Top Five Webcomics

Tired of Reading the Stale Funnies in the Newspaper? Try These Online Alternatives

Eric Yu
With the coming of the web came many great things. Instant news, communication opportunities, increased market output, and even that one special thing that we all know the Internet is famous for. But even the simplest things on the Internet deserve recognition, and one in that mass myriad is web comics.

1) PVPOnline
This web comic focuses on a fictional gaming magazine and their zany daily office antics. With humorous references from pop culture, nerd culture, to even the gaming community, this strip hones in on what they dub as "sitcom humor". Easily the most entertaining 30 seconds of my daily paradigm. It deserves to be called genius for their addition of the "office troll" and "lurking office panda".

Read it at (http://pvponline.com/)

2) Questionable Content
Mainstream music lovers, beware! An inspirational web comic that revolves daily around the different social cliques of our time and the underground indie bands of today's musical scene, this piece blends the hip nerd culture with something a little off the top. Love and relationships play a heavy role in the them of this comic.

Read it at (http://questionablecontent.net/)

3) 8-Bit Theater
It had to happen sooner or later. A Final Fantasy themed comic, 8-Bit Theater's plot draws heavily from the original Final Fantasy game for the Famicom, in which the four Light Warriors must seek out the four orbs to stop an impending evil from destroying the world. Satirical humor at it's best here, this strip is nothing at all like it's stoic predecessor. With an entertaining crew of the numb-headed swords obsessed Fighter, the sneaky, calculating, yet legally talented Thief, the statistically dexterous and sexually repressed Red Mage, with the sardonic, cruel, evil, malevolent, malicious, and however much adjectives in the world can describe the blight that is Black Mage, this web comic aims to please the nerd in all of us.

Read it at (http://nuklearpower.com/)

4) Least I Could Do
A modern web comic that deals heavily on sexual themes, especially those that accompany the exaggerated life of sexually promiscuous main character, Rayne Summers. Due to its sudden surge of success, Least I Could Do also now hosts an online podcast, an alternative yet equally hilarious dose of the antics of Rayne.

Read it at (http://leasticoulddo.com/)

5) Applegeeks
This web comic should appeal to every one of you out there who owns a Mac. Or Ipod. Or actually anything Apple-related. This web comic draws readers in with it's geeky nerd culture references, yet allures them to stay because of the intensely comic yet beautifully fluid artwork. After reading this web comic, even I had to admit, I wanted a Mac. And now I do. And Macs rule.

Read it at (http://applegeeks.com/)

Published by Eric Yu

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  • Nathaniel Wayne7/29/2010

    Did love 8-Bit theater... now that it's ended I really need to catch up on it.

  • Allen Wiggs2/25/2009

    I love Questionable Content, such a great series.

  • Wes Laurie5/13/2007

    comics...check out my interview with Neil Swaab and check out his comic Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles...HILARIOUS stuff...thanks for sharing

  • Joniv5/13/2007

    This is a whole new world to me- thanks!

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