There's more than one good web comic!

I've spent a lot of time trying to find another worthwhile webcomic to compete with Achewood. Sure, you got your Garfield minus Garfield which can be funny or even downright revelatory. Sure, you got comic-related things like that hilarious dude who writes about Marmaduke. And of course these internets are always great for archives of old classic print comics like Krazy Kat. But until last week, nothing else really scratched the web-comic itch for me.

Figure 12: A Funny Comic from Brad Neely's Creased Comics



Well I have found an answer in Creased Comics. It doesn't have the story arcs and character development of an Achewood, but it has the one-off genius of the old Far Side. Also it explores a wider emotional range, from the plain old hilarious, to the tragic-yet-funny, to the confusing-in-a-hilarious-way, to the utterly baffling-but-amusing, to the plain old heart-wrenching-why-would-he-do-this-to-me-I-just- wanted-something-to-laugh-at-in-this-cruel-world.

Plus Brad Neely's other stuff is funny too-- Professor Brothers (here is a good place to start), a couple other cartoons (you can watch a lot of them here), Wizard People Dear Reader (here's the first chapter synched up, and then you'll probably just want to download the mp3s and rent the DVD and have yourself a time). Go ahead, check it out, be not disappointed.