Webcomic Recomendations

[Glimmervoid]

Has anyone recommended Paranatural yet because if not it is well worth your time.

The blurb says this:

Paranatural is a comedy/action comic about a group of superpowered middle schoolers fighting evil spirits and investigating paranormal activity in their hometown. Updates Mondays and Fridays!

But that only really scratches the surface. Paranatural's real strength is the fun which infuses everything, its lovely art and the faces. My god the faces. The art is a bit rough for the first 9 pages and it not perfect for the rest of the first chapter but really hits its stride after that.

You get stuff like this:

 

[Glimmervoid]

Presenting... Camp Weedonwantcha!

Do people remember when Penny Arcade did 'Strip Search' competition, where want-to-be web comic artists competed in reality tv like situation to be the next big webcomic? Well, Camp Weedonwantcha is by the woman who won it.

Camp Weedonwantcha is a place where kids get dropped off for the summer and are never picked up again. With no adults around, the unwanted trio of Malachi, Seventeen, and Brian can get into whatever dangerous and irresponsibly fun activities their hearts desire.

How would I describe Camp Weedonwantcha? Lord of the Flies with the dramas turned down and the funnies and feels turned up. It’s a really good comic, with wacky characters who yet have surprising depth.

Art would is good but strange. Here are the three main characters.

 

[Glimmervoid]

Who's heard of Glorantha - the rpg setting where all myths are real (especially the contradictory ones)? It's a fascinating bronze age/iron age setting, totally divorced from Tolkien or the derivative medical Europe clones.

Anyway, for those who you interested in Glorantha and even those who are not there's now an offical webcomic. It's only just started but the art is really nice.

Prince of Sartar

 

[goldenarms]

In order to demonstrate I'm not a complete art whore, I'm going to rec this: Strong Female Protagonist.The art is not bad but it's definitely not great. It’s another super hero web comic, this time starring the recently retired Alison Green aka Mega-Girl. She is super strong and invulnerable, and one of the most powerful characters in the setting. Despite that, she has publicly revealed her identity and is trying to do something different with her life, having come to realise that superheroics aren't changing anything that really matters. Predictably parts of her past keep calling. and she has to deal with them. This is compounded by the fact that everyone knows she was Mega-Girl; there is no slipping back into anonymity for her. She also has a very interesting relationship with her onetime arch nemesis, a mind reader who has also retired (though without revealing his secret identity; this isn't a universe were super villainy is treated like a career or game).

Good points: interesting characters, fun action and a good chunk of archive. Bad points: a little heavy handed at places and the writer isn't quite as smart as he thinks he is.

I kind of like it, but I think Alison is one colossal idiot to be fraternizing with a psychic ex-supervillain who very well could be playing her and the entire superpowered population like a symphony since the day he "gave up," if not long before then. No less than three separate times in-series, he has blatantly stated to her how he works. Even if he was legit, that guy is not someone you could ever truly trust for a long, long time (if ever) because of his ability, his predisposition to becoming a supervillain, and the fact that he remains truly competent a being. Not that I'd complain about him turning out to be evil all along and manipulating his nemeses against themselves and the public because that'd be a great blindside for the characters, but yeah, she's a self-confessed idiot that really has no business doing more than smash it till it don't move no more.

 

[Contrabardus]

In order to demonstrate I'm not a complete art whore, I'm going to rec this: Strong Female Protagonist.The art is not bad but it's definitely not great. It’s another super hero web comic, this time starring the recently retired Alison Green aka Mega-Girl. She is super strong and invulnerable, and one of the most powerful characters in the setting. Despite that, she has publicly revealed her identity and is trying to do something different with her life, having come to realise that superheroics aren't changing anything that really matters. Predictably parts of her past keep calling. and she has to deal with them. This is compounded by the fact that everyone knows she was Mega-Girl; there is no slipping back into anonymity for her. She also has a very interesting relationship with her onetime arch nemesis, a mind reader who has also retired (though without revealing his secret identity; this isn't a universe were super villainy is treated like a career or game).

Good points: interesting characters, fun action and a good chunk of archive. Bad points: a little heavy handed at places and the writer isn't quite as smart as he thinks he is.

