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i was introduced to webcomics through gunnerkrigg court somehow
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WrathOfBlade posted:Just want to second this recommendation in a completely unsuspicious non-promotional manner Hey I clicked on that link and I've been binging the archives today, it's pretty neat.
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Dec 30, 2017 05:57
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Tollymain posted:i was introduced to webcomics through gunnerkrigg court somehow poor soul you started at the top and now there's nowhere to go but down
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Dec 30, 2017 10:38
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My first “real” webcomic experience was Life of Reilly, and what a cocktease that one was. It loved going up its own rear end more than moving the plot forward, it gave El Goonish Shiv a run for its money in indulging its creators’ fetishes, and then died on the doorstep of actually paying off a whole bunch of the plot points it had accumulated since it flipped from being a gag a day strip to an ongoing story. In hindsight, it wasn’t as anywhere as good as I thought it was at the time, but godDAMN I would still love to know what the endgame was for that story because it was sure going places near the end.
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Dec 30, 2017 11:52
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I was on the internet early enough that mine was Sluggy Freelance. I hated it.
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Dec 30, 2017 12:26
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I think Penny Arcade was my doorway into webcomics I think my first not-gag-a-day webcomic was El Goonish Shive, I'm ashamed to say. I was young and stupid. Thankfully I outgrew it. I think I next went onto Problem Sleuth, and I briefly went into the Questionable Content rabbithole and Schlock Mercenary, and then I found Scary Go Round/Bad Machinery, Hark a Vagrant & Nedroid, and I've not really looked back since.
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Dec 30, 2017 12:37
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My first webcomic was Megatokyo
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Dec 30, 2017 14:51
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Unicorn Jelly. My first webcomic was Unicorn Jelly.
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Dec 30, 2017 15:31
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Oh man I had my whole routine I would open three browsers because it predated tabs and in one page open up thepokemasters.com and in the other thepokemasters.com chat applet because I couldn’t figure IRC out yet and in the third I’d visit my webcomics in order, Life of Wiley Bob and George Adventurers! Sinfest and depending on the day of the week RPGWorld Comics
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Dec 30, 2017 16:12
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I can't remember any of the ones I read first, but they did lead me to the oldest one I still follow. Which has recently, and unbelievably, started updating again: Captain SNES.
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Dec 30, 2017 16:35
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Galvanik posted:I can't remember any of the ones I read first, but they did lead me to the oldest one I still follow. Which has recently, and unbelievably, started updating again: Captain SNES. I don't believe you. Captain SNES was never real it was always on hiatus
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Dec 30, 2017 16:46
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My first webcomic was 8-bit Theater, found (of all things) through a Deus Ex modding site. The second was Something Positive. That was it for a while until one day Milholland made a post about exploring through Keenspot to find worthwhile webcomics and there was a list. The only two I vaguely remember from this were The Phoenix Requiem, which was eventually completed, and something called Pointless, a story which stopped updating abruptly a few months later. Looking back at it now, it sucked.
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Dec 30, 2017 16:48
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My first webcomic was the garbage pile of Fireball20xl, which if you don't remember what that is, you're probably all the better for it. The guy who ran the site turned out to be a pedophile and all-around bad person, and I think basically the entire site has been purged by this point. There were a lot of webcomics by other people on his site, which I think I liked more (even if they all had a habit of mysteriously going on indefinite hiatus that makes more sense now), but everything I remember about That's My Sonic was uniformly garbage that I only ever tolerated because I was too young and dumb to know better. I was already reading Foxtrot online beforehand, but that's not exactly a webcomic. Later I would branch out into reading things like Bob and George and 8-Bit Theater (I read a lot more sprite comics than I should've) and then later I started combing the top webcomics list and started reading things like El Goonish Shive and Girl Genius.
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Dec 30, 2017 19:43
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Sinfest brings me back. Sinfest and... Mac Hall? Was that the name?
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Dec 30, 2017 19:45
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It's a name. The Mac Hall guys are still doing pretty good comics as Three Panel Soul.
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Dec 30, 2017 20:56
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Acid Reflux  The first real webcomic hub site I read regularly was...Big Panda? Was that the one that had Crosby's Superosity and Sluggy & etc.? It had a lot of the early successful webcomics.
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Dec 30, 2017 21:43
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Neophyte posted:Acid Reflux Keenspot.
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Dec 30, 2017 21:47
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Regy Rusty posted:My first webcomic was Megatokyo Gotcha beat- I had a couple of the books for awhile. Anyone else remember Real Life?
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Dec 30, 2017 21:53
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Just Offscreen posted:Anyone else remember Real Life? That was my first webcomic! I could not remember what it was called until you mentioned it.
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Dec 30, 2017 22:00
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My first webcomic was some... gag a day comic with a "[character] and [character]" name and I want to say one of them was a penguin? But most importantly it had a link to Order of the Stick I eventually discovered and THAT had links at the time to a bunch of other stuff.
