Just like in news papers, there are comics in the Internets. But how could you know this? Luckily, I told you just now! The more you know.
So, with the lack of anything real to write about, I have decided to bore you with the details of the various web comics that I read, so that you might enjoy them as much as, if not more than (unlikely!), I do. I will now enumerate them in no particular order.
As the perfect comic for mathies, my list begins with xkcd, the comic about math, physics and other amazingly cool things that everyone should do (not drugs). Though I'm not sure how many of its readers really know what a Fourier transform is, I don't think they really mind. Of course knowing the abstract mathematics behind many of the jokes does improve the comic, xkcd is for everyone. You don't need to be as cool as a computer scientist to enjoy it.
Next comes Dr McNinja, my newest addition to frequented comics. My coworkers would recognize it as the source of my wallpaper at work, circa Monday. Dr McNinja answers the important questions in life, such as how to avoid capture by ninjas and why gorillas and velociraptors don't see eye to eye. Though I haven't even read the entire archive of this one yet, I can safely say that it is great.
I'm not really sure why I read Questionable Content. I'm obviously not its target audience (which is people who care about music — or something like that, sometimes I don't know) but I still enjoy its wit. It revolves around a handful of graduates just living their lives. It has great artwork (which is always a bonus) and it's often incredibly funny. Just don't give it a hard time just because its guitar and music references don't make any sense.
While the last comics would be rated PG-13, Chugworth Academy would be rated R. Its target audience can be summed up as "4chan", with its humour being mostly lewd and its action often violent. The point is I like it, and I don't care what you think. So there.
If Chugworth is rated R, then Clone-Army is rated NC-17. Clone-Army is a set of a half-dozen infrequently updated web comics all written and drawn by a man named Dan Kim. I went to university with Dan, so I can safely say that Dan Kim is a very weird guy. His comics depict his madness quite adequately. All of his works are dark, usually silly but often serious, and incredibly well drawn. I have Dan's autograph. Isn't that cool?
Three-Panel Soul is similar to Questionable Content in premise. It's a comic about grad roommates going about their lives. The difference is 3PS's main goal is humour instead of story. 3PS is hilarious at every turn, with lovable characters based on real people. Coupled with the fact that it's got some of the best art on the Internet (courtesy of Ian McConville), 3PS is easily one of the best web comics there is.
Similar in art style to 3PS, Applegeeks is a comic about, surprise surprise, Apple computer fans. Applegeeks used to be pretty funny, with its characters well rounded and exciting; however, over time the comic has fallen into shallow stories about how awesome they all are. I still follow it, if only because it has a "lite" version, which is consistently funny and doesn't take itself too seriously the way the primary comic does. Of all the comics I read, I would be most likely to drop this one.
Another recent addition is Fanboys. I saw this comic linked on another site, and thought it was pretty good. After looking over the site, I didn't really expect Fanboys to be very entertaining. I took a look at some of the archive and discovered that I was pleasantly mistaken. Fanboys is surprisingly witty and worth reading, even though it's just one of millions of gaming comics. It owes its shininess to the fact that it is plot-based (like Questionable Content) rather than one shots like most run-of-the-mill comics.
My second-oldest comic is Ctrl Alt Del. This is a gaming comic about a bunch of roomates. What I like about this comic (which generally has a love-hate reputation with readers) is the character Ethan. He is as dumb as famous idiots Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin, and has that certain spark of charm that only such ridiculous morons seem to possess.
No list of comics is complete without Penny Arcade, one of the very first web comics and my personal oldest. Web comics come and go, but Penny Arcade just never stops. As amazing as it was ten years ago when it began, Penny Arcade played a major role in founding web comics as a medium and gaming comics as a genre. If for some reason you aren't reading Penny Arcade, then you should stop not reading Penny Arcade and start not stopping reading it right away! Seriously. Your funny bone will thank you.
That's it for now. Hopefully something interesting will happen and I'll be able to write about that instead of nothing like today.