I kind of like it, but I think Alison is one colossal idiot to be fraternizing with a psychic ex-supervillain who very well could be playing her and the entire superpowered population like a symphony since the day he "gave up," if not long before then. No less than three separate times in-series, he has blatantly stated to her how he works. Even if he was legit, that guy is not someone you could ever truly trust for a long, long time (if ever) because of his ability, his predisposition to becoming a supervillain, and the fact that he remains truly competent a being. Not that I'd complain about him turning out to be evil all along and manipulating his nemeses against themselves and the public because that'd be a great blindside for the characters, but yeah, she's a self-confessed idiot that really has no business doing more than smash it till it don't move no more.

Read through this tonight and it was surprisingly good. It's a very well done super hero drama. I was kind of expecting a comedy at first, but it's extremely well written and that more than makes up for the art. Took a bit to grow on me but it did. Reminds me of Watchmen thematically. It's less about being a super hero and more of a drama. Elements of X-men as well. Whoever writes this is obviously well versed in comic book lore.

Also, she's not stupid. The comic portrays her as a little naive and young. She didn't know what she was doing and punching threats to the world was easy to do because the threat was obvious and clear cut. Then she grew up and started to realize there is a lot of grey in the world. The 'revelation' her old arch nemisis brought down on her forced her to grow up. In fact, she grew up when most of the other super powered people didn't. Feral being a notable exception and possibly her ex-super villain friend.

She's intelligent though, has a strong moral grounding, and isn't as dumb as she pretends to be. She's not genius, but far from stupid. She gets good grades, and is well read. She's kind of like Peter Parker in that she is always putting herself down and feeling bad for things that really aren't her fault, compounding how she feels about the things that actually are her fault.

The title is apt and I found myself liking her. She reminds me of Steve Rogers and Clark Kent in that she's a bit too naive.

Lots of feels in this comic. I usually don't care for that sort of thing, but it's very well done here. The writing is the best thing about this comic hands down.

 

[~NGD OMEGA~]

Forgot this thread was a thing entirely. Found this recently:

Right not sure where to put this one. Been reading some of this 'The Boy Who Fell'... Webcomic I guess. I've pretty much sworn off webcomics entirely for the most part and I'm not sure why I stumbled onto this one, but I did and started running through it. I think what happened was I went to a tumblr image link for a fandom which lead me to a deviant art account which linked me there or something, the internet tends to do that to you. Mostly mentioning it here because it reads like a manga really.

Nothing spectacular thus far, the Devil pushes a boy off a roof to take part in a tournament in hell on the request of the 'Hell's Kitchen' whatever that is, and is generally an asshole to the poor guy. Bandage Chick is a badass and that's kept my interest thus far and some interesting things are happening I guess. Including the backpack he was given well...

Proving just why as handy as it may be, you probably should be cautious about handling a demonic artifact, even if it's helpful to you. It's help might not necessarily be the type you're comfortable with if you give it too much free reign.

Anyway link is here for the interested: http://boywhofell.com/index.php?id=1

I'm about halfway through thus far and it seems pretty solid.

 

[Contrabardus]

The Adventures of Business Cat is a pretty good strip, especially if you've ever had a cat.

 

[Glimmervoid]

Thought I'd share this: Antarctic Press has put up the first 200 issues of Gold Digger on their website.

See here if interested.

 

[Glimmervoid]

I've just got up to date with Does Not Play Well with Others and I thought I'd recommend it here.

What is Does Not Play Well with Others? It is the latest comic from Michael Poe of Exploitation Now and Errant Story fame. It is a gag a day smutty comedy, focused nominally on a pair of room-mates: Naga, a fairly sociopathic snake demon, and Fran, a marginally more stable (though that's not saying much) witch. They have most of the attention but we also get frequent detours to their friends, love interest, role playing group and similar, with zombies, vampires, alien geeks, superheroes and evil geniuses. It strip flips back and forth between black and white and basic colour.

As it said, this is a smutty comedy, with all the low brow jokes you expect from this sort of thing. Part way threw it also starts showing tits, so it has that going for it too. :sisi:

I'd recommend giving it a go.