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Current Mood: confused
Current Music: "Limelight" by Rush

There is a special deep frustration inherent with webcomics. When you start a new one, you're never quite sure how you'll like it, or when you'll stop reading, or how the story line will work out. A good webcomic, however, will keep you hooked and eventually you get so absorbed, so comfortable with clicking "forward" or "next comic" in the archives that it comes as quite a shock when you reach the most current update. Frantically, you continue clicking hoping for a mistake, you double check that yes, the "next comic" button takes you to the same page as "go to the end". I love webcomics. I hate running out of them.

I suppose you could make the point that it's quite a compliment when you get so absorbed in a story that you don't notice the fact that you're reading it, like a good book. Still, books have finite ends. Webcomics are supposed to be updated regularly!

So far my comic list (opened daily in a folder, like reading the comics in the newspaper, except it's digital, and personalized, and free, and doesn't ink my hands, and much much funnier):

Schlock Mercenary, Penny Arcade, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Qwantz (Dinosaur Comics), Alien Loves Predator, Diesel Sweeties, Striptease, Sore Thumbs, Questionable Content, Perry Bible Fellowship, xkcd, Irregular Webcomic, Animals Have Problems Too, The Order of the Stick, Dr. McNinja, Married to the Sea, Least I Could Do, and now my newest one (that inspired this post): Erfworld