Murdstone posted:

F Minus

Julet Esqu posted:

I've never read Archie before, but I know it was hugely popular and even has a fanbase today. So far what's been posted has been good! I look forward to reading more!

Also curious about that invisible lady strip. I'm remembering that strip we had in here about that ancient Egyptian lady who died and came back to life in modern times or whatever. It always seemed like it was just about to get rad, but never did. Don't know why that's coming to mind.

Julet Esqu posted:

It really was terrible and weird, but in just the right way to make it fascinating.

Shugojin posted:

to be fair i'd be making fun of my mom relentlessly if i found out she was reading trashy mermaid romance novels so

kidcoelacanth posted:

we really don't say enough about how much legend of bill sucks

riderchop posted:

I can't take much more of this

Howard Beale posted:

We trained an AI on over twenty years of geek culture webcomics, then asked it to create a comic of its own. Here's what it came up with.

quote:

For his crew of four main characters, Reddick pulls from himself and those around him growing up in Indianapolis as a sci-fi and comic-book fan surrounded by those who adore Hoosier basketball, Colts football and the Indianapolis 500.

Skip's the kind of guy who knows all the dialogue from episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and he's the polar opposite of his co-worker Barry, the top salesman at Finch Marketing and a super-jock who's ready to drop and do 200 pushups whenever the mood strikes.

Skip's colleague — and crush — Gwen is a well-balanced, strong-willed individual, though her one weakness is cat memes on the Internet. And Mike is Skip's best pal who's excessively vocal about his geekdom for all things video games, comics and galaxies far, far away.

"Skip's a mix between Mike, the extreme, and Gwen, a more balanced voice of reason. That said, Gwen has her own nerdy geeky things that come out," Reddick says. "Barry's actually a lot like Mike. Barry will absolutely take his shirt off, paint his body the color of his favorite team, and go to work that way wearing a beer hat.

"Each character is a different level of fanaticism in some kind of way that I can exercise and play with."

If it was a 1980s movie, Barry would probably come off as the villainous bully, but in a modern culture where The Big Bang Theory and other properties have put geeks at the top of the entertainment food chain, he's a refreshing and sporty balance to the various geekery.

Imagine Sheldon Cooper as buff Peyton Manning super fan, and there's a little bit of what Reddick is trying to capture.

"Barry does not get Skip, he doesn't understand him, yet he's exactly like Skip in his own way. And Skip doesn't get Barry either. There's a foil thing there but they both kinda dig each other in a way," Reddick says.

"Will Skip ever end up going to a baseball game with Barry? Who knows, you'll have to read the comic. Will Barry ever end up going to a comic convention? I doubt it but it'd be funny if he did."

For the first year or so of Intelligent Life, Reddick wants to develop his characters through stand-alone strips, but down the line wants to have bigger story lines such as Mike having a flight of fancy being on a sci-fi show or taking the whole crew to San Diego Comic-Con.

Reddick wants readers to get to know his nerds and maybe even see themselves in the strip.

"It's like a convention," he says. "You're in a place full of like-minded people, you belong, you see a whole bunch of other kindred spirits. I want IntelligentLife to feel that way."

Powered Descent posted:

Slylock Fox

EasyEW posted:

Garrett Price:

Hempuli posted:

ANSU

Darthemed posted:

And that's the end of the Boondocks comic strip. Not quite "There's treasure everywhere!"

everyone wear hats now posted:

riderchop posted:

Safe Havens

Vargo posted:

Breaking Cat News

Giant Ethicist posted:

Cthulhu and Girl

Hostile V posted:

The last strip is full of references to other webcomics and I can't place all of them, but there's Zii from Menage A 3, Agatha Heterodyne of GG, Sister Claire from self titled, and I think the demoness may be Jennie Breeden from The Devil's Panties.

Giant Ethicist posted:

Cthulhu and Girl

Cowslips Warren posted:

So am I bad at seeing things or is Axa in Modesty Blaise?

Vargo posted:

Breaking Cat News

everyone wear hats now posted:

(Double) The Creeps

Murdstone posted:

Mark Trail

Cowslips Warren posted:

I think I have given Home Free enough time to say it loving reads like a more animal-centric version of Rose Is Rose or Intelligent Life.

Hostile V posted:

Funny Online Animals is no longer updating. As per his Tumblr:

Julet Esqu posted:

Luann

readingatwork posted:

Calvin and Hobbes (Mar 28-29, 1993)

Drakyn posted:

Surely I wasn't the only kid who referred to it incessantly as 'Snoopy.'

Strontium posted:

Intelligent Life

EasyEW posted:

Trip report (in case anyone actually needs it): postimage isn't that bad, but the main issue for what we do here is that with a freeloader account (anon or otherwise), anything hotlinked pic bigger than 1280x gets downscaled. That isn't horrible for strips, but it'll do a number displaying Sunday pages. The original will be full-sized, but you'll have to click through (Thimble Theater's the example here).

EasyEW posted:

I'm flying blind here. Someone put me out of my misery, please.

riderchop posted:

On The Fastrack

readingatwork posted:

Please be considerate of your fellow posters who may not yet know that Schroeder exists or that at the end of the strip Charlie Brown doesn’t die at the end.

Hostile V posted: