Comments on: Thursday Already?

By: ali

ali — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:43:54 +0000

My first webcomic was Men In Hats. I remember being amazed that there was a comic out there with such acerbic, off-color humor. Sadly, it ended several years ago. Later I ran into Questionable Content — it’s the characters that hooked me. Once I felt like I really knew Dora and Faye and Marten, I couldn’t stop reading.

By: Elizabeth CS

Elizabeth CS — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:33:35 +0000

In late 2000, my college friend told us all about a webcomic she would be posting soon, Eat the Roses. And she gave us all the pleasure of being minor characters. She was on Keenspace, and from there I discovered many more.

By: Etaan

Etaan — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:24:25 +0000

About 5 years ago, I can remember spending days going through the archives of Goats. From there I went to buzzcomix.net, discovered a list of comics that I liked and since then have watched it evolve as I found better material.

Also, I’ve wondered how different people manage their stable of webcomics. I’ve found that having a fixed number (26 that I check daily, 15-20 that I swing by about once a week) has not only helped to keep me from spending all day reading comics, but also forced me to take a hard look at what I’m reading every once in a while and decide whether I still enjoy it or if I’m just visiting out of habit.

By: J. Baird

J. Baird — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:09:47 +0000

I don’t remember the very first webcomic I read, but I know Sluggy, MegaTokyo, and Polymer City Chronicles were among the first I read when I started reading around 2001. Of the three, I’ve only stopped following PCC.

Others that came later included Bad Boys of Computer Science, Strange Candy, Tsunami Channel, CRFH, and 8-Bit Theater. I still follow them (except BBoCS, which died).

By: Andrew-TLA

Andrew-TLA — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:13:13 +0000

Sluggy Freelance was first, and I got caught up as the first vampire story wrapped up. A friend introduced me to that one. I found many, many more on my own, and by the time I started working my way through the GPF archives I realized I could do this sort of thing.

By: T Campbell

T Campbell — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:15:06 +0000

Suck.com’s Filler, then Sluggy Freelance.

By: Michael Kinyon

Michael Kinyon — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:05:14 +0000

I started back in 1998 with the one that seems to go way under the radar when people talk about the early history of webcomics: Pokey the Penguin. Then I went on a hiatus for a few years. (Well, why not? If webcomic creators can do it, so can readers.) Sometime in 2005, I accidentally surfed (remember when people “surfed” the “World Wide Web”?) to RPG World. Besides regularly updating, it was then part of the now defunct Bag of Chips quasi-collective. From there I found Goats, and then the already mentioned snowball effect kicked in.

By: Big John

Big John — Thu, 31 May 2007 22:50:46 +0000

Echo on the Penny Arcade. I’ve kept a Comics folder in my links/bookmark toolbar folder since around 1999 and the only one I can really remember being there for the entire run is Penny Arcade.

I used to be into Megatokyo but got really sick of the horrible update ’schedule’ and just gave up on it.

I also remember Little Gamers coming around, that was sometime after Penny Arcade. A quick look at their archives and I seem to remember some strips from around mid-2001. I believe Real Life was another from that time.

The rest of my list of daily “must-read” comics have all been there for under two years, and I’ve rotated through several webcomics since I started. The list above are the ‘rocks’.

By: Plaid Phantom

Plaid Phantom — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:16:51 +0000

I started when I got linked to 8-Bit Theater from somewhere. That eventually led to I think Crtl-Alt-Del and it kinda snowballed from there.

By: tyler

tyler — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:49:01 +0000

Someone told me to check out “User Friendly” in late 1999 or early 2000. At some point after that, they had a cross-over with “Waiting for Bob”, which was a member of Fleen (original) and thereby introduced me to all those.

I still look at User Friendly every once and a while, and Waiting for Bob hasn’t updated with an actual strip since… uh, Feb. 28, 2001.