It’s the beginning of a brand new day, and brand new weekend and still – philosophically – a brand new year and what better way to celebrate than with two brand new – to you – strips? This month on Horizons Watch we do another spectrum spanner. Jason’s pick was Loldwell by H Caldwell Tanner, [...]
15
Jan
Digital Strips 182 – Horizons Watch Loldwell and My Milk Toof
Posted by The Geek in 2010
Published in Podcasts, Reviews
21
Dec
Digital Strips 179 – Review: Finder’s Keepers
Posted by The Geek in 2009
Published in Podcasts, Reviews
There is a genre of web comics that I seem to forget about and rediscover every couple of months. Fantasy web comics are everywhere on the Internet. Seriously the only thing I think you can find more sites dedicated to are cameras pointed at lonely singles. And yet some how, I keep forgetting that they’re [...]
11
Dec
Alrighty faithful listeners, things are back to normal here at Digital Strips Central. I’m back in the saddle ready to review some comics. After almost a month off, i was pretty pissed off and ready to vent my frustrations at the nearest comic with bug-eyed characters I could find. The comic that fit the bill [...]
24
Nov
OK boys and girls. A few of you may remember way back in our last show I said that I would disappear for a while because of my wife having a baby. I said this way back then because it was a week before the due date and people had told us stories about babies [...]
There are few names more evocative of rock and roll than Tommy. It is fitting that the penwrite of Road Crew, at least shares the sound of that magical name. The Road Crew follows the unheralded members of music with jokes that are leaden and panels that are pointedly, not child-friendly. It is difficult to gauge the authenticity of the strip from my position behind a type-writer but it certainly feels accurate. Brooding with sophomoric permanence. Dark, interspersed with naked vixens. Opinionated, staunchly against singing drummers (applause). Full of music knowledge and no care for spelling. Characters that look foreign and strung out on… well everything one could be strung out on. In short, authentic to my visage of the rock and roll industry.
Getting these new comics can be such a joy. The biggest problem these kiddies have is a lack of staying power. They come out of the gate strong with some beautiful strips but then 30 strips in you have no idea what is going on or why this strip was created. Gag and journal strips are particularly victim to this problem because story arcs are not prevalent and people feel they need to funny all the time.
4
Nov
Review ~OF~ Evil Inc. Vols 1 and 2
Posted by midnightcartooner in 2009
Published in Reviews, Web Comics in Print
Evil Inc. is one of those strips that I always wanted to get into. A ridiculously long Google Reader’s worth of webcomics always drove me away from it’s daunting archives and rich, deep cast of characters. When March’s Webcomics Weekend provided me with not only the chance to jump on board the good ship Evil but also to meet The Nicest Guy In Webcomics in person, I dove head first at both opportunities. That, plus Steve, a long-time Guigar supporter, noted that if I didn’t meet the man himself, I would be missing out on meeting a true webcomic luminary. Good call, Steve.
It broke my heart a little to get home and find that Evil Inc. Annual Report: Volume 1 had suffered some damage to its cover, but luckily the stories and artist’s sketch on the inside cover had survived intact. Having finally observed for myself the warmth and silliness that is Brad Guigar, I was ready to begin my journey into the world of Evil Inc. And, just as I assumed, this creation of pithy puns and average superheroes in a modern workplace turned out to be right up my alley.
1
Nov
Digital Strips 176 – Review: Edmund Finney’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Life
Posted by The Geek in 2009
Published in Podcasts, Reviews
Wow, that’s a bugger-long name. However it does tell you what the comic is about, which is handy. This episode we take a look at Edmund Finney’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Life by D. Long. The strip does something very few strips do by having a constantly changing class and Jason and I [...]
The flow of suggestions for reviewing is pretty much constant. Some times it’s as high as one per day so you can imagine how many I have in the backlog. What many don’t realize is we don’t interview just any strip out there. Typically Midnight and The Geek pick one they’ve already been reading and like. That doesn’t mean they can’t read through a suggestion and put it on the show, but that’s some of the more rare circumstances.
24
Oct
We’re trying something new this time around. It’s been a year since we started our (mostly) monthly look at new comics just peeking over the Horizon, so Jason thought it would be a good idea to go back and play a little “Where are they now?” We’ve gone back and reread the strips featured in [...]
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