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People who've linked me (back) :        Merry Christmas! I've started on chapter Two now, and things seem to be going well. The storyline is basically plotted out - I'm fuzzy on many details, but then again, that's what makes comic-makinging stimulating... The latest news on the webcomics front: First, with a newly uploaded beginning chapter, The Wormworld Saga, by Daniel Lieske. I've had my eye on this one for a while, since hearing that he was making a webcomic detailing the story behind these two gorgeous art pieces. Next, Tailsteak has started a new comic, Leftover Soup, which updates regularly, has a huge buffer, and is pretty good so far. (I'm still holding on hope for his other comic "Band", though because, dammit, I want to know where that little Alien-thing comes from... ) Ow my Sanity is the kind of comic you get if you combine the Cthulhu mythos with the "Magical Girlfriend Harem" genre. I definitely approve, and enjoy watching the antics of definitely-doomed art student David Bartlett, as he tries to juggle an ever-increasing entourage of cosmic horrors incarnated as women. Updates 5 times a week, large pages, and has a respectable archive already. In Underling, we join teen genius and all-around slacker Lazarus, as he finds out precisely WHY it's a bad idea to assist demons in their plans to establish a portal linking Hell to Earth. And in the comicThink Before You Think, a girl must face the most intimidating guy ever - an actual, literal mind-reader. ...And then she develops a crush on him. The comic is pretty much a humiliation-conga for the poor girl - and this is something I find fascinating, because wile I normally hate that kind of thing, I'm able to read this one with barely a facepalm now and then. I think it's the lack of obvious moronic mistakes on the girl's part. Oh, and I noticed I hadn't linked A Girl and her Fed before, which is a bit odd, because describing the setup is a hoot. *Ahem* "In order to unravel a government conspiracy, a psychic journalist with ADD must team up with a cyborg FBI agent, a smack-talking Koala bear and the fairy-shaped ghost of Benjamin Franklin." It's recently started on Part 2, and its creator is also updating the early strips to match the high standard of the latest ones. Actually, I should do that with mine, they're pretty horrible... In other news, the next edition of the RPG "Nobilis" is coming out in a few months, and it's showing all signs of being utterly awesome. From the various spoilers, and prior knowledge of Nobilis 2, I can confidently state that it's got THE most fun character generation I've ever seen or even heard of. 100921 I'll start the second chapter of GA in a month or two. For now, here's the latest haul of webcomics I've discovered: Sandra and Woo Cool/funny series about a girl, her various friends, and a talking racoon. Reminds me a bit of Ozy and Millie, only a bit more mature. Ensign Sue Must Die!!! is a hilarious short comic, about 30 strips, about the reactions of the Star Trek cast to encountering the dreaded Mary Sue. God of Destruction Raphael leads the life of a normal teenager - until a well-connected conspiracy of crazed cultists declare him to be their reborn God. Problem is, they look to be right... Basic Instructions Funny and instructional comics, giving life advice mingled with snark and hilarity. Manly Guys doing Manly Things Buff time-traveller "Commander Badass" leads a posse/support group of unbelievably macho guys from games and movies, as they strive to somehow integrate into society. Wasted Talent is the continuing tale of an engineering student as she studies, graduates, and finds a job. Cute, quirky, and funny. A Magical Roommate What Aylia wanted was to go to a magical university and become a great wizardess. What she got was a minor university on newly discovered Earth, and instructions to keep her magical talents hidden. Hijinks ensue. Simplistic graphics, but nice, LONG story. I made some fanart for this one. Homestuck OMG, Homestuck. The epic scope. The musical score. The delicious trolling. The incomprehensive fetch modi. The Time-travel Shenanigans. The animations. The update schedule. OMG, the update schedule. How to put this... If you've ever enjoyed watching someone else play "Monkey Island" or similar RPG:s, you need to check this out. Also, this just in: Avallanath is a newly-started comic about a fantasy author who is forced to face his cliché creations, when wizards from his world, "Avallanath", magically grab an entire fantasy convention in their attempt to confront their cruel creator. 