Blip
BLIP
It IS a beautiful day in Lina Land! Today I woke up at 8 in the morning to go to a conference on the future of reading. Reading?, thought I, there's something I do a lot of! So I snuck into the conference and listened to several people babble about ebooks, publishing, retro graphics, and digitizing books (oh google, you scamp, you). Because I have a short attention span, my mind wandered elsewhere and landed upon the subject of this review. Sage Leaves' comic Blip
Blip is a comic that is, to this date, 584 pages strong, and counting. Don't be frightened by the number, though, it's a fast read and its subject will have you begging for more. It starts us off by introducing us to its main character, K. K is a young woman who is twenty something, has quirky friends, a love interest, a pet, and an atypical relationship with God. We know this because two angels are constantly attempting to suppress her attempts at being creative. K isn't aware of this, and as far as she's concerned, she has a normal life. It's incredibly easy for me to relate to K, even though she's constantly surrounded by (pardon my french) weird shit . She doesn't know her friend are flying around on magical brooms, or sucking other people's blood, or punching wholes in walls.
In fact, the magic factor is kept at a minimum. Sage alternates between K's daily life, and this other world. Both sides keep me interested. I want to know where K's relationships are going, I want to know why the hell God had such a giant bitchdetta against K. His leaps into the absurd make Blip a very worthwhile read.
Sage's characters are amusing, and his art style is well suited for this. It's light, and simplistic, with details when it needs to have them. Although his first pages are chalk full of panels, he's learned to slow down when he needs to.
tl;dr? I can't get enough of this shit, it's had me giggling at odd hours of the night.
Blip updates 5 days a week, with pages on MWF, and sketches every other day.
Fabulous! I give Blip 5 stars for excellent updating, art, and humor!
It IS a beautiful day in Lina Land! Today I woke up at 8 in the morning to go to a conference on the future of reading. Reading?, thought I, there's something I do a lot of! So I snuck into the conference and listened to several people babble about ebooks, publishing, retro graphics, and digitizing books (oh google, you scamp, you). Because I have a short attention span, my mind wandered elsewhere and landed upon the subject of this review. Sage Leaves' comic Blip
Blip is a comic that is, to this date, 584 pages strong, and counting. Don't be frightened by the number, though, it's a fast read and its subject will have you begging for more. It starts us off by introducing us to its main character, K. K is a young woman who is twenty something, has quirky friends, a love interest, a pet, and an atypical relationship with God. We know this because two angels are constantly attempting to suppress her attempts at being creative. K isn't aware of this, and as far as she's concerned, she has a normal life. It's incredibly easy for me to relate to K, even though she's constantly surrounded by (pardon my french) weird shit . She doesn't know her friend are flying around on magical brooms, or sucking other people's blood, or punching wholes in walls.
In fact, the magic factor is kept at a minimum. Sage alternates between K's daily life, and this other world. Both sides keep me interested. I want to know where K's relationships are going, I want to know why the hell God had such a giant bitchdetta against K. His leaps into the absurd make Blip a very worthwhile read.
Sage's characters are amusing, and his art style is well suited for this. It's light, and simplistic, with details when it needs to have them. Although his first pages are chalk full of panels, he's learned to slow down when he needs to.
tl;dr? I can't get enough of this shit, it's had me giggling at odd hours of the night.
Blip updates 5 days a week, with pages on MWF, and sketches every other day.
Fabulous! I give Blip 5 stars for excellent updating, art, and humor!