So does /co/ read any webcomics outside of the daily hate fucking of QC and DOA?
Also general webcomic thread. Aside from QC/DOA,anything goes.
>>83644361
Give me a webcomic that's not about a bunch of jackoffs fucking around in some boring area, and i'll recommend them to you.(El Goonish whatever is pretty good desu)
>>83644361
I read this, Whomp, and Gunnerkrieg out of actual interest.
I read PvP, Penny Arcade, Guilded Age and Ma3 out of self-hatred and momentum.
>>83644521
Why is guildedage on your momentum list? It's actually interesting, and has an ongoing story, as opposed to anything else you mentioned.
My weekly checkup list is:
Unsounded
Kill Six Billion Demons
Guildedage
Stand Still, Stay Silent
>>83644361
XKCD is my favorite
>>83644601
A large part of it was the tonal shift as soon as the "They're all trapped in an MMO!" reveal happened. It raised too many questions and it doesn't help that the real world 'intrigue' is pretty forced and most of the players of the non-Five characters aren't really likeable.
The mains aren't the characters I originally enjoyed, either. I liked them in their incarnations at the beginning of the series. Syr'nj as the can-do, somewhat sarcastic 'I can ALWAYS do science to it!' medic chick, Gravedust as the straight man, Bandit as the peppy thief, Frigg as the foul-mothed punch girl, Byron as the sarcastic nominal leader. Now Syr'nj is embroiled in a medieval court drama and lusting after Byron's undead dick, Byron is swallowed by angst over the 'berserker curse/plague' when he seemed totally fine with using it as part of his calling card beforehand, Gravedust is an emotional sponge, and Bandit's trying to be an edgy anti-authoritarian rogue. Frigg's the only one who hasn't changed, and she hasn't even shown up outside of a memory in two chapters.
The story would be stronger if they picked two and stuck with it. Medieval intrigue and adventurers vs. a cult lead by a guy on a quest for godhood? Sure. Adventurers at war with a sympathetic just like them and political intrigue? Fine. But you have a cult working to take over the world, an adventurer's guild at war, political intrigue with a sociopathic child taking over a country, the reveal that the 'fantasy' world is an MMO and some players are trapped inside, the 'plucky' adventures of the real-life guildies trying to rescue the Five while a hitman working for the video game company tries to find and kill them, and the owner of said company is trying to become a god in his own game.
And the idea that "Arkerra is a real universe, not just a game!" doesn't work when the guys running it are still coding for updates, players can just create new characters, and the Five actively shaped the history of the world.
>>83644361
I stopped following Something Positive. I don't know why, it just really stopped interesting me. It came off as whiny a lot.
>>83645593
As Randy gets older, he seems less interested in 'sociopaths do awful things to strawmen for laughs' and more interested in tales about growing up and strawmen either getting humiliated on their own or becoming good people.
>>83644361
I read Housepets! and Ellory the Shark, but the former is starting to lose me and the latter was never great (though I wish the guy luck, since it's a dream of his). Does Nedroid count?
>>83644647
I keep seeing this, and it's an edit, right? I can't XKCD, so I've never found it if it is real.
I currently follow Gunnerkrigg Court, Whomp!, Broodhollow, The Sisters, It Hurts!!, Tripping Over You, and Nedroid.
I used to follow >>83645593, Cyanide and Happiness, and SMBC. But the first two became a slog, and I just forgot to keep up with SMBC for no good reason.
I want to start reading Endtown.
Will Terrible Terrible Terrible/Habits ever return?
>>83645668
Basically any story arc involving his dad was really great.
>>83645713
Yeah. The XKCD guy wouldn't risk alienating his audience by mocking a shitty webcomic.
I like Scrub Diving.
Octopus Pie
Also, holy shit, I can't believe Something Positive still exists.
I read Order of the Stick Dr. Mcninja.
I used to read a lot more shit, but then I got a job.
I love A&H Club. Finally a web comic that has a LGBT character but being LGBT isn't all their character is. Also it's a furry comic so it ain't for everyone.
>>83645937
He gets $40k+ a year for it. Without even using a Patreon, just Paypal donations and merchandise.
He ain't quitting any time soon.
>>83644361
so I'm about to say it. Webcomics are shit.
>>83646516
Generally speaking, yes.
>>83646516
For the most part, yeah. Either the art's bad, the story's bad, or both. There's maybe 5% that are good.
