Kookaburra sittin’ in the ol’ gum tree…
Thursday, March 20th, 2008It’s good when a comic gets a song stuck in your head, right?
Right?
Kukuburi is a fascinating little comic with a surrealistic bent. It seemed to carry that bent with it from page one, as we watch the start of Nadia’s day. It is never so bizarre that the audience gets completely lost, though. While I [...]
Ark the Improbable Review!
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008Ark the Improbable!
It is a little shorter than we normally see, but I don’t perceive that as an especially bad thing..
It does make it a little more difficult to get a firm grasp on all of the characters at this point, though. When the comic started off, I was wondering why it was called [...]
Review: Skin Deep!
Sunday, January 13th, 2008You all know the story… Girl has a normal life. Stranger gives girl a mysterious amulet. Girl puts on amulet and turns into a member of long-thought-deceased mythical race.
Happens every day, right?
Well, I can’t say that Skin Deep has the cleanest art or the most intriguing story I have ever read, but then, if I [...]
Review: Silent Kimbly
Friday, December 14th, 2007Ever stumble across a book and start reading it, only to find out that it was meant for a different audience than you?
That’s kinda how Silent Kimbly hit me. I was not expecting a comic in the style of a children’s book, and it definitely took me by surprise. Not the least because I am [...]
Inverloch Review
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Inverloch is what most ‘novel’ webcomics should be: it’s a story that used both art and words to convey the action, inform us about the characters, and move the plot along. As a webcomic, it requires a bit of patience to read though, both while it was being updated and if you are simply starting [...]
Would you like smoke bombs with that?
Friday, November 9th, 2007I’ve seen Doctor McNinja before and, well, I was never much impressed with it. It seemed to be a simple parody, and one that was not terribly funny, at that.
I can’t say that the intervening years have made it any funnier, but it certainly appears to be something more than just a simple parody. Although, [...]
It’s like Abian meets Rice Boy…
Monday, October 29th, 20075ideways is an exercise in surrealism, but it takes a much darker and grittier angle than other comics in the same vein.
The comic begins with the death (?) of the narrator and her replacement by a monster… and then it jumps right into her ex-boyfriend and his buddy (who also happens to be her ex-lover) [...]
Rice Boy: The Review! (Coming to a blog near you!)
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Rice boy is a very surrealistic comic about a boy with no arms or legs who is chosen quite against his will to be the fulfiller of an extremely vague prophecy that leaves everything to doubt and clarifies nothing at all. It somehow involves a thrice-transfiguration and an iron tower of some sort.
To be honest, [...]
Minus is a Plus
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Minus is a largely visual comic about a young girl (“Minus”) who has magical powers.. or at least the ability to make her desires become reality, and the adventures and tribulations of her life. The comics are largely episodic, but there are a few that are intended as continuations of prior pages.
The first few pages [...]
Review: xkcd
Saturday, October 6th, 2007xkcd is one of those webcomics that either you get or you don’t get… and then you care or you don’t care.
The majority of its appeal is the writing, which bounces around in a typical gag-a-day fashion, going with whatever the creator finds funny (and that, hopefully, the audience will, too), but largely limited to [...]