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Dec 30, 2017 22:38
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i think my first webcomics were sluggy freelance and 9th elsewhere
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Dec 31, 2017 00:12
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reignonyourparade posted:My first webcomic was some... gag a day comic with a "[character] and [character]" name and I want to say one of them was a penguin? But most importantly it had a link to Order of the Stick I eventually discovered and THAT had links at the time to a bunch of other stuff. When you think about it there was something fairly magical about the fact that webcomics used to cross-promote just to other webcomics that the creators liked, not as part of an advertising program or cross-brand synergy but purely on the basis of enthusiasm for the material. Obviously it had side benefits but there's still something pure and kinda sweet about it.
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Dec 31, 2017 00:28
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Android Blues posted:When you think about it there was something fairly magical about the fact that webcomics used to cross-promote just to other webcomics that the creators liked, not as part of an advertising program or cross-brand synergy but purely on the basis of enthusiasm for the material. That was pretty much how I found Life of Reilly. They did a tiny crossover with Penny Arcade and I was like “wow, this looks a lot cooler than whatever PA’s doing”.
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Dec 31, 2017 00:35
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Regy Rusty posted:My first webcomic was Megatokyo Same. Then Bob and George. It was really weird when I found out that Webcomics could actually be interesting and entertaining.
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Dec 31, 2017 00:54
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Regy Rusty posted:My first webcomic was Megatokyo
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Dec 31, 2017 03:24
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I do not recall my very first webcomic. I believe it might've been either VGCats, 8BT, CTRL+ALT+DEL, or some other poo poo like that. I've since learned better though.
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Dec 31, 2017 03:28
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i miss you pokey the penguin
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Dec 31, 2017 03:28
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I don't remember what my first webcomic was I do remember at one point being really fond of Dominic Deegan in particular. The 'heroic rapist' storyline killed my interest in DD rather quickly though. Nowadays I read things like Awkward Zombie, Kiwi Blitz and The Draw Play. Oh, and I guess I read Gunnerkrigg Court too.
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Dec 31, 2017 03:34
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I wonder what will be the garbage webcomic of the 2010s that got people in the genre but they'll regret one day. Homestuck?
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Dec 31, 2017 04:00
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Regy Rusty posted:My first webcomic was Megatokyo Then you'll be happy to know that after four and a half years and nearly $300,000 in a few months there might be part of a visual novel coming out!
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Dec 31, 2017 05:04
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Rand Brittain posted:...wow, has it really been thirteen years? I can confirm for you that nothing has happened in QC during that timeframe.
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Dec 31, 2017 05:18
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Mine... Was Walky 
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Dec 31, 2017 05:20
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Mine was Girly. And then the usuals (bobandgeorge, 8bit, megatokyo). Webcomics are weird, man.
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Dec 31, 2017 05:26
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Grapplejack posted:I can confirm for you that nothing has happened in QC during that timeframe. Lots of things happened, though.
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Dec 31, 2017 05:31
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Ozy and Millie prepared me for everything on the Internet having the author's creepy fetishes injected into it
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Dec 31, 2017 06:23
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At least she cleaned up well and is producing Phoebe and her Unicorn and doing well. 
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Dec 31, 2017 07:38
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Man, I really don't have a clue what my first webcomic was. I know I started early. Might have been...User Friendly? Which looks exactly the same now as it did in 1997. It pre-dates Penny Arcade and PVP by a few months. I know I used to follow Sabrina Online, which started in '96, but I know I wasn't reading it back then. Zebragirl started pretty early, around 2000, I think. Same goes for Sinfest and Exploitation Now. I used to have my browser (Opera) launch with like 50 webcomic tabs as my way of keeping up pre-RSS, but I'm sure that startup file is long gone now. [Edit] Found some of my old bookmarks...I completely forgot about Ultima Online comics. Like B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd and imanewbie, both of which are somehow still online. Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 10:56 on Dec 31, 2017 |
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Dec 31, 2017 10:01
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Samuringa posted:I wonder what will be the garbage webcomic of the 2010s that got people in the genre but they'll regret one day. I don't know if you can still have that same meandering webcomic experience these days since webcomics are now an established thing with some conventions. A lot of that wild west wasteland feeling (where you didn't know if you were going to be jumped at by a horrible political screed or fetish out of nowhere) has changed.
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Dec 31, 2017 18:37
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mycot posted:I don't know if you can still have that same meandering webcomic experience these days since webcomics are now an established thing with some conventions. A lot of that wild west wasteland feeling (where you didn't know if you were going to be jumped at by a horrible political screed or fetish out of nowhere) has changed. because now you've learned that you will definitely be jumped at by a political screed and/or fetish? the webcomics that were basically Garfield... but with gaming/in a coffeeshop! have been around since the start, as has the hosed up weirdo poo poo. The quality on the wierdo poo poo has generally gone up as more actually talented people have decided it's a viable medium to spend their time that's actually worth something on, that's about all that's changed, nobody's shut the total nutbars out
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My first webcomic was also Megatokyo, unfortunately. Also when I was 13 years old or so I got in trouble for reading Chugworth Academy out of morbid curiosity and my parents found it in the history. Boy am I glad it was just that and not that other really really horrible thing about anime girls that guy ended up doing.
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