A Review of Hereville, Issue 1
Thursday, May 15th, 2008Hereville is a comic with an interesting subject matter to me; that is, an unfamiliar one. The first issue, “How Mirka got her Sword,” spends a lot of time talking about living in a Jewish community, though when and where is unclear-and as far as I can tell, deliberately so. However, it’s not about the [...]
The glitter, it blinds me!
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki-which is a mouthful, by the way-is one of a number of webcomics that explicitly model themselves on Japanese manga. Of all the webcomics I’ve read, I think Yuuki has done the best job of emulating a particular kind of manga-the “magical girl” manga. But unfortunately, I think it’s taken on many [...]
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: The Curious Adventures of Aldus Maycombe
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008The Curious Adventures of Aldus Maycombe is one of those comics that I wonder how it slipped my radar for so long. In some ways it is very beautiful, but in others it fails to shine. Still, it came out with a strong start, and this gives it few points to the positive in my [...]
Aldus Maycombe review.
Sunday, January 20th, 2008In visuals, Aldus Maycombe is a very pleasing comic. Beyond that, it still needs some development….but from what I’ve seen, it shows a great deal of promise, and some more time will probably improve it on all fronts. It’s definitely something to keep an eye on.
Artistically, Maycombe is quite nice to look at. The artistic [...]
Skin Deep Review
Monday, January 14th, 2008As I said earlier, Skin Deep is a comic I saw quickly rise up the ranks on the Belfry’s comic listing website, and everytime I ever went to look at a page there were at least 10 comments for each page. With this review I have again read over the comic, and I believe I [...]
Skin Deep review.
Sunday, January 13th, 2008Skin Deep is a comic about a college student who finds herself in a very unusual situation, of being someone or something she didn’t expect. I thought there were a number of interesting concepts in Skin Deep, and some very nice illustration. However, I think many of the plot elements and characters don’t get much explanation, [...]
Stick figures everywhere!
Monday, January 7th, 2008Order of the Stick, at first glance, might seem like it’s all about D&D, and would thus be impenetrable to those unfamiliar with the game. As someone with some knowledge of D&D (but not a great deal), I didn’t have any trouble following along, but I also think the comic isn’t that hard to access. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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