It’s been a busy week, so I haven’t had a lot of time to sit down and write. In lieu of a story, and since the last diary I did on webcomics seemed popular, I thought I’d share some more of my favorites with you. Follow me below the fold for part two of Webcomics Wednesday.
Skin Horse
Skin Horse, co-written by Jeffrey Wells and Shaenon Garrety, drawn by Shaenon, later strips colored by Pancha Diaz, is about Project “Skin Horse,” a federal department dedicated to assisting nonhuman sapient creatures. The team consists of an intelligent genetically engineered dog (Sweetheart), her roommate, a zombie (Unity), a psychologist with excellent fashion sense (Tip), and a host of others, and their zany adventures.
Questionable Content
Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques has been running since 2003, 5 days a week, and follows the life of a group of friends. Pictured in the strip above are Marten and Claire. There are also AIs, some better behaved than others. The strip deals with alcoholism, mental illness, has LGBT characters, and is really just a wonderful panoply of life.
Maximumble
Maximumble, by Chris Hallbeck runs usually 3 days a week. It’s pretty simple art, but topical, and while I don’t know Chris other than through their webcomics, they seem to be a good progressive; taking on gender stereotypes among other issues. This is one of those strips that I find myself frequently sending to my BFF with a “This is so us” comment.
GPF (General Protection Fault)
GPF is a very long-running comic by Jeffrey Darlington. It’s been going since 1998, six days a week for much of that run. The focus is on a software company, GPF, and the people who work there (most of whom are friends, a few of whom are enemies). There are alternate dimensions/mad science in this comic, and some parodies (the current strip storyline is a parody of Harry Potter, book 3).
Darths & Droids
Darths & Droids is an “RPG screencap comic”; the premise is that there are people roleplaying the various characters in the Star Wars movies, with a Game Master (GM) guiding them through the game. The “art” is taken from still frames of the Star Wars movies, staring with Phantom Menace. (The strip recently entered the Return of the Jedi movie, and the writers have not yet decided if they will continue with the Force Awakens and later movies.) It updates 3 days a week. If you enjoy this, you may also enjoy the comic that inspired it, “DM of the Rings” which is a similar concept, but using the Lord of the Rings movies instead of Star Wars.
And last, but certainly not least, we have a Birthday to celebrate today!
Happy Birthday to belinda ridgewood, and many more! As always, this is an open thread and nothing is off topic. What do you want to kibitz about tonight?