Commissioned deals in a lot of gamer-related topics, including an
adventuring story(start at the bottom) with a small party of classic murdering characters, Dwarf, Elf (and Weretiger).
Unlike other comics, this one puts a great enphasis on the players and DM themselves and their reactions at the table.
It also has been going for quite some time, and if you're willing to dig trough the old archives, you can find plenty of more D&D adventures of the same group, from when they were just one-shots and then starting to form a coherent story. I highly recommend going trough the work of searching them to get the whole adventure, even if the author's just too lazy to properly archive them.
Does Goblins still have pretenses of being a shades-of-gray world rather than your normal adventuring story, just with good "monster" races and evil humans; and an agonizingly slow pace because Thunt insist on drawing inefficiently and showing us prolonged, pointless battle scenes?
Actualy, for the last months he's been quite good at sending two updates a week (tuesday and friday nights).
Plus the humans aren't all evil, and there's still plenty of truly evil monsters to go around for everybody.
The rest of your points still stand tough.
I'll also add that Goblins is relatively low level. Fullcasters are almost unheard off, and for god's sake, just look at the team compositions in term of classes:
-The suposed minmaxer is a fighter, altough on the other hand he seems to have found some really obscure alternate class features for the fighter class.
-More rangers than I can remember.
-Monk as the hardcore badass.
-Two paladins, one of which is suposed to be an unstopable terror that murders whole armies.
-Barbarian fighting one-handed most of the time.
-Two clerics, one of which dies.
-Most bizzare multiclass atempt ever.
Finally I'll add that the begginning of the comic is 100% humor. Then it started to get more and more serious, untill... Well, you better read it.
Other than that, the comic is pretty good I guess. Although the "take that" its author did towards his readers as well as wall-of-text asspull exposition will not be forgiven any time soon.
What asspull did you mean? Perhaps
That custom player-killer undead that ended up killing one of the main characters?