Twice Upon a Time, and webcomics. This is Bubbles's fault.

This is more a note so I don't forget: there's an animated film called Twice Upon a Time. I saw it once, aired on the Cartoon Network, and I liked what I saw of it. Have never seen it since. It apparently is not available on DVD, only having a VHS release, and seems to have been produced by George Lucas. According to Amazon Reviews, there are actually two versions of the movie-- the 'adult' version, and the edited 'family friendly' version. I don't care which, but I'd like to see this again / show Danny. So, note to self. Find it.

WEBCOMICS

So, talking to Bubbles and thinking about it lately, I've decided it might be kind of fun to make a webcomics recommendation type post. Here it is. My insanely long list. The worst part is, I know this isn't all of them. I'll update and add as I remember. I've already been editing in links and a fix to my hilarious mistype of Randall Munroe as Murdock. I don't even know where that came from.

Rating system: G- Safe for all PG- Sometimes there's violence or innuendo, but nothing really NSFW. R- Totally NSFW, either because of violence/gore or sex.

Comics I check/follow regularly:

Sorcery 101
Rating: PG
How I found it: Danny's favorite comic. Soon became mine as well.
Summary: Danny, a blood-bound ex-prince trying to keep a low profile, is learning sorcery to try to help contribute to the protection of his friends. Trouble is, basic sorcery isn't always enough in this crazy, mixed-up world.
Recommend if: You like modern-day fantasy comics; you're interested in a complete, living setting that moves and feels like a real world; you like character-driven comics; you like story comics.

Hark! A Vagrant
Rating: PG
How I found it: Pure luck. Thank goodness I did!
Summary: History comics. Pokes fun at just about everything, but might teach you something while it does. Great style, great sense of humor.
Recommend if: You like non-story comics; you enjoy humorous comics; you like having reading recommendations to learn more about history with your comics.

Gunnerkrigg Court
Rating: PG
How I found it: Kristen's favorite comic. She was right!
Summary: Antimony Carver is a student at the mysterious Gunnerkrigg Court, a highly advanced technological compound that stretches almost beyond comprehension. Across a great divide, and the Annan waters, stands Gillitie Forest, a similarly vast expression of pure nature and wilderness. These places were once united, but something tore them apart. Perhaps Antimony can bring them back together-- only time will tell.*
Recommend if: You like technology vs. magic stories; you like story comics; you like mythology; you like technology and magic learn to get along stories; you like character-driven comics; you like serious stories that are also rife with humor.
*- I probably misspelled something in here to do with the setting!

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Rating: R
How I found it: I'm sure I followed a link sometime. Probably from S*P?
Summary: Updates daily with jokes on just about every subject. Not for the faint of heart, or the short tempered. Nothing is sacred; but, SMBC postulates, nothing should be! Also has SMBC Theater, which are video shorts put together and shared on Youtube.
Recommend if: You love humorous comics; you prefer non-story comics; you enjoy seeing everybody get equally ribbed for their shortcomings.

Buttersafe
Rating: PG
How I found it: 4chan once linked it, providing the first Skeleton Harvester comic to sell it. I was immediately hooked.
Summary: Tuesday/Thursday comics, usually unconnected but sometimes story. Bizarre is the order of the day, sometimes with humor, sometimes with soul-searchy and weird nihilistic undertones instead. If you ever thought to yourself, "Would life be better if Robin Hood made up wild cusses instead of stealing from the rich?" Then this is the comic for you. It has the answers.
Recommend if: you like humorous comics; you prefer non-story comics; you enjoy weird, bizarre, or sometimes disturbing on a philosophical level comics.

Oglaf
Rating: R
How I found it: 4chan; someone posted the first several comics when the site was very new. I noticed the watermark in the bottom of the pages and went to bookmark the site. BEST DECISION OF MY LIFE.
Summary: In a world where magic, sex, and weirdness are all really really common, it can be tough to get by. Sometimes you're an innocent peasant being gnawed on by cock-bats. Sometimes you're an adventurer being seduced by a venomous tree. Sometimes you're just a lowly apprentice, being tricked into sucking cock for a pinecone. You never know what you're going to get; but rest assured, it will almost always be hilarious.
Recommend if: You love humorous comics; you enjoy comics that are comfortable with making fun of sex; you like a mix of story and non-story comics; you play D&D, and wish more people would make comics that reminded you of D&D.

