Okay. Here's a bunch.
In no particular order (more or less alphabetic ... but don't count on it too much.)
Datachasers: Manymany years in the future, recurrent wars have rendered Earth almost uninhabitable. Then the Ais pulled a reverse Skynet and made the Humans stop fighting. There are three city (states) on the American continent, all of them more-or-less dependent on AIs. The whole thing begins when the daughter of the technocrat who keeps the infrastructure of one city is kidnapped on a solo trip to one of the other cities. Dolly (an early-model android who has been the family's bodyguard and nursemaid/governess for many years) has her consciousness transferred into a new body that is better than anything else previous (and indistinguishable from a true human by any but the
most precise tests) and sets out to rescue the girl. That's the central thread, but the author has at least two or three other balls in the air at any given moment.
Luna Star: Sort of a prequel to the
world of
Datachasers. Same history, set a few hundred years earlier, before the wars got completely out of hand. Galina Kotko is the sole human(?) survivor of a Russian Moon base whose personnel are wiped out in some sort of (apparently) internal strife. With the help of a snarky robodoc and an earnest but dense maintenance robot, she manages to make it to an American base. Then things start getting ... complicated.
Misfile - so there's this slacker angel who has an important-sounding but essentially meaningless job in the Celestial Filing System. (Well, he's Gabriel's son; gotta give him
something to do.) One day his supervisor comes in and catches him toking up on the job. That's bad enough, but he's got some files disarrayed. There are two loose pages on the floor that he kicks behind a cabinet, and a file sitting on the desk that he just crams into a drawer at random while nobody's looking. Unfortunately, the two pages on the floor were the Junior and Senior high school of a brilliant but somewhat shy girl - including her acceptance to Harvard. Since the pages are no longer in her file? The years are gone, she's two years younger, and nobody but her remembers she ever lived those years. Well, except for Rumisiel and one other. The file in the wrong cabinet belongs to a boy just about to start his Senior year, who's a street racer. But it went into the "Girl" cabinet. Suddenly, he's a her, and that's what the entire world remembers for "her" whole life. So Ash (the racer), Emily (the no-longer-Harvard-bound girl) and Rumisiel (the angel) Have to figure out how to resolve this before any of his bosses notice and "solve" it in a way that nobody will like...
Namesake -
From the "About" page: Namesake is the story of Emma Crewe, a woman who discovers she can visit other worlds. She finds out that these are places she already knows – fantasy and fairy lands made famous through the spoken word, literature and cinema. Her power as a Namesake forces her to act as a protagonist in these familiar stories as she figures out how to get home. But as she travels, she discovers that those controlling her story have their own selfish goals in mind – and her fate is the key to everyone's happy ending.
Footloose - Keti is a young woman whose heritage is half were wolf, one-quarter human and one-quarter nymph. Her mother and honorary "aunt" (much more than she seems, of course) know that she suffers from Primary Protagonist Syndrome, The fae know that they live in a Narrative (they're
Genre Savvy) - and they know that the Narrative will warp around people with PPS. SO Keti is taken to Faerie to Princess Flibbage's Dojo, to learn how to control her PPS. There she is enrolled in the Kung Shoe class. Yes - hitting with and throwing shoes. Other curricula include Indiscriminate Whacking and Marketable Magic (which has all the Magical Girls no team would have on a bet ... plus
Magical Transvestite Cherry, who everyone assumes is gay. He's not - but he isn't telling anyone because he gets to use the girls' locker room.
Too Much Information Likely NSFW) - Ace is an eighteen-year-old computer geek. His mother catches him camping the rune in some MMORPG and kicks him out of the house. He winds up sharing a house with Carly (who's Japanese born, and, as we later find out. banned from entering France because of family connections back in Okinawa) the receptionist at his uncle's company (where Ace is the IT department) and Rocky, a six-foot-seven bodybuilder. Except he hadn't realised that Carly's real name is Carl Lee, and "she" is a transvestite, or that Rocky's real name is "Roxanne" and she's a flat-chested woman. Then the ghost shows up, Ace finally finds out who his father was, a nurse/exotic dancer and a sexy female cop become part of the cast (not necessarily in that order)... and then it gets weird.
Code Name: Hunter - In an alternate universe where anthropmorphic characters are the "people", a near-miss at St Paul's during the Blitz broke a stained-glass window that was a seal keeping magic out of the natural word. The Crown Princess organises a special secret force, that reports directly to her, to protect Britain from magical menaces. The main protagonist is "Hunter", a mouse who is one of RCSI's top agents. It's fun.
Gregor Comics - What if the Hulk were grey, and smart, and had a lifetime pass to Disneyland?
Grrl Power - "A webcomic about superheroines." Yeah. "The Pacific Ocean - "A small body of slightly salty water." On-site description:
Grrl Power is a comic about a crazy nerdette that becomes a superheroine. Humor, action, cheesecake, beefcake, 'splosions, and maybe some drama. Possibly ninjas. Rated PG-13 for violence and gratuitous cheesecake (and beefcake) Rated R for language. Seriously, Sydney has a filthy mouth
.
