Sci Fi Webcomics - Television Tropes & Idioms

A subcategory of Webcomics involving science fiction-based plotlines. Pretty much anything that makes regular, plot-intensive use of objects which are scientifically fantastic qualifies here.

We know that drawing the line between these and fantasy can get a bit confusing, so just use your best judgement. However, if it's a modern-day setting with only a few sci-fi elements for humorous effect, then it's probably Embellished rather than sci-fi.

Feel free to add comics to the list in alphabetical order. All links should be Wiki Words, even if we don't have a page for the comic yet, or you'll break the new indexing system. If a page is added for a work, please remove the external link.

A Broken Winter: Takes place on a distant world with no sun where humanity is divided into two countries. The story follows Kokkan, a brutally traumatized child, who is raised by a soldier, Kuoda, after his father is framed and branded as a traitor.
Abstract Gender
The Adventures Of Joe The Circle
The Adventures Of Superhero Girl
Afterlife Blues: A petty criminal is blackmailed into serving as a guide to his home planet, New Abilene. But rescuing an Artificial Intelligence from a technologically fearful planet may not be so simple.
After The Dream: What if the government's experiments with mind control didn't stop with MK-ULTRA?
A Girl And Her Fed: People in a federal government program are losing their ability to think and feel for themselves. But why are they watching the Girl, and why is she talking to the ghost of Benjamin Franklin?
Alcatury: [1] An out of this world story. With intelligent fish, faeries and "high" elves.
Alien Dice: Described in the article as a deconstruction of the Mons genre, where unfortunate Human Aliens have to play a Deadly Game of Gotta Catch 'Em All. Its mood ranges from lighthearted to (despite the strange premise) pretty depressing.
Alpha Shade: War/espionage story spanning both Earth and the titular parallel world.
Alter [2]: A Real Robot Genre sci-fi story set Twenty Minutes In The Future spanning Earth and a crapsack parallel universe.
American Barbarian: action and adventure in a comic-book setting, purporting to be futuristic America.
Among The Chosen: Baphomet and Psychic Lad, vs an ex-GRU Commander, who fight for control over the unaware avatars of gods.
Angels 2200: A gritty Space Opera with an all girl cast and plenty of Yuri Genre.
Antihero For Hire, a comic by the same author as ADVENTURERS! It's set in a stereotypical grim future with Super Heroes, involving all the tropes one might expect. And usually dancing up and down on their graves, laughing.
Aptitude Test
Aquapunk: A soft sci-fi with fantasy elements as well. An action and political drama with heavy doses of mysticism, stone robots, and aliens. And yes, the whole story revolves around the underwater setting.
Arthur, King of Time and Space: Multiple Alternate Universe versions of King Arthur, including the original legend, IN SPACE! and in the modern day.
Artifice: An android soldier fails to kill his target and attacks the team sent to retrieve him. Now he must answer to his corporate masters—and they are not happy.
A Tale Of Fiction: A story of unhumans' struggles against the discriminating, domineering DUF, using magique and unhuman abilities, and also of two guys who just happen to wander into the battle. Has a serious story arc, but also keeps up a lot of humour, sometimes unintentionally when the German authors lose their grasp on their English.
Attack Of The Super Wizards: There's a threat so big even an Invincible Hero can't handle it, so he peers out across The Ages Of Super Hero Comics to field a team of himself from across history.
Baby Aliens
Beardy Bastards
Blade Kitten
Blue Yonder
Books Don't Work Here: The story of a webcomic actress and the challenges she has to face. You know imaginary scripts, unreliable narrators, plot holes, meta walls, wacky physics, mad science, and convincing people to pay her for any of it.
Breakpoint City: A boy and his dog travel to the future.
Broken Space (website): A Steam Punk/Magitek story set in an alien dimension, alternately funny and dramatic. Revolves around a doctor putting his life back together after a revolution on his homeworld, an assassin severed from her former employers, and a mad magician-scientist with plans for immortality.
Carpe Chaos: An independent science-fiction space-opera webcomic about five alien races who learn to travel between stars. It focuses on the ways their cultures collide and how they work to solve their problems.
Casey And Andy: The story of a pair of Mad Scientists and their wacky hijinx as they deal with their girlfriends, try to Take Over the World and kill each other. Repeatedly.
Chaos Theory: A group of teenagers fight off an army of aliens.
