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Aug. 31st, 2006
Some more webcomic plugging...
Aug. 31st, 2006 04:27 pmbecause nowadays there are loads of webcomics around that are easily good enough to be published in book form, and that should make even comic snobs of the 'I only read graphic novels!' persuasion happy. ;-)
I recently plugged a number of webcomics here. In the weeks following that post I went on a bit of a webcomics kick and found a couple more that are really good. As per usual with my recs, all of these comics focus on telling a story instead of delivering daily jokes.
In alphabetical order because I can't put them in any other order:
Between Two Worlds is about a few Finnish twentysomethings' vacation on a little island that goes disastrously wrong and turns very, very weird.
Digger, which has won, and been nominated for all kinds of awards, is a subscription comic, unfortunately, but a large (really large - 285 pages) part of the archive is available as a free sample. Digger is a no-nonsense wombat construction engineer who gets lost while burrowing and finds herself in a strange country full of speaking statues, dead gods, shadow creatures, oracular slugs, and vampire squash. All she really wants is find a way back home, but she keeps getting drawn into the politics of gods... Great characters *and* worldbuilding, and a delightful sense of the absurd.
Ice is set in a futuristic dystopian London in a new ice age. Civilisation has crumbled, more or less, and society has returned to a feudal organisation...
Narbonic is... great fun. And a classic of the webcomics medium, with six years of daily archives to read! It's also about to finish, so don't read the latest strip but go directly to the beginning of the archive if you don't want to get badly spoiled for all kinds of great and/or horrible revelations. This, to some degree, is a 'daily joke' strip, but it also tells a story.
Templar, Arizona is set in a Arizona, not the Arizona. "This is a slightly irregular Arizona that fell off the back of a truck somewhere, and now all the power outlets are a weird shape and a couple of wars never happened," says the author. Not only does the comic satisfy my desire for alternate worlds, but it also has great, very vivid characters and absolutely real-sounding dialogue. And clay bars. I'd love to visit a clay bar now.
I recently plugged a number of webcomics here. In the weeks following that post I went on a bit of a webcomics kick and found a couple more that are really good. As per usual with my recs, all of these comics focus on telling a story instead of delivering daily jokes.
In alphabetical order because I can't put them in any other order:
Between Two Worlds is about a few Finnish twentysomethings' vacation on a little island that goes disastrously wrong and turns very, very weird.
Digger, which has won, and been nominated for all kinds of awards, is a subscription comic, unfortunately, but a large (really large - 285 pages) part of the archive is available as a free sample. Digger is a no-nonsense wombat construction engineer who gets lost while burrowing and finds herself in a strange country full of speaking statues, dead gods, shadow creatures, oracular slugs, and vampire squash. All she really wants is find a way back home, but she keeps getting drawn into the politics of gods... Great characters *and* worldbuilding, and a delightful sense of the absurd.
Ice is set in a futuristic dystopian London in a new ice age. Civilisation has crumbled, more or less, and society has returned to a feudal organisation...
Narbonic is... great fun. And a classic of the webcomics medium, with six years of daily archives to read! It's also about to finish, so don't read the latest strip but go directly to the beginning of the archive if you don't want to get badly spoiled for all kinds of great and/or horrible revelations. This, to some degree, is a 'daily joke' strip, but it also tells a story.
Templar, Arizona is set in a Arizona, not the Arizona. "This is a slightly irregular Arizona that fell off the back of a truck somewhere, and now all the power outlets are a weird shape and a couple of wars never happened," says the author. Not only does the comic satisfy my desire for alternate worlds, but it also has great, very vivid characters and absolutely real-sounding dialogue. And clay bars. I'd love to visit a clay bar now.