Topic: How many webcomics do you read? (Read 84064 times)

actreal · « **on:** 11 Nov 2008, 19:27 »

Make this webcomic addict feel better about his addiction.

'Fess up to how many comics you read regularly - i.e. every update, or catching up once a week/fortnight.

Liz · « **Reply #1 on:** 11 Nov 2008, 21:08 »

Over 100. Right.

I read twelve regularly, though one isn't specifically a webcomic- I just read it on the internet instead of in the newspaper. I have a folder of them in my bookmarks that I go through every weekday and weekends for the one "regular" comic.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #2 on:** 11 Nov 2008, 21:28 »

At last count I think I have about 25 to 30 that I read regularly, mostly by checking the webcomic list.

I do have a word document that chronicles all of the ones that I have read and right now I think it totals over 100. I made the document because I would usually forget which ones I like, now I check it when ever I'm bored and try and to catch up.

Sitsdown · « **Reply #3 on:** 11 Nov 2008, 22:03 »

And there I was thinking I was a big webcomic nerd. I only just got to 6 today.. through Ctrl+Alt+Del and the sillies it spawns. Any other good ones I should be looking into?

october1983 · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 Nov 2008, 08:22 »

Pretty much any one other than Ctrl Alt Del would be an okay start!

tomselleck69 · « **Reply #5 on:** 13 Nov 2008, 12:52 »

35 - 45, depending on whether infrequently updated and on-hiatus strips count. Whatever the number, it is exactly how many good comics there are.

SpaceBanditAndy · « **Reply #6 on:** 13 Nov 2008, 13:48 »

I read around 5-10 often. There are a few more that I check on at least once a month.

Several years back I'd say around 50, but this has reduced because I read a lot more American and European graphic novels now. Webcomics still have a long way to go as a medium.

kamorth · « **Reply #7 on:** 23 Nov 2008, 14:37 »

QC was the first, but it's now joined by LICD, LFG, and the Book of Biff. I'm also working through the archives of Ctrl-Alt-Del and Explosm.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #8 on:** 25 Nov 2008, 02:30 »

I voted 15-20 when I was at work from a guess, but as it turns out my RSS feeds number up in the mid-twenties. I surprise myself!

bicostp · « **Reply #9 on:** 25 Nov 2008, 12:30 »

Here's a screenshot of the 'Comics' folder in my Firefox bookmark toolbar:

Looks like about 20, though most of these are sporadically updated. (They aren't in any particular order, either.)

Teh Geek Lord · « **Reply #10 on:** 26 Nov 2008, 09:55 »

Q.C

Cyanide and happiness

Bob and George

it got stupid

and a few others I catch up with every coupla months (fun to read in bulk, like Q.C)

Doug S. Machina · « **Reply #11 on:** 26 Nov 2008, 11:49 »

There's nine or ten I read regularly, and a few more I read occasionally.

SonofZ3 · « **Reply #12 on:** 28 Nov 2008, 13:10 »

QC, Gunnerkrig Court, Girl Genius, Rob and Elliot, A Softer World, and then 3 or 4 others that I check once in a while.

Judamacaby · « **Reply #13 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 12:35 »

I'm surprised no one has read Misfile. It's a pretty good one and is actually about as long as QC is right now. It's a pretty good story, but I think it's more dramatic than funny...or something.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #14 on:** 09 Dec 2008, 17:37 »

I read and enjoy Misfile

Here's a print screen with my favorites bar. So this plus the word list I have.

