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Is anyone still reading those? I'm currently somewhat working on building a new site from scratch, after I didn't do anything on my old comic for over five years. Checked out things like PA or (ugh) CAD, but those seem to have gone completely off the rails by now. Has there ever been someone to pick up the pieces or are videogame webcomics just dead these days?

(I'm not gonna be the one saving them, wrong language for that)
 
I still read Whomp! pretty regularly, but it's not really about video games. It's about being a fat guy who likes Chicken McNuggets (who sometimes plays video games).
 
Daily, to be honest. However, i've stopped following a lot of the classic ones, picing up newer stuff here and there.

Amazed how much social/diversity stuff has popped up in them in the last few years. Outside the hardcore gamerbro ones, many have embraced LGTQ etc characters, as well as multi racial casts. Several have had massive tone shifts as well (sinfest most famously, though el goonish shive and questionable content have a lot as well now).
 
A friend introduced me to It Hurts! and I read all of the available pages in one sitting. Its amazing the stark difference between the first panels and the last, and man, it really does hurt, page 462.. ;-;

Its next update is the last.
 
I was young and dumb once, and read Megatokyo. Just checked it, and it doesn't look like it's changed much over the years! XKCD is the only one I've seriously kept up with, to be perfectly honest.

I have the feeling that video game dedicated webcomics kind of just fell out of fashion after a while, especially since so goddamn many of them were just PA or CAD clones. There's Life in Aggro and Awkward Zombie, I guess.
 
Capitan said:
I still dig SMBC and XKCD.
edit: if you're looking for only videogame comics, i have no idea lol.
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Nah, I'm following others, too, Oglaf and XKCD are great, so are some on Facebook too. I was just just mainly thinking about "classic" 3-4 panel gamey shorts when I came up with this.
 
I read Paranatural (kids with super powers deal with supernatural creatures and events only they can perceive alongside their teacher. Art evolved quite a bit since the start.)
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And Justice League 8. Essentially, the justice league characters if they were small kids.

Kid Batman is the best.

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The ones I check regularly are Penny Arcade, Questionable Content, Oglaf, XKCD, SMBC, Cyanide & Happiness and Chainsawsuit.

PA and XKCD hardly get a laugh out of me these days, but I still love their golden eras.

I read CAD way back in the early days, but fell off it right before it (and the author) got really weird.

Also stopped with LFG and Least I Could Do, the charm just wore off.
 
I don't follow the overarching story when it happens, but Manly Men Doing Manly Things is a nice crossover comic that gets a nice giggle out of me from time to time. The art style has also stayed consistent and solid. It also especially helps that they don't limit themselves to video games occasionally.

Here's one of their older ones
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MMarston said:
I don't follow the overarching story when it happens, but Manly Men Doing Manly Things is a nice crossover comic that gets a nice giggle out of me from time to time. The art style has also stayed consistent and solid.

Here's one of their older ones
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I used to love Manly Guys Doing Manly Things. But I partially wish they had just kept with cool one offs here and there with a very small cast of recurring characters alongside the huge amount of video game characters.

Maybe I'll give it another try, but they spend a lot of time on their overarching plot at the point I stopped and not enough time on Mr. Fish
 
I really like Awkward Zombie
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I think theee should be a distinction between the daily strip type of webcomics, and the long form (often non comedic) comics that happen to be online.

The target audience seems to be different.
 
Speaking of still existing, Girl Genius also does. Exist. Still.

They just had a 2-year timeskip and still somehow managed to not move the plot at all, but the first few books worth of the story are great fun.
 
If you're looking for web-comics about videogame humour, I can recommend Awkward Zombie, Manly guys doing manly things, and Brawl in the family (which no longer updates).

However, webcomics are far more than just videogame humour these days. There are several absolutely amazing plot driven comics I can recommend. I'll see if I can do a write up after work.
 
Schlock.
Motherfucking.
Mercenary.

Http://schlockmercenary.com

A comedic Space opera that's currently the longest running webcomic in existence, having actually beaten Kevin and Kell, and also with a literally UNBROKEN update streak, one comic seven days a week FOR OVER SIXTEEN YEARS. To the point where the fucking Data Centre flooding only delayed the comic by 2 hours.

It's​ also fucking hilarious to boot. If you like Space opera stuff, you'll love Schlock. :)
 
Paranatural and Cucumber Quest are the only ones I'm reading atm. The fact their art is good helps a lot.

Used to love Gunnerkrigg Court and Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, but I just lost interest.

I occasionally check on Oglaf and Awkward Zombie if I'm feeling down.

A Link to the Past said:
Is it just me, or does Megatokyo look worse today than it did when it started?
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Megatokyo is still a thing!?
 
Yep!

Blaster Nation wrapped up with the authors moving onto sexier things but was a great little recent SoL/gaming comic. Even kickstarted a book compilation (still hoping for book 2).

