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Sunday Morning Funnies is your weekly list of WoW-related web comics.

Each week, we're featuring a regularly updating WoW-related web comic from our list. This week, we're shining the spotlight on Away From Reality:

Away From Reality (AFR) is a comic by Erik Jensen. Professor of ancient Mediterranean history by day, WoW-player by night, he has been creating AFR comics since 2007 but adventuring in Azeroth since 2004. It is made using software programs such as Poser, Bryce, GIMP and Paint, and most comics take 2-3 hours to do up (not counting the days or weeks spent with the jokes percolating in the back of Jensen's mind, of course).

Jensen aims for humor and accessibility, so new readers can jump straight in and won't feel lost. The tone is light and on the occasions when the comic is critical, he tries to keep it fair and maintain the silliness. Most of his inspiration comes from his own play-time, but he also gets ideas from engaging with WoW-related media.

It's the last Sunday before Christmas, but whether you celebrate it or not, we'll have a treat for you next week on the 26th! Several comic artists are collaborating on a Secret Santa (or Greatfather Winter?) swap. They each have the name of another comic but do not necessarily know who all is participating and don't know who will be drawing their comic. This should be a blast!

Incidentally, if you emailed me and entered as a participant but did not receive my reply email, email me again or check your spam folders.

Enough business; here is the list! It even features several new comics:

• Jinylee. *New!
• WoW, eh?: A Hot Side of Beef
• Away From Reality: There's No Aggro Like Snow Aggro
• Penny-Arcade: A Priori. Also: Wolf of the Year
• Dork Tower. Also check out the one previous. *Never previously featured!
• Out of World: Beneath the Shadow part 4 and part 5
• Disciplinary Action: Episode 17
• Chainsawsuit: Wow What a Difference. Also: Wow This Is Great! *Not previously featured!
• Beyond the Tree: Quest Complete and Dear Edwin
• Teh Gladiators: Gun vs. Cannon: Round 1
• Complex Actions: A Moment with Silk's New Rogue and Or Your Azerothian Destination of Choice
• Tales from the Crossroads: Into the Fire
• Safe Passage
• Coffin Comics: Just a Bad Dream
• Coffin Minis: Buddum Chh
• What's Shakin': Page 15
• Torment of the Week: Long Story Short
• GU Comics: Whassat? and Shave and a Haircut and Intervention
• Dark Legacy Comics: Battle
• Fourth Wall: Simple Like That
• Lorgrokni's Travels: Goblin Loan 1 and Goblin Loan 2 and Lovable Oaf
• Blood and Thunder: On Procrastination
• The Daily Blink: Yes, I'm Aware, I'll Get Letters and Poster #3: Mekkatorque and A Flyer in the Auction House
• Arena-Inside: Indeed He Does! and Indeed He's Not... and THIS ... IS ... CHRISTMAS!
• Travels with Tenthunders: Neither an Alliance, nor a Horde. Discuss
• LFG #417 and #418
• The Warcraft Hero in: How to Fight Your Dragon
• NPC: The Future of Shopping Is Now and The Couple That Wows Together...
• Guilded Age

It's super secret Santa time! The suggestion was put forth by Azarizotza last week in the comments section, and there seems to be some support for the plan. So, if you run a comic that gets featured here from time to time and you would like to participate, shoot me an email by 8:00 p.m. EST December 18. I'll shuffle the names and email them back out. Edit: If you don't have my email from our gallery correspondence, you can always use the WoW Insider tipline.

