Better Than It Sounds/Web Comics

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


It's a webcomic about BDSM…and lesbians…but, that’s not the reason for reading it!

The fertile minds of the world wide web use graphical software to create stuff for people to read. And sometimes it's worthy.

Please sort entries alphabetically to avoid duplicates.

  • 21st Century Fox: Furry romance in the future!
  • Seventy Seas: A ninja, a pirate, and a priest sail around the world looking for adventure and treasure. Oh yeah, everyone is varying degrees of rabbit.
  • 8-Bit Theater: A violent sociopath, a greedy sociopath, a guy that thinks he's playing a Tabletop RPG, and a total idiot are chosen to go on a quest to save the world by collecting four Cosmic Keystones and are periodically helped by a woman who is increasingly disillusioned by the so-called heroes (who, in the course of "saving the world", have managed to kill more innocents than all the villains combined).
    • Bonus points: It's a video game sprite comic with tons of filler, formulaic patterns, and the author screws with the audience for his own amusement.
  • Abe Kroenen: An undead clockwork Nazi assassin has a secret romance with a psychic fishman who works for a government agency--and in the movie the comic is based on, the two characters were never even in the same scene together. Also it's a Toy Comic.
  • Absent Minded Theater: The heroine has one arm and no legs and no badass replacement prosthetics. Not even normal prosthetics, she gets from place to place by the power of moxy.
  • Achewood: A group of stuffed animals, cats, robots and a cokehead squirrel drink hard and wheel and deal in the author's house, Hell and outer space... among other things.
  • The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: A ninja family, a 12-year-old mustachoed gunslinger, a gorilla secretary and a velociraptor named after a certain videogame character fight Ronald McDonald, a giant lumberjack, giant lumberjack poachers, pirates, dinosaurs, banditos, Fox News, The Grim Reaper, an 80's action movie star, zombies and vampires.
    • Alternatively: The eldest son of an Irish-American warrior clan attempts to redeem himself in the eyes of his parents while attempting to cure other people's strange medical problems.
    • Alternatively Alternatively: A comic including Chain-Saw Chucks.
    • Or: A masked eccentric, his sole employee, and his young ward struggle to find stability in the aftermath of the increasingly surreal events threatening their small East Coast hometown.
    • And in the alt text to a recent comic: Very stupid ideas taken very seriously.
  • Aki Chans Life: Neon Genesis Evangelion meets Yotsuba&!.
  • Alien Dice: A deconstruction of Pokémon, in which an alien slave is turned into a Mon and keeps his own Talking Animals turned into Mons. Victory could mean freedom for him and other slaves. Failure will mean his death.
    • Alternately, POKECEPTION.
  • Alien Loves Predator: Two sci-fi/horror mainstays share an apartment in New York City.
  • All Over the House: A deadpan journalist who hates the world and an insane barrister who summons demons live in the same house. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Ansem Retort: Kingdom Hearts sprites (as well as Darth Maul, Red XIII, and Jesus...who is himself an edited Vexen) adopt much more cursing and violent tendencies. They all have severe mental problems, and fight for the fate of the universe. They're in a reality show. Run by the Antichrist. That is, to say, the Fox TV network. How they haven't gotten the Hell sued out of them is beyond me.
    • Or: One man attempts to find out how many times you can cross the line before it ceases to be funny.
  • Anti-HEROES: A fledgling vampire, a man in a black cloak who never shows his face, said man's demon-blooded girlfriend, and a moronic ghost try to save the world.
  • Antics: A comical couple consisting of a face contortionist and a Black Best Friend do different kinds of stuff, more often than not fueled by total randomness.
  • Antihero for Hire: An Anti-Hero who really isn't carries a BFG he can't use to fight Harmless and Not-So-Harmless Villain foes.
  • Archipelago: A well-illustrated story about a girl, a madman, the spirit in his head and many more weird friends as they race to stop the end of the world by a psychopathic, undead, cyborg pirate.
  • Arthur, King of Time and Space: Born Winner falls in love with his best friend's girl friend. Genre Shifts are constant.
  • Angel Moxie: A middle school girl is randomly given a plastic wand with magic powers and is told to save the world from evil. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Awkward Zombie: 50% more self-esteem issues than found in most gaming comics!
  • Axe Cop: A comic written with all the writing ability of a 5-year-old boy.
    • Or, a psychopathic police officer forms his own police agency with his long-lost brother, amputee best friend, and pet dog in order to stop crime by killing all the criminals in the world. Most of them wear sunglasses.
  • Bad Gods: A bald man with a goatee provides everyone with a series of D&D jokes, wry commentary on life, and cocktail recipes.
  • Basic Instructions: A Cut and Paste Comic featuring a bald guy with a goatee teaching us how to do things we probably will never have to or how to do things in ways that we'd never think of or could actually make things worse.
