right now, I'm going through the ozy and millie archives. next, I'll probably do either el goonish shive, dmfa, or bob and george.
Ive already rummaging trough the DMFA and Sluggy archives... or rather... drowning in the sheer volume.
going through sluggy's archives? see you next month, then. :P
i rarely go through the archives of a comic lest i REALLY like them.
i've done DMFA.. and a few others.
The annoying thing with reading through a +800 pages archive is that it makes me loose focus on real life until I'm finished.
That's no problem during weekends though. Archive marathon For The Win. :D
*skips downtime and stays up till 04:00*
It takes me about 3 entire days to get through the Sluggy archive if I do nothing else.
I've at least once been through the archives of every comic I read. :3
Likewise. :-)
I'm just glad I read through Kevin and Kell four years ago. :rolleyes
Some of the one-gag-a-day comics I don't bother reading through the whole archive.
The most recent one I re-read was the Freefall archive.
And parts of DMFA - whenever one links to a page of it. 8)
I think the most insane thing I've ever done was read through the entire Irregular Webcomic archives. That was kinda nuts.
Take a look at Subculture...Its funny!
I always read through the archives before starting on a new webcomic. Only DMFA and the main three on RHJunior webcomics have made me read through each and every strip at least three times.
The "Warrior for Hire" arch is still my favorite, too. :3
Meh, Arc #13 owns all. :B
Quote from: BillBuckner on February 12, 2007, 03:20:24 PM
I think the most insane thing I've ever done was read through the entire Irregular Webcomic archives. That was kinda nuts.
T'was fun. 8)
Quote from: Aisha deCabre on February 12, 2007, 05:08:36 PM
I always read through the archives before starting on a new webcomic. Only DMFA and the main three on RHJunior webcomics have made me read through each and every strip at least three times.
I never went through the entire K&K archive, but I think that's the only exception. Everything else I've decided is seriously worth reading, I've read the entire archive and usually dumped it to disk as well for further study / preservation.
DMFA is unique in that it's the only comic I've read
backwards. This was in actual fact before I was properly hooked on it, and I was trying to find a particular strip which I'd spotted by accident. Even after I'd written a little program to retrieve the entire strip archive from 0-520, I still couldn't find the damned thing. (It was this one (http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_Fools003.php))
QuoteThe "Warrior for Hire" arch is still my favorite, too. :3
I'm tied between 14, 16 and 19. WFH is good, although it's not one of my absolute favourites.
Dialup. Five minutes per page.
In spite of that, though, I've been through all of DMFA, Jack, CVRPG, and Sabrina Online. Partway through Catharsis now.
Oh yeah, Jack took the better part of a day to do, and I can remember very few details. Which might be a good thing.
*chuckles* I often have worse things than Jack running loose in my head. And a day? Took me nearly a week.
I just ran through the entire DSWC on sunday.
:pzilla
http://www.cvrpg.com/comics/dswc.php?arch=dswc&page=162
http://www.cvrpg.com/comics/dswc.php?arch=dswc&page=171
http://www.cvrpg.com/comics/dswc.php?arch=dswc&page=240
*considers breaking my personal no-smiting rule for those who have decent internet connections*
Quote from: TheGreyRonin on February 13, 2007, 01:04:09 AM
*considers breaking my personal no-smiting rule for those who have decent internet connections*
Heh, I was on dialup when I read through the entire archives for DMFA, Gaming Guardians, and SSDD.
Quote from: BillBuckner on February 12, 2007, 03:20:24 PM
I think the most insane thing I've ever done was read through the entire Irregular Webcomic archives. That was kinda nuts.
O god, now that was another all nighter for me... but that's the only way to read it, being bombarded with puns to get the mood going.
okay... now Im going to start re-reading 8-bit theater and Bob and George.
I haven't read through the entirety of CVRPG... ever...
I did just read through xkcd, though.
I did.
... but then, I -was- testing the code.... :-)
I've read the archives of every comic I read. Is anyone scared yet?
I have too, but I don't read many comics.
Same here, although I'm only reading five right now.
Although I'm horribly behind on one of them. I shall be smited by the author, I'm sure, since they know who they are.
I wonder if I mentioned my favorite one next to DMFA and Jack combined....Mobties!
Quote from: Damaris on February 13, 2007, 02:03:25 PM
Same here, although I'm only reading five right now.
