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[cuog]

My favorites that I read all the time are QC, CtrlAltDel, and XKCD. QC I like for the random drama and its just entertaining, CAD has my gamer fix, again who doesn't like someone so obsessed with video games they are otherwise completely dysfunctional.  and XKCD is great for just making you think.

[mattgcn]

* El Goonish Shive. So twistedly awesome I adore this comic despite Dan's abysmal update schedule
* One One Se7en because I'm a fan of Halo and terrible puns. This one registers pretty high.
* Ctrl-Alt-Del mainly because I've been reading it for years and it's like a familiar face to me. Plus it was my intro to webcomics.
* Penny-Arcade because I very simply find Gabe and Tycho hilarious
* VGCats and Applegeeks are very good to me art-wise. Applegeeks has some nice story too
* XKCD and Dinosaur Comics have such a pure geekiness it makes me giggle

[Lise]

My new favorite webcomic has become Lucid-TV because I've been in that work environment, and I have a special kind of loathing for medical residents who feel that tacking on an "M.D." onto their name gives them special privilege.

Plus, they came up with the idea of "pre-suppositories" *giggles*. That's brilliant.

[tomselleck69]

My new favorite webcomic has become Lucid-TV because I've been in that work environment, and I have a special kind of loathing for medical residents who feel that tacking on an "M.D." onto their name gives them special privilege.

Plus, they came up with the idea of "pre-suppositories" *giggles*. That's brilliant.

hey, thanks.

[snubnose]

My current list of favorite webcomics:

* Bruno the Bandit http://www.brunothebandit.com/ - very old webcomic, recently had some problems, but now returned, definitely a classic !
* Candi http://www.candicomics.com/ - candi is an art student and theres a lot funny stuff with romances and adventures and talking animals going on !
* Ctrl+Alt+Del http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php - geeky computer gamer humor with crazy characters
* Dilbert http://www.dilbert.com/ - was much better in the past, nowadays is more some kind of depressive destructive humor
* Dominic Deegan http://www.dominic-deegan.com/ - fantasy tales around a divination wizard in a fascinating gameworld
* Goblins - Life through their eyes http://goblinscomic.com/ - title says it
* Gunnerkrigg Court http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/index2.php - very strange and unconventional comic about a girl at a really strange school
* Hagar the Horrible http://kingfeatures.com/features/comics/hagar/about.htm - only 7 comics per month, but alas
* Irregular Webcomic http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/ - geekiest webcomic ever, with a lot of different story arcs
* Marry Me http://www.marrymemovie.com/ - new classic webcomic about a popstar who marries out of an impulse, I luv it, crazy / funny / charming !
* Megatokyo http://www.megatokyo.com/ - another classic. two american gamers stuck in tokyo. really hard to explain
* Misfile http://www.misfile.com/ - well an angel made an error and turned a boy into a girl. quest to undo it turns out to be very long
* No rest for the wicked http://www.forthewicked.net/ - a lot of fairy tales serve as inspiration. currently very inactive !
* Peanuts http://www.snoopy.com/ - classic
* Questionable Content  ... - you're there
* The Order of the Stick http://www.giantitp.com/ - DnD humor, uber, my total favorite

Maybe not as good, but still cool:

* Atland http://www.realmofatland.com/ - a really weird fantasy comic
* Dieselsweeties http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1 - a classic with currently 1,700 strips
* Drowtales http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?location=01cover&filter=story - story of a drow girl
* El Goonish Shive http://www.egscomics.com/ - weird story about a couple of friends
* Flipside http://www.flipsidecomics.com/ - sexy fantasy story about a promiscious harlekin girl and her friends and adventures
* Freefall http://freefall.purrsia.com/ - omg how to explain that. very witty sci fi story arc
* Girls Genius Online http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ - sci fi fantasy story about a girl with powers to create wondrous machines, gets hunted by everyone
* Girly http://go-girly.com/ - story about a lesbian loverpair who loved to go for adventuring
* Joyce and Walky! http://www.itswalky.com/ - sci fi romance / adventure story, changes in its update schedule
* Marilith http://www.marilith.com/ - story about a female killer, we're still only in the introduction as it seems
* The Seraph Inn - Inverloch http://www.seraph-inn.com/viewcomic.php?page=1 - fantasy story arc that seems to be finished soon
* Twokinds http://2kinds.com/ - fantasy story of a boy who goes with a catgirl and they're hunted and a war between the races is coming
* Vampire Phantasm http://www.vermillionworks.com/vp/ - a story about a vampire

Well, the overall favorite is Order of the Stick, for extreme originality (you need to know a bit Pen and Paper Roleplaying games to really get all jokes there, though). Second comes Questionable Content for very much the same reason. Marry Me is new, but it almost immediately entered my favorite list. I can also not wait to get the next episode of Dominic Degan, misfile, Goblins, Irregular Webcomic, and Megatokyo. No rest for the wicked seems to be either dead or dying because sadly there hasnt been much update as of late...