  • Better Days: Twin cats have typical childhood adventures, go to school, make friends, have incestuous sex. Later, one joins the army, the other becomes a radio host who has sex with a rabbit. Filled with lots of Objectivist overtones.
  • Black Adventures: Pokemon with possible homoerotic overtones. The second chapter deals with saving Hitler.
  • Bob and George: The launch of a webcomic is delayed. The author puts up some filler to make up for it. This goes on for seven years.
  • Boxer Hockey: A team of misfit athletes hit frogs with bats whilst in nothing but underwear. Hilarity ensues.
  • Brawl in the Family: Various video game characters (mainly from the Nintendo Universe) go through a variety of general 'What If?', or parody situations.
  • Boy Meets Boy: Can a boy-band guitarist and an opera-loving sensitive artist find happiness together?
  • Bruno the Bandit: Medieval people make pop-culture jokes. The plot thickens, but the previous statement remains true.
  • Captain SNES: College dropout reminisces about video games. A sequel to a crappy children's cartoon.
  • Cest La Vie: French woman snarks about humanity with the help of her stuffed bunny.
  • Channel Ate: Joke a day comic that Crosses the Line Twice.
  • Charby the Vampirate: He's a Vampire, but he was raised as a pirate! He's also a Chosen One among Chosen vampires who have none of the weaknesses vampires have! He lives in a house with a dozen supernatural children, one of which turns into a sexy winged bunnygirl!
  • Cheer: They used to be football players; now they're cheerleaders. They Fight Monsters!
  • Ciem: A girl who just graduated from high school finds out she has a Big Screwed-Up Family in which one of her grandmothers is a centipede and one of her half-brothers is a space alien. She ends up with something of a Cartwright Curse while dressing up in an orange costume and beating up pedophiles and cyborgs.
  • Circle Versus Square: Two geometric shapes spend their time coming up with new and creative ways to insult each other.
  • The Cobra Days: A Multinational Team consisting of three Heroic Sociopaths, A Cool Old Guy who doesn't need to eat, a Woobie who can talk to dead people and a Badass Normal Action Girl who's Tsundere for him battle the axis powers during WWII. The fact that the main character has boobs is arguably the least historically inaccurate aspect of this comic.
  • Collar 6: REALLY! IT'S NOT PORN! It's in the style of a Shonen anime![1]
  • CRFH: A coming-of-age story about an angsty teen surrounded by people with wacky quirks that come to look more like serious mental problems as it becomes increasingly clear that The End of the World as We Know It is nigh and his destiny is to try and inevitably fail to avert it. Also, he got laser vision trying to drink his sorrows away and shares his name with at least two English singers from The Sixties. Oh yeah, and they all are battling the devil but won't know it until half-way through the series.
  • Comedity: A man deals with life by consulting the many, many facets of his personality in his head; they regularly argue with each other, and include a penguin, a Ninja, and the Red Right Hand. His computer's a Robot Girl.
  • The Comic Adventures of Left & Right: Two friends who look a lot like each other despite their Meaningful Names die a lot when they're not throwing Visual Puns. Sometimes the art will look incredibly lazy depending on the author's mood.
  • Concerned: A moron bumbles through a dystopia, somehow making everything worse. Then he dies.
  • Concession: A bunch of anthropomorphic animals work in a movie theater. Some characters eventually get psychic powers. Oh yeah, and there's a lot of sex too. And even more gay sex.
  • Count Your Sheep: A little girl and her mother live with a talking sheep in a world where everything is blue. (Except when it's purple.)
  • Cuanta Vida: Two teams whose only difference is the color of their outfits attempt to leave.
    • Alternatively: A man is bad at his job, and ends up attempting to quit with several others. Mildly gay adventures ensue.
  • Cucumber Quest: In a land where most people are named after food and look vaguely rabbit-ish, a young boy is sent on a quest by his jerk father. The boy's little sister is much more enthusiastic about said quest.
  • Curvy: A normal teenage girl has a run-in with a girl from a world made entirely of candy. After a quick round of lesbian sex, they decide to stop the candy girl's moronic fiance from attempting to conquer the normal world, which is apparently called Boring World. Contains copious amounts of lesbian sex.
  • Cyanide & Happiness: Evolved stick figures acting cruel, depraved, and ludicrous.
  • Daisy Owl: A proud minority father and his immigrant friend struggle to raise his adopted kids.
  • Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures: The adventures of two winged cats and their friends in a world where there exists, among other things, a school for Horny Devils. It's partially based on an MMO.
  • Dawn of Time: A crazy teenage cavegirl has adventures with dinosaurs and time travelers. There's a running gag about lungfish getting squashed.
  • Darths and Droids: A group of grad students play a tabletop RPG in a sci-fi setting. The DM should probably try pitching his idea to a film studio.
  • DDG: Guy dies and becomes Ms. Fanservice on a Game Show.
