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Kochab
Sarah Webb
A YA F/F fantasy comic about Sonya, a lost skier trying to survive a snowy wilderness and find her way back to her village; and Kyra - a fire spirit trying to fix the home that she let fall apart around her.
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
Scape
Lauren
Sula has always preferred to forge her own path, but before she knows it, she is pulled into the middle of a civil war between man and monster!
Barbarous
Ananth Hirsh, Yuko Ota
A crummy wizard and an anxious monster have to get over themselves and bring order to an apartment building full of misfits.
Within
Verena Loisel
A young hitman meanders between a reality that seems to happen without him, and his dreams where he is lost in an endless house. When he makes an accidental friend, his world is shaken up and he realizes there are things he can't remember about himself.
ARISE, YE SKELETON KING
Brian Clevinger, Escher Cattle, Lee Black
A troupe of wandering "adventurers" down to their last silver "acquire" a map only to find the real treasure was the fiend they dug up along the way.
The Forgotten Order
Christy
A young witch for whom every spell is a misfire finds solace and friendship in her new companion - a cursed doll.
Little Tiny Things
Clover
What are the little things that move us? The simple joys that warm our bodies and hearts? The micro life of insects that influence our world more than we think? The tiny steps we make everyday to have a happier tomorrow?
Ride or Die
Mars Heyward
Ride or Die is an LGBTQ webcomic about two street racers who team up with a demon-possessed muscle car in the search for a missing woman, while being hunted by a deadly religious cult.
Cyanide & Happiness
Explosm
Satire, dark humor and surreal humor.
Monsterkind
Taylor C
Wallace Foster, a young, bright-eyed human social worker, has his entire world view rocked when he's suddenly relocated into a city primarily inhabited by monsters.
Headless Bliss
Clover
A story about story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as Nightmares! (Failed) Teamwork! Comedy! And more!
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
The Weave
Rennie Kingsley
A young woman pursued by bad luck is witness to the murder of the Fairy Queen of Summer. Can she get to the bottom of this mystery?
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
The Golden Boar
Magnolia Porter Siddell
A young woman joins a group of summoners who call forth Guardian Beasts to protect their isolated magical island. Unfortunately, her Guardian Beast is nothing like she'd imagined, and he's about to change her life, and everything she thought she knew about herself...
Edison Rex
Chris Roberson
The adventures of the world’s greatest villain who, after defeating his superheroic nemesis, decides that he’s the only one left to defend the world.
Empowered
Adam Warren
A sexy superhero comedy (except when it isn't) about the never-ending struggles of a plucky but very unlucky young superheroine.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
How to be a Werewolf
Shawn Lenore
Malaya Walters was bitten by a werewolf as a child. After being raised by her human family, she faces the chance to learn what being a werewolf is really like as an adult.
Stand Still, Stay Silent
Minna Sundberg
A few generations after the end of the world, a small, poorly financed research crew is sent out to rediscover whatever is left of the forbidden old world in the south.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
Astral Aves
Moon Cabal
A fantasy coming-of-age following the adventures of Astra The Black and friends, as they navigate the mysterious world around them. It's politics, adventure, and the supernatural; oh, and crazy hair.
Gzhel Guardian
Atla Hrafney, nushanchel
The Railway World is a complex, mysterious network of trains, towns and mechanical monsters. Leo is a Guardian of one of these towns, and although their burn-out and depression has taken hold of them, they have one last job to finish.
Sakana
Mad Rupert
Our heroes must navigate a hazardous dating scene, overcome personal anxieties, and wrangle unruly seafood in order to find love, peace of mind, and a paycheck.
Lies Within
Lacey
Lysander's aimless and carefree life is turned upside down when he accidentally discovers that the cute boy next door, Simon, is a literal monster
Star Impact
Jack McGee
A young, energetic woman fights her way up in the world of super-powered boxing after discovering the mighty gloves of her missing idol!
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
Aquapunk
Lo
In an underwater world of unknown coordinates, inhabited by aliens, ghosts, and robots, a young member of a warrior underclass is framed for a crime and goes on the run. Little does he know he is part of a grand design that only gods and ancestors could choreograph.
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
A cute, pantsless thief is pursued across the stars by a buttoned-up military officer in the spacey, laser-filled future.
Sleepless Domain
Mary Cagle (Cube Watermelon)
In a world where magical girls and their battles are commonplace, loss has become all too common as well.
