 About Apathy | Archive | Links | Forum | Apathy Sketchpad Other Webcomics | Bad Webcomics | Webcomic Resources | Similar Humour Good Webcomics: Men In Hats, by Aaron Farber, is without a doubt the best webcomic on the net. It’s funny, clever, classy, antialiased, and run-length encoded all at once. It has missed a lot of updates lately, but I expect it will reappear one day (despite the content of the comic it chose to halt on). Fried is run by acoule of friends of mine, Ben Paddon and a new chap who goes by the unlikely name of Worm Mad— his real name being (the frankly equally unlikely) Euan Mumford. Well, I say “friends”; I’ve only actually met the guys once, but in today’s modern world, even that much contact is no longer required. The artwork is far better than mine, too. Grr... Rooms is another comic run by people I’ve never met but still kinda know. It’s better than most, so by all means look at it. I’m told by Ben and Euan that the above two comics are set in the same little universe. They then asked if Apathy was in there too. I said I hadn’t really thought about it and they said that in that case it was. What this does to my No Talking Inanimate Objects Policy is unclear. Boot Camp is another comic run by a friend of mine, but this friend is called Paul.Power. Well, I say “called”; obviusly that isn’t his real name. It’s a comic about Worms in training to be soldiers in the great war that worms are apparently locked in. A bit of a niche audience, I suppose, but funny if you know the games. Sometimes I get the feeling it is mandatory to link to Penny Arcade on all webcomic links pages. I suppose it’s pretty good. Sometimes. I think I’ll link it on the bad comics page, too. The Noob is a comic set in an RPG that isn’t total crap. (The comic, that is, not the RPG. The RPG is complete and total crap.) In fact, it’s highly amusing, even if you’re not really an RPG fan (though some game knowledge would help). As far as I know, Gaming Alive is unique in webcomics in that its characters are computer games. I like it. You might. Equally, you might not, but if your tastes differ too wildly from mine this page is unlikely to be useful to you anyway. Ben introduced me to Oh My Gods!. It should be no great surprise then that it is a very funny pagan comic. Or rather, that would be no surprise had I told you a little more about Ben. Meet The Dweebles’ author kindly provided the first Guest Strip Sunday comic, in an attempt to make me link to his comic. It worked. The comic is, in my brother’s words, “a vastly inferior version of Men In Hats”, but hey, it’s better than no version at all. Despite the name, Sprited Apathy (not Spirited Apathy, oh, no) is not simply a low-res version of this comic. It started on the Team17 forum, starring worms, but now is a fully fledged webcomic starring a sarcastic male human in a charcoal-grey T-shirt, and a dumb blonde in small cut-jean shorts. Its author insists this is a coincidence. Anti-wang is updated every day! And little wonder, since it’s a cut-and-paste strite jobbie. But it’s excellent in its simplicity. I looked at Ozy And Millie for the first time today, and I didn’t get it. But then I looked at the first strip and read from there and it was very good. So there you go. Do that. I don’t even know what to do with Station v3. Read it, I suppose. Link to it, at a pinch. Fever Dream lies somewhere between a colour Sunday Dilbert strip and a regular, black and white weekday Far Side panel. In short, bizarre and excellent in equal and generous measures. This comic is a bit more serious and better drawn than Apathy, except for the early strips which are less serious and worse drawn. Whatever.      |
  
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