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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.
Cassiopeia Quinn
Gunwild, Psudonym
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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.
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.
The Weave
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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?
Ride or Die
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Goodbye to Halos
Valerie Halla
Cuddles, gay flirting, weird feelings, and magic-fueled knife fights - it's an adventure across the queer multiverse!
Saint for Rent
Ru Xu
Saint Halliday runs an inn for Time Travelers. Unfortunately, he seems to attract other supernatural "guests," too.
The End
August Brown, Cory Brown
Two aliens crash a sci-fi convention and accidentally take seven nerds on an adventure that spans the galaxy!
Trying Human
IntroducingEmy
Two women separated by over half a century are brought together by an alien-filled conspiracy involving murder, mystery and romance!
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.
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.
Alexander, The Servant & The Water of Life
Reimena Yee
The 21st century retelling of the life and legends of Alexander the Great.
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!
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...
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.
Widdershins
Kate Ashwin
A series of light-hearted Victorian-era adventure stories featuring grumpy bounty hunters, accidental thiefkings, and more, in England's magical capital city Widdershins!
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.
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.
Sister Claire
Yamino
In the troubled aftermath of a great war between Witches and her fellow Nuns, novice Sister Claire just wants a purpose.
Nerf Now!!
Josué Pereira
A cute webcomic about fanservice, video games, and... love. Mostly video games, though.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
This is Not Fiction
Nicole Mannino
What do you do when the person you're in-love with is an anonymous romance novelist? Get your best friend to hire your worst enemy for help!
The Substitutes
Myisha Haynes
What happens when three roommates accidentally acquire otherworldly and powerful magic weapons destined for someone else?
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.
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.
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!
Namesake
Isa, Meg
There's ghosts at your heels and fairy tale worlds ahead. What do you do? Jump down the rabbit hole!
Augustine
Winter Jay Kiakas, Windy
August and her ragtag group are just like everyone else, simply surviving in the treacherous Crater... When they stumble into what may be an artifact of the ancient past, their lives are thrown into a much bigger loop as they trifle with bounty hunters, monsters and gods.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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BECAUSE TRYING THINGS IS FOR INDECISIVE WISHY-WASHY CHUMPS WHO WANT TO DICTATE THEIR LIFE-ALTERING DECISIONS BASED ON REAL EXPERIENCE INSTEAD OF CONVICTION BASED ON DOGMA
LOL i wonder how many ppl do ‘get it right’ on the first try, even tho there is more effort to put into the relationship during of course, but i wonder if it’s more likely to win the lottery in comparison
Also, I know what they mean by ‘pre-marital hanky-panky,’ but some small part of me always equates that with hacky sack, the very nonsexual game where players continually slap a soft ball-filled bag against their flesh, either alone, in pairs, or in a circle.
I doubt Mr. Willis would ever answer this, but as Joyce is semi-autobiographical, I wonder if he had his own girl version of a Tristan when he was small.
I love how flashbacks can explore situations where the audience knows exactly when and where the other shoe eventually dropped, but the characters get to be completely oblivious to it for far longer than they ever would if it weren’t a flashback.
Yeah this is just great. Joyce is really embodying Booster’s “change is easier than admitting this is who you’ve been all along,” with regards to lust and atheism, while Becky is just…well, Becky.
it makes me wonder if there was an added layer to their relationship with a lot of guys being rly into becky and hitting on her and joyce being not so subtly ‘jealous’
I love that they appear to be having this conversation while hiding in a bush. I understand, intellectually, that they’re sitting on a bench behind the bush, but in my heart they’re in the bush.
Huh, I did not realize until this comment that sitting on a bench was even a possibility. Are you sure they aren’t intended to be hiding in a bush? That just makes a lot of sense to my brain still for some reason.
Despite the fact that they’re both spouting strange fundie brainwashing, something about this really just hits the nail on the head for middle school or early high school vibes. The wacky energy is just spot-on.
Awkwardly, but with a completely unreasonable amount of confidence given your minimal life experience, trying to navigate the brand-new expectations of sex and romance that society has suddenly placed on you is a VERY universal tween experience!
OT, but just wanted to reach out and thank you all for being a mostly safe and supportive community. The Internet can be a cold, unforgiving, and dangerous place out there. It can really hurt people. I just wanted to thank you folks for proving the pessimists wrong… that not all online commenters are out to hurt people, and that caring, wise, funny, and even sparky people are here online too. Thank you for helping me feel better about people online in general.
