Webcomic pimpage!
Since me writing down the names of webcomics isn't really a good persuasion to read them, I decided to do some reviewing.
Blackbird
Blackbird was one of my first webcomics, and it's really quite good.
Since I began reading it, it's gone through one renovation and begun again, but the story remains the same.
In the land Maelstrom (I think) there is a prohibition against magic users because of their affiliations with demons. However, the king of Kronzel (or that's his name, I cannot recall for the life of me) allowed one magic user to remain; a girl named Veloce Visrin. Though she is forced to remain secluded in her house, she is feared by the peasant neighbors. One day, when the young nobleman Keritzel is going to magic lessons (I don't know), he meets her being bedeviled by a young peasant bully. The problem is solved without issue, but the neighbors are left as suspicious as ever of the bad-tempered mage.
Despite Veloce's isolation, the master assassin Blackbird, another girl of indeterminate age, is hired to kill her for the an unidentified price that, while she will not name it, is very precious to her.
The story goes on with the search to defend herself from Blackbird and the servant that left her long ago.
While Blackbird is sometimes clumsily written, it's interesting and original, and contains light humor that is infrequently misplaced. The art is beautiful, though Shilin, the author, currently lacks the time to properly tone the pages.
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The Broken Mirror
The Broken Mirror is a story I began reading only recently.
The story begins with the main character, Galen, as a clever child in a prep school that his parents cannot really afford. While he is intelligent, his constant preference for English over other classes disappoint his parents. After years of suffering under their controlling and abusive reign, Galen runs away to make his own living as a journalist. However, the newspaper he works for has gone down, leaving him to take a job as a tester for a new virtual reality program, Domino City.
Meanwhile, Xara's sister has died after some kind of mental illness that I cannot recall. Her friend Aidi, her Italian penpal, has come to visit her, suggesting that they try out the new program... Domino City.
Though I've just started The Broken Mirror, it's enjoyable and fairly good, though not my normal preference. The art is a little shabby, but is not distracting from the storyline.
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Cascadia, Directions of Destiny
These I cannot talk about; it's been too long since they updated and I'm still overcoming my despair.
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The Dreamland Chronicles
The Dreamland Chronicles is about a young college student named Alexander Carter who, as a child, had vivid dreams of a magical land he went to in his dreams. When he awoke, he would share the dreams with his brother, who would write them in a journal, which they called THE DREAMLAND CHRONICLES.
However, one day his mother sends him a box of his old things, in which he finds a necklace with a tiny sword on it that he used to wear. Upon wearing this to sleep, he dreams once again of being in Dreamland, meeting up again with his friends Paddington and... not-Tinkerbell, and Nastajia, the elven Princess.
However, things have changed during his absence; sky-pirates steal away children, Nastajia's kind parents have disappeared in search of a mystical object, and the overlord of the land is cruel and tyrannical.
Coupled with the problems of the Dreamland are the attentions of another college student seeking to explain Alex's strange dreaming adventures--all his body functions shut down while he's there-- as well as the same desire of his more mystically oriented brother.
Dreamland Chronicles is excellent; the style is a sort of video-game still screen, which combines an odd realism with cartoony images. The storyline is interesting and developed, and along with serious issues there's still an amount of humor.
Blackbird
Blackbird was one of my first webcomics, and it's really quite good.
Since I began reading it, it's gone through one renovation and begun again, but the story remains the same.
In the land Maelstrom (I think) there is a prohibition against magic users because of their affiliations with demons. However, the king of Kronzel (or that's his name, I cannot recall for the life of me) allowed one magic user to remain; a girl named Veloce Visrin. Though she is forced to remain secluded in her house, she is feared by the peasant neighbors. One day, when the young nobleman Keritzel is going to magic lessons (I don't know), he meets her being bedeviled by a young peasant bully. The problem is solved without issue, but the neighbors are left as suspicious as ever of the bad-tempered mage.
Despite Veloce's isolation, the master assassin Blackbird, another girl of indeterminate age, is hired to kill her for the an unidentified price that, while she will not name it, is very precious to her.
The story goes on with the search to defend herself from Blackbird and the servant that left her long ago.
While Blackbird is sometimes clumsily written, it's interesting and original, and contains light humor that is infrequently misplaced. The art is beautiful, though Shilin, the author, currently lacks the time to properly tone the pages.
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The Broken Mirror
The Broken Mirror is a story I began reading only recently.
The story begins with the main character, Galen, as a clever child in a prep school that his parents cannot really afford. While he is intelligent, his constant preference for English over other classes disappoint his parents. After years of suffering under their controlling and abusive reign, Galen runs away to make his own living as a journalist. However, the newspaper he works for has gone down, leaving him to take a job as a tester for a new virtual reality program, Domino City.
Meanwhile, Xara's sister has died after some kind of mental illness that I cannot recall. Her friend Aidi, her Italian penpal, has come to visit her, suggesting that they try out the new program... Domino City.
Though I've just started The Broken Mirror, it's enjoyable and fairly good, though not my normal preference. The art is a little shabby, but is not distracting from the storyline.
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Cascadia, Directions of Destiny
These I cannot talk about; it's been too long since they updated and I'm still overcoming my despair.
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The Dreamland Chronicles
The Dreamland Chronicles is about a young college student named Alexander Carter who, as a child, had vivid dreams of a magical land he went to in his dreams. When he awoke, he would share the dreams with his brother, who would write them in a journal, which they called THE DREAMLAND CHRONICLES.
However, one day his mother sends him a box of his old things, in which he finds a necklace with a tiny sword on it that he used to wear. Upon wearing this to sleep, he dreams once again of being in Dreamland, meeting up again with his friends Paddington and... not-Tinkerbell, and Nastajia, the elven Princess.
However, things have changed during his absence; sky-pirates steal away children, Nastajia's kind parents have disappeared in search of a mystical object, and the overlord of the land is cruel and tyrannical.
Coupled with the problems of the Dreamland are the attentions of another college student seeking to explain Alex's strange dreaming adventures--all his body functions shut down while he's there-- as well as the same desire of his more mystically oriented brother.
Dreamland Chronicles is excellent; the style is a sort of video-game still screen, which combines an odd realism with cartoony images. The storyline is interesting and developed, and along with serious issues there's still an amount of humor.