So, you may be here looking for that "Best of Cabinet des Fées" post I mentioned working on composing last Friday. Man, so am I! Here's the thing: I'm in graduate school and midterms were this past week. I had conveniently nearly forgotten that, or at least not calculated accurately how much of my time needed to be funneled into this take-home exam.
The end conclusion is this: I'm sorry, I'm still reading through the back-catalogue, and it's going to be up next week! In the meantime, how about a free webcomic from Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield?
I am, indeed, talking about
Freakangels.
Here's what you need to know: It's written by Warren Ellis, so there's profanity and violence along with cleverness and imagination. If you don't like this mix, you won't like this comic.
I love this comic, I love the name: it's all bizarre psychic children ending the world and then their attempts to rebuild some of what they've destroyed in the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Whitechapel. The story is incredibly detailed as well, so even though it's been on a regular publishing schedule (almost every Friday!) for years, only a few weeks or so have passed in the narrative.
Best of all, every bit of it is free. All of the archives are live, in color, and free of charge.
Of course, they've also published three collections of Freakangels at this point too. You can totally have them on your shelf if hardcover is your thing.
Give it a read if it sounds interesting. And tell me, in my quest to read more free material available online: what other excellent webcomics out there should I be reading?