19 Ventôse CCXIII (March 9, 2005)
Your Grandpa Takes The Funnies Pretty Seriously
As a "I really need to write an actual entry" entry, I present the list of webcomics I visit on a regular basis.
- Sluggy Freelance: Ok, so I'll admit that 7+ years of archives isn't exactly the most welcoming (especially when current storylines reference previous storylines), but it is an important web comic. (Ever wonder who to blame when a comic does a stick-figure vacation week by 'Shirt Guy ?om'? That would Sluggy.) (Updates daily)
- Errant Story: By Poe, better known for the now defunct Exploitation Now (Warning: some art on that last link may not be SFW). It's not as funny as the first half of EN (aka 'the part that didn't have a plot') was, but the ongoing story is more interesting than the second-half of EN. (Updates MWF)
- Something Positive: The author recently got some press after he dared his readers to pay his salary for a year so he could quit his job and concentrate on the comic. (This was brought about by people complaining that the comic was always late.) It's wordy at times, but I like it. (Updates often. Not quite daily, but close to it.)
- Mac Hall: Great art, horrible update schedule. Nothing more I can say. (Updates WF…most of the time.)
- 8-bit Theatre: Ok, let's get the preliminaries out of the way: Yes, it's a sprite comic. Yes, the characters are one-dimensional. Yes, the jokes are often repeated in slightly modified form. That said, it's probably still the only sprite-based comic that's even worth considering reading. (Updates TThSat)
- VGCats: The current comic isn't a good example but, for the most part, it's video-game 'parody' comics. Not always for those who are easily offended, but I personally find it more consistently funny than the next comic in this list. (Updates M)
- Penny Arcade: Natch. (Updates MWF, but you already knew that.)
- Nodwick & Full Frontal Nerdity: An acquired taste, perhaps, and even then they're not always that funny. However, it does kill a bit of time when I really don't want to do work. (Updates W, usually, but sometimes Th)
That's it. Although I'm not sure that this counts as any more of an entry than posting someone else's writing does.
I tried to comment last night, but apparently my desktop's IP has been blocked for spamming. Yay dynamic IPs!
I'm impressed with a list of comics of which I haven't even heard of the majority of them. Most of them seem kind of wordy though, which is kind of a turn off for me. Especially when it comes to reading the archives. To each his own, though.
I stopped reading Mac Hall forever ago, after I got fed up with their inconsistent updates. Maybe I'll start again now that I'm experiencing the joys of RSS :)
PS. When did you get the leftblank.org domain? I've been using heimdall.slacknet.nu forever.
Posted by peterjm at 20 Ventôse CCXIII 13:34 (2005/03/10)
I noticed you had tried to comment last night (I was watching my server logs at the time, oddly enough), and I noticed there were a pair of comments blocked for the IP being in the open proxy blacklist list, but I didn't put two and two together. I'm thinking it might be wise for me to remove the DSBL plugin.
Anyways, on to webcomics! Mac Hall really shouldn't be on a list of comics I visit on a regular basis, as I only visit it when I remember. (The twice a week thing is a new update schedule introduced a couple of weeks ago, but it's already been missed several times. He's getting as bad as Piro was, back when I actually read Megatokyo. (ie: back when it was still funny. Or, at least, back when I still found it funny--so pre-Piro taking over fulltime writing duties.)) The only two I'd really recommend anyone read would be Sluggy and VGCats, but I understand when people say they don't want to go through the archives for the former.
As for when I got the domain: according to my credit card statement it was around 1:30 last night (this morning?). I'm not planning on retiring heimdall.shacknet.nu anytime soon, as everything else links to it (search engines, people I'm hosting pictures for, etc), but most links I'll be making will be using leftblank.org from now on. I'm quite happy with it, in that it didn't cost me much (less than 10USD), and the TTL on the DNS is only an hour (which isn't that impressive compared to DynDNS's TTL of 60 seconds, but still...) My only complaint so far is that I got woken up this morning by a customer service rep calling to make sure I was happy with it, and did I want to buy any extra services?
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