[PenguinNinja1408]

Hmmm... all-time favorite would have to be Sam and Fuzzy (don't kill me!  ). It introduced to webcomics and it has some really good dialogue. I even quoted it in my college essays...

Coming after Sam and Fuzzy are Ctrl + Alt + Del, VG Cats, and Questionable Content (not necessarily in that order XD)... I used to like Megatokyo, but I sort of stopped caring about the characters... might pick it up again in a month or so when I need distractions from AP classes...

[Cexy]

My favourite comic by far is xkcd, because it appeals to my inner science geek (and to my outer math geek, come to think of it...) but I'm also a fan of QC (appeals to my inner indie geek) and to Order of the Stick (appeals to my inner D&D geek).

Other things that I read are Cyanide & Happiness, Wondermark, A Softer World and PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper) which are all lovely.

[TheBoredOne]

I've found some more webcomics recently, that I've been checking regularly!

Sidekick Girl
Someone here plugged it, and I got hooked

Nineteenth Century Industrialist
This is just some crazy stuff, about a dopey/greedy/evil 19th Century Industrialist, who somehow exists in present time. Colonel Earth and protesters and whatnot keep trying to shut him down. Also the pope and Uncle Sam make appearances.

The Mows
This one is about the author's cats, and what they think and how they interact with eachother. There are a ton of simple-minded, innocent observations about the world that are hilarious.

[jimbunny]

Penny Arcade
Megatokyo
Questionable Content

...and A Softer World. It got mentioned once on the first page, but it needs to be said again. This comic (calling it a 'comic' doesn't feel quite right, though) does something the likes of which I see nowhere else. Moments of sheer brilliance that go well beyond humor.

here's a sample (picked a spot at random in the archives and went forward a bit until I found a good one):

[MusicScribbles]

If I were to just name comics, this would be a lot simpler. So, I won't be giving many reasons as to why I like these comics. I just do.
VGCats
Penny Arcade
Achewood
Perry Bible Fellowship
Dr. McNinja
xkcd
A Softer World
MegaTokyo
Sam and Fuzzy
Questionable Content
Stuff Sucks
Dresden Codak
and Rice Boy
Rice Boy needs a lot more pluggin'. It is a fantastic comic with an overarcing storyline that is unique in its own way. By unique I mean the world it is set in is so whimsical that I cannot help but love it. The art helps a lot though.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, please, someone read Rice Boy. http://riceboy.jho-tan.com/
I am not blogging!

[TheBoredOne]

... Riceboy was.. beautiful. I read every chapter.
Not only should that get more plugging...  it should be famous.
It demands a cult following.

Good god, is it really 6:30am? >.<

Im sending that to everyone I know o.o

[Paroxysmic]

Hrm.  That is really a tough one.  I read umpteen million webcomics, so it's hard to pinpoint just one.

º I (obviously) am a huge QC fan - the story and characters are phenomenal.  my only problem is that it seems mildly watered down lately.  I'm not sure what it is - maybe I've just been reading the same comics for too long with little refresh.

º I used to be the unofficial Something Positive fangirl.  it was perfect - painfully blunt sarcasm, cynicism, etc - lately, however, it just feels like the same joke over and over.  it's almost like how the Simpsons stopped being funny after 12 seasons.  it's like he's running out of material or something.  I still read it, but not as faithfully.

º VG Cats, simply because Scott Ramsoomair is a comedic genius.  Hands down.  I just get sick of the lack of consistent updates at times.

º Jack - I'm just a fan of the art and story behind it.  My only problems?... Well, i'm very agnostic, so the problems are sort of self-explanatory.

º Least I can Do - ....I can't even explain this one.  I just shit myself each time.

º Ice - The artwork is phenomenal, and I'm really growing fond of the story.  I'm just ticked right now because the story stalled at a key point back in July. 

º Fallen by Aido - Again, this artwork is amazing.  She also is an amazing storyteller.  Again, stalled and lack of consistent updates.

