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Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Favorite Web Comic of 2012?
skade88 writes "It's time to do another year-end best-of roundup! Today's topic is web comics. What was your favorite web comic of 2012? Feel free to use the following categories, or make up your own. 1) Best overall web comic series of 2012. (Any web comic that produced content in 2012). 2) Funniest web comic of 2012. (This one represents the single funniest comic of any web comic series. Provide links!) 3) Best art in a web comic of 2012. (Web comic from 2012 with the most amazing art ever). 4) Web comic that was most relevant to you in 2012. (This one is even more subjective than the others)."
For reliable quality I'd go with Schlock Mercenary. It's not-too-soft sci-fi, consistent and pretty good art, a daily update schedule, very good pacing, and nothing about it annoys me.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Not worksafe.
In no particular order:
The Oatmeal http://theoatmeal.com/comics
Schlock Mercenary http://www.schlockmercenary.com/
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal http://www.smbc-comics.com/
Girl Genius http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php
XKCD's Umwelt comic for April Fools 2012, the best comic ever.
Dozens of different comics presented depending on your IP, your browser, your geolocation, and many other factors too numerous to enumerate.
A mind boggling concept, a tremendous amount of work, incredible creativity.
Shout out to Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and Tom the Dancing Bug, too. Tom Tomorrow also hits it out of the park on occasion.
Definitely the best art.
If it's still your favorite web comic of 2012, even though it has probably been updated once this year, then you need to read more web comics.
A short list (in no particular order) to get you started:
Menage a 3 - three times a week wacky hijinks
Misfile - I don't like the premise (an angelic fuck up), but the exploration of ideas with regards trans* folk is quite good
YAFGC - daily dose of DnD style humor. The art is rough, but that adds to the charm
Schlock Mercenary - others have discussed it
Sinfest - Daily, classic, long running.
Girls With Slingshots - Weekdays,
Oglaf - NSFW funny stuff, Sundays only.
Subnormality - Updated haphazardly, quite interesting and often strange comics. "Too many words."
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Honorable Mentions (no particular order) go to:
Something Positive - Not updated as much as I like, and the story lines are a bit less funny then they have been.
Order of the Stick - If it updated regularly (at least twice a month) it would go up to the best list. But still.
Flaky Pastry - Fridays, quite good, but the stories move slowly because only one day a week. If it were updated more often it would get bumped up.
Questionable Content - not as good as in previous years, though the art's improved amazingly since the start
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Go for it.
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