Not Drunk Enough
Tess Stone
Logan Ibarra is possibly the unluckiest repairman in the world. A late night job should not have landed him in the middle of a mad scientist's squabble, but he soon finds himself surrounded by monsters and further madness with little tools to get out.
Alice and the Nightmare
Misha Krivanek
Alice finally attends University to learn to collect the dreams of humans, meet new friends, and deal with a pesky reflection along the way.
Blindsprings
Kadi Fedoruk
Tamaura, wrested into a world 300 years in the future, must find a way to save the magic fading from her country.
Beeserker
TJ Cordes
This comic is about a robot powered by bees, but it's also about the kind of people who think filling a robot with bees is a good idea, and why they're wrong.
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
Dumbing of Age
David M Willis
Joyce has been homeschooled her entire life until now, when she's suddenly a freshman in college! Things don't go well.
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Nigh Heaven & Hell
Scotty
Heather Vodihn is on a simple mission: find her father. However she becomes entangled with two strangers with mysterious powers being stalked by a group with bizarre demands. Heather must learn to trust her new traveling companions, even if she is untrustworthy herself.
Darkling Bright
Chris Hazelton
Kieran Bright is a college student home for the summer and roped into an online reunion with his old neighborhood friends in the most recent update of their favorite childhood MMORPG.
At least, he was, and that was the idea...
Join Kieran and his friends as they are pulled into another reality that may or may not be real and are forced to confront their own identities, the nature of simulated universes and reality itself.
The Last Diplomat
Cat Farris
Samma and Tark didn't ask to be stuck together, but now they're partners on the adventure of a lifetime.
Love Not Found
Gina Biggs
Abeille is on a quest to find someone who wants to do it the old-fashioned way in a time when touching has become outdated.
Quick$ilver
Crypto
The flirtatious, directionless, and ever disastrous Luci searches for excitement in a life of crime, and finds himself caught in a web of messy romance and bad blood.
Missing Monday
Elle Skinner
Two girls fall in love through a magic door connecting their worlds. When Monday suddenly goes missing, it's up to Foyle to find her. How she's going to navigate an entirely unfamiliar world is another matter.
Freakshow
Scotty
A festival of broken people, blood flows in the center ring. Come one and come all, to the greatest show in all of Paris.
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I don’t have any foreknowledge of tomorrow’s strip, but it did occur to me that there is little tension among these three, and that it might be a set-up for them to receive an extraneous shock, such as some news.
Don’t tell me though. Don’t even tell me whether you can tell me.
Or crosses the border and ends up in Montreal where English speakers are an alien minority that most are unable or unwilling to communicate with.
Won’t THAT be fun?
Nonsense. Ethan will be standing in front of the mortuary. He will be escorted down the hall by a policeman to where the body is. The sheet will be pulled back. There will be a panel showing Ethan”s face. And then in the final panel, there on the slab will be Jacob.
Imagine not being able to tease your friends. Besides, it’s not that they want to encourage Sarah to be a social butterfly, or to be anyone other than the curmudgeonly misanthrope that she proudly is.
It’s okay to make fun of your friends, as long as everyone’s on board with it and no one gets hurt. Sarah’s obviously been on board from being just as teasing as the two of them from the get go.
The thing is that there is no way to say that you aren’t on board with it. When you ask people to stop, there are always some people who take that as a joke, and always some people who think that they are such good friends, and always someone hears about it who is glad to know of a way to get to you.
A lot of people just refuse to accept that you might have boundaries in this.
It’s a reluctant agreement that she would rather put up with the shit they’re going to give her for letting them sit there than with the shit they would give her for saying “no”. It is reluctant permission to give her the shit that the social convention dictated by extraverts says they are allowed to. It is not a freely-given invitation to snark at will. It does not indicate that Sarah welcomes and enjoys their smug extravert bullshit.
[source: perhaps even more introvert and more exhausted than you are]
But one side-effect of the Mike thing is that the pace of the strip has slowed down even more. It’s been six weeks to get to lunchtime. Add a couple of cliffhangers like this and by 2075 we will still be at the Christmas break.
OMG! They referenced a year! in 2076 fans of the comic are going to be sooo confused! Unless.. time machines? An alternate universe that travels backward in time?
