Eric Burns’ Gossamer Commons

Xerexes here. There’s been a lot of interesting and talented people I’ve gotten to meet via this labor of love called Comixpedia. None more talented at turning a phrase then Eric Burns.

Gossamer Commons, the webcomic Burns has been talking about at his blog, Websnark, has its first installment up today. Burns does the writing and Greg Holkan handles the art.

First impressions? A nice, clean approach to the art and lots of subtle scenario-setting in the dialogue with a few solid bits of funny. The apparent central character is a writer. Surprisingly, that’s not a common occupation in webcomics, but one that I think will be interesting to explore. This central character also has a mother not unlike my own and boy is today’s phone call dialogue pitch-perfect. For a debut episode, GC does about everything you’d want to get things going.

And uh, I have no biscuits on me – how about a junior mint? Burns and Holkan each get a sugary, minty junior mint. (How’s that for a semi-snark?) Continue Reading

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March Issue Week 3 Online

Issue 26 of Comixpedia wraps up with comics, reviews and an interview. First off the debut of a new ongoing webcomic at Comixpedia from Kristofer Straub titled Modern Humor Authority and of course the third installment of Ping Teo’s The Essence Of…. We have short reviews of two webcomics this month – Man-Man and Sarah Zero. Finally we have an interview with Graveyard Greg of Gaming Guardian.

Next month will focus on women in webcomics with a cover from Faith Erin Hicks. Continue Reading

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Two Reviews in One: Man-Man and Sarah Zero

It’s short attention span review theater this week with two short reviews – Justin tackles Man Man by Matt Shepherd and James Duncan and George tackles Sarah Zero by Ace Plughead.

It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World

Man-Man, created by James Duncan and Matthew Shepard is a…different kind of superhero webcomic. It is a parody of the typical superhero genre, and of itself as well. Man-Man does not take itself seriously, which is one of its greatest strengths.
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