I fear Dume’s cooking.
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Dume is a comic that belongs to a very wide genre in webcomics: the roommate sitcom. It could be called a comedy, but many of these comics have a sitcom sensibility about them-improbable events are only dwelled upon as long as they’re actually occurring, and odd combinations are only remarked upon when there’s a joke [...]
My Silent Kimbly review.
Monday, December 31st, 2007At its heart, Silent Kimbly is a comic all about one panel puns. There’s no story progression, no deep character insight (and anyone who reads insight into the different puns is probably working too hard to find meaning), and very little humor beyond the puns. In short, Kimbly is not my kind of comic. However, that [...]
Sequential Art review.
Sunday, December 9th, 2007There’s nothing really remarkable about the ideas that go into Sequential Art. It has a cute mascot, an elastic reality, and protagonists who are odd roommates, switching between being wacky instigators and straight men. These have been seen in a lot of webcomics. However, Sequential Art does a good job of putting all of these [...]
Dr. McNinja review
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Dr. McNinja is a comic that swings between a string of absurdities, and reality. That’s where most of its humor comes from-not simply being odd, but upsetting our expectations about what’s going to come next. Occasionally this falls flat, but most of the time it works quite well.
The art is definitely the strongest part of [...]
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, [...]
The xkcd review.
Monday, October 8th, 2007This is a fairly unusual comic to review. While XKCD (which I’m capitalizing to make sure it can’t be missed) is pretty conventional in the structure of its humor, the subjects are very odd. They’re not impenetrable by any means, but this is not for the everyman.
The art for XKCD is very simple-it centers on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
IDMOS: Kimono’s Townhouse
Friday, August 24th, 2007Sometimes I really wonder if I should be the one who is in control of what comic we read next. Today is one of those times. Usually this comes up when I’m looking for the next week’s selection. I stumble across new webcomics in the oddest places, and sometimes my link clicking habit (although not [...]