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The Mansion of E has an awesome story. The author spent 9 years covering a 20 hour period, and did an excellent job in the process. Quite the feat.
http://mansionofe.comicgenesis.com/

Yahtzee? I didn't know you read slashdot....

Not quite, but we are both late 20's white male Australian gamers of English decent (I haven't got the accent) with a deep seeded desire for world domination and a near absolute certainty that the would would be better if I ran it.

We'd also both ask for ransom money in British pounds when holding the American president hostage.

Don't forget anything that has wings and isn't an airplane.

Check out this comic by dual citizen of Hong Kong and Canada, Tang Ho: Cantonese Will Eat Anything

Not insane or clueless, just dont read neo-con trash mags like Drudge, Fox News, and the National Journal. You hardly prove your point by posting links to known ultra-conservative sites. You could have posted a link to Stormfront for all that matters to try to prove your point.

You mean slashdot, wired, gizmodo, and fark aren't ultra-neocon? Damn, I'm going to have to change my bookmarks. Well, at least I get to keep my webcomics like http://edgeknight.comicgenesis.com/

http://suicideforhire.comicgenesis.com/d/20080808.html Heh.

I don't use RSS feeds for webcomics, so here is the set of pages I regularly visit:
XKCD We probably all know this one.
Cyanide and Happiness Somewhat twisted humour.
Errant Story Excellent art and storyline.
Bunny Strange humour about bunnies.
QC Indy rock comic of social interaction.
Megatokyo Megatokyo. Has gone downhill in recent years, but still good art.
Penny Arcade Gamer comic, quite famous.
PBF Perry Bible Fellowship hasn't updated in some time, but very funny when he does.
Edible Dirt is a series of single-panel jokes. Very funny, often somewhat twisted.
Ctrl-Alt-Del is a comic about a few gamer roomates.
LFG WoW/MMO/D&D spoof. Quite funny, good art, interesting plot. Many references break the 4th wall.
Two-Lumps is a comic about cats, 1 smart, 1 very, very dumb. I think the artist is stalking my cat to get ideas for the dumb one.
Gunnerkrigg Court Beautiful art, excellent story. And robots.
underpower hasn't updated in some time, great single-page art pieces recently and an actual story before.
Girl Genius is all about Mad Science.
Bunny System is a comic about psychotic rabbits.
Something Positive is very, very cynical. It actually has 5 webcomics on 1 page. Very much worth checking out.
Head Trip is... a head trip.
FLEM hasn't updated in a while, and has a strange and rather violent storyline. Back to single-panel shorts now.
VGCats video game cats is excellent, if you play video games.
Clan of the Cats Author is going blind, will continue if she gets better. Great story and art.
Dr. McNinja The adventures of Dr. McNinja. Clean art, good story, ninjas on fire.
Code Name: Hunter Magic/technology interaction in a world strangely dominated by talking animals. Excellent facial expressions, especially for being animals.
Awkward Zombie gamer comic similar to vgcats.
No Need for Bushido Samurai story, well drawn and reasonably well written.
Giant ITP hosts both The Order of The Stick, a D&D spoof, and The Battle For Gobwin Knob, a comic about a GM who gets sucked into a world of his own design, on the losing side of a no-win scenario.
Last Blood Zombies have taken over the earth and killed nearly all humans, so now the vampires fight to protect their dwindling food source. Excellent drawing and unique story.
Chopping Block Butch the serial killer. Sick, twisted humour, but very funny.
Dominic Deegan Oracle for Hire, is a good story with pretty good art.
The Traveling Gnome Great art, story seems good so far.
One-Liners may be offensive to some, or funny to those with a sense of humour.

I don't use RSS feeds for webcomics, so here is the set of pages I regularly visit:
XKCD We probably all know this one.
Cyanide and Happiness Somewhat twisted humour.
Errant Story Excellent art and storyline.
Bunny Strange humour about bunnies.
QC Indy rock comic of social interaction.
Megatokyo Megatokyo. Has gone downhill in recent years, but still good art.
Penny Arcade Gamer comic, quite famous.
PBF Perry Bible Fellowship hasn't updated in some time, but very funny when he does.
Edible Dirt is a series of single-panel jokes. Very funny, often somewhat twisted.
Ctrl-Alt-Del is a comic about a few gamer roomates.
LFG WoW/MMO/D&D spoof. Quite funny, good art, interesting plot. Many references break the 4th wall.
Two-Lumps is a comic about cats, 1 smart, 1 very, very dumb. I think the artist is stalking my cat to get ideas for the dumb one.
Gunnerkrigg Court Beautiful art, excellent story. And robots.
underpower hasn't updated in some time, great single-page art pieces recently and an actual story before.
Girl Genius is all about Mad Science.
Bunny System is a comic about psychotic rabbits.
Something Positive is very, very cynical. It actually has 5 webcomics on 1 page. Very much worth checking out.
Head Trip is... a head trip.
FLEM hasn't updated in a while, and has a strange and rather violent storyline. Back to single-panel shorts now.
VGCats video game cats is excellent, if you play video games.
Clan of the Cats Author is going blind, will continue if she gets better. Great story and art.
Dr. McNinja The adventures of Dr. McNinja. Clean art, good story, ninjas on fire.
Code Name: Hunter Magic/technology interaction in a world strangely dominated by talking animals. Excellent facial expressions, especially for being animals.
Awkward Zombie gamer comic similar to vgcats.
No Need for Bushido Samurai story, well drawn and reasonably well written.
Giant ITP hosts both The Order of The Stick, a D&D spoof, and The Battle For Gobwin Knob, a comic about a GM who gets sucked into a world of his own design, on the losing side of a no-win scenario.
Last Blood Zombies have taken over the earth and killed nearly all humans, so now the vampires fight to protect their dwindling food source. Excellent drawing and unique story.
Chopping Block Butch the serial killer. Sick, twisted humour, but very funny.
Dominic Deegan Oracle for Hire, is a good story with pretty good art.
The Traveling Gnome Great art, story seems good so far.
One-Liners may be offensive to some, or funny to those with a sense of humour.