Chester 5000 XYV: A tale about a Victorian housewife and the robot who loves her. Standard story, but told in a different format.
Ciem Webcomic Series: A series of Sims Machinomics chronicling the life and times of a college-age mutant superheroine as she tries to balance her sacred calling to fight off genocidal aliens, government conspiracies, and other forms of evil; with her more mundane ambitions to start a family. Told in the DVD-Storybook Hybrid Webcomic format, which is loosely inspired by The Sims Story Exchange. Ciem is being used primarily as a way to push for the acceptance of the DSHW format by the webcomics mainstream.
Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman, a Half-Life 2 webcomic with a plot constructed almost entirely of lampshading and subverting Videogame Tropes. Finished.
Cosmic Hero: A guy finds an space suit, and must join an intergalactic army. (It's on a undefined haitus)
The Continentals: A webcomic set in post Jack the Ripper England where Continental Operative Jeffrey Tiffen Smythe and his gender bending partner the adventress Lady Fiona Fiziwigg investigating a series of brutal "mangling" murders uncovers a tangled web of intrigue, adventure—and murder!
Crimson Dark: This very good webcomic uses a unique art style, involving rotoscoping 3D scenes, and is heavily inspired by Firefly.
The Crossoverlord: A superhero crossover webcomic.
- Crossoverkill
Curvy: A bunch of oversexed young folk travel among various alternate Earths, each with an obvious theme.
Cwynhild's Loom: A cybernetically-enhanced former soldier lives on the run after refusing to have her tech deactivated and soon stumbles upon a plot that threatens all of humankind. Takes place on a terraformed Mars.
The Cyantian Chronicles: A Science Fiction Soap Opera featuring furries as technologically advanced aliens. The Chronicles are composed of a handful of different webcomic series at different times and places in the continuity; the most prominent of these are Akaelae and Campus Safari.
The Daily Dalek: Humorous webcomic about the nemesis of Doctor Who leading ordinary lives.
Dare Sensei: A Doctor Who-based comic by Marybell and Toyloli with a distinctly Japanese approach.
Darths & Droids: A new strip from the makers of Irregular Webcomic!, which translates the Star Wars saga into a Tabletop RPG gone amok (using screenshots from the films).
D&DS9: Inspired by Darths & Droids, same concept but applies it to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Dawn of Time: The adventures of a prehistorical girl living 100 million years in the past. Time travel is involved and there is an ancient civilization.
Dax Comics (website): The story follows an intergalactic rapscallion of a mercenary known as Dax who finds himself saddled with a young girl. Hijinks ensue!
Derelict: A scavenger lives on her boat in a post-apocalyptic world.
Dicebox (website): Set IN SPACE! and in the future, but most definitely not a Space Opera, this low-key Slice of Life saga concerns a married couple (both female) aimlessly traveling from world to world. The Metaplot concerns the Mysterious Past of one of the two principal characters. Beautifully rendered and novelistic, this is Better Than It Sounds.
Dissonance: Two scientists discover a peculiar animal, and try to determine what sort of creature it is. May or may not be a fantasy story in disguise, with a realistic portrayal of scientific research as applied to something that makes no scientific sense.
Divis Morte: An alien planet gets invaded by merciless conquerors from other world. Those merciless conquerors are humans.
Domain Tnemrot: Gladiators wear special bands to become super powered as they fight to the death.
Dresden Codak: Kick-ass art, kick-ass philoso-nerdic themes. Be prepared to consult The Other Wiki for references.
Drive: The story of a resurgent 25th-century Spanish Empire founded on monopolistic control of Imported Alien Phlebotinum — the eponymous Faster-Than-Light drive. A small amnesiac alien and the rag-tag crew that adopt him may hold the key to saving Earth in a brewing interstellar conflict...
Dr. Nonami: A young female scientist battles her evil arch-nemesis for the fate of the world in this lighthearted adventure.
The Easy Breather: A smart blonde, a man who glows in the dark and a female dwarf campaign for truth, justice and clean air.
E Depth Angel [3]: Set in the future, a young techno-nurse tries to save the humanity of cyborgs everywhere, including that of her client, the cold-hearted Lien Lei. Done in manga style, with great art and great mecha, and is one of the few in the mecha genre that appeals to both genders.
Electric Wonderland: Platypus Comix presents the Internet of the future, seen from an Intrepid Reporter and/or her six allies.
