bobbins is a great read, especially if you're either british or just that dodgy. cutewendy is also an excellent comic, and i should plug megatokyo since i've known the creators for a long while before they started the comic though i don't read it much. posted by moz at 8:51 AM on July 2, 2001
Argon Zark, who invented "personal transport protocol" and literally enters the internet.
This site includes far and away the best use of DHTML I have ever seen anywhere. Be sure to use a modern browser to read it. Unfortunately, it doesn't get updated often. posted by Steven Den Beste at 8:51 AM on July 2, 2001
I just discovered Angst Technologies. It took me all day, but I read every single strip. posted by jragon at 8:54 AM on July 2, 2001
I should have mentioned in the main post: for those of you not yet up on the webcomics boom, the two best portals are Keenspot and Big Panda.
And Bobbins rocks! (Despite its lack of continuity, constantly changing hairstyles, etc.) I would have posted it as well, but it would have interrupted the flow of my list. posted by tweebiscuit at 8:58 AM on July 2, 2001
I love Diesel Sweeties, but you're missing out if you like web comics and haven't read Sluggy Freelance. posted by betaray at 9:09 AM on July 2, 2001
Friendbear is better than Pokey. (the fact that I'm friends with Swifty has nothing to do with my opinion, of course.) posted by tweebiscuit at 10:23 AM on July 2, 2001
When I Am King. Excellent exploration of the new possibilities available on the web, and with absolutely no dialogue. Adult themes at times, if anybody needs a warning. posted by icathing at 10:29 AM on July 2, 2001
Dex Lives is a fun strip about a wacky dragon kinda guy. Dex started as a high school student when his creator, Bernadette Yarnot, was a high school student. He followed her to college, and is now facing life post-grad. Very cute stuff. posted by Dreama at 10:42 AM on July 2, 2001
When I Am King is definitely a great read (I just read it all yesterday.), as icathing mentioned.. one that was posted sometime last month, life on forbez, is also quality reading, though currently on hiatus. posted by lotsofno at 10:43 AM on July 2, 2001
I love reading isometric. It's drawn in the 3d isometric style. It's even had a pokey crossover! (The authors are friends.) posted by reishus at 11:57 AM on July 2, 2001
road waffles and everything else by eight are some of my favorites in spite of their violence and the fact that nothing is ever finished... posted by rabi at 12:18 PM on July 2, 2001
I'm with jcterminal -- Leisuretown is visually wonderful and, of course, often hilariously funny (while managing to be pretty damned offensive too). Too bad it's pretty much nonreadable in the workplace. posted by BT at 12:19 PM on July 2, 2001
My faves are Friend Bear (Pokey is just too mean-spirited sometimes), Penny Arcade, Diesel Sweeties, and Cigarro & Cerveja, an hysterical comic about a goose and a rabbit who go to college, and drink and smoke a lot. It's better than I've made it sound. posted by toddshot at 2:26 PM on July 2, 2001
So wait, which came first, Pokey or Friend Bear? I have seen Pokey way longer ago, but maybe I just missed Friend Bear? posted by beefula at 3:29 PM on July 2, 2001
Pokey has been around longer, but as a friend of the creator, I can definitely say that FB was an independent creation. posted by toddshot at 5:16 PM on July 2, 2001
posted by moz at 8:51 AM on July 2, 2001