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I still read Questionable Content which has been going strong since 2003 with no signs of stopping (nearly 3.5k strips now). Goes between character drama and comedy of various sorts mostly, a lot of music references towards the beginning and ramped up on the robot thing more recently.

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There's also Menage a 3, which is essentially smut-comedy with some nerd references (since 2008). The art has always been nice and the updates super consistent -- the plotlines vary quite heavily in interest to me though.

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I heavily favor stuff with continuity as opposed to individual strips, but still catch stuff like the random xkcd strip here and there too.
 
I tore through Subnormality when I first found it - there's an overarching "plot" involving a young woman and a sphinx (better than it sounds!) along with a few recurring characters and some one offs that have nothing to do with the main story at all. The comic tends to go for thought provoking themes about life and philosophy, with the occasional gag here and there.

However, I will admit that the comic is not exactly conventional - with some strips the author does interesting things with the panel layout and some strips are verbose to the point that you feel more like you're reading a book with pictures than a comic strip, but I'm cool with it. I like what the author has to say in most cases.

An example of a one-off strip I enjoyed (won't embed as it's quite long).
 
Whomp! and Oglaf. No offense to Ronnie or the people behind Oglaf, but it's mostly out of habit at this point. They've both kind of exhausted their premises.

edit: now and then I'll binge on bkub's comics, though I'm not a big fan of Poptepipic. I preferred his Touhou stuff.
 
SoundPulse said:
If we're talking mainstream "holy crap that still exists? how?", VG Cats is probably the king.

Here's a Metroid sprite comic that began in 2002 and is still somehow running.
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When I was at university - around the turn of the century - I was a big fan of Sluggy Freelance. That seems to still be a going concern, and started in 1997.

Only ones I read on a regular basis these days are XKCD and Dark Legacy Comics (the latter being specifically WoW-themed, and much younger than the rest of these!)


Edit: Oh, and I guess I should mention Perry Bible Fellowship, although that's updated only when the date is prime, or something.

Edit2: Wait, is "Splitting Up" new? Don't think I'd seen that before.
 
As far as videogame webcomics go, I sometimes check on Nerf Now and read a few.

As for others, I only bother with SMBC.
 
I haven't seen any mentions of Erfworld yet? It probably has the best writing I've seen on a webcomic, to the point where I enjoy text updates much more than comic page updates.

Other comics that enjoy would be Paranatural (great art, funny and original), Order of the Stick (for the plot and characters), Girl Genius (even if the plot barely moves it has decent art in an interesting setting) and xkcd (because charts and graphs can be funny too).
 
Yeesh you kids need to read some better webcomics ;P

Here is a list of webcomics I had been reading over the years. Sadly I fell off but I plan on catching up someday-
Unsounded
http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch01/ch01_01.html

Daughter of the Lord of Thieves, Sette Frummagem is on a mission, and she'll lie, cheat, and steal to make sure it's a success (she'll lie, cheat, and steal anyway). Condemned to aid her in her rotten endeavours is a rotten corpse who seems oddly talented with the supernatural, and oddly not laying motionless in the dirt.
The road is long and no one is what they seem. Never trust a thief, and never trust anyone who won't let you look into their eyes.
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Has a few pages that feature nudity but the art and plot is pretty good and it has its own 'magic system'.

The Abominable Charles Christopher
http://abominable.cc/post/44164796353/episode-one

Follows the adventures of a bigfoot-like creature, is the source of this particular scene-
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Cucumber Quest
http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/cq/page-1/

Yeah this was mentioned already but I am posting about it because it is an interesting take on the whole RPG save the world story. The art is pretty cute too.

Ava's Demon
http://www.avasdemon.com/pages.php#0001

This one has a very impressive coloring technique used as the shading is pretty impressive. It is a science fiction webcomic about a girl named Ava and the demon haunting her.
Be forwarned that it has some amture content and there are some disturbing scenes in a few later pages.


EDIT: Ah nvm found it, webtoons!
http://www.webtoons.com/en/genre

Surprised they're hosting Lackadaisy Cats now, I need to catch up on it.

EDIT: Ah heck yeah JL8
I need to catch up @o@
 
A few:
Goblins
Monster Pulse
MonsterPop (when she bothers updating)
Paranatural (although it feels like it's been going nowhere fast for years....)
 
Questionable Content and Gunnerkrigg Court here mostly, and they update like clockwork. Tom Sidell's art is amazing, I have most of the books too. Oglaf is a once a month or so read.

I also used to laugh my younger ass off Sexy Losers many years ago.

VG Cats once in a blue moon, same for Miss Mab.
 
Just SMBC now. Well, I'm still reading John Allison's Bobbins/ScaryGoRound/GiantDays/BadMachinery/whateveritis, too, but I wouldn't pick it up to start today.
 
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