Although I'm horribly behind on one of them. I shall be smited by the author, I'm sure, since they know who they are.
Obviously it's not me, since I MAKE you read mine regularly.
I think you only do that because I kept forgetting to read it on my own :p
I don't think I've read about twenty from when I was sick.
Does it feel like you missed anything?
I usually only rarely archives for comics I've already read, although I have went through the archives of CVRPG on occasion. After all, if the comic has a bunch of readers and a viable discussion board, usally, many of the archived comics will come up for discussion. In addition, these days I never read archives of more than say 100 comics for comics I have never read. After all, if the author has a 100 comics, then the author doesn't need my readership and I'm less inclined to give my time to something that couldn't use an extra set of eyes. As a result, I only tend to pick up newer comics or comics that don't have large archives.
I've read through many, many webcomic arcives X.x
The list of comics I read on a regular basis is up in the twenties.... I think I have a problem >.<
Don't worry, llearch is still worse. You can feel better about that. ;)
Quote from: Jim Halisstrad on February 14, 2007, 12:13:21 PM
I've read through many, many webcomic arcives X.x
The list of comics I read on a regular basis is up in the twenties.... I think I have a problem >.<
twenty?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
*giggle* only *snort* twen*giggle*ty? *chortle*
Thanks, Jim. I needed that (http://llearch.net/me/webcomics.html) :-) For those keeping count, I'm up to 230. Plus the ones I check on a monthly basis....
73, here. I have them all nice and tidy in a bookmarks folder. And I don't expect it to be too long before it tops 100...
actually, it's at least 74, plus a possible few that may have gotten lost from the original list...
I retract my previous statement :p
I think I lost track on how many comics Llearch reads around 200 or so.
hey, there's handy counts at the top of each segment, and there's a HR every 5 comics... it shouldn't be that hard to count, should it?
*grin* Organization rocks. In fact, I'm pondering database structures for creating a webpage to list them in a "here's the ones for today" way...
How the heck can you check that many comics?
I only look at five comics on a regular basis
CVRPG
DSWC
Misfile
Sorcery101
8-Bit Theater
Part of the reason I read so few comics is that a lot of comics I used to read, like Vote Apathy (http://www.voteapathy.com/), Bad Blood (http://www.badbloodcomic.com/index.php), and Reploid Hunter Iris (http://www.bobandgeorge.com/Fancomics/Iris/Iris.html), Tale of a Tactician (http://www.donutpie.net/toat/index.html), either came back from hiatus not too long ago or are on hiatus or we while others like My Brother the Angel (http://www.sailor-games.com/angel/) and Spritescape Fantasy (http://www.spritescape.com/) just don't update very regularly. Also, I can't take more than five comics. How do you appreciate the artwork, layout and writing of each comic you read? I know I don't fully appeaciate those things with what little time I spend reading my regulars.
So what do you do? Do you read a comic a minute then go to the next site?
open them ten at a time for the daily/mon-fri ones. Read one, close the window, move on. The mon/wed/fri and mon/fri ones I have in 15's...
I read fast. And many of the webcomics out there, the art isn't anything to write home about - although I'll admit I try to avoid those ones. Most of them, the story is what I'm there for - and in that case, once it's read, I remember it, so there's no need to stay there staring at dodgy pencil drawings, now, is there?
... I'll admit, with some of them, I'll come back half a dozen times, grazing over the art, though. :-)
He really just skims them all looking for bewbs.
I only read the webcomics directly relating to this forum. I only started reading DMFA after the merge to figure out why people like it...
...I'm still searching for the answer there... :mouser
I think I might reread through The Adventures of Dr. McNinja again.
Quote from: Darkmoon on February 14, 2007, 06:12:02 PM
He really just skims them all looking for bewbs.
Well, obviously. Why did you think I came back to those ones that I come back to? ;-)
i'm sad, i go through the archives of my own comic all the time... if only to get that color shirt that i can't seem to remember... >.>
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 15, 2007, 06:23:24 AM
Quote from: Darkmoon on February 14, 2007, 06:12:02 PM
He really just skims them all looking for bewbs.
Well, obviously. Why did you think I came back to those ones that I come back to? ;-)
Damn, it's a good thing Mab drew those bewbs in CVRPG that one time...
*puff puff* I heard something about bewbs?
Oh wait...CVRPG bewbs. I really should draw some of those. :B
As for comics read, I need to upgrade my links page(which is actually just a modified version of my bookmarks folder) There are a few comics I need to add/remove...
