History Main / BSideComics

** There was also the MarySue spoof titled "FanFiction".

* ''Webcomic/BattleKreaturez'' features Intervals, QnA strips and other auxiliary comics that compliment the main story.

There are other famous newspaper "toppers" out there in comic history, and Tropers/YourObedientSerpent is going to wave his wand and invoke the WikiMagic to transmogrify this entry into a more detailed examination of them.

* ''Webcomic/HeadTrip'' [[http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/d/20060303.html site]] has the adventures of Emo Kid and Chemo Kid, a ''KidHero'' team consisting of a LittlestCancerPatient (also a KnightInSourArmour) and an EmoTeen. Together, TheyFightCrime!

* After ''[[http://www.drunkduck.com/Tana/index.php?p=638832 Taña, Island Princess]]'' concluded its first volume, its creator started an unrelated story at ComicGenesis called "Get Your Boyfriend Back" (not transferred to Website/TheDuck yet).

** ''Webcomic/LeifAndThorn'': There's [[http://leifandthorn.com/storyline/2017/grassie-takes-sonheic-lessons/ a whole episode of Hedge & Grassie]], the in-universe takeoff on of ''Radio/TheBurnsAndAllenShow''.

* ''[[Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures DMFA]]'' has ''Abel's Story'', a backstory for one of the characters.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has the newspaper-style comics found in ''EGS: NP''; these are sometimes part of the main continuity and sometimes aren't. Regardless, they usually don't tie into the main plot, and are markedly drama-free.

See also {{Omake}}.

* ''[[Webcomic/{{Sins}} Sins Venials]]'' had ''{{DDG}}'', updated every time ''Sins Venials''' donation box reached $50. ''DDG'' arguably had a stronger storyline than the main comic. View it [[http://www.sincomics.com/ddg.php here]].

* After ''[[http://www.drunkduck.com/Tana/index.php?p=638832 Taña, Island Princess]]'' concluded its first volume, its creator started an unrelated story at ComicGenesis called "Get Your Boyfriend Back" (not transferred to DrunkDuck yet).

* ''Webcomic/UnwindersTallComics'' were at one point interrupted by a {{steampunk}} comic ''Apocalyptus: Thrift and Peril'', which is completely unrelated to the main story. Also at least one character has her own comic on DrunkDuck.

The "topper" best remembered today is ''KrazyKat'', which originated as a set of strips under the main action in a 1910 strip known variously as ''The Dingbat Family'' and ''The Family Upstairs'' (making it a "bottomer", I suppose, though [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain let's all agree never to use that term again]]). [[http://www.toonopedia.com/krazy.htm According to Don Markstein]], Krazy spun off into his (or her) own strip in 1913, while the Dingbats passed from the comics page in 1916.

* ''SluggyFreelance'' has had such B-Side Comics as "Bikini Suicide Frisbee Days" (aka, back in the good old days before plot locked up the characters in specific situations) and "Meanwhile in the Dimension of Pain", drawn by guest artists. The latter actually ended up affecting the main story. It has also has an ongoing side story called "Stick Figures in Space", which is used as filler.
* The Chef Brian, Players and Gamer's Glossary strips in ''CtrlAltDel''.
** In fact, ''CtrlAltDel'' often has a few gag comics between {{Story Arc}}s.

* "PennyArcade" has a few B-Side comics: "Twisp and Catsby" and "The Cardboard Tube Samurai" evolved from strips in the main continuity to their own identity. There was a series of three ([[http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/6/10/ link]]) treatments of B-Side comics with a poll to determine which gets developed more: "Lookouts", "Automata", and "[[WebVideo/AcquisitionsIncorporated Jim Darkmagic]]". It was popular enough that both "Lookouts" and "Automata" got additional strips.

* ''StickmanAndCube'' has "The Adventures Of Captain Invisible" and "Cube's Past Jobs".

* ''UserFriendly'' has frequent strips involving caricatures of technology magnates and politicians (and Apple-obsessed aliens), which don't affect the main storylines.

* "Megagamerz 733t" from ''{{Goats}}'' is completely unrelated to the story, save that it is ostensibly [[ShowWithinAShow drawn by one of the characters]], which may in fact lump it in with "Drawn by Billy" sets from ''The Family Circus''.

* ''SomethingPositive'' has S*P 1937/8. One could also throw "New Gold Dreams" and "Midnight Macabre" into this mix.

* ''{{SSDD}}'' has two: ''Sticky the Stickman'' and ''Church of Poisoned Minds'', which eventually became their own strips.

* ''ScaryGoRound'' had a brief story about two goblins setting up a detective agency, going to Ireland to recover a pot of gold from a goblin version of Radio/TerryWogan, and mixing it with devil bears. While the goblins do make occasional appearances in the main SGR comic, usually around Christmas, apparently this storyline provoked a great many e-mails to John Allison saying, "I don't get it," and he now thinks he could just have done it with Shelley and Amy instead. It didn't stop him doing another goblins-in-Ireland story-ette a few years later.
* ''VGCats'' has two secondary comics, ''Adventure Log'' and ''Webcomic/SuperEffective'', an RPG "diary" and a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' parody, respectively.

