A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
Astral Aves
Moon Cabal
A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.
Scape
Lauren
Sula has always preferred to forge her own path, but before she knows it, she is pulled into the middle of a civil war between man and monster!
Within
Verena Loisel
A young hitman meanders between a reality that seems to happen without him, and his dreams where he is lost in an endless house. When he makes an accidental friend, his world is shaken up and he realizes there are things he can't remember about himself.
The Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
Missing Monday
Elle Skinner
Two girls fall in love through a magic door connecting their worlds. When Monday suddenly goes missing, it's up to Foyle to find her. How she's going to navigate an entirely unfamiliar world is another matter.
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Beeserker
TJ Cordes
This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
Gzhel Guardian
Atla Hrafney, nushanchel
The Railway World is a complex, mysterious network of trains, towns and mechanical monsters. Leo is a Guardian of one of these towns, and although their burn-out and depression has taken hold of them, they have one last job to finish.
The Last Diplomat
Cat Farris
Samma and Tark didn't ask to be stuck together, but now they're partners on the adventure of a lifetime.
Kochab
Sarah Webb
A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
Quick$ilver
Crypto
The flirtatious, directionless, and ever disastrous Luci searches for excitement in a life of crime, and finds himself caught in a web of messy romance and bad blood.
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
This is Not Fiction
Nicole Mannino
What do you do when the person you're in-love with is an anonymous romance novelist? Get your best friend to hire your worst enemy for help!
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
The End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
Barbarous
Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota
A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
Guilded Age
T Campbell, John Waltrip, Florence Machina
Welcome to the saga of the working-class adventurer! Enjoy the complete story with new annotations daily!
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Monsterkind
Taylor C
Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG.
At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
Widdershins
Kate Ashwin
A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
Love Not Found
Gina Biggs
Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
Alice and the Nightmare
Misha Krivanek
Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
Ride or Die
Mars Heyward
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ webcomic about two street racers who team up with a demon-possessed muscle car in the search for a missing woman, while being hunted by a deadly religious cult.
Star Impact
Jack McGee
A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!
The Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
Aquapunk
Lo
In an underwater world of unknown coordinates, inhabited by aliens, ghosts, and robots, a young member of a warrior underclass is framed for a crime and goes on the run. Little does he know he is part of a grand design that only gods and ancestors could choreograph.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
i fully expect penk to encounter one of the peacemakers and be like “look, stab/hack/slash/bash/etc.. me all you want, but i would much rather speak with you as a person…”
“and an angle of the Lord came unto me, snatching me up from my slumber. and took me on higher and higher still until we moved betwixt the air itself. and he brought me to a vast farmland of our own midwest, and as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil. one thousand, nay a million voices, full of fear.
They are clearly OP and deserve a nerf. I don’t pay 15$ a month just to be beaten by the fotm class, that always happens to be not the class I’m playing. Clearly all Hurricane devs are playing druid.
Not unless you saw the Live version done on NBC sometime in 2013. Heck, you might even be be less than a year old, if that’s the first place you picked it up from!
This arc feels like it’s heading towards a character death, and that has reminded me of something that had fallen by the wayside a long time back:
We never found out what happened to Bandit. How she survived being trifurcated by Byron. WHAT/WHO SHE IS.
It’s possible she’s a player character. The other new recruits almost certainly appear to be. So if one of them buys it, and there’s something like respawning in this game, how exactly are they going to explain it this time?
Although if Fr’nj goes…she’s Syr’nj’s sister. I’m guessing players of this came can’t create a character that is literally SIBLING OF THIS WORLD’S HERO. Which would suggest that she’s an NPC. So many questions…I really hope we start getting some answers at some point…
IIRC we got confirmation a while back that Bandit is just a normal player. Assuming Kingdoms of Arkerra is like most MMOs, when your character dies, you just come back at a respawn point, or your ghost shows up in a graveyard and you have to run back to your body, or something. So she just respawned like normal. With that in mind the only weirdness of the whole Byron thing is the teamkilling – even then, it’s entirely possible that ‘arena’ areas are truly global PvP and you can kill anybody in them.
