Webcomic Inventory

So. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I've finally gotten a reason to. I'll get to that later. The webcomics I follow, all with links and schedules:

Sluggy Freelance, by Pete Abrams. Daily, all except Saturday are worth reading. A standard, perhaps even the standard; I don't need to say any more.

General Protection Fault, by Jeffrey T. Darlington. Daily, full color. Nerd humor with a dash of epic multiverse-shaking plotlines!

Something Positive, by R. K. Milholland. Daily, full color. More vicious snark and cynicism, I haven't seen in a long time.

Queen of Wands, by Aeire. Monday-Wednesday-Friday, full color, though will end in a month or two. Beautiful art and gorgeous story lines, also with just enough snark. Today's (ok, tomorrow's) comic brought tears to my eyes, something no webcomic has done since Branwen left in S*P; this is why I'm posting this finally.

Ozy and Millie, by David Craig Simpson. Weekdays, having been getting more steady for the last while. Great characters, and makes you think.

I Drew This, also by David Craig Simpson. Monday-Wednesday-Friday. Much more political than Ozy and Millie, revealing just how blazingly liberal D.C.S. is.

Kevin and Kell, by Bill Holbrook. Daily, full color. I started reading this one thanks to a GPF crossover, and am fairly attached. Cute and optimistic with a dash of nerd, but seems to have put aside its epic storylines for a while.

Neko the Kitty, by Gearóid "Gar" Mallow. Monday-Wednesday-Friday, theoretically, but unreliable. Cute cats and really random humor.

Catharsis, by Jen "JB" Boeke. Daily, full color, except filler sketches on weekends. Also cute with funny, plus dragons, cats, and wild cherries.

Order of the Stick, by Rich Burlew. Monday and Thursday, full color. Really simply drawn, but great D+D humor.

Two Lumps, by J. Grant and Mel Hynes. Monday-Wednesday-Friday, pretty much. More cat humor, but not as good as Neko - in my opinion.

Bunny, by "Lem". Daily. Random and bizarre.

PVP, by Scott Kurtz. Daily. Something of a character-driven version of Penny Arcade. With giant pandas.

Ctrl-Alt-Del, by Tim Buckley. Monday-Wednesday-Friday-Saturday, full color. Again, nerd humor, usually less mature than PVP.

Penny Arcade, by Krahulik and Holkins. Monday-Wednesday-Friday, full color. The quintessential gamer comic.

Dork Tower, by John Kovalic. Whenever John feels like it, usually 3-5 a week, full color. More gamer humor, pretty much a support for the published comic of the same name.

Bob 'n' Ed, by Al Cooper. Never, full color. I keep thinking it'll come back, but I don't know if it will.

Lore Brand Comics, by Lore Sjörberg. Thursdays. Random, usually pretty stupid thoughts, but amusingly bitter.

Count Your Sheep, by Adrian "Adis" Ramos. Weekdays, fillers on tuesday and thurdsay. AHHH the kyute it burnz us precious!

The Wisdom of Moo, also by Adis. Monday-Wednesday-Friday I think. You'd think one Adis comic would be enough, but I read both.

Ghastly's Ghastly Comic, by, well, Ghastly. Sundays, full color, adult content. Ok, so "adult content" is an understatement. What can one say about Ghastly? It's hard to believe that he actually has children.

Sexy Losers, by "Clay". Might as well be never, full color, adult content. I wish there'd be more of it.

Three comics by my friend A.J., that haven't been updated since summer.

Penance, by Craig and J.D. Oliver. Tuesdays. An Angband comic, not particularly funny, but has the potential to be a decent story. Too early to tell.

So. Those comics are my "webcomics" folder of bookmarks, and I hit "openin tabs" for that folder each morning and read the updated ones, plus RecentChanges on FunWiki. That's an even 90 comics per week so far, and I'm not really looking for more.

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Damn you, Richard! Damn you!

So, I'm up to 95: Questionable Content, by J. Jaques. Weekdays, full color. Really well drawn but not too fancy, and a lot of commentary on hipness and the flow of culture. Also, deep characters with unresolved issues.

As a comic about adrift 20-somethings, it's also made me think about the future, and where I'll be going from here. I think I want to end up in a city after all, somewhere I'm not reliant on my car, with easy access to a familiar and comfortable group of people. Mudd has been really awesome about that, naturally. Public transportation is a must, naturally - I guess that really plants my choice of cities firmly in the Northeast, if we're staying around here. I'd say Boston, but that might be S*P talking (plus the implication that QC is set in that area (now I want to see a QC/S*P crossover week)). That'd be a bit... something. As of this coming June, the three people genetically closest to me will all have graduated from MIT. I spent a summer at Harvard. That summer I decided it wasn't where I wanted to spend college, but as for after...

I have a lot of thinking to do. Summer work in that area would kick ass.

Tomorrow, then, I finally update my resume.

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