The webcomic I cannot recommend highly enough is Unsounded by Ashley Cope. Not only is the art gorgeous, not only are the characters sympathetic and compelling (or awful and compelling), not only is the story engaging, not only is the world richly imagined and deeply realized... it's also the most regularly updating webcomic I've ever seen, so when you get caught up, you can rely on it to be there for you! {= D

I honestly don't know where to start explaining the story. You begin by meeting Sette Frummagem, a brash young girl with a mysterious lion tail, who is either dragging or being escorted across the continent by Duane Adelier, an erudite zombie wizard. They're on a mission to make Sette's cousin pay his dues to her beloved crime lord father. Are you curious yet?

They run across of a gang of evildoers who are stuffing living people, including kids, full of a dangerous magical substance to sneak it across the border into a neighboring country for nefarious purposes, the true extent of which is revealed in time. They meet Quigley, an expatriate of Duane's country, and his blind son, Matty, who travel with an enormous construct built with the body of a mountain ogre, Uaid. Uaid is very cheerful about it and quite fond of Matty. Quigley is unhappily doing One Last Job for the evildoers. You know you gotta go see what that's all about.

And, look, it just gets even more complicated and beautiful and terrible from there.

I warn you, parts are fairly disturbing (one of the evildoers is a pedophile, for instance; you'll cheer for every bad thing that happens to him), but I never got the impression that any of it is arbitrary. And even the creepy, upsetting images of terrible manifestations of magic gone wrong are drawn with such care and attention to detail, it just blows me away.

I've been trying to get Phobos on board with this comic for years, and he won't just on principle at this point even though I've bought all three existing volumes of the print version just because I like it that much and they're sitting right there on a convenient shelf, so somebody please join me!

~Neshomeh