toon trek

A few years ago I decided, having got behind and lost the thread of my favorite webcomics, to start them over; and then developed a more quixotic ambition: to sample as many webcomics as I can find and, more daunting, to catch up (eventually) on the good ones.

I sort the bookmarks by date, and read the oldest first. (I conceived that practice in the early days when crossovers were common.) At the moment I’m twenty years behind; if I can maintain a pace of three days per day, I’ll catch up in ten years.

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4 Responses to toon trek

  1. Anton says:

    For the past month that trek has been sidetrekked: I’m culling my Wikipedia watchlist. It had reached 18511 entries, because I automatically add each article that I edit, and until recently there was not the option to watch for a finite time.

  2. Raven says:

    Just to add to your projected workload 😉 — some interesting fantasy webcomics aren’t online anymore, in one case because it got hacked, in another because it got published [in both cases they’re available in print via Amazon]:

    • The Gods of Arr-Kelaan (vaguely like a Zelazny ‘Lord of Light’ scenario, space-travelers become gods)
    https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AMr.+Chuck+Rowles
    Books One and Two are on Kindle (ebook) for free.
    About it: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Webcomic/TheGodsOfArrKelaan
    And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods_of_Arr-Kelaan

    • Hopeless, Maine (a Gothic fog-hidden island off the coast)
    https://web.archive.org/web/20120303111528/http://www.itisacircle.com/
    (You may have to left-click or control-click and select ‘open in new tab’ to see archived pages.)
    Cover samples: https://nimuebrown.tumblr.com/
    https://outlandentertainment.com/pages/hopeless-maine
    https://www.amazon.com/Hopeless-Maine-England-Gothic-Stories-ebook/dp/B098GWBBHW

    This Lovecraftian webcomic is at least still online:
    • Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) – https://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/

    D&D from the viewpoint of the despised little guys, also still online:
    • Goblins – https://www.goblinscomic.com/

    You might also enjoy this serial webnovel in a somewhat optimistic(!) version of Lovecraft’s universe [including in its attached materials a vocabulary of R’lyehan/Cthuvian/Aklo/Elder Script!]:
    • Tattoo: The Books of Glory – sadly left unfinished at the author’s untimely death
    https://candacemcbride.wordpress.com/
    Note the links to webcomics: https://candacemcbride.wordpress.com/index/something-extra/webcomics/

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