>>83646030
Holy shit, I remember reading this 15 years ago. I had not idea it was still going on.
>>83646716
Apparently he meant to end it about eight years in, but he'd already quit his job because the comic paid more at that point.
>>83646716
i read it for like 8 years before finally getting sick of it. oddly enough at around the same time as MIsfile, and for the same reason. like, i get that most comics get all political from time to time and piss me off, but when they start acting like they're being normal, not being subversive or whatever, and they even start having kid characters agree with their psychotic overprotection of kids and other fucked up doctrine like that.. no thanks.
>>83646516
Self-published art with little to no editorial control tends to be shit? Gee, I never would have thought.
Sturgeon's Law applies here, too.
>>83644361
My webcomic rundown:
- MA3 & spin-offs because I can't stop
- SP because I still actively like it. (Wish Randy would do more Super Stupor...)
- QC simply because I've been with it so long... but I now skip wordy comics
- SMBC. Started strong, going strong.
- Johnny Wander, even though it's just whatever the fuck they feel like posting, it's still quality work.
- PVP for reasons I can't comprehend. I don't enjoy it, but I've been at it sooooo long.
- Penny Arcade (same as PVP)
- Whomp <- Straight Excellent
- Nonadventures misses sometimes, but normally is my kinda thing.
- Wasted Talent because Canadian + Engineer + Slice of Life = my happy place
- Oglaf - used to be just for easy porny jokes, continued for actual laugh results
- Gone With the Blast Wave (when it fucking updates) is consistently my kind of funny.
- JS Power Hour because Abby's short form shit is funny, her long form stuff is tedious.
- Multiplex because I'm invested and actually enjoy the story line.
>>83646975
I finally weaned myself off of the Ma3 spinoffs. It helps that most of them now have shitty art.
Apparently the reason Randy doesn't do more Super Stupor is that he does physical releases of it?
I've been getting into that one comic, West Tree academy of Heroes.
I don't know, why, but I feel like it's getting somewhere. Or at least better.
I follow a bunch of comics. More comedy ones than plot-related ones, if only because gag-a-days are easier to keep up with, especially considering hiatuses.
I'm talking to you, Helvetica. And Man of Many Shades. And Abominable Charles Christopher. And Lackadaisy (though it's been getting better). And Castle Vidcons. And Fanboys. And Nuzlocke. And a bunch of other webcomics who fell off of my RSS feed and I can't tell if it's still updating but just on a different website or if it fell completely off the wagon.
>>83645713
of course it's real
if it's a parody of that comic, or the loss comic, it's always real
>>83647078
Yeah, the shitty art does help me care less about it. Especially the one with the split personality witch and her group of friends
I haven't read S*P in years. is it a dadcomic now? or just a marital-blisscomic?tfw everyone I know is married with kids and I've never made it to a second date, shit, where did my life go
>>83644361
Only ones i check out regularly are Gunnerkrieg,
Scarygoround, Octopus Pie and It Hurts.
Some others i may check ocasionally.
>>83647466
Kinda. It's split between Davan, who's got a marriage and a dad thing going, Davan's dad, who's got Alzheimer's, PJ, who runs a bar, Jason and Amber, who've been relegated to marriage and raising a kid, Mike, who's married, raising a kid, and a 'superhero', and Kharisma, who's on the run from the government with an evil spirit that's posing as her imaginary friend and actually wants to kill her now.
![[teleports behind u].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mu6ePMG.jpg "[teleports behind u].jpg")
Derelict is pretty goodwhen it actually updates. The creator's other comic, Sword Interval, is pretty good too.
ava's demon
kill six billion demons
gunnerkrigg court
cucumber quest
soul to call
Devil's Candy
Unsounded
SSSS,
Nedroid
Cut Time
What are your guys thoughts on Cut Time? I don't think I've seen it mentioned here, but art is top tier and I've digging the characters.
>>83644361
What does me current bookmark list look like...
-freefall
-Darths & Droids
-Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
-AWKWARD ZOMBIE
-Harpy Gee
-Poppy O'Possom
-Paranatural
-Kill Six Billion Demons
-Camp Weedonwantcha
-Cassiopeia Quinn
-The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
-Whomp!
-Oglaf
-The Monster Under the Bed
-Chaos in the Tropics
-PREQUEL
-Dragon's Burn
-Nedroid
-ShapeShifter
-Skadi (this one just finished a couple weeks ago)
>>83644361
I've read this for SO LONG. Good shit.