Quote from: Darkmoon on February 15, 2007, 04:30:32 PM
Damn, it's a good thing Mab drew those bewbs in CVRPG that one time...
Nah. Sprite bewbies FTW.
another technique for reading a bunch of comics is to simply have them all bookmarked in a single folder in firefox, and then right click the folder->open all in tabs. close each one as you read it. I can get through the updates of all 75 (tacked on two more, and I'll have at least another two before the end of next week minimum), in just a few minutes.
The issue with that is Firefox tends to choke if you have more than 15 or so in each folder - depending on your bandwidth and latency to the average site. Since I'm over the ditch from most of them, that's what I find...
~45 minutes to read all 230 or so.
I personally like it when the comics I read have feeds. It's faster to load and it marks the ones with new content you haven't read.
I fi Knew how to setup an RSS feed for CVRPG, I would... :(
Out of interest, what do you use to collate the feeds, ITOS?
I used to have a program a friend of mine created but at the moment I'm trying out IE7.
Maybe not...Maybe yes...But this is a good webcomic... [Alot NSFW scenes ahead for those who dont know...] (http://www.furnation.com/A_D/) Enjoy the fights! And Adventure!
(sees it's a furnation comic, and ignores)
I concur fully.
Meh. No too bad. Pity about the sluggish loading speed, and the large image size.
Quote from: Destina Faroda on February 20, 2007, 12:43:56 PM
I concur fully.
As we are among the few non-furs around here. ;)
I wasn't going to touch it either. Does that make you feel worse?
Eh, for the most part I just ignore you.
j/k
Hey lleach. It occurred to me that, given your large number of webcomics, you might have heard of a few that I lost.
there's a sonic one. I don't remember much, but there was a point where sonic was in some sort of space station and there was a pokeball on a pedestal, and a few comics later there was a pikachu that he was trying to catch or something. I think one of them called the other a bitch, but I can't remember which one.
there was a mega-man one. again, I really don't remember much, but there was this one where zero said "I thirst for the blood of the ancients". it was on a website with at least two other webcomics, at least one of which was another sonic comic.
then there was this one that followed chao in a fighting tournament.
I don't know about the first two, but the last one sounds like Angry Zen Master. http://angryzenmaster.com/
It's moved on a bit from that, though...
So, llearch, a question about your comic preferences.
Since you have such a wide variety of comics to sample, and you are open to many genres, you seem to be rather non-discriminating about your comics. Then what is it about a comic that will cause you not to like it?
oh, I'm discriminating. Just not very. :-)
Let's see, dislikes.
Ones that update irregularly annoy me, but that's not a reason to avoid keeping up with it. Crap art, or crap storyline, mostly. Although that's a subjective measure, I guess. A lot of the time I'm caught in the story, and will keep reading it, despite not really being interested. I should probably skip through and remove a lot of the ones I'm reading now, on that basis. I just.. pathologically prefer a complete list.
Maybe I should start writing for comixpedia? :-)
I've read through the archives of Sluggy Freelance twice.
Never again.
You know, I'm interested in what you would call "crap art" or "crap storyline." Maybe you could pick a comic that exhibits these qualities and tell me why you feel that are that way. I only suggest you try a comic with a shorter archive, since I would like to be able to follow your thinking
Quote from: Destina Faroda on February 21, 2007, 01:27:05 PM
You know, I'm interested in what you would call "crap art" or "crap storyline." Maybe you could pick a comic that exhibits these qualities and tell me why you feel that are that way. I only suggest you try a comic with a shorter archive, since I would like to be able to follow your thinking
DSWC?
Nah DSWC is a great gag comic and on llearch's list (http://llearch.net/me/webcomics.html).
Let's take Spritescape Fantasy (http://spritescape.com/comic.php). Granted, it doesn't update regularly, but it is a well made comic, in my opinion. So why isn't it on your list?
.. mostly because it hasn't caught my attention yet, and, on reading it, it doesn't amuse me enough for me to add it.
It might be a well-made comic, but it doesn't either grab me with art, or grab me with jokes. Sure, there's the odd joke in there, but...
*shrug*
I'll see if I can pull up something to answer your question, though not right at this instant...
I'm currently going back through the Jack archives, umm...VG cats, Scooter & Ferret, and CVRPG. Yea, I have no social life.
Gold Star for reading CVRPG.