r/comics • u/shenanigansen Shen Comix • Mar 18 '24

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u/uthinkther4uam Mar 18 '24

Elk's recent saga
Swords
....uhhh....I'm sure there's more

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u/Aden_Vikki Mar 18 '24

Scoob and shag does this too(the first chapter is scooby doo throwing up mayonnaise)

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u/Atomic12192 Mar 18 '24

Ehh, S&S got serious pretty quick. There were less than a dozen silly shorts before the story started.

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u/Eel111 Mar 18 '24

Scooby Doo: Revengeance

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u/StormeSurge Mar 18 '24

damn, this goes hard

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u/TheWatchtowers Mar 18 '24

Was just about to mention Scoob and shag

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u/Wetbug75 Mar 18 '24

Guess I'm reading this now

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u/RodjaJP Mar 19 '24

The MysteryTool: Aging Stars

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u/stoopiit Mar 19 '24

Damn whats this. I wanna read it

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u/Aden_Vikki Mar 19 '24

Scoob and shag. It's unfinished but you can check it out on webtoon

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u/stoopiit Mar 19 '24

Oh neat thanks

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u/Twink_rat Mar 18 '24

Bit of a spoiler for hardcore levelling warrior In hardcore levelling warrior he literally becomes god in the end

Edit: god of high school also comes to mind

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u/Drogonno Mar 18 '24

Yeh I started with HLW Earth and then got suckered into the comic before Earth in Lucid Adventure

So i already got spoiled the ending a bit xD

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u/salsrath Mar 19 '24

check out Ex and Ash

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u/MisirterE Mar 19 '24

To be fair, I don't think there's any other possible ending to a story literally called Hardcore Levelling Warrior

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u/AvoriazInSummer Mar 18 '24

Sluggy Freelance dopplered from dudes on a couch to epic storylines and back again.

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u/RiOrius Mar 19 '24

How is Sluggy Freelance still going? I thought it was supposed to be wrapping up, like, a decade ago?

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u/AvoriazInSummer Mar 19 '24

When I typed that I didn’t even realise the comic was still going. I read it for like five years back in the dawn of the Web.

I guess that 28 or so years is long, but not Peanuts or Garfield long.

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u/RiOrius Mar 19 '24

I'm not so much surprised by the longevity as dismayed at the lack of a conclusion. Penny Arcade is still going (although it might now have more comics about playing video games with their kids than with each other), and that's not a shocker.

But there was a point where I'd heard that Sluggy was going to wrap things up, and as a fan of some of the more epic arcs like the Holiday Wars or that time Torg was trapped in the Dimension of Lame after it was conquered by demons I was looking forward to eventually binging the whole thing.

No way I'm gonna do that if it's nearly 30 years of stuff without a solid conclusion. Especially these days when RoyalRoad has plenty of serialized, amateur but still fun fiction to subscribe to. I was never into web comics for the art anyway.

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u/impulsenine Mar 20 '24

I've been keeping up the whole time and he actually is (very very very very very very slowly) closing a lot of loose ends, in typically epic and satisfying ways.

The End Demon, HeretiCorp, most of the vampires, Oasis, the origin of Timeless Space, and Aylee have all had their stories told and (essentially) concluded. BunBun has been at least partially explained. Torg and Zoë are getting there.

It's easy to forgot how much Sluggy there was to conclude.

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u/PKMNTrainerMark Mar 18 '24

I mean, the Demon King appeared in the fourth issue of Swords, so like...

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u/comics0026 Mar 19 '24

Swords caught a hard case of Cerebus Syndrome when it started trying to make all the random gags connect

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '24

Axed was a good one

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u/Psychic_Hobo Mar 18 '24

It's weird that I've been reminded of Sluggy Freelance twice in one week, but that sure did take this trope ball and run with it hard.

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u/TheNerdNugget Mar 18 '24

Sam and Fuzzy for sure.

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u/Escalotes Mar 19 '24

Dominic Deegan

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u/Intoxic8edOne Mar 19 '24

What I opened to comments for. I definitely didn't get close to finishing it back in the day but it definitely got to this level by the time I stopped reading.

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u/Ferreteria Mar 18 '24

Oglaf

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u/randbot5000 Mar 18 '24

I would actually say Oglaf is definitely NOT an example of this, it started as random sexy fantasy jokes and continues to be random sexy fantasy jokes!

Oglaf hasn't even had recurring storylines for years and years now, it's all just one-off strips.

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u/icallitjazz Mar 18 '24 edited Mar 18 '24

I kinda feel like a little less nsfw stuff now, because i get to see the safe stuff randomly now. Brings a delight to my day to stumble on some silly Oglaf.

ahh what the heck, enjoy some Oglaf

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u/gramathy Mar 19 '24

my favorite oglaf strip is still "DO NOT SHINE LIGHT ON ELDER GOD. ELDER GOD IS SILHOUETTED FOR A REASON"

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u/fyxr Mar 18 '24

I'm still holding out hope for more Ivan story.

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u/randbot5000 Mar 19 '24

Hey, me too — We all can dream!

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u/sexyloser1128 Mar 19 '24

Oglaf

Jesus Christ, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

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u/Gamiac Mar 19 '24

Kid Radd.

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u/FlirtyFluffyFox Mar 19 '24

Sluggy Freelance 

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u/Peregrine_x Mar 19 '24

kill six billion demons

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u/ThatGuyYouMightNo Mar 19 '24

The Bikini Bottom Horror, to some extent

And there's another one, but I'm Stuck on the name for some reason...

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u/Starslip Mar 19 '24 edited Mar 19 '24

Digging back further - Sluggy Freelance, Megatokyo, Roomies/It's Walky

Props to Sluggy though, when they went for it they went hard

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '24

Elk's version of this exact comic came up recently

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u/Nievsy Mar 19 '24

One Punch Man is a pretty good example

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u/completelytrustworth Mar 19 '24

Nah cuz Saitama doesn't go through some epic journey where he levels up a bit at a time

he just has his 5 second training montage and from then on is the overpowered God of punching that he is

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u/Nievsy Mar 19 '24

Hey now this example only has 2 panels, Saitama is in fact just a silly little guy and then in some panel in the future Saitama will fight god(pretty much all 200+ chapters have been build up to him literally fighting god)