These are all of the comics that I read religiously. They're all really exellent and you should really check them out.
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Avalon
by Josh Phillips
“This is the story of the students of Avalon High School. It is an exploration of emotion, relationships, and the experiences of youth. It's also supposed to be funny, dammit. :-)”
Favorite Strips:
March 1, 2000 (I just think this one’s really funny.)
March 9, 2001 (You can’t really understand what’s going on in this one unless you start from the beginning of the comic, or from the beginning of that chapter. I just think it’s cute.)
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Bitrate
by Aaron Sanders
“I based this comic on my experiences working for a certain software entertainment store. I know there are other comics out there similar to mine, but it seems as though the location I worked at was built a little closer to the elevator to Hell, therefore yielding me a higher percentage of purely dumb customers than the average store.”
Favorite Strips:
Green is Good (I love this one. Gary’s such a cute little hamster.)
Company Spirit (I love the idea of the ceiling panels that are rigged to drop when you push a button. Genius.)
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College Roomies from Hell!!
by Maritza Campos
“CRFH is a strip where everybody is crazy as a fruitcake. Despite looking normal, they are not. And the world they live in is even worse. Anything could happen here, and it does. It's unpredictable, except (of course) for Murphy's Law. So if you're looking for a daily comic strip with insane, stupid, impossible adventures, silly dialogue, and nonexistent backgrounds, well, you've found it! It's not as bad as it sounds, I'd like to think.”
Favorite Strips:
June 17, 2001 (I think Maritza says it best. If you don’t understand why I like this one, it’s because: “CRFH is a serialized strip. The storylines are independent, but they are almost always linked together in a continuous way. What does that mean? If you read a strip in the middle of the storyline, you may not get it.”)
November 21, 2000 (Okay, the guy with the brown hair is in love with the chick with the brown hair. The chick with the brown hair is not in love with the guy with the brown hair. Got it?)
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Mac Hall
by Ian McConville and Matt Boyd
“This is the story of the residents of MacDonald Hall, an archtypical college dorm and the namesake of the comic. It's here that they work, sleep, and play, but mostly sleep and play.”
Favorite Strips:
Piro Puff
The Waking Part 2 (My two favorites pretty much go together. I love Matt [“Why didn’t you tell me to turn my head!?”] and Helen’s reaction to the whole thing.)
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Penny Arcade
by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins
PA doesn’t have an “about” section where I can copy a description of the comic and paste it here, so I’ll have to write my own. Penny Arcade is a gaming comic about John Gabriel (Gabe) and Tycho Brahe (…Tycho) and their silly, silly antics. Silly.
Favorite Strips:
A Very Special Penny Arcade (Obviously this is one of my favorites, but it doesn’t really count, so I have two more.)
It's a Problem (Damn that’s silly.)
Urisine Adventures (This is probably the best “Xbox-Controllers-Are-Really-Way-Too-Big” strip I’ve ever seen.)
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Real Life
by Greg Dean
Jesus, Real Life doesn’t have one either. Well, Real life is all about Greg Dean and his friends. All of them are actual people in real life. There was some controversy over whether or not the comic was in fact based on “real life,” but that was straightened out.
Favorite Strips:
August 27, 2001 (The sad thing about this strip is that things like this actually happen to Myst players. Trust me.)
January 25, 2002 (Ha ha. Greg’s trying to eat Dave’s brains. Ha ha.)
February 8, 2002 (Classic. I couldn’t decide which one of the three to get rid of, so I just had to pick three.)
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Residence Life
by Dana Kelly
“So after a couple days of sketching, sketching and more sketching I came up with a couple of plucky little characters which I later named Dave and Skeet. The name "Residence Life" is just another name for ‘dorm’” I Realize that tells you nothing about the comic, but I really don’t want to write another one of these summaries.
Favorite Strips:
July 4, 2001 (Every student tries to pull this off. Sadly, sometimes it works.)
March 7, 2002 (Ha ha ha. He scared the Bible man away.)
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Spooner
by Ted Dawson
“Spooner is Ted Dawson's critically-acclaimed syndicated comic strip about Spooner and Roxanne, newlyweds learning the ropes of marriage. Classic art combined with contemporary humor has made Spooner an immediate hit with millions of readers around the world and has them asking how Ted managed to get a hidden camera into their home.”
Favorite Strips:
February 10, 2002 (Ha ha, whoo. That’s great.)
August 5, 2001 (We all feel the urge to pull up our hands when they fall off our beds. So just imagine if this happened to you. Scary, I know.)
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Stubble
by Josh Mirman
Stubble is really one of my favorite comics. It’s not a “new-story-a-day” funny type comic, it’s a serialized strip (like CRFH) where there’s a new storyline every few weeks, but they’re all linked together. Stubble is about Clint Wilson and his friend’s struggle through high school (and now college!)
Favorite Strips:
May 18, 2001 (Again with the not being able to understand why it’s my favorite-ness.)
Oh mom. You so crazy. (This one’s just classic.)
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The Forge
by Greg Dean
The Forge is another comic that Greg Dean of Real Life does on Wednesdays for SwordsOnline.com. It’s a simple little comic that I read, and there have only been 50 or so made, so I don’t really have any favorites, but I recommend you read it.
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Homestar Runner
by The Brothers Chaps
Homestar Runner isn't really a comic. It's more of a cartoon website. They have a bunch of animated cartoons that are hilarious. They also have games and a bunch of other neat stuff!
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