People who were teenagers in the early to mid 2000s, what terrible in hindsight webcomics do you remember reading?
Sinfest (though to be fair, it was before the author went all self-castigating)
Jack
Misfile
>>78116653
Is genderswapped Initial D guy still on Namek?
>>78116674
No idea. Stopped reading mid high school around the time I started with Jack. I regret reading both.
TwoKinds, Jack, 8-Bit Theater, Ctrl+Alt+Del, and Sexylosers are the only ones I can remember the names of. The others were mostly just animu bs.
>>78116623
I got into webcomics via a shitty Wheel of Time sprite comic.
>CAD
>Misfile
>Megatokyo
>>78116824
Sexy Losers was good.
Pretty much everything that was on keenspot in 2005. The last webcomic I was still reading was Sluggy Freelance, which is pretty good, but I haven't read that in the better part of a decade either.
Anyone remember the name of that webcomic that was a fighter and some kind of mage on a standard jrpg adventure only the original kinda comic relief bad guy got put on the back burner because extradimensional angels or something became the bad guys? I think some kinda rogue and a white mage joined up at some point, too.
I used to read Real Life, and by god after not even thinking about it for over a decade I just looked and it's still a thing. And it hasn't changed one god damn bit.
It's honestly like looking into a time portal.
>>78116832
He's back at it.
http://sexylosers.claycomix.com/comic/275/
>>78116824
>8 Bit theatre
>Terrible in hindsight
Sinfest, Dominic Deegan, Misfile...
I remember thinking that Exploitation Now! was amazing, but I'm worried that it might really be awful. is it?
>>78116623
LFG
TwoKinds
CAD
I remember reading something about a squirrel girl and a scientist self-insert and there was gender swapping? I really don't remember much more than that other than she was an experiment some kind and there was a grimdark beastman and that's about when I lost interest.
This was about 5 layers of low level fetish fuel in this comic that I avoided by getting bored of the story so i'd appreciate someone telling me the name so I can thank this guy from saving me from the furry fetish art fate.
>>78117303
El Goonish Shive.
You... really didn't miss much. Since the forever party, he's tried to introduce SJW themes and subtext to justify his fetish comic.Currently, they're helping a gay-married lesbian griffin find its wife.
Sluggy Freelance
Turn Signals on a Landraider
Low Road (I think, that goth sepia webcomic with the stuffed goth pig)
>>78116623
PPG Doujinshi
VG Cats
Anything on Snafu
>>78116623Goblins
I read every single strip of Bob and George. I would ask for that time back, but I would just waste it some other way.
>>78117405
>When you remember you made sprite comics
>When you remember your time spent on those forums
...Man, what was I thinking? At least some of BnG was decent, mostly the MM game direct parodies.
Polymer City, Class Menagerie, Road Waffles, Under Power.
FANBOYS
VGCATS
Least I could do
.
>>78116832
>WoT sprite comic
Ohohoho god how have I gone the last twenty years on the internet without knowing about that?
Exploitation Now
>>78117351
I feel like it's improved a lot in every aspect except pacing.
But man is the pacing bad.
I have the exploitation now book. It's mysteriously missing a page where the moogle thing eats communion wafers and says something irreverent.
>>78116961
ADVENTURES! The story is fine once it gets going, but the art is so goddamn bad. Here's the first strip.
>>78116623
CAD
Dominic Deagan
Looking For Group
>>78116824
>8-Bit Theater
>terrible
Nigga, I will fight you.
>>78119010
Much better than rpgworld, despite looking like total shit.
>>78119034
Yeah, the story is solid.
>>78116623
I had terrible taste like every other teen
>CAD
>Dominic Deegan
>Megatokyo
>Applegeeks (Hawk and Ananth are cool though)
>Anything on Snafu
>Questionable Content
>Sane Resistant
>Real Life Comics
>Exterminatus Now
>Bittersweet Candy Bowl
>Anything on Drshnaps
>[sic] productions
And that's just the bad shit I can remember
There was a time I thought Megatokyo was funny.