X3JA · « **Reply #15 on:** 10 Dec 2008, 21:33 »

SUPER QUESTION NEEDS ANSWER FOR SANITY$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

i only read one, and it's not even QC... achewood is pretty much the shit, QC got too emo for me when my girlfriend broke up with me. any ways, I'm wondering if anyone knows of something a little edgier both in subject matter and art, you know, guns knives blood pussy and satan type of stuff. pre-thanks for the info!
XEJA

TheIrreverendSmith · « **Reply #16 on:** 11 Dec 2008, 03:47 »

Sinfest, QC, Penny&Aggie, Wapsi Square, Evil,Inc, Menage a 3, diesel sweeties & Nothing Nice To Say get my highest devotion. Scene language, RPG world, OrneryBoy, CoffeeAchievers, NoPinkPonies, cool cat studio & PlatinumGrit used to get the good lovin before they either went TU or turned into non-free sites. Scene Language was sorta close in tone to QC. Coffee achievers less so.
Next tier below the gods is the A-list: lackadaisycats, irregular webcomic, scary go round, overcompensating, wigu, sequential art, stuff sucks, shortpacked, D&D, sam & fuzzy and the most eleet venerable of them all, Kevin & Kell. Token mention for Penny Arcade too, local boys done good. Occasionally I go do the satisfying-archive-slog and visit : hero by night, gunnerkrigg court, hatesong, striptease, a softer world, misfile, sidekick girl, friendlyhostility, stuck, pewfell, dorkboy, or Badguyhigh.
Best way to add to the list? Check links and twitters of artists I already like. Try em out.
Prolly miss RPG World most, - Ian may not have been the one to break my webcomic cherry, but he sure was damn funny ...

Conco · « **Reply #17 on:** 18 Dec 2008, 21:02 »

I tend to flit in and out of reading comics, probably been reading QC the longest now, well I guess you could say I read CtrlAltDel, but that's only to look at it, laugh how bad it is and then slag it off.

Others I read that I recommend- Pictures For Sad Children
Nedroid (the Beartato strip on there)
xkcd, although this has become a lot less funny recently
Brawl In The Family (probably my favourite right now)
The Abominable Charles Christopher
A Softer World

ThePrettyMonster · « **Reply #18 on:** 23 Dec 2008, 16:07 »

Is anyone faithful to QC alone? I've tried reading other webcomics, but they just aren't as entertaining as Jeph's work. I'm old school and actually prefer regular, paper comics/graphic novels.

alexsc12 · « **Reply #19 on:** 23 Dec 2008, 16:18 »

Questionable Content
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Cyanide & Happiness
XKCD
Menage a 3
Shortpacked!

So far anyway, I'm half way through the archives on about 30 more. And I've read rice boy all the way through, that was good.
And yes I am ashamed of some of those.

BebopKid · « **Reply #20 on:** 27 Dec 2008, 19:07 »

I discovered QC 5 days ago. Before that, I read Dilbert online every day.

Now that I've caught up and read all the QC's, I'm sad that I have to wait for each weekday like the rest of you now.

Long live QC!

burtonlang · « **Reply #21 on:** 04 Jan 2009, 22:17 »

Coincidentally, my experience with QC is almost identical to that of the user above me (though I discovered it about 6 or 7 days ago).

The first webcomic I read regularly was Oh My Gods!, but I stopped reading that a few years ago. Now, I read Gunnerkrigg Court, Dresden Codak, XKCD, Pictures for Sad Children, QC, and Order of Tales. I'm surprised that only one of you mentioned Rice Boy (my favorite-est epic-comic evar!), and that nobody reads Order of Tales. It's become increasingly beautiful, and Evan Dahm writes the best fantasy comics on the Internet.

Oh and... Dammit! Why did this have to be my first post?

TheDozarian · « **Reply #22 on:** 15 Jan 2009, 12:09 »

I read Penny Arcade, QC, and Freak Angels pretty consistently. I kind of like Dreadnaught Invasion 6 as well... For the Reels isn't bad for the occasional movie-related laugh... and I hit up XKCD on a fairly regular basis, as well...

kaitco · « **Reply #23 on:** 21 Jan 2009, 11:38 »

I only discovered QC and the world of the webcomic about a month ago when I noticed someone hotlinking an image from my website to here. It takes me a while to "get" some comics, so if I read the most recent one and it seems entertaining, I start from the very beginning and read all the way current. I also only like reading all the way through one comic at a time, so this process has been rather slow. Currently, I read QC, xkcd and Wasted Talent. I tried getting into Penny Arcade because someone sent me this one, but I do not think I know enough about other games to really appreciate the comic like I should. I predict by this time next year I will be religiously reading some twenty to thirty at a time.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #24 on:** 24 Jan 2009, 03:40 »

Ceiling Cat · « **Reply #25 on:** 07 Apr 2009, 18:30 »

Lessee.... Goats, QC, The Perry Bible Fellowship, Lucid-TV, xkcd, Minus, Cyanide and Happiness, 1/0, Cascade Failure, Garfield Minus Garfield, and Dr McNinja. But I picked the 2-5 option because some of those don't update anymore/are finished.

