Webcomic rec: "Starfighter." Also featuring a brief glimpse at life these-a-days!
One of the things that keeps me sane right now: STARFIGHTER by HamletMachine.
It is prolly the best thing that has happened to my webcomic problem since Teahouse and Red Dog Venue, and especially since most of my other comics stopped updating and started breaking my art-starved little heart. (I think that rhymed? ^^6)
I think the reason it's so impressive to me is that the artist draws a lot of sex, yes, but the setting is intriguing and it's not just a backdrop. The setting feels alive to me, and the danger is real. I'm always curious and eager for the next page to come out and reveal something new about the plot and setting, because I know it will affect the characters and I know the art will be consistently amazing. I love the space scenes and the fights, and I love how stark everything is. It's believable.
The whole thing has me just gushing over it, especially my dearly beloved Abel. I like tormented characters who nevertheless stand up to their tormentors and are determined to make something of themselves. Abel is just such a fellow. On a side note about the art, I am really intrigued by the color choices in Starfighter. It's like, all the navigators are shown as pure, with light hair and fair skin, even the ones who clearly have rotten personalities on the inside; all the fighters are dark and dangerous-looking, and portrayed brutishly. It's not explicitly stated yet in the comic but I'm sure there's some messed up eugenics crap going on and I am determined to find out. Still, whether I find out or it remains untold, I love this webcomic so! And I do love Abel. Every time he sits there biting his lip, I feel for him.
Oh, and there's lots of sexy sex, and it's a little rough, which of course I like. Namby-pamby cuddling is all well and good later, after we've gotten the kinks out. >;D
Soooo there's that.
Also, this is finals week and I've had one final exam already, turned in another final project, and I have to turn in one more final project and do another exam before it's all over. Fortunately, the other final exam is in my favorite course of this semester, Linguistics, and I'm feeling fairly confident in it. Not like I felt with database at all. God help me if I ever try to learn SQL properly again.
Shit is winding down for me a little; it's frankly a miracle that I have time to catch up on webcomics I was missing out on for weeks at a time, and that I can watch anime (I've finished Kuroshitsuji and will have to give a review of it soon, because I loved loved loved it! ♥) and do such time-wasting things.
I'm looking forward to summer.
"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."
It is prolly the best thing that has happened to my webcomic problem since Teahouse and Red Dog Venue, and especially since most of my other comics stopped updating and started breaking my art-starved little heart. (I think that rhymed? ^^6)
I think the reason it's so impressive to me is that the artist draws a lot of sex, yes, but the setting is intriguing and it's not just a backdrop. The setting feels alive to me, and the danger is real. I'm always curious and eager for the next page to come out and reveal something new about the plot and setting, because I know it will affect the characters and I know the art will be consistently amazing. I love the space scenes and the fights, and I love how stark everything is. It's believable.
The whole thing has me just gushing over it, especially my dearly beloved Abel. I like tormented characters who nevertheless stand up to their tormentors and are determined to make something of themselves. Abel is just such a fellow. On a side note about the art, I am really intrigued by the color choices in Starfighter. It's like, all the navigators are shown as pure, with light hair and fair skin, even the ones who clearly have rotten personalities on the inside; all the fighters are dark and dangerous-looking, and portrayed brutishly. It's not explicitly stated yet in the comic but I'm sure there's some messed up eugenics crap going on and I am determined to find out. Still, whether I find out or it remains untold, I love this webcomic so! And I do love Abel. Every time he sits there biting his lip, I feel for him.
Oh, and there's lots of sexy sex, and it's a little rough, which of course I like. Namby-pamby cuddling is all well and good later, after we've gotten the kinks out. >;D
Soooo there's that.
Also, this is finals week and I've had one final exam already, turned in another final project, and I have to turn in one more final project and do another exam before it's all over. Fortunately, the other final exam is in my favorite course of this semester, Linguistics, and I'm feeling fairly confident in it. Not like I felt with database at all. God help me if I ever try to learn SQL properly again.
Shit is winding down for me a little; it's frankly a miracle that I have time to catch up on webcomics I was missing out on for weeks at a time, and that I can watch anime (I've finished Kuroshitsuji and will have to give a review of it soon, because I loved loved loved it! ♥) and do such time-wasting things.
I'm looking forward to summer.
"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."