventures from the grab bag of the 7 sitcom stories. I love it for the same reason that I get addicted to certain sitcoms that always seem to air in late-night reruns. It's easy to identify with these young, self-assured characters (however unlikely that may be), they all have redeeming qualities and friendships, and the stories all have a satisfying wrap-up, with hints of character growth and "just desserts" such as we'd like to see in real life. The art is fabulous, and there's a cat (with unfortunately round pupils, sadly). | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Stuffed [Date] 8/19/04 [Comments] | This breathless and fresh comic by the enigmatic Jewel Bong seems likely to stick around, now past it's 50th comic. It is charming, full of fairy tale characters and fashion. There's a girl who wakes up in a strange world, a talking lion with glasses, mad scientists in a surreal laboratory, and The Secretary for occasional narration. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Candi [Date] 9/22/04 [Comments] | I love it when my favorite comic strip artists start up a new project as a solution to whatever writer's block is killing them; I like it even better when it works! Starline Hodges, author of Celly's Wings, has a new comic out, that's been updating regularly. It's a "life in college" romp that ranges from addressing Starline's peeves with her professors, to development on some well-formed and increasingly interesting characters. The art is fantastic as usual. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Penny and Aggie [Date] 9/30/04 [Comments] | It's been a while since I recommended a Modern Tales comic. I try not to do it, since not everybody is going to want to shell out 29 bucks a year. However, this comic alone warrants the cost of a subcription; it's the return of one of the gods of the early webcomic years, Gisele Lagace, creator and artist of the stunning Cool Cat Studio. The writing is the familiar melodrama, probably due to the return of T. Cambell with writing credits, although the plot about two high school girls has a woman's touch all over it. The tag line for the comic is "The prom queen, the class weirdo and the bond between them that neither can explain." It's sort of a "Betty and Veronica" thing, but fortunately the two characters are far from buddies and the characters are far from paper cutouts. They spend as much time in their own separate worlds as when their worlds collide, but of course its those collisions that make all the fun. The material for this setup shows little signs of running out, and the three-panel format hopefully will allow Gisele to keep up the schedule for a long time. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversable [Date] 10/7/04 [Comments] | Move Over, exploding dog, agonizing wistfulness has a new master on the Web. "Lesson" is brand new and generating plenty of buzz. The update rate is sporatic, but that's probably because the comic is painted as much as drawn, and the most recent efforts have been gallery quality. The writing is a terrifying mind-trip, you have to read it slowly, and read it multiple times, savoring each layer and staying up all night talking though the meanings found within. And, if you dare, there's more of the same in the author's comments at the bottom of the page. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Punish The Dead [Date] 10/14/04 [Comments] | I met the author of this comic at SPX this year, and had the honor of telling him, "Your comic terrifies me". Sorry, I know, it's another Modern Tales comic; I'm not sure if you can get the gist now that the story has been going for a while, but here's a short summary. The comic alternates between a boy in elementary or junior high school, enduring the humiliations and torments of childhood, and a wild-eyed psychotic adult, dragging a 50 gallon drum through the woods for some unknown horrific reason we are about to find out. Is he the boy grown up or someone else? Is he going to blow something up? Is he involved in the occult? Is he somehow going to travel back in time to his earlier self? I have to decide some days if I can handle reading the most recent installment, but if not I'll probably catch up with it the next day. Created with ink and watercolor to a beautiful, reminiscent effect, a swirl of memories and images which create a creepy chill that you might be afraid will reach deeper into your psyche that you would want. When I talked to the author about it, he said that at the current rate he expects the story to conclude in 2006. Now that's planning. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Overcompensating [Date] 10/28/04 [Comments] | Just a couple of weeks ago, the author of Wigu suddenly began making a new and probably short-run comic at the same time as the currently running comic. OMG, we are getting a chance to watch this guy bleed genius in double time! The character in Overcompensating looks sort of like a grown-up version of the six-year-old Wigu, but the comic features the amphetimine-driven stream-of-consiousness writing that has made Jeff Rowland's Livejournal the most breathtaking reading on the inter-net. Also, the art is twice as awesome, if that can be believed. The comic is presented in "blog" format, and the fact that comics just seem to appear and disappear from the archives is not a good sign, so catch it while you can. