Review of Order of the Stick
Sunday, December 30th, 2007I became aware of OotS a while back amidst my readings of Knights of the Dinner Table, Dragon magazine, and word of mouth. A brief look over at the time didn’t impress me much. A lot of that disdain came indirectly from 8 Bit Theater, which I considered an increasingly stagnant webcomic with a similar [...]
A Review of Silent Kimbly
Monday, December 10th, 2007As a child reading Jack and Jill magazine, yes, that was probably the age I would have at least not felt catastrophic insulin shock from reading this webcomic. A previous review, Minus, is not even in the same ballpark as the sheer amount of processed sugar pouring out of every teddy bear seam and glass [...]
A review of Sequential Art
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Barely there sitcom plots with friends and wacky fantasy situations? Check. Inconsistent presence of trendy anthros or otherwise out of place cutesy creatures? Check. Pron and/or nerd references? Oh hells yeah. Ladies, toasters, and gentlemen, we have ourselves a good old fashioned by the numbers ‘roommates on a couch’ comic!
Okay, my snarkiness aside, Sequential Art [...]
A review of Inverloch
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007This selection is a bit longer than the others that CSB has reviewed thus far, but well worth the time spent. As it stands, Inverloch is a very well put together piece.
For reasons he can’t explain to himself, Ash the Da’Kor (a short furry race with claws and tiny horns) is drawn to an elvish [...]
Review of The Adventures of Doctor McNinja
Sunday, November 11th, 2007With a name like McNinja, one should obviously not expect to find anything too serious to read in this comic. Expectedly it’s quite absurd, but it does have elements of a plot and reasonably consistent characterizations. Still, Dr. McNinja is mainly just a funny read that more or less hits the mark.
Following every cliche possible [...]
A review of 5ideways
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007As a self professed study of the surreal and macabre, a comic like 5ideways bearing both of these aspects should appeal to me more than not. Indeed, trippy psychedelic art and a spatially distorted setting are typically thumb’s up in my book. But there is a limit on how much a person can go with [...]
A review of No Pink Ponies
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007Meet Jess. Attractive 20 something and comic book geek. Meet Jess’ nameless crush, aka Cute Comic Guy. Jess, being an unconfident social doormat in matters of love, sets up a convoluted plot to get closer to Cute Comic Guy by opening her own comic shop. Unlikely events, melodrama, and cute wackiness ensues.
Drawn in a very [...]
A Review of Rice Boy
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Cute yet grotesque, bizarre but recognizable… this is the surrealist madman world of Rice Boy! This is a story of a small meek and largely helpless character who travels a great land on the legends of others, but to what end? Can Rice Boy escape his fate? Or will he embrace it?
Rice Boy is not [...]
Review of Minus
Sunday, October 14th, 2007For those of you who remember the Simpson’s Tree House of Horror specials, there’s one particular episode where Bart gets ‘groovy psychic powers’ to make his very whims reality. That, in a nutshell, is Minus. While Minus doesn’t have the sadistic streak of one certain pointy haired brat, the consistent premise is basically the same [...]
Review of xkcd
Sunday, October 7th, 2007Xkcd is an irreverent little quirky, sometimes clever, sometimes meaningful, and sometimes just requiring a For Dummies book to know what the author is referring to. Following a gag a day format in the loosest sense and with no continuity expected (and none given!), it’s an entertaining if casual read, and one probably witty or [...]
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