On the daily it ends up being A Multiverse and Scary Go Round and I bounce around a bunch of other things less regularly. I keep reflexively checking Girls With Slingshots, and seeing the reboot art basically means I now see how absolutely terrible it is. It is Unfortunate.
>>83645668
Unlike a lot of the big webcomics, Randy actually had his cast grow up and get over their various baggage. Some have families, even Davan is now a Substitute Dad.
>>83645810
Davan's dad is pretty awesome, yeah.
>>83648540
>actually had his cast grow up and get over their various baggage
The day Mike decided life was too short to argue with Orson Scott Card at a convention was his turning point as a human being.
Him seeing younger people acting like he used to and being internally mortified is the payoff.
Modest Medusa
Erma
Buni
Rosianna Rabbit
Oglaf
It's the Tie
Rain
I loved warrior u.;_;
>>83644361
Kill Six Billion Demons
Poppy O'Possum
Whomp
Oglaf occasionally
Despite taking part in the DoA threads since last November I don't actually read the comic; the pace is so slow I can follow the plot entirely by what I read in the threads.
Pic has some good webcomics.
I prefer character based long story forms, exceptions noted, better ones first:
Gunnerkrigg Court, urban fantasy
Octopus Pie, slice of life
Skurry, survival without humans
Derelict, survival sci fi
The Property of Hate, unconventional hero
All John Allison's works: Scary Go Round, new Bobbins, Bad Machinery, Giant Days (original on web now in print)
Kill Six Billion Demons, world building
Christopher Baldwin's works in part, especially Space Trawler
Widdershins, pre-Victorian light magic
Girls with Slingshots, fun characters, undemanding plot
The Non-adventures of Wonderella, gag-a-week
Oglaf, NSFW gag-a-week
Ava's Demon, for the art but writing problematic, only for the hiatus-tolerant
Mary Cagle's works
Monster Pulse, wasn't interested at first
The Bouletcorp, journal comic short form, different topic each update
Dr McNinja, comedy
Whomp, depression, more gag-a-day than story, has fun lore
Mare Internum, sci-fi on Mars, variable art, I skipped all the boring initial text
Gaia online, magic fantasy, not for all tastes
Girl Genius, started well, lost me some years back, hoping it re-sparks my interest, off-putting art
Blindsprings
Jesus & Mo, criticism of religious dogma
Wondermark,
The End, scifi but plot's dragging
>>83645937
Randy was the first webcomic artist to make a living off of it. when his fans pissed him off about updates he went on a huge rant and told them hed quit his job if he got such and such amount, within a week fans quadrupled it. So I'm not too surprised, also ive been reading since megatokyo wasn't insane cringe level because of largo.
Just Whomp and Nedroid pretty much.
>>83651989
Megatokyo not being cringe because largo writing for it I mean to say, I worded that funny.
>>83651617
When does Vibe start up again?
S*p
Oglaf
Alice Grove(its not QC I'm not breaking any rules!)
I've been meaning to catch up on Dr.McNinja since I found out Hastings is going marvel full time.
Also on the catch up list are Atomic Robo, Paranatural, Supernormal Step, fucking Girl Genius if I'm ever bedridden it's so fucking huge.
Yeah, lots of catch up. Fuck that though I just got into Zatanna.
Is autism required to actually get into womp? It's funny, I enjoy reading it, but I can't read it all. There's just too much cringe. The guy makes a living by telling people how fucking shitty he is at life using his Mary Sue. Like I love self deprecating improve but fuck womp can literally make me cringe some times
It Hurts!!, Paranatural and Whomp are what I read regularly. I used to be super into Endtown but I just keep forgetting to catch up. It's really good though.
I'll check/read Blaster Nation in 2-5 month bursts. It just feels more satisfying to read it straight.
Stuff that updates on a regular basis I read/still read:
>Endtown(Aaron's Wild Ride)
>Freefall(Ok, kinda newspaper comic, shit art)
>Awkward Zombie(The current king of VG related comics)
>Faux Pas((Ok, kinda newspaper comic, decent art)
>Poppy O Possum(I'm in it for the reaction images)
>Whomp!(Hit and miss)
Stuff that updates irregularly/currently isn't updating I read/still read:
>Lackadaisy Cats(Best art, good humor)
>Prequel(Love humor and writing, but Kaz might be dead)
>Out of Placers(New thing, has potential)
>VG Cats(Usually decent when it updates)
>Gone with the Blastwave(Usually good the once or twice it updates per year, if that)
>Jack(Art can suck, but dark N edgy to the point of humor, Hopkins is laying low due to legal issues, so hiatus)
>Perry Bible Fellowship(I shouldn't need to tell ANYONE on 4chan what this is)
>>83652296
That's kind of the point. It's supposed to make you laugh, then cry, then die a little inside. He also did the Otaku Dad comic, which didn't even have the laugh part.
