You, reading this right now. Go back one page and read Sredni Vashtar's post about Evan Dahm. It's too good to languish in obscurity at the bottom of the page.
Everybody should be reading Evan Dahm's Overside stories. Rice Boy is a great introduction, and it's the first that he wrote, but in terms of art and world-building I think it just keeps getting better from there. His early style is wonderfully simple and strange, but the way his later work combines such quirky, whimsical designs with really loving detail is nothing short of breathtaking.
It's just such a beautiful world that he's made. I kind of want to live in it, but I think that I would be a little afraid that I would end up executed by frog-zealots or kidnapped by bird-assassins.
Which is to say that I love this to death.
Saving this from the page-bottom for your convenience.
Also, Dahm illustrated the comic "Fetch Quest" for Paradox Space, which is a delight in itself; he has also done collaborative work with Becky from Tiny Kitten Teeth involving mediaeval bestiaries and iconography. If these are not selling points, then you and I have very different tastes.
I really like all of the major characters, the story is really interesting and sophisticated, the art is excellent, and the world continues to surprise me. If you have not started reading Dahm's Overside stories yet, Rice Boy might be the place to start, but Vattu is the best yet, and you really should pencil it in.
Ava's Demon is interesting, but getting a bead on some of the characters is harder than it would be were it slower. I do feel for Ava, though. Her situation is pretty lame, to say the least, and I don't blame her for jumping onto that spaceship with Stalker Dude.
Broodhollow, the horror comic by Kris Straub, just ended its second book, and it's not picking up until early 2015 sometime. So if you haven't been reading it, now's a good time to start.
It has cute bats AND horrible fates, what more could one want.
Have I talked about Strong Female Protagonist here yet? Great comic, not a Beaton-esque parody despite the name--more like Watchmen: The College Years with a few really good twists. I'm mostly just posting about it now because today's features the best logo ever.
Holy crap, Jason Shiga is doing a serially-updating webcomic.
Holy crap, one of his newsposts said that chapter 5 is going to be the most depraved thing he's ever put to paper.
He uh...he wasn't kidding about that, either. The first time I read the page where Hunter sees what happened in the jail I somehow missed that every single other cell block had a suicide, and that's not even the depraved part.
Broodhollow, the horror comic by Kris Straub, just ended its second book, and it's not picking up until early 2015 sometime. So if you haven't been reading it, now's a good time to start.
It has cute bats AND horrible fates, what more could one want.
I started reading based on this post, and even though I'm not too far in, I'm definitely hooked just by the cute bats. It seems like a fun comic. Well, fun and horrible (in the best sort of way).
And Apothecia just ended (for real, this time). If you want a short (<100 pages) horror-sci-fi morality tale with gorgeous art and some really great alien turns of phrase, give it a shot.
So, Abby Howard, who I recently mentioned in the main thread, is doing an ongoing comic called The Last Halloween. It's about a girl named Mona and how she's involuntarily roped into saving the world from an army of human-eating monsters. One that's already begun wiping out mankind in droves.
It is...graphic, especially in the first few chapters where everything's going to seed, but even the gory stuff just shows off how good Howard is at art. And Mona is so disarmingly realistic about having to save the world, an entertaining trait that I haven't seen since Vernon's digger.
Anyways, found another comic after finishing the gauntlet that was this week. It's called Helvetica! It's about cute skeleton people with their skeleton problems.
It only has 10 minutes of reading material right now, but if you want to see cute skull people, it's up your alley
Comments
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Man, this just keeps getting more and more melancholic.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I can't read any of his work without thinking about the one time he decided I was a fundamentalist Christian because I don't get cosplay.
But he took that to mean that I like hate cosplayers or something, idk.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
this is the best fucking comic
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
it's good