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Spamusment [Date] 1/13/2005 [Comments] | He creates primitive line single panel cartoons, using for inspiration evocative sentences emailed to him. No, silly, not explodingdog, I'm talking about Spamusment. Any enemy of spam email will get a chuckle out of the hilarious illustrations of spam subject lines produced (almost) daily by the not-so-bad artist of this comic. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Casey and Andy [Date] 1/20/2005 [Comments] | Ok, although it didn't look like anything special the first time I looked at it, I admit this comic is worthy of the many accolades that guided me to it in the past month. It has the basic set of characters that any webcomic comes with these days, a couple of mad scientists, Satan, and a girlfriend. Beautifully, however, with the exception of running jokes there is little continuity. The author starts each comic with a blank page and by the end of the comic a situation is worked fearlessly to its inevitable conclusion. The mad scientists are truly mad, world domination is somehow never achieved, and Satan gets to have a lot of fun roaming the earth in the form of a hot redheaded babe. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Stabba Stabba [Date] 1/27/05 [Comments] | Premise of this comic: a cloud carrying two knives. Poorly drawn. Weirdly funny. Cutting-edge humor, ha ha! You wouldn't think this premise could get stretched far, but it's been going for months and shows no signs of stopping. Sometimes sweet, sometimes perverse. The thing with the word "Cock" on it is supposed to be a soda can. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] YirMumah [Comments] | Yirmumah ("Your mamma" for those of us phonetically and humor impaired, or perhaps something more... scatalogical) is a rabid squirrel of a comic. Clearly drawn by a couple of actual professional comic book artists to attack the hands of everybody they don't like, especially those that feed them, this comic is hilarious. Recently transitioning from monthly to daily strips, the characters based on themselves are regularly abused and humiliated, along with celebrities that are unfortunate enough to wander into the field of fire. The link to the left is for the daily comics, the "sunday" comics are posted here, along with links to related earlier work that explains a lot, such as a precursor project and a scathing review of the comic artist's options for work. Really, what more can you say about a comic that has as a semi-main character a tap dancing butt with a top hat? | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Sarah Zero [Date] 2/10/05 [Comments] | Sarah Zero is an out of control hipness fantasy, full of relentlessly abused pop references, frenetic plastic artwork, and improbable video-game-style battles in midair. Yummy, if insubstantial. Running jokes include video gaming references, cell phones that cut off, and Osama Bin Ladin. The artwork jumps into using photographs at the most unexpected, yet brilliant moments. I recommend you start at the beginning. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Latex Blue [Date] 2/17/05 [Comments] | The author of Latex Blue is a giddy intellectual who is utterly fascinated by the purity of fetishism (at least as I read his well-referenced FAQ). The main characters I've met so far are a cat who is a balloon. She finds a talking disembodied head and against its wishes takes it back to her master. Sex games ensue. This comic has been criticised as being a "furry" comic, but it is really much more interesting and experimental than that. Warning: reading Latex Blue will expand your mind in unexpected directions. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Perry Bible Fellowship [Date] 2/24/05 [Comments] | The Perry Bible Fellowship is a pretty scary comic. In archaic "strip" format, looking for all the world like a comic for children with bright colors and busy line work, it will either contain a surreal but uplifting story of human stupidity, poke into the depths of human sexuality, or just splatter gore in a shocking fashion. Dinosaurs, for example, feature prominently, either as prideful creatures who couldn't be bothered with God's tree of Knowledge, or divinely intelligent creatures that telepathically summon the asteroids to end their own era. The archive navigation is a little hard to use, but that's ok because you will need time to digest each comic, and might perhaps want to keep from reading too many at once to prevent from losing your mind. Update: Finally updated the URL, although ironically the author has stopped updating the comic. