In a network of tunnels beneath a great plain, there exists a race of ants nothing like the ants that exist in our world. They live in service to their nightmarish queen, but their day-to-day is filled with an ennui almost as terrifying as the monstrous spiders and centipedes they face. When one of their number is…

Although much of the action in Megan Lavey-Heaton and Isabelle Melançon's webcomic Namesake takes place in the merry old land of Oz, it opens not with a Dorothy but with an Alice. Alice Liddell, to be precise, has gone missing, and the only person who knows where she's gone off to is her friend Charles Dodgson, better…

Astronaut Academy is not your typical school. For one thing, it's out in space, in a zany corner of the future populated by security guard bears, robotic doppelgängers, and elven space princesses. And instead of football or basketball, the school's most popular sport is Fireball, a dangerous lacrosse-like game played…

For Jo and Mat, their whole world is their space ship, a great, living creature that swims through space. While their astronaut overlords do god knows what up in the control room, it's Jo and Mat's job to clean and care for the ship. But in the isolation of space, Jo makes an unexpected friend, one that threatens to…

When Tristan was a little boy, he saw a witch in the woods, an ancient, wild thing who lives in the shell of a giant snail an casts powerful spells from spit and blood. He forgets about the encounter until one day, as a grown man, he falls from his horse, cracking open his skull and awakening to a life very different…

A pair of kids steal a detached arm and use it to go on a crime spree. God, still angry at humanity's treatment of Jesus, unleashes an apocalypse of wolves upon the Earth. A young man visits his dead parents for the weekend on their ghost ship. A mysterious cloud surrounds the Earth, raining down a storm of blood (to…

Some comics use science fiction and fantasy conventions to tell subtle, emotionally complex stories. El Esqueleto: The Skeleton isn't one of them. Instead, this comic picks up its blaster, saddles up atop a T-Rex, and shoots its way through piles of space rogues, legions of Brazilian models with Hitler's face (and…

Early on in Egypt Urnash's Decrypting Rita, a character wonders aloud if she's just a sprite in a video game and what if she's sick of playing. But in this webcomic, she might just be on to something, and she might not be the only version of herself that exists in video gaming multiverse.

Shi Long Pang is an unlikely Shaolin monk, and if he's not careful, he's going to be a dead Shaolin monk. After escaping the burning of his temple, this pudgy little holy man is wandering Yunnan province looking for the lost members of his order. But he'll have to make sure the Qing Emperor's bannermen don't find him — …

Great shows never die; they just jump to Netflix and Hulu. Anyone who wants to relive nine seasons of The X-Files need only subscribe to a streaming video service. So how does the show hold up after all these years?