I do think it would be funny as hell if he quietly went in and did that. The strip with Billie’s fake id birth date mentioned above would be the best place to start.
Of course, the really tricky part is breaking into everyone’s house and updating the paper copies he’s sold.
…I can’t help but recall the ominous scene in the film Watership Down, in which Fiver seeks Hazel, who’s disappeared after being shot. Propelled by clairivoyance, Fiver stares deep into the shadowy mouth of a sewer pipe….and faintly hears a slow, damp, heartbeat.
Bright Eyes, burning like fire…
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
let’s see we are ten years in but still less than 3 months in-comic so doing the math (2075-2020)/3.33 gives us an additional 16.516516516517 months so about the end of sophomore 1st semester.
I’m sure Dorothy is aware. She is very self-aware.
I’m sure Joyce is aware. She knows that she and Dorothy are soul mates that are meant to be together for ever and ever and ever (in a very platonic way, I’m sure).
I’m not really sure what delaying the news on Mike is supposed to accomplish besides irritate readers in a “not good” way. There’s no suspense, there’s just a bunch of “why” and not confronting it seems like a cheap way to extend out the story line longer than he needs to.
Honestly, I hope it’s to piss people. I am perfectly fine waiting. We’ll get there when we get there. I like seeing everyone’s every day life without random drama, we know it’s there, we just don’t normally see it cause that doesn’t make an interesting comic. The only thing annoying about waiting to hear about Mike is every day in the comments there’s at least someone going “where’s Mike?”. The joking ones are okay, if not redundant at this point, the whiny ones not so much.
It may also be that he’s got a particularly good way to handle the return to that plot in mind, but it needs to be later in the day (or night). In that case, the “delay” is a natural consequence of the slow pace of the strip. Can’t just skip over what’s going one with everyone else.
Mike, being Mike, believes his jerkass behavior is a ‘necessary’ thing, that people need him.
This whole thing is extended proof that life moves on without Mike.
Looking at these strips, I realise Sarah’s hair has changed. It’s gone from … one round mass of hair with curvy outlines to several longer shapes. (english is not my first language, I don’t know how else to describe it). It’s been happening slowly over her apperances, so I didn’t notice till now.
Happy Nonbinary People's Day, you gemstones. A year or two back we introduced FLASH GORDON's first enby, the outlaw lawman Bones Malock. Having known and loved a lot of nonbinary people, I knew the truest way to represent you was as a unsettling desert pirate with a lightning sword
Happy International Non-Binary People's Day to all those who work, create, parent, protest, love and live without ever fitting into someone else's category.
Okay, everyone's jumping to conclusions, but Joyce was hit with a mysterious pink gas in Thursday's strip.
Now, in recent years, the police are known to increasingly use military grade weapons.
Which reminded me of this bit of proposed technology from the 1990s:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
hey, kid, what do you want to play with from the cool superhero movie? is it a nude, melting senator who feels like a stretch armstrong doll that has been left out in the son and maybe mildly chewed by a neighborhood dog? WELL, SON, YOU'RE IN LUCK!
Joyce is absolutely totally straight and just wants to hang out with her best friend, who happens to be another lady. This is normal behavior and a normal biblical quote to use that has no other context.
GAL PALS
OK, I said I was going to a thread of receipts together on the guy who runs Kapow, in odder to explain why I personally would recommend not giving him your business at TFN.
Starting with the original post, revealing the guy loves sharing right wing fascist stuff on LinkedIn.
Alex Maw@xjmaw.bsky.social ⋅ 6m
Since you might think it's weird you got a like on this over a year after the fact, the director of Kapow just shared this on LinkedIn; i.imgur.com/hqQYWgO.png
2075? So… almost spring break?
Beat me to it.
(okay, by a lot.)
Actually, 2075 is the year we finally learn what happened to Mike.
2075:the Mikening
I’m already pre-emptively bracing myself for tomorrow’s strip
Should i take that as ominous?
I don’t have any foreknowledge of tomorrow’s strip, but it did occur to me that there is little tension among these three, and that it might be a set-up for them to receive an extraneous shock, such as some news.
Don’t tell me though. Don’t even tell me whether you can tell me.
Tomorrow we cut to Walky eating Mcnuggets.
Or to Steve eating cereal and the whole strip moves to Northampton, Massachusetts.
Or crosses the border and ends up in Montreal where English speakers are an alien minority that most are unable or unwilling to communicate with.
