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BUT THEY CROSSED THE LINE, if people start disrespecting the whole mess, the content providers have nobody but themselves to blame.

1. The Asylumantics
   
2. The BotMaker
3. Ozy & Millie
4. Voices in my Hand
5. Greystone Inn

There are big differences here. The print format has the giant advantage that you tend to see comics other than your "favorites," because you can't help but read those nearby; you may get exposed to lots of artists including a great one or two. I would never have known a damn thing about newspaper comics if I had started reading them online.

Those are advantages, but I think the benefits of online overcome them. For example many websites have links to other comics that the author enjoys. Some having free banner rotations on their pages. Which I think is a much better recommendation then it happens to just be there. Also if today's comic isn't exactly funny You can read whole archives which people are more inclined to do if it's for free.

IMO though, the distinction between online and newspaper comics will begin to fade, as more and more "webcomics" become syndicated by newspapers

• Sluggy
• Ubersoft
• Absurd Notions (notorious for irregular updates, but well worth it if you can tolerate that.)
• Ozy and Millie
• Irregular Web Comic

I used to think User Friendly was pretty good, but then either it's quality deteriorated, or i found other, better comics to put it in perspective.

Here's a list of (some of) the comics that in my opinion are better than User Friendly. As usual, your opinion may differ and your mileage may vary.

Adventurers! the best of the CRPG comics.
Dragon Tails comic about strange geeky dragons and a squirrel or two. (Has jokes that cover all kinds of geekery, not just the tech variety) The Wings of ChangeFantasy comic about a dragon, a girl with wings, and a group of pixie children
The Devil's Panties "Real Life" type comic about a female protagonist and a couple of her friends. Frequently touches on goth and comic geekdom, and there's a side comic about LARPs.
Sparkling Generation Valkyrie YuukiA manga style take-off on the "pretty-girl" anime genre. Has some Ranma-esque gender-bending themes if that disturbs you.
Freefall Science fiction comic, primarily focused on an kleptomaniac alien scavenger, a friendly but somewhat dim robot, and a genetically engineered anthropomorphic female wolf.
Ozy and Millie One of those comics with a world (mostly) like ours but filled with anthropomorphic animals. Frequently philisophical or political.
Something Positive "Real life" type comic with a very twisted and sometimes sick sense of humor.
Venus Envy A comic about highschool aged MtF transgendered person dealing with all the issues you'd expect such a person to be dealing with. Obviously lots of gender-bending issues.
8-bit Theater tied for second best CRPG comic.
RPG World the other tied for second best CRPG comic.
Anti-here for Hire by the author of Adventurers! Same style mostly, but with a comic-book superhero theme.
Megatokyo some people love the comic, some people can't stand it. The art is certainly pretty though in either case.
Penny Arcade people talk about it enough on Slashdot (including several mentions in this thread) that i'm not going to even bother describing it.

Okay, I'm tired of making descriptions, so some other good comics that didn't make it into the top tier (but still better than User Friendly IMHO) if you feel like looking around, PvP, Ctrl-Alt-Del, Saturnalia. The Life of Riley, No Need for Bushido

And last (just because everyone here has probably heard of it already) Sluggy, which has had its unfunny moments, but unlike User Friendly has managed to pull out of those slumps and return to its former heights every time (so far)

There's also a large set of comics that i only check every couple of weeks because they don't updated more than once a week, but are still worth taking the time to check. However i'm going to just stick to my daily list at the moment.

It says it all.

I have a list of about 15 web comics that I read. I enjoy them all, to varying degrees.

One thing that sort of bothers me, though, is that the comics I read tend to produced by people who aren't doing them as a business but do them because they enjoy it. They'll also use it as a way to promote other work that they do (Graphics Artists, for example).

But, frankly, this can also mean that the work is flaky, late, etc. I've seen artists decide to take three month sabbaticals because they've decided that they're burned out. Sometimes they get too busy with other tasks--they don't make a living off the comic, so if something more important comes along, they do that.

I don't complain. After all, it's free and they do it out of the kindness of their heart. One of my favorites, InkTank (he has two comics, "Angst Technology" and "Weak-end Warriors") is currently on an extended hiatus. Now, that's fine and dandy, but I'd be a little annoyed if I paid money and he suddenly decided to take a break. Where's my refund? Of course, do I want to read "corporate" comics--someone who does it to put food on his table? Like CDs, do I have to pay for two weeks of crap just for the one entertaining idea?

Actually, I like the Merchandising angle. I have a couple of Ozy and Millie T-Shirts. I try to buy stuff from my favorite sites in order to support their art.