There was a time I thought Megatokyo really spoke to me.
There was a time I thought Megatokyo was going somewhere.
>>78119324
sadhitlerinsnow.png
The Lounge
Striptease Comic
This comic about this guy with a catgirl
PVP
This comic about this guy who wants to fuck his sister
>>78116623
There were plenty of comics I read as a teen that I no longer care to read, but that doesn't mean they're terrible. Comics like Misfile, College Roomies from Hell, El Goonish Shive - I've outgrown them, but I don't think they're "terrible in hindsight". They just don't appeal to me anymore, and that's okay.
Megatokyo, though? Megatokyo actually pisses me off.
CAD
Chocolate Milkmaid
>>78116623
VG Cats
The Wotch
A lot of silly Sprite comics
>>78119079
>You will never be 12 again and think Bleedman or those terrible animu SNAFU comics are good with tween-vision
Why live?
>>78119010
>those white pixels around every black line
I mean...let's say you don't have Photoshop, and you don't even know about GIMP. Or maybe you just don't understand layers. Hey, that's fine.
But you can't even convert your lineart to monochrome and back so that you can use the paint bucket tool? It would take all of thirty seconds. Come on, man.
Jail Break
Problem SleuthHomestuck
I was a teenager in late middleschool when the latter started. Now I'm in college. THAT'S how long this shit has been dragged on.
I only remember reading those girly fender benders like Zebra Girl and Girl Genius. Sinfest too before it went fully sjw. A lot of gag-a-day comics I cannot really remember anymore.
>>78121519
How exactly do you do that? I've never realized that was an option.
>>78117770
You don't need to know about it, it was very badhttp://shadowburn.binmode.com/wotnow/
>>78119079
psst
Three Panel Soul is Applegeeks successor
>>78121555
pls go home baby you are too young for this thread
>>78116623
>yu+me dream
Holy shit I have no idea why
>>78116824
>8-bit Theater
Woooooaaaahhh, I know it lost a bit of its charm but there's a reason the guy got to work for Marvel.Suck it Sohmer.
Akaelae/Cyantian Chronicles
Cascade Failure
Furthia HighDresden Codak
Better Days
Seed of Judgment
Altermeta
>>78116720
This is now a Jack thread.
>>78117388
PPGD was legitimatelyfunin the beginning, though. It just sucks that bleedman is terrible and a pedo.
Dinosaur Comics
Elf Only Inn comes to mind, but that was actually kind of alright.
Anyone remember a webcomic about different characters hanging out in a mall? I think it had a running gag where someone would always get decapitated by dolphin cum.
Fireball20xl... jesus christ what a time that was. The only good thing to come out of that was Boxer Hockey and Tyson Hesse.
>>78116623
While I always felt DDOFH was incrediblybland I never regretted reading it. I also didn't think it was an awful comic, just kinda...typical. You can see everything coming a mile away, but it was still kinda fun. As for the art, well, it's simple, easy on the eyes, and anime-esque in a good way. Reminds me of Slayers. Why do people hate, loathe even, this comic?
>>78116623
CAD is the main one I read, and the main one I regret due to how long I read it. I think I finally dropped it during the infamous "unfunny black joke" comic where the robot gets a human disguise and they're getting ready to go to the theater. It wasn't offensive or anything, it just kinda made me realize how unfunny the comic was. I also tracked down a /co/ thread (I wasn't on 4chan at the time) mocking it, which led to me finding out how much of a raging creep Buckley was.
Another I regret was Looking For Group, although I can't completely remember now if that was during or after the specified period. Man, that was bad. It wasn't until quite a while after I stopped reading, and started going to 4chan regularly, that I discovered how much of a piece of shit the creator is, too.
There were more, but I can't remember them.
