20. CREATION MYTH
The World of Greyhawk webcomic has often been racy in content, but this was one of the earliest and most blatant instances of deific hookups. It also happens to be one of the few comics I've done solely based on halflings. The three flavors of halflings (Hobniz in Greylingo) were drawn from Tolkien's hobbits and have been a staple of Greyhawk and D&D since the beginning. But now thanks to Vecna's perverted sense of secret knowledge, we now all know it's Yondalla's sluttiness that is responsible for not only their creation but possibly their later evolution as well. More recent editions have recast the race as some kind of Tasslehoff meets Huckleberry Finn type. I haven't covered a sequel on this topic yet, but I can imagine it involves a cross-over with Dragonlance somehow. ;)
19. BREAKFAST TIME
This one was actually the second in the Greyhawk themed brand names series. The first one got a very favorable reaction from people on the forums so I conceptualized a couple of their own ideas for the Greyhawk breakfast table. Parody cereal boxes are fun and easy to make because many of them from my childhood were populated with wacky cartoon characters(Frankenberry, Fruity Pebbles and Frosted Flakes are among my many favorites). One of these days I'll have to do some more cereal items, for now the best product from this comic still has to be Pholgers Coffee. Every thing about that parody was spot on from the name, to the labelling to the snappy slogans. If anyone has some new ideas for Greyhawk foodstuffs let me know, please!
18. PEEPING DEMIGOD
If 'Creation Myth' wasn't racy enough for ya, this is the comic that set the precedent. It was notable for being the debut of dual-raced Ehlonna and the incomparably nasty Raxivort. This comic is subtly racy for it examines Wastri's racist and perverted tendencies while at the same time educating on Greyhawk lore including some foreshadowed raciness about the soon-to-be popular character of demon-lord Graz'zt. Even though Greyhawk content was still wide-open in the first several months of the WoG comic, these older comics still hurt me to look at sometimes from an artistic view. I was still learning how to draw, color and compose the strips (back then I hand drew the frames, yeash) and as my style has evolved and cleaned up some, I am sure I could do them better if I redrew them. That said I am pretty happy with this comic overall which is why it makes my top 20 list.
17. ADVERTISEMENT
This comic was the first time I did a parody of a real product. In this case I dug REAL deep for a subject. It was a Greyhawk take on the classic comic book ads featuring celebrity weightlifter Charles Atlas. Yes this was before even Arnold Schwartzenegger was a household name! See, I collect Mighty Thor comics and one day when I was reading one from the 60's I came upon the black and white ads for mail order toys and other ubiquitously dated products that you will never see in today's comics anymore much less on the internet. The next thing I know I'm not reading the story anymore I'm having an epiphany of a totally B&W Greyhawk parody ad featuring the debut of many characters including Kord, Erythnul and Trithereon. Kord's choice was quite obvious from the start given the illustration of him in Dragon Magazine and his Arnoldesque dialogue was torn directly from those Saturday Night Live skits with the two weightlifters. Compositionally this was my most complex comic at the time because it had to be frame for frame an exact parody of the Charles Atlas ad. I still crack up when I see the clip-out ordering form. Classic.
16. CITY OF THE GODS
This gem came during the height of Eberron's release and even I played in one campaign with some enjoyment. The natural draw to this setting was the "never seen before" player race, Warforged. They were a fanboy's dream. It was decent for the time but now I wonder with 4E's arrival is Eberron still going strong? Automatons at any rate are nothing new to us Greybeards of D&D. In my decades of DMing Greyhawk I have probably used golem-construct-automaton-bordering on full-blown-robot monsters more than any type except orcs and demons. And so thats what makes his comic so rich and such a great sight gag; the juxtaposition between old and new setting. This comic also marks the emergence of my Fharlanghn/ Delleb team. Up to this point they had both spread their knowledge of Oerth in separate features, but suddenly I saw their potential for being a type of roving documentary duo. Their quest for all knowledge on Oerth continues much to Fharlanghn's chagrin...