Elf Blood: Science Fantasy, in which two factions of magical creatures wage a war of ideology. One unfortunate girl stands trapped in between, desperate to unearth her hidden heritage.
The Ends: A story of survival and revelation in a post-apocalyptic wasteland apparently caught in a Groundhog Day Loop of death and rebirth.
Endtown: A story that contrasts its funny animals setting with its apocalypse setting. Much, Much, Better Than It Sounds.
Escape From Terra: A story of the anarcho-capitalist asteroid Ceres and earth's attempts to bring them under its control.
Everyday Heroes: The story of Punch Clock Hero Mr. Mighty and his family's everyday life.
Evil Plan: Evil Plan is a colored manga styled comic that takes the superhero world and flips it, viewing things from the supervillain's perspective. The story follows Dr. Kinesis' journey on the road to world conquest.
Fall City Blues: Follows the lives of Lex and Lucy, alternate reality versions of the same person who live together.
Far from Home: A human boy awakens in a metal pod just as it plummets to the surface of an alien planet. Conscripted into forced labor for a race of decadent beings, he finds himself the newest member of a very unusual work team.
Far from Home: A human boy travels with his parents in space, and the Show Within a Show of two heroes of the Space Patrol.
Far Out There: To quote the tagline, it's "The webcomic where things happen... IN SPACE!"
The Fighting Stranger [4]: Set After the End. A man wakes up without memory outside city populated by humans and robots.
FreakAngels: Warren Ellis' (Planetary, Nextwave, Transmetropolitan, The Authority) stab at an online comic. Eleven psionic 23-year-olds try to hold civilization together After the End in the flooded London borough of Whitechapel. Once described by the author as, "What if the children from Village of the Damned grew up to become disaffected twenty-somethings?"
Freefall: The main characters include various sentient robots, a larcenous squid in an environment suit, a mad veterinarian (okay, not really) and an engineer who's a genetically engineered wolf (and the sanest person in the strip). Contains a surprisingly high amount of real science.
Furr: A series about three warrior cats, a wolf pup, a genre-savvy alien vixen, and their odd adventures.
GAAK (hosted here): When aliens from outer space lead by the kooky maniacal Jim Carrey like alien Gakk and his posse of Acme Instant Alien Kreatures invade a small suburban town and hatch a fiendish plot to take over the earth and meet the original cast of "Star Trek", four misfit teens named Zach, Jemmy, Plato, and Chubs set out to stop the invasion, save the world, and show the aliens that the kids of america don't take crap from nobody—And nobody snatchers, either.
Galactic Maximum: Adventure In SPACE!
Galaxion: Life. Love. Hyperspace.
The Garden: A science fiction webcomic about an "angel", a "demon", and a deceptively cheery young woman.
General Protection Fault
Genesis Chronicles: A Massively Multiplayer Crossover starring Emiko Kawasaki, a young agent of an inter-dimensional police force whose job it is to protect against DUBs.
Get Medieval: A group of Human Aliens, on the run from the mob, get stranded in fourteenth-century Europe. (France, mostly.) Finished, and on reruns with author's commentary.
Girl Genius: In a Gaslamp Fantasy Victorian world that never was, hapless Transylvania Polygnostic U. student Agatha Heterodyne discovers that she has inherited her late father's talent for Mad Science... and his numerous enemies. Started out as a print comic before making its way to the web. Noted with great favor for updating exactly when promised, at the stroke of midnight, three days a week.
Girls In Space: A Space girl and her Earthling friend have exciting space adventures in their upgraded VW Camper Van.
Glorious Bounty: What happens between the jobs to four bounty hunters who can't stand each other. Updates Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Gnoph: A girl named Abbey and the symbiote living inside her try to head back to her homeworld to save both their lives, picking up a few companions on the way. The mood alternates bewteen light humor and dark grotesquery, with a side helping of romance.
Goats
GodTm [5] : Some day the intellectual property of God will be owned by a certain animation, media, entertainment, and theme park corporation. The Apocalypse is looming and its up to Reverend Joeb Kim CPA, an ordained minister in the Sacred Order of Accounting, to stop it.
Gone To Ground
Gone With The Blastwave
Good Ship Chronicles A webcomic about the life on the space ship Gossamer, a.k.a. 'The only dead end in space', a.k.a. 'The final stop for dying Star Corp carreers'. Kinda like Star Trek if it were set in a Crapsack World and the Enterprise was crewed by a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits.