  • Digger: A wombat gets lost and tries to find her way back home.
  • Dinosaur Comics: A webcomic that consists of the same six panels of poorly made Pixel Art with only the dialogue changing between strips. Has over a thousand strips.
  • Dominic Deegan: A prophet with a love of puns deals with college, racism, and the occasional supernatural baddie.
    • Alternatively: Cripple and his saber-toothed girlfriend try to solve everybody's problems with the aid of his parents.
  • The Dreamland Chronicles: A college student revisits dreamland, hooks up with his childhood friend and becomes the Chosen One.
  • Dreamwalk Journal: An erotic poser comic about two horny, naked women who visit a world inhabited by horny, naked, half-human insects and spiders.
  • Dresden Codak: A young half-Asian robotics enthusiast has philosophical arguments with two twins who wield the power of physics and a miniaturized version of a famous psychologist (but not the one you're thinking of). Later, she gets hired by the government explicitly to undermine the government.
    • Alternatively: Science-themed future superheroes and supervillain go to college together, become friends. Told from the POV of the future supervillain.
    • Or, a story not unlike The Matrix meets The Terminator, that makes less sense than Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  • Dumnestor's Heroes: A cynical thief has to shepherd a dwarven accountant and an elven prince transformed into a human to a faraway shrine to get the miraculous change undone.
  • Eerie Cuties: A young monster girl attends a school full of various monstrous creatures. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Elftor: A sociopathic lawn gnome has long cynical conversations, occasionally attacks people.
  • El Goonish Shive: Highschool Drama/Contemporary Fantasy centering around a Teen Genius with lots of weird fetishes, a Gender Bender capable Transformation Ray gun, his Shapeshifting No Social Skills part-alien, part-human, part-animal live-in girlfriend, and their magic-using friends all aware they are living in a multiverse. The plot alternates between being incredibly bizarre and surprisingly mundane but the gender bending is more or less constant.
    • Alternatively, in the words of one of the main characters: "Because it sounds like one big awkward moment."
  • Emergency Exit: A bunch of random kids in a magical apartment fight demons for control of brightly colored objects, which are later turned into books by their landlord.
  • Erfworld: A fat geek obsessed with wargames is summoned by a bisexual dominatrix to a painfully cute, pun-filled world to lead a madman's army of munchkins against another army of munchkins.
  • Errant Story: An oversexed, self-centered half-elf tries to Take Over the World as her final school project. And it isn't a comedy series. Well, mostly not anyway.
  • Everyday Heroes: Nigh Invulnerable superhero battles paperwork, traffic, and occasionally evil. He then gets ignored in favor of his wife, his daughter, and said daughter's weird friends.
  • Evil Diva: A young demon girl figures since she sucks at being evil, she's better off being a masked do gooder. Unfortunately she's pretty bad at that too.
  • Exploitation Now: A Mooglestrangely familiar creature and a twentysomething Bimbo share an apartment. Their landlord is a lesbian Teen Genius Mad Scientist who ends up blowing up the building. Then Cerebus Syndrome sets in...
  • Exterminatus Now: In a world that's a video game series combined with a tabletop RPG, four men take on cults and demons and survive thanks to pure dumb luck. They have a cutesy demon for a pet, their toasters keep getting possessed, and their commander has a chicken fetish.
  • Family Man: A Jewish christian atheist is hired to lecture on theology at an eighteenth century German university. The local librarian seems to be into the occult. The author was kind enough to provide an exhaustive notes section, in which she details all the cool historical references you probably didn't spot.
  • Fans!: Sci-fi geeks fight bad guys straight out of sci-fi stories.
  • Final Blasphemy: A Sprite Comic that has Loads and Loads of Characters amongst Loads and Loads of subplots with connections between them only gradually becoming apparent. The main plot thus far involves a young man (and tremendously thin Author Avatar) being drafted into saving all reality from several mysterious forces. Things get worse from there.
  • Femmegasm: Various vaguely connected jokes usually involving a video game or other pop culture reference. Main characters are a Tamarin monkey, a Axolotl salamander, a dragon, and a dog.
  • Freak Angels: A club of purple eyed weirdos set up in the White Chapel district of London while a guy they kicked out of their club tries to get revenge.
  • Freefall: A humanoid wolf works as a spaceship engineer for a squid with no sense of right and wrong and his childish Robot Buddy. She's popular among robots. And fans.
  • Friendly Hostility: The asexual (Or is he?) host of a children's program and his pansexual boyfriend get themselves a slave, make friends with demons and try to take over Venezuela.
  • Furthia High: A human meets a bunch of Funny Animals and battles against his unconscious mind. In that order.
  • The Fuzzy Five: A range of plush toys now have their own webcomic.
  • A Game of Fools: A Deadpan Snarker, a Cloudcuckoolander/Erudite Stoner and a The Ditz get abducted by aliens and are drawn into an intricate conspiracy to take over the planet by a Designated Villain and his Depraved Bisexual second-in-charge.
