Posted on 08/22/2005 8:10:02 AM PDT by avg_freeper
If any of you are not familiar with "Sluggy Freelance" it is one of the most popular and long running comics on the web. It has been a-political since the beginning.
It appears that they are starting a new Harry Potter parody piece about the Lastnamelessone (Clinton) being a murder escaping from prison and hunting Torg.
An interesting path for the author Pete to take.
Sluggy rocks. I discovered it last year thanks to John Ringo's plug in on of his recent novels and immediately lost two weeks reading from the beginning.
Sluggy rocks. I discovered it last year thanks to John Ringo's plug in on of his recent novels and immediately lost two weeks reading from the beginning.
There's almost always an interesting - if surreal - plotline going, and yet it's one of the funniest non-political strips around. Plus a killer rabbit.
I saw it and couldn't stop laughing. This is gonna be a good one. It's been a while since Sluggy has been a daily laugh instead of a weekly one, 'bout time he got silly again.
There was a strip back during the UN weapons inspectors in Iraq fiasco that was a pretty good slam against the UN process - Torg called in UN inspectors to prove Bert was still living in the house even though he'd been kicked out and I think Zoe was complaining that the UN inspectors couldn't find Bert because they'd agreed to a 'no looking in closets' rule. That wasn't quite nonpartisan!
I discovered it in 2000 I think and it took months for me to catch up from the beginning.
The only blatantly partisan strip I've ever seen was one by a guest illustrator a number of years ago.
Hmm, I don't recall that. But I ignore guest strips. Only ones I like are the Shirt Guy Tom days.
Any Sluggy fans read MegaTokyo? That and SchlockMercenary round out my trio of must-reads.
I'll check out the one's you mentioned sometime.
Schlock should have fairly universal appeal to fans of Sluggy, it's sci-fi military action with a seriously devious conservative undercurrent. MegaTokyo appeals to the younger geek set - gamers, anime fans.
Schlock Mercenary and Day by Day are my two favorites. Sluggy - I go and read that now and again to get caught up on it - but I'm not as huge a fan as I used to be. Another one I like is Sinfest - I'm not quite sure what to make of it, it's weird, it's out there - but quite often Tatsuo comes up with something great. There's one strip that I had to save - Slick is yelling at God - telling Him across two panels how stupid He is, and that He is just a crutch. And in the last panel comes the response from Heaven, "Well, you're lame..."
Ah. I'd forgotten that one. I suppose you could add in when the EU nuked the US in the mirror universe last year too.
And I've read Megatokyo, but I hit the "For Pete's sake, Fred, MOVE THE FRIGGING STORY ALONG!!!!" wall about midway through the last chapter and put it aside for a while. Up until that though, I enjoyed it. For other worthwhile webcomics, I'd recommend Real Life, Melonpool and Order of the Stick. (For gaming, goofy sci-fi, and Fantasy Rpg gaming respectively.) Maybe "Anywhere but Here" as well, but that one's pretty new and doesn't have much of an archive yet, so I don't know how well it'll read in the long run.
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