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Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:08 pm

I just started going through A Doemain of Our Own and I've fallen in love. It makes me very happy, from both the jokes and the awww-factor, going through these.
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Postby zeroguy » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:06 pm

As Alea has recently noticed, Doemain isn't all funny and awww. There's a certain point where it very suddenly becomes very sad. It doesn't stay that way, but it's a nontrivial stretch of comics.

Just a note, in case someone goes clicking on that to cheer themselves up from something. I think the first time I read through it I wasn't entirely comprehending what was happening for a few strips. Later, I think my reaction was similar to Sue's "What have you done??!", but maybe more of a "wtf". I'm still amazed that she... comic-ified that.
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Postby locke » Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:06 am

I read through the part zero is talking about. took an hour or two. it's a wonderful comic. but I was expecting the big sad thingy due to the current comic. I actually saw the whole thing coming the way it did from some of the earliest strips. :-p I don't know how much of a lag there was for her between her life happening and it appearing in the strip but there was definitely foreshadowing whether she realized it or not a couple years out from the big event.
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Postby elfprince13 » Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:12 am

For all you Calvin and Hobbes aficianados....its not strictly a webcomic, but well, I think you'll appreciate this: http://www.marcellosendos.ch/comics/ch/



also, today's xkcd is brilliant. http://xkcd.com/556/
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Postby Gravity Defier » Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:43 am

there was definitely foreshadowing whether she realized it or not a couple years out from the big event.
I thought there would be issues but I never expected what actually happened to happen.

With that said, all is well that ends well, eh? I finished it after taking a break from the heartache of that sad year's comics and returned to a wonderful, new set of circumstances that left me more than pleased.

I loved it; the whole darn thing.
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Postby locke » Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:58 am

finished it, most excellent.
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Postby locke » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:00 am

http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3115

just completely and totally rules.

and a non pweb-friend IMed me this. my first thought was, "I didn't know Jebus was in a webcomic!"

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=02262009
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Postby starlooker » Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:09 pm

My dad's a math teacher.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

My dad was way more into torturing me via really bad math puns, though.

(Although, really, my mother the grammar-nazi ex-English teacher caused me way more grief due to her profession.)
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Postby Wil » Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:18 pm

I spent the last 10 minutes trying to figure out how old they both are and I'm convinced there is no actual math involved in the comic and instead he just tossed in some numbers to make it sound good.

My general idea:

x = age of dad
y = age of kid

x+5 = 4(y-1) <-- First box
x+5 = 3(y+6) <-- Second box

Simplify it and you get

x - 4y = -9
x = 3y + 13

Substitute and simplify

3y + 13 - 4y = -9
-y + 13 = -9
-y = -22

Divide the whole thing by -1 and you get y = 22... but.. er... the kid can't be 22. I'm convinced that the comic math teacher sucks at math. Or I do. If I do.. ignore this. >.>

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Postby ender1 » Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:32 pm

A xkcd book! Freakin' sweet!

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Postby Mich » Wed May 27, 2009 11:59 pm

http://webcomics.com/2009/04/21/learnin ... webcomics/

This is a very interesting article, and the videos at the bottom are some of the cutest, most interesting, and, somehow, strangest products of webcomics that I have ever seen.

If you don't want to click the link, it's an article about how ESL teachers can use webcomics as teaching aids, and it suggests Gunnerkrigg Court as one such aid, something I find quite telling and very endearing to the comic as a whole.
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Postby CezeN » Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:37 pm

Gunny and his thoughts on First Earth:
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Postby zeroguy » Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:55 pm

It's the first time I've seen a "hadawkin" pun, which wasn't bad; I'll give it that.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:11 pm

I was just shown this comic, like it more than I wanted to, and could easily link to many of them but decided to go with this one. I liked the last panel especially.

ETA: I liked this entire one quite a bit.

And this one.
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Postby Eddie Pinz » Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:27 am

ETA: I liked this entire one quite a bit.
I love the pie chart, especially the space allotted for bad decisions.

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Postby zeroguy » Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:26 pm

I just want to note Lackadaisy again. Even if you don't want to read all of it, just please look at one of today's pages, because I just love it so much. It's just... oh man, Rocky's face.
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Postby Mich » Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:14 am

I just want to note Lackadaisy again. Even if you don't want to read all of it, just please look at one of today's pages, because I just love it so much. It's just... oh man, Rocky's face.
Yeah, by the way, thanks a lot for making me love Lackadaisy. So much wasted time attempting to emulate the perfect drawing style...
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Postby Mich » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:43 am

Double post!

