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1. Jarissa says:

   April 14, 2004 at 3:56 pm

   I would certainly recommend Irregular Webcomic to anyone and everyone, but especially to gamers, writers, and those whose intelligence rates higher than the target audience for a fast food commercial.

   It isn’t necessary to start at the beginning, nor is it necessary to turn on the annotations; it’s merely more fun that way.

2. Jarissa says:

   April 14, 2004 at 3:57 pm

   Darnit. Forgot about the no-html thing. Sorry.

   That link is http://www.dangermouse.net/irregular/

3. Tom Galloway says:

   April 14, 2004 at 4:22 pm

   I’m fond of Bill Holbrook’s Kevin & Kell. It’s set on an Earth with anthropomorphic intelligent animals and follows the life of the title characters. Said characters are a mixed marriage of a herbivore (rabbit) and carnivore (wolf), with an immediate family of Kell’s son Rudy from her first marriage to a fox, Lindesfarne, an adopted hedgehog daughter from Kevin’s first marriage, and Coney, their carnivorous bunny daughter. Bill also does the syndicated strips On the Fastrack and Safe Havens. http://www.kevinandkell.com

   And, while it’s a bit esoteric, Ph.D. is an excellent strip about grad student life. Currently running its adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s previously unpublished first story I, Grad Student. http://www.phdcomics.com

   And finally, Shaenon Garrity’s Narbonic. The adventures of Helen “Beta” Narbon, mad scientist, and Narbonic Labs staff; Mel Kelly the sociopath intern with a love of weaponry, Dave the computer tech, and Artie the super-intelligent bio-engineered gerbil. http://www.narbonic.com

4. Chuck says:

   April 14, 2004 at 5:07 pm

   A webcomic i like is Striptease. You all should check it here it is WWW. Stripteasecomic.com

5. Rob says:

   April 14, 2004 at 5:08 pm

   http://www.nuklearpower.com

   It’s a sprite comic based off the old Final Fantasy game for the NES system, and it’s hysterical….I’d say more, but it’s so much better to read it

6. Tim Lynch says:

   April 14, 2004 at 7:12 pm

   I absolutely adore Dork Tower and ps238, but you’ve already mentioned those.

   I’d also put in a recommendation for Brooke McEldowney’s Pibgorn. It’s available through one of the syndicate sites, http://www.comics.com/pibgorn/index.html .

   Brooke also does the “9 Chickweed Lane” strip that’s syndicated to newspapers, and Pibgorn is if anything even better. Unfortunately, it’s not archived beyond the very first month and the most recent 30 days, but there’s a nice “The Story So Far” link you can follow.

   Definitely worth a look!

   TWL

7. ObeeKris says:

   April 14, 2004 at 11:36 pm

   I’ll add additional props for Kevin & Kell, Something Positive, Queen of Wands, and Pibgorn. Dork Tower is fabulous too. I actually discovered the comic version of DT before the web version.

   I can’t believe no one’s mentioned Sluggy yet. That’s Sluggy Freelance, at http://www.sluggy.com

   Ink Tank is also home to 3 comics that I like. My personal favorite is Angst Technology, about a computer game company. There’s also Weak-end Warriors, which deals with paintball players. And the newest one at the site is Sorry, We’re Open, which is about a comic/gaming store. (They’ve only done 2 comics of SWO so far.) They can all be found at http://www.inktank.com

8. Dave says:

   April 15, 2004 at 2:03 am

   Sluggy’s always great, and PvP is as well (though usually pretty late on the updates). For the RPG comics, I do like 8-Bit, Nodwick, and FFN. Penny Arcade, however, is truly a classic. Gabe and Tycho are so completely dysfunctional (and wonderfully quotable in a sick way), that PA quoting is something of a ritual in my social circle.

9. rrr says:

   April 18, 2004 at 10:52 pm

   Probably one of the finest stories I’ve run across in the last year, and one of my most unexpected rare finds is Steve Uy’s Feather, published by Image. Great story and superb artwork.

   While this series isn’t solely a web-based comic, all issues are available online (or will be once issue 5 comes out).

   Previews of the first issue (15 pages) are up at http://www.steveuy.com, with additional previews of each issue at Image. However, for the complete online experience, Feather is also available at http://www.beamable.com/ It seems to work out to a $1.00 per half issue. The good neews is that there are enough previews available at the other sites, that it makes it easy to make a decision on whether to read the whole series.