If I’m right on that, only the tube folks were at all weirded out by Bandit’s respawn, because they’re not aware that Arkerra is a game and because (probably) respawn is not a thing for them.
Best hasn’t come back. Brunhilde didn’t come back. Rachel’s sisters didn’t come back. Except as a spirit, Ashok and the other cultists haven’t come back. With the exception of Bandit and four out of the Five (and Harky, if you count his super-regeneration), NOBODY in this world has straight up come back from the dead, that we’ve seen. Is every single person we’ve seen die, aside from Bandit and the Five, an NPC?
Best was shlorped into another dimension – he may have died, but if he did, he died outside Arkherra, so he wouldn’t respawn there.
Everybody else might be NPCs, or they might be PCs who went permadeath due to the Five’s influence, PCs who were playing permadeath just because they wanted to (they were playing permadeath to begin with, they thought they should because they had a plot-related death, etc), respawned but never rejoined the plot, or, more likely, some combination of the above.
Oh, and, of course, Best is also one of the Five, so if they’re flagged for permadeath because of their nature, he’d be caught in it just like the ones who are still in the current plot.
It’s also been stated that the rest of the Peacekeepers are regular PCs, but being near the Five influences them to be more ‘real’…their players just don’t notice when they’re AFK that something was weird when they were playing.
So we haven’t been led to believe that the adventurers are anticipating this attack (because I don’t think a head of houses member would be there if they were), but we’ve got a sizable, powerful group present and Fr’nj almost treats the enemy’s approach as an expected occurrence. Is she just being unusually calm?
Well I think it’s plain to see what’s happening here.
They’re here to mow grass and chew bubblegum.
And the Savage Races have never known the sweet, jaw-aching pleasure of gum.
…Hm. Now I feel the need to see Auraugu getting his mouth stuck trying to chew through an unholy wad of gum.
Auraugu’s foil would be peanut butter.
To quote Duke Nukem: “Your ass is grass and I’ve got the weed-whacker!”
Gastonia really doesn’t have a prairie anymore.
Hmm… Perhaps it won’t be Scipio that Penk kills, but his elven sweetheart?
I don’t know. Seems too obvious.
who says penk has to kill anyone?
i fully expect penk to encounter one of the peacemakers and be like “look, stab/hack/slash/bash/etc.. me all you want, but i would much rather speak with you as a person…”
The pre-mortem dialogue that Scipio was having a few pages ago says someone has to die. All Goblaurence said was how.
Not sure if I support the savages’ grassroots movement.
The Gastonians should just tell them to sod off.
No, this is a good way to weed out the weak among them.
These seedy puns are treading into seriously corny turf.
I suppose you’re right. How about we just nip this right in the bud?
I agree, I don’t think you all have grass-ped the seriousness of the situation.
Thats a triple entendre people, pay attention!
i can dig it
I can’t root for it, I only caught the double.
I believe your misunderstanding most likely stems from your rush.
This string of puns is certainly spreading out like a load of fertilizer.
I’ve heard the screams of the vegetables,
watching their skins being peeled;
grated and steamed with no mercy –
how do you think that feels?
Like salad?
Salads are only for murderers.
Carrot juice constitutes murder…
Greenhouses: prisons for slaves.
“and an angle of the Lord came unto me, snatching me up from my slumber. and took me on higher and higher still until we moved betwixt the air itself. and he brought me to a vast farmland of our own midwest, and as we descended cries of impending doom rose from the soil. one thousand, nay a million voices, full of fear.
and terror possessed me then.”
Nice to see I wasn’t the only one that thought of that :-D
“…an angle of the Lord…?”
Do you think the Lord had an ulterior motive for showing you this vision? Perhaps He had a different “angle” of approach in mind?
Well that’s just handy.
Don’t you mean, heely?
So it begins.
I wonder if Ardaic will fight. He looks a touch ‘bureaucratic’ in that panel.
