#Cloudscratcher

[thewebcomicsreview]

The Webcomic Reviews Mini Reviews Masterpost, Part 1

People always ask me what I think of various webcomics, so I decided to start collecting my thoughts in one place! Click the images to go to the comic! Comic titles with a ⭐ after them are recommended, but even if I don't give a comic a star, that doesn't mean you won't like it.

[un]Divine ⭐

What is it: A highschooler sells his soul for a big titty demon gf, and now has to have anime battles against angels who keep trying to eat him.

The Good: Excellent art and monster designs, some of the better fights in webcomics.

The Bad: Danny is kind of a bland protagonist. The comic keeps threatening to veer into femdom porn, which may be a good thing for some of you. Comic is on permanent semi-hiatus and updates very infrequently

You should read it if: You wanna read a comic with big fights, big angels, and big titties.

Ava’s Demon

What is it: A bunch of kids possessed by demons have space adventures and are sad

The Good: Extremely good art. Occasional "high production value" moments with music and limited animation. The single-panel page format really highlights the art.

The Bad: Bland writing, weak characters. The single-panel page format really slows the flow of reading it.

You should read it if: Learning that the Wrath demon is named “Wrathia” doesn’t strike you as comically dumb

Awkward Zombie ⭐

What is it: It’s a comic that makes jokes about video games

The Good: It’s the best comic that makes jokes about video games

The Bad: If you haven’t played the game in question, you might not get the jokes. Awkward lack of zombies.

You should read it if: You like jokes about video games. I don't....it's not a complex premise.

Camp Weedonwantcha ⭐

What is it: A bunch of kids are left at summer camp forever by parents who’ve abandoned them to die. Wacky comedy and feel-good moments ensue.

The Good: Cute adventures with kids, reminiscent of some of the better Nicktoons from the 90s. Surprisingly emotionally effective when it wants to be.

The Bad: While the ending is satisfying in its own way, many plot threads go unresolved

The Terrible: Nickelodeon bought the rights and is sitting on them.

You should read it if: You like slice of life adventures with blasts of dark humor and feels

Cloudscratcher

What is it: Ducktales, with Genocide!

The Good: Cute and generally likable characters. Decently paced

The Bad: Doesn’t really excel at anything. Weirdly insistent about totally not being a furry comic even though it obviously is.

The Terrible: The author is a white nationalist, and the lack of link is intentional.

You should read it if: You like 80s cartoons and hate minorities

Cornucopia ⭐

What is it: A ninja is sent on a mission to literally steal candy from a nation of morons, fails.

The Good: Good art and well-paced storytelling. Clever use of different types of word balloons. High joke-per-page ratio

The Bad: Doofy tone may not be your cup of tea. Seems to have died young, though the first chapter is still a complete story

You should read it if: You like JelloApocalypse’s videos on YouTube, or his series Epithet Erased, since he made this

Dresden Codak

What is it: A genius inventor has wacky adventurers, then goes to a flying city and spends most of the comic’s run embroiled in a conspiracy run by evil anime villains.

The Good: The drawings are pretty. The early comedy adventures are quirky and charming.

The Bad: Panel layout and composition, especially early in Dark Science, is atrocious. Presents the comic as a feminist power fantasy, but the main character usually has her tits out and has had her clothes burnt off on multiple occasions.

The Terrible: The author is a notorious jerk. As of this writing, The Dark Science storyline has been running for eight years and has yet to reach a triple-digit number of pages, even though it’s a full-time job for which Diaz earns $4,000+/mo on Patreon.

You should read it if: You thought the best part of Ghost in the Shell was the lesbian orgy boat.

Drop Out (NSFW) ⭐

What is it: Two girlfriends go on a road trip to kill themselves in style

The Good: Short enough to be read in one sitting. Surprisingly good visual storytelling for a first comic. Realistic dialogue and high tension keeps you engaged even when not much is happening. Subtle details that don’t become apparent until a second read reward paying attention.

The Bad: Heavy subject matter. Lettering can be tough to read in early pages.

Content Warnings: Drug Abuse, Suicide, Mental Health Issues, Detransitioning….a list of all the difficult content in this comic would be so long it’d look like I’m making a joke. This is a heavy comic.

