Darthmiho on Webcomics

I'd like to start out this post with something of a plug for a friend of mine's comic. Enjuhneer is a comic that pretty much focuses in on jokes about life at a techie college. While many of the jokes come back to the artist/writer's being a student at RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), much of the humor is not lost on any student of a technical university. The comic is new and the artist updates it as often as she can being a full-time student but I recomend to anyone that reads this to head over to http://www.rpi.edu/~blancj/enjuhneer/about.html and read up on the comic. She's a newbie to this game, so be gentle folks.

Next up is another entry to the world of webcomics by the utterly prolific artist of the now ended comic Boy Meets Boy. Friendly Hostility. A comic that focuses in on a few characters that were introduced in her first comic. Primarily Fox and Colin, but also the rest of fox's family, who were not mentioned in the old comic. But an unnamed character that eerily resembles Fox's uncle Raffi was seen in the previous comic. The new comic is a great deal more out there than the old, and while it does some with relationships, this theme has a much smaller focus than than it did in Boy Meets Boy. The relationship plots are usually relegated to being subplots. Which usually just makes them all the more intense when they do come up. The comic is utterly hilarious and if you've never read her work before, this is a great place to start. The comic can be found at http://friendlyhostility.com/.

While the term "Diary Comic" is thrown around a lot to describe a lot of semi-autobiographical comics that have long since either become much bigger than that or have become a whole new genre that can't really be defined with any of the usual genre handles. Planet Karen on the other hand is a true to life diary comic. The author makes a point of explaining this early on in the comic's archive. These are the real experiences of the artist. And while there are other real diary comics out there. To at least this writer, there is something different about this comic. Give it a read sometime, perhaps you'll find it as enjoyable as I have. The comic can be found at http://planetkaren.girl-wonder.org/

Now I encounter my fair share of odd, enjoyable, but rarely updated comics around comic genesis. Then every once and a while I come across a real gem, something original, regularly updated, and with art that's not too shabby. One such comic is this, Weregeek. The comic is about a guy that does not consider himself a geek, yet is brought into the world of Larping, tabletop gaming, and general hardcore geekery on a full moon and a group of geeks. The comic chronicles his experiences. To many in his life he's not a geek by any stretch, his girlfriend for one has no idea of this. And part of the comic's charm is his attempts to find a way for him to get people to accept his new interests and friends. The comic will make any geek remember their first steps into the greater world of geekdom. The comic can be found at http://weregeek.comicgenesis.com/