Norton Quintessential · « **Reply #26 on:** 07 Apr 2009, 19:11 »

QC (Natch), PVP, Menage a 3, Wapsi, Sam and Fuzzy...

...and...GWS, Shortpacked, and Hark! A Vagrant.
....I really didn't want to mess up that rhythm I had going.

frozen_flame · « **Reply #27 on:** 02 Jun 2009, 06:25 »

For me..
-Questionable Content
-Cyanide & Happiness
-CAD (sorry)
-MegaTokyo
-xkcd
-Bunny
-Penny Arcade
-Little Gamers
-Least I Could Do
-Looking For Group
-2kinds
-Pokemon-X
-8-bit Theatre/Warbot in Accounting
-3-panel Soul/Mac Hall (latter being finished)
-Zap!
-Kawaii Not
-Applegeeks
-Otaku-no-yen
-Awkward Adventures
-VG Cats
-Johnny Wander
-John and John
-The Perry Bible Fellowship (Does this count as a finished webcomic?)
-Garfield Minus Garfield (this one not as religiously.)
And finally the dead ones: Untitled Comedy and Treading Ground. Though Sam + Fuzzy is still on my To-Read list, what with Jeph loving them and all.

EDIT: Sorry for making a huge list

scarred · « **Reply #28 on:** 02 Jun 2009, 08:16 »

Regularly:

Penny Arcade
Ctrl Alt Del (though I've been mostly reading the sillies lately...)
Theater Hopper
Questionable Content
Least I Could Do
Sinfest
Multiplex

Sporadically:

VG Cats / Super Effective!
Looking For Group

Will · « **Reply #29 on:** 02 Jun 2009, 08:38 »

The only ones I actually check regularly are QC, A Softer World, and XKCD. I started a thread about Minus years ago and forgot completely about it. I should go back and reread that one one of these days.

Surgoshan · « **Reply #30 on:** 02 Jun 2009, 08:49 »

I follow about three dozen, including some print comics that also happen to be online. However, I think that since Calvin and Hobbes is no longer in papers, it should count as a webcomic.

I got tired of checking stuff that didn't update every day.

So I subdivided the comic folder in my bookmarks into monday, tuesday, etc. with the comics that update on those days in those folders, which means that QC actually shows up five times, xkcd three times, and so on. Stuff that updates sporadically and not on any schedule (OotS, VGCats, etc) I just check once a week.

Siibillam-Law · « **Reply #31 on:** 02 Jun 2009, 09:15 »

3

QC
Dinosaur Comics
Dr McNinja

I used to read White Ninja but kinda bored of it

abbii · « **Reply #32 on:** 04 Jun 2009, 10:48 »

Webcomics I read:

El Goonish Shive: Following 9 teenagers through weird supernatural experiences.
Questionable content: Nuff said.
Between the lines: Follows the lives of some transgender teenagers called Shay and Danni (very dark and sad at times).
Sinfest: A non linear comic following a variety of characters, quite funny.
Amazing super powers: non linear comic.
DAR: A comic by Erika Moen, very good)

Comics I sometimes read:

XKCD
Cyanide and happiness.

Comics I used to read:

CAD (left after the miscarriage).
Transe-generation (a non linear comic on transgender issues, very funny, but sadly dead).
Venus Envy (website still up, but dead)

Comics I wanna read:

YU+ME (hard to get into due to storyline complexity)
VGcats (Really good looking comic, but I think it might be dead.

Edit: I'm surprised nobody reads El goonish Shive!

Llewellian · « **Reply #33 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 16:37 »

You are not alone. Raises hand at "El goonish Shive".

