was randomly thinking abt that ask I got when I reblogged the “make assumptions about me based on my art style” a while ago that was like…. “you read a lot of circa 2002-2006 gaming webcomics when you were younger” and my essential response was “No I was a 2002-2006 era webcomic that’s why there’s some style similarity, I didn’t really read the gamer ones at all” lol
and it got me going “huh what WERE some of the webcomics I read back then anyway” so here’s an abbreviated list
Obviously there were a number of the ones that are still well known and updating now; Megatokyo and EGS being the main ones I can think of
Alien Dice, which is actually still updating on SpiderForest and which I keep meaning to catch up on (sort of a twisted up mon story)
10K Commotion, a webcomic about DDR that had this sort of cool sloppy style I’ve secretly coveted ever since (but I’d kind of established the style I was heading toward with LOP already so I never did much about it)
Demonology 101, whose creator now works on ATLA comics among other things
Boy Meets Boy, this BL sort of newspaper strip style thing that eventually moved on to Friendly Hostility, and I’m still following the creator here on Tumblr
A number of really weird anime-inspired comics that I didn’t get half the jokes in because I was kind of sheltered, lmao
So many furry comics. Like tbh I don’t even remember the names of half of them but most of them were slice of life and some of them I’d be batting out of younger-me’s hands because the authors were pieces of shit and I didn’t have the tools at the time to pick up on that =X
also I did a lot of random archive trawls where I’d accidentally lose the comic in some way after hitting the end, oops.
This is all stuff I basically devoured starting my senior year in high school (2003-2004) because as I noted when I answered the ask in the first place, I didn’t actually realize it was A Whole Thing until certain people were pointing out “hey you could put YOUR comics online”
It’s kind of wild to me how some people take webcomics as a concept more or less for granted these days.
Ah I remember the 10k commotion too, I found it complete but I read it multiple times. Interesting to know Alien Dice is still going too.


















