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Webcomic: Heist

Crime Pays.

Heist, a webcomic by Brendan McGinley

, is the story of the world's greatest (and thus least known) super-criminal. Geist (real name unknown) is a hedonistic yet professional Phantom Thief whose only confidant is Jin, a sapient magic ring with the power to make him a living ghost: Invisible. Intangible. Unstoppable.

And bored out of his mind.

Fortunately, he’s hired for the most challenging crime ever: to break into the Space Station headquarters of the most powerful Super Team on his earth and steal an omnipotence-granting artifact known as The Halo. Hilarity Ensues.

#1 "Homeland Insecurity" can be found in a more bandwidth-friendly format here

Tropes used:

Big Brother Is Watching - Patriot and Pax Americana were about to implement this in the first three pages of #1 with a device called the Omnoculus. Geist stole it of course.
The Cape/Captain Patriotic - Patriot looks the part ... right until he opens his mouth and reveals his true colors.
Chekhov's Gun - the hard light technology in #1.
Daddy's Little Villain - Badoura to Lord Hish.
Dynamic Entry - and how!
Evil Overlord - Lord Hish.
Evil Sorcerer - Kahin Al’Maghrebi
Expy - quite a few. Hish in particular seems to be a close Doctor Doom cognate.
Hard Light
Human Cannonball - used for a particularly sublime Dynamic Entry. A Hard Light projector in orbit around Mercury is involved.
Intangible Man
Invisibility
Jerkass - most of the characters including the protagonist despite his superficial playboy charm.
Laser Hallway - his very first appearance in costume. Subverted in that he doesn't need the usual fancy gymnastics and just waltzes through intangible, invisible and untouchable.
Logical Weakness - his combination of intangibility and invisibility would be a Game Breaker if it weren't for the two-minute time limit ... which exists not because he's forced to recoalesce but because that's how long he has before it becomes permanent.
Phantom Thief - Geist is so good at his job that the only people who know he exists are his previous clients.
Ring of Power - the secret of Geist's success is a sentient magic ring that lets him go invisible and intangible.
Smug Supers - Pax Americana are somewhere between this and Beware the Superman. While the rest of the team is closer to the former, Patriot is one bad day away from the latter.
Space Station
Stock Superpowers
Super Team - Pax Americana
Talking Weapon - Jin is not a weapon but it's the source of his powers and it talks to him.
Villain Protagonist