Gunnerkrigg Court

I have fallen in love with a new comic. I want to thank Jeph Jaques for telling us about it, but I primarily want to thank Tom Siddell for bringing us this most beautiful work:



Beautifully illustrated and playfully written, GunnerKrigg shattered my expectations that it would be another talentless cobbled together piece of oversexed fantasy tripe. What I actually encountered was refreshingly creative, magestically rendered, and ultimatly captivating.

Updating Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, GunnerKrigg follows the school career of Antimony Carver at her new school, Gunnerkrigg Court. The school resembles an infinite inducstrial city, and contains robots, gods, and ghosts in addition to the students and faculty (who themselves are more than they seem). The grounds of Gunnerkrigg beg to be explored, and along the way Antimony makes friends and rivals among her clasmates, and other beings, both etherial and mechanical. I hope you enjoy it. I know I have, and will continue to as the story continues.

Medioctity, thy name is Unstuffed

I'm back for the summer and just wanted to clear up a thing or two. I know I wrote pretty optimistically about Corey Messer's comic, but after giving him a few months, I'm removing it from my comics tab. The back story was a set up for something bold, challenging, and creative, the comic itself has disappointed me. The comic's unbelievable dialogue, confusing fight sequences, and two dimensional characters have outstayed their welcome in my life. I hope one day to have someone tell me that Messer has grown to fill the challenge he laid for himself in his conic's premise, that day has not yet come.

Jeph Jaques posted three new comics he discovered this past week. I plan on reviewing them soon. So far I've been perusing the archives of Gunnerkrigg Court and I am loving it! More on that tomorrow.

Lió

I discovered Lió last year while I was working at my campus library. While putting the day's newspapers on those stick things, I decided to see what comics existed in the world of print outside of my home town's paper. I was overjoyed to find Lió. I was immediately amazed that a strip so dark was really being printed in a national newspaper, but rather than question it, I relished it, and praised the Lord.
Lió is the creation of Mark Tatulli, who in addition to writing Heart of The City, and post producing Trading Spaces, is also the talented recipient of three Emmy Awards.
Lió is what would happen if Calvin and Hobbes and the Adams Family had a mute love child. It's Pantomime strip, meaning there's no dialog in this delightfully imaginative romp with fear. Lió lives alone with his father and an unspecific number of monsters, and would love for you to visit.The strip updates everyday and can be found here as well as in many newspapers across the country.

Dr. McNinja: Eagle Award Nominee

Dr. McNinja is a doctor who is also a ninja. Everything about this comics screams awesome, and it may get recognized this year by the Eagle Awards. This comic has everything you've ever wanted: a doctor ninja who fights, zombie ninjas, giant lumberjacks, a ghost wizard, and sometimes pirates. He also teams up with Benjamin Franklin and has a sidekick who rides a Velociraptor.
Chris Hastings' writing and artwork could easily demand to be taken seriously, and that's just what makes the bizarre elements of the comics so hilarious. Dr. McNinja is a practicing family doctor, who is also a crime fighting ninja; he is single, idolizes Batman, and loves Ghostbusters. If you like things that are awesome, you'll love Dr. McNinja. Dr. Mcninja updates Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. You can read it here, and vote for it here.

The Unstuffed

To start off, I have very mixed feelings about this comic. In a nut shell it's Toy Story meets V for Vendetta. I have rarely read such an excellent premise (few comics need such an elaborate explanation). The back story is two pages long, and brilliant. It's a post apocalyptic 1984-esc action hero story, and its played out by stuffed animals. Thats right, not anthropomorphized humanimals with heavily emphasized sex traits that exist merely to act out the author's creepy man-on-dog fantasies. They are fuzzy plush stuffed animals and I kind of want to hug them.
Despite the brilliant concept and fuzzy characters I have some criticisms, and they are as follows:
Criticism the First: the action sequences are difficult to follow, and as a die hard martial arts fan, I really do have a problem there.
Criticism the Second: No matter how you slice it, Furries are creepy.
Criticism the Third: The dialog is poorly contrived.
It's written and illiustrated by Corey Messer, he's a great animator, but doesn't give the comic everything he's got artistically. However, the comic's still in it's early stages and No Need for Bushido has taught me that animation can improve drastically over time. His concepts are good, I just hope his execution doesn't vomit all over them.

Despite the caveats I'm hopeful. Here's a sample:

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Check out The Unstuffed (Updates Tues and Fri) at www.plushandblood.com

Look out internet here I come!

My name in not important, great things are afoot. This ist mein Blog, and it is only here to help, to help me sort my thoughts and to practice the fine art of writing, and to help you find a comic you'll enjoy. Here I will voice my feelings regarding webcomics. My feelings at the moment thus:
I feel good about webcomics.
Optomistic about Herman the Manitee (Updates WED).
A little creeped out by Truck Bearing Kibble(Updates MON).
And Praying that Copper (Never Updates) would update already.
Next time I care about something I'll let you know.