Now, for the list:

• From the Thunder and the Storm's crossword is now playable online.
• Slash AFK: Not Prepared.
• Tales from the Crossroads: Out of the Frying Pan...
• Blood and Thunder: On New Class/Race Combinations.
• Safe Passage.
• Torment of the Week: Pray for Peace.
• Travels with Tenthunders: Stuff Green People Like.
• Teh Gladiators: That Tank Looks Familiar.
• Arena-Inside: Cry 'Havoc' and Let Slip the Dogs of War... craft. Also, ... undersized furbolgs?
• Lorgrokni's Travels: Girl Gamers and Little Flashing Buttons and On a Budget.
• Out of World: Beneath the Shadow part 3.
• DLC: Ashes to Ashes.
• The Daily Blink: Your Epic Fan Poster. Also: Take Two Potions Daily and The Maelstrom.
• NPC: Perfect. Also: Computed and A Whole Old World.
• Complex Actions: Offer May No Longer Be Valid. Also: The Morning After.
• Beyond the Tree: Excuse Me Mr. Equine Transport Officer, Would You Mind Stopping Pronto.
• Fourth Wall: Bad Idea and King of the Hill.
• Away From Reality: Midnight.
• The Warcraft Hero in: Super Guest Comic.
• Guilded Age.
• LFG #415 and #416.
• What's Shakin': Page 14.
• Coffin Minis: Fly Troll Air.
• Coffin Comics: Re-Zoned.
• Disciplinary Action: Episode 16.

GU Comics has a slew of WoW-related comics this week:

• Real Quick.
• Release Day.
• Crevasse Hole.
• Rotating the Buffet.
• He's Back. This one may only make sense if you follow the comic, but reading the short blurb at the bottom should help.

With Cataclysm descending on Tuesday, excitement is mounting. To help you cope with the anticipation, this week's list of comics is extra long! As always, post your tips in the comments section.

• Three Panel Soul: On Cataclysms
• Demolition Squad: WoW Cataclysm
• Blood and Thunder: On Bad Puns and Future Mums and On the Emergence of Deathwing
• NPC: Worgenation
• Travels with Tenthunders: Nuggets!
• Complex Actions: Artisan Worldbreaker Wanted. Also: Aspect of Noob and Light My Fire
• Fourth Wall: Masochist Healers
• Daily Quests: Stood in the Fire
• Safe Passage
• Nerf NOW!!: Preparations and Fiery Revenge
• Away from Reality: Minimum Settings
• Drunken Pirates Guild: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (a little NSFW)
• Disciplinary Action: I, Gerald
• The Daily Blink: Double Secret Reverse Psychology. Also: Role Reversal and For Unemployed Readers
• Beyond the Tree: Faster and More Intense
• LFG: #413 and #414
• GU Comics: Rwil Mluuglilwr!
• Torment of the Week: Happy Thoughts
• Ctrl+Alt+Del: Shattered Uponst
• Out of World: Beneath the Shadow and Beneath the Shadow part 2
• Cru the Dwarf: Cold as Ice (NSFW)
• The Warcraft Hero in: Deathwing Is Not Happy
• Coffin Comics: Gamon's Revenge
• What's Shakin': Page 13
• Coffin Minis: Game Time
• Lorgrokni's Travels: Grouping Up Also: Pet Selection
• Tales from the Crossroads: Filler! When Real Life Attacks! Then for the comic: There Goes the Neighbourhood
• Slash AFK: WTB Personal Space Also: Rrrgrl-stuffed
• Dark Legacy Comics: A Deal With Deathwing
• Guilded Age
  

I missed Arena-Inside last week (sorry!), so we have some catching up to do. In descending order:

1. Once a Hunter, Always a Hunter...
2. She Brought Her Paper of Pain
3. A Cataclysmas Carol
4. King's Orders
5. Expect the Unexpected!
6. Too Much?

• From the Thunder and the Storm: Here's this week's word search! Also check out Matthias Lehner Part 1.
• The Daily Blink: Sorry I missed you last week! On a Triumphant Personal Note. Also: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year and Mage Monopoly and Hello my Baby, Hello my Honey.
• Torment of the Week: The Plan.
• Lorgrokni's Travels: Level Appropriate Gear (LAG). Also: Eye of Shattering [Special] and Goblin Dealers and Party Chat.
• The Warcraft Hero in: Enter Year Two.
• Beyond the Tree: Just Rewards and Coming Through, People.
• Tales from the Crossroads: Enter the Dragon.
• Fourth Wall: Humanitarian. Also: Priestly.
• Disciplinary Action: Episode #15.
• Out of World: The 'Other" White Meat 4.
• AFR: Sacred Cows, Unite.
• Coffin Comics: Almost a Double.
• What's Shakin': Page 12.
• Coffin Minis: Watch What You Eat.
• Safe Passage.
• Teh Gladiators: Shut Up and Save Mana.
• Slash AFK: Wedding XP and ZzZzz and WTF-kin.
• NPC: Patch 4.03a. This made my day!
• Complex Actions: In the Next Panel, she Carves it with Corpse Explosion.
• Daily Quests: The World Breaks.
• LFG #411 and #412.