º Flipside - An awesome comic, hands down.  The characters and storytelling are A+.  My only problem is that the story seems to take forever to get going.

º 9th Elsewhere is adorable and well-done - it just seems to have completely stalled out of nowhere.  The last update was pegged for June, but nothing has appeared.  Even the forums have frozen.

º Strings of Fate was simply stunning - everything about it to me was a joygasm.  I was just one of the billion fans that wanted to kill someone when it just up and disappeared.  ;;

º No Rest For The Wicked is delightfully macabre and well-written.  I just hate that, like Flipside, the story seems to take forever to go anywhere since the Hansel and Gretel storyline :/

º Bittersweet Candybowl is very cute.  Taeshilh is kick-ass.  My only complaint is that she doesn't update much anymore!  ;;

[Michael Nehora]

Penny and Aggie has been my current favourite for some time.  T Campbell writes well-rounded characters and is never afraid to take risks, play with reader expectations, and experiment with new storytelling techniques.  And Gisele Lagace's art, like Jeph's, puts the majority of webcomic artists to shame.  I also regularly read Candi, Least I Could Do and QC.

Webcomics I catch up with periodically in batches include Piled Higher and Deeper, Shortpacked (so I can skip past the Transformer jokes and author self-insertions),, Sordid City Blues and Nothing Better.

My favourite completed webcomic is Queen of Wands.  Once Aerie got her artistic skills and her idea of the strip's direction up to snuff, it was simply outstanding, with some of the most innovative artistic techniques for storytelling purposes I've seen in any comic, online or print.  (From what I've seen of the spinoff, Punch 'n' Pie, though...meh.)

Webcomics I used to read but dropped reluctantly, due to time constraints or other reasons, include Something Positive and Sluggy Freelance.

Finally, webcomics whose print collections I've purchased and still enjoy:  Penny and Aggie, Least I Could Do, PhD and Sluggy Freelance.  (And I'm sure this has been brought up in other threads, but isn't it time for a QC collection?)

[Ernest]

[Virility]

My background is I'm a mathematics grad student and live in a fraternity so yea, I like geeky crude humor.

1) xkcd.com - The funniest thing I have ever read, and I hate art so stick figures have a special place in my heart. Requires some knowledge in certain fields to get the jokes but has punchlines if you hover over in case you dont get it.

2) explosm.net - Crude, funny, basic, humor. It's getting better, early stuff kinda suxed.

3) lfgcomic.com - Has a great storyline and I only like it cause Richard is too funny.

[Parasol]

My favorite, and has been the second i laid eyes upon his work is Tom Siddell's Gunnerkrigg Court.

His quirky story and dialog style and wonderfully simplistic yet enticing art style top my lists.


My other favorite(s) are Ryan Sohmers Least i could do and Looking for group. That man is just a damn genius at comedy and creative writing.

[toladdict]

Oh c'mon, where are all the Sluggites? Surely there's gotta be more than just myself and the one other person who mentioned Sluggy Freelance? At any rate, I made an account on these forums just to let everyone know that SF is the single greatest webcomic ever. It just celebrated its 10 year anniversary about a week ago, and, believe it or not, the comic is still going strong, and seems to be only getting better with each month that passes. While I wouldn't go so far as to say that SF is a comic that anyone and everyone can enjoy, I imagine that most of the people who read QC will probably enjoy SF - SF has the strongest characterizations I've ever seen in a comic period, and some of the storylines are just... amazing. SF is one of those rare comics that'll not only make you laugh until you cry, but the author, Pete Abrams, also knows how to elicit some genuine poignant moments, and, so far as I'm concerned, his work is unmatched. So do yourself a favor and go check it out, and be sure to start at the beginning! Sure, it means that you'll have a lot of reading to do before you get anywhere near to catching up (Sluggy updates everyday, and, for the most part, manages to avoid filler), but it'll be well worth your time. Also, I read about twenty or so webcomics on a general basis, but the ones I enjoy the most, besides Sluggy Freelance and Questionable Content, are Penny Arcade, Megatokyo, Least I Could Do, Looking for Group, and Fetus-X, all of which I'd highly recommend (unless you are a horribly impatient person, then do yourself a favor and skip Megatokyo).

[TheBoredOne]

Thanks for the heads-up on Sluggy Freelance. Great stuff.