* ''UltimaJava'' has ''If You Believe'', ''Over the Edge'', ''World of Heroes'', ''U-2'' (the series before the ContinuityReboot) and more on the way. ''Over the Edge'' and ''World of Heroes'' have become OrphanedSeries, however — the latter of which recently being moved to the site's forums.

* ''QuestionableContent'' is occasionally interrupted by 'Yelling Bird', four identical panels of an angry dickcissel, when the author is too busy or unwell to draw a regular strip.

* Sunday editions of ''{{Narbonic}}'' are usually some form of these, such as "The Astonishing Excursions of Helen Narbon & Co."
* ''TheLifeOfNobTMouse'' used 'interlude' stories to break up the longer Pie Noon storyline into more manageable pieces. These included ''[[http://www.nobmouse.net/2008/04/14/interlude-doctor-nob/ Doctor Nob]]'', a parody of ''Series/DoctorWho'', and ''[[http://www.nobmouse.net/2007/12/23/the-trouble-with-a-quantum-santa/ The Trouble With A Quantum Santa]]'', which parodied the idea that Santa can deliver presents to the entire world in one night.
* ''{{Acrobat}}'' will post pinups, origins of characters, or short stories in between issues.
* [[DanAndMabsFurryAdventures DMFA]] has ''Abel's Story'', a backstory for one of the characters.
* ''AModestDestiny'' used to alternate seasons of ''The Starship Destiny'' with the main comic. Presumably because new characters and a new setting (scifi as opposed to medieval adventure) gave Sean "Squidi" Howard a break and a chance to shake things up a bit.
* ''UnwindersTallComics'' were at one point interrupted by a {{steampunk}} comic ''Apocalyptus: Thrift and Peril'', which is completely unrelated to the main story. Also at least one character has her own comic on DrunkDuck.

* ''{{Applegeeks}}'' and its AG-lite.

* "PennyArcade" has a few B-Side comics: "Twisp and Catsby" and "The Cardboard Tube Samurai" evolved from strips in the main continuity to their own identity. There was a series of three ([[http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/6/10/ link]]) treatments of B-Side comics with a poll to determine which gets developed more: "Lookouts", "Automata", and "[[Podcast/AcquisitionsIncorporated Jim Darkmagic]]". It was popular enough that both "Lookouts" and "Automata" got additional strips.

* "PennyArcade" has a few B-Side comics: "Twisp and Catsby" and "The Cardboard Tube Samurai" evolved from strips in the main continuity to their own identity. There was a series of three ([[http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/6/10/ link]]) treatments of B-Side comics with a poll to determine which gets developed more: "Lookouts", "Automata", and "[[WebOriginal/AcquisitionsIncorporated Jim Darkmagic]]". It was popular enough that both "Lookouts" and "Automata" got additional strips.

There are other famous newspaper "toppers" out there in comic history, and YourObedientSerpent is going to wave his wand and invoke the WikiMagic to transmogrify this entry into a more detailed examination of them.

* "PennyArcade" has a few B-Side comics: "Twisp and Catsby" and "The Cardboard Tube Samurai" evolved from strips in the main continuity to their own identity. There was a series of three ([[http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/6/10/ link]]) treatments of B-Side comics with a poll to determine which gets developed more: "Lookouts", "Automata", and "[[Podcast/PennyArcadeDungeonsAndDragonsPodcast Jim Darkmagic]]". It was popular enough that both "Lookouts" and "Automata" got additional strips.

* ''Buz Sawyer'' The Sunday strip featured sidekick Rosco Sweeny after they retired from the Navy.

* ''[[ScaryGoRound Scary-Go-Round]]'' had a brief story about two goblins setting up a detective agency, going to Ireland to recover a pot of gold from a goblin version of TerryWogan, and mixing it with devil bears. While the goblins do make occasional appearances in the main SGR comic, usually around Christmas, apparently this storyline provoked a great many e-mails to John Allison saying, "I don't get it," and he now thinks he could just have done it with Shelley and Amy instead. It didn't stop him doing another goblins-in-Ireland story-ette a few years later.

** Or "The Wotch: Webcomic/{{Cheer}}", an entire spinoff comic based around four of the early transgendered characters, in their new lives as cheerleaders.

* ''Webcomic/{{Zap}}!'' has a side comic, ''Everybody Loves Robot'', written and illustrated by the main comic's writer.

*** And now the "sillies" that are in a separate part of the site.

* ''Sins Venials'' has ''{{DDG}}'', updated every time ''Sins Venials''' donation box reaches $50. ''DDG'' arguably has a stronger storyline than the main comic. View it [[http://www.sincomics.com/ddg.php here]].