Orneryboy
What can I say about Orneryboy? Michael Lalonde has one of the more interesting web comics out there. By theme there it is unquestionably goth, but not in a mopey I-listen-to-nothing-but-the-cure kind of way. He definitely has industrially influenced goth underpinnings, and that makes me happy for obvious reasons.
The story centers around two main characters: Orneryboy and Dirtygir, two gothy folks in a nice relationship. Of course that relationship includes demonic cats and zombies, but hey, no relationship is perfect. The characters are based to some extent on the author and his…er…partner? Lover? Wife? Girlfriend? I’m not sure how they categorize themselves. His site is very slick, I must admit. It isn’t the usual prefabricated web comic setup, and though a good number of the web comics I read do work off of their own setups his shines as one of the better ones. Not that it is terribly important to the comic itself, but let’s face it, a good steak is better if the rest of the plate looks nice, too. And of course, since I’m such an RSS fiend, his site’s RSS feed works fantastically.
If I were to pick the one thing I really love about the comic it is how Michael manages to spin a fantastically crazy-ass tale without having all manner of strange jumps in the story. If you’ve kept up on things you know what’s happening. In doing this, though, he still manages to keep things very interesting because in the end, nothing is predictable in Orneryboy. Give it a shot…you may like it.