Comic news Skoteinos wrote:

We started an opinion blog that we've introduced a World of Wordcraft Crossword into and thought it'd fit in with the Sunday Funnies theme nicely. Right now we're planning one a month and they need to be printed out to be played, but if people seem to like it and it's popular enough, we'll [do] our best to do them weekly or bi-weekly with associated word searches every other week. We'll also look into investing the money in a program to make them playable online if the demand is there.

Check it out!

The comics

• World of Warcraft, eh?: It's What's on the Inside, Right?
• Tales from the Crossroads: Have I Got a Deal for You!
• Disciplinary Action: Episode 14
• What's Shakin': Page 11
• Coffin Minis: Hard-Mode
• Coffin Comics: Holy Totem
• Torment of the Week: Mind the Gap
• Arena-Inside: They Better Taste of Bacon and Enough With the Biscuit Jokes
• Fourth Wall: Preparation Protocol
• Teh Gladiators: Death and Taxes... and Death
• DLC: A DLC Guide to Alignment
• Travels with Tenthunders: How to Wait Around for the End of the World
• Beyond the Tree: Our Pet Corpse
• Lorgrokni's Travels: Immersion and Grinding and Killing Quests
• The Warcraft Hero in: Early Holidays
• Slash AFK: No moar BlizzCon. /cry. Also: Belly-quakes and Cult Juice
• NPC: Exercise Regimen and Early Bird
• Daily Quests: All Bark and No Baubles
• Out of World: The 'Other' White Meat 3
• Complex Actions: Wake-up Call. Also: Mysteries of Complex Actions Presents: Kes's Type and May We Re-Roll That Stealth Check?
• LFG #409 and #410
• Safe Passage
• Guilded Age
• Away From Reality: Game Over

Comic news: Slash AFK posted the following on last week's list:

Slash AFK will be updating (starting this Monday, Nov. 1) seven days per week for two weeks with a BlizzCon comic series I'm doing based off our trip.

So that's ... /does hard math ... 14 days straight of one comic per day, plus a HUGE special comic on the 14th?

What have I gotten myself into? o_o

We look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Comic News:
The Daily Blink is back!

• Foxtrot's Oct 17 comic
• Beyond the Tree: The Opposite Direction and An Apple a Day
• Fourth Wall: Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt
• The Daily Blink: Relapse Also: Know Your Audience
• The Adventures of Disgraph T. Dwarf: Shell Shocked and Three Dimensions of Terror
• Daily Quests: BlizzCon!
• Disciplinary Action: Episode 9 and Episode 10
• LFG #401 and #402
• Away From Reality: Out of Focus
• Tales from the Crossroads: It's the Little Things
• Complex Actions: Door Number Two! and Hunter Loot
• What's Shakin': Page 7
• Coffin Minis: K.I.S.S.
• Coffin Comics: Bye Bye Bubble
• Dark Legacy Comics: Turn-In Time
• Torment of the Week: By the Book
• Teh Gladiators: Ze Key Deception!
• Safe Passage
• Out of World: The 'Other' White Meat
• Guilded Age

Away at BlizzCon notices:

• Slash AFK

Comic news: Disgraph is back!

Slash AFK sent me (slightly NSFW?) love! For Amanda Miller... <3. For reasons that are definitely not biased, this is Totally Comic News.

