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#recommend comics other than questionable content 2k21
shinesurge · 2 years
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It’s That Time Again
More webcomic recs! (The first batch is here.)
Thank you for your submissions! I’d like to mention that all of these comics are queer and anybody who gives a shit about my opinion is probably also queer so like, all that shit goes without saying even if it’s not explicitly listed in the blurb from the authors. anyway let’s get right to it.
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Brainchild By RelaxMammal
Brainchild is a story about paranormal phenomena, bad first impressions, wide-scale conspiracies, a whole bunch of mutants, and everything else your senior year of college can possibly throw at you.  It is written and drawn by Suzanne Geary and updates on Sundays.
Brainchild’s equivalent rating is “TV-14” to “TV-MA” for profanity, drug and paraphernalia references, potentially violent/frightening imagery, and sexually suggestive scenarios. (Think “Adult Swim.”) Now imagine a scary voice telling you “VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED.”
Real nice dialogue, the art style and monster designs are super fun, and the plot is just starting to get rolling where the archive stops so now’s a great time to hop on I think!
https://brainchild.suzannegeary.com/
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Into the Midnight City By cancan-jpg
Wyatt Finch has been a vampire for three months, and he’s just moved to The Midnight City - a town of ghosts and ghouls and magicians of all sorts! Together with Archibald Hawthorne (a soft-spoken gentleman detective) and Circe (an eccentric scientist witch), they solve magical misdeeds of all kinds, in a story about friendship, finding your destiny, and occasionally stopping for tea!
This one’s SO cute lmao. If you’re into Job Satisfaction you’ll probably like this one too, it’s more Pastel Victorian rather than Elegant Goth and significantly more saturday morning cartoon flavored.
https://intothemidnightcity.tumblr.com/
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Ask the Ether By Mechandra
Ask the Ether  is a slice-of-life comic primarily focused on three witches: Sable,  Dax, and Meisha. Their stories center around their individual journeys  to hone their magic, as well as balancing the struggles of being a young  adult in a major metropolitan area. They all share common threads of  having a difficult family background, being people of color deprived of  their culture, and struggling to find an individual voice with their own witchcraft. All of the characters are LGBTQIA+.
This one’s a bit experimental compared to the others but honestly I loved it because I feel like it’s a good example of what a webcomic ought to be? One Weird Artist making things on their own terms, you can really feel the fingerprints on it. Starts out as more of a strip, keep reading for bigger stories! Stellar dialogue, really fun and dynamic art, also funny in a genuine sort of way that’s kind of rare in comics.
https://www.asktheether.com/
and now for a segment called Baby Comics With Archives Too Small To Make A Call About That I Think You Should Follow Anyway
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Red Sky at Morning By Seaside-Cave
After a capture gone wrong leaves their fates quite literally entangled, a pirate captain and a mermaid must traverse a vibrant and diverse world to find answers – though the hardest challenge might be putting up with each other.
Red Sky at Morning is a queer story about fish puns, self-discovery, and proving your place in the world.
Can’t talk about the comic rn obviously BUT I will say I followed this artist instantly after I saw this unrelated short comic they made, for reasons that are probably obvious if you’ve been here for more than five minutes lmao. Really looking forward to getting my teeth in this one!
https://redskyatmorningcomic.tumblr.com/
There You Ain’t! By Garagoose
When a powerful relic goes missing in the wild west of Bouquet, bounty hunters Grey and Blajo, along with saloon owner Posie and wanted outlaw Eustace, find themselves swept into a struggle to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.
Using movie ratings as a reference, I’d rate this comic somewhere around the PG end of a PG-13 rating, for various events of gun and magic-related violence, a bit of foul language, and mild body horror later on.
listen, i’ve been following garagoose since the fuckin dacademy days and i gotta say i’m just psyched they’re finally making a comic hehe
https://thereyouaint.com/
Honorable Mention that doesn’t really need the advertisement is the comics on Skelehime because I read them and they kicked my ass.
also mine! read my goddamn comic
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Kidd Commander
It’s a world at the mercy of uncaring gods, and Phineas Kidd is a heretic with a chip on her shoulder and enough fury to outshine a supernova. Armed only with aggressive enthusiasm (and an explosive left hook), Phineas sets out to gather up a merry crew and travel to Kairos Crossing to catch the sun, an urban legend that has tempted countless dreamers to a bloody end.
Kidd Commander is a romantic comic that’s mostly concerned with ambitious characters doing cool anime stuff while being subjected to trauma and dealing with said trauma! Rated T for lots of (cartoon) violence and swearing, and a good deal of irreverence for topics some folks might prefer to leave revered. If any of that sounds like it might make you uncomfortable this comic may not be suitable for you!
http://kiddcommander.com/
If you’d like a comic (yours or otherwise) to end up in one of these, send me an ask or whatever and I’ll add it to my list of stuff to check out! The only requirements I have are I’d prefer for it to be a bit lesser known and it needs to be accessible in places other than tapas or webtoon because I am physically and emotionally incapable of engaging with either of those sites lmao. Happy reading!
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shinesurge · 3 years
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TECHNICALLY
Free Comic Book Day has been moved to August this year (2021) because of pandemic stuff but FORTUNATELY webcomics are free All Of The Time Forever so here are some free comics you can read today and every other day (that don’t show up on every single rec list)!
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Job Satisfaction
Freelance demon summoners ply their trade, smooch demons, dodge judgmental neighbors, and take a hard pass on binary gender. Oh also there’s a succubus who decided to go celibate. Just normal slice-of-life stuff.
Content warnings: Implied/off-camera sex, demons, possession
https://jobsatisfactioncomic.com/
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String Theory
A webcomic about criminals. In the early 1990s a nuclear bomb was detonated in the atmosphere above north america sending out a catastrophic nation wide electromagnetic pulse that destroyed almost all above ground electronics. The USA is only beginning to recover from these events.Now there’s an emerging group of villains and mutants.
String Theory isn’t rated, and it does contain adult concepts and is written for adult sensibilities. It’s not an ADULT comic except it is because it’s pretty violent and has a lot of drug references and murders and half the characters are criminals with potty mouths.
http://www.stringtheorycomic.com/
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BERET
ART is POWER, and the person with the fastest paintbrush survives. In this dangerous world, Anton has lost everything. His family, his boyfriend, his home. Can he find the truth?
https://beretcomic.com/
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Mere Mortals
Mere Mortals is a comic about a girl adopted by a monster, and what happens when that girl starts to grow up.
https://meremortalscomic.com/
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The Pirate Checklist
Pirates have given up sailing the ocean in favor of soaring the skies, and Alynne has finally set out to achieve her dream of becoming one of them… except she’s doing it all wrong! To help her along, an unlikely ally provides a checklist of everything a good pirate needs. However, when Alynne catches the attention of the most infamous of pirates seeking to take advantage of her naivety, will she stick to her list, or succumb to the worst of influences?
https://www.thepiratechecklist.com/
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Ingress
Looking for a magical item? Is it hidden away in a dangerous dungeon? Hire us to risk our lives* for your artifact—so you don’t have to!
https://www.ingress-comic.com/
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fresh meat
Fresh meat is a comic about a girl with clinical depression and her first experience with a psychiatric hospital, as well as its other residents.
Content warnings for medical abuse and psychiatric institutionalization.
http://fresh-meat.thecomicseries.com/
Bonus round: Happle Tea
Happle Tea is the only comic that excoriates religion, pop culture, and politics while, at the same time, lauding the world of cryptozoology.
One of the only strips I read, not updating anymore (although I believe the author is working on relaunching soon?) but there’s an enormous archive to look through! http://www.happletea.com/
Not Cops
I want to recommend NotCops, which is an energetic fever dream but it’s basically just pages going up on a blog with no material I can put here. Unfortunate! Check it out or don’t! https://notcopsofficial.tumblr.com/
and also mine, read my goddamn comic.
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Kidd Commander
It’s a world at the mercy of uncaring gods, and Phineas Kidd is a heretic with a chip on her shoulder and enough fury to outshine a supernova. Armed only with aggressive enthusiasm (and an explosive left hook), Phineas sets out to gather up a merry crew and travel to Kairos Crossing to catch the sun, an urban legend that has tempted countless dreamers to a bloody end.
Rated T for lots of (cartoon) violence and swearing, and a good deal of irreverence for topics some folks might prefer to leave revered. If any of that sounds like it might make you uncomfortable this comic may not be suitable for you!
http://kiddcommander.com/
glhf
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