Goost26: website
Gunnerkrigg Court: A Sci-Fi/Urban Fantasy hybrid set in a British boarding school resembling a massive industrial complex. As two girls, Antimony and Kat, investigate strange goings-on involving shadow creatures, robots, creepy classmates, and body-snatching demons, they find themselves in the middle of a larger mystery involving the school and both their parents. Despite the heavy plot implied by the previous sentence, the format of the strip is mostly Slice of Life.
Harbourmaster
Heist - superpowered Phantom Thief takes on the greatest job of his career — heisting an artifact of power from the Space Station base of Pax Americana. Hilarity Ensues.
Helix Industries: Biopunk-themed science fiction with Psychic Powers thrown in. Set in a dystopian city Twenty Minutes into the Future and follows a mentally unstable young woman who was the subject of a mysterious experiment.
Heroes Unite
- Acrobat: After the death of his mentor, a sidekick decides to continue fighting. But is he prepared for the world that awaits him?
- The Blonde Marvel
- Dasien: A nigh-invulnerable blonde in a Stripperiffic red suit fights crime.
- Energize
The Incredible And Awe-Inspiring Adventures Of The Amazing Plasma Man [6]: A superhero comic revolving around the eponymous Plasma-Man, but also including a cast of his enemies and allies.
The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: Bob Smithson is a Weirdness Magnet (or rather, the roof of his house is), whose life has filled with aliens of various kinds, robots, Men in Black (agents Ben and Jerry) and genetically engineered creatures, one of which is now his adopted daughter. Cute and silly but with surprisingly likable characters.
Inhuman: Very complex and character development-heavy sci-fi webcomic that contains its fair share of action scenes as well. The art style is unique and improved considerably over the course of the comic. Contains explicit violence and some suggestive content, so it's recommended for readers aged 16 years old or more.
Ink Proof Cannon: A sci-fi/horror anthology webcomic.
Insecticomics: A Transformers Photo Comic that mixes comedy and deconstruction/mocking of the Transformers fandom itself.
International ComicContinuity: A large collection of intertwined webcomics that take place in an alternate dimension filled with humanoid bio-organic beings.
Intragalactic
The Intrepid Girlbot: The day-to-day life of a young gynoid with body image issues told entirely without dialog.
Irregular Webcomic!: This comic, written by Australian physicist David Morgan-Mar, is unique in that the artwork is composed of, not drawings, but LEGO mini-people and figurines from table-top role-playing game sets. The stories use plot arcs to parody many classic films and pop-culture icons, most notably Star Wars, James Bond and the late Steve Irwin. Bad puns and cerebral Techno Babble humor are the order of the day.
I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space!!!: Megan Rose Gedris originally started it as a cheesy parody/affectionate pastiche of 1950's sci-fi pulp paperback comics featuring pirates, aliens, and lesbians, but the comic has gone through Cerebus Syndrome.
Jesus Christ In The Name Of The Gun
Jix: A blue-furred alien princess with multiple personalities in New York.
Joy Ride
Jump Leads: British sci-fi comedy in the style of Red Dwarf or Hitchhiker's, Jump Leads is the tale of two trainee dimensional travelers who are stuck jumping between random parallel universes, trying to find their way home.
The Jupiter Palladium: Superhero comic focusing on a team of superhumans in an Adventure Town.
KiLA iLO: Aliens find out earth is inhabited.
Knowledge Is Power:[7] a group of college students gain superpowers based on their homework assignments at the time that an Eldritch Abomination tries to break into their universe.
The Adventures Of Kanira Baxter [8]: A CGI comic set in the far future and following the eponymous Kanira Baxter, who has adventures
Last Res0rt: Mysterious Chick signs up for a Deadly Game Reality Show, competing with a bunch of condemend criminals... THEN finds out she's a vampire on top of all this. Supposedly the internet's first/only Cyberpunk Furry Comic, although the supernatural aspects feel very much at home in all of this.
The Law Of Purple: Some stories begin in school, or someone's apartment. This one starts on a spaceship. Follows Red, Blue, Green, and Whitey as they start a new life as refugees in hiding...on Earth. Mixes humor and serious topics.
Legostar Galactica: A LEGO pastiche not only of Battlestar Galactica, but also of Star Wars and other science fiction franchises.
Lego Space The Comic: As the name implies, a comic that gives a story to LEGO's long-running Space line.
leveL: Government conspiracy, underground civilizations you have to parachute to, and people turning into silly putty.
