Saturday, March 28, 2009

'Sporatics' A-C

On top of those that I check daily, I also've a list of webcomics I check in on from time to time. I'll be awhile in listing them all, but they should be nicely organized by the time I'm done.

Dailies

Firstly, I'm just going to list them, and then return to provide commentary upon each. Please note: due to the massive number of webcomics that I read, it may be some time before I manage to turn the titles into links. I do intend to do so. I'm just being pretty lazy about this. Also, these do give away a small portion of the plot/story. I apologize. I'll keep it as minimalistic as possible. Lastly, this is a side project. I'll try to update this as often as possible, but there's no guarantees. There's currently only one person reading this at all, so oh well. While I do check these comics daily, not all of them update daily. So if you go to check one, and you find that it hasn't updated? That's why.

- Ctrl Alt Del is your classic gamer comic. It and Penny Arcade are perhaps the two best known. Ctrl Alt Del centers around the life of your average gamer. If your average gamer has an xbox for a friend. Ctrl Alt Del holds the honor of being the first webcomic I actively read. It has a regular story line (now), but the occasional various detours provide for good amusement, and the antics are as good as ever, and thus it's earned a spot on my daily list.

- Dominic Deegan is an amazing webcomic. The webcomics on this list are all awesome, but I think this may have my favorite fantasy story line. It starts out as simple oracle jokes, but then slowly begins growing into a true story with continuity. I am no artist, but I am a fan of the way DD is drawn. It's a very simple (in most panels) comic, with clean lines (accept my apologies if I've used entirely wrong terminology: I understand little about drawing).

- GitPG is two webcomics on one page! Sextacular! When is the legendary OotS, which is well worth reading. The art isn't fancy (though that's by design), but it's a wonderful comic for it's amusing story, and the fact that it, like most D&D Comics, doesn't have a end in the foresee-able future. The second comic is Erfworld. Erfworld is a striking contrast to OotS. The art is rather intricate, and the story line is shorter, but so far is decidedly more complex. Both of these comics have me wondering what's coming next, and waiting anxiously for the next page.

- LICD is dirty. Beyond dirty. It's awful. That's what makes it so damn good. Like pre-marital sex instead of Sunday dinner, this comic will have you giggling deviously and begging for more. They've pulled almost every dirty joke in the book, and still manage to have an on-going plot that isn't just an over glorified string of penis jokes. Okay, maybe it is, but that's what makes it great.

While the art work on LG is a bit simplistic, the humor has a tendency to make up for it. Updated on a daily basis, it's a neat comic to monitor. I like it particularly because some of the gags are on Swedish/European news, and it's always fun to see what other parts of the World think and are mocking.

From the guys who made Least I Could Do comes a medieval story that exists as equal parts satire and fantasy. A good read, with a very like-able cast (especially Richard, as I've seen), and a touch of drama thrown  in for good measure.

A long-running Final Fantasy Mockery, this comic is nearly eight years old, and still is pretty good at delivering a laugh, even after all these times. While the art isn't high quality, it's intentionally so, as a mimicry of the old Final Fantasy games.

The vaguely-related sequel to Queen of Wands, it's a decent read if you like drama comics. I personally preferred QoW, but I keep up out on Punch an' Pie because it never ceases to provide me with entertainment. It can, like many romances, be a bit predictable and tedious, but it's a good read, overall.

A webcomic about a gaming magazine,  though the actual magazine's production is, well, not really relevant. It mainly follows the story of Brent, though it occasionally will derail and track one of the other members of the cast. Another one with an on-going storyline (as opposed to daily gags), it's well worth checking. [incomplete]

I'm going to diverge for a moment, and say that I hate scene kiddies. [incomplete]


Thursday, March 5, 2009

Beginning of The No Moo Review

I don't know why most people start blog's. I've several. This one being my first public-oriented one. I'm going to post upon here things as I encounter them. So far, I've two topics which I'll be covering. The first would be Thai food, as I've a tendancy to eat out for thai with my girlfriend, and second thing is webcomics. I read them. Lots. I'm 20, a computer tech, and living in the Northwest of Washington. I'll do my very best to be logical and scientific about this, but for the time being I believe the restaurant section will be on hiatus due to my recovering from a rather nasty cold. Instead of using this as a traditional blog, and adding a post everytime I go to a new restaurant, I'm going to make one post consisting of my/our opinions of the thai restaurants we go to. There'll be another post detailing webcomics (actually, several, but I'll get to that later), and so on and so forth with each topic that arises.