What Is Reckless Youth on recklessyouth.comicgen.com?

Updated 2026-10-06

Reckless Youth is a webcomic hosted on Comic Genesis, a free webcomic hosting service. The site presents the comic as a chapter-based archive, with an Intro followed by numbered chapters, and it lists an update schedule of Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. If you are looking for a long-form webcomic with a chapter archive and a separate forum for discussion, this site is built for that.

What the site contains

The page evidence shows the comic is organized as a table of contents rather than a single page. The listed sections are:

Intro
Chapter 1: Banana Daiquiri!
Chapter 2: Medical!
Chapter 3: Lighter Side
Interlude: Nintendo
Chapter 4: Things Get Ugly
Interlude: Bras
Chapter 5: The Long Dark Party Of The Soul
Chapter 6: Apes Of Wrath
Chapter 7: I Can't Stand The Rain
Chapter 8: Feathered Fiend
Chapter 9: An Evil In Residence
Chapter 10: Pleased to meet You
Chapter 11: The Pet Project
Chapter 12: What'up G?
Chapter 13: Passing Time
Chapter 14: April Fools
Chapter 15: Night Of The Living Goth
Chapter 16: Disorganised Religion
Chapter 17: Escape From Secret Prison
Chapter 18: This Pom... This Monster
Chapter 19: Nobody Noticed
Chapter 20: Two Sides Of The Same Coin
Chapter 21: Comeuppance
RY Chapter NAV

This structure tells you the comic is meant to be read in order, starting with the Intro and moving through the chapters. The presence of "Interlude" entries between chapters suggests the story includes side material that sits between main chapters.

Update schedule and series status

The site states the comic updates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. That schedule appears in the page title and in a news post announcing a new series. The same news post says the update pace would continue "until i collapse under the strain," which is a casual way of saying the schedule was ambitious.

A later news post from 12/08/08 says the author was approaching the end of their time at artschool and needed time to draw for that instead of the comic, asking for five weeks before returning to three updates a week. So the three-day schedule is the intended pace, but the site itself records at least one planned pause.

News, forum, and links

The page includes news posts and references to community spaces:

A "NEW FORUM!" note pointing to a fresh forum for the start of "RY Series 2"
A mention of switching forums away from cornstalker to "Milk in the Pantry" for comic comments and other discussion
A "LINKDUMP!" list of names and sites (Kirkby, Harvey, Dogtopus, Komi, Shug, Decie, Smurf, Al, Sarah, Jon, future, monkeys)
A note about attending the UK Web and Mini Comics thing on March 28th, selling the last part of Dr. Moreau, with new badges, possibly postcards, and a couple other minicomics

These details are useful if you want to follow the author's other work or find where discussion happens. The forum links are part of the site's history, so some may be outdated.

Hosting and platform

The site states: "Reckless Youth is hosted on Comic Genesis, a free webhosting and pimping service for webcomics." That means the comic runs on a shared free hosting platform rather than a custom domain or paid service. Comic Genesis provides the infrastructure; the author provides the content and updates.

What to expect if you visit

You will land on a page that functions as a contents or navigation page, not a single comic strip.
The comic is organized into an Intro and numbered chapters, with interludes in between.
The update schedule is listed as three days a week, though the news posts show it was not always maintained.
There is a forum for discussion, though the specific forum location changed over time.
The site includes external links and news about conventions and minicomics.

If you want to read a chapter-based webcomic from the beginning, start with the Intro and work through the chapters in order. If you want to discuss it, look for the forum link, but check whether it is still active before relying on it.