I think my first story was Homestuck and Girl Genius (can't remember which I read first), Homestuck from Tumblr and Girl Genius from here/from looking up steampunk and gaslight fantasy works. Girl Genius is great and I liked the og Homestuck too (not so much the Epilogues and stuff since).
Then on Homestuck I once saw an ad for Olympus Overdrive. I really liked that, it's a darn shame it got discontinued and nobody at Hiveworks knows about Oscar.
Olympus Overdrive in turn got me to Sleepless Domain which I adore.
Chaotic Greedy
AFAIR, someone posted a link to Megatokyo on my main forum, back in the days where it updated three pages a week.
I also remember a long-defunct webcomic called Residence Life which also was one of my first webcomics, but I have no idea how I first landed on it.
Edited by Medinoc on May 4th 2020 at 7:03:47 PM
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Not sure. I started reading webcomics back in middle school, but I don't recall having a single favorite back then. I think Newgrounds might've been when I started to follow certain sites/creators/comics/etc thanks to a mixture of word-of-mouth and whatever made the front page of their site. Dinosaur comics
was probably the first one I started to read on a regular basis, and again that was thanks to a friend's recommendation.
It started with xkcd but it's been so long I barely even remember how it happened. Might've been TV Tropes.
I think 8-Bit Theater was my gateway, which led to other sprite comics.
I have, more or less, dropped webcomics, however. Either they're episodic and I have an Archive Panic but not much desire to go through, or they're serial and I just cannot muster the caring to read a comic one page a week, especially now that we're at a point where it's about as easy to just read comics/manga online (often legally!) than read webcomics.
Edited by Larkmarn on May 21st 2020 at 2:55:18 PM
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Someone posted a translation of the first 100 or so Megatokyo strips on an anime forum. I wanted to see more, so a friend and I looked for the real deal. Then that friend found the Wotch, and I followed the links, -Elogoonishshive was found!-, one of them was Highschool changed me, and after the Pip-Wraith breakdown I followed both by separate. Then I kept finding new webcomics because Pip is very fond of cameos and crossovers -Pilli Adventure! I even got to meet the author and get a Mona and Jinx sketch-, and Wraith was very link happy. Then I found the duck, where I found even more comics, and later I landed on TV Tropes and well, there's plenty of links here.
Right now I'm having problems staying interested. Except for The order of the Stick which feels like it is reaching its climax, most other strips I followed seem to have entered a dull period and I find it hard to keep a full schedule. Darths and Droids felt boring after the end of the OG trilogy, Friendship is Dragons stopped being interesting after the gala arc, Pilli-Adventure and XKCD aren't reliable enough to set a habit around them, Sins Venials went to Patreon-only, Sequential art and Oot S don't have a set day, I feel like Dan Shive has been stalling for the better part of a year after having had lots of plot advancement, and I have long ago gotten bored with Megatokyo, Roomies, MSF High and Sluggy Freelance.
Right now I'm looking for some good webcomics set around MWF and with readable lettering. -I couldn't get into Girl Genius because there were loads and loads of hard to read text-
Forgive me for not being a walking stereotype. Saint Ryouga
I'm curious about how other people came to find and enjoy webcomics given how they don't receive the same levels of advertising as more "official" forms of media.
As for me, I never even heard of webcomics till the summer of 2013. I saw the Media Hunter review of Slightly Damned, this got me curious so I decided to check it out and I liked what I saw. When I tried to find out more about the webcomic I would eventually stumble across it's Tv Tropes page and from there I would learn about other webcomics as well as other forms of media that I now enjoy.
That's my story, what's yours?
Edited by Kaiseror on May 3rd 2020 at 11:05:15 AM