I’m glad our short, silly, comments made you feel better! It sounds like you’re in a pretty dark place right now, so my heart goes out to you, and let me just say: it does get better. This little candle, bright as it is against the dark, is nothing compared to the blazing hearth of close-knit community I’m sure you’ll find someday, or the light of the sun that will make you wonder how you could ever have felt so alone. Keep going, you got this!
So i’ve kind of lost track. Did Becky know she was gay at this point and was generally hiding it, or did she only truly realise when she got to Anderson?
Anderson I think? Like before she was let out into the wider world she probably didn’t even know gay people existed. And if she did she thought they were evil.
I’ve got the impression she has always known she liked girls (especially Joyce), though she had to go to college to learn to verbalize any part of those desires and attractions. At this point she doesn’t have any language OR any allowance in her philosophies to express the concept of being lesbian, though it’s clearly the only thing on her mind.
I’m inclined to think Becky knew for sure at Anderson. She probably already had it going on subconsciously, her sexual dislike of men is already apparent. But it’s clear from the context she only sees it from her evangelical background now.
i’m sure ppl can think/ say stuff without realizing later and then looking back on it like “oh yeah that makes sense”
when i was younger and didn’t know gay/pan was a thing i was thinking like “if i met a ‘soulmate’ then it wouldn’t matter if they were a guy or a girl”
Many fundies look forward to sitting in heaven (on clouds because that’s ancient iconography) and watching sinners burn. That’s a very weird idea of eternal joy. This seems very much like that.
i grew up as a catlick in the ’60s and ’70s, and I had a lot of resentment against it as a teenager. I had no idea what fundamentalism was like but I thought it was what I was experiencing. I truly and genuinely pity the young who grow up under that level of indoctrination.
Misha, obviously. The Misha in Becky’s imagination has TONS of lube, and she applies it to so many things – bikes, hinges, slopes, etc. – that she can’t help getting quite a lot of it on herself. Luckily, in this hypothetical scenario, she has Becky right by her side to help her clean it off in a slow and sensual fashion. Also, this is actually all a metaphor for cleansing Misha of sin or something, so fantasizing about it is just a sign of Becky’s pure-hearted devotion, and not something God would be upset about at all.
when i was young, on Sundays, my dad would get bagels, cream cheese, and lox ends and pieces from Snider's Grocery and when we got back from the near-useless Sunday School at temple, that was lunch and I'd read the comics while eating and during those moments I knew I'd become a bagel
David M Willis!@damnyouwillis.bsky.social ⋅ 11h
I respect "what inspired you to become a cartoonist" followed by a panel exemplifying the worst example of cartooning, just a solid block of unillustrated text, as a bit
I respect "what inspired you to become a cartoonist" followed by a panel exemplifying the worst example of cartooning, just a solid block of unillustrated text, as a bit
Seriously, I'm getting kinda pissed off that "sassy biting comment" is so far the only form of punishment these judges will ever give these utter bastards
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com ⋅ 12h
Boasberg: OK, so I will hear from you from noon tomorrow—and I will memorialize this in a written order, since my oral orders apparently don't carry much weight
I guess we do know what their names are: Light Long (giraffe), Hydrophant (elephant), Captain Volca (T-rex), Leafback (triceratops)
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They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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FULL COMMITMENT OR NOTHING
BECAUSE TRYING THINGS IS FOR INDECISIVE WISHY-WASHY CHUMPS WHO WANT TO DICTATE THEIR LIFE-ALTERING DECISIONS BASED ON REAL EXPERIENCE INSTEAD OF CONVICTION BASED ON DOGMA
“Exactly what you just said, except without being sarcastic.”
Exactly what you said, but with even more sarcasm.
Exactly what you said, but replace “life altering decisions” with “dumb video game purchases”.
“Do or do not, there is no try.”
– Kermit or something, IDK.
Grover said it, not Kermit.
No, I’m pretty sure the character was green.
Maybe it was Oscar, or Sherlock Hemlock?
It was The Hulk, right?
THE GREEN HORNET
LOL i wonder how many ppl do ‘get it right’ on the first try, even tho there is more effort to put into the relationship during of course, but i wonder if it’s more likely to win the lottery in comparison
I got it the second try, so pretty close.
mmmmm so slippery
It’s like a slip-n-slide.
Slip-n-shine?
It’s a toy. A long strip of plastic that you run water over. The kids run and belly-flop on it and slide for 8 or 10 feet.
Oh, I just caught on to the floating text: Becky is visualizing Misha slipping and sloping.
I don’t even know where to start, here
The irony is Becky, you’re right!