• The Adventures of Disgraph T. Dwarf: Never Frog-et.
• Daily Quests: Identity Crisis.
• Tales from the Crossroads: The Thought Plickens.
• Arena-Inside: Part 55. Also: Part 56.
• LFG #397 and #398.
• The Warcraft Hero in: Escape Plan.
• Away From Reality: Heavy Petting. (totally safe for work)
• Disciplinary Action: Episode 7.
• Slash AFK: See above! Also, I Like Trees and Brain Sucker.
• Torment of the Week: General Gushma.
• Beyond the Tree: Parting Ghotis. Also: Dead Mines Tell No Tale.
• Fourth Wall: Provocateur Amateurs.
• Safe Passage.
• WoW, eh?: Apology Accepted.
• Out of World: At the Ball part 15.
• Dark Legacy Comics: Thief.
• What's Shakin': Page 5.
• Coffin Minis: The Winner.
• Coffin Comics: ... vs the world... of Warcraft.
• Guilded Age.
• Teh Gladiators: Ze War Rages On! Click forward three or four times!
• Blood and Thunder: Goblins: The New Race part 1.

Featured comment from last week's list: Disgraph said:

Oh, hey. So I noticed this guy started updating again: http://disgraphtdwarf.net Something about a new web address or other such nonsense.

Frankly, it's about time. I was getting tired of Disgraph being such a bum and falling off the face the earth. Although I have to admit, the author seems very familar ...

Comic news: Congratulations on your 100th comic, Away From Reality!

Tokkar is ill. We wish you well!

Out of World has started a new chapter. Also, there are two new comics on the list this week, so keep an eye out.

• NPC: A Cavern to the East, a Tunnel to the West. (Click back two for non-WoW-related lead-up)
• Daily Quests: And Still Just as Grumpy. Also: Not Eggxactly What I Was Hoping For. Sorry for missing you last week!
• Arena-Inside: Part 53 and Part 54
• Out of Ink: There's No Place Like... and The Trash
• The Warcraft Hero in: That's so Goblin

The comics:

• Kelly Aaron's new comic, Safe Passage, hosted at WoW Insider
• Slash AFK: Nothing to Scratch About. Also: G for the G-Bag and Braces, much?
• Away From Reality: Failure is Gnot an Option
• Travels with Tenthunders: Brewfesht Mem... Memorish... Memoriesh
• WoW, eh?: The Big Reveal
• What's Shakin'
• Torment of the Week: Inevitable
• Complex Actions: A Holy Douche. Also: Dire Straits
• LFG #393 and #394
• Teh Gladiators: It Is Mine! All Mine!
• Coffin Minis: Peacecraft
• Blood and Thunder: On Bad Drinking Jokes. Also: On How He Got His Spec
• Coffin Comics: Happy Brewfest
• Fourth Wall: It Always Ends in Tears. Also: Die for Me
• Nerf Now: Operation Gnomeregan
• Tales from the Crossroads: [Edit] The Eagles, Rolf!
  
• Beyond the Tree: Carrot on a Plate
• NPC: DPS DnD RPG (Click back twice to see the not-WoW-related lead up.)
• Arena-Inside: Part 50. Also: Part 51 and Part 52
• Out of World: At the Ball pt 14
• Dark Legacy Comics: Super Donald #2
• Guilded Age

Last week's featured comment: The discussion last week was so good that I'm just going to link you to the comments page! Thanks for getting the discussion going, ladyaxolotl (of Out of World).

Comic news: Fyreuni announced that "Daily Quests is on hold while I work on Emergency Kindergarten Lesson 2!" I am definitely a little disappointed, but I think the project will be worth it.

Tokkar was also kind enough to point out that Shawn Tommelleo of Coffin Comics has a new project called What's Shakin' that Tommelleo (aka Coffinshaker) described as not set in "WoWland," but it does feature the same characters. Sorry I missed it; the end of August and beginning of September were very hectic!

To answer tr_rrr, Cru the Dwarf and other comics that do not update very often will not necessarily show up on the list as soon as they update, because I don't have the time to check every comic that ever posts something WoW-related each week. I rely on tips and comments and my own whims to learn about them. This is also why Kuo was only added again last week, for example. Thanks for tipping me off that it has updated, though!

