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There are some excellent offerings in this week's round-up, so I hope you're prepared to waste some valuable time online after reading this post. Wait, what am I saying?! You clearly do if you're reading these words. Stupendous! I know I mention a handful of the same webcomics each week, but I have to point out that the most recent update from The Gutters is, again, pretty damn funny...

In general, gag webcomics are not my favorites, but there are, of course, sublime exceptions: CA contributors Let's Be Friends Again, The Perry Bible Fellowship, HIJInks Ensue, xkcd and Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. SMBC has been online for nearly ten years, and creator Zach Weiner has always had an eye for unusual jokes, however, from oddball puns to nuggets of science fictional ideas to fr

Last night, idly clicking on a cryptic link at The Comics Reporter led me to a story that may be my favorite thing to happen in comics so far this year. Zach Weiner, creator of the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, had one of his cartoons misappropriated by NOM (National Organization for Marriage), an organization opposed to same-sex marriage...

People say they want realism in comics, but let's be honest -- they don't. 1) Because reality is often very boring, 2) because superpowers are inherently unrealistic and 3) because even if we're willing to suspend our belief and accept that they could exist, they're still going to be surrounded by a million other details that are just as unrealistic...