You should read it if: You like arty dramatic comics that deal with uncomfortable topics

Dumbing of Age

What is it: College students obsessed with late 80s-early 90s pop culture have relationship troubles

The Good: Of all the popular comics it’s trendy to shit on, this is by far the best. Solid gag-a-day strip with plots that move at a decent pace.

The Bad: Realistic depictions of abusive parents co-exists in the same comic as a literal superhero, leading to some jarring tonal confusion.

You should read it if: You like newspaper-style drama comics.

Everything Is Fine

What is it: Maggie and Sam are a normal married couple in a very strange world where proving your loyalty is the key to winning, and the best way to prove your loyalty is to show someone else is disloyal. And also everyone wears mascot suit cat heads all the time.

The Good: Well-written characters, a novel premise, and excellent pacing. I’m not the biggest fan of the webtoon “really tall page” format, but it’s taken advantage of at times for nice transitions

The Bad: The webtoon format can be irritating, and the worldbuilding is toeing the line between “compelling mystery” and “If there were two astronauts on the moon and one shot the other wouldn’t that be fucked up?”-ism.

Content Warning: Gore, Suicide themes. Every page with such content has a warning on it (which works better in Webtoon format, actually)

You should read it if: You liked the dystopian fiction fiction books you had to read in high school.

Gunnerkrigg Court ⭐

What is it: A girl attends a scientific school in a magical world that’s honestly not even slightly like Harry Potter but people say it is because they think J. K. Rowling invented British schools

The Good: Good art and fantastic panel composition. Slow-burning dark fantasy mystery.

The Bad: Takes a little while to find its groove. Starts feeling rushed and confusing near the end.

The Terrible: Boxbot

You should read it if: You like dark fantasy stories, or stories in general.

Homestuck ⭐?

What is it: A kid wants to play a video game but it’s downstairs and he doesn’t feel like talking to his dad yadda yadda yadda the universe explodes. Was briefly ungodly popular.

The Good: High production values, many updates are music videos with excellent music. Great character writing, especially in Act 5. Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale, did a lot of the music, and arguably isn’t even the best musician featured.

The Bad:The early part of the comic is brutally slow-paced, and is an impossible hurdle for some.

The Terrible: The ending is widely considered a major disappointment, and attempts to turn the comic into a franchise have been met with mixed reviews. The prose epilogues are deeply divisive.

Content Warning: A lot gorier than you might expect, mitigated by the cartoony art style, abusive relationships, the epilogue is just generally gross.

You should read it if: You want to see what the hell all those kids in grey face-paint at anime conventions were about

You should also consider: Just getting the music off the bandcamp, it’s really good.

Homestuck 2

What is it: A “dubiously canon” sequel to Homestuck, following from The Homestuck Epilogues, made by a different creative team. Follows two intersecting future timelines

The Good: The art is quite nice, and the new characters are fun and likable. Very bold in its ideas, for better or for worse it’s rarely boring. One of the few webcomics to be able to integrate trigger warnings clearly while remaining non-obtrusive with them. Faster-paced than the original Homestuck (low bar!) and has a few clever presentation ideas. Willing to be its own thing. If you’re worried it’s just “Homestuck 1 but more of it”, this is not that.

The Bad: Not at all a stand-alone comic, Homestuck 2 is completely incoherent if you’re not familiar with Homestuck 1 and the Homestuck Epilogues. Does not have the big multimedia productions Homestuck 1 was known for. Beloved characters from Homestuck 1 can come off really badly, which upsets a lot of people. If you’re looking for “Homestuck 1 but more of it”, this is not that.

The Terrible: At times, this comic is actively trying to piss off the readership by dragging out unpopular plot revelations. I actually like this about it, but unsurprisingly a lot of people don’t.

You should read it if: If you have to ask “Should I read Homestuck 2?”, the answer is probably “No”. This is a comic for people who are riding the Homestuck train to the bitter end.

You should also consider: Reading my Liveblog of it 

Kiwi Blitz ⭐

What is it: A precocious young girl gets a Kiwi-shaped robot and decides to become a superhero ridding the world of nefarious furries. More of a cute character drama than a superhero comic, and more of a superhero comic than a mecha one.