Lightbringer: A classical superhero story about the eponymous hero, written by Linkara.
The List: The story of Levi Cole, an assassin that targets superheroes.
Lizzy: Follows the adventures of country girl and possible Tyke Bomb Lizzy as she travels to the big, dirty, Cyber Punk city. The Evil Empire has taken a mysterious interest in her. Nonlinear storytelling hints that it may involve Time Travel.
LOGOS [9]: In the far future, on a distant planet, a man made of plastics discovers what it truly means to be human. Some nudity, some violence, as such some pages Not Safe for Work. Updates daily.
Love And Capes
The Lydian Option: Comic about a small group of human prisoners in an asteroid prison dominated by hostile aliens.
A Mad Tea-Party: Sci-fi comic about two genetically engineered girls caught between various hostile political factions (and some aliens) in future Japan.
Marooned: The humorous and touching tale of Captain John and his sidekick robot, Asimov (along with an ensemble cast) who become stranded on Mars.
Magellan: Newcomer Kaycee Jones joins students at the Superhero School Magellan Justice Academy to train to become a part of the elite Force Magellan.
MAG-ISA: This comic is about crazy people who get a chip planted in their heads.
Manmachine: A hard science fiction epic incorporating global politics, artificial intelligence, and an electronic music score, at fightevilwithevil.com.
Marsh Rocket website: Gritty futuristic setting revolving around a Pulp Fiction}esque Suitcase, with distinctive art style and a degree of sci fi hardness (while characters have portable forcefields, they have clear limitations, and no lazer guns).
Max Zing [10]: A nice young space tyrant inherits a planet and, following in the footsteps of his idol Ming the Merciless, sets out to conquer the universe. Only without inconveniencing anyone. Written by a Canadian.
Meanwhile: An interactive story about a boy who, on a chance visit to a Mad Scientist's house, is given the opportunity to test a few inventions. Written by Jason Shiga.
Mechagical Girl Lisa ANT: involves a "Magical Girl," a 4-inch-tall alien ant mentor, and human-sized mecha.
Melonpool: The adventures of the incompetent crew of the Steel Duck. One of the earliest sci-fi webcomics.
.Memoria: Three children find a house in the woods where a witch is said to live. When the younger boy vanishes, the house is gone — and the older two set out to find him. They soon learn it's psionic powers, not magic — and they've got it.
Messenger: A runaway girl, her dead best friend, and a group of genetically altered creatures try to survive in Earth's distant future.
Mind Mistress: Mentally challenged girl gets device that can turn her into smartest person on Earth, but if she don't change back for seven days, she will die from brain cancer.
Minions at Work
Minor Acts Of Heroism: The hilarious adventures of three twelve-year-old superhero sidekicks, as they find out who each other are, hang out, and try to stop the Big Bad from killing people without dying, so far. Beautiful, well-colored drawings.
A Miracle of Science: Set in 2148, a detective from Earth and a technologically enhanced psychiatrist from the hive mind of Mars track down a stereotypical mad genius bent on stellar control. This webcomic taps into the psyche of a Mad Scientist, and the science of memetics, which can be used to cure (or cause) psychological issues. The comic even made a name for it: Science-Related Memetic Disorder (or SRMD, for short). Ran from 2002 to 2007, with notable comments from the author and artist.
A Moment Of Peace: A post-apocalyptic romantic slice of life that involves monsters and gods.
Monstar: In Australia, green-eyed Monstar deals with everyday life, hangs out with his friend Bunnee, and occasionally saves the world.
My Life at War: Betsy-Ray is a mecha pilot for the 1st Investment Recovery Battalion, a mercenary company. Giant robots and capitalism.
Narbonic: Answering an innocent job offer, Dave Davenport is drawn into a shocking spiral of vice, crime and moral depravity. Hopelessly ensnared by a madwoman's feminine wiles, can he return to the world of sanity before it is... too late? Formerly on a subscription site, the story ended in late 2006, whereupon the entire archive was made free. Highly recommended! Available in archive form and in reruns with author's commentary.
New America: A story of captives and a dysfunctional family, taking place in and around a human colony on the planet Novaus.
Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life: A philosophical road comic about two unemployed robots on an improvised interplanetary voyage of self discovery.
Not A Villain: As the author puts it: A reformed hacker, an addictive virtual game, can she stay honest?
Not So Distant: As the author puts it: It's a story about time travel, everyday life and an alien failing at integrating into human society.
