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Several years ago — 2005? 2000? Really not sure — there was a webcomic where a guy wanted to be the best... swordsman? I'm not sure, some kind of fighter — So he went to see this woman who was to give him three tasks as part of his training. His first task was to bring her a cup of coffee, which he did. His second task was to chop down a particular giant redwood tree using a wet noodle. He leaves, then comes back and tells her he succeeded. When she asks how, he explains (this all happened offscreen) that he waited for the noodle to dry out, then he set the noodle on fire and used it to start a forest fire. In the forest fire the redwood caught fire and fell down. She agrees that he succeeded and gives him his third task: Bring her another cup of coffee.
Does any of this sound familiar to anybody? I only remember this one plotline. I think it must have been a comic I discovered one day, read for a while, then lost again. And I haven't seen it since.
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There was a webcomic (subcomic (or fancomic) at Bob and George?), that at one point (this wasn't the main focus though) Sakura from Street Fighter was insensitive to her friend, only caring about fighting, and both (and other video game characters) where brought to life by science and Sakura had forgotten(or at least it mixed up) her memories of her creation with the ones from the game and stuff. This was a short storyline (maybe?) but it's the only thing I remember.
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I've completely forgotten where I saw this, but it was a web parody image of Dr. Mario in the role of some kind of mad scientist, saying something like "You cannot fathom the meaning of this!"
If you know what I'm talking about, could you also please tell me what other character it was referencing?
This isn't old, I just though maybe someone here would have seen it. Thanks a bunch.
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A webcomic that I read around 2005-2006. I think it had the word "blue" in the title. The background of the website was black or grey. The main character was a blue-furred anthropomorphic feline who worked as a some kind of spy, in the unrealistic Mission Impossible sense. The whole comic was drawn and coloured in a slick, professional way. I think there was a bit of dialogue between the main character and his "handler" that involved waffles.
When I stopped reading it, only a few pages had been uploaded. I think the creator was too busy to do a webcomic — he had a day job working at Blizzard Entertainment, I think — and I wouldn't be surprised if it was gone today. Still, the fact that I can't remember the title has been bugging me.
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There was a (hand-drawn?) webcomic about a female swordmaster who set up a school for girls to train as she had learned. Other characters included some sort of spirit shaman-esque monster hunter, a wizard who lived in the building where they set up the school (which doubled as a lighthouse?), some kobolds who also lived there and the dragon they reported to. Antagonists included feral elves, some kind of highly powerful spellcaster as a big bad, rival martial arts schools etc. Better than it sounds.
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The only thing I remember is a single, lengthy page where a robot gets hits by a car. Death comes to collect it, but the robot protests that it doesn't have a heart, which makes the grim reaper throw down its scythe and storm off angrily. Then the robot realizes, oh shit, it doesn't have a heart and gets very depressed. That's when the driver of the car (that hit the robot) decides to help, constructs a heart, and gives it to the robot. But then he rips off his disguise to reveal that he was the grim reaper all along.
The entire thing was told without words.
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I saw it back in the nineties. It was a sprite comic using the graphics from SMB 1 (in fact, aside from the talk bubbles, the panels could've all been screenshots). Mario was going around looking for nads/balls. One time, he found a room full of coins and remarked that they weren't balls. Another time, he got killed by a koopa or paratroopa and said "All I asked for was some balls!"
I haven't been able to find it.
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I was browsing a webcomic, and most of its comics didn't seem particularly deep, but suddenly there was an enormously long comic that was super deep and really made me think. The only line I can remember from it is "The things which we call alive are those most like ourselves" or something to that effect. I'm pretty sure it was in black and white, and that it wasn't a story-based webcomic.