Some comics I read that I haven't seen mentioned here yet, though I read most of the ones mentioned.
Erfworld, Twokinds, Weregeek, 3 Panel Soul, Dresden Codak, Broodhollow/Chainsawsuit, Galaxion andSinfest,though the last one is due to pure inertia.And with todays update, the Devil is right. Just goes to show how far the author has fallen.
>>83646936
Well at least you admit it.
Unsounded
Girl Genius
Scary Go Round
Monster Pulse
Sam and Fuzzy
Paranatural
Kill Six Billion Demons
Stand Still Stay Silent
Sakana
Gunnerkrigg Court
A Better Place
>>83645668
I want to know when that motherfucker actually got married. I genuinely thought he was going to die alone, unmourned and unloved.
Been reading penny arcade and pvp for so long that I can't really imagine not reading them. I think it's been like 16 years. same with staub's stuff, although I genuinely think broodhollow is one of the best comics on the internet and one of the best things coming out in general. In some ways I'm glad it doesn't have more of an audience because hype would definitely ruin it.
lackadaisy cats because her art is so fucking good, oglaf because oglaf. whomp, vg cats, and fanboy comics are in my rss so I still read them. cyanide and happiness and two guys and guy I'm subbed to as well but I stopped reading them a long time ago.
want to get into unsounded but never made the time to read the archives. nice art though. same with gunnerkrig, although I've been procrastinating on reading that so long it's now considered a classic/staple read.
there have been shitloads of comics I've stopped reading over the years. Got into them in 2002 or so so I've had a while to pass things over. megatokyo, real life comics, something positive and friendly hostility come to mind. sparkling generation valkyrie yuki and her predecessor as well. newer stuff as well, it's hard to remember most of it.
my favorite defunct webcomic was called something like cloud nine. might have been another number, though. it was all drawn in pencil, somewhat amerimanga in visual style. A girl dies or something and has to travel through her own subconscious aided by a male angel to figure out why. It was beautiful.
>>83645241
are you that monk guy that was really pissed about this on the GA discussions?
>>83644361
Recommendations gallery WIP.
>>83651617
>>83656687
Add some of these, perhaps?
>>83656998
Also for gaming add Nerdrage and Gamercat, I guess.
http://www.nerdragecomic.com/
http://www.thegamercat.com/
Thunderpaw fits under post-apocolypitic.
http://thunderpaw.co/
>>83657043
>Thunderpaw
What's the update schedule and where's the archive?
I'm adding these three anyway, it'll take several minutes; never seen them mentioned before but they're not my genre.
achewood has been updating religiously for half a year and that's wonderful
>>83646936
i'll never understand this "editorial control is important to the creative process" meme
you're either a good creator who can produce quality work or you're not, that's all there is to it
>>83656687
wheres that one with the english teacher in japan
I've read some good stuff, like Rice Boy.
The problem with most of them is that they're interminable. The lack of publishing limitations means that, even in a narrative driven story, the author is unlikely to worry about when and how their ending comes about. Some of them even purposefully try to drag it out into a lifelong thing, just one comic as their livelihood. It's awful.
>>83644361
Out of honest interest and enjoyment, I read Gunnerkrigg, Achewood, Endtown, Nedroid, Wonderella, SSSS. I check once every couple of months to see if Order of the Stick has updated.
Out of momentum, update reliability and intense self hatred I keep reading QC andHousepets
>>83658178
See
>>83658582
Nobody is a perfect creator, and limitations cause tighter work to be produced.
>>83658221
Mary Cagle's Let's Speak English.
I guess I'll add her avatar to Comedy because she has three comics: Let's Speak English a slice of life of teaching English in Japan, that she's finishing; Kiwi Blitz; and Sleepless Domain. /co/ doesn't discuss the latter two much, if at all.
>>83657816
Irregular and updates in spurts.