  • Garfield Minus Garfield: A comic created by removing the main character entirely from an existing, highly commercially successful comic strip, causing us to focus instead on the foil character.
  • Geist Panik: A girl with amnesia illegally hunts ghosts to sell them on the black market.
  • Gene Catlow: A cat delves into metaphysics. Coffee is involved. Fantastic Racism ensues.
  • Get Medieval: A mob boss, his trophy wife, her bodyguard, his nerdly anthropologist son, and an accountant crash their spaceship in 14th century France. Hilarity Ensues.
  • A Girl and Her Fed: A girl, the cyborg federal agent assigned to spy on her, and the undead pixie ghost of Ben Franklin fight an evil conspiracy and the Patriot Act.
  • Girl Genius: A young woman's loss of sanity causes concern for a friend of her missing parents.
  • Girls with Slingshots: A Slice of Life comic about a hard-drinking girl, her voluptuous best friend, and the rest of their friends, including a talking Irish cactus.
    • Actually, Scottish-Irish ... or rather, "Scirish".
  • Girly: Lesbians fight crime and have adventures in a town that is periodically invaded by squirrels.
  • Goats: Two guys search for a programmer who can fix a bug in a laptop programme created by a Mayan god of the underworld which will make the whole multiverse crash. Meanwhile, a badass cybernetic goldfish, a chariot-pulling goat and the son of a Satan-worshipping chicken have a feud.
  • Goodbye Chains: Two Outlaws travel America during The Wild West period, getting into various misadventures. Also, one of them is really gay for the other.
  • Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy: An insecure fat chick with candy-fueled superpowers fights to protect the world against evil militaristic bunnies.
  • Great: The life and times of megalomaniacs.
  • Grumble: Creatures that look like soup cans speak an incomprehensible language.
  • Gunnerkrigg Court: A girl who can talk to dead people almost accidentally causes a war. Her best friend builds an anti-gravity generator out of a thermos and coathangers, then falls in love with a bird. Her other friends are a demon-possessed doll (who tried to kill her), a sentient shadow (whose cousin tried to kill her), a robot she built (who got possessed and tried to kill her), and various gods of death (who taught her a bunch of languages).
  • Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name: A boy with a misleading name tries to solve peoples' problems using a Sharpie and a hammer. Cast includes a green amnesiac, a neurotic vampire, a masochistic med-school dropout, a pervy sharkboy, and a walking grandfather clock.
  • Hark! A Vagrant: About 70% comics about historical figures/events/occurrences, many of them Canadian. The rest are mostly about the author as a child.
  • Haru-Sari: It's about a Catgirl who gets a weird disease. And her doctor is an elf who treats people with magic.
  • Head Trip: An extremely violent girl inflicts grievous bodily harm against Fox executives, Jack Thompson, and other stupid people, making the world a much better place in the process.
  • Homestuck: A group of kids play a convoluted video game with God, who is in fact another group of kids.
    • Alternatively: Four kids get together to play a video game that they accidentally Sequence Break. Con Air is a fundamental chunk of the plot.
    • Four kids play an incredibly hard RPG together while more experienced players troll them. Elsewhere, an argument over a dress code occurs, which results in the deaths of billions.
    • Grey aliens with orange horns killing each other. There's also some complex world changing plot involving four heroes with complicated origins, but who's following that?
    • Some kid plays a game with his friends before everything goes wrong when his sister accidentally creates the main villain, who is an anthropomorphic flying one-armed dog wearing sunglasses.
    • Four kids play a game that promises to destroy the Earth and make them gods. Unfortunately, it doesn't go so well thanks to a bunch of cross-time trolls and an omnipotent puppet with a cue ball for a head.
    • It gets really good after the first few acts (which tend to take at least a month to read if you don't flat-out Archive Binge), but if you skip ahead you'll get more confused than you've ever been by anything else on the internet you have ever seen. Also, the first few acts are pretty confusing themselves even if you start from the beginning.[2]
    • Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff: A Comic Within A Comic with abysmal art, atrocious spelling and grammar, a nonsensical plot and dialogue consisting entirely of Forced Memes, created for the express purpose of garnering a Misaimed Fandom for the creator to troll. Proved to be popular enough with the non-fictional readers to warrant a Defictionalization.
  • Indexed: Life is explained in Venn diagrams and line graphs.
  • The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob: The world's most average man becomes a Weirdness Magnet and ends up adopting a flamingo-like critter.
  • In Wily's Defense: Another Mega Man webcomic. Mega Man doesn't even appear in a fifth of the total number of comics.
  • Irregular Webcomic: Groups of pirates, fantasy characters, an incompetent spy, two zoologists, and a fan-fic writer called William Shakespeare among others engage in a variety of pun-laden misadventures that frequently results in one of them dying. They, however, are brought back via the incompetency of a collection of Grim Reapers who have very specific specialisations. Mostly, though, it's about LEGO bricks and college-level physics.
