The following two comics (and they are funny, so no quips about them being "graphic web strips") I've been reading regularly for a while now -- including reading all of the back entries. I've really enjoyed both and find them both rather funny in very different ways. I found Hellbound when Rich Burlew of Order of the Stick was having guests do the strip during the recent GenCon.

Hellbound is a tale about a guy who loses his job 5 minutes after he gets it because he interrupts his boss and breaks the barrier allowing a demon to cross over. This demon then kisses him with a foot long tongue, sucking his soul out (or so she says). The antics continue from there...

Order of the Stick is a story of a role playing adventure but from the point of view of the PCs (player characters -- those being controlled by the real life players). You'll get amusing things because of this, like the dude standing there with ninjas behind him saying something like, "I think I failed my spot check." Then the ninjas saying something like, "Hello, we're over here!" This, naturally, is following by, "Hmm, I think I just failed a listen check." Plenty more where that came from... (although you won't find much repetition of jokes and puns, making it enjoyable for the long run).

Although I linked to the latest for each, I recommend reading them from the start. It doesn't actually take that long to catch up.

Posted by Shane on August 30, 2005 8:03 AM | Permalink