Webcomic List updates:

Moved Aurora from "stuff I want to read" to "reading list"

Added [un]Divine to "finished comics" (with a note that it's since been resurrected on Patreon)

Added Facing The Sun to "stuff I want to read" (I read a bunch of it last year but got distracted and never caught up)

And, by submitters' popular demand, the precise moment that Tedd Understood:

If you don't mind me asking, how do you pick Tedd's gender on any given part of the comic?

It varies. Sometimes there’s a plot reason, sometimes it’s just vibes.

It can be as simple as “I think Tedd would be feminine right now.”

You keep saying "Build a website" but doesn't that cost money?

It does! Like basically any other profession or hobby there are expenses eventually, and hosting is just another one like the tablet or the bristol board.

Generally my advice is to start out hosting somewhere free like ComicFury, both to see how well you actually like maintaining a long term project and how seriously you want to take it. If it turns out it's important enough to you that you want to turn it into a career or ensure its stability, you find a way to sustain it. In my case, I hosted Kidd Commander on tumblr for the first fifty pages or so, realized how unstable that was and how much it would upset me if they changed their content policies or functionality in ways that would harm my comic (which they have, several times), and started making efforts to drum up enough support to maintain its own site. Every person running a website of any kind went through some form of this process at some point!

If you give it a shot and find you DON'T really care to dump resources into it, if it isn't that big of a deal to you if it goes down with a company's ship one day, then it's probably not worth the trouble or the money! Websites are a lot of work and resources, and while in my opinion it's a good trade not everyone would agree. Maybe you have other places you need to put your money or your time, you have other things that take priority that means you don't elect to drop money on something that's more like a hobby, that's fine. This isn't like, backhanded either; not everyone DOES want to fool with all this, and even if you're into making comics that doesn't mean you also have strong enough feelings about longevity or ownership to want to put in the effort to own your own space.

Whether it's something you want to carve out for yourself is up to you, I can't help y'all with that. A lot of my aim when I bring up hosting is to remind people about the inherent risk they're taking by relying entirely on corporations to house these passion projects that are long term and, frequently, unattractive to the shareholders who will probably gain influence over the corporation during the course of the work. The internet is aggressively centralized, to the point a lot of people have gotten so comfortable with apps and for-profit social media that they trust them with a lot more than they should and aren't even aware there are other options. If it's free, you're the product, and as soon as you stop being profitable they will sweep up everything you've built and send you out empty handed. If that's not alarming to you, by all means set up shop somewhere like Webtoon. Really! But if it is, figure out what your goals are and get to work.

Adelaide and the Shooting Star is the best new-to-me webcomic of 2024 and I cannot wait to see where it’s going. Get montage’d (and then go read the comic what are you waiting for seriously it’s so good)!

Also the author is on tumblr!

Obscure Webcomic 2.0 - Round 3-A

adelaide and the shooting star - Ongoing

Adelaide Hartley has found herself in a strange, seaside town called Constance. There's new sights, new places, and new people- people who won't know about how much of a cowardly, awful witch she is.

But after running into Lucy Maxwell, the knight of Constance, the Shooting Star (!), and a cavalcade of sidekicks and villains that follow in her wake, it seems that Adelaide's new life won't be quite as cut and dry as she hopes it'll be.

Whatever happened to Arabella Edwards? What's with that look Will Pollux's always giving her? Will Riley Huynh ever give a straight answer? And what's with that ghost hiding in the corner of her eye...?

He Would Never Notice Me! - Hiatus

body switching shenanigans! Keerati is a high schooler and a boulderer (rocking climbing) who has reached her plateau and can't find a way to improve her skills. One day she wakes up body switched with her classmate Jun. Hijinks ensue as Keerati and Jun bicker about what happened, and to make it all worse, Keerati's best friend Yu has a crush on Jun. On hiatus as the creator has to focus on their real life job :(

El Goonish Shive news: It finally happened! Tedd looked at Sam while in Seer-mode!

Hopefully this will lead Tedd eventually finding out that Sam is the reason Grace first started looking into trans stuff, and therefore is the reason Grace was able to inform Tedd that being genderfluid is a thing all the way back during Squirrel Prophet (amazing that it took another MTG tournament storyline to finally get the payoff for that). I also hope this leads to Sam being integrated into the main friend group, thereby leading to him appearing in the story more often.