Guilded Age - Fantasy comic that resembles an MMORPG. Very Closely. (By which i do
not mean that the comic is based on an MMORPG.)
The Devil's Panties ("It's not Satanic Porn!") - Atlanta's own Jennie Breeden's twisted take on something that sort of resembles her own life.
I Dream of a Jeannie Bottle (Same author as "Sailor Sun": the art is adequate, and the author is Very Lysdexic ... but the silliness is sublime) - sexist guy finds bottle that looks amazingly like the one that Barbara Eden came out of. Opens it. Becomes sexy blonde genie bound to the bottle. Hilarity Ensues.
SailorSun.org - "See the backstage of the Webcomics Industry" - Webcomics are made by studios that employ actors (rather like "Roger Rabbit") Young Canadian actor Brad Smith fails to read the Fine Print, and winds up transformed into
Bay Smith, a hyper-sexy
actress. And she has a daughter who's only a couple of years younger than she is herself. And then the studio goes out of business. And
then things get strange.
Mysteries of the Arcana (Hasn't updated since early June, but will richly reward an archive binge) - AS the story opens, Theresa (roughly eighteen, very much a tomboy and quite comfortable with guns) is symbolically brung her life - a scrapbook - and heading deep into an abandoned subway tunnel to commit suicide. Having been raised Catholic, she knows that she will go to Hell, but living is worse. And then she comes upon a fight between a killer robot and a beautiful elf girl in buckskin pants. Intervening, she manages to save the girl, but then finds herself shanghaied into a magical universe.
Alice! (Died years ago - archive is still on line - again, well worth a binge) - story of a Canadian middle-schooler with (A) an overactive imagination and (B) an apparent case of PPS (see:
Footloose, above). Alice and her best friend Dot Get Into Stuff. [And the author is apparently going to revive it - the first new strip in years, i just discovered, was posted
yesterday (15 August 12)!]
Punch an' Pie - Sequel to earlier comic, Queen of Wands, featuring secondary characters from that strip. Angela, one of the main chaacters is referenced on the TVTropes page titled "
Transparent Closet". She says of her friends: "They knew before I did. There's nothing like a loud chorus of 'Christ, FINALLY' to take the wind out of your sails."
Quiltbag - Sequel to
Pennie & Aggie. Title is an acronym for "Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Asexual, Gay." I like it, but wouldn't attempt to describe it.
Sister Claire - Originally subtitled "Pregnant Nun - Holy Crap!" Seriously silly. Another one i wouldn't attempt to describe - it has Nun Fu, witches, a blue-skinned
soi-disant angel named Gabrielle ...and then there's the
silly stuff. Often Very Funny.
Sombulus - I just posted a long piece about this one, which i just found last night,
over at the Comfy Couch.
Spare Keys for Strange Doors - In Britain, the Lifeboat Service is mostly-volunteer, funded through public donations. Apparently the Brit approach to Men in Black-type operations is similar. The adventures of one pair of agents.
Sunset Grill = The titular bar & grill is in a far-future analog of the seamier parts of New Orleans, and is run by two veterans - a legless human and his partner/girlfriend, who is a "Sunlander" - a green-skinned artificially-created subrace of humanity, bred to live and work in extreme conditions and the story's analog of blacks. The story begins with a young and somewhat naive "Blue Boy" (an Imperial Army trooper) wandering into the Grill without realising what he was getting into. Rather like
Datachasers (see above), the story grew branches and twists and turns an is close to what TVTropes describes as a "Kudzu Plot". But it's very
tasty kudzu.
Widdershins - Widdershins is a university city in an alternate-universe Victorian England where magic works. Which is what the University specialises in teaching. However, the closest we've come to the University itself is a young wizard who was Sent Down because he developed what can only be called involuntary magical kleptomania. Without any intent on his part, his magic keeps stealing small objects from people around him. Which leads to Big Trouble for him and a female Sherlock Holmes analog when he accidentally steals the magical bracelet that is the mark of the Thief King from said Thief King, Macavity (yes, i know), as Macavity picks
his pocket. As with so many of my favourites, that's the
least outrageous aspect of the story... (By the same author as the completed {and recommended} fantasy comic,
Darken.)
Zortic - Zortic is a little green alien in a universe obsessed with Earth pop culture. He goes on a TV trivia quiz show and wins the top prize ... a Consolation-class starship. ("That's it?" "Yep - it's the entire prize!") Well, actually, he wins a weekend at a famous resort with actress Zoie Zolster (she has purple skin), portrayer of Suzie Starstress, sidekick to action hero Blast Rocketron in a series of popular films ... who's just finished shooting the first "Suzie Starstress feature. She's a snob and a bit of a bitch, but eventually comes to see that Zortic is a Good Guy. She also learns an important lesson that
Harry Caine could have warned her about - never break up with your producer before your film is edited and in release. And so she and Zortic (and engineer/general crew Splink) are off on adventures galore. (There was an earlier series oz Zortic - same characters, similar elements - that was more parody and less narrative; Zortic and Zoie were co-workers at a fast-food joint before he won the ship. The series tagline was "If parody has a name, it must be Zortic!" That series is available online
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