    • Alternatively, a guy plays with his LEGO minifigs, GURPS figurines, and dinosaur and frog figures. Then he kills himself.
  • Jack: A green bunny rabbit sends people to Hell. Features copious amounts of Squick.
  • Jesus Christ: In The Name Of A Gun: The son of God and his ragtag bunch of historic badass bookworms travel through time in order to fix history's worst moments and kick the ass of history's worst scum.
  • Johnny Wander: A Japanese girl and her Indian boyfriend make oddly endearing comics about everyday occurrences in their lives.
  • Kevin and Kell: Two people from the opposite ends of the food chain get married. They are somehow drawn into an Ancient Conspiracy involving birds that results in the creation of a talking tree.
  • Keychain of Creation: An amnesiac doctor, a shamelessly flirty foxwoman, a vampire with low self-esteem, and a monk with a drinking habit set out to save the world by collecting keyblades. Er, "Keys". Definitely keys.
  • Kid Radd: A sprite comic about the main character of a fictional 8-bit Platform Game gets 'rescued' from his game into the outside world of Internet servers, where other escaped sprites are forming a new capitalist society -- where he discovers that he is the target of attack due to a prophecy.
  • It Sucks to Be Weegie: A video game character's life sucks.
  • Knowledge Is Power: A group of grad students gain unwanted superpowers after being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  • Lackadaisy: Set in the 1920s, a psychotic guy who likes to spout improvisational poetry and his no less psychotic cousin play troubleshooter and rumrunner for a woman who may or may not have killed the guy's last boss. Oh, and they're all cats.
  • Las Lindas: A cow owns a farm. Fan Service ensues. Lots of it.
  • The Last Days of Foxhound: Ragtag Bunch of Misfits prone to evil do secret missions and complain a lot.
    • Or: A wolf verbally assaults a clone, a psychic drinks coffee, and a Chinese guy tries to justify his existence.
  • Last Res0rt: Furry Comic about a Deadly Game Reality Show full of Condemned Contestants in The Future; very similar to The Running Man, except one of the contestants is a Vampire (and a sign of the apocalypse). Also, almost all of the primary characters are girls.
  • Least I Could Do: World's biggest Author Avatar Marty Stu has lots of sex, does lots of stuff his writer would like to do and abuses the author's friends.
  • The Life of Nob T. Mouse: A mayor who owns a café and a village full of nutcases have wacky adventures and occasionally save the world.
  • Life Sketch: A little girl in a cat costume brings fictional characters to life with a magic sketchbook and is occasionally visited by a time-traveling Cloudcuckoolander.
  • Life with Lamarr: An absent-minded scientist, his alien pet, and an alcoholic have their apartment blown up, which leads them to have several strange adventures.
  • Listening to 11.975 MHz: A girl with strange hair decs has adventures... well, allegedly has adventures with her friends, none of which are coherent. Both her friends and their alleged adventures. It might be a comedy? Your guess is as good as ours.
  • Looking for Group: An elf who doesn't know he's supposed to be evil, an undead necromancer, a green-skinned person and a sentient bull travel together and eventually a dwarf joins them. It has nothing to do with the Warcraft game series.
  • A Loonatics Tale: A neurotic, paranoid musician and his sarcastic vampire roommate join a supposedly elite squadron run by a 15-year-old king.
  • Man-Man: A non-powered superhero with a drunken psychotic Belgian for a butler and his nemesis as his lodger fights crime and meets other often unimpressive heroes and villains. Only his reluctant sidekick thinks any of this odd.
  • Manly Guys Doing Manly Things: The daily trials of an employment center run by an ex-soldier whose unit was powered by brand awareness. His assistant is a rather bad Pokémon trainer.
  • Max Overacts: A nine year old boy who sees the who whole world as a stage chews the scenery with a ventriloquist dummy and his friends.
  • The Meek: A naked girl looking for her grandfather, a ruler copes with some serious problems with his cat, while a butch lady and a brat partake in shady business.
  • Ménage à 3: A man who is a virgin shares an apartment with a nymphomaniac and a buxom, naive waitress.
  • Megatokyo: A manic-depressive artist, an insane computers teacher, their girlfriends, ex-girlfriend, students, and adoptive sister subvert, parody, and deconstruct miscellaneous anime tropes. Also, magic, zombies, Humongous Mecha and Kaiju are real, and video game companies secretly employ death-squads and make pacts with Satan.
  • Mezzacotta: Older than everything but the universe itself...oh wait, it's older!
  • Minus: An unusual little girl with variably-colored hair engages in a number of bizarre and surreal adventures, accidentally wiping out all life on earth in the process.