The Good: Cute artstyle. Not without dramatic stakes, but fairly light and fun throughout minus a few people getting shot. The android 42 is stand-out great character.

The Bad: Prone to long hiatuses as the author's main comic is now Sleepless Domain.

You should read it if: You liked Sleepless Domain, and are looking for a somewhat lighter comic by the same author.

Latchkey Kingdom ⭐

What is it: A girl goes on adventures in a magical land of idiots

The Good: Good but not overbearing comedy. Tight chapters. Strong side characters

The Bad: Thanks in part to Patron-backed stories in between the “main” chapters, can feel like an episodic series with no main character or driving plot

The Neutral: Willa is a semi-silent protagonist, and often gets overshadowed by the wacky people she meets. Cerberus Syndrome, executed well

You should read it if: You like adventure, silly characters, and jokes about Dark Souls.

Leasebound

What is it: Two lesbians are contrived into sharing an apartment, then the comic becomes a polemic about how trans people are evil. The second-best TERF webcomic on this list

The Good: This comic has no redeeming qualities

The Bad: It’s hella transphobic, and not even particularly interesting about it the way Sinfest can be. Everything that’s not hateful is boring, and the comic is practically going “Go on, be offended, blog about me, give me atteeeennnnttttiiiiiooooonnn!”

You should read it if: You really shouldn’t, and I’m not linking to it

Least I Could Do

What is it: Rayne Summers is the best at everything and you should listen to him

The Good: This comic updates on time regularly. Sometimes it updates without word balloons by accident, making it surreally funny

The Bad: Poorly thought-out political rants; few jokes, severe overuse of beat panels, copy-pasted art.

The Terrible: Designed to go viral, not to be entertaining; makes panels wordless just so they can be used as preview images

You should read it if: You have committed horrible sins and wish to atone

Legend of the Hare

What is it: I wrote this! A white trash loser girl is peer pressured into becoming a magical girl by a pair of pushy rabbits. A spinoff of the print comic Blade Bunny, written and drawn by the current creative team of Saffron and Sage.

The Good: Bouncy and cartoony art. Strong and memorable characters. Very weird and freewheeling.

The Bad: The plot is an absolute mess, stalling out and even going backwards at times, though it mostly comes together at the end. The tone is wildly inconsistent.

The Terrible: Kind of South-Parky in its humor sometimes

You should read it if: You like Saffron and Sage and want to see a comic by the same team when they were less experienced.

Nan Quest ⭐

What is it: In this spiritual sequel to Ruby Quest, a goat girl electrician sets out to fix a broken fuzebox and ends up ensnared in a psychological horror conspiracy.

The Good: Much more effective use of the simple MS Paint art style, with more color and some simple animations (animated panels being marked [A], a convention Homestuck would later adopt for its [S] sound panels). The characters are better fleshed out than in Ruby Quest, and the horror is more effective as well, with less gore and more tension.

The Bad: Though used effectively, the art is still MS Paint doodles. The story mechanics behind the mystery are much more ambiguous, which can be a plus.

Content Warning: Gore, threatened sexual violence.

You should read it if: You like Ruby Quest and/or psychological horror comics that can be read in a few hours.

Moby: Back from the Deep

What is it: A zombie killer whale attacks a small town.

The Good: The art is nice

The Bad: Egregious overuse of narration.

The Terrible: It’s a beat for beat ripoff of the movie Jaws, down to some characters having their names only marginally changed from their Jaws counterpart (e.g. “Alex Gardener” is the name of the Alex Kintner analogue)

You should read it if: You can’t find a Jaws torrent.

Mokepon ⭐

What is it: A dickhead teenager is forced on a Pokemon adventure, and learns a valuable lesson about friendship while being dragged into a criminal conspiracy. A Pokemon fanfic that’s somewhat darker than the source material (though not really “grimdark”)

The Good: Good action scenes, nice manga-style art. Notable improvement in art and storytelling over time. Atticus’ slow-burn character growth is satisfying.

The Bad: The early chapters are almost a completely different comic, and it takes a little while to find its groove.