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Huh. Druid as early warning (device) class. Like Gangler said, that’s handy!
They are clearly OP and deserve a nerf. I don’t pay 15$ a month just to be beaten by the fotm class, that always happens to be not the class I’m playing. Clearly all Hurricane devs are playing druid.
“Honorted”?
Hyes!
Both your avatars are incredibly fitting.
Ahahahahahah kill me
The fields are aliiiiiiive, with the sound of marching… (Yeah, I just dated myself.)
Yes, but are you taking yourself home to mom and pop. That’s the real question.
Not unless you saw the Live version done on NBC sometime in 2013. Heck, you might even be be less than a year old, if that’s the first place you picked it up from!
To somewhere between 10 and 100 years old, give or take. That line’s been part of the collective pop cultural consciousness for some time now.
Bah! Can’t trust the grass you walk on not to grass you out to the authorities
Damn, there go the Savage Races ruining Squinting Day for everybody.
My significance sense is tingling…
This looks like a job for Aquaman.
This arc feels like it’s heading towards a character death, and that has reminded me of something that had fallen by the wayside a long time back:
We never found out what happened to Bandit. How she survived being trifurcated by Byron. WHAT/WHO SHE IS.
It’s possible she’s a player character. The other new recruits almost certainly appear to be. So if one of them buys it, and there’s something like respawning in this game, how exactly are they going to explain it this time?
Although if Fr’nj goes…she’s Syr’nj’s sister. I’m guessing players of this came can’t create a character that is literally SIBLING OF THIS WORLD’S HERO. Which would suggest that she’s an NPC. So many questions…I really hope we start getting some answers at some point…
IIRC we got confirmation a while back that Bandit is just a normal player. Assuming Kingdoms of Arkerra is like most MMOs, when your character dies, you just come back at a respawn point, or your ghost shows up in a graveyard and you have to run back to your body, or something. So she just respawned like normal. With that in mind the only weirdness of the whole Byron thing is the teamkilling – even then, it’s entirely possible that ‘arena’ areas are truly global PvP and you can kill anybody in them.
If I’m right on that, only the tube folks were at all weirded out by Bandit’s respawn, because they’re not aware that Arkerra is a game and because (probably) respawn is not a thing for them.
So bandit is just like, the ultimate hard core RPer?
Best hasn’t come back. Brunhilde didn’t come back. Rachel’s sisters didn’t come back. Except as a spirit, Ashok and the other cultists haven’t come back. With the exception of Bandit and four out of the Five (and Harky, if you count his super-regeneration), NOBODY in this world has straight up come back from the dead, that we’ve seen. Is every single person we’ve seen die, aside from Bandit and the Five, an NPC?
Best was shlorped into another dimension – he may have died, but if he did, he died outside Arkherra, so he wouldn’t respawn there.
Everybody else might be NPCs, or they might be PCs who went permadeath due to the Five’s influence, PCs who were playing permadeath just because they wanted to (they were playing permadeath to begin with, they thought they should because they had a plot-related death, etc), respawned but never rejoined the plot, or, more likely, some combination of the above.
Oh, and, of course, Best is also one of the Five, so if they’re flagged for permadeath because of their nature, he’d be caught in it just like the ones who are still in the current plot.
Maybe it’s a permadeath server, and only the tubed people get to reincarnate.
Which, if that’s the case, again returns us to the question of how Bandit came back.
It’s also been stated that the rest of the Peacekeepers are regular PCs, but being near the Five influences them to be more ‘real’…their players just don’t notice when they’re AFK that something was weird when they were playing.
Beware the grassy gnoll!
…your warning is just a little too late to help JFK…
And that is why Dogs and Cats always walk on the pads of their paws.
So there is such a word as “grinching” ?
i hope you arent planning to kill her D:
So we haven’t been led to believe that the adventurers are anticipating this attack (because I don’t think a head of houses member would be there if they were), but we’ve got a sizable, powerful group present and Fr’nj almost treats the enemy’s approach as an expected occurrence. Is she just being unusually calm?
She has the best spot check ever.