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[Roh]

Least I Could Do (Webcomic)
Straight outta Canada comes the story of Rayne Summers, the ultimate bachelor. He can take home nearly any woman he wants, and those women who refuse him quickly turn into projects that usually are successful. To top it off, he's a sports writer. Or used to be. When he was trying to bag a company executive, he ended up getting a job as a consultant for a large firm and now he drives an Autobot (an Audi with the symbol, yeah, you know). His roommate is an english teacher who has trouble with women, and all of their friends have issues with women that reach all across the spectrum (from the guy whose wife is too much to the guy whose wife is too little to the guy who falls in love with every woman but is too shy, etc. etc.).

LICD is definitely PG-13 for frequent (but usually vague) sexual humor, and the movies and animated series are probably inappropriate for minors entirely.

The comic has been through something like three artists, but the current artist is committed to stay, and even has made appearances in the comic (the writer poses as Rayne's older brother, a successful surgeon who is equally the perfect bachelor).

Produced by Blind Ferret Entertainment by a team of devoted individuals who run the webcomic as a business, LICD's venture into MMOs was what led to the birth of Looking For Group (featured above).

Not Even, I know this comic, not getting away with that

[Marcus]

Well, I have a small and simple webcomic, I don't have a huge review like Roh does, but if you like random and simple comics, this one is good for quite a few laughs. It's called The Book of Biff and it's about a bald guy with super huge eyebrows, squinty eyes, and the weirdest mouth ever and his misadventures of daily life. There's no clue how Biff is able to do all that he does, but he's a funny guy to "watch" lol. There's a new comic everyday M-F. This is the link to the first comic, but the latest one is 573. The writer, Chris Hallbeck also posts a little short "blog" of sorts about each comic usually with his life experience with the comic. It's all very G-PG rated and definitely worth checking out if you're bored

[Roh]

Goblins (Webcomic)
A major undertaking by the author to satire modern fantasy RPG-fare, the story of Goblins follows a tribe of small multicolored demihumanoids who have realized that there's more to life than waiting around for adventurers to come kill your people and steal your loot. Unfortunately, as the goblins enter the wider world, they find none other than an entire society structured to hate them based on racist assumptions and generalisms. In other parts of the world, other goblins are having their own strange adventures, but the general story is finite and will eventually be complete. Until that day, people like me will enjoy reading Goblins and the fund-raising subcomic Tempts Fate, laughing at subtle humor, thinkingly deeply about the dark drama, and smiling at the sometimes silly slapstick.
The setting of the comic is based on edition 3.5 D&D but you don't need to understand anything about that to read the story. Most of the rules and reference arguments are minor parts of the story, but you can get the gist of what's going on without knowing what all those terms and numbers might stand for.

[Roh]

Fun With Laugh Tracks (Webcast)
I think most people here are smart enough to recognize that shows on TV that use laugh tracks are... somewhat stupid. If a producer has to add fake crowd reactions, or hire people to pretend to react, or even use a live audience in general just to make the show more easy to enjoy... well, I could rewrite the thesis written by the guys behind this webpage but I don't need to. I will say, however, that any amateur producer can experiment with laugh tracks and get some hilarious results.
This link doesn't go to a webcast, I'm sorry to say, but it does go to a collection of videos around the internet where people have implemented some production methods, such as laugh tracks, in situations and shows where there are none.
The first on the list is The Wire. This one's obviously not for children.
My favorites are:
To Catch a Laugh Track, number 2 on the list, which takes a rather humorous episode of To Catch a Predator and makes it utterly laughable.
The Star Trek parody, which is number 4, wherein the editor skillfully adds in various crowd reactions where you'd expect them in a sitcom. The crowd "awws" when the efforts of the Enterprise seem to be for naught as a planet nears certain doom, and cheers when Data or Geordi make their first appearances... well, you get the idea.

There's probably hundreds of videos with added (or removed) laugh tracks out there. If you've ever taken an interest in producing, or you just like parody nonsense like this, you should start your journey into humor at the above link.

[Roh]

The Guild (Webcast)
So I was surfing, because it's raining, I have strep throat, and I can't sleep... and you know what happened next.

The Guild's regular episodes are... PG-13. There's some (intentionally lame) innuendo and some cursing but there's no nudity or violence.

When Codex's therapist gives up trying to stimulate her social life on the same day that one of her guildmates shows up at her door and unceremoniously moves in, she realizes that her therapist was right: she has to meet her guild in reality. As the guild gets more comfortable in person, we get to see just how crazy people who spend their lives online really are. There's the typical troll who is secretly insecure, there's the guy who micromanages everything yet is incompetant otherwise (that's me, right?), there's the lazy mother whose kids may or may not be burning down her house (she doesn't know, she's too busy raiding), the crazed stalker who invents a false relationship with someone he barely knows... each person fills a humorous role and most of the people in the show are professionals. Several of them are improv actors, two may be recognizable from internationally-broadcast TV ads... yes, they're qualified to make an award-winning series out of people's garages. I guess.
Though they avoid being WOW-specific, the humor often dwells into WOW-only terms that have been used in other games (we all know how many WOW clones are out there, right? right? seriously, right? ok, maybe not), but it's easy to understand. If you really don't know, I'm sure a dozen websites or people could help you in a quick and efficient manner.

Episode 10, the last of the first season, is the best yet. Season 2 is due to start sometime soon, just after the editing on the first episodes is finished. If you're in the LA area, you can easily get your name in the credits because The Guild is in desperate need of assistance in some very simple regards. In fact, they take basically any extra who wants to be in the episodes - an easy way to get millions of YouTube subscribers and Comic-Con goers to see your face... y'know, if you're too lazy to get an acting agent. Or whatever.

[Roh]

Once Upon a Table (Webcomic)
Special gaming-themed doublepost!

PG, maybe PG-13 during some violent bits.

This comic chronicles the adventures of a group of people meeting at a hobby shop to engage in a vaguely-defined RPG to have humorous adventures. Oddly enough, it's quite realistic. All of the random nonsense that the players do, the BS that the gamemaster spews out, even the surprisingly unawkward drama that ends with a joke, the times when the game is interrupted by very bizarre real-world situations; these are all very real experiences shared by the people I will term "table gamers."

The comic's on indefinite hiatus, but there's quite a bit of material there until you get to the end.

[Roh]

8-Bit Theatre (Webcomic)
One of the longest-running webcomics that I'm aware of, and one that I've kept up with since its beginning, 8 Bit Theater is a crossover between various older Final Fantasy games and Dungeons and Dragons. The primary characters are a laughably disfunctional group of "heroes," all of whom have serious issues that are counteractive to their advancement in society, who have been marked for life as chosen ones. Of course, the real chosen ones are nearly incompetant, as are all of the bad guys. The only challenges that the cast really faces are each other (and omnipotent jerks).
Some time ago, each of the heroes were forced to multiclass, in a fashion that mimics modern Final Fantasy games as well as mocking the level maximums of AD&D and the prestige class system of 3rd Edition D&D. Each character naturally chose a new profession that complements his old one, and this resulted in some costuming and behavioral changes. This was hailed with mixed reactions from fans and critics, but the characters haven't changed their psychological make-up, and are thus the same disfunctional group as before, just with more attacks in combat.
Created and operated by a successful independent comic book writer (of real comic books), 8BT is definitely one of the best gaming-related webcomics since its creation.

Fighter-doken!!!

[nickleback]

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