Monday, January 19, 2009

The Top 5 Internet Comics

This past summer I attended a creative writing workshop, where the instructor mentioned that writers tend to enjoy categorizing things into lists. Although this was early in the workshop and I proceeded on to learn numerous other things about creative writing, this point stuck with me and made me realize how much I enjoy writing lists, even though I'm a very disorganized person who gets stressed at the thought of composing things into order. Anyways, I recently partnered this interest in list-making with my love of web comics to create a top 5 list of Web Comics! Complete with links, a selection of my favorite comic, et cetera.

The Top 5 Internet Comics!

5. pictures for sad children
As a web comic that actually tells its reader a story they have to follow, I was already interested. When I found out that it was about a ghost...or, a guy who's a ghost who wears a sheet over himself to appear more ghost-like after he dies and has to remain on Earth, how could I NOT find this enticing?!
pictures for sad children

4. a softer world (older)
Consisting of broken up photography and the cute-in-a-twisted-way typewriter font saying quirky things, who couldn't enjoy the quirks of A Softer World?! Sadly, over time the humor has gone down in quality, but hey, what can you do? The older ones still beat the new ones enough to overrule their suckiness.
a softer world

3. older marriedtothesea
If a softer world got bad over time, then marriedtothesea is a tragedy. Originally a hilarious twist on old-time illustrations, they were about the dark, the humorous, and sometimes the mundane doings of society. Then, somewhere they decided that it would be good to go and screw it all up with doing supposed "quirky" designs that appear to be in the '50's-time/era/style, and everything got ruined. MTDS went from being one of the comics I checked every day to being disregarded from my life entirely. However, as you'll see from one of my favorites, the humor is just too priceless to disregard it from the top 5 webcomics.
Married To The Sea
marriedtothesea.com

2. xkcd
Yes, practically everyone knows of them. Yes, they are only stick figures; yes, they are really simple. Yet, they are also absolutely hilarious. Also, their warning at the bottom of the page reads:

Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).

That last part cracked me up...

xkcd

1. Dinosaur Comics (also known as Qwantz)
ANYONE who has the guts to say that they dislike Dinosaur Comics shouldn't be allowed to have a sense of humor! This comic is one of the only comics out there that remains as funny the first day it was sent out onto the internet as it is today. Part of the cleverness in it is the one reason it could be up for debate creatively: the comic is the same six blocks of scenes: T-Rex, the main dinosaur, talking in the first block, a closeup on his face, him on the verge of stepping on someone's house while talking to another dinosaur in the next scene, and so on...nonetheless, it's great. It's worth the couple of seconds it takes to type in the url and check it every week, so do ittt

mr. tusks!! that's not how evolution works!

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