First Webcomic

Remember the first webcomic you really enjoyed and got into?

Mine was an odd one - it was years ago when I was a kid just starting to use the internet. I think it was at Blackberry Creek (back when it existed and had a webcomics section). It was a No Fourth Wall comic about two guys "building" a comic. I don't remember anything but general stuff about it (I think the word "User" was in the title somewhere, or maybe "Assembly"), but I remember it was very good, really funny, and (maybe) decently drawn - at least to my childly eyes ("childly" is a word? Who knew? Heh, learn something new every day).

It really gave me a good feeling about webcomics in general, and the rest is history. Alas, the comic seems to be lost forever, but at least I have my vague memories.

How about you guys. What got you interested in webcomics?

The Wotch.

I learned better.

Before I learned it was a fetish comic I thought it was a funny and interesting comic with a pretty decent monster of the week thing going on with an overarching story that would eventually go somewhere. And Jason was the simplified version of characters I tend to like and make.

I also thought the art was pretty nice and could only go up.

Oh how age changes me but not The Wotch.

However, nevertheless, it was my gateway into El Goonish S Hive, Pokemon Z, Flipside, and Zebra Girl and therefore a bunch of other stuff.

edited 27th Sep '10 11:15:08 AM by ACDrawings

Misfile.

Good times. It's the only Gender Bender I can tolerate since it actually delves into the psychology behind it.

I dislike the turn the art has taken but I still read it when I remember to.

Inverloch, back before it was completed.

Fairly entertaining, if nothing special. Got me started on webcomics though.

Zelda Comic. This was back when I was a ridiculously huge Nintendo fan and wouldn't even consider playing games on other consoles, so I hadn't been exposed to any other gaming comics. I thought it was really funny and was sad it wasn't updating. It was actually a long time afterwards until I discovered the likes of xkcd, Dr Mc Ninja and most recently (though still about a year ago) Homestuck.

Something called E Motel, about 8 years ago. The guy who drew it was a regular on one of the same Usenet groups I read regularly. He mentioned that he was trying something, linked to it, and I found myself hooked. Unfortunately, it was orphaned after about 5 years, in mid-storyline.

The first webcomic I discovered (before I even learned the existence of keenspace) is now long dead, and called Residence Life. Its genre was quite reminiscent of Two Gamers on a Couch, but without the gamer aspect.

@ACD: To me, it's still a funny and interesting comic with a pretty decent monster of the week thing going on with an overarching story that will eventually go somewhere... If it ever resumes updating.

edited 28th Sep '10 1:05:59 AM by Medinoc

8-Bit Theater for me.

Gunnerkrigg Court! Back in the football-head days.

It was a good start.

Adventurers The art was terrible, but it was pretty funny sometimes and about RPGs, plus it was by someone whose humor I'd been enjoying elsewhere. And I was 12.

8-Bit Theater

Cyanide And Happiness. I rarely read it anymore, but I like it's spin-off (or whatever you call it) Robots With Feelings.

edited 27th Sep '10 4:36:51 PM by HopelessRomance

Believe it or not, it was Mega Tokyo.

RPG World, about eight years ago. I couldn't say the order of any of the ones that came after that, the list of webcomics I followed exploded pretty quickly.

My first was Adventurers, and I even remember what the latest strip was at the time I discovered it. (This one.)

Via that I discovered 8-Bit Theater, via 8BT I discovered the old Topwebcomics list, and that was the beginning of the end, as such.

Korg, that was my second.

Sluggy Freelance was my first, I think. My memory could give black holes pointers on how to suck, though, so I can't say for sure I don't have the order mixed up.

I started out in high school with a threesome of 8-bit Theater (which was just getting to Bikke for the first time when I picked it up, for time reference), Penny Arcade, and a Star Wars-themed gaming comic called Force Monkeys that stared a Darth Maul expy and a Luke Skywalker expy. It gradually died off within a year after I started reading it.

One of Psyguy's comics on fireball20xl.

It was sooo baaaad.

I was eleven though. And obsessed with Sonic.

edited 27th Sep '10 11:00:24 PM by LuckyRevenant

I found User Friendly in book form at Borders, eventually finding out it was online.

The first webcomic I read knowing what a webcomic was was Adventurers!- seemingly a popular choice here. My list has since exploded.

edited 27th Sep '10 11:04:23 PM by Tangent128

The first one I Archive Binged was Ctrl Alt Del, back in high school. That comic has soured on me considerably since then. I realized that as a person with no video game consoles, a lot of the comic was stuff I didn't care about.

The first one I really liked was xkcd, due to the "is the author reading my mind" effect the comic sometimes has. Dinosaur Comics is probably the second or third webcomic I started following, I enjoy reading it to this day.

edited 27th Sep '10 11:48:42 PM by adam850

Actually, yeah thinking about it, Mega Tokyo was my second webcomic.

I think my first was Absurd Notions but that had Schedule Slip issues.

Yes, I am quite aware of the irony of going to Mega Fucking Tokyo because of problems in that department. They were actually less bad.

^Yeah, back in the day Megatokyo had quite a good update schedule.

Wendy, by Josh Lesnick. I accidentally fell into it when surfing the internet way back in high school. Thought it was hilarious (I was, like, 13 back then)

Bob And George was my second, and was more of a springboard into the internet, with a link from them leading me to El Goonish Shive. That was when I started to see webcomics as an actual medium instead of just "Hey, that guy wrote a funny thing on the internet."

edited 28th Sep '10 7:01:13 AM by TobiasDrake

I can't actually remember, so instead I'll say that Freefall is the one on my list that's survived the longest. I picked up MacHall around the same time; it's since ended.

Sluggy Freelance was my first, all the way back in 2002. I still remember sitting around my house the summer of 7th grade, gleefully devouring page after page after page, and being frustrated at how incredibly slow my internet was. Each new page took AGES to load. Roughly at the same time, I discovered the truly godawful Sprite Comic self-insert N-Fans: The Series. Despite not getting any of the jokes in it (as they were almost entirely in-jokes of the various forumites, which I did not know) I read it for years. From there I jumped to Bob And George, and not longafter, Kagerou.

~Duk