100223 I'll be doing comics focusing on my life for a while, probably until summer. I have roughly 40 strips on the theme, that have bounced around in my head for a while now. In other news: I now have a DeviantArt Account as well as a TvTropes Entry. Both languish in obscurity, but I persevere! Girls Next Door is a very amusing fancomic, starring Sarah from "Labyrinth" and her roomie Christine, from "Phantom of the Opera", living in a house with many other fictional characters. I consider DeviantArt to be an awkward place to read a comic, but in this case, it's worth it. Galaxion is a character-focused sci-fi comic that used to be in print at one time. The ship Galaxion and its crew is sent to test a new experimental stardrive - ending up in a strange place. Lots of flashbacks lets us get to know the cast better. Spacetrawler a newly-started funny sci-fi comic by Chris Baldwin, the creator of Bruno and Little Dee. Six people are abducted from Earth - to become its representatives in the galactic senate. Lumia's Kingdom A young woman is suddenly presented with Queenhood of a magical kingdom she never heard of. This comic's cast includes nudist royalty, psychotic seamstresses, libidinous squid women, overly sensitive bird people, and other odd folk... The style and general mood remind me a bit of "Thieves and Kings". The Meek is an intriguing low-fantasy epic. I've read the first three chapters on the author's livejournal, in sketch form, and am looking forward to seeing how it all turns out - though it'll take years... Note: Some NSFW nudity warning in the first chapter. Keychain of Creation is a comic based on "Exalted", an RPG I have no experience of. Still, it's managed to catch my interest. Another Gaming Comic is, yes, another gaming comic - about a dysfunctional gang of characters, the various RPG:s they run, and the ways they ruin their DM's day. The art is one step above clipart, and they discuss game mechanics and exploits a lot - sometimes for NON-EXISTING games. But yeah, I dig it. Good jokes, good plot, intriguing personalities; that's all I need. And that Matrix-parody RPG sounded pretty cool... Atomic Laundromat: When supervillains and superheroes wrestle in toxic waste, who cleans their suits afterwards? That's right. these guys do. 080919 Webcomics news: Chasing the Sunset reached 500 strips today. Very nice humouristic comic about two young elves wandering the world along with an equally young dragon; best read in large chunks so you get the back-references. Minus has ended, on a weird and whimsical note. So has Casey and Andy. It shall be missed. On the other hand, Sea of Insanity - one of my favourite webcomics - has finally started updating again. Yay! Newfound strips: Subnormality: Text-rich funny one-shot strips. Nobody Scores!: Continuity-defying over-the-top absurdist satire, with characters who end up dead or locked up in something like half of the episodes. Afterlife Blues: The next project by the makers of Miracle of Science, it hasn't caught my fancy yet, but I'm giving it time. Good Ship Chronicles: Humorous well-drawn sci-fi comic about a dysfunctional ship crew, filmed for a TV documentary. The author has left stories unfinished in the past, but I'm crossing my thumbs for this one. Knowledge is Power and Dumnestor's Heroes, both by Irony-chan, creator of Get Medieval. (Where does she get her energy, anyway? Because I could need a resupply, myself...) The first story is a well-made mon-wed-fri-strip about some students who are granted super-powers. It's my favourite of the two, but Dumnestor's Heroes, a five-day-a-week RPG-session-as-comic, gets a bonus for the friendly Necromancer (though I was first with the concept, so there ;) ) and for several other just-right original touches that raise the comic above the standard. 071210 I've been working on another secret project recently, part of why I'm late with my comics. Trying to make a web 2.0-style concept I came up with into reality. ...I don't suppose any of you readers happen to be web-programming geniuses? Probably could use a bit of help with this one. 070101 Narbonic, one of my long-time favourites, has ended. ...It feels weird somehow, NOT reading it first thing in the morning anymore. Also, A Miracle of Science is in its epilogue phase, and will probably end any week now. With Casey and Andy still in hiatus, this means my Mad Science intake will become SERIOUSLY impaired. I don't think I could make it, were it not for Girl Genius. 