John and I have been friends for years. He and I are very similar in some tastes, and wildly different in others. I remember this one time, I said that a particular band was horrible onstage. Mind you, this isn’t a band I really give a rip about either way, but they were opening for Rufus Wainwright and I was forced to sit through them. I thought they were terrible because they sounded like a CD; if I wanted to listen to a CD, I would just buy the bloody CD. I related this to John later, who disagreed with me–after a drawn-out argument, I realized that he and I simply had different tastes and to just let it go when we disagree, heh.

And, in all honesty, the most fun conversations I’ve had with people (including John) were when we were sharing our mutual love of something, rather than cutting something down that someone else likes. It’s much more productive, and so much easier to geek out on.

A few that I would put on my own list:
QC
Anders Loves Maria
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
xkcd
The Perry Bible Fellowship
qwantz

and

the one that John should be publishing because it’s awesome.

— Susie

You don’t like these comics, specifically Ctrl+Alt+Del. I get it already. I also get your reasons why, I just don’t agree with them. You’re not going to change my mind. I like the art. I like the humor. It’s as simple as that. Someone else doesn’t like it, such as yourself, that’s fine. Whatever. I’m okay with you not liking it, so why can’t you be okay with the fact that I do?

Actually, never mind. Scratch that. I don’t want to know. You have some problem with my taste in web comics, and I should probably leave it at that. I’m better off not knowing why. It’s only going to result in an endless circle of “I don’t like it because of X.” “Well, I DO like it, because of Y.” “Yeah, but I don’t like that. How can you like that? And what about Z?” “I just do. What else do you want? And I’ve got nothing against Z. I’m fine with it.” and so on and so forth. You get the idea, so let’s just agree to disagree, shall we?

If not, why cite the Dictionary.com entry? And if so, how do you reconcile that with your idea that art is subjective, that there’s no right or wrong in comics, just different tastes?

I think I’ve got another Dictionary.com entry for you.

Please don’t flame or troll just because you don’t agree with John’s opinions.

A larger problem than dubious recommendations present is the lack of some really excellent stuff that’s out there on the Web. I would recommend that anyone who’s interested check out Gunnerkrigg Court (weird girl goes to a weird school, Neil Gaiman Approved), Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Irish Ninja Doctor and his Mexican bandit sidekick go on adventures involving Zombie Ben Franklin, Evil Pirates, Death, Etc.), Achewood (it’s hard to describe… a bunch of talking animals hang out with each other? great dialogue, incredibly funny, but not everyone’s cup of tea. check it out, though), Starslip Crisis (Sci-fi humor… kind of like Star Trek except on a museum ship), and Templar, Arizona (again, hard to describe. Very character driven, in an intriguing alternate reality version of America). Any of these are well worth some time put in.