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It is a probably hand-drawn, although possibly with a wacom tablet webcomic that is in black and white (that is, shades of grey) about some people in an engineering class. I believe the panels may have gone from right to left. I think either most or at least the main character and the teacher/instructor/somethingofthatsort were female. There was one "arc" where the main character and her friends are put in a group (or were in the group for the entire class, not sure) and they were engineering something, with a reasonable deadline. I think at first they were making progress at a normal pace, but I am not sure about this. The teacher/instructor/somethingofthatsort announces that the deadline has been moved up so that there is not nearly enough time to expect it to be finished. They scramble to finish it, and succeed. The teacher person then says that they just moved it up because she did not think they would do any actual work until they were right against the deadline, and said she knew all engineering projects ended up late because of that. When she finds that they actually finished it, (and stayed up really late repeatedly to do so), she goes something like "oh, you finished? <explains why deadline was so short> I guess we can go on to the next project now." I believe it was manga like. there was also part where the characters/a character feel(s) that for the manga webcomic to be popular they need a fanservce episode, and get the characters to, well, not do a fanservice episode, but claim that they are doing one. (eg. their entire body besides their head is obscured by a computer and a desk) also, in one strip, the main character was supposed to do something, but instead did something else do to a misunderstanding, or was too tired too, or read some manga or something instead, or drew something.
anyway, mainly, manga webcomic about people(main character female) in an engineering class. teacher makes them work faster by giving them an unreasonable deadline, which they meet.
EDIT:they don't break the fourth fall at all other than the fanservice thingy, as far as i can remember.
EDIT:AHA! ITS http://www.optimalclutter.com/
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Im trying to find a webcomic i saw but lost i want to read it but i only saw the first few pages its sort of a western done in sepia tones line art no shading there is a guy tied upside down from a tree and another guy shows up on a horse the second guy at first doesn't want to let him down, but then he does when people come after him tied up guy (after being let down) says he is a revolutionary or something anyone know?
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I vaguely remember a webcomic about poking fun of anime conventions anime fans etc, The main characters were 2 girls (who were obsessed with yaoi) and a guy. the first strip involved them setting up a con booth in their living room and then one of the girls cries when no none comes That's about all I can remember
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I seem to remember most things aside from the title of this webcomic and hence I can't find it again. It's about a group of people that are trying to roleplay (in a chatroom I think?) The DM plays some elf king and is the only one remotely serious as the other people are basically a vulcan, duke nukem, tentacle monster etc. There's also a girl who actually plays another elf and is a vegan and I think she ends of dating the tentacle monster guy at some point. All characters are drawn as the characters they play.
There's also a random anime nerd who is drawn like a DBZ character and someone who wants to be the king of darkness and really cool and evil but spells his name wrong (King of Dorkness I think) and just gets laughed at.
Help would be appreciated!
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Ok, this webcomic is set in modern times, but recently (last 50 years or so, I think) a portal or something has opened and the standard fantasy races have come back to Earth - but now they're second-class citizens
The main character is a female elf who is broke, and trying to find a job, and has to bind her ears so people don't realise that she's an elf. I can't remember if she gets found out or not.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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I'm sure if you know this one, it'll be quite simple. I just can't remember any title or character names.
Stereotypical nerd (with glasses) gets hired for some sort of tech company. His boss is African-American, his coworkers, an Asian girl and a blond dude (also, with glasses).
It was mostly done in black and white, but strips were done in color from time to time. The characters were drawn without pupils. And it would probably quite old, as I remember it taking a long time to read a few years ago.
The nerd starts to date the asian coworker (later, their time travelling son comes in and out of the picture) and the blond gent dates a redhead on and off. The boss' wife delivers a baby (a girl?) during some sort of natural disaster (flood?)
If you need more, I have it. I just can't shove all of this together into an easy search.
Thanks in advance!
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There's a picture of a comic (like a scan, I guess) that's in black and white. There's a naked / topless woman and a man wearing a mask with two eyes and a giant smile painted on it. He has a knife and the woman is screaming for him to go away. He slices her breast and maybe stabs her. Anyone know of the picture or, even better, where it's from? Thanks!

Not really a webcomic but I remember reading about an SCP that, when shown a color would transport people to another world and there was a science experiment gone wrong and there were giant legless monsters and I remember finding the link to that SCP on Tv Tropes so can anyone give me the number or name of the SCP? Thanks
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