Closest thing it has to an archive here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/thunderpaw
Narrative:
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Kill Six Billion Demons
Unsounded
Shiver Bureau
Gunnerkrigg Court
Gags:
Two Guys and Guy
Whomp!
Bug Martini
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Rosianna Rabbit
Nedroid
Alfie and Harpy Gee.
Was reading Skadi for the past couple years, might start from the beginning now that it's ended.
Used to read Oh Joy Sex Toy just for general sex ed stuff, but I wasn't getting much out of it and I dropped the comic after reading some skeevy stuff about Moen.
I have Six Billion Demons and Lightbringer bookmarked so I'll get around to those eventually.
Most of what I keep up on has already been mentioned, but I haven't seen any mentions of BACK or Last Halloween yet.
>>83646936
>>83658178
It's less editorial control, and more the fact that the bar for entry into webcomics is non existent compared to other media. Any idiot with an internet connection and an image editing program can make one.
Also, proof reading and an outside voice is an excellent thing to have when you're making ANYTHING; it only becomes a problem when the editor gets the final say instead of being a general adviser.
As far as my webcomics, I have a huge tab of which a small fraction I actually care about. Most of the rest I keep around out of habit, and in the naive hope that it'll eventually get back to something enjoyable; it usually takes an outstandingly stupidly written moment for me to actual drop something I'm reading for free. The ones I still care about are Awkward Zombie, Gunnerkrigg Court, Erfworld, and Oglaf.
>>83657816
>adding these three
>>83658632
added under Slice of Life - no room under Comedy
pic related is freshly updated JPG compressed from original PNG, which fails to upload to wikia maybe due to size.
>>83659051
Looks good, but can't read the title of the one under Stand Still Stay Silent.
Also Digger is finished.
>>83659127
You mean copper? It's readable on my 1430 pixel wide window,. I've got the original open now so I'll see how to improve legibility. And update Digger.
>>83659127
>>83659228
improved copper and set Digger to finished (yellow and green status bar)
>>83659459
ignore that one, I error-pasted. This one's fixed.
>>83659616
Looks good.
Here's what update schedules I could figure out. Assume unfinished and online unless said otherwise.
Gamercat: Once a week on Mondays on time
Nerdrage: Once a week on Fridays on time
Nedroid: Updates whenever
Cucumber Quest: Updates at least weekly, but doesn't have a set-in stone schedule.
Rice Boy: Complete
Lackadaisy: Updates whenever.
Blindspring: Updates Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Currently on a scheduled break (If I recall correctly, author takes a week break in the middle of a chapter and then another one when she finishes.)
Sfeer Theory: Inconsistent updates, but ongoing.
Fox Sister: Abandoned by the writer. Artist moved on to Sfeer Theory.
Boxer Hockey: Author went pro so doesn't have the time to invest in it but still hopes to finish it one day. Indefinite hiatus, basically.
>>83659709
Also you'd like another space to finish fantasy off, I'd recommend Devil's Candy. Has updated twice a week for the past year and half and hasn't missed its schedule once. Fantastic character designs, professional level art, and surprisingly clever foreshadowing.
Though, I'd like other people to weigh in first.
>>83645241
>"They're all trapped in an MMO!"
Oh, so now I can finally stop vaguely feeling like I should maybe read this sometime.
>>83659051
Heh, It Hurts being post apocalyptic is a bit of a spoiler for those who haven't read it and are starting from page 1
>>83660038
It's probably the best version of Trapped in an MMO that has been done. The people who are "trapped" don't know they are trapped. There are other players who interact with them and aren't trapped, and comment on how good their roleplaying is. But even when the players aren't playing, their characters interact with the world anyway. The MMO world itself is very well put together, with some breaking of standard RPG tropes, and interesting racial tensions. The outside the MMO stuff is done in Black and White, and there is some interesting stuff, but >>83645241 is some what correct in that the story might have just been better as a straight up fantasy story that evolved over time, no MMO/Outside MMO stuff at all, just high fantasy. It's still a good read that I check when it updates.
>>83660038
They're actually not. It's some bizarre, still kind of unexplained alternate universe. You connect their by using their weird goo tubes, but the avatars of the main players are still somehow their own entities, as are the side ones played by people with regular UIs. The "Game" is explicitly said to continue when people aren't online, and part of the draws in universe is how "realistic" it acts even with player interaction. People begin noticing shit is off when their character just gets deleted from their perspective (killed by some other world monster).
