Archive for October, 2007
« Previous EntriesA 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 [...]
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) [...]
Next Review: 5ideways
Sunday, October 28th, 2007I would say something about relationship comics and how those have been going over for us, but I’m more curious if we should have a genre tag. As you might have noticed I have switched the comic specific categories over to tags (along with adding an author’s list) and I’m wondering if we might want [...]
What’s wrong with some pink ponies?
Sunday, October 28th, 2007No Pink Ponies is a relationship comic centered around a comic book store and general geeky interests. I have a lot of sympathy for the basic subject matter, being a big comic book geek myself. Unfortunately, I was mostly annoyed by the execution in the comic, and I think there’s a lot of room for improvement.
Artistically, [...]
Rice Boy Review.
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Rice Boy is an odd comic, with many odd people, places and things in it. But I enjoyed it, and I think it might be the only ‘odd’ comic that I would recommend to anyone who was interested in learning about webcomics. As strange as it can get, it seems very open and easy to [...]
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 [...]
Next Review: No Pink Ponies
Monday, October 22nd, 2007I think I may have found enough webcomics that I consider acceptable for review to last us until the holiday season, which is where I intend on mixing up our schedule a bit since I’m sure people will be busy dealing with Thanksgiving and Christmas and running around and all that stuff. I also found a much [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Whimsical, right? Not quite.
Monday, October 15th, 2007Minus was definitely a memorable comic for me. It centers on a child named Minus, who has the ability to change reality in any way she wants.
Artistically, Minus is-for the most part-pleasing. it looks a lot like a watercolor painting to me, with great expressions and some wonderful action. I do find the hair to [...]