Alright. For those further wanting to indulge me on webcomics -- and I really wish you would -- a few brief comments and background on each respective one.
Dr. McNinja is, overall, easily the best of the webcomics that I have encountered. Unusual in that the illustrations are great, the stories are entertaining and the jokes generally pretty funny and original. Dr. McNinja himself comes from a family of ninja and so has natural ninja abilities even though he has chosen the life of a physician. His enemies vary from Ronald McDonald to other ninja to Mexicans on velociraptors to zombies, and he has two main companions: Gordito (a mustached young boy with two revolvers) and Benjamin Franklin (cloned or reborn or undead it's hard to say.) He also has a gorilla receptionist at the clinic.
Dinosaur Comics is my second favorite webcomic and involves absolutely no illustration whatsoever. The guy just reposts the same clip art in the same sequence every comic. What makes him a winner -- and he is a winner -- are the jokes. The comedy is, to me at least, sophisticated and yet surprisingly educational at the same time. Moreover as the dinosaurs and some of the off screen cast (a raccoon and a cephalopod) develop character the jokes get even better. There usually aren't much in the way of stories lines -- so you can usually pick any comic at random at fully enjoy it -- but despite this quite a back story seems to have built up over time. It has seemed recently that he's been resorting less to actual crafted jokes and more on absurd comments from the T-Rex or the inclusion of random one time characters off screen, but perhaps a thousand comics in the same daily setup has finally run its course.
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