Comments on: Online webcomics - graphic novel or manga style

Question: Online webcomics - graphic novel or manga style

arcticwoman — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:05:59 -0800

Can webcomics fans point me to some good online manga or graphic novel type comics? Bonus points if the story is complete and I don't have to wait for an update every week (side question - why is it so hard to find webcomics that are completed?). Sex, violence, serious, silly, whatever, as long as the story is engaging and the artwork is well done.

Some I have found so far that I like (although all are unfinished): Last Blood, No Rest for the Wicked, Rice Boy, Flipside.

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:03:57 -0800

I subscribe to the RSS feed for Full Story, which indexes completed webcomics. There are hundreds—maybe thousands?—of finished stories, searchable by category.

By: Alterscape

Alterscape — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:14:31 -0800

Wish3 and Inverloch both finished their runs recently and are not bad -- both are in the domain of fantasy, but they have reasonably interesting stories, I believe.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:21:13 -0800

Concerned and A Miracle of Science are both finished. And I liked them both a lot.

By: wsg

wsg — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:34:21 -0800

The Killer is excellent. Previously...

By: Soup

Soup — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:50:05 -0800

Death Note.

By: TheophileEscargot

TheophileEscargot — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 01:03:27 -0800

Unicorn Jelly has a complete storyline, some manga influences to the style. Quite amusing and touching, though it clobbers you over the head with Gender Stuff sometimes.

Kid Radd is a sprite comic without any detectable manga influences, but again it does have a complete storyline.

By: SansPoint

SansPoint — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 04:35:02 -0800

Templar, Arizona, while not having a Manga style, is very graphic novel, heavy on the story, and just plain brilliant. It's not done, but the first two chapters are, and there's two intermissions to hold you over as well.

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:14:30 -0800

side question - why is it so hard to find webcomics that are completed?

Grandiose blue skying with no practical planning to back it up. Or fear of driving to a definitive conclusion, despite creating a strip that was meant to have one. Megatokyo is the classic example of the latter, as nothing has actually happened in the strip for a year or two now, and not because of deliberate and careful plotting, but because the writer/artist is terrified of doing anything that might move the story along to its end.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:13:43 -0800

side question - why is it so hard to find webcomics that are completed?
~ Grandiose blue skying with no practical planning to back it up. Or fear of driving to a definitive conclusion, despite creating a strip that was meant to have one.

Or, perhaps, the artist realizing that they were on the negative side of the Labor/Reward scale? Lots of work to keep the strip going, versus actual income from the labor? Had to get a day job?

By: jpburns

jpburns — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:08:29 -0800

Much as I hate to be a self-promoter, I just finished my own graphic novel, which is available online. It'll also be available in print, shortly.

Waitaminute. I actually love self-promotion!

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:35:18 -0800

Just finished the first chapter and intermission of Templar, Arizona and that is some really fun storytelling right there. Looking forward to checking out the others. Thanks, for this question and the answers so far.

By: Juliet Banana

Juliet Banana — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:28:57 -0800

I love the hell out of Exploitation Now. Long, good art(it gets better over time), finished, hilarious and violent and sexy.

Poe's current strip is more like playing a boring RPG for me, but you could check it out as well.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:37:17 -0800

Any idea why episode 11 of The Killer still isn't available, but episode 12 is?

By: hades

hades — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:30:07 -0800

Narbonic
When I am King

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:29:39 -0800

This is fabulous. I am going to have tons to keep me procrastinating from my assignments. Yay!

By: The Bridge on the River Kai Ryssdal

The Bridge on the River Kai Ryssdal — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:59:07 -0800

Dylan Meconis' Family Man is a weekly graphic novel-y deal and has a pretty good amount already completed - nearly 100 pages. Not really manga-esque, but there are footnotes, if you like those!

By: effugas

effugas — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:24:02 -0800

It's all about the utterly brilliant universe of Girl Genius Online.

By: concrete

concrete — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 17:22:20 -0800

Queen of Wands is complete and now comes with strip-by-strip commentary.

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:02:57 -0800

I would be remiss if I didn't at least try to promote my own webcomic, Nowhere Band; it's about a group of guys fumbling around the entry-level music scene, and the emphasis is on character over cheap gags. It's not complete (it's only been going for a few months), but I'm experienced enough as a writer to be pretty confident that it will eventually be complete; no abandonment.

I've also got some graphic short stories up here. Art quality varies.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:49:39 -0800

Just discovered Shooting War, a complete story online that's also been revised and expanded into a print graphic novel. I'm a few chapters in and like it a lot - 2011, terrorism, media, war...good stuff.