  • A Miracle of Science: A cynical detective with a bit of Fantastic Racism towards Martians travels across the solar system with a Martian to locate a Mad Scientist (in fact, becoming one is actually a psychological disorder) while trying to deal with his Dark and Troubled Past.
  • Misfile: A street racer, an honor student and a pot head go on a quest to correct a clerical error; genderbending and angels are involved.
  • Moon-Pals: Ensemble Darkhorses from an otherwise universally-loathed webcomic sit around on the moon, stoned as hell.
  • Multiplex: People working at a movie theater talk about movies. A lot.
  • Narbonic: A computer geek entering a new IT job blows up his workplace, gets shot dead by his boss's mother, joins a rival company, gets shot dead by his new boss, then electrocutes himself.
  • Nature of Natures Art: Talking animals fight each other with kung fu and big words over the future of society.
    • 10%+ : A wolf fights his teacher for brainwashing foreigners.
    • Secretary: A rodent studies kung fu in order to cure his bad tooth.
    • Lycosa: A spider tries to stop some other spiders from using her children to create the Internet.
  • Nectar of the Gods: A Bunch of bartenders going through life... well... Bartending. It has giant televised cocktail tournaments with bartenders dressed up as superheros, who's drinks are so amazing they give you absolute happiness just by the taste, not the alcohol content!
  • Nerf This: A boy and his monster have wacky adventures (and ruin people's lives).
  • Newshounds: A woman adopts several pets in order to create a news station. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Nodwick: Henchman gets mistreated, Hilarity Ensues.
  • The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: A narcissistic, sociopathic, Jerkass superheroine would rather get drunk and go shopping than save the world.
  • Not Quite Daily Comic: An Author Avatar, two cute girl aliens, a catgirl, a tortoise-girl, a succubus, a demon-hunter, a Hot Shounen Mom, said mom's daughter, and a vampire wax philosophical and provide gratuitous Fan Service.
  • Oceans in The Sky: A young boy inherits his uncle's old sailing ship, so he drags along his best friend for a summer vacation adventure. It turns out the ship is really an interplanetary spaceship, and its former captain is still around, albeit trapped in the body of a ragged stuffed doll. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Oglaf: SEX
  • 1/0: A comic about its being a comic, with characters stolen from other comics, which was made for the sole purpose of getting a girlfriend.
  • Order of the Stick: An atypical Dungeons and Dragons campaign where everyone is Genre Savvy...including the NPCs.
    • Alternatively: An alcoholic evangelical, a gender-confused magician, a growth hormone deficient homocidal maniac, a penitent criminal, a complete idiot and a black guy with daddy issues battle a literally by-the-book villain and his sidekick che guevara while crayons threaten to destroy the world. The black guy dies first, but not before the villain.
  • Out at Home: A cartoon family with a dumb father have wacky adventures or just sit around the house. Also, one girl knows it's a comic strip, but nobody else does.
  • Overcompensating: A perpetually shirtless man goes about his daily routine, which includes meetings with the president, drinking with his lifeless green cat, and complaining about things with his stoner friend who has No Indoor Voice.
  • Ow, My Sanity: An art student with no luck with the ladies gets saddled with a high-ranking servant of the Lovecraftian pantheon as his not-entirely-willing Magical Girlfriend. He develops an Unwanted Harem of Things Man Was Not Meant to Know.
  • Ozy and Millie: Peanuts meets Calvin and Hobbes meets Doonesbury. With foxes.
  • Parallel Dementia: A female government employee who has trouble sleeping lives with three guys, two of whom do almost anything she tells them to and the third of whom was a friend of hers as a kid and now frequently kills things.
  • The Parking Lot Is Full: A series of surreal, oftentimes unsettling comics that make even the lamest of jokes seem scary.
  • Penny and Aggie: A fashion whore bickers with a nonconformist until deciding she'd rather bicker with another fashion whore who's dating the nonconformist's crush. And they're probably gay for each other.
  • Penny Arcade: Two guys do nothing but talk about video games. Or occasionally brutally murder each other. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Pictures for Sad Children: Depressed, cynical people live in a Crapsack World and talk exclusively in lowercase letters.
  • Platypus Comix: An unemployed[3] man from Portland kills time by enforcing his site's claim at having "everything."
    • Mulberry: A Californian girl asserts her superiority over everyone else.
    • Electric Wonderland: An Intrepid Reporter and her ragtag team inch along in overthrowing corruption.
    • Keiki: A smart girl and a naughty boy have to put up with each other in the fifth grade...in Hawaii!
    • Scrambled Eggs: The amateurishly-drawn misadventures of three brothers from Oregon.
    • "True Believers": A famous superhero is brought in to entertain readers while characters from the four series listed above go on strike, but he becomes unable to deliver the expected funny business due to complications with his love life and his original publisher's editor-in-chief.
