Webcomics recs/reminders
Wheeeeeeee! It's been a good week for webcomics. Or at least for the ones I'm reading. The best two things about webcomics this week are:
1.) Finder update! (http://www.lightspeedpress.com) - Jaeger's found another crazy woman, it seems. What she's up to I can't fathom (strangling him with her leg, looks like)... but it looks dangerous.
2.) Zebra Girl update! (http://zebragirl.keenspot.com) - Joe "angst tastes like popcorn" England tortures... well, everybody, really, since we can assume that Sandra, although off-panel for the moment, is not having a particularly good time, either. There's extremely dodgy medicine, and silly goth!Crystal goodness! ("I keep a syringe on me at all times. Take my blood! Blood is icky. I don't like it in my body.") Also, Joe promises more frequent updates in the near future, after his graduation. We'll see.
As always, I urge everybody to read these.
I also urge people to read the following webcomics:
Dicebox:
http://www.dicebox.net/
*Really* good science fiction comic in the vein of Finder, or Ursual LeGuin; beautiful art.
No Rest For the Wicked:
http://www.forthewicked.net/
The Princess On the Pea travels with Puss in Boots and Little Red Riding Hood (who is hands down the scariest character in the entire comic, and carries a big axe) to find out where the moon has gone. They're currently meeting Hänsel and Gretel's mother.
Scary Go Round:
http://www.scarygoround.com/
(Mostly) very funny encounters between a bunch of slightly eccentric twentysomethings and the - frequently - supernatural in the small British town of Tackleford.
girly:
http://go-girly.com/
This is kind of impossible to describe, really. Is it a love story? A superhero parody? A soap opera? Just weird? Whatever it is, it's good enough for me to have preordered the book. One of the very first webcomics I ever read.
Triangle & Robert:
http://home.comcast.net/~pshaughn/tandr.html
P. Shaughnessy is the inventor of Alienating Readers Week, the Zone of No Pudding, Prozac the Bear who is really Bear the Prozac, The Author's Irrational Fear of Potatoes, Recapulon the recapitulating machine, and an entire two-dimensional cosmology based on food groups. I don't think there is a comic in existence that is weirder, more self-referential, or more involved than this one.
And, of course:
It's Walky!:
- English: http://www.itswalky.com
- German
Drama. Alien invasions. Giant robot monkeys apes. True Love. Toilet humour. I love this so much I'm translating it to German.
All of these are webcomics that go beyond the constraints of the joke-a-day formula, so if you're ready to have a side order of story with your humour (or, in some cases, even *just* a good story), these might be for you.
Edited to add the link to the German version of It's Walky!
1.) Finder update! (http://www.lightspeedpress.com) - Jaeger's found another crazy woman, it seems. What she's up to I can't fathom (strangling him with her leg, looks like)... but it looks dangerous.
2.) Zebra Girl update! (http://zebragirl.keenspot.com) - Joe "angst tastes like popcorn" England tortures... well, everybody, really, since we can assume that Sandra, although off-panel for the moment, is not having a particularly good time, either. There's extremely dodgy medicine, and silly goth!Crystal goodness! ("I keep a syringe on me at all times. Take my blood! Blood is icky. I don't like it in my body.") Also, Joe promises more frequent updates in the near future, after his graduation. We'll see.
As always, I urge everybody to read these.
I also urge people to read the following webcomics:
Dicebox:
http://www.dicebox.net/
*Really* good science fiction comic in the vein of Finder, or Ursual LeGuin; beautiful art.
No Rest For the Wicked:
http://www.forthewicked.net/
The Princess On the Pea travels with Puss in Boots and Little Red Riding Hood (who is hands down the scariest character in the entire comic, and carries a big axe) to find out where the moon has gone. They're currently meeting Hänsel and Gretel's mother.
Scary Go Round:
http://www.scarygoround.com/
(Mostly) very funny encounters between a bunch of slightly eccentric twentysomethings and the - frequently - supernatural in the small British town of Tackleford.
girly:
http://go-girly.com/
This is kind of impossible to describe, really. Is it a love story? A superhero parody? A soap opera? Just weird? Whatever it is, it's good enough for me to have preordered the book. One of the very first webcomics I ever read.
Triangle & Robert:
http://home.comcast.net/~pshaughn/tandr.html
P. Shaughnessy is the inventor of Alienating Readers Week, the Zone of No Pudding, Prozac the Bear who is really Bear the Prozac, The Author's Irrational Fear of Potatoes, Recapulon the recapitulating machine, and an entire two-dimensional cosmology based on food groups. I don't think there is a comic in existence that is weirder, more self-referential, or more involved than this one.
And, of course:
It's Walky!:
- English: http://www.itswalky.com
- German
Drama. Alien invasions. Giant robot monkeys apes. True Love. Toilet humour. I love this so much I'm translating it to German.
All of these are webcomics that go beyond the constraints of the joke-a-day formula, so if you're ready to have a side order of story with your humour (or, in some cases, even *just* a good story), these might be for you.
Edited to add the link to the German version of It's Walky!