Usually, the Comixpedia waits at least a year to review a webcomic. It’s only fair, since most creators are still developing their voices in the first 6 months and figuring out what they can do with a pen and ink or Photoshop. If you were to judge some of your current favorite comics solely by their first offering, you might never have kept reading.
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Dungeons and Dragons is a great game and a terrific innovation on war games, but it has a dark side. First there was that Tom Hanks movie. Then the game spawned a whole category of fiction that is no less than a crime against humanity.
As you may have noticed, the Comixpedia theme this month is "the death of newspaper comics", or webcomics that fall into a typical newspaper format. A Softer World represents one alternative to that whole subspecies of webcomics, since it represents everything a newspaper comic usually is not: subtle, understated and witty.
Also, it’s not drawn.
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In an arena that’s crowded with elaborate Sci-Fi themes, baroque fantasy themes and byzantine plots, it’s refreshing to note that one of the best comics on the Web features two main characters who don’t even have arms.
The main characters of Steven Cloud’s Boy on a Stick and Slither are a sort of coalition of the limbless. Boy is either a multiple amputee or a sentient Pez dispenser, and Slither is a snake. In a boxing match, they’re on equal footing.
The fact that neither protagonist can wear a wrist watch is mostly irrelevant to the strip, though, as they’re essentially icons or stand-ins for any two people. They look like doodles from the corner of a Physics notebook, and conceptually, they’re the same. They’re symbols, really, and their visual representations are irrelevant, except as fodder for a self-aware gag or two.
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