    • Princess Pi: The cartoonist forgets to do some basic fact-checking after falsely believing one of his sketches contains an anachronism, and reality and sanity fall apart as a result.
  • Problem Sleuth: A group of detectives spend over a thousand pages attempting to break out of an officebuilding.
  • Pokey the Penguin: A penguin has strangely written cut-and-paste adventures while insulting the Italians.
  • PvP: A comic about a magazine company that doesn't discuss the magazine's subject matter.
  • Questionable Content: Indie boy with Robot Buddy accrues harem of unattainable ladies. Comedy, drama, and coffee ensue. And when he does attain one, it's not the one you'd expect.
  • Rip and Teri: James Bond falls for a mousey schoolteacher.
  • Romantically Apocalyptic: A Captain and his two lackeys (one long-suffering, one ...not) faff around in an apocalyptic wasteland. Hilarity (and Adventures) ensue.
  • Rumors of War: Three mysterious waifs and one guy talk a lot about life, the world, and the gods in a setting that endeavors to be more interesting than they are.
  • Sabrina Online: Action figure collector comes to the rescue of adult entertainment studio.
  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: The Far Side Crosses the Line Twice.
  • Scandinavia and The World: Alcoholism, domestic abuse, and sexual assault are just a few of the things Played for Laughs in this saga of walking ethnic stereotypes and their outrageous relationship drama.
  • Scenes From a Multiverse: Joke a day comic about life in other dimensions (and how it eerily reflects our own boring lives)
  • Schlock Mercenary: A talking pile of crap with a really big gun joins a group of mercenaries taking advice from a book on the methodology behind being a superior mercenary.
  • Scout Crossing: A Type 1 Anti-Hero fights evil hipsters with tattoo power.
  • Sequential Art: An artist lives with a photographer cat, an Otaku penguin and a crazy squirrel girl. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Shadowgirls: Teenager who is the can for a fragment of an Eldritch Abomination fights a teenage girl with a horrible sense of humor, then Angsts about having superpowers. The former is the hero.
  • Sheldon: Teen Genius has Seinfeldian Conversations with a duck.
  • Shortpacked!: A couple of former special forces agents (one has a sugar addiction, the other is the biggest jerk in the entire universe), a gay Transformers fanboy with a heart of gold, a man who is convinced he is a ninja, a talking car with a cream-pie fetish, Ronald Reagan, the embodiment of pure brown-nosing evil, and... somebody without any terribly ridiculous-sounding attributes work at a toy store (owned by a fascist dictator) and have Seinfeldian Conversations about the 1980's and action figures.
    • Or: A government trained super soldier, a sugar addicted congress-woman/super soldier, a ninja, Ronald Reagan, and a talking car work in a toy store run by a facist dictator along side people who aren't completely out of place in such a setting, including a gay nerd who has an intense rivalry with the comic's author, a Yaoi Fangirl, a brown-noser, a lesbian, and a former sex addict.
  • Sinfest: A short skirt-chasing man hangs out with his sexy love interest, a talking stoner pig, Jesus, Buddha, the Devil, God, and the latter two's respective groupies.
  • Sister Claire: An innocent, cat-loving nun gets inexplicably pregnant and is later visited by a blue-skinned angel who saves her from her friend who is possessed by a cat demon.
  • Skin Horse: A transvestite psychologist, a zombie psychopath, and a talking dog rescue the creations of mad science for a paranormal Witness Relocation Program.
  • Slightly Damned: The main character is dead to begin with, makes friends with the worst example of a demon ever, comes back to life, helps an angel who's cursed to turn into a rabbit, and goes on a quest to find the angel's brother. Also, there's plenty of Interspecies Romance.
  • Sluggy Freelance: A dimwit software programmer has a crush on a girl. His pet is a Magnificent Bastard Killer Rabbit. His secretary is an alien who considers cannibalism a religious act. His best friend is a slacker Mad Scientist. And he occasionally has to deal with The Legions of Hell. This has gone on for about a decade now.
  • A Softer World: A girl photographs things and a boy makes short, introspective "artsy" comics with them. They're often surprisingly funny.
  • Something*Positive: A Deadpan Snarker plays tabletop games with his extraordinarily violent friends, one of whom owns a tech support/phone sex hotline. He gets given a cat who is over twenty years old, has no bones, and is recovering from chemotherapy. Loads and Loads of Characters come and go. He works on a catgirl comic (which is directly responsible for as many as five or six deaths) in his spare time.
  • Sonichu: An Author Avatar and a team of anthropomorphic Captain Ersatz battle everything that's ever bothered the guy, no matter how little!
  • Star Guys: Multicoloured roomates go about their daily lives. Several of them also have their own multicoloured stalkers.
  • Starslip: A man has a crush on a woman he won't see for a very long time, and has to cope with the loss of authority to someone of lower class. Someone who works for him constantly vents his bodily emissions.
