COMEDY
Camp Weedonwantcha
Camp Weedonwantcha was the first on the list to read on my mission to expand my webcomic
horizons, and it excelled with flying colors in making me appreciate the medium again.
There likely isn't a single page in the archive that didn't leave me with a smile on my face,
and also a few that moved the blackened husk that is my shriveled heart.
Katie J. Rice is probably most well known for her work on the venerable Skadi,
as well as being a contestant on Penny Arcade's Strip Search, during which
she laid the groundwork for this truly irresistibly amusing comic.
Updates Tuesdays and Fridays. Read now, if you haven't already!
ACTION / SUPERHERO / SHONEN
Phantomland
It looks like a manga, and reads like one too, but it would disingenuous to disregard it as such.
Phantomland follows the life and adventures of Chie, a amnesiac girl who is somewhat forcibly
recruited into the city's crime-fighting organization, where she will get a chance to prove her
capability - or lack thereof. It doesn't pull any punches when it comes to action sequences,
and it's fairly funny as well.
Updates once a week.
Chaos In The Tropics
Chaos In The Tropics is an absolute beast of a webcomic.
It's got superpowers, it's got walking talking sharks, it's got chaos, and it's got tropics.
The art alone is enough to sell me, let alone its premise.
The problem, sadly, lies in the format in which the author chooses to tell his story.
Rather than aim for weekly or every-other-day updates, as most online comics typically do,
he attempts to finish entire "beats" at a time, each one taking months to produce.
This inevitably leads to forgetting that it existed in the first place, yet craving more
once one reaches the end of the installment. He insists that it's for the best, but I digress.
StarHammer
StarHammer is named for the weapon inherited by high-school girl Evey one fateful day,
and which used to belong to an infamous superheroine. This comic literally just started,
so it's too early exactly how events will turn out, but it looks promising enough to me for now.
Updates three times a week.
The Inheritors
Tragedy strikes the city of St. James not just because of a nuclear explosion, but from the plague that followed.
Survivors are discovered to have enhanced abilities, only to be horribly disfigured over time.
In order to stave off further infection, a vaccine was distributed to contain the monsters
to the irradiated wasteland and subdue the burgeoning powers of the town's youth.
The Inheritors is named after the mythical band of heroes granted gifts by the disaster but
who never succumbed to the so-called "Id Fever," and follows a group of high school students
who may be similar cases themselves.
MAHOU SHOUJO
Sleepless Domain
Sleepless Domain is a remarkably well-drawn comic that postulates what might happen to a cliche'
troupe of magical girls once they're past their peak and shed themselves of their overbearing leadership.
Unfortunately, the artist behind the first arc retired from the comic a month ago,
leaving illustration duties to the writer, and it hasn't updated since.
Metacarpolis
I vaguely remember attempting to read through this once before, but got bored and gave up before
it got a chance to get interesting. Admittedly, I regret that, but I'm glad for giving it another shot.
Though I hate to use the term, Metacarpolis is more of a "deconstruction" than loving tribute to the genre,
but it handles that part of the backstory well and provides plenty of laughs and antics along the way.
Also features sentient robot assistants, a supervillain megacorporation, suspiciously-shadowy bureaucrats,
Japanese-style maids, and a kooky archaeologist.
In fact, it would be easier to think of what the comic is missing instead.
Updates whenever the author isn't taking an extended hiatus.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S EVEN MORE!
WEBCOMIC REVIEW #7
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