I’m laid up with a severely broken ankle and leg, and will be laid up for God knows how long. I wanna read webcomics, but I feel like I’m running out of good ones on Webtoon. Anyone have any recommendations or sites to look at?
Personally a big fan of hiveworks for finding new comics. If you like story focused ones, I like Widdershins, Sakana, Daughter of the Lilies, and Wilde Life. I read way too many webcomics, so let me know if you need more!
Oh shit thanks for so many recommendations!
Seriously though Gone with the Blastwave is something I always come back to once in awhile
Can I sell you on web novels instead? Worm and The Wandering Inn are a decent starting point.
Worm is great! Somehow, I started with the first few chapters of someone else’s fan-fic set in the worm-verse, and later found Worm. I was so incredibly confused for a while on what was real (by the original author) and what was the fiction.
Astral Aves sort of stopped updating a while back, but what there is of it is absolutely amazing.
To go a different style, 8bit theater and adventurers are a blast if you like the RPG parody style
Adding to this: Order of the Stick. Starts as RPG parody, becomes a serious adventure with comedic tones. Currently on the final arc.
What are your preferences? Currently I’m reading this
https://bato.to/series/133684/the-killing-vote
https://bato.to/series/103401/a-bona-fide-killer
https://bato.to/series/118271/granny-official
https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/my-reason-to-die/list?title_no=3993
Penny Arcade has been around forever so they have a deep backlog of gaming/nerd culture related comics.
Kind of peaked in the mid 2000s though.
East Coast Its isn’t any kind of serialized or contiguous, but it is free and great. On the opposite end of the spectrum, here’s a free unofficial translation of One Punch Man, which is highly serialized and contiguous.
Xkcd, Saturday morning breakfast cereal, something positive, questionable content, and Junior scientist power hour are my favorites.
Schlock Mercenary (complete)
Goblins
Freakangels
Grrl power
Order of the stickOh God, Order of the Stick got real deep. Starting at the beginning will be great for at least a day.
If you need a comic that won’t run out, you can try EGS. A comic about teens running into a wide variety of supernatural stuff.
https://www.egscomics.com/
It’s been running since 2002 and still going. And while the early arc are pretty rough in both art style and writing quality, it gets progressively better as the author matures.Another comic I love is Sleepless Domain, a dark magical girl story about a locked down city that comes under monster attack every night.
https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/I found both of these through https://hiveworkscomics.com/ which is another, though smaller comic repository like Webtoons.
I Roved Out. Extremely NSFW, it would be categorized as porn. It is an incredible story, and is so despite the porn. The sex is so interwoven with the story, I can’t imagine a SFW version could ever be constructed, which is shame because it’s such good art, and such a great story. I can’t praise it enough. If graphic sex doesn’t bother you, I highly recommend it.
Blastwave. Short, so if you binge it it’ll be over quickly.
There have been other great recommendations I won’t repeat, but these two have exceptional art.
Edit someone else beat me to recommending Blastwave. It’s good.
I’m partial to weird fantasy, dunno what your tastes are. YMMV. Some of these are old!
Gunnerkrigg Court - long-running, fantastic worldbuilding, intricate plot. steampunky urban fantasy.
Wilde Life - small-town mystery, light spooky vibes but mostly feel-good. Relationship focused.
Girls with Slingshots - complete! comedy about a friend group. LGBT+ themes, sex positive. A bit raunchy, if that’s not your bag.
Skin Deep - urban fantasy. Neat worldbuilding, long running.
Broodhollow - another small-town mystery, but more legit creepy. Plot of the murder-hauntings-cults variety.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things - comedy. premise is a temp agency for brawny fictional characters & villains trying to get normal dayjobs. Takes the piss out of common tropes.
Awkward Zombie - comedy. No plot, just comics about video games & other things the artist is into.
Johnny Wander - 4 comics in a trenchcoat, but they’re all pretty cute. Started as an autobio comic with the occasional original fiction story mixed in, but they’ve all been separated out for easier reading now.
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal - complete! romance about two dudes on a cross-country roadtrip. Touches on some heavy topics, but has some humor too.
A lot of these are hosted by sites that host other comics, so you can follow that rabbit hole pretty far. Also some artists will link to other comics they like in the about/notes pages, good way to find other stuff.
Kill 6 Billion Demons is an absolute classic. Good enought to have made it into print trade paperbacks, but still free online. The visual style and wild world building are truly a joy to behold. You also get a bit of the sparky web comic flavor while still holding together an excellent long term story arc with serious plot.
https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/kill-six-billion-demons-chapter-1/
