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Title: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Kitsune Ascendant on February 12, 2007, 06:33:33 AM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: King Of Hearts on February 12, 2007, 06:45:13 AM
Ive already rummaging trough the DMFA and Sluggy archives... or rather... drowning in the sheer volume.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Turnsky on February 12, 2007, 11:04:34 AM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: ITOS on February 12, 2007, 11:44:18 AM
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*
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Alondro on February 12, 2007, 01:58:22 PM
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
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 12, 2007, 02:23:27 PM
Likewise. :-)
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Tiger_T on February 12, 2007, 02:53:54 PM
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)
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: bill 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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Zedd on February 12, 2007, 04:47:39 PM
Take a look at Subculture...Its funny!
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: 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.

The "Warrior for Hire" arch is still my favorite, too.  :3
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: bill on February 12, 2007, 05:15:33 PM
Meh, Arc #13 owns all.  :B
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Tiger_T on February 12, 2007, 05:19:09 PM
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)
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Tapewolf on February 12, 2007, 05:28:14 PM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: TheGreyRonin on February 12, 2007, 10:26:58 PM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: bill on February 12, 2007, 10:30:07 PM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: TheGreyRonin on February 12, 2007, 10:33:15 PM
*chuckles* I often have worse things than Jack running loose in my head. And a day? Took me nearly a week.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Xuzaf D on February 13, 2007, 01:01:22 AM
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
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: TheGreyRonin on February 13, 2007, 01:04:09 AM
*considers breaking my personal no-smiting rule for those who have decent internet connections*
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Tapewolf on February 13, 2007, 04:05:46 AM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: King Of Hearts on February 13, 2007, 06:17:05 AM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Darkmoon on February 13, 2007, 07:17:56 AM
I haven't read through the entirety of CVRPG... ever...

I did just read through xkcd, though.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 13, 2007, 09:11:24 AM
I did.

... but then, I -was- testing the code.... :-)

I've read the archives of every comic I read. Is anyone scared yet?
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Darkmoon on February 13, 2007, 12:18:46 PM
I have too, but I don't read many comics.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Zedd on February 13, 2007, 02:09:19 PM
I wonder if I mentioned my favorite one next to DMFA and Jack combined....Mobties!
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Darkmoon on February 13, 2007, 03:46:20 PM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Damaris on February 13, 2007, 04:13:03 PM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Darkmoon on February 13, 2007, 04:51:23 PM
Does it feel like you missed anything?
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Destina Faroda on February 14, 2007, 10:12:44 AM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: 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 >.<
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Damaris on February 14, 2007, 12:21:05 PM
Don't worry, llearch is still worse.  You can feel better about that. ;)
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 14, 2007, 12:34:21 PM
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....
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Kitsune Ascendant on February 14, 2007, 12:43:01 PM
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...
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Jim Halisstrad on February 14, 2007, 12:51:52 PM
I retract my previous statement :p

I think I lost track on how many comics Llearch reads around 200 or so.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 14, 2007, 01:04:09 PM
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...
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Destina Faroda on February 14, 2007, 01:19:43 PM
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?
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 14, 2007, 01:38:57 PM
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. :-)
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Darkmoon on February 14, 2007, 06:12:02 PM
He really just skims them all looking for bewbs.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Xuzaf D on February 14, 2007, 10:07:50 PM
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
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Yugo on February 15, 2007, 12:21:47 AM
I think I might reread through The Adventures of Dr. McNinja again.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: 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? ;-)
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Turnsky on February 15, 2007, 09:10:56 AM
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... >.>
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Darkmoon on February 15, 2007, 04:30:32 PM
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...
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Amber Williams on February 15, 2007, 04:46:11 PM
*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...


Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 15, 2007, 06:59:49 PM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Kitsune Ascendant on February 18, 2007, 10:45:47 AM

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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 18, 2007, 11:23:31 AM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: ITOS on February 18, 2007, 11:30:36 AM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Darkmoon on February 18, 2007, 01:47:54 PM
I fi Knew how to setup an RSS feed for CVRPG, I would... :(
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 18, 2007, 07:31:25 PM
Out of interest, what do you use to collate the feeds, ITOS?
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: ITOS on February 19, 2007, 01:00:23 AM
I used to have a program a friend of mine created but at the moment I'm trying out IE7.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Zedd on February 19, 2007, 09:41:48 PM
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!
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Darkmoon on February 19, 2007, 11:58:54 PM
(sees it's a furnation comic, and ignores)
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Destina Faroda on February 20, 2007, 12:43:56 PM
I concur fully.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 20, 2007, 01:33:57 PM
Meh. No too bad. Pity about the sluggish loading speed, and the large image size.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Darkmoon on February 20, 2007, 08:14:08 PM
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. ;)
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Aridas on February 20, 2007, 09:50:50 PM
I wasn't going to touch it either. Does that make you feel worse?
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Darkmoon on February 20, 2007, 09:51:50 PM
Eh, for the most part I just ignore you.

j/k
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Kitsune Ascendant on February 20, 2007, 11:30:17 PM
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.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 21, 2007, 07:46:49 AM
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...
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Destina Faroda on February 21, 2007, 10:01:43 AM
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?
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 21, 2007, 11:34:10 AM
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? :-)
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Manawolf on February 21, 2007, 11:37:07 AM
I've read through the archives of Sluggy Freelance twice.

Never again.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: 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
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Darkmoon on February 21, 2007, 05:05:45 PM
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?
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Destina Faroda on February 22, 2007, 11:08:57 AM
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?

Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 22, 2007, 11:39:48 AM
.. 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...
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: vulpesweasel on February 25, 2007, 04:08:58 PM
I'm currently going back through the Jack archives, umm...VG cats, Scooter & Ferret, and CVRPG. Yea, I have no social life.
Title: Re: Take the time to read through the archives of a few of your fave webcomics
Post by: Darkmoon on February 25, 2007, 05:00:04 PM
Gold Star for reading CVRPG.