Reviews

Ku-2 is a weekly comic strip that looks very professional and unique at a first glance. The site design is sharp, the Blambot-based fonts are crisp and cool, and the navigation bar does that spiffy highlighting thing. Then, when you start reading the comic, you wonder where all the professionalism went? It’s obvious that Logan DeAngelis puts a lot of work into Ku-2, but the effort might be better spent fixing plot holes and basic artistic inconsistencies.

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For over three years, Chris Morrison has been regularly producing Polymer City Chronicles, a science fiction-based humor comic. Shockingly, it’s not a Star Trek knock-off.

For over three years, Chris Morrison has been regularly producing Polymer City Chronicles, a science fiction-based humor comic. Shockingly, it’s not a Star Trek knock-off.

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When reading a webcomic, one usually hopes to be amused, drawn into the story or, on a good day, both. Outside of the occasional sketchbook tutorial, getting an education is typically low — if even present — on the list of webcomic reader expectations. You certainly don't count on learning about the difference between canine and feline tracks, or how to interpret the events behind said identified tracks… but that is exactly the kind of education that creator Clint Hollingsworth manages to offer in The Wandering Ones, in addition to telling a pretty damn good story.

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The great Yin/Yang of comics is Art and Story. Can a comic have one without the other and still be considered a quality comic? If a perfect balance between the two cannot be achieved, can the lesser factor at least refrain from becoming a hindrance to the comic? This is a delicate operation, one that may require extra work on the part of the creator to pull off. Cascadia, created by Clio Chiang, has pretty artwork, but zen or no, her writing could use a bit of direction. Continue Reading →

Roxy Liao’s ProxyRoxy is not your typical webcomic. In fact, she’s not even trying to create a comic at all. Through funny, cute, strange, and occasionally impenetrable sketches, she illustrates her daily blog and illuminates her mood in ways that words could never capture.

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Webcomics are the result of the adaptation of an established art form to a new environment, which allowed the comic strip to develop in a manner and direction that had been previously unimaginable, and the diary comic is one example of this new form that would be impossible without the Internet. The immediacy of web publishing allows a creator to draw a comic now, post it to the Internet within a scant few minutes, and get comments upon it almost instantaneously. The diary comic, by presenting a snapshot of the creator’s day, is about as immediate as you can get.

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Woe, the eternal struggle, the painful decision that will color a reader’s perception of a given webcomic forever… but a decision that nevertheless must be made: does one start with the cast page or the archives?

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Imitation of Life is a journal comic that acts as a blog, or, a web log for those of you not up on the lingo. It chronicles the day-to-day events in the life of its writer and artist Neil (who never gives his last name on the site), as he struggles to cope with the hardships of law school in Pittsburgh, PA. Sometimes metaphorical, sometimes gruesome and introspective, Imitation gives the reader a look into one man’s life that is, in all accounts, real.

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Kean Soo‘s journal comic, hosted on his own site (Keaner.net), is one of the more recent additions to the webcomic world. Started at the turn of the new year, and updated in blocks of two or three ‘daily’ comics at a time (i.e., he draws daily comics, but only updates in batches), it provides the reader with a glimpse into Soo’s life and thoughts, while trying to make us laugh a little along the way. Continue Reading →