But I'm A Cat Person

The cliche webcomic premise is “a couple of guys sitting on a couch playing video games.” Some of the following strips seem like they could have started with that idea; all of them end up in original and genuinely funny places anyway.

Phil Likes Tacos – comedy, short arcs, ongoing. One of my favorite webcomics ever. A couple of guys who share a ton of geeky interests, though one has a normal fast food job and the other lives wholly in his own little world. Half satire of the perils of customer service, half magical-realist homage to video games and geekdom in general.

Casey and Andy – comedy, story-ish, completed. A couple of guys with increasingly ridiculous inventions. One of them is dating Satan. They all hope they won’t run afoul of the Quantum Cop.

Alternate Delusions – comedy, short arcs, completed. A couple of guys accidentally find a pocket dimension where everything they want manifests. Since it’s rent-free, they move in. A computer helps them get to other cross-dimensional adventures, including tangles with the Green Lantern corps and an epic Mille Bornes tournament.

Loserz – comedy/drama, story-ish, completed. A trio of high schoolers comprised of a couple of guys and a girl…who is bisexual, has a lot of sex, and yet doesn’t hook up with either of them and is generally treated as a character worthy of respect. Good times.

The Robman Show – comedy, gag-a-day, discontinued. Just one guy, but he comes with an obnoxious Spider-Man action figure and a somewhat simple-minded plush Cthulu. Also friends, family, and the occasional supernatural manifestation.

Paul – comedy, gag-a-day, discontinued. Also one guy, who is obnoxious in a strangely captivating way. It helps that everyone in-universe is just as baffled.

Some recommendations in the vein of: if you’re a fan of Series X, check out Fancomic Y.

++ Doctor Who

Doctor Why – gag-a-day, completed. A snarky take on the Tenth Doctor’s time in office.

The Ten Doctors – dramedy story, completed. A heartfelt multi-era crossover in which Doctors One through Ten (plus assorted Companions) team up, yell at each other, and solve some temporal shenanigans.

++ The Lord of the Rings

DM of the Rings – parody, completed. The story of LOTR if it were being played out as a D&D campaign.

++ Sailor Moon

The Saga of the Orb of Time and sequels – dramedy story, completed. The senshi face down time travel shenanigans. I love time travel shenanigans.

Four King Hell – comedy-turned-drama, developing story, ongoing. Endymion’s four guardians re-manifest in Mamoru’s apartment; antics ensue. And they’re not the only characters from earlier seasons to be reappearing…

Moonstruck – comedy, on hiatus. A parody adventure using the settings and sprites of the Sailor Moon: Another Story video game.

++ Kim Possible

Anything’s Possible – action/romance story, nearly completed. In which the characters are awesome and beautifully rendered, and Kim and Shego will finally get to make out.

++ Hellsing

And Shine Heaven Now – comedy, drama, action, story with some gag-a-day features, completed. The comic I was still working on even for a while after starting BICP.

Hellsing Bloopers – gag-a-day, completed. (…For now.) Various mistakes, misfires, awkward situations, and general ridiculousness experienced by characters from all over the series.

Resurrection - drama/mystery story, ongoing. Post-series, a vampirized Enrico Maxwell shows up on Hellsing’s doorstep and asks if he can stay. It goes about as smoothly as you’d expect.

Great Idea, and sequel Oblivion – action/comedy story, ongoing. With the popularity of the manga and OVAs, a bunch of neglected characters from the Hellsing anime decide to team up and win back the spotlight.

++ Fake News (Daily Show/Colbert Report)

Fake News Rumble – dramedy story, completed. Dick Cheney turns out to be an interdimensional evil alien conqueror. Luckily, all the Daily Show correspondents and a whole bunch of their friends and associates turn out to have superpowers. (Jon Stewart may even be the Chosen One.)

(Backing up the rec posts from Mondays to Sundays, so you’ll have time to sit down and read some of the strips before coming back to find the next BICP page.)

Most of these comics have engaging stories; most of them have a haunting or creepy vibe going on. Oh, and the art is unique in a way that grabs you and drags you in.

No Rest For The Wicked – Drama story, ongoing. Fairytale characters on a quest that isn’t working out as easily as it seems like it should, including a princess who can’t sleep and a girl in a red cloak who seems awfully handy with that axe. Bonus: femslash-baity.

The Property of Hate – Surrealist story, ongoing. There’s a guy with a TV for a head and a lot of fantastic landscapes with pretty colors and I don’t really know what’s going on but it’s fun to look at, okay?

Zebra Girl – Comedy-then-drama story, ongoing. Our heroine accidentally gets her body morphed into that of a stripey demon. Stars as fun slice-of-life-plus-weirdness comedy, then takes a sharp turn for the serious, dramatic, and gripping. Even when they (also accidentally) summon a cartoon rabbit from another dimension.

The Snail Factory – Surreal gag-a-day strip, ongoing. Life and workplace satire with the various creatures who work at a factory where snails are made. This is another one that’s beautifully detailed and fun to look at. Also, funny.

Gunnerkrigg Court – Comedy-mystery fantasy, ongoing. Also femslash-baity. A bunch of kids at the kind of school with robots, rogue spirits, dubiously-human attendees, and uncertain metaphysics. The forest across the water is full of mythological doings, and during scenes of particular magic or significance the art will shift appropriately.