You should read it if: You liked Pokemon Special

Monster Pulse ⭐

What is it: Kids’ internal organs become sentient external organs, and they have to keep it a secret from an evil orginization.

The Good: Cool twist on the surprisingly rare monster pet genre. Not afraid to upend the status quo

The Bad: No real obvious flaws, but if you don’t find the premise interesting, you probably won’t like it.

You should read it if: You were a fan of monster-pet stories like Digimon Tamers

The Monster Under The Bed

What is it: A teenager finds a demon girl under his bed, rom-com ensues

The Good: Cute anime-esque premise

The Bad: Gets progressively hornier to to point where I'm not sure if I should even leave it on this list. Egregious use of photos instead of drawing backgrounds, making outdoor scenes look awful

You should read it if: You like trashy Japanese animes

Narbonic ⭐

What is it: A shlubby loser gets a job working for a mad scientist. Mad sciencey things occur, and the comic experiences an incredible jump in quality in the back half

The Good: Short comic, comfy and easy to read. The best and most satisfying ending arc of any webcomic ever.

The Bad: Some “LOLRANDOM” humor, especially early on.

The Terrible: The first few comics are almost literally unreadable due to messy handwritten lettering and low quality scans.

You should read it if: You love seeing a story build to a proper conclusion, and you don’t mind a rough start.

Octopus Pie ⭐

What is it: Slice-of-life dramedy where twenty-somethings try to become adults and/or get laid while navigating New York life. Completed comic.

The Good: If you direct your attention above, you will see the incredible coloring. There are other comics that have better plots and even better characters, but Octopus Pie is uniquely good at hitting a mood. Occasionally does some infinite canvas stuff that’s neat.

The Bad: This is a comic about exploring ideas and kind of drifting around through life, and isn’t a big plot-focused comic with a lot of big dramatic reveals. Which I don’t think is bad, but it might not be your thing.

You should read it if: You liked stories about adults trying to figure out how to grow up, and like seeing characters age.

Out-of-Placers ⭐

What is it: A human man is turned into a female rat creature, and has to navigate a low-fantasy world while learning their incredibly stupid ways and trying to get himself back to normal.

The Good: Really good worldbuilding, with interesting, fleshed out, and unique fantasy races. There are licensed Dungeons and Dragons books with less cool ideas for a campaign in them.

The Bad: Can get kind of edgy in ways that don’t always work, and occasionally gets a bit gross. If the premise made you think it was a furry fetish comic, it’s not, but it keeps threatening to become one if you don’t whap it with a newspaper and say “No” very firmly every now and then.

You should read it if: Your favorite DnD race is kobolds.

Paranatural ⭐

What is it: Kids bust ghosts in a parody of shounen anime tropes

The Good: Good banter, creative panel layouts, and characters you want to root for.

The Bad: The story rapidly increases in scale, causing the pacing to slow down somewhat. The story later transitions to an illustrated prose format, which some people can't really get into.

You should read it if: You liked Bleach before it became Dragonball

Prequel -or- Making A Cat Cry: The Adventure ⭐

What is it: An Elder Scrolls fanfiction, in which an alcoholic catgirl heads to a new land to try to make a better life, and generally fails.

The Good: Inventive use of the web as a storytelling medium. Great character writing. Lovable protagonist. Excellent payoff to years or life kicking the protagonist in the face.

The Bad: Years of life kicking the protagonist in the face. Can thus be depressing, especially early on, sometimes to the point of being offensive (see Content Warnings)

The Terrible: Very slow and irratic update schedule

Content Warnings: Alcoholism, Depression, the protagonist gets blackout drunk and wakes up in bed next to strange men several times, which is played for comedy.

You should read it if: You like slow burn character development. You like stories where the protagonist has a hard time

Problem Sleuth

What is it: A detective tries to leave his office using user-submitted commands, and gets in a few tangents along the way. Mostly known now as “The thing Andrew Hussie did before Homestuck”, but it was a popular comic in its own right.

The Good: Much better art than most reader-driven comics, bizarre and clever, with a dramatic finish.

