Webcomics!

This might be a more readable format for Tales from the Tables for some folk.

Staying on webtoons for a moment, there is of course a metric ton of great comics there. The majority are Korean webtoons but there are plenty of other gems, such as The Weekly Roll (a funny D&D comic with a black and white WFRP feel, the author has done a couple of similar ones).

If you’re going to stick around for the Korean fantasy webtoons I’d recommend the following:
  • The Extra’s Academy Survival Guide: Ed Rothstaylor is sort of like Draco Malfoy if Hogwarts was a computer game and Malfoy was a tutorial boss whom Harry flattened in a duel in the first chapter. Shortly after this event, someone who’s actually played the game is reborn as Ed and realises he has to survive (Ed has been cut off from his wealthy evil family and is only at the school on sufferance) while not derailing the plot (harder than it looks).
  • Return of the Blossoming Blade: Cheongmyeong was the finest swordsman of the Mount Hua sect in the murim (world of martial arts), and the one who defeated the Heavenly Demon when he led his Cult against all China. A century later, Cheongmyeong is reincarnated as a young novice at Mount Hua and is enraged to find that the Mount Hua sect is now considered second-rate and inferior to its old rivals, some of whom have stolen their techniques. Cheongmyeong sets out on a long journey to restore the status and influence of Mount Hua.
  • Jungle Juice: A cool little superhero series where all superpowers come from insects and the use of a mysterious bug spray. Adrian Tchaikovsky must love it.
The other webcomic I’d really recommend is Guilded Age, a completed full colour fantasy webcomic from the same team as Faans (if anyone remembers that). It’s very MMORPG and gets a bit meta and melodramatic at times, but it’s worth a read.
 
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I was a fan of the original Fuzzy Knights of the Round Table- an homage/spoof of Knights of the Dinner Table. It launched in 1990, and it was collected in a series of trade paperbacks in 2002 or so. KoDT holds a warped mirror up to the RPG hobby, with tales of munchkins, power gamers, and misunderstandings (Ex. #1: The Gazebo). It has also had a surprising impact in its own right by launching Hackmaster as a fictional game which became reality. (Kenzerco has also produced other fine products for the hobby.)

But I just recently found out FKotRT has a new life as a webtoon, launched in 2022 or so:
 

Some of my favorite webcomics:

Tragedy of Fortuna, a comic that started out on MSPA's forum but set up its own site when that forum collapsed. It's a sci-fi story about quirky aliens and mythology-themed robots who live inside of a videogame

Widdershins is an urban fantasy detective comic set in Victorian England. The setting's magic revolves around summoning or channeling spirits representing emotions. The protagonists are a hardboiled lady detective from a long line of hardboiled detectives and a guy who was kicked out of wizard school because he can't control his magic.


Out of Placers is a post-apocalyptic renaissance fantasy set in the city of Val Salia, which is inhabited by humans, giant carapaced creatures called baxids, and an underclass of small spindly eusocial monotremes called yinglets (as well as a few rare members of other original fantasy races). The story follows a male human who is accidentally turned into a female yinglet via an ancient artifact whose mechanism is no lo ger understood.

In Preeny Has To Repeat The Sixth Grade a colorful offbeat cartoon world is endangered by a life draining magical phrnomenon

Harpy Gee, the story of an elf, her magic draining goblin cat, and the friends they meet in the town of Podunkello. Currently on a prolonged hiatus due to the author's job.

In Aurora a demigod and several people channeling the powers of primordial dragons set out to stop a god-killing mad sorceress bent on global destruction. By Red, of Overly Sarcastic Productions

I was a fan of the original Fuzzy Knights of the Round Table- an homage/spoof of Knights of the Dinner Table. It launched in 1990, and it was collected in a series of trade paperbacks in 2002 or so. KoDT holds a warped mirror up to the RPG hobby, with tales of munchkins, power gamers, and misunderstandings (Ex. #1: The Gazebo). It has also had a surprising impact in its own right by launching Hackmaster as a fictional game which became reality. (Kenzerco has also produced other fine products for the hobby.)

But I just recently found out FKotRT has a new life as a webtoon, launched in 2022 or so:
I love Fuzzy Knights
 
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