…gear reverse into shifts webcomic another yet

Cereal Breakfast Morning Saturday

So Kris “Starslipper” Straub is reaching out for crossovers with a weekly side-comic called Alterverse War. The requirements are a space-based comic with a starship of some kind. Now who does that remind me of?

Schlock Mercenary (Let’s just say if Tayler doesn’t participate it will seriously damage the perception of Blank Label unity.)

Melonpool (Something in me suspects that this is all a clever ruse to get Steve Troop back into webcomicking…)

Goats (It already has the alternate-universe thing down pat; but would it be just Neil and Bob in their flying saucer, or Toothgnip too, or The Whole Gang? I must admit, a scene with Mr. Jinx, Schlock and Brock Stalkley is my personal webcomic wet dream. But I’ve said too much.)

Superosity (Assuming Chris Keenspot Crosby has resumed speaking to all those Blank Label turncoats.)

Zortic (Long known as a Crossover Whore.)

Irregular Webcomic’s Space or Martians or Star Wars themes. (An excuse to get Luke and Darth and Yoda into this mash-up? YES!)

Legostar Galactica (I see them making an evil alliance with IWC)

Crimson Dark (Why do I think that anything from that comic would just blow away anything else in two seconds?)

Freefall (Although the characters haven’t been on their ship for like eons, and they probably won’t leave the Robot Maintenance Center Or Whatever until Stanley has inserted cameo appearances by EVERY fictional or real-world robot in existence.)

The dead-tree-based Brewster Rockit (Yeah, we dare you, Tribune Media Services. Show us why you think that THIS is the only Space Comic worthy of newspaper publication!)

This topic prompted me to go out searching for other starship-based webcomics. So far I’ve found:
The freaky-fresh new GoodShip Chronicles (no action, but some of the best designed character faces I’ve ever seen).
The recently partially-resuscitated Blast Asteroid.
Orbits (because any parody of the Star Trek universe that names its ship the USS Regis Philbin is on the right track).

Sci-Fi comics that appear to be missing a starship but would otherwise be good-to-great to get the characters involved: Sluggy Freelance, Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life,Dicebox, Banished!, Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire (yes, I know, it’s a recycled print comic that Foglio hasn’tdrawn for over 10 years, but a guy can dream) and xkcd (JUST BECAUSE!).

Now, I pretty much expect newspaper comics to duplicate each others’ gags on a regular basis (last December there was this one GIANT Christmas light bulb that made the rounds of several strips), but when the creative geniuses that are the upper echelon of webcomics seem to be recycling the same idea, it’s shocking! And this time, the idea is the backwards-sequence strip.

And now Savage Chickens comes in with a gag about the Mother-of-All-Reverse-Memes, the movie “Memento”.

Then, Evil Inc., in one of its Saturday not-advancing-the-plot semi-throwaways had Lightning Lady working Customer Disservice and dealing with a malfunctioning time machine.

First, Irregular Webcomic did a strip in reverse sequence, a ME comic where he revealed a future spoiler, warned he was going to reveal a spoiler, and then declared himself working backwards.

But then, I’m a generally unoriginal guy, so I think I’ll use the gimmick myself.

(that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it)

I was feeling guilty the other day, engaging in an online conversation with residents of Athens, Greece during the firestorm and trying to cheer them up when one mentioned having to go into the kitchen and cook something and I stopped myself just as I was about to hit the Send key on “Don’t have any greece fires in the kitchen!”
Apparently, Lem of the Bunny webcomic is even more inappropriate than I am.

Quotable Sheldon (actually, Gramp from Sheldon): “Why does my stomach feel like Scott Baio’s career?”

Another Diesel Sweetquote: “The world is like an internet girlfriend.” “Paradoxically into both Pokemon and bondage?” “Perfect until you meet in real life.” Although I could argue that when you think about the tiny hard-shelled thingies that Pokemon are kept in, bondage is not that much a stretch…

“The Programmer breached the skin between worlds without even knowing it.” Does this mean Goats is going to wrap up this storyline BEFORE December 2012?

In case you didn’t know, Little Dee is safe at home @ Modern Tales, has rebuilt the 4th wall she destroyed last week and is currently featuring a unicorn (or a reasonable facsimile – I like the hat).

I confess. Achewood is usually not my cup of hot cocoa, but I keep an eye on it because once in a while it comes up with something that is multiple layers of awesomeness. “Registered Asshole” is one of those things.

Cat and Girl Quotability: “Understanding Zippy the Pinhead is the first sign of adult onset schizophrenia”

Qwantz and T-Rex know I can’t resist a good pun… or a bad one either. I tried my Beth.

Embedded in its usual outrageousness and grossitude, Cyanide and Happiness has a logical explanation for why the guy in the mask with a chainsaw keeps killing people.

The Order of the Stick is on hiatus for 3 weeks, and leaving us with a relatively low-key cliffhanger. This webcomic could teach a few things to the producers of certain TV shows.

Belated congratulations to Wally & Osbourne‘s Tyler Martin: It’s a Boy and a KLUMP! (It is nice to see the next generation of talented webcomickers coming into this difficult world. Thanks, you fertile minds and loins.)

Wondermark has come up with a semi-awesome concept: “Big Salt”.

Congratulations to The Joy of Tech on your 1000th comic. But really, isn’t “The Field Guide to Office Workers” an idea that’s been done 1000 times before?

Partially Clips gives us a “Fiscally Responsible Magical Adventure”. Yeah, you know where this is going…

So many comics, so few functioning brain cells. I’ll catch up with the dead tree offerings next time.