Thoughts on webcomics

[Kriven]

I was big into webcomics when I was younger, but they all went on hiatus... at that point I kind of forgot about most of them.

A few years ago I got into webcomics again, but I basically just found a handful I liked and stuck with them, mostly of the gag-a-day variety. Of course I read Brawl in the Family, but that's over now. At this point the only webcomic I read faithfully (and which updates daily) is Dumbing of Age by David Willis. It isn't anything overly quirky with art (I guess the art is best described as a hybrid of Archie Comics and Scott Pilgrim) or very fantastic/adventure plotwise... the story revolves around a group of not-closely-related college freshman as they evolve during that first year in college. It's all about character evolution and development. One girl handling the fact that she picked up some of the abusive behaviors her father had, another trying to grapple with religion and how it conflicts with the lifestyles of the best friends she's ever had, pretty much everybody trying to get a grasp on their sexuality without even a clue how to go about doing it... Oh, and a superhero. A campus-bound, frat-boy beating, superhero.