061029 What's happened since last update? Quite a lot. Gods of Aar-Kelaan came out of reruns. Elf Only Inn ended its hiatus. Cheshire Crossing updated with a new chapter. NeverNever got a new artist. The archives of Killroy and Tina became free to read again. So did those of FANS! New comics discovered recently: GM of the Rings, a story about what would've happened if LotR had been a D&D campaign. Minus, a quirky and cute tale of a little girl possessing godlike powers. In other news, I'm really starting to like YouTube, which is providing me with stuff I remember from my childhood, as well as new interesting TV shows I'm too lazy to catch on Nickelodeon. I quite enjoy Avatar; it's surprisingly good stuff - I might even turn on the TV one of these days. 060623 Finally gathered enough new stuff for an update: The Dreamland Chronicles As a child, Alex regularly visited a magic dreamland nightly - until the dreams suddenly stopped. Now, 20 years old, he gets to resume those visits by mystical means - and he finds his old friends there are similarly grown up. Beautiful CGI comic, crossing over to webcomics from print. Thunderstruck One stormy evening, a wheelchair-bound girl with declining health gets struck by lightning. This is, of course, a good thing. However, her life does become rather more complicated after this. Good urban fantasy comic, reminds me a bit of early Clan of the Cats. Partially Clips Funny one-shot strips, threading the line between one-panel and three-panel gag; the image is the same for the panels of each strip, but speech bubbles differ. Can be quite amusing. Casey and Andy is currently on its final storyline. However, the author has unveiled a new comic: Cheshire Crossing. Alice (Alice in Wonderland), Dorothy (The Wizard of Oz) and Wendy (Peter Pan) get together and compare stories. From what I've heard, this is not quite as original an idea as it would seem at first glance. However, there is certainly room for another interpretation, especially since the tales seem to differ markedly in genre. Also, Andy Weir put in Mary Poppins in his comic, too. That's practically perfect in every way! AND HEY, CHECK THIS OUT: The Narbonic archives is free to browse once more! Now I can finally stop right-click-and-saving it six times a week. On the other hand, I'm currently occupied with storing the archive of Goblins... Also, I hear Pewfell is free again, too. I've got to get around to reading it one of these days. 060220 My internet access will be spotty this next week, so I put up the unfinished strips in the meantime. In other news, welcome to those people coming here via the recent comment on my comic, which Reinder Dijkhuis posted over at the snarcoleptics community. 060214 I've finally updated my Link List! (So far only the version without banners, though.) Also, another update on the Webcomic World: Angel Moxie is finishing up - oh, and it's got a theme song now. Dragon Tails is updating once again, now with a video-game spoof storyline. Avalon also shows signs of life. I just noticed that Rogues of Cwlyd-Rhan made it's archives available to the public again. Good for me - I think it's more suitable for reading in large chunks than day-by-day, anyway. Oh, and reruns of early strips? I like that too. The Angst Technology comic archive seems to work once again. Girl Genius now have both my favourite scenes from volume 2 online: The Falling Machine Episode ("several pages) and the "keelink everybody plan is no goot" scene. Among new comics, I've found Goblins, a riveting story of some poor monsters who try their best to live peaceful lives, and not get killed by adventurers. Also be sure to check out Get Medieval, a seven-days-a-week comic centering on a family of galactic fugitives who get stranded on medieval Earth. 050823 Anyhow, what's happened in the webcomics world since last I posted? Lessee... Sea of Insanity is updating again; the author is back from her year in Japan. Great comic, in case you haven't read it yet. And speaking of Japan, Tsunami channel also seems to be reemerging from its hiatus. Girl Genius, one of the few comics I read outside the web, is moving to the internet, one strip at a time: at this point, the first volume is almost fully uploaded. Mad scientists, steam-driven robots - this comic is too good too miss. Compensating for this good news, Reman Mythology seems to be moving out of the web. Gossamer Commons is shaping up to be a good urban fantasy strip, about a struggling writer who rescues a fairy, and the not wholly nice consequences that follow. The author also has a blog commenting comics, web and otherwise, which has gained popularity of late. I myself have become a regular reader. Vexxarr deals with the subject of alien invasion from a humorous perspective, positing that aliens are rather incompentent (which is a reasonable hypothesis to why they aren't freaking here yet, I must sadly agree). Oh yeah, and my secret project is finished and was uploaded to the 'net a month or so ago. ... What, you want a link? That would defeat the "secret" part, now wouldn't it? Come on, I've certainly given enough hints. OK, subtle hints, but still... Anyway, those of you who nostalgic enough to care, probably know already. 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