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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2009, 10:39:46 am »

XKCD and Questionable Content for webcomics.
I read Calvin and Hobbes as a small child. All of them. I was a pretty weird kid.
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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2009, 01:59:44 pm »

I read Calvin and Hobbes as a small child. All of them. I was a pretty weird kid.

Read them once again. This comic is not for small childs at all. There are lots of great jokes little kids could (should) not understand.
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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2009, 02:41:27 pm »

If you want some comics with great storylines and beautiful art, there is Girl Genius, Gunnerkrigg Court, and Phoenix Requiem. I also enjoy Sam & Fuzzy, Dr. McNinja, Order of the Stick, Erfworld, Templar Arizona, Questionable Content, Starslip, XKCD, Penny Arcade, and Schlock Mercenary. I also read about 20 other comics.
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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #18 on: April 19, 2009, 02:53:11 pm »

Everything from Robert Crumb!






I read Calvin and Hobbes as a small child. All of them. I was a pretty weird kid.

Read them once again. This comic is not for small childs at all. There are lots of great jokes little kids could (should) not understand.
Yes and no. Calvin and Hobbes has different levels, and the stories work for different ages. A kid most likely will read a different story than you will, but it is wrong to say that you get the full story and the kid doesnt. Because both perceptions are complete and have their merits on their own. I dont know how to put it in english, so I'll just say "both ways to understand the story are equal in importance".

And I'm not saying C&H just has 2 levels, 1 for kids and 1 for grownups, but I just know about those two. Because I read em as kid & as grownup. Dunno if there are ... "old people-" or "teenager-ways" of perceiving C&H. But I bet. And I bet, every way of understand them is a complete and working way.
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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #19 on: April 19, 2009, 03:38:14 pm »

You know, in reading old and new, old mainstream comics seem to be oversimplified, new seem to be soap operas with punching.

As for web, xkcd, PA, Questionable Content, though I hate myself for liking it, and Order of the Stick.

Is Questionable Content the one about Hipster Scum?
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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #20 on: April 19, 2009, 04:13:54 pm »

Erfworld definitely takes it.

I like Looking For Group but its characters keep falling from funny and quirky idiots into Mary-Sue material too often. Which is true for a lot of comics I guess.

Order of the Stick is entertaining, but sometimes it becomes "serious" and that's just boring. And verbose.
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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #21 on: April 19, 2009, 04:25:07 pm »

Is Questionable Content the one about Hipster Scum?

Yes, yes it is. And that is why I don't want to like it, but I do. Damn myself!
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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #22 on: April 19, 2009, 05:03:29 pm »

XKCD and C&H.
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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #23 on: April 19, 2009, 06:29:40 pm »

Most everything I read has already been posted except these:

Perry Bible Fellowship.




Cyanide and Happiness.



Freefall.

It's a furry comic, but it's a very good comic too. Solid Sci-Fi and winner of a couple awards.
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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #24 on: April 19, 2009, 06:48:46 pm »

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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #25 on: April 19, 2009, 08:00:36 pm »

Men In Hats. It was a great and short webcomic about "6 guys who stand around in the desert... talking... sometimes they have breakfast." One of his characters inspired XKCD's Hat Guy. So read it. Now.


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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #26 on: April 20, 2009, 01:16:56 am »

I read Calvin and Hobbes as a small child. All of them. I was a pretty weird kid.

Read them once again. This comic is not for small childs at all. There are lots of great jokes little kids could (should) not understand.
Yes and no. Calvin and Hobbes has different levels, and the stories work for different ages. A kid most likely will read a different story than you will, but it is wrong to say that you get the full story and the kid doesnt. Because both perceptions are complete and have their merits on their own. I dont know how to put it in english, so I'll just say "both ways to understand the story are equal in importance".

And I'm not saying C&H just has 2 levels, 1 for kids and 1 for grownups, but I just know about those two. Because I read em as kid & as grownup. Dunno if there are ... "old people-" or "teenager-ways" of perceiving C&H. But I bet. And I bet, every way of understand them is a complete and working way.

I completely agree - I did not say "all jokes" but "lots of jokes" ...
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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #27 on: April 20, 2009, 07:04:08 am »

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I read EVERY. SINGLE. STRIP. And there are 2000+ of them. I also check it out every day for updates.
I also like "all roses have thorns" (don't ask)
Erfworld
Pointless(seems dead)
Looking for group
I also like polish comics, but I won't list them here cause you wouldn't understand anyway  :P
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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #28 on: April 20, 2009, 10:56:58 am »

Is Questionable Content the one about Hipster Scum?

Yes, yes it is. And that is why I don't want to like it, but I do. Damn myself!

I think I'm turning into one of those people sometimes.
I find myself talking about obscure bands quite often, and I often relate to the characters , although thankfully I listen to music I actually enjoy

By the way, all of you played a part in destroying my incentive to work, as there are a few comics I want to read.
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Re: Your favourite Comic?
« Reply #29 on: April 20, 2009, 11:53:46 am »

Favorite web comics (which I need to start reading again) are Girly, Penny Arcade, MegaTokyo, Order of the Stick, and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

Personally, though, manga is more of my thing. Favorite series are A.I. Love You, and Innocent W, because I haven't bought ones like Strawberry 100%, Chibi Vampire, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Rozen Maiden, and Kashimashi, yet.

Though my local library has volumes 1-3 of Strawberry 100%... *grins*
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