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I read webcomics. A lot of webcomics. 20 of them, if you believe my RSS reader.

So, it occurred to me it might be fun to write a series of review posts for all of the ones I currently read (and some that I don't.) I suspect it would drive me batty trying to actually rank all of these comics in some sort of order, so instead, I'll be posting them 4 at a time, in the order they appear in my RSS reader.

PHD Comics, by Jorge Cham
Life from the perspective of a grad student! Which I am not, nor have I ever been. But I have enough friends who are, or who have been, that I can relate-by-proxy to much of the humor. Plus, I can always use more academic inspiration for Brain Comics.

xkcd, by Randall Munroe
Who doesn't read this one? Nicely geekish humor. I'm still amazed at how quickly this comic's popularity has skyrocketed. And even though it's mostly stick figures, Randall Munroe still loves sneaking in an occasional stunningly-beautiful drawing.

8-Bit Theater, by Brian Clevinger
Final Fantasy sprites! This comic brings back a lot of happy video game memories. Lately it has been trending towards very rambly humor, which is disappointing compared to the creative, surrealist humor of some of the early strips.

Freefall, by Mark Stanley
This comic is full of zany hijinx. There are lots of robots and things exploding. Mark Stanley also recently ran a whopping 6-week long storyline consisting entirely of dialogue-free images, which is quite a feat.