On Webcomics: Recommendations

Here are some webcomics I enjoy, that you will probably also enjoy if you've been following my blog for any length of time.

Ongoing comics (alphabetically):

• Freefall: A long-running space opera of AI rights, starring Sam the Sqid [sic], his naive robot buddy, and Florence the engineer, who is also a wolf. Very funny, but also makes you go "hmm" occasionally.
• Girl Genius: Phil and Kaja Foglio bring you gaslamp romance in a post-Enlightenment Europe ruled by mad scientists. I love this one in spite of the fact that its plot moves extremely slowly (I think it's written for print publication). The art and the dialogue are more than worth it; you won't feel bad if you lose track of the plot and have to reread from the beginning.
• Leif & Thorn: Thorn, a heroic Ceannic knight with PTSD from killing a dragon, has been assigned to guard the Sonheic embassy in Ceannis. Leif, the embassy gardener, thinks Thorn is cute but speaks zero Ceannic. This is probably the cutest comic I've read in a long time (and, if I'm honest, also the queerest). It's by ErinPtah, who also writes But I'm a Cat Person (Lesbians! Battle monsters! Impending apocalypse!), which I find less compelling but just as cute and still definitely recommend.
• Questionable Content: A slice-of-life about millennials who like obscure music, and their robot companions.
• XKCD: This is the webcomic that introduced me to webcomics, and if you haven't heard of it before, then you're one of today's lucky ten thousand. It's gag-a-day with stick-figure art, but it's best known for reasonable social commentary and awesome science trivia.

Finished comics (also alphabetically):

• A Miracle of Science: Humans have colonized the solar system, and mad science is a communicable disease. This one is also cute and thoughtful. I hope you see the theme here.
• Alice Grove: A sweet short story by the author of Questionable Content, set many centuries post-apocalypse, about two siblings from space who get lost on Earth and the witch who ends up taking care of them.
• Digger: Ursula Vernon's Hugo-Award-winning story about a wombat who gets lost in her tunnels and ends up in a very strange place.
• Dregs: A slapstick comedy by one of my personal creative heroes, Alex Steacy, about a couple of sanitation workers and their repeated encounters with a sewer-dweller. Be careful with this one if you hate poop jokes.
• Homestuck: I'm not really comfortable calling this a webcomic; while it is presented mostly in webcomic format, it's really more of an epic multimedia novel. Let me tell you about Homestuck.
• Narbonic: This is the first comic the Geek recommended to me. It was only the second time we met, but he already had an uncanny grasp of what I like in a story. Narbonic is about mad scientist Helen Narbon Beta and her henchpeople, who include the I.T. guy and a sapient gerbil. It has a sequel, Skin Horse, which is ongoing but has uneven pacing.
• Ozy and Millie: If you like Calvin and Hobbes, but wish it represented the 2000s better, and/or that Susie were a more sympathetic character, and/or that Hobbes wasn't the only talking animal, and/or that it had more dragons, this is exactly the comic for you.

Happy reading!