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## [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.

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