[LordNagash]

I like QC, though it is the only one of its kind I have been able to enjoy all the way through. Other comics I would consider my favorites
OOTS(with Erfworld)
CAD (I dont really know why I like it)
VGCats (I like me some video games)
Looking For Group (I really like the art + humor in this)


Other comics I like but do not consider my favorites
Bizzare Uprising (and I liked Entertaindome when it was still around)
Perry Bible Fellowship (Would be a fav if it updated more often)
8-bit Theater (used to love it a few years ago, dropped of a lot since then)
Turn Signals on a Land Raider (I like warhammer)
Striptease (Read it a day before QC, got the link to QC from a newspost there.)
Chugworth ( come back)
Girl Genius (I read it now and then)

plus I have read a lot of comics I did not really like. :/

[Garmr]

Other than QC (pretty much a given or else I wouldn't be here) F@NBOY$ and LFG.  Both are awesome videogame related comics.

F@NBOY$
LFG

[Ozymandias]

1. Achewood.

Besides that, there are a few I like, but don't always go out of my way to read. Among them are Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Basic Instructions, Married to the Sea, Wondermark, A Softer World, xkcd, Copper, Girl Genius et al.

[teh pwn queen]

I'm a big fan of the gamer comics, but of course I'll read almost anything if it holds my attention.
Here are the top ones I've liked:

1. http://www.wtfcomics.com/
-the first webcomic I ever read.  It's a fan comic for EverQuest (FYI) and has awesome art.  Unfortunately, it doesn't update for weeks at a time, so I don't read it as much as I used to.

2. http://www.vgcats.com/
-very funny, in a very crazy way

3. http://www.cad-comic.com/
-also very funny, oh the stupid shit you do, Ethan!

4. www.questionablecontent.net (why da fug did I put a hyperlink?!?!)
-should be obvious. Just kidding, this comic sucks ASS!!!! GAWD!!!

5. www.dominic-deegan.com
-another comic I have read for a long time and love.

6. http://devilspanties.keenspot.com/
-a good comic, love it's GRRRR attitude!

....and many more!

Trust me when I say MANY more, I don't have just one favroite.  I just read the archives kinda of like books, and when I'm done doing that I move on to another webcomic and repeat process (of course checking the updates of all the other webcomics I read)

[Korandder]

Rough order:
Questionable Content
Sam and Fuzzy
Achewood
XKCD
Sluggy Freelance
Irregular Webcomic
Korea

[Border Reiver]

In no particular order:

Questionable content;
Order of the Stick
Turnsignals on a Landraider;
Goblins, Life through their Eyes;
Dungeon Crawl Inc.;
Arthur, King of Time and Space; and
Schlock Mercenary
Girl Genius
Brathalla

Why, quality story writing, decent consistent art and interestin characters.

[Ryszardthebored1]

-VGCats for the oddball humour
-Order of the Stick for storyline and nerdy humour
-Erfworld see above
-QC for art, storyline, character development, humour
-early Random Assembly because it made me laugh for hours
-Theater Hopper  I like the obscure movie references
-Walking Is Still Honest (R.I.P) for even zanier humour
-Joe Dunn works, FreeLunch, Matriculated, and Joe Loves Crappy Movies for art style.

[Hybris]

Aside from QC a really good deep webcomic is Dresden Codak is a well writen and very well drawn comic he trying to make the move to full time webcomic dude so the updates will come more often. I first found it through Doc McNinja so I'm somewhat surprised that its not on jephs link list but its good comic.

[Alex C]

Rob and Elliot is one of my favorites as well. The comic is hit or miss due to its zany, random nature, but when it hits the comic just makes me happy in the least uncomplicated way possible. It's also worth mentioning that I rarely enjoy guest strips very much, but I enjoyed it when Rob and Elliot's Clay Yount did Bikini Suicide Frisbee Days saturday strips for Sluggy Freelance.

Here's a few of my favorite strips Clay did for Sluggy since they're a pinch tricky for people to find within Sluggy's formidable archives:
http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=061125
http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060610

And this one, which is notable because it somehow manages to establish an awful lot about a character in a mere three panels while retaining some funny:
http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070515

[Melt Down]

I gotta go with
Ctrl-Alt-Del
VGCats
Something*Positive
QC.

Cyanide and Happiness is also good, but you need to not be shaken to easily. some of their stuff is WAY wrong.

[Cartilage Head]

 Achewood!

 Also hope you are all having fun here on the Achewood forums.

