Webcomics Worth Looking At
Not a whole lot to this just wanted to talk about a few very good webcomics that ive encountered recently -
Firstly, the most political and most ‘mainstream’ of the webcomics that im reading - shooting war. This particular webcomic has received a lot of mainstream attention as the various testimonials on the opening page of the site shows.
And personally i feel its well deserved. Its a combination of satire (subtle, but its there) and science-fiction (done in the great tradition of using an imaginary future to comment on today). The setup is simple - the war in Iraq is still going on, America is still suffering the odd home terrorist attack and things are as bad if not worse than they are today. Into this we get ‘accidental correspondent’ Jimmy Burns and through him we get a glimpse into this future world.
The art on this is easy to follow, using a combination of computer imagery, line art and photos. The charchters are mostly fleshed out well and as the initial 9 chapters on the website are really on an intro there is much better to come I think.
The graphic novel edition of this comes out next year through Warner Books and I for one am looking forward to it.
The next webcomic I want to look at is my current favourite daily (or near enough) strip wally and osborne. Its a very traditional daily strip done in the style of Peanuts or Dilbert following two friends Wally and Osborne, two friends who just happen to be a Penguin and a Polar Bear. In Antartica.
While the strip itself is by no means complex or difficult it is extremly enjoyable, tapping into as it does into a pleasent, cheerful and all-ages vein. Despite this ‘all-ages’ is by no means an indication that you have to be young to enjoy it. Many of the strips are laugh-out-loud funny and the art-style and stories are often very clever.
Though lately the strip has not being keepin to its previously daily schedule its well worth a look. If you are going to take a look at the site I recommend here as its not in the middle of any ongoing story.
The final webcomic I want to talk about is the recently award-winning pvp. The least accessible of the strips that I have recommend so far, it is however very enjoyable once you familiarise yourself with the basic set-up. It follows the staff at a computer-gaming magazine PvP aka Player Vs. Player. However this set-up is really incidental. The strip is kind of inaccessible in the sense that it is very much based around the creator’s interests - namely comics and computer games. Given my own interests correspond roughly to this it makes the strip easily readable to me..
Id recommend here as a good a place as any to start, though if your realy interested id suggest going back two or three years in the archives as ther cast has expanded quite a bit even since ive been reading it.
Anyway let me know what you think of these if you read any.
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