## [Q] Are there some rationalist comics? * Author: u/lumenwrites * * URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/3zed31/q_are_there_some_rationalist_comics/ * Score: 9 * Created: 2016-01-04T11:02:57 ### Post: Hey, everyone! Can you recommend me some rationalist comics(if they exist)? ### Comments: > **u/IamJackFox** [+20] (3 hours later) > > Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is rationalist enough to have already appeared on this subreddit, and is also my favorite webcomic. > > Edit: I have no idea why autocorrect would change subreddit to diversity, but it happened. >> **u/Transfuturist** [+4] *Carthago delenda est.* (10 hours later) >> >> Comics by rationalists, for rationalists, and most certainly not about rationalists. >> >> Bouletcorp is another good one. I find them to be somewhat related, one of them referenced the other once and Bouletcorp did the illustrations for Wienersmith's *Augie and the Green Knight,* which I want so very badly. >> **u/noggin-scratcher** [+4] *I am a happy tree* (3 days later) >> >> >Edit: I have no idea why autocorrect would change subreddit to diversity, but it happened. >> >> Examining the layout of a QWERTY keypad, the letters for those are all really close together. >> >> S,D >> U,I >> B,V >> R,E >> E,R >> D,S >> D,_ >> I,I >> T,T >> _,Y >> >> Almost aligns perfectly, each pair is adjacent... and even where it doesn't align, the unaligned letters are either repeats or adjacent to the previous letter. >> >> Experimenting further, Swype is really surprisingly good at picking up the difference between the two... I haven't taught it subreddit as a word but it was reliably picking either subvert/suggest or diversity depending on which I tried to type, even when I tried to exaggerate the laziness of the swipe pattern to make it a bit ambiguous. I guess based on whether you go E-R or R-E, and whether or not you flick back to the Y after the T at the end. > **u/nevinera** [+17] (2 hours later) > > [Fleep](http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/fleep/) is the one that occurred to me first. > > While trying to remember the name, I found [this page](http://rationalreads.com/#/works), which allows you to filter by the 'comic' tag. I suspect you'll find some others in there. > > Erfworld is pretty good, a bit of a tabletop gaming deconstruction. >> **u/dalitt** [+2] (18 hours later) >> >> Bookhunter and Demon by Jason Shiga are excellent as well, and may qualify. > **u/None** [+13] (2 hours later) > > I would also be interested. Unfortunately, all I know of is rational comics like [Transdimensional Brain Chip](http://brainchip.thecomicseries.com/). If, perchance, you mistyped, then that's a suggestion. >> **u/Calsem** [+1] (17 hours later) >> >> That was great, thanks! The seemed like crap at first but then i quickly got sucked into it. >> **u/GaBeRockKing** [+1] *Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857* (2 days later) >> >> I nearly got turned off by the art, but the story really hooked me in. >> **u/None** [+1] (9 hours later) >> >> [deleted] >>> **u/Transfuturist** [+3] *Carthago delenda est.* (10 hours later) >>> >>> I would point to the art as the biggest fault of Thorsby's comics. I find the weird treatment of romance, sex, sexuality, and gender relations the second biggest. But by good writing, do you mean the story, or the actual dialogue? He is ESL, I suppose I might be unusually tolerant of bad translations. > **u/None** [+10] (17 minutes later) > > Strong female protagonist applies to an extent. > **u/robryk** [+10] (3 hours later) > > [Freefall](http://freefall.purrsia.com) might be considered one. >> **u/SvalbardCaretaker** [+1] *Mouse Army* (4 hours later) >> >> also of note that after long years freefall is finally in a hot hot phase where lots of action happen, so get in now! > **u/Radioterrill** [+7] (3 hours later) > > Fullmetal Alchemist is a fairly rational manga, with an interesting magic system and good characters - the protagonist in particular pulls off some excellent munchkinry in the last third that wouldn't be out of place in a rationalist fanfiction. It can be somewhat deathist in places, though other than that it's about as rational as mainstream media gets. >> **u/Munchkingman** [+9] (9 hours later) >> >> If manga are applicable, I would recommend: >> Qualia the Purple: A single girl sees people as robots, and can modify them as such, things spiral out of control as one of her friends becomes literally everything. >> >> Ajin: Immortals start appearing at the rate of 1 to 250 million or so, and the main character is immediately on the run as he gets hit by a truck. Ramps up into terrorist and anti terriorist shenanigans. >> **u/Iconochasm** [+2] (10 hours later) >> >> [One of my favorite little bits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swmaCXZrMdg). >> >> [Another favorite rationalist-y clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Oiy3Z2m0c) > **u/OutOfNiceUsernames** [+6] *fear of last pages* (10 hours later) > > >>[No Hero](https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/3dyrbj/dc_no_hero_by_warren_ellis/) by Warren Ellis. > > >>I’d associate it with Watchmen and [Metropolitan Man.](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10360716/1/The-Metropolitan-Man) > > See also: > > [Comic Recommendation Thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/3q52bz/comic_recommendation_thread/) > **u/kaukamieli** [+6] (8 hours later) > > Not quite so, but I'd think many of you would like [existentialcomics](http://existentialcomics.com/comic/113). Philosophy! >> **u/Subrosian_Smithy** [+4] *Nudist Beach* (13 hours later) >> >> What if I don't *want* to like Existential Comics? RADICAL FREEDOM! >>> **u/kaukamieli** [+4] (15 hours later) >>> >>> What you like and don't like isn't a matter of choosing, Sartre. > **u/nifboy** [+3] (20 hours later) > > Recommending [1/0](http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=1) by Tailsteak ([alternate link](http://oneoverzero.comicgenesis.com/d/20000827.html)). Once you get past the rough intro, both in art and writing, it starts doing some interesting character drama and exploring the idea of a comic strip as a system. ---