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cookie
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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4 years ago, i vowed that i'd never read more than a half-dozen webcomics a day.
today i was thinking about webcomics and remembered that. a quick count of comics I read suggests i'm a daily/bi-daily reader of around 40 different comics, and a weekly reader of another 10-20 more. O_o so, how do i compare to everyone else? am i the most pitiful creature on the face of the earth for spending more time reading comics every day than i spend in formal instruction for my college MAJOR? or am i still within the realms of sanity for reading that many comics? thoughts, opinions, and lesser-known webcomics that might be interesting are welcome. ;) PS -- One of my more recent additions: [url=kodomonomo.com]Kodomo*Nomo[/url] -- it's cute, but it's also serious at times.. it's something i find quite enjoyable to read. MMm... That and Drowlings.. I love the style of art. :) One? Two? eh. close enough... |
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GATSU
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I watch flash movies all day, so I would say I have a bigger problem, cus those things take way longer to load.
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Vicious
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Only five myself. 8-bit theatre, Adventures, Megatokyo, Mac Hall and the big daddy Penny Arcade.
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Morrolan
 Posts: 29 Location: Coquitlam, BC, Canada... byatch! |
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I check Penny Arcade, 3fs, Angst Technology, MegaTokyo, Extra Life and Nodwick. I occationally drop in on others. PvP is one that I check whenever I remember, but almost never do.
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ShockWave
 Posts: 22 Location: Atlanta |
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you're beating me. I only read MegaTokyo, PvP, DubThis.net, and catch ExploitationNow on occasion. Every four months or so I check in on Maison Otaku to see if they have an update. I also ready Dilbert and For Better or For Worse on the web, but those are traditional print comics.
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LordByronius
ANN Columnist
 Posts: 861 Location: Philippe for America! He is five. |
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Sinfest, Fluble, and The Hero Santon sorta counts since Salon axed it and now the only place to read it is the annals of Salon's labyrinthine website.
I tend to avoid videogame, anime, and sprite-based webcomics since they tend to be horrible. Especially Megatokyo. I honestly cannot find ONE single redeeming quality of that massive wasteland of unfunny that people seem to love for some reason. |
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Tempest
 I Run this place.ANN Publisher  Posts: 10468 Location: Do not message me for support. |
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Here are all the comics I read on a regular basis. This is actusally a copy of my "favorites" dir listing, so you'll also notice the date that I started reading any given comic (Some of these dates are incorrect, all the ones listed 15-08-2000 are because I switched to IE from Netscape that day, that was the day I sold my soul).
I have my comics grouped into several categories: 1) Catchup - These are comics I'm way behind on... Right now the only comic in there That I actually read from time to time is Doonsburry, I'm at September 19th, 1976  . Pretty coold having all 32 years of Doonsbury online, but the scans are too small and a bit hard to read 
2) Daily - I read these 5 times a week, several of them publish on Saturday / Sunday so I end up reading 2-3 strips on Monday. 3) M-W-F - I read these on Monday, Wednesday and Friday - Duh! 4) Monday - These I read only once a week on Monday. For the most part its because these comics only update once a week, the exception are Dub This which has a Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday schedule (so it's also in my Tuesday-Thrusday folder) and Elf Life. Elf Life updates regularly but I prefer to read it several strips at a time because of the way it is written. 5) Tuesday Thrusday - Guess. 