  • Stickman and Cube: Two crudely drawn characters (a Deadpan Snarker and a Ditz) fend off attacks from a psychotic robot polyhedron and parasitic headgear, argue with their creator, wreak havoc with the timeline and hurl weights of indeterminate mass at each other.
  • Strays: an Orpan wolf girl gets into wacky adventures with a mercenary. Includes a charming pickpocket, a young King Incognito traveler and a racist bird man politician.
  • Subnormality: A cast of characters including a perpetually down-on-her-luck girl with pink hair and a giant talking sphinx wax philosophical about life and its irritants. Has lots of words. No, seriously, dude, lots of them.
  • The Suburban Jungle: A carnivore tries to be a supermodel. Her roommate is kidnapped by aliens.
  • Superego: Ten multi-colored dysfunctional people with wake up in a floating building and try to survive their encounters with squiggly lines.
  • Supermegatopia: Furry superhero comic where the heroines often win battles by losing their tops.
  • Surviving the World: A man in a baseball cap and lab coat stands by a chalkboard to deliver daily advice on life, love, social situations, metaphors, and baseball.
  • Teeth And Hooves: A disabled veteran and her buddy plot to overthrow The Hero for being The Fool. Has been Left Hanging for some time.
  • Templar, Arizona: In a slightly bizarre alternate-history world, a depressed Washingtonian moves to a town in Arizona where he's quickly befriended by a clinically retarded but friendly rock star, his overweight and flamboyant neighbor, a kind black man who habitually wears a kilt, and two guys whose family worship the ancient Egyptian gods.
  • The 10 Doctors: A Fanfic in which a guy meets himself nine times. Old friends, acquaintances, and foes turn up everywhere you look.
  • Terror Island: Two roommates engage in elaborate plots to attempt to force the other to buy groceries.
  • Turn Signals on a Land Raider: Two not-quite-so super soldiers lose battles, get drunk, and argue with a tank. Not necessarily in that order.
  • Two Evil Scientists: A couple of old guys join forces to try and Take Over the World.
  • Twokinds: An amnesiac wizard falls in love with a Catgirl.
  • UG Madness: Two roommates play a children's card game!
  • Unicorn Jelly: The cast of a shoujo comic is trapped in a hard sci-fi world where crystal triangles full of jellies are doomed by the structure of their universe.
  • Union of Heroes: A photocomic about superheroes from Germany – with real actors.
  • User Friendly: Internet company employees and a furry ball of dust talk Microsoft down, get dumb callers, and play Quake.
  • Vampirates!: A team of canadian vampire pirates travel on a stolen ferry so that they can find and kill their ex-captain. Beware kidnapping, crossdressers, blackmail, and yaoi.
  • Vexxarr: An alien fails to invade Earth, and flees the wrath of his emperor. He also picks up a bunch of people he hates.
  • Vinny the Villain: A kid with silly hair has poor social skills.
  • VG Cats: Two cats play computer games, swear at each other, and occasionally die violently. The cast is rounded out by a man who wears pants on his head and an oblivious demon-thing.
    • ...and a idiotic hobo, who might just be, just maybe, not a licensed doctor...or not.
  • Wapsi Square: An ordinary big-breasted Latina girl from Minneapolis has regular conversations with gods, monsters and demons but is convinced there's a rational explanation for it all. Oh yeah, and she can teleport.
  • What Birds Know: Three young women climb an old tower that leads to another dimension where everything looks the same, but where they find themselves laying eggs. Golden eggs. For at least one of them this ends very badly.
  • Winters in Lavelle: Two kids teleport to Narnia with a magic rock, then find more magic rocks that give them superpowers. Severe injuries are inflicted by deer.
  • Wondermark: 19th century characters of various sorts laugh at their own jokes.
  • World of Fizz: FoxTrot, with Funny Animal foxes.
  • The Wotch: An Author Avatar hangs out with another one and their friend and has magic powers. She fights the avatar of order, when not turning people into girls.
  • Wurr: horribly mutated talking dogs have to leave a crater.
  • Xkcd: Stick figures make one-shot jokes about grad-level sciences and esoteric nerd culture.
  • YU+ME: dream: Lesbians go through high school. The love interest's past comes back to haunt the main couple. The relationship was just a dream, though.
  • Zebra Girl: A woman takes a radical change badly. A magician, his sister, a werewolf, and a giant anthropomorphic rabbit are involved.
    • Cast includes a perverted magician, his talking book, his sister that doesn't do anything except for dating a werewolf, his sister's best friend who he turns into a demon (and is actually the main character) and recently went bat-shit insane, the alternate universe verson of the girl who gets turned into a demon who's not even the same gender or species as her (he's a rabbit). Oh and a guy with a yucky face on his forehead.
  1. ↑ About BDSM.
  2. ↑ Which is how people genuinely tend to attempt to recommend it anyway.
  3. ↑ At least until 2012.
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