- Userfriendly.org
- El goonish Shive
- Questionable Content
- Sandra and Woo (modern Calvin and Hobbes with a girl and a racoon)
- XKCD
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- MegaTokyo
- Girl Genius
- Menage a 3
- Devils Panties
- Dilbert

JD · « **Reply #34 on:** 07 Jun 2009, 16:52 »

Go read YU+ME.

Border Reiver · « **Reply #35 on:** 08 Jun 2009, 17:51 »

1977; Arthur, King of time and space; Brat-halla; Darths and Droids; Dungeons and Denizens, the Order of the Stick; Girl Genius; GWS; Goblins; QC; Schlock Mercenary; WShortpacked; Something Positive; Menage a 3; Such Rubbish; Turnsignals on a Landraider (the one that originally directed me to QC); Wapsi; Hark! a Vagrant; Wasted Talent; and Weapon Brown

Llewellian · « **Reply #36 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 05:25 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 07 Jun 2009, 16:52

Go read YU+ME.

Gosh. Followed your advice and did read it today during work. Wow. What to say. From normal girl/girl manga to "Wizard of Oz vs. Alice behind the Mirrors" with ever so changing drawing art style in less then 7 pages. Wicked. Ms. Gedris is inspired artist.

Tropylium · « **Reply #37 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 09:51 »

These days, maybe 50 at best. A few years back that would've been closer to 200… But really, there are a lot of comics that just read better in larger chunks (for example, the optimum checkback frequency for Schlock Mercenary is about once in three months).

Don't ask how many comics I have in my bookmarks altogether. A count two years ago went well over 500. Probably more than a quarter of them I don't even remember what they are about…

No actually, let's do a proper count. Only including comics I dare call "updating".
Checking almost every update (25):
• Awkward Zombie
• Bigger than Cheeses
• Blip
• Buttercup Festival
• Copper
• Dawn of Time
• Digger
• Dresden Codak
• Galaxion
• Goblins
• Head Doctor
• Khaos Komix
• Order of the Stick
• Pear Pear
• Penny & Aggie
• QC
• Sam & Fuzzy
• Tailsteak
• The Battle of Dovecote Crest
• The Mansion of E
• Thingpart
• Thunderstruck
• Ugly Girl
• Yu+Me
• Zebra Girl

Keep checking back every once in a while (25; some of these just update way off any schedule):
• Between Failures
• DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary
• Dreamless
• Eight to One
• Flaky Pastry
• Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy
• Gothbunnies
• Hark! A Vagrant!
• Kukuburi
• Menage a 3
• Misfile
• My Stupid Life
• Punch an' Pie
• Order of the Tales
• Sandra & Woo
• Schlock Mercenary
• Sconeborough
• SGVY
• Skin Horse
• SMBC
• Sophia: Awakening
• Subnormality
• Synchronism
• The Princess Planet
• Wasted Talent

Keep checking back very irregularly (24):
• A Mad Tea-Party
• Candi
• Carzorthade
• Cat and Girl
• CRFH
• Crap I Drew on My Lunch Break
• Cyanide and Happiness
• Daisy Is Dead
• Dr. McNinja
• Fans!
• F@nboy$
• Flipside
• Footloose
• Girly
• Gunnerkrigg Court
• Holy Bibble
• Joyce & Walky
• No Pink Ponies
• Not So Distant
• Octopus Pie
• Rob & Elliot
• Sarah Zero
• Shortpacked
• The Non-Adventures of Wonderella
• Xkcd

Hanging in my favorites list at TWCL but haven't checked back in years (18; aka: I kno they're good but I don't have the time to catch up):
• Apple Geeks
• Atland
• BOASAS
• Bunny
• Chopping Block
• Clan of the Cats
• Count Your Sheep
• Errant Story
• Last Blood
• Nukees
• Overcompensating
• Red Meat
• Sequential Art
• Sinfest
• Sinister Bedfellows
• Templar, Arizona
• Tweep
• Two Lumps[/size]

Siibillam-Law · « **Reply #38 on:** 09 Jun 2009, 10:10 »

That's a load of webcomics

LeeC · « **Reply #39 on:** 18 Jun 2009, 05:13 »

I read 4 or 5

QC
TSOALR
Order of the Stick
SotI
Gone to Ground

I used to read VG cats but they stopped updating regularly.