Won’t THAT be fun?
Ethan goes “y’know, I think I’ve decided I really just wanna date Mike, whom I loved all along” and then Willis confirms he’s dead
^^ this.
Nonsense. Ethan will be standing in front of the mortuary. He will be escorted down the hall by a policeman to where the body is. The sheet will be pulled back. There will be a panel showing Ethan”s face. And then in the final panel, there on the slab will be Jacob.
There will be no explanation until a month later.
A month is generous
More like fifty of them
An in-universe month. So, 2075.
Dorothy, Joyce: great way to reward behaviour that you want to encourage. Really top-notch work.
Imagine not being able to tease your friends. Besides, it’s not that they want to encourage Sarah to be a social butterfly, or to be anyone other than the curmudgeonly misanthrope that she proudly is.
It’s okay to make fun of your friends, as long as everyone’s on board with it and no one gets hurt. Sarah’s obviously been on board from being just as teasing as the two of them from the get go.
The thing is that there is no way to say that you aren’t on board with it. When you ask people to stop, there are always some people who take that as a joke, and always some people who think that they are such good friends, and always someone hears about it who is glad to know of a way to get to you.
A lot of people just refuse to accept that you might have boundaries in this.
I mean, Dotty starts out saying they should leave her alone, so her saying they can stay is SORT of a “no it’s fine”
Sarah getting up and walking away is the “ok stop” vs. the last panel’s “well, I asked for it”
[source: introvert tired of people’s shit]
It’s a reluctant agreement that she would rather put up with the shit they’re going to give her for letting them sit there than with the shit they would give her for saying “no”. It is reluctant permission to give her the shit that the social convention dictated by extraverts says they are allowed to. It is not a freely-given invitation to snark at will. It does not indicate that Sarah welcomes and enjoys their smug extravert bullshit.
[source: perhaps even more introvert and more exhausted than you are]
This is why you never give extroverts as much as an inch. They never fail to try to turn it into an Astronomical Unit.
*plays “Leave Me Alone” on the hacked Muzak*
*cues up “When I’m Old and Wise”*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4HI1_LTWIk
Dorothy, don’t be silly, Sarah already said she likes you. Out loud, even.
Joyce, you know she does and she’s said it out loud, but her little sister so by law you are on thin fucking ice.
DoA Book 10: “Okay” Is A Very Precarious Tier
2075? That will be the end of next summer break, right? Start of sophomore year?
spring midterms at this rate
I’d say the end of their freshman year at the latest.
Oh, no, we’ll be working through the Advent Calendar.
If we estimate that generally one DoA week passes per real-world year, 2075 will be November of next school year.
But one side-effect of the Mike thing is that the pace of the strip has slowed down even more. It’s been six weeks to get to lunchtime. Add a couple of cliffhangers like this and by 2075 we will still be at the Christmas break.
Sooner or later, no matter what we do, we all succumb to entropy.
Eat Arby’s.
Willis’ buffer is the only known entity in the multiverse known to defy entropy with some measure of success.
So we can have Ghost-Mike back for Halloween! Kewl!
Friends are who we can really be smartasses with.
It works best if the “jokes” are actually witty.
I love, love, LOVE the Joyce&Dorothy double act.
They got good chemistry it’s like watching the MOST in sync comedy duo/couple
I’m just waiting for the sliding timeline to make Dorothy(?)’s prediction in the past.
Also, Billie’s fake ID will claim that she’s 82, and the booze store clerk will still be going, “Yeah, looks plausible.”
Billie’s dad is rich, and can afford to buy her really good anti-aging creams.
If Billie’s dad is still buying her anti-aging creams when she’s 82, he’s got to be keeping the really, really good ones for himself.
Well, naturally.
Or a really good plastic surgeon on retainer!
In 2075, maybe they’ll be Sophomores.
OMG! They referenced a year! in 2076 fans of the comic are going to be sooo confused! Unless.. time machines? An alternate universe that travels backward in time?
You don’t understand. There’s a floating timeline, so every year Willis will go into the comic and nudge the date by 1.
I do think it would be funny as hell if he quietly went in and did that. The strip with Billie’s fake id birth date mentioned above would be the best place to start.
Of course, the really tricky part is breaking into everyone’s house and updating the paper copies he’s sold.