The Bad: Holy shit, you thought Homestuck meandered? Problem Sleuth will do nearly anything and everything readers asked him to do, and this is a veeeeeery convoluted comic that has thus aged somewhat poorly.

You should read it if: You thought Homestuck was best before the Trolls got involved.

Questionable Content

What is it: Humanity achieves a technological utopia in the background while hipsters in Massachusetts complain about their dating lives. Later begins focusing much more heavily on all the robots.

The Good: A rotating menagerie of quirky cute girls. Had a major trans character before it was cool.

The Bad: The comic kind of transitions from being about one thing to being about another thing several times, to the point where onetime protagonists show up less and less or even get dropped altogether in favor of the New Thing the comic is.

You should read it if: You want a comfy and diverse slice-of-life comic.

[wolfmage553]

Cloudscratcher Minecraft Headcanons

Borzax was not meant to be whitelisted. He got someone to steal Felix's computer to whitelist him onto the server.

Felix learned Redstone in seconds and built a flying machine day one.

Nobody is allowed to mention parrots in Sogaat's presence since, when the crew first encountered one, Sogaat had to mute his mic on VC to cry and nobody wants to accidently cause Sogaat to cry again.

Since Sally-Jean and Sogaat's rooms are right next to each other, she was the one who heard him crying and comforted him.

Once Elytras came into play there were multiple instances of "_ experience kinetic energy" but the funniest instance was Borzax trying to kill Alice but not realizing there was a fence between him and Alice and flying straight into said fence.

Burt and Jacques are amazing at flying with Elytras and have even started requesting other people to build them Elytra racing courses to test their skills.

Sogaat has a humble little hut in a forest and a small shine to Margoth (the god, not the emperor) close to it. Sometimes, unexpected things happen that The Captain is certain that Felix is doing because Felix is the admin of the server but Felix swears aren't caused by him. Borzax once put a frowny face sign on the shrine and got struck by lightning every minute until he removed the sign. Both Borzax and Sogaat are convinced that the shrine brought Margoth onto the server and that the unexpected things are caused by him.

Alice is the builder on the server.

Sogaat likes making music with the noteblocks. He even put together a noteblock composition of You Are My Sunshine for Ixia's birthday.

[cloudscratchercomic]

Hello Cody! I see what you tried to do there with the "new page" message for the latest Cloudscratcher page. Joke's on you though, Russian is my native language so I was able to easily read it without needing a translator!

Next time I'll do the update in ancient Sanskrit. Then no one will know the horribly obscene things I'm saying about them in the update blog!

[ceevee5]

I learned today that skyscrapers aren’t skyscrapers in German. They’re cloudscratchers.

[goddamnwebcomics]

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Lucky for you you already have some of those in your list. Parisa, Petra, At a Good Pace, Cat Knight, Cloudscratcher (somewhat), Crunchy Bunches, maybe Erma (before it got story heavy), Housepets (when it’s not being kind of horny), PepperJack, Softies and Weirdogs just to name a few.

At this point, Albert makes Jay Naylor look more competent in writing child characters in comparison. I didn’t think anyone could sink any lower than the guy who once put his objectivist views into a kid selling muffins on the schoolyard, but here we are.

I had no idea any of those comics were that honestly. I think they’d be an interesting one to tackle when I get to them.

Also, what?

[lesserknownwaifus]

[thewebcomicwanderer]

Chapter 13 of @cloudscratchercomic has recently concluded! Now is the perfect time catch up or start reading! 

> Archive > First Page > Chapter 13 start

[photographers2]

We have nothing to lose and a world to see.

[serafino-finasero]

Cover of Hans-Christoph Kaergel’s book Wolkenkratzer (lit. ‘cloudscratcher,’ i.e. ‘skyscraper’) | Ostdeutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1926 | New York Public Library

[catcomixzstudios]

Today's Friday Fan-Art stars Felix and Ixia from @cloudscratchercomic, which you can check out here!  This comic is full of great action and fantastic characters, good and evil. It's all kinds of fun, check it out.

[s-udarshana]

victorum

By the banks of the Velodyna, there they sat down - yea, they wept, when they remembered their home. 

I have been indulged too much, and now I cannot help but feel the saliva drip from my fangs as I hunger for ceaseless [penitence/worth].