>>78121925
It's actually Mac Hall's successor
Bob and George
Several sprite comics
>>78122536
Fucking this too
>>78116623
Oh man fuck that comic.
It's like,
>Really convoluted scenario to have a good guy rape someone
Okay
>Have the raped woman go "DON'T TOUCH MY HUSBAND" as a throwaway joke a few strips after the reveal
What the fuck.
>>78116623
>ctrl+F "life of riley"
Just me, huh?
>>78116832
Holy fucking shit you read Shadowburn?
>>78123070
CAD was the first one I sunk significant time into. Later discovered it was roughly a rip-off of Penny Arcade, which was better (relatively, at least).
Then BUckley did loss.jpg and I quit.
jack
misfile
CAD
megatokyo
kagerou (not totally awful, but not great either)
Goblins
PA
Nerf now
Flaky Pastry cause the crazy elf was hot
Maybe LFG and PVP they're all the same
Ruins of the Fourth Wall, anybody?
>>78116623
Oh man, Oracle for hire did not advance for shit in the art department at all.
>>78124980
That's the only correct answer.
I also put far too much time into Squidi comics like AMD.
>>78121555
How up-to-date is this chart? I've seen variations of this, but they were old.
>>78117437
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>>78121518
>tfw back then I legitimately thought Bleedman was the best webcomic artist out there
I remember reading some comic that featured some girl dressed as a jester.
I remember the art being quite nice.
Flipsomething?
>>78124980
In the end,none of it mattered and they all retired to Acapulco.
No regrets, 10/10 ending. Ran is best communist robot.
>>78129389
Flipside! Still on Namek.
>people unironically enjoyed 8 bit theatre
>>78122536
I had completely forgot about that site for a long time.
And then when I remembered it, the site got taken down because Psyguy got run off of the internet
>>78116623
i did read a EQ fanfic comic a long time ago called WTF it was interesting but i just basically forgot about it and fell too far behind on it to pick it up again
i also read punks & nerds and even picked it up when it relaunched...and then bruceman went on a hike and hasn't updated since
>used to read Sluggy Freelance
>check the website
>he's STILL pumping out comics
Holy shit I last read it over a decade ago. Art has barely changed too.
>>78119010
>Adventurers!
>bad
You are a disgrace to your family! Adventurers was a fantastic webcomic!
...except in the art department, of course.
MG C O M I C SKill me
Guacamole Kingdom
Definitely Jack.
I don't know though. As it went on i remember it being getting much better overall. Then that gay greek goat thing happened and i don't remember much else.
Fell towards the wayside.
Is that even still ongoing? If it is, i might give it a look.
>>78119324
There WAS a time when Megatokyo was funny, spoke to you, and going somewhere. It was the year 2000. It was just late enough that weeaboo culture had started, but early enough that nobody else was parodying how ridiculous weeaboo culture is. Not kidding, it was pretty much the only media to do it properly!
Then everyone grew up, the rest of the internet caught on, and now it just looks awful when you look back on it.
...Of course, that is unless you kept reading when it stopped being a gag-a-day comic. In which case, yeah, you were just retarded.
>samurai jack will end before Megatokyo
![tablewallpaper[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/kjF6KRt.png "tablewallpaper[1].png")
>>78116623
I remember i used to read InSonicNia and Exterminatus
Other than those 2, there really werent many webcomics i followed. I don't know if they still hold up.
>>78129180
At least the first three are debatably bad. As in, they're not IMMEDIATELY obvious, and you could like them for legit reasons.
Same goes for XKCD. Hate it now, I still wouldn't list it.
>>78122472
>Elf Only Inn
My nigga.
>>78129750
>Fred's kid will probably have friends whose parents read megatokyo religiously
According to /co/, all of Willis' comics.
I still like them 'though.
