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The Order of the Stick

9.5

In my opinion, this is the gold standard of webcomics. The D&D-based comic started as a mediocre humour strip with some rather questionable gags. Although it still revolves around a party of adventurers, it has gradually evolved into a legendary epic featuring an intricate plot and complex character development. The community generally recommends starting around strip 200 for this reason - but even that is still closer to the earlier, less advanced days of the comic.

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Gunnerkrigg Court

9

Antimony Carver finds herself in an unusual boarding school divided between science and magic, where she encounters robots, mysterious secrets, and powerful mythological beasts. As the comic has been around for almost two decades, the artstyle and narrative form has developed over the course of the comic - but unlike OotS, I'd say the earlier pages are still worth a look.

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A Redtail's Dream

9

By Finnish artist Minna Sundberg, the short comic (only 554 pages) explores her home country's native mythology. Told using beautiful hand-drawn artwork, the story is about Finnic deity Puppy-Fox trying to fix his accidental move of a human village into the dream world. To fix it, he must enlist the lazy and selfish Hannu and his excitable dog Ville.

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Snarlbear

9.5

Now complete, this is a comic with some really nice art. The author, Natalie Riess, swirls together a menagerie of tones to form the lurid "Rainbow Dimension". Grocery store employee Daisy is transported into this dimension, where she is transformed into a the monster hunter under the name "Snarlbear". But as she becomes more familiar with its inhabitants, she becomes subject to forces beyond her control.

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Camp Weedontwantcha

5

Malachi is dropped off to camp - permanently, since his parents don't want him anymore. He and his campmates, also abandoned, are forced to survive off of mysteriously airlifted rations. On a rather lengthy hiatus since 2016. The authors say they'll eventually return to it, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

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Everblue

7

Although the plot is a bit on the bland and generic side, the comic is overall, in my view, really good. It's in this section not because of its art, writing, plot, or any other content. Instead, the author updates extremely infrequently due to mental illness. I fully support the author in his struggle, and it's OK for him to do that, but I cannot in good faith recommend a webcomic that only gets new pages a few times a year. Society needs to take better care of people like him.

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Homestuck

6.5

You've probably heard of this one. I'm not a Homestuck fan. Homestuck contains some of the most interesting ideas in webcomics, both in format and narrative, but Andrew Hussie cannot implement them successfully. Instead, he spends most of his time trolling his fans, fanning his trolls, killing off characters, introducing characters, not advancing the plot, anticlimactically ending plot beats, and generally not telling a compelling story. I mean, I could give a synopsis, since the idea is actually pretty neat, but... oh, looks like Mr. Hussie's bank account has run low, so he's starting Homestuck 2.

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Mare Internum

6

Depicts child sexual abuse and suicide.The exploration of Mars has just begun. One explorer finds himself in the Martian underground, where he has to confront his inner demons (including, yes, the content noted above), and botched suicide attempt. Der-shing Helmer largely manages to deal with these serious issues effectively, but sometimes she goes too far, and ultimately the story feels hamstrung by its short length (the comic is completed) and ineffective pacing.

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The Meek

7

Contains a crapload of non-sexual nudity. Created by Der-shing Helmer, the author of Mare Internum, this comic is divided into three separate narratives. Although it focuses on lightly-clad teenager Angora's generic quest #617 to save the world, only one of the chapters is dedicated to her. (Oh, by the way, the lack of clothes is... iffy. The idea was apparently from when Helmer was a teenager herself, but it still feels gross.) The others follow different protagonists, which I won't summarise here due to a lack of space. This has the advantage of creating a richly detailed fantasy world, but also leaves me impatient a lot of the time.

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Monster Pulse

7.5

Bina Blum finds herself without a heart. This isn't a metaphor though (well, it kinda is), but it has literally split from her and turned into a Pokémon monster companion, due to the nefarious machinations of a mad scientist. She's not the only one who has been affected by this either - she soon encounters other victims, and the story takes off from there. Unfortunately, for me at least, a certain plot happening kinda ruins the immersion and takes away a lot of what makes the story special. It's still a good comic, but not as good as it was.

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Stand Still, Stay Silent

5

Minna Sundberg's next work after A Redtail's Dream features more dense worldbuilding, improved artistic skill, and heightened stakes. Taking place in post apocalyptic Scandinavia and Finland, it follows a roving gang of adventurers as they venture out into the unexplored swathes of former Denmark. Unfortunately it suffers from thin characterisation and inconsistent tone - and just being plain boring at times. The artwork is nice to look at, though.

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Chick Tracts

1 (higher as comedy)

Jack Chick believed in God, and he drew a veritable crapload of little pictures so he could let you know. Despite his searing hatred for any varietal of Christianity outside his specific brand of evangelism, paganism, rock music, punk culture, Islam, the new age movement, the Roman Catholic Church, abortion, and the Roman Catholic Church, his tracks purportedly "get read". You can read them too, but maybe more for their unintentional entertainment value than anything else. Or just check out No Context Chick Tracts.

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Xkcd

3 (earlier ones are higher)

Xkcd used to be a halfway interesting webcomic. It was never amazing per se, or close to it, but it was worth a read every once in a while. It contained reflections on "romance, sarcasm, math, and language". These days, there's definitely no romance, little math, and plentiful abuse of the English language. The sarcasm does not even deign mention. Author Randall Munroe's book What If is actually surprisingly good, though.

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