The dreams grow fierce again - memories of fangs growing longer than teeth, reprehensible things I know I should have left behind - and yet I cannot for I know nothing better than to carry the burden of knowledge. The thrill - like the pounding in your chest not when you hunt, but when you are hunted - for you know you are sought for a singular, ultimate, and critical purpose - be it to die, to make others die, to restore peace or annihilate order.

I have been dreaming of war-- no, I have been yearning for war, the taste of iron between my teeth again, and I know not if I am scared at the cracks I’ve yet to seal within my resolve, or if I am proud to know you’ve once again chosen me as your Scorn.

Remember, O Destroyer - the children of the East in the day of deviants who said “raze it, raze it, even to its foundation.”

I’ve been discussing it much too frequently, lately. With others, the unknowing, the deserving and the unblooded, the unworthy and the cut-and-dried. It is not something I should find shame in, this letting forth that is the essence of what makes the world unto me, and vice versa - yet this concept is what sets me upon an edge I can’t quite seem to dull beneath the buffets of peaks and cloudscratchers, for one cannot understand how things used to be until there is a change.

Every instance prior to this - I had grown concerned. Fearful and repressing, anxious, believing that to spread the tale would be to give history yet another chance to take all that has been purged, razed, pulped, and stitched back together for a second round of everlasting obsolescence. I didn’t understand then, and I don’t understand now, and in truth, I do not believe I shall ever understand.

O child of Gyr Abania, who art to be Destroyed. Happy shall He be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

Doubt - is that which makes us strong. Makes me strong. To crack, and pound and crush and ruin the foundation set ages ago, to form the schisms between stone, question that which makes us weak and endeavour to find the answer that makes us [constant/sincere]. A universal truth that shall never change, for to suffer is to seek a place beyond suffering - release from the [gift/shackles] bestowed upon us by the gods.

It has all been for peace. Kicked, starved, or scorned, I always get up. I always go on. Peace washed stainless in crimson tithe. It has been nothing to take pride in - the sharing of the faith with those who could never even begin to understand it.

So then why am I suddenly beginning to grow fond of sharing our ways when I discover that, perhaps, there are those that can understand after all? 

That I can share not only the faith of the Destroyer, but the faiths eleven-fold, see how viscerally they shape in real-time - see how they so willingly embrace machines-that-are-men underneath the touch of the Builder, to defend conviction, innocence, and the freedom to become sin beneath the Fury’s gaze, to entreat malevolence hand in hand with the Warden that one may scream in silence so others can waste their voice?

Happy shall He be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stone.

My fangs have begun to grow again. I’ve felt this happen - in the death of dreams, the burning, the fallen trees and ashen canopies - among each and every filament of skin, every drop of sweat, upon that marching army laying waste to [land/falsehood]. To hear the screams - I long for it, the way a lover would long for the embrace of their other, a child the comfort of their guardian - cracklings of levin in acrid, frigid air.

The nights have not been so restless anymore. I fear it’s because I’m beginning to understand the chanting. Their war dreams fill me with fervor - stoke the sun-in-shadow, see it flare, burn hot like magma, that which makes the soul…

You’re trying to tell me something. Aren’t you?

Your anger. Your judgement. Your hatred.

Fine.

To tame that which knows no master, one must bear the storm.

You’ve got one chance. Make your words count while I can still hear them.

[thewebcomicsreview]

Can you give a source for the "Cloudscratcher was written by a white nationalist/supremacist" claim?

I just watched CutCafe's video on the comic, and it seemed to be heavily critical of Nazism and white supremacist? The Snakes seem pretty analogist to the Nazis/White Nationalists, and their clearly the bad guys? The main characters of the series fight said Nazi Snakes. The snakes genocides are a bad thing and your clearly supposed to not root for them? The snakes view themselves as superior to the other races, and one of them is disgusted to learn that Ixia and Felix were in love? Idk, making your bad guys resemble Nazis and making them disgusted at race mixing seems pretty anti-white supremacist to me.

I couldn't find any other source other then your posts to suggest that Cloudscratcher was written by a white supremacist, and without any evidence/recites it just seems like baseless accusations, especially when the comics content seems to be heavily critical of Nazis and white supremacy.