Bad webcomics - from most bad to least bad (start dates in parentheses):
- New World (2003) (something about anime foxes, adolescent fantasy, not to be confused with the Naylor comic of the same name - http://www.tfsnewworld.com/category/comics/new-world/ )
- Jack (2001) (edge, bad art)
- Plugged Nickel (2003) (unremarkable slice-of-life)
- I Drew This (2004) (unusually stupid political comic I read because Simpson linked to it on Ozy and Millie)
- Suicide for Hire (2004) (edge)
- Las Lindas (2004) (le cow tits)
- Twokinds (2003) (read it because it was popular, nothing happens)
- Better Days (2003) (dumb writing, but the art wasn't too bad)
- Purple Pussy (2001) (dumb gross-out humour, edgy, some interesting Shmorky art from before he hopped on the tranny train)
- Ozy and Millie (1998) (mostly harmless newspaper-style comic, cute art style, shoehorned shaving fetish, every joke was "Zen.", holds a special place in my heart)
Those are the ones I can remember. There are probably plenty of earlier comics that I've forgotten about.
>>78125803
Hey hey, you're not alone. Although I stopped reading the comic regularly a bit before it's death, I forgot what I liked about it.
>>78129769
Anything Sonic based puts you on the low track.
>>78122472
Mall Monkeys?
>>78116674
Misfile is one giant Namek.
By the God Emperor! These feels! Jack, Kagerou, Misfile, TwoKinds, Konsekai Swordwaltzer, fukken 8-bit Theatre, that comic where everyone was something-bob. These feels are overtaking me. I cannot hold them.
>>78116653
>Sinfest
I know this feel.
>>78119324
Same here.
Who was that boy? That innocent, fresh faced boy? Where did he go? Who is this hideous almost thirty year old man I see looking back at me in the mirror?
SAD
GIRLS
IN
SNOW
Seriously Fred, just fucking end it already.
End it.
Free us.
>>78116674
>>78131222
Things actually happened on Namek, though.
>>78117114
I've been reading Real Life since I was 11 years old in 2001 and I will only stop when I die or the comic itself ends. I'm in it for the long haul, brother, quality be damned.
>>78119933
>Not ONE mention if Cyanide and Happiness
>>78116623
Sluggy Freelance (I actually spent money on the 7th book)
The Wotch (I didn't figure out it was fetish shit until a year or two after I stopped reading it)
Misfile
Ctrl + Alt + Del
El Goonish Shive
Dino Boy
Dinosaur Comics
Kevin & Kell (I didn't know it was furry shit until a few years after I stopped reading it)
VGCats
Exterminatus Now
Schlock Mercenary
There are a ton others whose names I straight up can't remember. At my peak of webcomic reading (2005/2006), I was reading around 30 webcomics regularly.
>>78117388
>i spent years of my life on SNAFUon the forums
>>78131709
Cyanide and Happiness is chugging along, and probably more popular than ever. Also wasn't terrible when it was old.
Makin a webcomic in the early 2000 was easy wasn't it? It could suck a 1000 dicks in both the art and writing department, but as long as you had a site and updates frequently it would be popular. Over the course of 10 years they're still the webcomics that make the most money despite tons of newer webcomics having miles higher quality.
>>78121519
He must have photoshop though
Look at those gradients
>>78129205
Holy shit yeah. What's she up to now?
>>78119010
>>78129608
I mean, it got vastly better.
But because it was so shit, it only got passable. And last I checked, his art hadn't really improved beyond that.
Megatokyo, I'd still read it if it had anything resembling regularity.
Ansem Retort. Mostly stupid, but Zexion is still funny.
>>78130847BLACKTASTIC
>>78126456
Ages ago.
>>78116623
I used to read one about a trans girl named zooey. I can't remember the name of it.
>>78134196
Venus Envy apparently.
Concession.
I wasn't a teenager though, I was about 10, so I thought it was really clever and all the gay furry stuff seemed cutting-edge to me.
something positive
CAD
el goonish shive
dominic deegan
questionable content
overcompensating
fucking megatokyo.
