Shameless Comic Plugs

Calliope · Post by **Calliope** » Mon Oct 23, 2000 12:54 am

Ok, this is where you can post what comics you read, why you like them, et cetera. I'll post my own...eventually...got other things to worry about now.

Yamcha Hibiki · Post by **Yamcha Hibiki** » Mon Oct 23, 2000 5:57 am

I really like that Shinkutokimekisempukaku comic! It rules. I mean the art and writing is so brilliant and..... WAIT! That's my comic! So I guess it doesn't count <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/tongue.gif"> Anyways, I read a ton of comics, so I'll just post my two favorites which are:Melonpool ( <A HREF="http://www.melonpool.com/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.melonpool.com/</A> ) - Cause I feel it has some of the best art and most brilliant writing I've seen in a online comic strip. Also add the fact that it's a awsome sci-fi parody and you've got something that will really grab my attention.PvP ( <A HREF="http://www.pvponline.com/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.pvponline.com/</A> ) - I'm one HUGE video game nut, and this comic almost reaches out and grabs me for that reason. Not to mention I love the very stylized art style, and the characters are great. Watch out for the Rampant Panda attacks, though.------------------
Yamcha Hibiki
Creator of Shinkutokimekisempukaku
http://yamcha.keenspace.com/
http://www.swordbreaker.com/yamcha69/

Eyeless Blonde · Post by **Eyeless Blonde** » Mon Oct 23, 2000 6:23 am

Great, even more comics to get addicted to. Stop it you guys, I'm spending too much time online as it is!!! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">

Mr.Bean · Post by **Mr.Bean** » Mon Oct 23, 2000 9:30 am

Just found your site. Quality comic!
As if i dont have enough webcomics to while away the hours with.
Hmmm, favorite comics...tough call.My all time favorite is Sluggy Freelance, <A HREF="http://www.sluggy.com" TARGET=_blank>http://www.sluggy.com</A>
Is it not nifty? Worship the comic. Aliens, demons, and a 3 year fued between Santa and a rabbit, what's not to like?Another good one is Acid Reflux, <A HREF="http://www.acidrefluxcomic.com" TARGET=_blank>http://www.acidrefluxcomic.com</A>
It has a very manga-esqe feel kinda like here.If I were to dish out my entire webcomic list, we'd be here all night. I collect the suckers like a squirrel on crack.

Schissel · Post by **Schissel** » Tue Oct 24, 2000 12:21 am

Is Nosferatu <A HREF="http://www.museoffire.com/Nosferatu/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.museoffire.com/Nosferatu/</A> ?or is that something else?
-Eric Schissel

Calliope · Post by **Calliope** » Tue Oct 24, 2000 12:33 am

Yup. Discovered it quite by accident. Cynthia really steals the show. MAD SCIENTISTS RULE!!!

Calliope · Post by **Calliope** » Tue Oct 24, 2000 12:41 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Eyeless Blonde:
But of course nothing can beat Calvin and Hobbes, perhaps the best comic strip ever made. The olde strips are being reprinted <A HREF="http://www.calvinandhobbes.com/" TARGET=_blank>here</A>, 11 years after they were origionally published. Go there now!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I think we owe a lot to Bill Watterson and Calvin and Hobbes: other than "The Far Side", it was the only comic that could be offensive while still having value. (Too many people nowadays are just going for offensive.) It was also witty, well-written, adorable, biting, and woefully honest.
And above all else, I think he left a message (and so did Mr. Larson) that it's OK to quit if you're running dry. Too many Americans (not just comic artists) get caught up in doing what they do because it pays well and not because they love it. And everyone suffers when that happens.

Eyeless Blonde · Post by **Eyeless Blonde** » Tue Oct 24, 2000 12:47 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by schissel:
Is Nosferatu <A HREF="http://www.museoffire.com/Nosferatu/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.museoffire.com/Nosferatu/</A> ?or is that something else?
-Eric Schissel<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks. Sorry about my horrid spelling.

Calliope · Post by **Calliope** » Tue Oct 24, 2000 6:21 am

For my own top picks, I recommend College Roomies from Hell!!!, Acid Reflux, and a neat little animated series I found called Nosferatu. And Life on Forbez is good too.
And then there's Sluggy Freelance and Japanese Beetle, which are more hit or miss. But when they're good, they're hilarious.
There's other stuff I read, but I don't have time to go into detail now. Can't even remember half of it.
I'll go back and add links later. Got other things on my mind now.