That would be great, wouldn’t it? I’d love to see him get more regular appearances and have his character fleshed out a bit further. And regardless, I’m looking forward to seeing how Tedd reacts to this information. (Beyond “obvious delight,” that is. Compare this panel to the first few chapters of the comic. Gender euphoria is a hell of a drug (positive). You love to see it.)

The notification for this ask, on the other hand,

Did I have any justification for expecting it to continue “…and Elliot…”?

No.

Did that stop me?

Also no.

Am I going to stop hoping?

Also also no.

El Goonish Shive news: It finally happened! Tedd looked at Sam while in Seer-mode!

Hopefully this will lead Tedd eventually finding out that Sam is the reason Grace first started looking into trans stuff, and therefore is the reason Grace was able to inform Tedd that being genderfluid is a thing all the way back during Squirrel Prophet (amazing that it took another MTG tournament storyline to finally get the payoff for that). I also hope this leads to Sam being integrated into the main friend group, thereby leading to him appearing in the story more often.

That would be great, wouldn’t it? I’d love to see him get more regular appearances and have his character fleshed out a bit further. And regardless, I’m looking forward to seeing how Tedd reacts to this information. (Beyond “obvious delight,” that is. Compare this panel to the first few chapters of the comic. Gender euphoria is a hell of a drug (positive). You love to see it.)

El Goonish Shive news: It finally happened! Tedd looked at Sam while in Seer-mode!

Hopefully this will lead Tedd eventually finding out that Sam is the reason Grace first started looking into trans stuff, and therefore is the reason Grace was able to inform Tedd that being genderfluid is a thing all the way back during Squirrel Prophet (amazing that it took another MTG tournament storyline to finally get the payoff for that). I also hope this leads to Sam being integrated into the main friend group, thereby leading to him appearing in the story more often.

That would be great, wouldn’t it? I’d love to see him get more regular appearances and have his character fleshed out a bit further. And regardless, I’m looking forward to seeing how Tedd reacts to this information. (Beyond “obvious delight,” that is. Compare this panel to the first few chapters of the comic. Gender euphoria is a hell of a drug (positive). You love to see it.)

It looks like Veronica Triumphant’s Webtoon page is down, but you can read it on Tumblr at @veronicatriumphant.

Obscure Webcomic 2.0 - Round 3-C

Undertow - Abandoned

[no description given]

Veronica Triumphant - Ongoing

“Just a nerdy trans girl trying to make her way in the big ol’ world.” An autobiographical series of one-off comics.

Beth's top expressions

I found many webcomics from the wlw tournament! I have the master post saved in case I need a new one

Im glad the master post is working as intended!

oh no I'm caught up

aurora is good

it's really good

you should read it

I'm aware that the vibe is Completely different, but I can't see a guy in a mook-stomping action montage without thinking

SMASH LAMPJAW! CRUD BONEMEAL! BUFF DRINKLOTS! BIG McLARGEHUGE!

oh shit

it's The Scene

I'm aware that the vibe is Completely different, but I can't see a guy in a mook-stomping action montage without thinking

SMASH LAMPJAW! CRUD BONEMEAL! BUFF DRINKLOTS! BIG McLARGEHUGE!

pictured: a realization that I've had to have an embarrassing number of times because apparently it just would not stick

I'm aware that the vibe is Completely different, but I can't see a guy in a mook-stomping action montage without thinking

SMASH LAMPJAW! CRUD BONEMEAL! BUFF DRINKLOTS! BIG McLARGEHUGE!

oh hey I know you

I'm aware that the vibe is Completely different, but I can't see a guy in a mook-stomping action montage without thinking

SMASH LAMPJAW! CRUD BONEMEAL! BUFF DRINKLOTS! BIG McLARGEHUGE!

I'm aware that the vibe is Completely different, but I can't see a guy in a mook-stomping action montage without thinking

SMASH LAMPJAW! CRUD BONEMEAL! BUFF DRINKLOTS! BIG McLARGEHUGE!

okay not exclusively girl but the point still stands

I'm aware that the vibe is Completely different, but I can't see a guy in a mook-stomping action montage without thinking

SMASH LAMPJAW! CRUD BONEMEAL! BUFF DRINKLOTS! BIG McLARGEHUGE!