SURRENDER TO TEMPTATION EARTHLING! ENGAGE IN PREMARITAL HANKY-PANKY >:D
Is this where Joyce got that? For real, I mean… she like… plays with the words and decides she likes them. And we hear them from her later, after all.
About Misha or secular music?
Also, I know what they mean by ‘pre-marital hanky-panky,’ but some small part of me always equates that with hacky sack, the very nonsexual game where players continually slap a soft ball-filled bag against their flesh, either alone, in pairs, or in a circle.
PRE-MARITAL HACKY-SACK!
If it’s very nonsexual, you’re doing it wrong.
Becky is not the irony; commas are important people; I am, however, Temptation Earthling. Surrender to me!
Who are you to say that? The Space Pope?
An alien parasite who’s seen the future in which she engages in the most beautiful premarital hanky-panky with an ungodly partner :p
well, she did say she was picturing misha on the slippery slope 8D
Yes, keep picturing Misha, that’ll drive out any thoughts of hooking up with guys.
Becky picturing Misha’s … slippery slopes
I’m just thinking of Becky as one of the Beckys from IRovedOut.com.
_Love_ that comic!
Jealousy is ugly
I doubt Mr. Willis would ever answer this, but as Joyce is semi-autobiographical, I wonder if he had his own girl version of a Tristan when he was small.
NEVER
What was her name
i’ll take it to my grave
Grave seems like a weird name!
Less weird a name than “Never”, though.
She’s from Canada, you see. They have weird names there.
Goth subculture.
It was Trisha, wasn’t it?
Wild guess, but it could also easily be Tristin.
Isolde? Probably Isolde.
Beautiful, simply beautiful
Willis, thank you for sharing your childhood adventures!
They have brought….holy crap has it really been decades?
I can’t be 42.
this week, the bass and I were thining and it looks like I’ve been in my current barbershop quartet for almost a _quarter century_ now. aaaaaggggh
Shut it, jailbait. I just hit sixty a couple weeks ago…
“There were no signs!”
“The sign said Slippery When Wet, but it didn’t say WHO”
We sure don’t see you throwin’ in with any random dudes Becky.
We sure don’t.
I love how flashbacks can explore situations where the audience knows exactly when and where the other shoe eventually dropped, but the characters get to be completely oblivious to it for far longer than they ever would if it weren’t a flashback.
Yeah this is just great. Joyce is really embodying Booster’s “change is easier than admitting this is who you’ve been all along,” with regards to lust and atheism, while Becky is just…well, Becky.
it makes me wonder if there was an added layer to their relationship with a lot of guys being rly into becky and hitting on her and joyce being not so subtly ‘jealous’
I love that they appear to be having this conversation while hiding in a bush. I understand, intellectually, that they’re sitting on a bench behind the bush, but in my heart they’re in the bush.
Framing is fun like that.
Huh, I did not realize until this comment that sitting on a bench was even a possibility. Are you sure they aren’t intended to be hiding in a bush? That just makes a lot of sense to my brain still for some reason.
They are inside the glass windows, as can be seen in the last panel, where a bit of Becky’s hair is behind the vertical mullion separating the panes. They are in the same place as in https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/03-trystin-in-the-wind/atrium/, and their position inside is seen in https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-14/03-trystin-in-the-wind/program/
*must resist jokes about young women sharing a bush*
Future Becky does not resist such things. Why should you?
Yeah, quit beating around the bush.
(Also, I don’t think that’s a bush. Just foliage.)
This setup always makes me think of Burger King.
so what I’m hearing is Tristran in one’s hand is worth two in the bush
typing “slippery slope” into scrootoob search bar.
Despite the fact that they’re both spouting strange fundie brainwashing, something about this really just hits the nail on the head for middle school or early high school vibes. The wacky energy is just spot-on.
Awkwardly, but with a completely unreasonable amount of confidence given your minimal life experience, trying to navigate the brand-new expectations of sex and romance that society has suddenly placed on you is a VERY universal tween experience!
Hey, uhh i just was holding my phone wrong for a second and accidentally reported a comment, pls disregard l
Don’t worry, it takes 5 reports on the same comment before anything happens.
But when it happens, the consequences are dire. I hear everyone whose comment gets reported is cursed so all their descendants are born naked.
The fun part for me is that “Misha” is short for “Mikhail” in russian, that is, a male name.
Like the Heavy Weapons Guy!
I do believe this may be a sly Willis reference to a certain fellow webcartoonist
This is a conversation Joyce will look back on one day and cringe at and Becky will look back on and go ‘ohhhhh that makes sense’.
Yeah, just picturing Misha out on the slippery slope of Mount Baldy
No room for love at first sight?