Ydracth · Post by **Ydracth** » Tue Oct 24, 2000 9:38 am

Well, aside from CRFH, Sluggy, Nukees, Acid Reflux, Avalon, GPF, CGrounds, CotC, C. Ulture Shocked, Elf Life, and Calvin and Hobbes, all of which have been mentioned already...<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>Bruno ( <A HREF="http://www.brunostrip.com/bruno.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.brunostrip.com/bruno.html</A> ) - Really good. Great characterization and detail. I think I identify with the title character a little too much.
<LI>It's Walky! ( <A HREF="http://www.itswalky.com/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.itswalky.com/</A> ) - Odd that no one's mentioned this yet.
<LI>Freefall ( <A HREF="http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/</A> ) - The only strip I know that makes any attempt at being science fiction. Oh, and it's funny too.
<LI>Absurd Notions ( <A HREF="http://www.cerulean.st/absurdnotions/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.cerulean.st/absurdnotions/</A> ) - Very good. I'm not sure why.
<LI>Out of Fika ( <A HREF="http://www.modernhair.net/fika/" TARGET=_blank>http://www.modernhair.net/fika/</A> ) - Is this just a brilliant stack of non-sequiturs, or does it contain jokes I'm not getting? A convenient quote: <q lang="en">Fika, make sense!</q>
<LI>Ozy and Millie ( <A HREF="http://ozyandmillie.atomicrhino.com/" TARGET=_blank>http://ozyandmillie.atomicrhino.com/</A> ) - Reminiscent of Calvin and Hobbes, but I like it better because it's not patronizing.
<LI>Jackie's Fridge ( <A HREF="http://jackiesfridge.keenspace.com/" TARGET=_blank>http://jackiesfridge.keenspace.com/</A> ) - Another one that's good, and I don't know why.
</UL>That's enough for now. As Eyeless Blonde said, <q lang=en>that's less than 1/4 of my list</q>.

Eyeless Blonde · Post by **Eyeless Blonde** » Tue Oct 24, 2000 10:50 am

Hey Cali, could you post the URL for Noserafu? I lost it 2 weeks ago and can't seem to find it.Anyway, here are a choice few of the comics I'm keeping up with, in no particular order (and excluding those already up):<A HREF="http://www.cgrounds.com/" TARGET=_blank>Common Grounds</A>- A strip about a buncha people running a coffee house. Really cool stuff; just got made a Keenspot!<A HREF="http://Kitsune76.keenspace.com/" TARGET=_blank>C.Ultre Shocked</A>- A really cool new comic about a British woman who comes to America to find her sister's been eaten by the tentacled monster in her fridge... very cool. As the writter kitsune76 says, "It's British. But not in a good way..."<A HREF="http://www.avalonhigh.com/" TARGET=_blank>Avalon</A>- A wonderful strip about Canadian high schoolers. Enough subtext to kill lesser beings. "It's like $3 crack, only cheaper." (from Keenspot newsbox)<A HREF="http://www.clanofthecats.com/" TARGET=_blank>Clan of the Cats</A>- Just finished off a major crossover with CRFH (College Roomies from Hell!!!) and IMO is probably one of the best out there. The artwork's superb, the storyline's intriguing, and, of course, there's MAGIC! (you didn't expect me to say the naked women here... oops I mentioned it anyway <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">)<A HREF="http://www.ElfLife.com/" TARGET=_blank>Elf Life</A>- Fantasy, adventure, magic, farie mudwrestling... seriously this is an awesome strip. The charecters are hilarious, the plot is engaging, and the art is wonderful, particularly in the recent storyline where Fillis the elf fights Glynhial (sp?) the fairie.. But the best part about this one, IMO, is the role playing story <A HREF="http://www.keenspot.com/KeenBoard/Forum ... 00200.html" TARGET=_blank>Elf Life Adventures</A> currently being written on the forum. I'm currently trying to write myself in as an alchemist....<A HREF="http://www.gpf-comics.com/" TARGET=_blank>GPF</A>- about a software company called GPF (General Protection Fault). One of the funniest comics I've seen. Hilarious dialogue, and of course not one but TWO sentient slime molds! Oh, and rated PG by RASCi, for all those who care about such things.<A HREF="http://www.nukees.com/" TARGET=_blank>Nukees!!!</A>- And last, but not least, an awesome strip about Nuclear Engineering majors (Nukees) by the illustrious Gav. ALso pucblished in the local student paper the Daily Californian. Hilarious strip, particularly for anyone majoring in, graduated from, or who knows any hard-core engineers. Brilliant stuff!But of course nothing can beat Calvin and Hobbes, perhaps the best comic strip ever made. The olde strips are being reprinted <A HREF="http://www.calvinandhobbes.com/" TARGET=_blank>here</A>, 11 years after they were origionally published. Go there now!(PS. This is why I do not need any more comics to follow; that was less than 1/4 of my list!