It's still a completely dumb twist that they've yet to justify in any way, despite it happening years ago and at this point probably closer to the start of the story than now. The story would be must stronger and at the very worst exactly the same if it was excised from it entirely. The only way it's interacted with the main story in a way that couldn't just be easily refluffed as some crazy cultist is the Big Bad opens a portal to a Tron-esque universe.
>>83656998
Scurry is proving to be interesting, but too early to recommend - some readers expect at least 100 pages archived.
I've posted beefore that there's more worthwhile webcomics out there to fit in a restricted size image gallery.
The Property of Hate could be added, but some get confused by the art and the unusual setting.
In any casethe layer files and WIP comic lists are at http://4chan-co.wikia.com/wiki/Webcomics for anyone to edit and update.
>>83659836
>>83660534
See above if you want to edit the gallery.
>>83662855
>some readers expect at least 100 pages archived.
>Working with experienced comic artist to produce my own webcomics.
>Plan to keep each comic under 340 pages total.
Euuuugh.
>>83663624
Sounds like you already have an plan and ending in mind, which already puts you above most of the stuff out there. As long as you update consistently, you'll get a following and if it's good it'll get recced.
>>83663624
In my long procrastinations over making a webcomic, I've often wondered if pumping out too many pages at once might cause problems. The heyday of Homestuck did have several updates a day and consistently got a huge readership, but those were usually single panels. And it's a bit crazy to compare to how Homestuck did things.
But I've wondered in more narrative stories if dumping too much on the reader at once causes problems and discourage them from jumping in. I suppose it's not quite like videos or shows, where "too much" is days of footage, whereas "too much" comic pages is about a nights reading. It only really gets bad at the thousands of pages mark.
>>83664055
Yes, it does.
If you're a comedy it's a positive, but if it's a drama (broad sense of the word here) you're both alienating new readers and creating the WORST kind of fanbase. Look at Cucumber Quest and Paranatural for examples.
If you've got a short comic on your hands, daily updates are fine. If it's long (like, it'll take you more than a year long) then please don't go beyond 3 pages a week. Both for you/your artist's sanity and for your readers.
>>83652296
>Ronnie fails at everything
>Barely functional human being
>Mary Sue
>>83654792
He got married some time last year, I wanna say. His current chick was always supposed to be the Final Girl, but he wanted to hold off on introducing her because he didn't want fans to hate her for coming in too soon after Davan's last break-up.
>>83655118
Nah. I was fine with the MMO reveal for the most part. It's just how the plot has turned into this sprawling mess with about ten or eleven plot lines running at once, with so little time spent on some of them that they end up just being forced through that bugs me.
>>83644361
I read Evan Dahm's stuff (since the start really, my brother got me into it), Unsounded, Girls With Slingshots (back when that was running), DAR, Nedroid, Suihira (which is like an Al-Qadim meets Avatar: The Last Airbender comic), Prequel, Order of the Stick (got in to it at the start, too late to leave now), Oglaf, and Vibe.
Or maybe those are the ones that stick with me, or that I check out weekly provided they update. I've read through a lot and some I'll remember to catch up on a few months later, but those ones there stuck with me.
>>83645731
>the Sisters
Always makes me happy when someone says they read my stuff. Hope you enjoyed the first arc. We've got maybe another week or two of the new one being slow, but things pick up a lot quicker this time around. And Erin isn't the spotlight character, save for the loose ends she's gotta tie up this intro issue.
>>83664055
I'm the anon that wrote some expect 100 pages minimum. Maybe I should have written 50.
As a reader I personally don't care but I've seen several reviewers state they'll wait until theres's that much before working on a review. Webcomic Relief is one example. The reasoning is (a) there's enough material to properly introduce the world and characters and significant plot development, and (b) demonstrates staying power of both writer and artist.
Exceptions are works by established authors, example: John Allison's initial Giant Days were online and about 24 pages each self-contained issue.
I still think reliablity is important, variable updates with unannounced hiatuses must make some readers lose confidence about the comic's future. I know some won't start reading a comic (web or not) unless they know it's already fnished, this may be more from my Euro perspective more familiar with print comics in circa 100 page annual hardbacks.
Finally, what I look for (drama long form) is a proper archive index, and ideally some chapter or volume structure, maybe around 40 to 80 pages per "chunk". Quite different for slice of life and comedy gag comics.