[thehollow]

1. Achewood, hands down. very, very few comics can make me actually laugh out loud, Achewood does it on a pretty consistent basis. I can reread the archives endlessly and not get bored. Onstad's characters are amazingly well-written, and the blogs and stuff are just icing on the already-flawless cake. Tied with Calvin and Hobbes for my favorite comic ever.

2. QC. the only other comic besides Achewood that I check just about daily, the regular updates are really nice. Not as funny as achewood, but good a pretty good story.

3. The Perry Bible Fellowship. I check this about once a week or so, since it's updated less frequently than some.

4. Mitch Clem's stuff is pretty good, but I've fallen out of the habit of checking it, it's been awhile since I've read any new stuff he's got.

[Liopleurodon]

I've been meaning to say this for a while. Saw this, and registered just for the purpose.

I know, I'm a geek. I prefer "Nerd Chic", but point still stands.

My favourite is, absolutely, QC. And the funny part is, I'm not into indie music at all for the most part. It's just the punchlines are so good, and frankly, the characters are ridiculously like people I know. I have - to annoy her-  begun referring to one as "Faye" whenever she gets particularly sarcastic. The strip just reminds me of people on a daily basis, and the jokes are fantastic, even to someone with less indie knowledge than a twig.

After that, I'd have to go with xkcd, pbf, Sinfest, and Captain SNES - and lord knows I still miss RPG World.

[thehollow]

Achewood was just named Time's best graphic novel of 2007. 'nuff said.

[Stryc9Fuego]

I see Time as an irrelevant monstrosity. They think that just because Achewood has an ongoing plot and swears and dongs that it's a graphic novel. Here's their complex formula:
If "kids" = no then "Graphic Novel" = true

...still, cute of them for trying.

[tomselleck69]

those motherfuckers put a webcomic on a list for graphic novels! okay yes the first sentence of the review acknowledges the inconsistency and justifies it in a perfectly acceptable way but still who do they think they are?? this is an occasion to get puffy about semantics and not to be happy for achewood, an occasion to write some angry emails, with BULLET POINTS (the gloves are off).

[thehollow]

eh, I don't read graphic novels, so the distinction really means nothing to me.

[Pengraffe]

I don't like to play favorites because it just seems silly so I will just tell you what I read on a regular basis.

Patches (www.hingos.com/patches)
Wondermark (www.wondermark.com)
Overcompensating
American Elf
Octopus Pie
(QC, duh)
Bunny
Nut and Bee (not really a comic, per se)
XKCD

The list of things I read semi-regularly is excessively long, and mostly consists of comics by people that I've met at conventions and really liked.

Lucid_tv
Dinosaur Comics
PA
Applegeeks
Sam and Fuzzy
Kittybot
Fallen
Reprographics
The Devil's Panties
and on and on...

I am in the minority in that I don't like traditional comics, I don't read Achewood or Scary-Go-Round(the giant archives scare me) and I don't like male-centric comics about video games most of the time.

[thebignothing]

ANYTHING BY JOHN CAMPBELL EVER

 

http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/

http://hourly.stereotypist.com/

 

[piccolo14]

Well, I'll be the first to admit that I haven't read too many, but my current favourites are XKCD and Questionable Content. XKCD just suits me. It's as if someone mapped my geeky, cynical, philisophical, and altogether random brain, and that map was XKCD.

However, I'm a sucker for a story-and-character-driven comic, and Questionable Content fills that need for me. I also associate very closely with the "damaged goods" characters, and I also can use the comic to expand my musical tastes.

[thehollow]

So over the last few days I've read the Something Positive archives from start to finish. amazing stuff.

[Uber Ritter]

Am I the only one who's posted recently who's read every single Goats strip?  Don't like the relative lack of ludicrously witty/intelligent banter ("Damn you Heisenberg*!"/"If you love Kant so much why don't you marry him?  A priori my ass!"  Then again maybe I'm just a pretentious ass that mistakes clever references for humor...but I doubt it.

Scary Go Round is consistently amazing, groundbreaking and wonderful.

Riceboy deserves a cult following and so much more.

And A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible going on hiatus made me sad.


*a reference to the uncertainty principle, which is correct (ie doesn't confuse it with simple observer interference), based on my limited knowledge of physics, Wikipedia and excerpts from Heisenberg's paper that I've read in class.

[ledhendrix]

Explosm is probably my favourite for sheer blunt humour, but for characters and plot QC is definetly my favorite, then CAD. I also really like XKCD. I just discovered saturday morning breakfast cereal laughed so hard at some of the cartoons. This explosm comic is probably my favourite to date http://www.explosm.net/comics/1134/.

