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5ideways Review.

Monday, November 5th, 2007

5ideways is a comic about the world gone wrong, as the laws of physics are completely altered in unpredictable ways. My immediate impression of 5ideways was that it had a lot of potential. But after finishing the comic thus far, I think there hasn’t been much use of that potential, and I can only hope [...]

A review of 5ideways

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

As 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, 2007

5ideways 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, 2007

I 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 [...]