Author: Xaviar Xerexes

I helped create Comixpedia and ComixTalk. Currently working on finishing a lot of unfinished comics and novels.
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Bad Machinery: Case #1

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I just reread the very first “case” of John Allison’s Bad Machinery (which lasts until comic number 108).  Kind of a revelation actually — reading the whole thing from start to finish at once makes such a better experience than I remembered the initial serialization.  I liked this a lot — it totally clicked for me that this is also something my kids would really like as well. I remember being mostly confused the first time I read it and not keeping close enough track of the plot to feel much satisfaction at the conclusion of the mystery.  I also paid too …

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Yeah Put ‘Em Up, Boss

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Kate Beaton is known for lovingly mocking history in her webcomic Hark A Vagrant, but I think most fans appreciate the pop culture blasts too.  I’m not sure her current website archives is actually the exact order she posted things to the web but this is the first appearance of her surly, sarcastic Wonder Woman and already it’s pretty close to the definite Beaton take on this character.

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Kukuburi by Ramon Perez

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Another great serialized story webcomic is Kukuburi by Ramon Perez.  Funny, I’ve gravitated to three webcomics from the Transmission X collective, but not surprising as the quality of work from that group of creators is consistently strong. Kukuburi is even more impressive for the attention to full color that Perez gives it.  It’s weird too but it has a dreamlike quality that’s more Dr. Seuss than David Lynch.  Perez has created a very likable main character in Nadia.  When she’s the center of attention, the story has been compelling.  When she’s not it feels a little less interesting to me, …

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Milestones: Starslip by Kris Straub

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Seven years of science fiction wrapped up (for now!) with the last installment of Kris Straub’s Starslip.  That’s one I’d like to sit down an read the whole thing again.  I have been less than diligent in keeping up with it in the latter half of its run, but that had more to do with constraints on my time than any perceived diminishment of its entertainment value.

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Bookmark: Sin Titulo

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Sin Titulo by Cameron Stewart is a fever dream of a webcomic.  It’s a perfectly disturbing downward spiral for the main character, Alex, who finds a photograph of his recently deceased grandfather with a young woman he doesn’t’ recognize.  Alex doesn’t realize it at first, but in looking for this woman he pulls at a thread that leads to unraveling his entire life. Stewart is updating it again after a hiatus and it has entered a new phase of the story.  The main character has seemingly jumped over to an alternate world that he had been having recurring flashes of …