Nothing Comes Naturally
Oceans In The Sky: A rather new webcomic featuring talking dolls, Space Pirates and a flying boat.
Orbit: A comedic webcomic featuring the planets in our solar system, with the main storyline following Earth's mid-life crisis.
Out Of The Dead Land: A Photo Comic about the end of the Transformers war, using only toys from the Transformers Alternators line.
Outrim: website: a hard science fiction comic about genetically uplifted rodents operating a scruffy space freighter. Lots of shown work, recommended. Ended in December 2008.
Outsider: the adventures of a castaway human ensign trying to negotiate for humanity in a galaxy at war... and one mis-step, much less choosing the wrong side, could have unpleasant consequences.
Paonia Pawns [11]: A Sci Fi webcomic featuring time travel, alternate universes, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. A long-running webcomic over 1000 strips and counting.
Particle Fiction: 'A monthly comic book that just happens to be online' which passes through a variety of genres, including Sci-Fi.
Patchwork Champions: In a world rife with Superheroes, two known as Timebender and Lucky Ladd try to make a living and fight crime in their home city.
Pet Projects: Focuses on a witch named Notle, and her troublesome pets, Kaeley the Cat, and Spike Beagle.
Planet B: Four alien friends try to make their planet a better place.
Planet Zebeth
The Pocalypse
Power Nap: A man with a menial job, and sleep deprivation because of an allergy to a mandatory sleep-replacement drug, struggles to maintain his sanity in a corporate Dystopia.
Project 0: An orphan and his two friends flee across a wasteland to escape persecution, but what they find changes everything...
Quantum Vibe: In the year 2523, Nicole Oresme of L-5 City gets job from Dr. O Murchadha involving quantum vibremonics.
Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger
r-typic Not be confused with R-Type. Hardsuit webcomic.
Relatively Irrelevant [12]: Chaos Theory (a reboot of the earlier Theory of Relativity series) follows a time traveller as he meddles with time paradoxes, encounters alien beings and panics around murderous simulant androids.
Romantically Apocalyptic: An ambiguously-gendered Cloudcuckoolander and his/her subordinates wander the devastated wastelands of a post-apocalyptic setting and try to entertain themselves amongst the nothingness of their world.
Ronin Galaxy: A group of futuristic ronin wander the galaxy seeking mercenary work with the promise of adventure and cold hard cash.
Ron Planet: The last astronaut on Earth is commissioned by NASA to investigate suspicious activities on the moon. Created by the Brothers Chaps (the creators of Homestar Runner) and their friend Craig Zobel.
Root Rot: Three young interns of a secret paranormal investigation agency may be in over their heads when their extracurricular activities turn magically deadly.
Ruby Nation: A sequel of sorts to Ruby Nation, serving as a deconstruction of the teenage superhero narrative.
Rubys World: A teenage girl who gains superhuman powers after a freak lab accident and her friends battle the schemes of the nefarious Beagle Corporation and its twisted genetic experiments.
Runners [13]: A ragtag crew of smugglers are trying to make ends meet when they take on a mysterious girl as cargo. ... If it sounds familiar, it's a coincidence.
Sacred Pie: Three 20-something humans from our time are sent into the future to find Sacred Objects and defeat the forces of Satan.
Sarab: Sarab lives in a world where humanity has nearly destroyed nature and now uses technology to conserve it. Has focused on humor and action sequences so far, to great effect.
Schlock Mercenary: Fairly Hard Science Fiction in the 31st century. Stars, among others, an alien with Bizarre Alien Biology, a Mad Scientist and The Captain. Consistent humor, and we mean consistent — Schlock has been running seven days a week, without missing a day, since the year 2000. Even when a transformer blew it updated off-site at his blog and in various other places.
Sarah Zero: In The Future, The Internet has been shut down and replaced by a corporation-controlled pay-to-play network called the Contranet, which is so integrated with daily life that interpersonal relations have been reduced to shallow friend whoring. Meanwhile, Sarah Zierinski tries to work out her own emotional problems and run a nightclub without being destroyed by Killer Robots or horse assassins. Notable for its liberal use of the Design Student's Orgasm.
SIN [14] : Set after the WWIII, in a time were resources are rare and fought over and humanity is mostly hidding in large, forified cities with a class-society. So far this manga/webcomic has followed two seperate timelines.