That slippery slope is full of funny sound effects, like in the cartoons when you step on a banana peel.
OT, but just wanted to reach out and thank you all for being a mostly safe and supportive community. The Internet can be a cold, unforgiving, and dangerous place out there. It can really hurt people. I just wanted to thank you folks for proving the pessimists wrong… that not all online commenters are out to hurt people, and that caring, wise, funny, and even sparky people are here online too. Thank you for helping me feel better about people online in general.
I was going to make a dumb joke but now it feels tasteless. We love you too.
Aww! Thanks, Bash! <3
*Plays "Shiny Happy People" on the hacked Ferris Wheel…*
<3
Thank you, findus. <3
Got to go to bed now. Good night, everyone!
Aaaaawwwweeee 🥹🥰
Thank you for always being so YOU, NG. <3
awe heeeheee
No problem.
I love that raised eyebrow, staszu13. I keep expecting to hear Mr. Spock say,

“Fascinating…”
Love you too Laura. <3 Thanks for being part of that community.
Your words help me so much, BBCC. <3. Thank you.
Well, shucks, @Laura. You’re gonna make me blush!
I’m glad our short, silly, comments made you feel better! It sounds like you’re in a pretty dark place right now, so my heart goes out to you, and let me just say: it does get better. This little candle, bright as it is against the dark, is nothing compared to the blazing hearth of close-knit community I’m sure you’ll find someday, or the light of the sun that will make you wonder how you could ever have felt so alone. Keep going, you got this!
Wow, Mturtle7! That brought tears to my eyes! What a kind, sweet thing to say. Thank you so much. That really did make me feel better.
So i’ve kind of lost track. Did Becky know she was gay at this point and was generally hiding it, or did she only truly realise when she got to Anderson?
Anderson I think? Like before she was let out into the wider world she probably didn’t even know gay people existed. And if she did she thought they were evil.
I’ve got the impression she has always known she liked girls (especially Joyce), though she had to go to college to learn to verbalize any part of those desires and attractions. At this point she doesn’t have any language OR any allowance in her philosophies to express the concept of being lesbian, though it’s clearly the only thing on her mind.
She pretty heavily implies she figured it out at college.
I’m inclined to think Becky knew for sure at Anderson. She probably already had it going on subconsciously, her sexual dislike of men is already apparent. But it’s clear from the context she only sees it from her evangelical background now.
i’m sure ppl can think/ say stuff without realizing later and then looking back on it like “oh yeah that makes sense”
when i was younger and didn’t know gay/pan was a thing i was thinking like “if i met a ‘soulmate’ then it wouldn’t matter if they were a guy or a girl”
“It’s that Tara, isn’t it? Is that who we’re stalking?”
“NOBODY IN PARTICULAR.”
Many fundies look forward to sitting in heaven (on clouds because that’s ancient iconography) and watching sinners burn. That’s a very weird idea of eternal joy. This seems very much like that.
I get the feeling that Becky imagined Misha on that slippery slope later as well.
Oh no. Not the premarital hanky-panky. Anything but the premarital hanky-panky.
i grew up as a catlick in the ’60s and ’70s, and I had a lot of resentment against it as a teenager. I had no idea what fundamentalism was like but I thought it was what I was experiencing. I truly and genuinely pity the young who grow up under that level of indoctrination.
So, um, why is this slope so slippery? Did someone lube it? Who has enough lube to lube an entire slope?
Misha, obviously. The Misha in Becky’s imagination has TONS of lube, and she applies it to so many things – bikes, hinges, slopes, etc. – that she can’t help getting quite a lot of it on herself. Luckily, in this hypothetical scenario, she has Becky right by her side to help her clean it off in a slow and sensual fashion. Also, this is actually all a metaphor for cleansing Misha of sin or something, so fantasizing about it is just a sign of Becky’s pure-hearted devotion, and not something God would be upset about at all.
If only we could upvote comments here.
I too envision Misha as the Obligatory Designated Bad Girl in that circle.
Sooooo tasty, that slope…
Joyce has covered Tristan well, instead told Becky he was the slippery-slope.
oh hey
this is the “who do you think thought her that phrase” from when becky woke up in bed with dina callback, right?
Yup.
PREMARITAL HANKY-PANKY!!!!!
HE-MARITAL PANKY-PRANKY!!1!
lol has joyce never heard of breaking up? then again given her upbringing maybe she’s used to seeing ppl marry their first bf/gf
Oh no!! SECULAR MUSIC!!! And after that, DANCING!! The horror!!!