Yesterday, I wrote about how the Oregonian is going to have to axe ten comic strips as a cost-cutting measure.

There's a great little discussion going on in the comments thread to that post—I am now seriously considering whether Luann is a worse comic strip than Cathy, which is a brand-new way of looking at the world for me. But there are two comments that got me to thinking:

Any 3 random Web comics on an RSS feed, even if they're not chosen by me to my taste, will be better than anything the Oregonian puts together.
Posted by Cascadian on February 25, 2009 at 7:02 PM

and

I have a list of 10 or 15 webcomics that I compulsively check every morning, yet I can't think of one funny or worthwhile print strip. Webcomics, by and large, are so much more creative, challenging and intelligent than whatever lowest common denominator strip is deemed "appropriate" for a wide audience. Give me the artistic audacity of Dresden Codak, the dry smarts of XKCD, the crude laughs of Penny Arcade and the mindblowing storytelling of Rice Boy over anything on that list any morning.
Posted by ink on February 25, 2009 at 8:42 PM

I'm not crazy about Penny Arcade—nerd humor makes me itchy—but this makes me wonder about webcomics. I know Achewood, of course, and I follow Will Draw Anything and My Cardboard Life, but I'd love to put more webcomics on my RSS feed. The problem is that many webcomics are totally a word-of-mouth thing, and it's impossible to just stumble across them. I've never seen a site that aggregates webcomics; it seems like the kind of thing that could easily be a low-level moneymaking site with a few ads. The internet could use its own funny pages. I mean one that doesn't suck.