Slashy Webcomic Recs

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[Just realized this has been sitting around on my hard drive for far too long (oops!) and I should share for those who might be interested!]

Although I follow lots of more nerdy webcomics, I recently discovered that, yup, there are slashier ones out there-lots of them boy’s love/BL/yaoi or m/m, call it what you will. And some are really excellent. So I thought I’d compile a list of the ones I enjoyed enough to follow. If you know of any others, please do let me know! Thanks to meiface for pointing out Oglaf and Teahouse to me, and to amanuensis for Roulette!

• Ace of Beasts
  In a lighthearted fantasy world with lots of human/animal hybrids, two swordsmen (Xerxes and Osric) travel the world in search of a sorcerer who cursed Osric to be a fiery demon. They’re not that concerned, though, and have plenty of very hot sex on the way-pun intended! And check out the equally good series Men + Monsters, set in the same universe.
• Artifice
  In the creator’s words, “Android soldier. Forbidden love. Aggressive therapy.” The character designs aren’t totally my thing, but the art is very clean, like a nice comic book, and the story had me hooked. The author also has an interesting publishing system where he’ll publish a bonus page once a donation target is reached.
• CyberSteel
  A very short 25-page yaoi, but the cyberpunk universe looks promising (if it’s ever updated again), and the sex is really, really hot.
• Ephemeral
  A twin prostitute with a sleeping disorder discovers all may not be as simple as it seems at his school. This webcomic has some of the best art I’ve seen, a really professional manga-style-some panels in grayscale and some in glorious color. There are sporadic grammar mistakes, but the story is intriguing, and the art is just fantastic.
• Grayscale
  Shapeshifter universe! Two shapeshifters, a dragon (Nine) and a phoenix (Dice), live in a corrupt fantasy city. Nine gets captured and taken to an evil research laboratory, where he meets Dice, a drug user who has reservations about the way the lab is being run. The relationship between the two evolves slowly and is satisfying. I like the art, which, yes, is mostly in grayscale but with splashes of color, and the newer panels are in glorious full color. The artist is great at capturing emotion.
• Kaito Shuno
  A cubicle worker decides he’s had enough one day and goes out to commit suicide when he meets a guy who prevents him. It’s the start of an epic domestic webcomic with two pretty boys and lots of sex. The art style is a very rough anime style with a bit of color that makes it easy to tell who everyone is, and the simple style allows the author to update so frequently. It’s pretty funny, too; I just raced through.
• Men + Monsters
  In a universe where humans hunt monsters, a kinky swordsman (Lex) falls in love with an equally kinky demon monster (Silas). Together with Lex’s robot companion, Akilas, they stage their deaths and travel the world looking for a place to accept them. There’s plenty of sex and a very sweet relationship between two (sometimes three) badasses. “How have you three lasted so long out here?” / “We screw in the face of death! Sometimes literally.” From the creators and universe of Ace of Beasts.
• Oglaf
  Dirty comedy, sex, and spider vaginas, this one has ’em all. There’s no story per se, just a bunch of hilarious scenes from a clever and wacky medieval fantasy universe.
• Oscura
  So far the story, about a bisexual heir to a great power, matches the title, but the art is really lovely and unusual. Each panel is more a colorful painting than a comic. There are some minor grammar mistakes, though.
• Purpurea Noxa
  Vampire gangs roam Italy in this prettily-drawn webcomic. So far the yaoi is in subtext (except in the gallery), but it looks like a promising world. My favorite is Jason, the vampire gang leader. :)
• Roulette
  Mafia and blackmail and hit men and gun play, oh my! If you like your guys muscled and cocky with long hair, this one is for you. The art is very clean and professional-looking in black and white. (P.S. There is a Kickstarter project in the works for more of this comic. Check it out!)
• Sfeer Theory
  Kind of a mix of steampunk and alchemy, Sfeer Theory (Dutch for “sphere”) is the story of a young man working as a lab technician as a university although he by all rights should be one of its scholars. Thankfully a guest professor notices his talent. Our protagonist, Luca Valentino, is absolutely delicious-and deliciously drawn-and the story is drawn in such a way that it brings out the comedy in each situation.
• Starfighter
  A gorgeous, ongoing yaoi set in space! With fighter pilots who also get it on like bunnies (albeit in a rather abusive way) in their spare time. And both the leads are so pretty and fiesty!
• Teahouse
  A sexy, plotty, well-written, and breathtakingly beautiful story about a brothel filled with hot guys and girls who cater to royalty. My favorite is the pink-haired Linneus.
• The Young Protectors
  By the same creator of Artifice, this one is about gay superheroes and a special gay supervillain. Again, the character designs are too masculine for me, but the lines and colors are clean and bright, and I look forward to seeing how the forbidden love progresses and if the villain is, well, villainous or has a softer side.

Others I have been recommended but haven’t read yet (may or may not be slashy; I haven’t read them yet!):

-Always Raining Here
-Strays
-The Silver Eye
-Transfusions
-Black Dram
-Kirai ja Nai Kedo
-Love Love
-Rebles
-Riot Nrrd (thanks, frith-in-thorns)
-TJ and Amal
-Two Rooks
-Yellow
-Elan Meets Rafa (thanks, nana-42)
-Spectre (thanks, nana-42)
-5th and Main (thanks, nana-42)
-Tough (thanks, nana-42)

Helpful sites in finding these:

-The Slash Pile
-The Yaoi Review
-Ohfuckyaoi on tumblr
-Sebasu on tumblr
-novalis-b (has a list on the right side)