Vattu
Rating: PG
How I found it: It is the newest comic being produced by Evan Dahm of Rice Boy; I picked it up after reading his other works.
Summary: Vattu, a young warrior of a dying tribe, has been given to the new conquerors of her land as a gift by her clan's young and feeble priest. But unlike the others, she does not intend to remain in servitude forever; and she might just liberate her friend, the war-man, to go with her.
Recommend if: You like story comics; you prefer comics with unusual and detailed art; you enjoy comics about alien or otherwise non-human races.

Moon over June
Rating: R
How I found it: Through Josh Lesnick's tumblr.
Summary: Summer is a gynecologist miser who loves corrupting the so-called innocent; Hatsuki is a porn-star and mathematical genius who loves tattoos; they live together, and might even like each other.
Recommend if: you like to see comics featuring lesbian protagonists; you like humor comics; you like porn comics; you are comfortable with misandry (on part of Summer).

Supernormal Step
Rating: PG
How I found it: Followed a link from another comic back in the day because the main character had blue hair.
Summary: Fiona has been transported to another universe, where magic is real, a dictator from her world has secret agents known as 'Hendersons' running things, and monsters try to live in peace with the rest of the population. There's just one problem; Fiona kind of wants to go home, and the technology that could help her has been outlawed.
Recommend if: You like superheroes; you like story comics.

Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Rating: PG
How I found it: One of my flist linked to it somewhat recently. SCORE!
Summary: Commander Badass is here from the future to reform and help re-introduce the badasses of today into normal society. This is a comic about big, buff dudes doing the kinds of things big, buff dudes like to do. Ain't no shame in that.
Recommend if: You like a mix of story comics and non-story comics; you like humorous comics; you like manly guys; you enjoy video game references and occasionally poking fun at them.

The Oatmeal
Rating: PG
How I found it: Oh, how does anyone find the Oatmeal? but I think it was Dustin or Danny that linked me. Possibly Jenn.
Summary: Started off as a goofy joke-lists type site, but has since evolved to a sort of comic blog dealing with various subjects. Grammar, spicy food, airplane etiquette-- take your pick.
Recommend if: You like humorous comics; you prefer non-story comics.

Savage Chickens
Rating: PG
How I found it: I used to listen to SongsToWearPantsTo, and the guy there did a themesong for this comic. I started reading at once!
Summary: Office humor, cat humor, zombie humor, and chicken humor. Occasionally you will get the bonus of cool stopmotion animations, and your comics will always be drawn on yellow post-it notes (though no longer always of the same size).
Recommend if: You like humorous comics; you prefer non-story comics; you like alternative medium comics, and side art projects (such as the animations).

The Less-than-epic Adventures of TJ and Amal
Rating: R
How I found it: I think this is another one I heard about on 4chan; but I might also have found it through unrelated art posted on DA.
Summary: TJ is a vagabond with a secret history; Amal is a recently outed gay man who was just a few weeks away from potentially finishing medical school, but has been disowned by his family. They go on a road trip together, and become involved.
Recommend if: You like very detailed art; you prefer story comics; you like humor mixed liberally in with your serious comics; you like to see comics featuring gay protagonists.

Zebragirl
Rating: PG
How I found it: Zazie, or possibly Varnia, linked me years ago.
Summary: Once upon a time, Sandra's friends were playing with a magic book and accidentally turned her into a demon. Things went downhill from there.
Recommend if: You like comics that start out humorous, but become very serious and later surreal; you prefer story comics; you like wildly complex settings with multiple parallel dimensions.

El Goonish Shive
Rating: PG/R depending on your feelings re: transformations
How I found it: Ages ago, I don't remember exactly how!
Summary: In a place called Moperville, there are some strange things going on. Some of it has to do with magic; some of it is the fault of alternate realities, and immortal beings; and some of it is the fault of young boy genius Tedd, who loves alien technology and transforming himself and his friends into various things.
Recommend if: You like story comics; you like character-driven comics; you enjoy transformation as a concept (cross-gender and cross-species alike); you like a mixture of humor and seriousness in your comics, erring on the side of humor, usually.