Skin Horse: From the creator of Narbonic. An understaffed and underfunded government department attempts to deal with the creations of Mad Science.
Space Navy(website): An affectionate parody of Star Trek chronicling a small fleet of second-string ships that must cross the ocean of space on their way to save an alien species and the universe from extinction or worse.
Spacetrawler: A story about six young adults, kidnapped from Earth to help in a galactic fight to free an enslaved race. Or something. Features adventure and frequent Mood Whiplash.
Speak No Evil [15]: In the future, cheap foreign labor is sent to asteroids and planets for mining. This Eisner Award Nominated comic tells the story of one worker as he struggles through a tough and sometimes absurd world.
Special School
Spiddrelli: A thousand years after the 10 great scientists sought to improve the world. The inhabitants now try to cope with the changes the scientists' inventions have made.
Spy6teen: Model High School Student, Cally Calhoon, moonlights as a high-tech super-spy between classes.
Starcrossd Destiny website: In 2010, after a series of weird murders, five teenagers from New Orleans gained superpowers. Five years later, the teenagers have become outcasts, and with the cops and the Cajun mafia on their tails, they must now use their powers to survive the streets of New Orleans. But little did they knew, that something like they've never seen before is about to happen.
Starfighter: A navigator/fighter pair in a future space station fight in pitched space dogfights while having a rather steamy relationship outside of battle.
Starslip: What Kristofer Straub did after Checkerboard Nightmare, an affectionate, character-driven sci-fi parody with well-defined arcs.
Star Something: A collaboration between Webrunner and Ian Jones-Quartey, a hilarious parody of every sci-fi trope you can possibly imagine. Unfortunately didn't last very long.
String Theory: "The disastrous rise of a supervillain superstar". It's basically about the life of a somewhat abnormal scientist who quickly falls into a life of crime and supervillainy.
Supermassive Black Hole A Star: A hard sci-fi comic in cinematic format, set in the center of our galaxy.
Supermegatopia: Arguably scifi, an affectionate look at Marvel, DC, and several other big (and small!) name Superhero series, done in a funny-animal/furry style. With cheesecake. LOTS of cheesecake.
Supernovas: Superhero comic about four teens hit with a cosmic Mass Super Empowering Event... and the prisoners in the maximum-security prison nearby who were also exposed to the event. Ongoing and in its infancy as of this writing, so few plot details have been revealed so far, but it appears to be about the teens' adventures as superheroes. Rather like most webcomics...
Suppression: A reclusive sculptor teams up an old friend, a secretive general, and a soldier who's way out of uniform to unravel the mysteries of a plagued town. Features giant robots designed to fight demons.
Sweet and Sour Grapes: A teenage girl living in the jungle teams up with a centuries old ghost from an "ancient" civilization.
Terinu: A boy from a genetically engineered race is on the run from both Space Pirates and his race's creator. Aliens in the series are either rubber forehead aliens or furries. Beautiful full page black and white comic pages.
Thog Infinitron: Four million years ago, an alien research team accidentally causes a mammoth stampede that tramples an innocent caveman. When the aliens decide to use their medical unit to repair the damage, Thog is accidentally given cybernetic enhancements.
The Thrilling Adventures Of Lovelace And Babbage: A hilarious comic that posing the ultimate question: What if Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace teamed up to fight crime with their massive Difference Engine?
Times Like This: A humor (and sometimes NSFW) comic involving time travel.
T/R-andom Watch: A comic in which a powerful watch causes hilarious transformations.
Tranquility Base: Uses the basis of 'What if the UK had participated in and won the Space Race?', moves the focus to a century or two later, and watches it all go downhill from there. A comedy/parody series, though it does have a running storyline with story arcs.
Transpose Operator: An female amnesiac wakes up in the medical facility of a post-apocalyptic world. She does not have a nice day.
Trans Stellar website: Two aliens, a Holographic Terminal AI, and a telepathic human get hired to smuggle some contraband from one world to another, but end up involved in even more illegal activities. Hilarity Ensues. Went on hiatus for a couple of months and is now back, having experienced a noticeable Art Evolution.
Troops Of Doom: G.I. Joe battles Star Wars for LEGO technology.
TRU-Life Adventures: a war between two time travel organizations constantly intrudes upon the lives of a group of toy store employees.
Trying Human: A comic dealing with Alien Abduction and The Men in Black, as well as the mysterious connection between a translator from the 1940s, an alien and his clone, and a young secretary for the NYPD.