Are we allowed to use FBS in the culture medium? Mmm... embryo juice.

On a serious note, one of the more compelling arguments for vegetarianism is the environmental impact of animal agriculture. Where will the carbon inputs for "vat-o-meat" come from, and how will they compare to plant protein sources?

THE BLACKSMITH OF BRANDYWINE
by Pat Garvey

http://indepos.comicgenesis.com/d/20050513.html( scroll down for lyrics)
a rousing good -if rather gory- singalong!

"It's HammerTime"

http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/d/20070228.html - Natasha Kicks Evil In The Nuts

I still want one! See? http://marachan.comicgenesis.com/d/20061207.html

SING!

http://marachan.comicgenesis.com/d/20040512.html

There are fanboys... and then there are FANBOYS.

How come there are no fanboys of soap and shampoo?

Laser? Not quite=\ Obligatory Loserz reference: here

Lessee, those tie to issues of the power of corporations, DRM, and how the tech we work with actually gets developed. This fails to qualify as "news for nerds", how? If you don't like the submissions, start looking for more interesting stuff. Or just ignore a lot of threads. (I tend to skip most of the hardware-mod stuff, myself.

2. Drop the politics section. While I'm sure it will go away as soon as a Democrat is elected president, regardless of his wrong doings, it's become nothing but a bashfest that has added no substance

You're evidently not old enough to remember Usenet. Often seperate newsgroups were created to give overly popular bashfests their own place to go, so they would be less likely to interfere with vaguely productive discussions elsewhere. It worked well then (until a couple of lawyers introduced intrusive advertising), and it's worked moderately well now on Slashdot.

I admit that it's likely that section will tone down; however, this is because I fear Bush is probably one of the four or five worst presidents in US history, and the Democrats will have to work hard to come up with someone as bad. (Hillary has possibilities.)

The overall "lean" of Slashdot isn't so much Democratic as Libertarian: socially liberal, fiscally conservative. Under Bush, the republicans has demonstrated neither characteristic. While I've stopped classing myself as a hard libertarian due to doubts about the checks and balances of corporate power, it took George W. Bush's first term to convince me to vote anything but a straight libertarian ticket. Energy issues and the national debt are problems neither party is willing to seriously address at this point, so it's not a question of whether I'll complain, but what other issues I'll complain about.

3. I get mod points back. It's sad that I lost mod points because I don't do the slashdot goosestep. Hence, I'm a troll today.

Actually, it looks like your post got an asbestos cork mod instead this time.

Good karma helps gain mod points. Interesting non-AC posts build karma. It's possible to be interesting while disagreeing with someone's position. Just keep the ad hominem attacks to a minimum, and focus on a well organized, reasoned logical argument, backed by solid facts. Build karma for a while by posting, then worry about modding.

4. Get rid of the overrated/underrated mods.

I might lean with you on this one. However, I'd be more inclined to make them zero-point mods, requiring one mod-point to use. It might also be nice to have a mod for "factually wrong" stuff, for cases when someone posts items as bad as "Ronald Reagan was the Thirty-Second US President". Currently, "Troll" is the closest, and that really doesn't fit well when an otherwise solid post has one glaring error.

We're your customer, Taco, we're always right.

No, you're just always the customer. And, since you aren't a subscriber, you're not a paying customer, just a potential customer — meaning it's not as important to listen to you unless Taco feels the need for more money. Add in that you come across as an asshat, and dealing with you gets hit with a renice to something behind "sort dryer lint".

I guess I've grown up in the indy comic culture. Other than the huge audience Marvel and DC comics already have, I don't see a reason to join those companies. There are so many possibilities for indy publishing out there. Granted, distribution is a problem for paper comics, but this is the Internet. We have the distribution thing covered.

My comic is 2 years old and has an international "distribution." My readership is roughly 400 and I've sold maybe 30 comics for actual money, which isn't a bad percentage as far as webcomics go. With on demand printing services like Comix Press and Lulu.com and hosting services like Comic Genesis and Drunk Duck, international distribution isn't as big a problem. Getting huge IS a problem because there's so much competition out there.

Although it's great to hear about webcomics making it big, they're just a very small percentage of online comics. Most people will never see any profits from their comics. There's no way to compete with big comic companies like Marvel in the print world. There's no way to compete with big comics in Internet either. Don't try. Webcomics have their niche. Find your group of readers and don't expect to be big. It's a good time, not a living.

Comic Genesis (formerly KeenSpace) has been doing that since 2000. It doesn't want to own the copyright to the comic (and it says so in the TOS). It just wants to host the comic, and give some services (like automated updates, promotion and forums).

But then, I'm the admin behind CG, and my comic is proudly on their servers.

* A Mad Tea Party
* Among the Chosen
* Boschen & Nesuko
* Bulletproof
* Crackling Silence
* Indavo
* Level
* Midnight Gurl
* Mondo Mecho
* Monica Furious * Reman Mythology
* Seraphic Blue
* Terinu

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I have isolated the city-experience within me and have examined it closely. The idea of a city fascinates me. The formation of a biological community without a functioning, supportive social community leads to havoc. Whole worlds have become single biological communities without an interrelated social structure and this has always led to ruin. It becomes dramatically instructive under overcrowded conditions. The ghetto is lethal. Psychic stresses of overcrowding create pressures which will erupt. The city is an attempt to manage these forces. The social forms by which cities make the attempt are worth study. Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.

Leto Atreides, The Stolen Journals