In 2075 everybody will be too busy fighting against our Robot Overlords to be admiring holograms.
Considering the state of US politics today (and where it appears to be going in the future), I think I would almost welcome the robot overlords.
Robots? Soggies may rule.
-b-b-but…Where Is Mike???
…I can’t help but recall the ominous scene in the film Watership Down, in which Fiver seeks Hazel, who’s disappeared after being shot. Propelled by clairivoyance, Fiver stares deep into the shadowy mouth of a sewer pipe….and faintly hears a slow, damp, heartbeat.
Bright Eyes, burning like fire…
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
let’s see we are ten years in but still less than 3 months in-comic so doing the math (2075-2020)/3.33 gives us an additional 16.516516516517 months so about the end of sophomore 1st semester.
As soon as 2075? That’s an optimistic prediction!
I wonder if Joyce and Dorothy are aware of just how a perfectly-organised double-act they’ve become?
I’m sure Dorothy is aware. She is very self-aware.
I’m sure Joyce is aware. She knows that she and Dorothy are soul mates that are meant to be together for ever and ever and ever (in a very platonic way, I’m sure).
Although, I do wonder if Joyce realises, in some part of her psyche, that she really doesn’t know where ‘platonic’ ends.
Yes, she does…she commented once that growing up with Becky skewed her idea of platonic interaction.
alt text : meh, close enough
I’m not really sure what delaying the news on Mike is supposed to accomplish besides irritate readers in a “not good” way. There’s no suspense, there’s just a bunch of “why” and not confronting it seems like a cheap way to extend out the story line longer than he needs to.
It’s simple. It ensures that everyone visits the site every day in the hope that they’ll find out.
Honestly, I hope it’s to piss people. I am perfectly fine waiting. We’ll get there when we get there. I like seeing everyone’s every day life without random drama, we know it’s there, we just don’t normally see it cause that doesn’t make an interesting comic. The only thing annoying about waiting to hear about Mike is every day in the comments there’s at least someone going “where’s Mike?”. The joking ones are okay, if not redundant at this point, the whiny ones not so much.
I guess you are aware that we are getting these everyday strips because the drama knob is about to be suddenly push to 11.
*pushed
Oh yeah…I’m unfortunately aware. At least the chaos it will bring will be entertaining, I hope.
So, Mike’s fate is like a wizard?
It may also be that he’s got a particularly good way to handle the return to that plot in mind, but it needs to be later in the day (or night). In that case, the “delay” is a natural consequence of the slow pace of the strip. Can’t just skip over what’s going one with everyone else.
Semi-seriously , I’m expecting it will come with tonight’s return of Amazigirl. Assuming she ever returns.
Amazi-Girl returning requires Mike returning alive and well. If Mike died because she failed, that would be it for Amazi-Girl.
So, no, she’s never coming back. Willis is going to transfer his desire to draw superhero action to Sarah.
Mike, being Mike, believes his jerkass behavior is a ‘necessary’ thing, that people need him.
This whole thing is extended proof that life moves on without Mike.
Nobody needs Mike in the DoAverse. It’s we the readers who need him. He plays (played?) Greek chorus for us.
shruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuug.
*in 2075, Sarah gets MentoBook post on Joyce&Dorothy image*
Here’s a picture posted to your wall in 2020. Share the memory with your friends!
*Sarah reposts*
Sarah: MEH.
Jacob: Wow, you reposted! And no downvotes or poop emojis? Awww, that’s sweet!
*Sarah deletes Jacob from friend list*
*friend list now empty*
Sarah: Ah, Nirvana…
Looking at these strips, I realise Sarah’s hair has changed. It’s gone from … one round mass of hair with curvy outlines to several longer shapes. (english is not my first language, I don’t know how else to describe it). It’s been happening slowly over her apperances, so I didn’t notice till now.
Right! The hair is growing!
Yeah! It’s grown into a… giant spider?
“Ah, yes, Joy and Dora, the annoying lesbian couple. I remember them.”
I am liking the snarksey twins in this page, very good banter there.
The Masked Vigilante was startled to be called by name. Putting his fist down he turns to confront this stranger.
He is clad in black, a katana is strapped to his back. He bows and removed his face covering mask. “Greetings Mike-san. You can call me…Rick”
But what happened to the
mouseglad hand?I like Sarah’s hoodie
For having a sisterly animosity, okay is a great start.