Whoever linked us to The Meek (I'm thinking Alea, but possibly not), thank you. This is quite a beautiful comic and I'm already loving its characters even though it's relatively short so far.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Thu Dec 03, 2009 1:25 pm

Aww, you're reading it? Yay! (Twas me, so you're welcome) I agree on the look of it and I'm very curious about the stories behind these characters.
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Postby Rei » Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:22 pm

I missed mention of The Meek, before! I quite enjoy it, although I wish I could figure out its update pattern (and if it just plain doesn't have one, which I suspect, I wish it had one).

Lately I've been reading the archives of 1/0. It's an interesting take on the relationship between the comic and the artist.

And I'm enjoying Bad Machinery, done by the person who did Scary Go Round. I quite love the humour and style to it.
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Postby Mich » Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:09 pm

I missed mention of The Meek, before! I quite enjoy it, although I wish I could figure out its update pattern (and if it just plain doesn't have one, which I suspect, I wish it had one).
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Postby Crazy Tom: C Toon » Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:14 pm

here's an old xkcd for all the enderverse lovers

http://xkcd.com/304/
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Postby Jayelle » Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:20 pm

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Postby Jayelle » Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:57 pm

Anyone who reads Dinosaur comics working on the qwanzle?

Paul has been casual about it, but there are some who've gotten pretty obsessed.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:49 pm

Thanks Unshelved for plugging http://www.darcomic.org . It looks like something I'll massively enjoy, if the first page is any indication.

ETA: Okay, so by #2 there's mention of Chai Tea (which I also <3) and a few more in, Coldplay's "The Scientist" (another thing I <3) is mentioned and I've been listening to that song again for the about a week now. I can't see me not loving this comic.
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Postby zeroguy » Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:42 pm

I read part of Xeno's Arrow awhile ago, and just recently resumed wasting large amounts of time reading it. For me, this was really good (it seems to have some of the feel of classic sci-fi, but not that I would really know; it appears to be originally a print comic of some kind?), up until about book 2 #3. It was still good enough for me to finish after that, but I think the beginning is where it really shines.

(warning: this is one of those comics that's currently on hiatus with no ETA on resuming, though it stops on the end of a chapter)
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Postby zeroguy » Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:41 pm

Double post and significant bump, blah blah blah...

Humon Comics! I love the scandinavian ones and that's how I found this, but they're all pretty great. f*** yeah, Norway's dancing lion!
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Postby fawkes » Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:51 pm

This is a really interesting comic. It's updated in weekly 6-page episodes, but they take a break every other week (or so it seems). The artwork is superb, the story is engrossing; the only problem I have (and so might others) is that it can be quite graphically violent. There's one point where they do the reverse-shot through a bullet wound in the head - looking through the gaping hole in the back of his head through the entry wound to the person standing in front of him.

It's worth the read, just be prepared.
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Postby Mich » Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:24 pm

This is a really interesting comic. It's updated in weekly 6-page episodes, but they take a break every other week (or so it seems). The artwork is superb, the story is engrossing; the only problem I have (and so might others) is that it can be quite graphically violent. There's one point where they do the reverse-shot through a bullet wound in the head - looking through the gaping hole in the back of his head through the entry wound to the person standing in front of him.

It's worth the read, just be prepared.
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Postby fawkes » Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:27 pm

Yeah, he kinda is.
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Postby Janus%TheDoorman » Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:57 pm

Not a webcomic, but I present Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality!

Yes, it's a fanfic, but it's very well written fanfic. In fact a fanfic written by an Artificial Intelligence researcher which starts with the premise, "What if Petunia had married a scientist?" and goes from there.

Is at the same time reverent of JK and her work, and sadistically brutal with every decision made by the characters in the series for any reason other than "This is what an intelligent, reasoned person with this character's motivation would do. (Because if you were Voldemort, you would have Horcruxed the Pioneer Plaque.)"
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Postby Psudo » Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:46 am

No mention of Digger? Shame.

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Postby Bean_wannabe » Mon Aug 30, 2010 2:51 am

Having just finished the aforementioned fanfic, I must agree with Janus. The other thing about it is the sheer number of EG references - from Harry wanting to name a team Dragon Army, to having 'The Enemy's Gate is Sideways" to him copying the whole gravity-orientation lecture.
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Postby mr_thebrain » Mon Aug 30, 2010 4:38 pm

Anyone reading http://pajamaforest.com/? I'm finding it pretty enjoyable.
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