Time to die, Nerd-boy. (sluggy.com)

Member Name: Pobble

Product:	sluggy.com
Date:	16/06/00 (143 review reads)
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Advantages: Gut-wrenchingly funny

Disadvantages: Makes you want to buy ferrets

Sluggy Freelance is a non-syndicated online comic. It's put out daily even at weekends. And it's quite simply the funniest thing on the web.

Sluggy is about the adventures of Torg, a web designer, his inventor friend Riff, his homicidal switchblade weilding bunny rabbit BunBun, their hyperactive, sugar intolerant ferret Kiki and a host of other characters, including a man-eating alien who doubles as Torg's secretary and a host of nasty demons.

When I first came upon Sluggy, I ended up spending a whole weekend reading previous strips. There is an ongoing story, but Pete Abrams, the guy who draws it, has a beginners' guide on the site for a short introduction for those wanting to plunge straight it. (I'd advise reading the whole archive from the start; you'll laugh so much you'll not be able to eat for a week.)

The humour is incredibly well observed, and there are some brilliant parodies of bits of popular culture we all know and love; the Alien/Star Wars/Star Trek week, the Muffin the Vampire Baker week and the Matrix week all made for hilarious reading. Good geek fodder, the comic also provides far more day-to-day, non technical funnies than something like Penny Arcade or (gasp) Dilbert.

It's a very clever, very witty strip; the only one online that I've liked enough to read daily. It knocks our old buddy Dilbert into a cocked hat.

You'll never look at bunny rabbits in the same way.

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