I used to post on the megatokyo forum. God, what a shitty forum... I really wish I had never discovered webcomics. They were probably the single biggest waste of time in my childhood. At least video games and actual comic books have a subculture to them that one can actually interact with and even profit off of, but none of my friends ever read the same webcomics as me. I don't even know anyone in real life who read anything other than Penny Arcade and VG cats. Should have just focused on drawing my own comics and writing DBZ fanfiction.
>>78116623
I only started to english in 2013-2014, so no hindsight
I don't remember the name, but there's still one comic I remember as being absolutely ridiculous. Some kind of clone assassin who got molested super hard, met up with an older model clone and a girl with octopus tentacles on her back, vomited when octopus girl tried to scissor her timbers, old clone jumped off a building, new clone dies on ONE LAST MISSION, and has to become a grim reaper because heaven doesn't let clones in.
Wonder how long it would take to read all of Schlock Mercanary? It's not a bad story, I just got out of the habit of reading it around the time the bald guy got a skul-gun.
>>78117198
i can't bear to look at it after he started apologizing for how offensive his old comics were
>>78122536
shit i loved his comics, and i loved the abridged series too
but once again pedo witch hunt ends everything
>ctrl-f my comic
>BOOP!
thank god. now I can leave
>>78136015
>image
Holy shit that's actually hilarious.
>>78140006
yeah, it had it's moments, but just a hair over the edgy angsty late teens early 20's mentality line.
I haven't read it in years, might do it again for nostalgia's sake.
Oddly enough, I didn't really read these types of webcomics as a child. The only ones I read religiously were the ones on Nintendo's Nsider forums.
Jigglypuff and his Merry Band of Idiots, anyone?
There was also that one fanfic series where Team Rocket manages to capture Pikachu and Ash and company need to rescue them and Ash and Misty are a couple and Professor Oak is a Jedi and Marik from Yugioh is the head of Team Aqua and why the fuck did I think this fanfic was perfect
>>78116623
Instead of working on my senior project, I printed out every page of Explotation Now within school hours. Only arc I hated was the lesbian drama.
>>78122276
>Altermeta
Which one? At one point it was about some dragon-ish things in high school, then the artist broke up with her BF or whatever and baleeted everything. Which was after it had already been rebooted before. Last I saw it got rebooted again into a fantasy thing, I think?
>>78129603
I've been following Sluggy since about 2004-2005. Shit was the usual crazy up until a few years ago, then it went batshit. I'm still checking in every few months just because I've already read this fucking far.
>>78129719
Artist got entangled with some crazy ho, possible charges filed, he's put the comic on hiatus till it's dealt with, but most of the archives are still accessible.
I used to read Misfile, but I got tired of the plot going nowhere ever and gave up, don't remember where. I read the entirety of Kevin and Kell, up until the point where it originally ended. That was years ago and I have no intentions of continuing now it's back. I read all of Mac Hall, which is really far worse of a webcomic than I remember, at least 3 Panel Soul is an improvement. I used to read Sabrina On-Line, don't really remember where I quit, or care. I've read TwoKinds up until something with a tower or dragon or someshit. I have read nearly 400 strips of Dela the Hooda, which I remember being bad even then.
I'm sure I've read even more terrible shit, but I can't be expected to remember every horrible thing I read.
Funny story. I read S.S.D.D. back in the day. I honestly don't know how the half-assed humor, plot, and full-retard level artwork didn't scare me off. But I read the whole thing that was available at the time. Last week I stumbled across something that reminded me of it, and googled it up. It's still running. The art is still full-retard bad.
>>78122037
Yes there's a reason.
The main reason is clout.
Don't act like talent is the only reason, because there's plenty of them wasting away in retail.
>>78131684
Things happening on Namek wasn't what made that arc bad.
It was that it was somewhere other than where we should have been.
