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Ask Slashdot: What Was Your Favorite Web Comic of 2012?

Posted by Soulskill on from the obligatory-xkcd dept.

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)."

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  1. Favorite Comic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Definitely XKCD!

  2. Too east by cheater512 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Best art in a web comic has to be http://xkcd.com/1110/

    1. Re:Too east by slimjim8094 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I think you're confusing best technique with best art. The art wasn't the beauty of the actual strokes, it was the beauty of the idea and execution.

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  3. Schlock Mercenary by Sowelu · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Schlock Mercenary by Y.A.A.P. · · Score: 5, Informative

      I think Schlock cannot be mentioned enough.

      The art is better quality than most web comics (or newspaper/dead tree comics), even if the style isn't going for as-real-as-possible. No storyline is ever dropped in the middle (there are cutaways to things happening on the other side of the galaxy, but these are things happening at the same time and the series will then jump right back to the main action).

      Not every day has a LOL moment at the end (or during the strip), but that's because something's happening in the strip which is a very much OMG sort-of thing.

      And, oh yeah, something else the parent post mentions which I've never seen any other web comic manage: a new comic every single day of the year (and it's never some kind of filler), and has done this since the comic started (which means a huge reading archive). Which means not a single day need go by without the reader getting some form of entertainment on that day.

  4. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by noesckey · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

  5. oatmeal by Icculus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    xkcd is great but I gotta throw in for The Oatmeal.

  6. Oglaf.com by queazocotal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not worksafe.

  7. Beyond xkcd by tj2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

  8. XKCD April Fools 2012 by Maow · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  9. Sinfest by Rhywden · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.sinfest.net/

  10. Is it okay if by LiroXIV · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I just answer everything with Homestuck?

  11. Romantically Apocalyptic by S77IM · · Score: 4, Informative

    Best Art: Romantically Apocalyptic -- http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com

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  12. My Nominations and Choices by SmarterThanMe · · Score: 5, Informative

    1) Best overall web comic series of 2012. (Any web comic that produced content in 2012): Gunnerkrigg Court is a brilliant webcomic that has a compelling plot, interesting characters and art that has developed superbly since the comic's beginnings.

    2) Funniest web comic of 2012. (This one represents the single funniest comic of any web comic series.): Evil Inc. got the most laughs out of me this year, even if a lot of the humour was a bit Dad-joke-ish. Runners up would include: Penny Arcade , XKCD , Scandinavia and the World and Overcompensating .

    3) Best art in a web comic of 2012. (Web comic from 2012 with the most amazing art ever): Dresden Codak is, without any doubt, the repository of some of the most geekiest and beautiful artwork the web has ever seen. Runners up would include: Namesake , Lackadaisy Cats , Sore Thumbs and Avengelyne

    4) Web comic that was most relevant to you in 2012: Real Life , because his adventures with Harper are roughly mirroring my adventures with my daughter Hailey.

    Honorable Mentions (because they'd likely win categories if there were a couple more here): Bad Machinery (Best Story), Eerie Cuties (Best Black & White), Three Panel Soul (Best Drama) and Wapsi Square (Best Main Character), and Sinfest (Lifetime Achievement) among others.