JonseyMcFly · « **Reply #40 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 18:44 »

I read a lot of them... Usually i read through the archive but yet i forget about them and end up coming back again in a few week's and have lot's of updates.. lol..

Zingoleb · « **Reply #41 on:** 22 Jun 2009, 20:15 »

QC, XKCD, Dinosaur Comics, A Softer World, Pictures for Sad Children, Flaky Pastry. Those are the only ones I read now. When I lost broadband I stopped reading Dr. McNinja and Ctr-Al-Del. Working my way through 8-Bit Theatre and Overcompensating. Have sporadically read Sam and Fuzzy, Cyanide and Happiness, and a few others.

Heliphyneau · « **Reply #42 on:** 26 Jun 2009, 11:54 »

Hmmm, about 6 or 7 at this point -- QC, XKCD, Penny Arcade, Wondermark, Dinosaur Comics, Hijinks Ensue . . . I haven't been keeping up with Narbonic lately (my hubby reads it faithfully), but I like that too.

Does Perry Bible Fellowship even update anymore? It hadn't in awhile the last time I looked -- I loved that one.

JD · « **Reply #43 on:** 27 Jun 2009, 21:36 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 07 Jun 2009, 16:52

Go read YU+ME.

Go read Dead Winter as well

ptfreak · « **Reply #44 on:** 27 Jun 2009, 23:19 »

I have 9 in my bookmarks toolbar, but I don't check all of them and not all update very regularly.

xkcd
QC
Dr. McNinja
Dinosaur comics
Phoenix Requiem (thinking about trying to make myself check this less often cause I think it's better read in large spurts)
Abstruse Goose
Surviving the World
Indexed (don't check it much, but occasionally)
Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life (I read all of them recently and didn't realize that the updates are few and far, far between. Wish there were more cause I love it.)

I'm always slightly on the lookout for more. I've heard good things about SMBC from some friends and there are a couple others that I'll read a few of if I stumble upon a link or something (C&H).

Siibillam-Law · « **Reply #45 on:** 28 Jun 2009, 22:12 »

Makeshift Miracle. I started that the other day

Theriandros · « **Reply #46 on:** 13 Sep 2009, 12:41 »

Quote from: ptfreak on 27 Jun 2009, 23:19

Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life (I read all of them recently and didn't realize that the updates are few and far, far between. Wish there were more cause I love it.)

How does this webcomic deal with Pluto's demotion?

senior · « **Reply #47 on:** 15 Sep 2009, 06:50 »

I used to read upto 7 or 8 webcomics everyday. In sundays only I will read around 15. It makes me to refresh myself.
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Marauder_Pilot · « **Reply #48 on:** 22 Sep 2009, 17:24 »

I used to read about 20, but, after having to get up early every day for work, I fell out of habit of reading any besides the ones I really like.

Currently, I only follow:
-Questionable Content (Duh.)
-XKCD
-Order of the Stick
-Something Positive
-The Zombie Hunters

Damnable Fiend · « **Reply #49 on:** 28 Sep 2009, 12:03 »

I really don't know. lots? I'll try to list them.

Perry Bible Fellowship
QC
Penny Arcade
VGCats
Mac Hall
Three Panel Soul
Order of the stick
Queen of wands
Punch n' Pie
Girl Genius (best comic on the internet as far as I'm concerned)
I used to read Something Positive before it got boring a few years ago
The Zombie Hunters
Achewood
Basic Instructions
Minus
I used to read Least I could Do, it's not very funny anymore
Sinfest
Dinosaur Comics

that's about it I think

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Sitsdown

SpaceBanditAndy

kamorth

Judamacaby

X3JA

TheIrreverendSmith

Conco

alexsc12

BebopKid

burtonlang

abbii

Zingoleb

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