The Word made another helper from fire to be its hands as it toiled on its creations. The Word gave them free will. Although they did not know their name, they were called the Jinn... Iblis, a webcomic take on the Islamic tempter figure by
Kelli Nelson.
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posted by kid ichorous
on Jan 14, 2011 -
15 comments
Forming (NSFW - cartoon nudity) is a webcomic by
Jesse Moynihan (NSFW) that tells the history of the evolution of man via the machinations of various alien entities whose familiar names (and unfamiliar stories) have been recorded in various religions throughout time.
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posted by lyam
on Dec 16, 2010 -
24 comments
PORTRAIT-DEX! Cartoonists create Pokémon self-portraits, with all three evolved forms. Featuring, among other fine artists,
Scott Kurtz (PVP),
Box Brown (Everything Dies, Bellen!),
Anthony Clark (Nedroid),
Aaron Diaz (Dresden Codak), and
Steve Wolfhard (Cat Rackham), who also runs the project.
posted by Gator
on Oct 27, 2010 -
13 comments
Caring about something is about taking the pain and the joy. The pain is hard. Taking the pain, facing it, dealing with it are the ways I think we can show we really care. That we know we care. --
Bob, the story of a dog.
posted by Gator
on Sep 18, 2010 -
16 comments
Bringing It All Back Home. The relatively long-running (
since 2006) webcomic
Bellen! will come to a close in early September as its author
goes on to
other things (pdf). In preparation for the end of the series, the creator is taking "a longer eye-opening look into the origin of Bellen!" which dispenses with the strips regular
old timey-yellowing paper style "because there are no more veneers in Bellen! it’s the pure unadulterated truth from here on out." An interesting look at the creative process in the digital age.
posted by ND¢
on Aug 13, 2010 -
11 comments
Andrew Hussie's latest comic enterprise at
MSPaintAdventures.com (
previously),
Homestuck, has been hurtling along at a truly absurd pace. Designed as a pastiche and parody of videogames in general and text-based graphical adventures in particular, updates are structured as a hypothetical game's response to your typed commands, such as "
Examine room." The art may not look like much up front, but it enables AH to maintain his multiple-updates-every-day pace for weeks at a time; it also lets him modulate the quality where appropriate for the storytelling. It's sort of a multimedia extravaganza: the story is told using
static and
animated gifs,
narrative text, dialogue presented as
instant messaging chat transcripts (click the
Show Pesterlog button to see the text),
flash-based static animations with
music and/or
sound effects,
interactive vignettes
reminiscent of
console RPG-
style combat, interactive
sound mixers and
animation compendia,
GameFAQs walkthroughs, an
enormous hyperlinked synopsis presented by the author himself during
a highly indulgent self-insertion into the story,
multiple webcomics within webcomics, and in at least two cases,
an entire miniature action/
adventure game.
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posted by jsnlxndrlv
on Aug 10, 2010 -
22 comments
Susan Bell, mild-mannered secretary, thinks that pirates, space aliens, and lesbians are only found in pulp adventure novels. Until she is
Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space! And finds out that she's one of them!
You don't have to be a lesbian, a pirate or a space alien to read this web comic, but it helps.
posted by CrunchyFrog
on Jul 23, 2010 -
22 comments
From 1979 to the end of the '80s,
Sam Hurt produced a strange and wonderful little
comic called
Eyebeam. I'm very happy that the
entire archives are up, as well as
later additions. About the drab but sometimes very weird life of the eponymous character, the comic addressed a wide range of topics, including
the decor of Chinese restaurants,
wearing the wrong clothes to work,
beach gidgets,
job security,
male answer syndrome,
not-quite-vegetarianism and
time travel. It managed to be pretty
wise while still being
funny. Just don't take it too
literally.
posted by jiawen
on Jun 18, 2010 -
20 comments
After a long and terrifying absence, the webcomic
NOBODY SCORES! Returns! Reacquaint yourself with
BBolt's style with
home decor,
internets!,
origin stories,
police states,
Kittn 2.0,
SPACESHIPS,
Scott McCloud,
Art,
Wishes,
Alternate Universes,
Government Slash Fic,
Time Travel ,
Class Struggle,
True Love,
Cartoonists!,
Social Media,
MEN,
cuddle-ness,
Augmented Reality ,
snorgling,
Rule 34 ,and
more
posted by The Whelk
on May 25, 2010 -
21 comments
Anders Loves Maria, the funny, dramatic, romantic and quite NSFW webcomic, with its distinctive visuals, often frustrating characters and very Swedish attitude, has concluded after 3 years and 3 months (ending with a difficult delivery in more ways than one; the last 3 months were an excruciating wait for the last two extended chapters). A tale of semi-fidelity, baby birds, hitting the wrong hole and grown-up responsibility forced upon those who never grew up, A♥M was a favorite among other webcomic creators from day one, and, hey, they ought to know! If you never got into AndersMania, you can start at the beginning of the 250+ updates
here.
posted by oneswellfoop
on Feb 5, 2010 -
30 comments
"
Hi. My name is Gene and this is my journal." Young Gene Roddenberry meets two Garfield-eyed aliens who proceed to take him everywhere in their exploration of this strange planet Earth. In the process, we see where Gene came up with the idea of a unified
borderless,
moneyless world that would allow
dashing starship captains to
seek out new life and new civilizations, boldly going
where no one has gone before. We see where Gene first met
tribbles,
Orion slave girls,
Organians, and the
Guardian of Forever, and how Gene came up with
phasers,
tricorders, the
Prime Directive,
food replicators (from which he orders
gagh),
Questor androids, and the
Enterprise design.
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posted by WCityMike
on Sep 2, 2009 -
28 comments
