This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
Okay, so I'm pimping out my ex's new webcomic, just because I think it's cool. (And because I think the people here might enjoy the "plot" - such as it is.)
It's called "Everyday Gods" and follows the gods from the major pantheons around as they get used to modern life. It went live this morning, and will be updated every weekday. Take a peek, if you're interested.
http://www.everydaygods.org
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Your link was borked, so I fixed it.
Also, if anyone wants to check out webcomics, here are a few I like. Unfortunately, I can't keep up on them.
The grandaddy of all webcomics, Sluggy Freelance. I love the earlier stuff, especially this.
Everything Jake has a very intriguing storyline. It starts out like a typical college webcomic, and then it starts going a bit... weird.
Mad science abounds in Girl Genius! Many thanks to Lhuci for introducing me.
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Oh, so we're recommending stuff now? Good! Gunnerkrigg court is one of the best webcomics in history, so go read it now. http://www.gunnerkrigg.com
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Oooh, recs:
Ursula Vernon's "Digger": http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/digger.php How can you go wrong with an intensely practical and occasionally snarky female wombat as the main character?
Megan Gedris' "YU+ME": http://yume.comicgen.com/ A high school girl falling in love with another girl!
Kitty and Rhys' "Mundane Nirvana": http://mundanenirvana.comicgenesis.com/ Boys in love with each other! Girls in love with each other! Pretty art! Entertaining geekery!
Jenn Manley Lee's "Dicebox": http://www.dicebox.net/ OMG gorgeous. And intricate. And So Very Cool. Go! Read it!
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It's impossible to keep up with webcomics so I don't even try.
Girly - Incase you all aren't sick enough as is of me pushing girl love. ;>
Queen of Wands - Webcomic is over. But there's a sequel!
Clone Manga - This is really... uh.. Multiple comics done by the same author. All of which are good.
Diesel Sweeties - Has the honour of being the only webcomic I've ever really laughed at, and that's mostly the bad puns in the titles making me laugh.
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Hinotori wrote:
Queen of Wands - Webcomic is over. But there's a sequel!
Thank you SO MUCH. You have NO idea what that means to me....Queen of Wands is may all-time favorite and I felt kinda lost after she finished with the reruns. So to see that she has the sequel out has me on the verge of tears.
Also, because I just think it's nice of me, I'm pimping a comic my sister is the writer of: The Journey.
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I'm a huge fan of Butternut Squash. Super funny and the art is amazing. http://butternutsquash.net/
Also Sinfest. You want politically correct? You won't find it here! Also more amazing art. And God. And the devil. And puppets. http://www.sinfest.net/
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Slackers is brilliant, but not updated anymore. The archives are still worth reading though! http://www.slackerscomic.com/
I have a few comics online too, but since I haven't had the time to update two of them for over a half of year now I don't think there's much to see. But I'll post them anyways:
Darkness Till The End - old vampire comic. The art is very crappy for that reason. But at least it's finished!
Silent Hill comic - unfinished, and I'll plan to remake the whole thing sometime in the future
Emtee - a psychological comic. This is actually the only comic so far that I really like. Will be finished soon too (actually I have finshed the 20 pages of the main story, but the epilogue is not done yet. The pages up to 20 are on my dA account.)
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http://elgoonishshive.com/ Is really good, if you can handle the craziness, sex changes, and the wow weirdness.
www.asofterworld.com extremely stylized and cool. It sometimes makes you want to cry, other time it just has dark humor. I absolutely love the comic where it gets it's name, http://www.asofterworld.com/soft_feb21_2003.htm
www.somethingpositive.net strikes too close to home sometimes, but it's a very funny, and brilliant.
www.achewood.com I don't know what to say about it. Well, freezepop wrote a song about it; that's what I can say.
www.pholph.com/ I'm not a big fan of furries, but the begining of the comic is WOW. Not so much later on....
That's all I can think of for now
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And no one has brought up the Perry Bible Fellowship?! For shame! That should be required reading for everyone on this forum!
Applegeeks is cute, and Hawk has a great style.
Megatokyo is a classic, but I really only read it for the art anymore. Fred Gallagher needs to get his shit together.
Three Panel Soul from the creaters of Machall just started up, and I'm pretty excited about it.
And of course, Something Positive is ! I used to read Queen of Wands religiously, and I still think Aerie ended it in one of the best possible ways. And so far Punch an' Pie is really cute... little blond polyamorous bisexuals. And Penny Arcade is kinda' classic.
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morosemocha wrote:
And no one has brought up the Perry Bible Fellowship?! For shame! That should be required reading for everyone on this forum!
For some reason this one flew my mind. GO READ OMG.
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Maarika wrote:
Silent Hill comic - unfinished, and I'll plan to remake the whole thing sometime in the future
Neat stuff.
... Did Claudia use God's name in vain?
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Venus Envy has got to be one of my favorite webcomics of all time. It hasn't been updated since early February, but unfortunately life happened to the author. I'm looking forward to her recovery.
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http://www.questionablecontent.net/ Questionable Content is a slice-of-life comedy webcomic. The plot centers on Marten Reed, an average frustrated 20-something indie rock dork, his anthropomorphic PC (AnthroPC) named Pintsize and his somewhat troubled and mysterious roommate Faye.