Schissel · Post by **Schissel** » Wed Oct 25, 2000 3:37 am

I have a list of <A HREF="http://www.lightlink.com/schissel/comics.html" TARGET=_blank>favorite comics</A> up I've been slowly organizing, or trying to organize, anyhow. Most of my "top 5" have been mentioned already, though I don't think I've seen <A HREF="http://www.kevinandkell.com" TARGET=_blank>Kevin and Kell</A>, <A HREF="http://www.theclassm.com" TARGET=_blank>The Class Menagerie</A>, or <A HREF="http://www.newshounds.com" TARGET=_blank>Newshounds</A> mentioned yet. 
Kevin and Kell (5 days a week and the occasional one Sunday a month since 1995, now 7 days a week) is on one level the story of a rabbit and a wolf who've gotten married on a world where predators and prey- just don't; The Class Menagerie (I don't only like furry comics (what would I be doing in POCKET forum?,) I definitely don't like all furry comics (grant me some taste...), but I do have a liking for the genre, yes) is an often very funny (and, like most of my favorites, sometimes rather serious) set-in-college strip; while Newshounds, sometimes political without being preachy, is about a news station that a woman has allowed her pets to crew (sorry if that's not a verb, I do find it hard to be grammatical at 7 in the morning lately.) <rant>Again like my other favorites it manages to find the right mix of humor and seriousness for my liking... and recently its characterization of one of the anchors reminded me of something I look for in writing in general, for I am getting fairly tired of satire when it lacks heart, and I gave up on Sluggy, I think, at least in part (retrospective analysis, this) because I came to feel that Mr. Abrams had never shown this quality, and that I had come to need for an author to show what I call (or miscall- most likely the latter) 'caritas' towards his characters. (And Renata, the half-collie, in Newshounds? Who has more than enough reason not to stick up for Ferris, the rat? Who, especially given recent events, has adequate cause to be furious with him? <A HREF="http://www.newshounds.com/d/20001020.html" TARGET=_blank>She's the one sitting on the left...</A> - and the fact that, despite all her grievances against Ferris, she's furious because someone else is completely indifferent that he's in pain- that might have to be what I meant right there...I tend to seek out, I think, the work of authors who are (again and of course balancing the humor) fully sympathetic to the emotional lives of their characters, and not just their main characters (though not necessarily all their characters <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/wink.gif"> .) </rant>Anyhow, sorry about that.(The others of my top 5 that have been mentioned are CRFH, and Ozy & Millie. Then there are comics like <A HREF="http://genecatlow.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>Gene Catlow</A> that are just close to <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/wink.gif"> ... CotC which has been mentioned... and Acid Reflux is, of course, great stuff. Others besides.)
-Eric Schissel[This message has been edited by schissel (edited 10-25-2000).]

Yamcha Hibiki · Post by **Yamcha Hibiki** » Wed Oct 25, 2000 10:16 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Calliope:
 I think we owe a lot to Bill Watterson and Calvin and Hobbes: other than "The Far Side", it was the only comic that could be offensive while still having value. (Too many people nowadays are just going for offensive.) It was also witty, well-written, adorable, biting, and woefully honest.
And above all else, I think he left a message (and so did Mr. Larson) that it's OK to quit if you're running dry. Too many Americans (not just comic artists) get caught up in doing what they do because it pays well and not because they love it. And everyone suffers when that happens.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Awsome, Calvin and Hobbes and the Far Side are my two favorite comic strips of all time, too. The only strip that comes close to being as cool as them is Krazy Kat.
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Yamcha Hibiki
Creator of Shinkutokimekisempukaku
http://yamcha.keenspace.com/
http://www.swordbreaker.com/yamcha69/