Two Rooks: Futuristic crime noir, set in the vice- and poverty-ridden city of Haven, where criminals and corrupt bureaucrats rule. Follows one criminals attempt to do something about this. Great writing, lovely stark black-and-white art with splashes of color.
Ultimate Letdown: Ultimate Letdown is a webcomic about a not-so-evil supervillain seeking to take over the world – from 9 to 5.
Unicorn Jelly: A scifi-fantasy comic strip. Starts out cute, but gets a little dark. Okay, extremely dark and creepy. Includes a well-thought-out alternate cosmology that goes down to the molecular level. Finished.
Unity: A science-fiction strip set in the distant future. Finished.
UNA Frontiers: It's 300 years "After the End", and two refugees from a besieged technological haven must seek help for their people in a surface world society stuck in a post-nuke horse-and-buggy age.
The Unthinkable Hybrid: A 50s based multi-issue story about a The Smart Guy Prof, a Monster and a trio of kids.
Utopiates: In the near future, science is able to distill human personalities into a drug-form. Called utopiates –a merging of the words utopia and opiate– these drugs allow users to swap personalities with the “mental imprints” of other people. Every user has their own reasons for seeking chemical escape, but all soon learn the cost of soul swapping is extremely high. From the creator of Titanium Rain
Valkyrie Squadron website: Humanity is at war with the droids, and things are looking grim. In the spirit of Battlestar Galactica and Bubblegum Crisis, follow a squadron of four, female warriors and the part that they play in this exciting futuristic war epic. from the creator of Marsh Rocket
Vexxarr: An incompentent alien conqueror and his misfit crew, on their neverending quest to find some place in the universe where they won't get killed.
The Wandering Ones: Most of the human population of earth was wiped out by a viral weapon; 30 years later, several factions are attempting to restore order to the world, some more violently than others. This is the story from the perspective of the Clan of the Hawk, a naturalist group of survivalists and trackers.
Warbot In Accounting: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. A decommissioned military robot must try to get along at a desk job in an accounting firm. It's not a comic for the easily depressed.
Wayward Sons: The story of the Human-like crews of two starship from a distant galaxy who crash-landed on Bronze-Age Earth after traveling through another dimension and gaining superpowers in the process. Their presence and conflicts at the dawn of human civilization give rise to many of the ancient mythologies and legends. Needs More Love and a page of its own! Find it here.
Weapon Brown: Peanuts meets Mad Max — with ~~Charlie~~ Chuck "Weapon" Brown, a Cybernetic gun for hire, running around the wasteland as he unwittingly carries around the MacGuffin — a thermos full of genetically enhanced breast milk. Just as awesome as it sounds.
Westward: Set in an alternate 1999, this is a Space Opera about a group of colonists voyaging on humanity's first faster-than-light starship, the mysterious Martian scientist who guides them, and an Intrepid Reporter who may just uncover a mystery of truly cosmic proportions — if he can come to terms with the ghosts of his own past...
White Noise: A genetically engineered teenager must survive to find out the truth about himself in a post-apocalyptic future.
Wicked Awesome Adventure: Four heroes survive a Darwinian Apocalypse and awake to a very peculiar world. This comic also functions as a text-based adventure game for its readers.
X Com First To Fight website: "Humans and Aliens face off in a conflict where the stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity itself."
Yosh!: A wacky comic that somehow mixes penguins, cat girls, robot girls, magic, and anime jokes into a coherent story about finding acceptance and love in a world full of everything mentioned above.
Zack And Zeke website: An alien struggles to research the human race up close while keeping his sanity. Unfortunately, his only human friend is an absolutely moronic boy, not to mention he's constantly in danger of being captured by Jack, the merciless (albeit not very good) alien hunter.
Zap!: A amnesiac psychic finds himself the captain of a special ship in La Résistance. He bumbles along until his past catches up with him.
The Zombie Hunters: A near-future Post-Zombie Apocalyptic story that follows a motley crew of Disaster Scavengers training in New Meat and trying not to get eaten on the job, as what's left of humanity and government fights to survive, recover from and Find the Cure for The Virus that devastated the globe and created a world of monsters.
Zombie Ranch: A darkly comic look at a future U.S.A. where the West is Wild again in the wake of a Great Zombie Plague, and a reality television show is following the day-to-day tribulations of a young rancher and her crew as they wrangle herds of dangerous undead for profit.