I know Cody Baier personally and I worked with him on a comic for a bit before learning about his alt-right tendencies so I myself am the source here

Not that he's been super-quiet about it, of course, he's big into "anti-woke" shit on Twitter. He had an alt-right podcast at some point, too, but the two minutes I spent checking up on him seems to indicate he's gone relatively quiet recently. Maybe he's mellowed out in his old age, but honestly I kind of doubt it.

[wolfmage553]

Cloudscratcher Fan Theory: Sogaat's Sacrifice

This theory needs a bit of lore explanation: In the second arc of Cloudscratcher, it's revealed that The Margoth Empire has a law that if traitors don't turn themselves in within 72 hours their entire families are killed.

Ixia was determined to save her family from it but they already saved themselves (via becoming rebels) but that causes a lore question:

What happened to Sogaat's biological family when he defected?

I don't think they were killed, not because Sogaat being a priest made him an exception, but because of Sogaat choose a third option between protecting his family or following what path he felt Margoth wanted him to go down:

Sogaat faked his own death in a way were he wouldn't be considered just missing.

If this theory were true, Sogaat might not have been his birth name but the name he crafted for himself by combining his parent's names in another way to avoid suspicion.

It might also tie into Noggos' storyline with him potentially being forced to make the same choice Sogaat did.

Once the Margoth Empire falls and if Sogaat lives to see the empire fall (which is very likely but not guaranteed), the epilogue could show him truly reuniting with his biological family for the first time in so long, maybe with a girlfriend to introduce them to.

[cloudscratchercomic]

This might come off as a out there question but I have to ask:

If the video games we have existed in the Cloudscratcher universe, albeit with anthropomorphic animals in place of the human characters in those games, which games would each member of the Cloudscratcher crew enjoy playing and why?

Well Cloudscratcher takes place in the equivalent of the 1930's, but even if it were today I don't think many of them would even play video games.

Except Felix, good lord, he'd be the big brained minmaxing type obsessed with cracking games open. If he's not building the most optimal, game-breaking build in the latest FromSoft title he's finding some way to wall-clip through the latest AAA title just to break it.

Meanwhile Ixia would just unwind with her little Animal Crossing village. Or whatever crossing it would be in that universe.

[goddamnwebcomics]

Alsioh Devosa is a hell of a webcomic title. Speaking of. Any webcomic names you've riffed or have on your rifflist you think have great titles? What about the worst?

Oh yes. I know it's very trivial to talk about webcomic names, but the ones that aren't just describing a main character, plot device or a location, the names often get...interesting.

For the best, Backing Out of the Outback, High School Death Party, Krazy Noodle Massacre, Life’s A Dile, My Alien Girlfriend (Doesn’t Know I’m An Alien), Peter Is The Wolf, The Wandering Grunt, Truck Off, Cloudscratcher, Devilbear - The Grimoires of Bearalzebub and Deliver Us Evil are all very good titles that can raise your curiosity. Sly Cooper and the Thief of Virtue does feel like more unique title for a Sly sequel too than "Thieves in Time", too bad the comic is dogshit.

As for the worst, the undisputed king of generic comic titles is Swords Comic, then for actually bad titles there is Femmegasm, The Great Tickle Trap, Vivian Vickers and the Witch’s Wells and A Story With A Known End.

Honourable mention goes to Growth Spurt AU which sounds way more like a fetish comic than Undertale AU comic.

I'm glad most of the webcomics I've riffed actually describe pretty well what can we expect from them, except for one, why is it called "Carry On"?

[thewebcomicwanderer]

Today’s Webcomic Recommendation: Cloudscratcher by Cody Baier!

Cloudscratcher is the story of a group of freedom fighters in their struggles against the Margoth Empire. 

Squaring off in a world high above the clouds, a motley crew of various heroes of great skill - all united by lives torn apart by the Empire's machinations - fight the seemingly endless fight for the future. 

A love-letter to 90′s era animation, @cloudscratchercomic features immediately lovable heroes and extremely cruel villains. Adventure and the horrors of war are blended seamlessly in this all-ages comic. Check it out!