Web Comics 4 You

Since this blog is partially for talking about stuff that interests me, I thought it would be good to maybe do a few random blog postings about things I like to do. Who knows, you might read this and say “Hey! I do that too!” or “Whoa, dude, yer #@&!*%$# nuts!” or more importantly, in the spirit of blogging, “Hey, that’s cool! I need to check that out!”

So here it goes.

I’m gonna talk about my favorite comics. Not comic books, comic strips. I’m a comic-strip fan, and I read probably two dozen different titles religiously. Don’t tell my boss, but while I’m checking the morning email at the office, another browser is busy poking through this day’s comic updates! :)

Comics are not just interesting because of the stories or laughs, either. A lot of times they are very in tune with current events, or help examine social or physics problems, and they are also usually taking advantage the newest publication technology. From the later, in a way comics, or rather web-comics, have become a medium which sort of symbolizes the trend of this information age. Without going into anything from my first blog posting...I’ll move on.

Here’s some of my favorite web comics, definitely in no particular order. I hope you’ll find them as enjoyable as I do.




Ozy & Millie is a fun, down to earth comic mainly focused around two young kids: Ozymandias Justin Llewellyn (Ozy for sanity), and Millicent Mehitabel Mudd (Millie, because it’s quicker to yell). There’s a whole slew of interesting main characters, and just reading their short bios can hook you in.

Ozy and Millie aren’t your normal kids. Aside from the fact that the author (D.C. Simpson) has taken an anthropomorphic license with his characters, Ozy and Millie are two philosophical kids who just like to have fun while examining the weird quirks of the world in their own child-like way.



Unfortunately Ozy & Millie as a comic is hard to describe, so I urge you to go experience it for yourself. I suggest either jumping back a month to get some ground on the current storyline, or going back to the beginning (it’s worth it). DC Simpson has been drawing Ozy & Millie for years, is in a couple newspapers, and has a bunch of books out.






(One Over Zero)
One Over Zero is a very interesting (and sometimes silly) comic that has sadly ended, but has about three years worth of strips. It was done by the mysterious author Tailsteak, and it’s a creation comic. By “creation comic” I mean it starts out with nothing, yep blank page, and builds from there, taking the whole Adam & Eve approach. Well, Adam & Eve, but as you’ll see, it starts out horribly wrong and only gets worse! Not only does the author manage to accidentally kill off his only main character some ten strips in, but the readers are left with a talking rib, rebellious eyeball, and a giant molecule called Manny, who all somehow have to get along in the comic.



While the comic is funny, it’s also intellectual, as the characters and author tend to get into arguments about creation, physics, sociology and all kinds of other nutty venues along the way. So, while this comic may have completed its storyline and ended, it’s still available on the web, and definitely worth checking out.






Free Fall is the kind of comic that will drive you nuts, make you burst laughing, and keep you coming back for more! Probably one of the first online comics I began reading, it is ABSOLUTELY worth your time!

Free Fall is a hugely popular story-based online comic surrounding three main characters who live in the future. Sam, an ethically-astray alien who wears a spacesuit to look human, Florence, an artificially created canine engineer with high ethics, and Helix, a spherical robot who’s missing a few circuits (if he ever had them to begin with). The story starts out with Sam and Helix finding themselves accidentally receiving Florence in the mail. She was supposed to be headed to a mega-corporation plant to be an engineer, but wound up here instead. She finds herself morally and physically stuck with Sam and Helix on a colony world, and spends her time between keeping Sam out of trouble, and preventing Helix from pressing the auto-destruct button on their ship, the “Savage Chicken.”


This comic, too, flops back and forth between down-to-earth humor, and philosophy, with a healthy dusting of good ol’ science fiction.


So that’s a few to get you started! Hope you like them! Maybe later I’ll post some more.