RIP Explorington

It's with a heavy heart that I've read the final Angband - Tales of the Pit. Congratulations on running the series so long and so reliably. I've enjoyed the strip and the wry take on genre.

Strafe Left: Catacombs of Zascii

Amidst the many roguelike comics out there, Strafe Left has just republished the best ASCII sight gags ever. Giggle to yourself contentedly here.

Thanks, Rock Paper Shotgun. You can make love to my undead tadpoles anytime.

Tales from the pit

Angband has a long tradition of inspiring web-comics, one of which is Tales of the Pit. I wasn't aware but it looks like it's still running: you can get the RSS feed here if you want.

It just featured possibly the worst pun of 2007 that I've seen.

And I've just noticed that Penance, another roguelike inspired comic appears to have started up again as well. The art is slightly better in Penance (graphic novel style) and is producing about a page a week at the moment. I recommend you start at the prologue and read forward (RSS Feed).

The occasional webcomic update

I try not to mention web comics too often. I mean other than Concerned (which is no longer running) and xkcd. But trawling through someone else's blog, I came across a link to Dinosaur Comics, which is a good read if only because its another great example of web comics being a medium of ideas if not necessarily art.

Dinosaur Comics is environmentally friendly. In that the art is recycled. For. Every. Single. Comic.

Pure genius.

On a related note, does anyone have good suggestions for online graphic novels? I mean to read, as opposed to to write.

(Feed is here).

Because you only need one web comic.

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