When the print edition of TUNE by DEREK KIRK KIM comes out, check it out and buy buy buy. This is a great story that he’s only really begun and won’t be able to continue unless it actually sells. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF-POyZOjiE] Spread the word! Read the comic! Hoard some cash to buy the dead tree version!!!
Nate Piekos’ Realm of Atland ended this month and it’s a milestone worth noting. A funny, often gross, solid tale of adventure in a magical, tolkienesque land, Piekos updated this webcomic for 8 years, brining it to an open-ended but still satisfying ending. 2015 Update: Nate is making new Atland comics again. Click here to start with the new ones.
Alexander Danner wrote up a short review of Ryan Estrada’s The Whole Deal bundle of comic e-books sold on a pay what you want basis — inspired by the very successful Indie Bundle of independent video games. This seems like a pretty interesting thing to apply to comics and worth keeping an eye on.
Another year and another Comic Con International not attended. Don’t get me wrong I would have fun going — it’s just the opposite coast from me and a major amount of money and time I can’t justify or even carve out of my schedule. Mostly it’s the time; I might be able to convince Ms. X to go although it’s not really her thing, but the X girls are probably still too young for the whole thing. Dunno, maybe next year. In the meantime I’m still really pleased with Comic Rocket. I’ve used it as an excuse to reread a …
I’m late to getting to read Delilah Dirk and The Turkish Lieutenant, but I throughly enjoyed it. Two fully developed characters, some nice science fiction/fantasy elements and a great arc for Selim who despite second billing is really the protagonist of the piece.
The worst thing about Drive, the recent movie with Ryan Gosling is that now we can’t have Drive a hilarious space adventure movie based on the Dave Kellett webcomic. (Okay we can still have it but we’ll have to come up with a different title, like “My Mohawk Brings All The Boys To The Yard”) There’s something quintessentially sweet about a Dave Kellett comic — there’s sarcasm and sass but never too much. Rereading this one too — I loved the “wrap-up” of the first storyline:
I met Aaron Diaz at SPX way back when Dresden Codak was a relatively new webcomic, one that in my mind still looked heavily influenced by the dearly departed A Lesson Is Learned But the Damage Is Done. I bought a poster of the Atheist Heaven and Religious Hell comic from Aaron – which hangs next to a poster of ALILBTDID comic. But in rereading it all I forgot how far into it he was before he started the Hob storyline. Not that far in the grand scheme of things but far enough it seems like it wasn’t necessarily the direction …
Some webcomics I’m struck by how much a reread of a long stretch of archives — entire stories at a gulp — can change my perception of the project. Octopus Pie is one of those — I always liked it but I am not sure I got all of the characters the first read through. And then of course, it is much more reliant on story than it initially appeared to me the first time around. Meredeth Gran still chucks out four panel gags with the best of them but in Octopus Pie she is/was reaching for something more character-driven …
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