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Revision as of 01:02, 10 September 2007
The web comics listed on this page all feature transformation themes, or have had plots in their runs with significant transformation content.
Transformation as a main theme
Abstract Gender
http://www.abstractgender.com/ - by Aaron R. Stewart and Shawn Ullom
Two young friends explore a "haunted house", and discover that although there are no real ghosts inside it does house a nest of mad science. They're both turned into girls and set loose.
The Accidental Centaurs
http://www.accidentalcentaurs.com/today.php - by John Lotshaw.
Two people from our world are transported by an accident during a physics experiment to an alternate world where humans don't exist, becoming centaurs in the process. Other transformations occur as the story progresses.
Alpha Luna
http://alphaluna.keenspace.com/ - by Leonardo Vidal.
The storyline of this webcomic is not yet clearly revealed, but it appears to feature a high school girl who unbeknownst to her is a werewolf.
Black Tapestries
http://blacktapestries.keenspace.com/ - by Jakkal.
Lore, a drifter, is cursed with immortality and werefox lycanthropy by the ex-Order magic user Isaac. Contains both a good deal of transformation content and a good deal of violence.
Boston and Shaun
http://bostonandshaun.sunblazewildfire.com/ - By Shaun Reveal
Shaun has a dragon "soul mate" named Boston with whom he can merge. I know little about this comic so others will have to fill in the details, but apparently the comic's continuity underwent a major reboot after number 850 and the quality declined. This URL goes to an archive of the first 850 strips.
The Changing Workplace
http://www.taur.net/~ottercomics/tcw/ - By Oren Otter
A tale of a new employee at the TSA.
Clan of the Cats
http://clanofthecats.com/ - by Jamie Robertson, edited by Alex Byrne and Miranda Prince.
A long-running story about a witch who is also a werepanther.
Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
http://www.missmab.com/ - by Amber M. Panyko
A popular furry webcomic. One of the races of the world - "Cubi" - are shapeshifters.
Discordia
http://www.drunkduck.com/Discordia/ - by Arroyo and Fanning.
Drew Sinclair's life is changed forever when an angry ex-girlfriend accidentally unleashes Eris, the Greek goddess of discord, on the condition that Drew is her first target.
El Goonish Shive
http://elgoonishshive.com/ - by Dan Shive.
Tedd and Elliot are the main characters, though there's an extensive supporting cast. Tedd is a typical androgynous transformation-obsessed high school student whose father is a Man In Black with access to alien technology, including a "transformation gun" - quite convenient considering Tedd's personality. The TF content of this comic is heavy, but (usually) not gratuitous.
Misfile
http://www.misfile.com/ - by Chris Hazelton.
A loser angel working in a dead-end job causes a mixup in the Heavenly Archives, misfiling the formerly-male high school student Ash under "female" and losing the most recent two years of Emily's life. The two have to deal with their changed situations until the angel can get back into Heaven to fix it, and keep it a secret so that the Heavenly Bureaucracy doesn't cover up the error by making it permanent.
Narbonic
http://narbonic.com/ - by Shaenon K. Garrity.
Fresh out of university with a computing degree, Dave goes to work for the mad scientist Helen B. Narbon of Narbonic Labs. Storylines have included a couple of TG transformations, undeath, a brief cyborg transformation, a gerbil-to-werehuman, and in a series of Sunday specials a human-to-Venusian brain transplant. Narbonic concluded in 2007 and the entire archive is now available free at webcomicsnation.com.
New World
Sometimes sporadic in its updates, this comic features two parallel universes; one highly magical and one highly technological. The arch-wizard Nicoli, most powerful being in the magical universe, becomes bored and travels to the technological one. Adventures and transformations ensue in both realities, most prominently a TG foxmorph in the magical world.
Paradigm Shift
By Dirk Tiede - is currently in two parts with separate URLs, though likely will extend into more in the future.
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/dirktiede/ps/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10435 - Part 1 http://www.moderntales.com/comics/PS2.php - Part 2
Appears to feature werewolves.
Peter is the Wolf
http://www.wlpcomics.com/adult/peter/index.html
Lots of werewolves live secretly in our midst. Every once in a while, though, one of them screws up and accidentally converts a human into one of their own. This is the story of one such incident.
Room for One More
http://www.taur.net/~ottercomics/rfom/ - By Oren Otter and Eala Dubh
Fnaire Antbear's life in and around a huge mansion filled with bizarre characters and situations, and even an extradimensional world or two. On the surface a college-based furry comic, many significant TF plotlines and characters run throughout.
Sea of Insanity
http://fractuslux.keenspace.com/
Ancient creatures and deities of myth never really died out, they just went into hiding as the modern world forgot them. In this webcomic a young man named Finn becomes the roommate of a water nymph named Isle. A regular supporting character has been cursed by Bacchus to turn into a fish every 6 hours or so but so far this hasn't become central to the plot.
Skin Deep
http://www.webcomicsnation.com/korybing/skindeep/series.php - by Kory Bingaman
Michele is a new college student who, after finding a magical medallion, discovers to her surprise that her true form is actually that of a sphinx and that her new friends are also various mythological creatures cloaked in magical illusion.
Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki
http://www.sgvy.com/ - by Kittyhawk
A young male anime fan is abruptly turned into a Valkyrie, a magical girl who must defend Earth against monsters from Norse mythology. Updates infrequently.
Wickedpowered
http://www.wickedpowered.com/ - by Owen Gieni & Chris Crosby
A fast-paced (almost to the point of disjointedness) sci-fi romp featuring three female time-travellers who come from the future to rescue Wiley, destined to become history's "manliest man", from assassination. Has so far featured both transgender and furry TFs.
The Wotch
http://thewotch.com/ - by Anne Onymous and Eric Robertson.
The Wotch follows the adventures of a high school girl who discovers that she is the "Wotch" - some form of high-powered sorceress with a portentious fate. This comic abounds with all manner of transformations, though TG is perhaps most common among them.
The Wotch: Cheer!
http://cheer.thewotch.com/ - by Tselsebar
This webcomic is a "spin off" of The Wotch by a fan, following the four jocks who were TGed and became cheerleaders after Anne's "women's lib" side went on an unfettered rampage in the main comic. There haven't been any apparent TFs yet and the main characters aren't aware they used to be guys, but considering the universe it shares they seem inevitable. The art is quite well done.
Zebra Girl
http://zebragirl.keenspot.com/ - by Joe England.
Sandra is turned into a demon by a magical accident. A later storyline also featured werewolves, introducing one as a regular character.
Transformation plotlines
Absurd Notions
http://www.absurdnotions.org/page50.html
This is sort of a second-order storyline - the characters of Absurd Notions are playing a sword-and-sorcery roleplaying game, and in it one of their characters has just tampered with a magical artifact and turned herself into a squirrel. She remains a squirrel for the remainder of the adventure, with many implications explored.
Dandy & Company
http://www.dandyandcompany.com/2007/01/22/ - By Derrick Fish
A boy and his dog swap roles. In fact, every boy and dog in the world swap roles, though only Dandy and Bernard are aware of it.
Gunnerkrigg Court
http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=230
This chapter features a romantic interlude with a transformational twist.
Order of the Stick
http://giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=175
Order of the Stick is a webcomic poking fun at the foibles of the [wiki:WikiPedia:D20_System d20 game system] used by Dungeons and Dragons. In this storyline our intrepid adventurers encounter an Annis (or possibly a Green Hag) who hexes the gender-ambiguous elf mage Varsuvius with a baleful polymorph spell, turning him into a lizard. He remains a lizard for a while.
http://giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=9
Ah, the famous [wiki:WikiPedia:Dungeons_&_Dragons Dungeons & Dragons] magic item, the [wiki:WikiPedia:Girdle_of_Femininity/Masculinity Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity]. Order of the Stick is a webcomic that features a band of adventurers who know full well that they're operating by the d20 ruleset of 3rd edition Dungeons and Dragons, and in many cases exploit the foibles thereof. In this strip they find such a girdle after a battle with ogres, and one of the characters secretly takes it along with him. It finally came into play over two hundred strips later:
http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript?SK=233
PvP
http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20051118
Last Halloween a bout of lycanthropy made the rounds of the characters. Turns out one of them liked it.
Sacred Pie
A long-running story about three friends who have been sucked into an interstellar sci-fi adventure battling the forces of Satan himself.
http://sacredpie.com/moon1.html - Chapter 19, "By the Light of the Moon"
In this chapter, the trio are trapped on a prison world run by a "vampire" named Var. Having won Var's respect in a previous chapter, he now assigns them to collect a bounty on a Lupine - a species with shapeshifting abilities similar to werewolves. One of our heros is bitten and gains the ability himself.
Sluggy Freelance
Another long-running and complex story, starring Torg, Riff, Zoe and Gwynn.
http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000421
Gwynn has been secretly learning magic and in a previous storyline attempted to use a love potion on Riff. Things went embarassingly awry and Torg found out. Now Gwynn wants to keep him from revealing this information, so she casts a spell that will "make an ass of him" whenever he tries to say anything important. This causes trouble as Torg takes Zoe out for a date and then encounters Oasis, an insane ninja assassin who is in love with him and will kill anyone she thinks might be a rival for Torg's affections.
http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=001225
It's Christmas and Torg gives Zoe a necklace he picked up in an Egyptian pyramid he was trapped in with Riff some time back. Naturally, the necklace is cursed - Zoe immediately turns into a camel.
Tantalizing hints
Two Kinds
http://twokinds.keenspace.com/d/20040308.html
This webcomic appears to have a setting similar to that of Black Tapestries, a fantasy world in which there are humans and several races of furries who are at war with each other. The humans have powerful magic users called "Templars". There isn't any sustained TF content yet, but two days' strips (the first day is linked above) contained a TF in a flashback scene that holds the potential to have implications later.
Lost webcomics
These webcomics have been taken offline or have unknown URLs.
The Sinner Dragon
http://www.sinnerdragon.com/ (last known) by Gilda Laura Rimessi. Livejournal: http://sinner-dragon.livejournal.com/
A sword-and-sorcery fantasy with both werewolf and weredragon main characters.