Well, it’s Friday.

I took a break from constant posting to allow others to post. As you can see, it’s only been Kerrie. Misc.Asst. will probably end up turning into the Corey and Kerrie Variety Hour.

Eat your heart out, Nick and Jessica. Whoops — they’re divorced.

Maybe the Variety Hour idea isn’t as good as I had hoped.

I digress. The real reason for today’s post is to open up the world to some online comics that I regularly read. There’s a lot to choose from out there, and I’ve brought all of my favorites together in my RSS reader Newsgator — the best blog reading tool on earth.

Right. You don’t want to spend hours stumbling through Peanuts and Family Circus online sites to find your daily dose of pencil drawn humor, so here’s your guide — at least, a guide to the four or five that I frequent.

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Calvin and Hobbes

None of us should forget the brilliant Calvin and Hobbes. I found this at uComics.com, where you can nearly any comic strip published in the past ten years. The best part about getting Calvin and Hobbes daily is that I’ve realized just how good the strip was. At the age of 11 a lot of it was lost on me; yes, I knew it was funny, but I didn’t fully grasp what creator Bill Watterson was doing.

Now I know.

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Dinosaur Comics

There really isn’t much drawing involved with Dinosaur Comics — it’s a strictly text based comic in that creator Ryan North uses the same six frames every day. It’s the words themselves that change, and each day finds a new look into some philosophical rant by T-Rex, along with a rebuttal by this other orange dinosaur.

It’s a lot funnier than it sounds.

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Red Meat

I discovered Red Meat comics through some friends of mine. Of course, these are the same friends that had me convinced that watching professional wrestling was going to help my life in some way.

Red Meat features a variety of characters the likes of which are either completely crazy or incredibly familiar. There’s Milkman Dan and his ongoing feud with… There’s Ted Johnson and his family, and there’s Priest and his conversations with God — and there’s not a sane eye in the house.

Experiencing Red Meat is like watching your first good sketch comedy troupe — you’ll never go back to traditional humor again.

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The Perry Bible Fellowship

This series was shown to me by C00kedview — an alternative to the usual comic, the PBF leans heavily on irony to make their comics work. All are very artfully done, and while the main page seems difficult to navigate (each picture leads to a random comic) you can find an all-encompassing archive around there somewhere. The PBF is well worth checking out.

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This Modern World

Tom Tomorrow has perfected the satirical political comic. While Doonesbury is subtle, crafted primarily for the comics page of a major newspaper, This Modern World is more blunt, more to the point, and this has relegated the comic to the opening pages of more independent minded publications like The City Pages.

Tomorrow’s This Modern World does what it can to bring to light the foibles of our government — from both the right and the left, though since most injustices come form the right, they’re featured more prevalently. When I want to sound political, I’ll mention This Modern World and see if anyone notices.

They usually don’t, but it’s worth a try.

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Anyway, that’s it. Those are my comic choices for the day. If you have any other suggestions, let me know — I’m always open for more time-wasting endeavors, and reading comics sounds like a classic one.