Fun in the sun? That depends.
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Caribbean Blue is a comic best taken in small doses. This isn’t because it’s hard to swallow, or particularly shocking. Rather, it’s enjoyable in individual comics, but taken as a whole, there are serious problems with the characters and the story.
The art of Caribbean Blue has definitely matured from the beginning. There’s a sketchy quality [...]
Dume review
Sunday, February 24th, 2008The goofball and the straight man is a duo that has been played over and over, in movies, cartoons, and yes—webcomics. This is not necessarily a bad thing.
In the case of Dume, the title character is the goofball and the straight man is his roommate, Rand. Dume is always under Rand’s skin, whether it’s intentional [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]