Order of the Stick
Rating: PG
How I found it: Some years back; people talked about it, so I looked it up.
Summary: The Order of the Stick are a group of high-level adventurers. They are working to prevent the opening of extra-dimensional gates that will allow some terrifying evil god to come forth and destroy existence as they know it, but getting there is no easy matter.
Recommend if: you like stick-figure comics; you like D&D humor; you like humorous comics with the occasional serious one thrown in there; you don't mind an irregular update schedule; you aren't intimidated by an enormous archive.

Snowflakes
Rating: G
How I found it: This is a side project done by the guys who did Captain Excelsior Stupendous and still do SMBC.
Summary: What if a bunch of cute little orphans in a snowy, remote orphanage started to fight over classroom politics? What if some of them thought they were vikings? Well, this is all about that.
Recommend if: you like goofy kids-with-big-imaginations stories; you prefer story comics; you like humorous comics; you have no reverence for nuns.

The Comics Curmudgeon
Rating: PG
How I found it: Pure chance!
Summary: The Comics Curmudgeon reviews various newspaper comics and either lightly teases them, ramps them up to hilariously ridiculous proportions by assuming they will get far more dramatic than newspaper comics ever actually are, or flat out mocks them. Thanks to this guy, I read Apartment 3-G sometimes. He's pretty rad.
Recommend if: you like newspaper comics, but not too much; you like humor; you want to make fun of Family Circus.

Goblins
Rating: R
How I found it: Looking for D&D comics years ago.
Summary: A group of Goblins from a small goblin village decide to become adventurers, but that's harder than they thought. Quickly escalates from a light-hearted, somewhat carefree adventure about the Goblins becoming heroes to their people against adversity and fate itself, and into a depressing epic about the suffering of the Goblins that ought to become more than they were, and various others that know of them in the setting.
Recommend if: You like humorous comics that become ridiculously dark; you like non-standard webcomic designs; you like D&D humor; you like goblins.

Wondermark
Rating: PG
How I found it: Through Dinosaur Comics
Summary: Usually non-sequitur but sometimes sequential comics made using wood-block prints and often completely random, moderately philosophical dialogue added to the often quasi-Victorian scenes. Features the occasional appearances of shapeshifting alien Gax, and madness.
Recommend if: you like humor; you like philosophy; you enjoy woodblocks and alternative webcomic media; you prefer non-story comics but don't mind the occasional story comic in the midst of the rest.

Dinosaur Comics
Rating: PG
How I found it: Probably thanks to Skye, actually!
Summary: Every day, T-Rex and his fellow dinosaurs go about their business. They do almost the same thing during those days, but they talk about anything and everything under the sun.
Recommend if: You like dinosaurs; you like philosophy; you like random medical facts; you like humor comics; you prefer non-story comics.

Questionable Content
Rating: PG
How I found it: Jen, back in the day
Summary: Marten and his friends live out their every day lives in a pseudo-futuristic setting where PCs are AIs, and can be put into various shells that allow them to walk around as humans do.
Recommend if: you like character-driven plots; you like romance as a central comic element; you like humor and drama in about equal parts; you think robots are pretty neat; you like story comics with the occasional non-sequitur.

Darths and Droids
Rating: PG
How I found it: The guys were reading it, so I picked it up too.
Summary: Using screenshots from the Star Wars films as art, the comic covers a long-standing tabletop RPG campaign wherein the players are playing the characters in the movies. Makes extensive light of the prequel trilogy; has just recently gotten to A New Hope.
Recommend if: You like Star Wars; you like humor comics; you like D&D humor; you don't mind making fun of D&D or Star Wars; you think it's entirely plausible that Jar Jar Binks was made up by a twelve year old girl.

Badly Drawn Kitties
Rating: R
How I found it: Years ago, this comic was taken down and removed. But it seems to have been recently reborn and is updating again! I found it after noting that I'd read it before and that it was gone, earlier today. Happily reunited! Ahh.
Summary: Slice-of-life, joke-a-day comic about Lydia and Lucy, two cat-ladies who are sassy roommates.
Recommend if: You like humor; you prefer non-story comics with some minor continuity.

( Comics I still check sporadically, even though they are not on my list: )

( Comics I no longer read, but read once: )

This is so long my shoulder hurts. Argh.