I like comics, I like free comics, and as a result, I like webcomics. I also like webcomics that really I shouldn’t admit that I like unless I’m paid to do so. So, in no particular order, here are the comics I hit up every day they’re scheduled.
- Penny Arcade and The Trenches. PA has, in the fourteen years it’s been running, been the model for webcomics. It also happens to be really damn funny; Gabe and Tycho may have gotten married and had kids off-panel, but they’re still awful people and I love them for it. Similarly, The Trenches is a hilariously brutal workplace strip that frankly shows video game QA is all too much like the temp life I left behind not so long ago.
- Battlepug, because it sits on two of my key interests: fantasy fiction about iron-thewed humorless barbarians and small googly-eyed dogs. I own a Shih Tzu that was nearly named Gurgi, I was doomed to love this comic. But it also shows that Mike Norton, the artist and writer, has a wonderful sense of the absurd and a taste for straight-faced comedy that frankly the Big Two don’t use nearly often enough.
- Eerie Cuties and its spin-off strip Magick Chicks, because honestly it’s what Buffy used to be before Joss Whedon started taking himself so incredibly seriously. I got into it for the art by Gisele Lagace and stuck with it because the plot usually makes me laugh. Also I’m apparently a teenage girl.
- Unshelved, solely because it’s workplace comedy at its best.
- And finally, Menage A 3 (link may or may not be NSFW: click at your own risk), also by Lagace, which is pretty much what happens when you stick Three’s Company, Carry On, The L Word, and Queer As Folk into a Pokeball and make ‘em breed for several generations. It’s sex comedy that isn’t self-conscious or preening about how edgy it is, and you feel genuinely bad for the main character, Gary, at certain points.
So, let’s hear it: what webcomics do you regularly follow and why?




Cyanide and Happiness, every morning for the last five years or so.
C-Tates in White House Down, natch.
xkcd, CTRL-ALT-DEL (though my interest in that is waning), White Ninja Comics, Achewood and Diesel Sweeties.
No love for Questonable Content, Something Positive or Girl Genius?
Oh, I’ve loved what I’ve read, but I generally do archive binges on those. These are the ones I check in with every day.
Achewood, once upon a time.
Nimona is rocking my world now.
Hark! A Vagrant trumps all
Order Of The Stick and Darths And Droids, because I am a huge nerd.
(I’ve never actually played Dungeons and Dragons, but OOtS is still one of the best I’ve found)
Nedroid and Chainsawsuit are pretty great
xkcd, lets be friends again, dr. mcninja, dinosaur comics
and white house down, of course.
This Modern World strictly out of habit.
Crossed: Wish You Were Here. and Ellis’s Freakangels was amazing.