Comic news: Kelly Aarons of WoW, eh? drew a comic about her time at PAX 2010, and Silkspinner of Complex Actions drew a blog post/comic about her experience as a canary. Glad you're okay, Silk! Guilded Age has started its 7th chapter, and we even have a bonus comic this week from Working Daze.

New to the list:

• Blood and Thunder! Let's start with the first one, and next week I'll begin posting the latest.
• Kuo: I'm Just Here to Dance! SMF used to feature Kuo, before it went on a hiatus. Thanks for the tip that it is posting again, Coffinshaker! Also check out Keen.
• Check out Arena-Inside, from the beginning.

Comics:

• Out of World: Dead in the Wall.
• Coffin Comics: Meet Me Half Way.
• Teh Gladiators: The Mysterious Monolith. (part 1 of 2)
• Beyond the Tree: To the victor....
• Slash AFK: Angry Typing. Also, Oh Those Wo-Hos and Home Girl, Vroom.
• Tales from the Crossroads: Lost and Found.
• Away From Reality: Bewildered.
• NPC: Braggart. Also, Insufferable and Conditional Fun.
• Complex Actions: Operation: Errand Girl.
• Dark Legacy Comic: Bad Attitude. Also: Picnic.
• LFG #389 and #390.
• The Warcraft Hero in: No Contest.
• Coffin Minis: Don't Tweet Me.

Last week's featured comment: lazymangaka said, "These comics always make me want to start my own WoW comic."

Comic News: Out of World announced that there will now be a comic released each week, rather than 3 times per month. It has also been seriously suggested that The Adventures of Disgraph T. Dwarf will be back soon! Unfortunately, I do not have the date yet. You guys should also take another look at the SMF Gallery Guide; WoW, eh?'s artwork has been updated to show a custom piece!

Last, but certainly not least, Kelly Aaron's, and WoW.com's, Byron, the Tauren Rogue, has debuted its finale.

• Fourth Wall: Mojo.
• Slash AFK: The Rogue. Also: Get in Mah Bellie.
• Tales from the Crossroads: Fanning the Flame.
• NPC: Appreciation Decimation. Also: Ego Maniac.
• Complex Actions: Rogue in Training.
• Teh Gladiators: The Whi... Wailing Caverns. (1/2 - hit next!).
• Check out the latest from Out of World. Ever so slightly, possibly, a little bit, NSFW.
• Beyond the Tree: Shield Shocked. Also: Woe to the Conquered.
• Away From Reality: Prickly.
• WoW, eh?: All Comes Tumbling Down.
• Torment of the Week: The Next Step.
• The Warcraft Hero in: No Contest.
• Dark Legacy Comics: Undercover.
• LFG #387 and #388.
• Daily Quests: One More for the Road. P.S. I will totally take care of that mount for you.
• Coffin Comics Minis: Decision 2010.
• Coffin Comics: Goblin Motorrad.
• Guilded Age has a somewhat NSFW one-year anniversary issue up!

Last week's featured comment: Tokkar said...

Happy 50th comic, Tales from the Crossroads!

• Teh Gladiators: Slaughter Them All, My Minions!
• Beyond the Tree: Dancing Mad. Also: Cleef and Effect.
• The Warcraft Hero in: Talent Tree.
• Torment of the Week: Just as Effective.
• Slash AFK: Cold Fly. Also: 'Refurbished' Loot.
• LFG #385 and #386.
• Fourth Wall: Faction Change.
• Out of World: At the Ball part 11.
• Daily Quests: Fyre and Ice.
• Tales from the Crossroads: WILSON!!!
• World of Warcraft, eh?: Rise Above it All.
• Byron, the Tauren Rogue!
• Coffin Comics Minis: <our server is down>.
• Coffin Comics: Planet of the Murlocs.
• Complex Actions: Filling the Quota.
• Dark Legacy Comics: Stakeout.
• Away From Reality: Five's Company.
• GU Comics: Inner Child.
• NPC: The Four Stages. Also: Oh Right and Young and Elitist.
• Guilded Age.