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Schlock Mercenary [Date] 3/3/2005 [Comments] | Hard SF. Haaaaard SF. But silly too. Not a bunch of in-jokes based on other Science Fiction, just unabashedly technical story lines and jokes. The concept centers around a mercenary unit that travels the galaxy taking whatever job promises money, and when they're not working they still wreak havoc wherever they go. As the comic progresses, the artwork, writing, and our heros' situations improve. They move up to larger and larger ships, with ever-increasing political intrigue and plot complications, while never failing to deliver humor at the expense of either the charaters or the genre, every single day. This comic has been going since 1998, I'm not sure how I missed it until now, but there are now over a thousand comics in the archive. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] HB Comics Blog [Date] 3/10/2005 [Comments] | The HB Comic-Blog is in itself a comic. The author comments on a new comic every day, and elaborates further in text below. An endless source of great comic links. The reviews are the most thoughtful and polite of any I have ever read. The main characters are a pencil and an eraser. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Pet Professional [Date] 3/24/05 [Comments] | Just started, only a few comics in the archive so far, the theme is "a hitman who takes out pets". The humor behind each installation comes from digging a little deeper into the story, such as why a particular animal got marked for termination, or what the hit man does on his day off. Super-polished art. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Building 12 [Date] 3/31/05 [Comments] | A "crazy anime college" story, based of course on the author's own college. Well executed standard plot with all the requisite anime character elements, quite beautiful art, and it has "12" in its title. The artist is so distinctive, that when I saw his work in Misfile and didn't know it was him, I got an itch to catch up with Building 12. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] SQ Worm [Date] 4/7/05 [Comments] | SQ Worm is a worm because it's easy to draw. And he has a personality like a worm. And it's the author's "thing". Oppressively ironic, this comic is interesting because it is full of experimentation with art and storytelling. It is more or less a weekly side effect of the author's hip blog, so some times you check you might get a comic, some times a rant or seven screenfulls of pictures of his cat. The "Comics" link takes you to a page of earlier work which gives you a fuller taste of where the author has been and where he's going, but as archives go it's a directory listing of a bunch of gifs and you have to click each one. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Comiku [Date] 4/14/05 (2/4/2005 LJ) [Comments] | Comiku is a webcomic by two catgirls who go to cons. It's only 22 comics long now, but it is delightful to see the art and humor snap into focus from the early strips. They make plenty of jokes about cons and the people they meet there, and it is refreshingly straightforward. I hope I get a chance to meet them someday, as they apparently specialize in doing drawings for people in anime style at the cons. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Skirting Danger [Comments] | What would "Kim Possible" be like once she hit her 20's and realized how banal life really is? I imagine that's the question the author of Not Gonna Take It asked as she got older herself and couldn't keep going with that story as it became increasingly darker and more tragic. The answer is Skirting Danger, a self-absorbed superhero wannabe with a lot of emotional baggage but oblivious to the anguish she inflicts on those around her. There's still an "after school" conclusion to the end of each story, and funny bits, but it's a little like reading "The Watchmen", except with Meredith Gran's beautiful artwork. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Striptease [Comments] | Striptease is lusciously drawn, with an angsty but disposable plot line thrown in to amuse anybody who doesn't just want to look at the pictures. The premise is a bunch of friends who work as comic book artists, and their overlapping relationships. The "industry" background isn't carried off too believably, but many of the characters are rather nice and it's just good to see them doing stuff. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Mom's Cancer [Comments] | This guy made a comic out of his experiences with his family dealing with his mom's cancer. It is well done, educational, emotional, long, and has a real-life surprise at the end. I would like to know more about who the artist is and how he created this comic. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Scooterboy1234 [Comments] | Corey Marie is going out with a guy who has a pretty amazing journal comic of his own. He updates it quite reliably, a pleasure since the main journal comics I was following a while ago dried up. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Buzzle [Comments] | Screw Salon! Their popup message ("Want to read the whole article? You have two options: ") when you tried to view comics just rubbed me the wrong way. Of course, you can get This Modern World and Tom The Dancing Bug elsewhere, but it was always a shame to stop reading The K Cronicles and Carol Lay. No more! I just recently discovered that you can find them both at This back door site, which I found BTW from a link on Keef's own site , so it may actually be on the up-and-up. Both are thought provoking and funny, but you gotta love the K Chronicles in particular for reportedly being drawn with a Sharpie. For Keith and For Carol | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Escapeman [Comments] | escapeman, which it turns out is pretty funny on its own. Reminds me a little of Intelligent Humor. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] American Born Chinese [Comments] | American Born Chinese, a series distinguished by the occasional divergences into the story of the mythological Monkey King, for which the author's geometric style seems particularly suited. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] It's About Girls [Comments] | It's About Girls, in a sorta bitter way. The author of this comic occasionally shows his characters naked, not in a sexual way, just in a standing-on-the-scale-after-taking-a-shower way, which I find interesting. Also, this is the guy who elevated the art form of complaining about teaching ESL in Korea on the internet to a new popular form; I highly recommend reading his rants although sadly he seems to have edited them slightly since I first found his site. I was going to tell you that I recently miraculously found out where the wanker that made (the absolutely amazing but now killed and never coming back) "It's About Girls" has been hiding out. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Slow Wave [Comments] | Slow Wave, where the stories are real dreams sent to the author. I had to wait until today to mention this one because it's been getting so many hits that the bandwidth was exceeded last month. The counter has been reset for now, so catch it quick. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Yenny at moderntales or Yennycomics.com [Comments] | A sexy girl with giant, balloon-like thighs, and her disney-animated wacky iguana. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Nekobox [Comments] | Basically a hand-drawn sprite comic. Not a format that inspires me to outright laughter, but I read it faithfully anyhow because the women characters in this comic float on tiptoe like terrifying spectres. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Sixth Seal [Comments] | An unfinished french sci-fi comic. Very interesting and ambitious, you should read it even though you will never learn how it ends. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Can't Sleep, Con Will Eat Me [Comments] | a comic about con ops. Not very regularly updated, but the best art ever applied to jokes of this silliness level. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Fallen Angels Used Books [Comments] | Any comic that Duff likes is guaranteed to be good <> | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Hey Suburbia [Comments] | Hey Suburbia is updating again. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Tart [Comments] | Found this entertainingly foul comic "Tart" | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Zero Sleep Beauty [Date] 1/20/2005 [Comments] | This discontinued high-school comic, Zero Sleep Beauty is still a pretty neat scary fairy tale complete with block-print inking and fanciful costumes for both the girls and the boys. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Jeremy [Date] 1/22/2005 [Comments] | This is Jeremy, just turned nine, youngest son of Frankenstein. Coolly captures the alienation of childhood in an epic, funny way. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Charm Attack [Date] 1/22/2005 (LJ) [Comments] | Charm Attack: the top page under comics has some more of that good "comics set to song lyrics". If you hit the "comics archive" link you get a raw directory of gifs of unfinished comics, but this artist is freaking incredible so it's kinda worth it. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Get Your War On [Date] 1/25/2005 (LJ) [Comments] | Got a taste for pablum? Here's a funny anti-war comic that's still going. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Marilth [Date] 1/27/2008 (LJ) [Comments] | A new chapter in a long running anime-style smuggler story. ???? Also, it somehow took me until now to find the original backstory for Marilith, drawn by the author from 2001 to 2003. It was so hard to tell some of the characters apart that he had to rely on eye coloring to help the reader, but from its early to its much slicker final stages I actually like the art, and some of the dialog and situations are so funny I laughed loudly, and found the story to be masterfully suspenseful | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Shortpacked [Date] 2/2/2005 (LJ) [Comments] | Shortpacked is the story of several cute characters working in a toy store with a megalmaniacal boss. Sort of like Sore Thumbs only funny. A way to get that good It's Walky artwork without the heavy It's Walky plot. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Asylumantics [Date] 2/14/2005 (LJ) [Comments] | Asylumantics is a very polished comic redeemed by occasionally lowbrow humor. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Bunny [Date] 2/17/2005 (LJ) [Comments] | The Bunny is a single-panel variation on a theme, fortunately with variation in the drawing from day to day. The caption for the cartoon inevitably begins with "The Bunny...". It's sort of like a mad lib. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Deep Fried [Date] 2/22/2005 (LJ) [Comments] | A maze of dense art, in-jokes, and current events references which I've discovered is actually pretty good. He's been getting lots of attention recently for his photoshop re-writing of My Little Golden Book About God | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Flat Life2/24/2008 (LJ) [Comments] | . Flat Life hasn't even been going a month, looks pretty cool with a unique box-less sequential style, but is also unrelentingly raunchy. They thought this would get on TV? | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Patchuli [Date] 2/25/2005 (LJ) [Comments] | Just found this series, which has been going on how long? Has it ended already? Story of a hot high school chick with a perpetually bored look. Apparently not drawn by a horny high school guy as you would expect, actually quite sympathetic to the main character and a somewhat little-known window into the Midwest high school wastelant. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] You'll Have That [Date] 2/2/2008 (LJ) [Comments] | You'll Have That is nicely drawn and has easily recognizable humor because the author is trying to get syndicated. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Deadmouse.net [Comments] | It's one thing to be a fan of Edward Gorey. It's another to do this scary bunch of comics | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Comedity [Comments] | Comedity is confusing until you pick up that most of the characters are all the author's imaginary personalities. Nicely drawn. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Stuff Sucks [Comments] | The link took me to Stuff Sucks, which is just getting started at only 23 strips so far. But the cool thing about those 23 strips is that each one has something incredible about it. In one strip there's a "love at first sight" moment. Then in the next strip the action is interrupted by a hilarious airhead in a thong. Then a couple of strips later the first girl turns out to be a thief. There's an amazing skateboarding scene. Then the thief turns out to be more than that, a con artist in training. The guy turns out to be engaged (happily). Where will this all go? The art and story is a little like return to sender, but the site seems to have been colored by Monica Gallagher. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Medium Large [Comments] | Medium Large is pretty "edgy" for a guy whose avenue to syndication is Sally Forth | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Starslip Crisis [Comments] | This is a second comic by the author of Checkerboard Nightmare, which was so boffo that I often couldn't stand to read it continously. However, this new comic is a plot driven SF story, with non-self-referential characters that have a hint of real dimensionality, although fortunately there's still a joke a day. I love it so far, but it's like watching a barely contained nuclear reaction; will the author be able to maintain this fine balance of humor and story or will it eventually get too silly? Update 10/13/06 In the two years since its introduction, Starslip Crisis (formerly Starshift Crisis before the ship blew up) has become one of my top favorites. This is thanks to a reliable update schedule, a universe of endless possibilities with fully thought-out technology and backstory, and characters that just keep getting better and better. Even the dreaded appearance of a character from the old comic ("Vaporware") failed to break the 4th wall. All of this while still continuing to make it humorous every day at the same time. I consider the characters to be the best-written part of this comic; it couldn't have lasted long if the curator had stayed nothing but a stuffed shirt, the alien had stayed just an inscrutable alien, and the space pirate pilot had stayed just a drunken loose cannon. They continue to be these things, but they also slowly grow on each other, and the reader. To me, one comic in particular illustrates perfectly how Kristofer Straub has effortlessly created a world as multilayered as our own. It's a world where a "pleasure planet", in addition to a wide range of bacchanalian distractions, also offers simpler, more touristy pleasures such as a famous waterfall. It's a world where the hard-drinking pilot dragged out to look at the waterfall can know that it's not really his thing, but his boss sulking up on the ship would probably enjoy it. It's a world in which the pilot simply picks up the phone to convince the whiny idiot to come down to see it, because despite their differences they're friends. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Everyone Drunk But Me [Comments] | Everyone Drunk But Me is a retroactively posted journal comic of an exchange student's experiences in Russia. It is brilliant from the first strip to the most recent. However, it is just the tip of the iceburg of art being disseminated by this author and her friends; go to the top-level URL for everything | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] A World Like My Own [Comments] | From a link on The Devil's Panties, a freshly started comic by the two women who came to visit Jeannie at a con. They're webcomic fangirls! They didn't have a clue what they were doing when they started their own comic just a few weeks before the con, but about halfway through, the artist of the team started inking and it's all okay now. The art is incredible; only women could draw themselves this well. The humor is already climbing high out of the initial "barely makes sense" level so this comic is now on my watch list. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Scarecrow [Comments] | Keith, if you like digger, you might like scarecrow, which has a much shorter archive I'm afraid. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Digger [Comments] | From Keith. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Syntax Errors [Comments] | Well, hey, this Syntax Errors comic that S*P's advertising looks a lot like a comic strip version of Jimmy Neutron, complete with the wobbly arms, and likewise a win in the funny department. Let's see... it's been going since 2003???? | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] MissAdventure [Comments] | So what if it's a comic that only has 5 strips and probably won't ever update again? I just thought that miss-adventure was funny in that way that 5-strip comics are. The artist matures in that short run from not being able to draw hands to being a pretty good draw-er, the humor is largely personal and you have to read between the lines to get it yet the rescuing a cat in a tree joke is a fresh, original, timeless classic of a joke, and there's a big web of backstory and relationships for the characters that I hope they get back to some day cause it's kind of an interesting mix of serious story and parody. In general I like comics drawn by women, so now I've bookmarked this one so I can occasionally check to see if it ever restarts | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Butterfly [Comments] | In celebration of our recent movie viewing, here's a comic I just now found, Butterfly. A less-than-super hero in a world chock full of highly recognizable major super heros is not a new idea. But you just gotta love the elementary-school protagonist of this parody, as he pesters and annoys the more main-stream heros who have taken him in, as well as how he often saves the day with his gentle abilities in battles with equally non-threatening foes, somehow always conveniently in his school. The author hasn't updated much since dropping out of the Daily Grind Challenge, but read the archives and then send him an email trying to convince him to keep it up. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Punks and Nerds [Comments] | I'm enjoying Punks and Nerds, which has lots of really funny flashes of insight on all the usual gamer comic topics without losing sight of its juvenile and gross-out humor base, but which also unabashedly devotes several comics to the sweet relationship between two of its main characters. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Coffee Achievers [Comments] | Coffee Achievers dammit | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Jump [Comments] | Then I find Jump and have to read the whole archive, which you should too. I love how sketchy the art is at first, and yet still so scary even back then. The story promises to continue forever, and is a goth fantasy that grows up into something truly frightening during the telling. The art might have peaked right at the middle, although that's just when the lines were the simplest, my personal taste. But fear not, the author has two other comics going, and here they are: Lola, which started out in a single-panel gag-a-day format, with lovely brush artwork, and is now a twisty single-panel suspenseful melodrama, and The Crimes Of Cybele City, which is sketchy again, and the comic is split up panel by panel between two artists (Victoria's being the drool-worthy ones), and featuring lots of gratuitous nudity of it's female hard-boiled-detective character. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Andie Wear [Comments] | The heroine in Andie Wear is a pretty darn crude woman, a self-styled "private detective" with a big attitude and a body to go with it. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
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