my favorite webcomics in 20 words or less

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• MS Paint Adventures (Homestuck, Problem Sleuth, Jailbreak): Is it the best collaborative point-and-click text-adventure game you've never played? No! It's a webcomic.
  
• Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff: Only Andrew Hussie would run a shitty webcomic just to make silly references to it in his other webcomic.
  
• Questionable Content: Uber-tattooed indie rock

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Re: I agree with all these choices! I just gotta say:

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I....really don't see how Dominic Deegan and QC are in any way similar to GC and Shortpacked. Neither of the latter comics has ever been able to hold my interest for long. GC's got pretty art and a decent story but it's just never been strong enough to keep on my tightly culled daily list. And I've never been able to get into David Willis's universally babyfaced, mildly pleasant characters (though I admit to staying up late one night reading through the final arc of It's Walky! archives when it ended).

It's also weird how we technically first met over Exploitation Now! but neither of us have mentioned Errant Story. For a long time I kept hoping it would finally come into its own like the end of EN but it's been over seven years (!) and we're still not anywhere near the Really Good Bit, if there ever will be a Really Good Bit. I dropped it from my list after my last computer crash. Not worth it anymore.

If you like what Dresden Codak does with continuity you will love Goats. (There's a strip that basically goes, "Hey Phillip, remember when the world ended? Yeah, that sucked.") A bunch of my friends say it's a little too weird for them, though.

I can't second the ERFWORLD IS AWESOME EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT because it really isn't for everyone. Over 2/3rd of the comic is silly wargaming injokes and it is virtually impossible to follow what is going on if you have no idea what a hex, a stack, or a leadership bonus is. Furthermore, the strip panders to the mid-bottom tier of the nerd hierarchy, a certain stale-sugar-cereal-munching, '80s-pop-culture-referencing, basement-dwelling demographic that a lot of people find as disgusting as we find endearing. (It's also pretty much exclusive to a certain age group. Who calls anyone a "tool" anymore?) That said, if you are the strip's target audience you will find it utterly delightful. It is indeed like Order of the Stick in that it is a strip for a very niche audience, the difference being that the most compelling parts of Erfworld's narrative lie parallel to the byzantine game mechanics and not within them.