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 Digital Strips : Show 97 [8.24 MB] |
The good times keep rolling in as we have yet another guest host for you. This time we have the esteemed Shaenon Garrity joining us for yet another strip that has been sitting in my queue. This is a fantastically drawn strip that’s waiting for a plot to appear. I am definitly coming back in a couple months when the second book begins to unfold. In this episode we talk about:
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I'm a big fan of Rich Burlew's strip Order of the Stick. It was one of the first strips I started reading regularly and is still one of the first ones I check on update days. I've wanted to read the book 'On the Origins of the PCs' for quite some time now and thanks to Daku, I finally got my shot.
A down, but not defeated Midnight Cartooner here, joining you for yet another update of the only things that matter: webcomic news and video game lovin’. Webcomic Idol is FAR from over, so stay tuned for a detailed analysis of every strip still in-it-to-win-it. But for now, a few notes of a different competitive slant. Read on…
I LOVE Thanksgiving! It kills the site but I just can’t resist the food. Thanksgiving is especially good if your parents are divorced and they totally different cultures. The food was outstanding and I was so totally stuffed that I wasn’t able to eat again until Saturday at which point I went back for seconds. What kind of web comic celebrations for this of giving thanks did everyone come across? While you’re pondering that here is some news that’s just burning a hole on the bulletin board.
I won’t delay the inevitable; yes, the Webcomic Idol is the first and last thing on my mind this week (right after my impending nuptials, of course) and yes, I will be talking about it for the next few weeks. However, I will be talking about the process that I, as a contestant, am going through and, should I feel the need to talk about the quality of each strip, I will offer thoughts on ALL strips, not just one.
Why the clarification of how I want to feature the contestants? Well, it’s the opinion of some other pundits of the biz that the critiques of the strips involved in the contest should come in weekly, one-strip doses, leaving out the good/bad of the other strips and tossing a clear biased wrench into the works of the whole system. Nowhere in the rules does it state that anyone, even the judges, is denied the freedom to say what they want about any of the contestants. However, outside of pointing fingers before I know where to lay blame, all I can do is do what I feel is right and let others worry about their own motivations.
Disparaging outlooks aside, there have been some other things going down lately that are worth mentioning: Read on…
Digital Strips : Show 96 [9.34 MB] |
I was so excited to have Ryan agree to come on the show. The interview I gave him when he was in Thailand was my first solo for the site and who can forget the Welton/DS crossover? Well this time Ryan picks a strip to review and it’s one that has been in my queue waiting to talk about.
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For your pre-holiday pleasure, here are three webcomics that are sparse—no lengthy archives to wade through—but beautiful, all in different ways.
The Undertaker’s Daughter is drawn in a traditional style that certainly looks like ink on paper. The format is a vertical page in black and white, like a traditional comic book—from an earlier era. Artist Eric Palicki explains on his blog that he plans to do 12 episodes, each no more than four pages, with a new chapter going up at the end of each month. The first one is up, and it starts out moody but ends with a twist. I’m looking forward to seeing more of this.
Tokyopop is running a marathon of their print manga The Dreaming, putting a chapter a day online. This is a great boarding school horror story by Australian artist Queenie Chan. The art is beautiful and very suited to the subject matter; it reminds me of the ghost stories in the British girls’ comics I read as a kid. The story comes from an Australian legend about girls disappearing into the outback, but Queenie brings in a Victorian angle that allows for some great costume drama. This one is well worth a read.
Digital Strips : Show 95 [9.21 MB] |
We have another guest host for you. This time we have Phil’s arch rival Reva Sharp but don’t worry as she has picked a surprising refreshing strip. Normally the only journal comic I like is Devil’s Panties but if you manage your way through the archives you’ll find some of the best sarcasm and random life jokes I have had the pleasure to laugh at. Relax and listen to a show that finally comes in under 30 minutes. (Without the music that is) In this episode we talk about:
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It's really early in the morning where I am, well really early if you were up until 2:30 last night ' which I was. Any who, I saw that Scott Kurtz, the man behind PVP, will be hosting a live podcast tonight at 9 p.m. That's 8 for me, 10 for you on the East Coast and well you get the picture.