Glass Cannon/Web Comics

Examples of Glass Cannons in Web Comics include:

Coffinshaker from What's Shakin' is a fairly powerful fire mage, but without his reliance of fire, is mostly vulnerable to all other attacks. He does seem to have some bit of acrobatic skills though.
8-Bit Theater's Black Mage described himself in these words, a few days after this page was launched. Some might say he's a Squishy Wizard instead.
Ran in Bob and George uses the Cossack Buster, a weapon of nightmarishly destructive proportions, easily able to cut a scar through a city. Unfortunately, Ran himself will instantly die if he is so much as touched.
- Fortunately, due to being made of cheap Soviet components and a convenient teleporter, he can be brought back fairly quickly. In fact, he's pretty much Nigh Invulnerable!
The titular Dominic Deegan shares a handful of qualities with Marvel comics' telepaths, i.e. physically weak while mentally untouchable. He describes himself as his body being "frail and weak, but [his] mind is a fortress you have no hope of conquering."
In Sluggy Freelance, Torg is capable of killing just about anything when his Cool Sword Chaz is powered up and starts glowing. While his sword is unbreakable and nearly unstoppable, however, Torg himself is as physically vulnerable as your average human being. It doesn't help that the sword's true potential can only be unleashed when it's fueled by the blood of the innocent, a cost Torg is understandably reluctant to pay.
Vaarsuvius from The Order of the Stick fits this trope. As with Black Mage, (s)he falls pretty squarely in Squishy Wizard territory.
In the web comic Caaats, this scene.
In Suppression, Charlie is a electricity-wielder who was kidnapped by the villains so that he could [i]power their entire facility[/i]. He can give off enough electricity to blow off Maxwell's arm. He is also skinny as a rail and has neither armor nor the ability to take a hit.
Several allies in Shadow Era are this. Allies like Blake Windrunner and Belladonna have far more attack then they have health, able to kill many allies in a single hit but die just as quickly. Other's like Chimera can gain attack points by reducing their health. Shard of Power gives all your allies +2 attack by reducing them to one health.

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