6) Posterity - These are comics I no longer read, either because I got tired of them, or more likely (because I tend to just delete links to the ones I don't like) because the author stopped updating them. So here's the list: Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\cim\Favorites\entertainment\Catchup\* 27/03/2002 15:24 174 Bob and George, the Comic Strip!.url 15/08/2000 22:54 47 Dilbert Zone.url 4/03/2002 22:07 194 Doonesbury Electronic Town Hall - Daily Dose.url 21/12/2001 21:42 300 holygarden.url 29/05/2001 13:54 201 RPG World.url Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\cim\Favorites\entertainment\Daily\* 13/02/2002 1:45 182 Angel Moxie.url 4/02/2002 11:09 142 BETA THE STRIP--You load 18 tonnes, and what do you get..url 15/08/2000 22:54 47 Bobbins.url 14/11/2000 13:49 158 Clan of the Cats - Archive.url 19/06/2001 13:30 164 Clan of the Cats - Comic Only.url 15/08/2000 22:54 66 Helen.url 26/10/2001 10:31 204 InkTank.com - Angst Technology.url 27/03/2002 18:06 124 It's Walky! -- WIIGII!!.url 26/01/2001 15:52 126 Life on Forbez!!.url 15/08/2000 22:54 49 Player Versus Player.url 15/08/2000 22:54 61 PvP Archives.url 15/08/2000 22:54 67 Real Life - Archives.url 15/08/2000 22:54 54 Real Life.url 15/08/2000 22:54 52 Sinfest.url 20/11/2001 9:58 177 Sluggy Freelance c 2001 Peter Abrams.url 15/02/2002 11:44 162 something positive - a webcomic with chocolate sprinkles.url 15/08/2000 22:54 80 User Friendly.url 12/03/2002 13:38 184 Weakcum.url Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\cim\Favorites\entertainment\M-W-F\* 12/02/2002 12:10 295 Exploitation Now.url 16/11/2000 14:59 146 Jackie's Fridge!.url 29/03/2002 0:13 136 Kung Fool! Wait, wait. Your Chi is WEAK!.url 30/08/2000 11:21 126 megatokyo.url 20/11/2000 13:05 213 Penny Arcade.url 15/03/2002 11:45 120 Sex & Violence - Do you feel the agony, Jubei.url Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\cim\Favorites\entertainment\Monday\* 20/11/2001 10:36 122 Dub This - anime fandom at its worst.url 30/05/2001 9:41 122 Elf Life.url 13/02/2002 17:24 134 Ghastly's Ghastly Comic.url 25/10/2001 11:57 204 InkTank.com - Weak-End Warriors.url 13/02/2002 1:55 138 Little White Lie - Monday, February 11, 2002.url 22/10/2001 9:17 128 Sexy Losers Online Comic.url 30/04/2001 14:05 126 Sunday Morning Coffee .url 30/04/2001 14:13 126 T.A.VISION.url 22/10/2001 9:19 368 Welcome to Swords Online - comic page.url Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\cim\Favorites\entertainment\Tuesday Thursday\* 4/02/2002 11:09 142 Dub This.url Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\cim\Favorites\entertainment\Posterity\* 1/11/2000 11:55 140 JoBeth.url 15/08/2000 22:54 53 coolcatstudio.url 1/05/2001 13:05 142 Eat the Roses.url 16/01/2001 13:49 136 GameSpy.com - Comics!.url 15/03/2002 11:43 128 Joe Average -- All my Bags are packed, I'm ready to go....url 28/11/2000 12:48 197 Lethal Doses.url 30/01/2001 9:45 140 Little Saiyalings!.url 15/08/2000 22:54 83 Not In My Backyard! The Archive of funny humorous pictures joke cartoons funnies.url 27/09/2001 11:44 132 Project Fanboy - Tuesday, September 25, 2001.url 9/01/2001 10:31 172 Tonja Steele.url 6/10/2000 11:49 134 Waiting For Bob.url 29/05/2001 13:37 189 Wendy..url 30/01/2001 10:21 128 [ neobaka ] .url I'd post links to them all, but that would be too much work :-p I thought I read a lot of online comics, but no where near as many as Cookie, and it only takes me 10-20 minutes a day. |
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garry
Former ANN Editor
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I used to be addicted to webcomics. Now I'm all about Jackie's Fridge and The Bruno Daily Times.
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ANN_Bamboo
ANN Contributor
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A comic doesn't have to be funny to be redeeming. Personally, I like it because it has an engaging storyline, and nice art. And also, it is funny at times. Maybe you'd like it more if you actually read it from the first strip and proceeded in chronological fashion. |
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cookie
Former ANN Editor in Chief
Posts: 2460 Location: Do not contact me for support. |
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I like Megatokyo for one reason: I... am.... Piro! Sad as it is, Piro mimics what I desire my life to be like -- stuck, homeless and stranded in Japan, with an illegal job at the local anime store. And anything with the title "Sad Girl In Snow" must be wonderful. As is anything vaguely related to Kanon. I'd have a sidekick who must overclock all Athlons in Japan (that, by far, is the best joke comic *ever* on MT. I'll dig up the URL sometime.) and whose need to kill zombies is only exceeded by his l33t factor. Hmm... Sadly, I think I'm a little like Largo too. -_- (the overclocking athlons part, anyway) |
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garry
Former ANN Editor
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I'd been waiting for someone to say they didn't like MT. I'm a total coward when it comes to saying controversial things. Just ask anyone on the old board.
I read MT with almost frightening regularity. It's like a train wreck, I can't tear my eyes away from it. There's fanboy wish fulfillment, there's otaku spooge, and then there's THIS. Anime freak ends up in Japan, with no fewer than three attractive women latched onto him, a dream job, and assorted other fantasies. Mix that with the distaste I have for fandom in general, and you have the one strip seeming calculated to make me hate it, but hate it in such a way that I Must. Read. More. Remember the fat guy from Confederacy of Dunces, and his movie watching? That's me and MegaTokyo. |
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