[Stryc9Fuego]

Definitely Sexy Losers. Nothing is quite the same.
New updates? What? You are crazy.

NSFW WARNING, dude. I'm imagining someone clicking on that link as their boss walks up behind 'em.

[SevenPinkerton]

The Perry Bible Fellowship is definitely the one that makes me laugh the most.

http://pbfcomics.com/

[SevenPinkerton]

^The picture on the Warning page is NSFW itself. Once you click it, you're already in trouble. I think that might be what the above person meant.

[Fidel Fanst]

May favorite three: Sinfest, Commissioned, and of course QC.

[vark]

The comics linked at my webpage correspond roughly with the ones I read.
http://vark.blogspot.com
# comic section bonobo conspiracy
# dex lives
# everybody loves esr
# ghastly
# least i could do
# alas a blog
# juvenile drivel
# filthy lies
# friendly hostility
# megatokyo
# monkey law
# penny arcade
# questionable content
# reality machine
# sinfest
# my webcomic
# choadwarrior
# boondocks
# websnark
# xkcd
# yourmometer
I should probably get around to adding tang and sexy losers.

xkcd is the only one where i'm on the forum and went to the meetup. I only recently added QC to that list - I probably found it via websnark. I've liked it for awhile but it only recently became a has it updated yet kinda read.

my own comic is at http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/arbi/ . it's not so much a comic in that there's no orginal art and there are no or few jokes - it's usually just me making some notes to myself about did i get my laundry done, or playing off other people's comic at www.stripcreator.com - which is this really cool easy to use automated comic generator thingy.
i first heard about it at www.tehsoapbox.net which  was wil wheaton's forum and is now sort of its own thing.

i checked this thread to see if i could find a new webcomic or two - i'm an internet addict- and there were a few leads.

update: i just spent two solid days reading better days. furries. yiffy twincestual ones, in the south, in the 80s, with plots and character development and stuph.

[Calaveth]

By now, every web comic I read has been mentioned at least twice, I believe.

My favorites are in no particular order QC, Something Positive, Looking For Group, Least I Could Do, Errant Story, and Order of the Stick. Errant Story is probably the only web comic I follow primarily because of it's story - it's nice to see the story progress in other web comics too, but more than any other web comic I follow it feels like it has a script. It doesn't wander aimlessly. Looking For Group is hilarious. The recognition factor for anyone who has played MMO's like World of Warcraft or Everquest should be sky high.

Others I read are PvPOnline, Penny Arcade, Sluggy Freelance, Wapsi Square, Sinfest, Shortpacked and Megatokyo.

Sexy Losers is/was fantastically funny and supremely unsuitable for reading at work. Shame it doesn't update any more. It's Walky was also a favorite before it turned into Joyce & Walky, which is lame. 

[costacide]

New favorite;

"Gone With The Blastwave"

http://blastwavecomic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=40

[Joim]

My favourites are QC, Xkcd and Cyanide & Happines. I couldn't tell which one I like the most, since those three have got different styles.

[Uber Ritter]

In which Will details just what makes Riceboy amazing.

First of all it has a freshness of imagination and imagery that is almost unmatched among long-form story-heavy not-so-funny comics.  Not only is the art quite distinctive, but the entire world is so fresh in its sheer weirdness that it's always a delight to see what's coming next.  The oddness of the world's logic may make me want to talk about magical realism or surrealism or whatever, but in the end there's a wonderful dream-like quality that makes everything cohere in a very strange and unique way.  Everything makes sense in the world that is shown to us, yet in the oddest and most wonderful way.

Secondly the story has been engaging and now has a clear sense of direction.  In the past few weeks its become clear that this isn't going to be a plodding story--things move quite fast, yet slow enough to give us good portraits of the characters.  The rather brutal death of several speaking characters, the sheer inainity that the world seems to be headed for, are vividly portrayed, and create a sense of impending doom at times.  Yet the vivacity of the story and of the setting, of the characters that our titular hero encounters, serve to lighten this load and keep things consistently interesting and fun.

Finally there is quite a sense of mystery about the world, about the nature of what exactly our hero is doing, that captures a bit of what fantasy should be about--the mysterious, the inexplicable--not too much has been revealed to us about the world, so I'm always eager to discover more about it, and this can only add to the sense of wonder that this comic can create.