Anyway, here's my obligatory list of some favorites:

Doctor Fun
General Protection Fault
Something Positive
You Damn Kid

socks and change

That's the fun part. If someone's asking you about your SAT scores, or IQ, or whatever, they're obviously in need of some material to prop themselves up. It's just a number to you, but to them it's everything. Never feed their need for a dick-size war.

If it works in your situation, try giving them a number that corresponds to the mean for whatever's being measured (i.e., 100 for IQ). If they take the bait, they'll now think less of you, and that may actually be an advantage for you. They'll assume you're too dumb to matter, but in reality you'll have the upper hand.

I think a certain cartoon sums it up nicely.

I haven't read UserFriendly regularely for 2 years or so. The writing isn't that great anymore, and the "art" isn't enough to carry the strip. Ozy and Millie is the one of the only webcomics I read on a regular basis anymore. It's not geek humor, but it's worth a look. It's well written, and very funny, something I can't say for UF anymore. (And I love the way D.C. Simpson draws.)

I'd say that Ozy and Millie's take on web comics is definitely worth a read. This plotline continues for the next several days, but is well summarised by the linked strip.

Ozy and Millie is undoubtedly my favourite web comic (Sorry, Pete!).. and one of only two that I keep up to date with, these days.

I read all the ones you mentioned.. Plus, I've recently discovered Ozy and Millie, which is my current favorite. Not really geeky, but it *is* a web comic. (Love the art...)

Note 1: As many of you probably know, Colorado just enacted a no-call list. It was shot down the first time on a more or less party-line vote (the democrats voted for it, republicans voted against it) but in the face of enormous popularity with the voters was enacted the second time. It went into effect July 1st (that is, people signed up by a certain date can no longer be called as of last Monday) and so many people signed up they kept overloading the system. If someone calls you, you can file a complaint; after (I think it was 3?) complains they look into it. You can also take the company to small claims court for up to $500. Can't offer any hard numbers, but I can tell you that the number of calls I've been getting is WAY down this week....

Second, a bit of humor from one of my favorite comic strips (Ozy and Millie):
Telemarketer: Could I interest you in aluminum siding?
Lewellyn: Well, you won't have to try very hard! Alluminum siding has a deceptively interesting history. It was first invented.." etc etc
Telemarketer: (hangs up)

In alphabetical order:

• Academy Vale is a strip about Kinkos life with two lady rabbits as the main characters.
• Adventures of Fifine is a lushly-drawn comic of a fox lady, very much in the tradition of Herge.
• Dela the Hooda is about an extraterrestrial fox lady who came to Earth.
• A Doemain of Our Own by Susan Parkin is about Susan Deer. Until recently in the plot, her husband, Eric, was just a minor character.
• Felicia is a well-plotted comic book about a female mage cat.
• Kevin and Kell is about a married couple. He's a stay- at-home rabbit; she's a corporate wolf. Kell gets about as much screentime as Kevin, and is far, far more than a girlfriend.
• Ozy and Millie has two main characters; and Millie (a fox) is far more active as a character than Ozy. In my opinion, it is the best comic strip currently being produced, on or off the Internet.
• Sabrina Online is about a very nice and innocent skunk girl... with a lot of un-innocent friends and coworkers.
• Satin and Silk by Tiffany Ross is a pair of skunk furries. Her other comics have strong, female characters.
• The Suburban Jungle 's main character is 'Tiffany Tiger'. She has fleshed out greatly from being just a model.

BTW, My favorites are probably: Alice!, Ozy and Millie, Clan of the Cats, Free Fall, CRFH, Lean on Me, and Okashina Okashi to name just a few. I don't see playing for webcomics any different they paying to support other online communities. I might even subscribe to Slashdot if they started charging. :)

BTW I highly recommend O&M to the hackish crowd =)

I always thought it would be cool if someone would create a funny-page service. You pay X cents per month or whatever, and they make you a customized web page that simple displays all of the comics you specify for thay day. Then I wouldn't have to load tons of megs worth of pages just to get my ozy and millie and penny arcade fix.

Last Sunday, Ozy and Millie had a very funny strip about this topic.

Last Sunday, Ozy and Millie had a very funny strip about this topic.

...that I haven't seen Ozy & Millie mentioned, yet. It's something Bill Watterson might have drawn, had he chosen to use foxes instead of a boy and a stuffed tiger. Sinfest and PLIF are good, too, but I recommend O&M highly.

I know I'm not alone in getting more laughs out of 9 or 10 online strips than I get out of an entire page of newspaper strips. Sure, they might be worried that "Sinfest" or "Sluggy Freelance" might offend some people, but as recent MTV/network TV events like "Jackass" and "Survivor" show, the people at Huge Media Coproations know that offensiveness sells. Bah, let them ignore the goose that's laying golden eggs... I'll be viewing webcomics every day and buying merchandise from the ones that are really nifty.