I made some iPhone wallpaper based on Dinosaur Comics.  You can click on the following picture, and do Save Image As to get it for yourself, then transfer it to your phone with iTunes.

After you set it up, it looks like T-Rex is telling you the time, or to Enter Passcode, or even who is calling! It’s pretty excellent! Example:

Can’t decide whether or not to play any really, really old adventure games? Wonder no longer! You can go to AdventureGamers.com and read my review of Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers.

Awesome!

It’s webcomics week! (Since these webcomics are totally free to browse as you please, I’m going to keep my own comments to a minimum, and simply link you to some of my favorite examples.)

Dinosaur Comics is somehow one of the most brilliant webcomics ever while barely qualifying as an actual comic. For almost seven years, creator Ryan North has been doing Dinosaur Comics five days a week using the exact same art with only the words changing. It’s a simple formula, with apparently endless imaginative permutations. T-Rex shows up, says a few things, a nice lady named Dromiceiomimus pops in and either interjects something or quietly observes, and then Utahraptor bursts on the scene with enthusisasm and a few comments before T-Rex makes his final remark. Occasionally other invisible or miniature characters show up like God, the Devil, a pygmy elephant, or a tiny bug. I feel like I should add that the Devil only ever wants to talk about video games.

The Devil! What are you doing here?!

Teens! Are you interested in slang?

That is why I will ask the Utahraptor to do them for me!

It’s SO CUTE!

Perhaps I will learn… SIGN LANGUAGE?

Another thing I love about Dinosaur Comics is its unrelenting positivity and optimism. It’s so exciting and charming that it’s difficult for me not to imitate North’s style when writing an enthusiastic blog post, you guys (Oops! I just did it!). Dinosaur Comics also has pretty sweet merchandise, but I wish North would put out complete collected editions instead of simply a Best Of book. All of Dinosaur Comics is the best! Maybe if everyone e-mails him to request it?

I almost forgot to mention that if you hover your cursor over each comic, there’s an additional hidden joke. And if you click on “contact” in the header, there’s yet another hidden joke in the pre-populated subject line of the e-mail. Try it yourself in the following hilarious comics:

Here Lies T-Rex: Hey I Bet He’s Still Wicked Handsome!

The answer is “Batman”!

YES I CAN.

The course of my life has now been set!

Notice the ‘k’!

So that’s Dinosaur Comics. It’s unrelentingly awesome so you should probably make it your homepage or something.

It’s webcomics week! (Since these webcomics are totally free to browse as you please, I’m going to keep my own comments to a minimum, and simply link you to some of my favorite examples.)

Penny Arcade is probably the most successful webcomic there is, and odds are I don’t really need to shine a spotlight on it, but the truth is it’s also one of the greatest. Authored by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, and populated by extreme versions of themselves (“Tycho” and “Gabe” respectively), Penny Arcade satirizes video game culture, and occasionally other topics gamers might be interested in. Games they’ve targeted include…

Ico

Pokemon

Mario Party

… and many, many more. They’ve been around for 11 years, doing three comics a week, and yet still come up with new funny material on a regular basis. They also have an annual gaming convention (which is expanding to a second convention in March), a charity that raises over a million dollars a year, two video games, and several books. Here are a few comics I think even non-gamers would appreciate:

Le Twittre

Potentially Offensive Insights

As Seen in Modern Lair

The Adventures of Twisp and Catsby

So that’s Penny Arcade! Please proceed to go back to the first comic and read it obsessively.

It’s webcomics week! (Since these webcomics are totally free to browse as you please, I’m going to keep my own comments to a minimum, and simply link you to some of my favorite examples.)

Toothpaste for Dinner is from the mononymous Drew (who also produces Married to the Sea with his wife and fellow cartoonist Natalie Dee), and is great for the way it takes the cartoonist’s observations on every day life and satirizes them in a classic single-panel format. For a long time I had a bunch hung up in my cubicle, but the longer I work here the more legitimate work-related things demand cubicle wall space, and most have (sadly) come down.

The Fourth Law of Thermodynamics

The Fifth Law of Thermodynamics

Landlord Methods

Like Coffee?

There are almost no reoccuring characters (except for Drew’s dog Chester), but some of the frequent themes are office life and hipsters.

The Magic Pen

Number Two

The First Rule of Work Club

Constitutional Hipsters

So that’s Toothpaste for Dinner. You should also read this one every day.

It’s webcomics week!  (Since these webcomics are totally free to browse as you please, I’m going to keep my own comments to a minimum, and simply link you to some of my favorite examples.)

Chainsawsuit is from Kris Straub (also known for producing the Sci-Fi parody comic Starslip), and what makes it great is the way it translates what was clearly a bizarre stray thought by the author into a funny three-panel strip.

Aquarium Business Plan

Ghost Dad Rules

Sally the Cured Nymphomaniac

Some of his favorite topics are Furries, H.P. Lovecraft, and parodies of Garfield, Hell’s Kitchen, and Anime, but in my opinion the best strips are usually the random one-offs.

Hermione

Steampunk Fetishists

I’m Excited

So that’s Chainsawsuit. You can read it every day if you want!