The early artwork was pretty rank but after the first 150 or so strips, the art improved and improved, now its pretty damn good.
http://www.misfile.com/ Misfile is a story of a reeferhead Angel who stuffed of the heavenly files of two individuals, one was a Initial-D type racer who had his gender changed from boy to girl, the other one was an 18 year old girl who did nothing but study for two years to get into Harvard only to lose two years of her life and is now only 16 years old again. In both cases history has rewritten itself to accommidate the changes.
http://www.vanvonhunter.com/ Van Von Hunter is a comedy story set in a Slayers/Loddoss type world starring a guy(Van Von Hunter) who fights evil... stuff and his Sidekick, a girl who suffers from amnesia repeatedly, so no one(including herself) knows who she is. It has zombies, orcs, mummies an evil sorceress named Lisa Reverse, some moronic villain named the Flaming Prince and lots of yummy brownies.
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Oh, how could I forget?
http://www.ghastlycomic.com/ I don't think it's going to be updated for a while, but the archives are incredibly funny, and delighfully wrong.
"Tentacoo wape!!"
This thread is perfect for waisting time.
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I liked reading Sexy Losers, but I think it's either finished or on infinite hiatus because of the author's carpal tunnel (or similar chronic hand injury). Very NSFW, but very hilarious. Not for the squeamish or prudish.
I second Questionable Content. Also Indie Tits (it's not what you're thinking), Jeph's other comic, which is usually very in-jokey and pokes fun at music.
Also, VG Cats. Great video game parody/satire, with occasional forays into anime satire. What DO they do with all those inbred chocobos, anyway?
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Hooray! I may promote!
http://www.xbreakdownx.com/socommonsocheap/index.html So Common So Cheap.
It isn't making fun of the way people huddle together in order to fit into some sort of social dystopia...really. I absolutely love SCSC. By far my favorite web comic.
http://www.xbreakdownx.com/ADAMADAMCAFE/index.html Adam.Adam Cafe.
Also done by Ziggy Martin [SCSC]. I think A.AC is very cute. It will never win over SCSC in my heart, but Jet and Sasha sure do get close
http://vampirates.comicgen.com/ Vampirates.
Vampires and pirates??? What more could you ask for!
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Oh, and RPG World when it was running was cute. I did a cosplay of Diane once, but thankfully, there are no pictures. Ian J has a really funky style, but sadly, it's been on hiatus for about two years now, I think...
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Ctrl+Alt+Del- If you're a gamer, I would suggest this comic. It has parodies off of videogames, and rather amusing characters and plot.
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I have about ten webcomics whose praises I would love to sing, but I'm going to exercise restraint and keep my recommendations down to three.
1) Yuki Hoshigawa and the Scariest Thing in the Universe. A fledgling slice-of-life-in-the-near-future comic by my awesome friend Jono.
READ IT IF: You like computer programming, social commentary, Japanese, and/or obscene attention to detail.
DON'T READ IT IF: You like your plots linear, your humor trite, or your culture offline.
http://www.evilbrainjono.net/yuki/contents.html
2) Dinosaur Comics. It uses the same six panels every day, changing only the words, yet manages to be just as funny as the day it began.
READ IT IF: You like stream-of-consciousness writing and Calvin and Hobbes's sled rides, and think that writing in all caps can be funny if done properly.
DON'T READ IT IF: You like webcomics for the art, or you've decided that "cutting-edge Internet humor" can absolutely never be humorous no matter how skillfully executed.
http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=1
3) XKCD. Stands for "XKCD." No plot; just a creative and overeducated guy drawing whatever he's thinking today. He's an excellent artist who chooses to express himself primarily with stick figures.
READ IT IF: You are creative and overeducated, you like comics you can think about, and you demand originality.
DON'T READ IT IF: You don't like stick figures, or you get frustrated when you don't get the joke, or when there is no joke.
http://xkcd.com/
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Hmmm, all mine have been mentioned, so just some quick commentary.
Sluggy Freelance - Loved it when I first found it, bought several books, followed it religiously. After so many years though, it's being crushed by its own overly convoluted plotlines. You need a roadmap and half an hour to go through the archives to make sense of anything anymore. I miss when it was just two guys, a girl and a sociopathic bunny.
XKCD - I like it, for the most part. It can be a little hit or miss, but the cerebral jokes make the nerd in me crack up and some of the more artistic ones are very powerful in their simplicity. Proof that you don't need to be able to draw to do a great comic.
Megatokyo - Proof that even if you can draw, you may not do a great comic. Seriously, I like it well enough, but you can clearly tell where the authors parted ways, leaving the whiny artist of the pair running the show. Still, it's a decent enough story to keep me reading the comic, though I avoid Fred's rambling blog like the plague.
Ctrl-Alt-Del - My gamer comic. Now and then it falls flat, but generally a good read.
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I strongly second xkcd. It's pretty nerdy, but lots of fun.
Order of the Stick (OOTS - at http://www.giantitp.com) is a fun D&D (and rpg in general) parody, that I've enjoyed alot (erfworld, hosted at the same site, is also cool, though it only updates about once a week at this point, and has only been running for a shortish time)
Also, you should totally check out Irregular webcomic at http://www.irregularwebcomic.net. It uses lego figures and rpg miniatures. Make sure you check out the annotations. When the comic makes a joke that depends on either obscure knowledge, or technical (aka science, most commonly physics) knowledge, he explains stuff, generally including links to additional information. Also, it updates daily, which is awesome.
Yes, two of my favorite webcomics have a decent tendency to rely on knowledge of science stuff to make sense. But I go to a tech school, so it all makes sense. And I figured others on the board would enjoy them, as a lot of people at least have shown an interest in science-y stuff (and knowledge in general - that's [part of] what makes you all so awesome)
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I've been meaning to read more webcomics, it's just difficult to know where to start. The only one I really follow religiously is VG Cats, as it manages to combine my three great loves of cute kitties, slightly disturbing humour and computer games.
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