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Inspired by these two posts on Making Light, I decided I may as well talk here about the comics that I like. I do booklog ones that I read first as books, or are completed webcomics, but that still leaves a lot out.
Print comics:
I'm not currently reading any, but Asterix was a big part of my childhood and is still a favorite of mine, even if the quality did go downhill after Goscinny died. And like everyone else, I love Jeff Smith's Bone and Gaiman's Sandman (everyone suggests starting in a different place; I prefer the short stories in volume 6 Fables and Reflections (and I don't normally like short fiction)).
Finished webcomics and online reprints:
Narbonic: contemporary daily comic about mad science, now being reposted with annotations
A Miracle of Science: science fiction about mad science (and robots, and AI, and nanotech, and groupminds...)
Inverloch: fairly typical high fantasy
Indefensible Positions: urban fantasy about applied philosophy (NSFW)
Buck Godot: repost of a science fiction comic (that link currently points to the last page of the first story, but I expect they'll fix that soon)
What's New With Phil and Dixie: repost of a comic feature that ran in Dragon magazine
Ongoing webcomics:
Alpha-Shade: a comic that manages a coherent story despite frequently changing its genre (unfortunately there's no archive page and it's impossible to directly link to the first page)
Chessire Crossing: amusing story involving several characters from classic kid's literature; updates an entire issue at a time
Crimson Dark: computer-rendered science fiction comic set in an interstellar war
Digger: fantasy comic about a wombat miner who gets lost; reminds me of Pratchett (part of the archives are subscription-only, but the first 300 pages are free)
Dr. McNinja: a very silly (even by comic standards) story of a doctor who is also a ninja
Erfworld: intentionally twee high fantasy
Flipside: another high fantasy comic (NSFW)
Freefall: humorous science fiction
Girl Genius: steampunk mad science
Gunnerkrigg Court: fantasy, science fiction, myth, and mad science in a boarding school
Haru-Sari: urban fantasy about a catgirl with a terminal illness and elves
Lackadaisy: St. Louis during Prohibition, with cats
Magellan: story about a superhero academy
No Rest for the Wicked: a mix of several fairy tales
The Order of the Stick: a stick figure epic fantasy story set in a D&D universe
Storm Corps: science fiction story about weather, aliens, and stories
So that's what I like. Anyone want to recommend similar good comics? I'm mostly looking for good stories, and prefer full page and color, but really don't care too much about the art so long as the text is readable and I can tell the characters apart. If you want to suggest a print comic, try to choose something I can get from my primary or secondary library.
Print comics:
I'm not currently reading any, but Asterix was a big part of my childhood and is still a favorite of mine, even if the quality did go downhill after Goscinny died. And like everyone else, I love Jeff Smith's Bone and Gaiman's Sandman (everyone suggests starting in a different place; I prefer the short stories in volume 6 Fables and Reflections (and I don't normally like short fiction)).
Finished webcomics and online reprints:
Narbonic: contemporary daily comic about mad science, now being reposted with annotations
A Miracle of Science: science fiction about mad science (and robots, and AI, and nanotech, and groupminds...)
Inverloch: fairly typical high fantasy
Indefensible Positions: urban fantasy about applied philosophy (NSFW)
Buck Godot: repost of a science fiction comic (that link currently points to the last page of the first story, but I expect they'll fix that soon)
What's New With Phil and Dixie: repost of a comic feature that ran in Dragon magazine
Ongoing webcomics:
Alpha-Shade: a comic that manages a coherent story despite frequently changing its genre (unfortunately there's no archive page and it's impossible to directly link to the first page)
Chessire Crossing: amusing story involving several characters from classic kid's literature; updates an entire issue at a time
Crimson Dark: computer-rendered science fiction comic set in an interstellar war
Digger: fantasy comic about a wombat miner who gets lost; reminds me of Pratchett (part of the archives are subscription-only, but the first 300 pages are free)
Dr. McNinja: a very silly (even by comic standards) story of a doctor who is also a ninja
Erfworld: intentionally twee high fantasy
Flipside: another high fantasy comic (NSFW)
Freefall: humorous science fiction
Girl Genius: steampunk mad science
Gunnerkrigg Court: fantasy, science fiction, myth, and mad science in a boarding school
Haru-Sari: urban fantasy about a catgirl with a terminal illness and elves
Lackadaisy: St. Louis during Prohibition, with cats
Magellan: story about a superhero academy
No Rest for the Wicked: a mix of several fairy tales
The Order of the Stick: a stick figure epic fantasy story set in a D&D universe
Storm Corps: science fiction story about weather, aliens, and stories
So that's what I like. Anyone want to recommend similar good comics? I'm mostly looking for good stories, and prefer full page and color, but really don't care too much about the art so long as the text is readable and I can tell the characters apart. If you want to suggest a print comic, try to choose something I can get from my primary or secondary library.