It's like Digger crossed with Paranatural. I rather like it.
I also found another comic. It stars a cool frog-girl who's an agent of the crown. Only ten pages so far, but the at's fantastic and the action's excellent.
this also means I know two comics with one-armed swordsanimals as main characters now.
"Angels can build themselves bodies, but it's not very kosher, and kosher is built into their being. Thorn Knights are the result of Angels getting a little 'DIY', and I think it's pretty apparent how that turns out.
This will be a little more apparent when we meet their leader in like 5 pages and he rides in on a motorcycle made of skeletons."
I need to finish catching up on K6BD so I can be there when this happens.
June 3rd, 2015:I really liked Wondermark's A Softer World Tribute and it made me realize: hey, now that A Softer World has ended, their format is UP FOR GRABS. I wrote some words about it ending last week that you might enjoy if you missed them. If you didn't, you might enjoy them anyway, but maybe a little less now that you know what happens!!
Hahaha, Demon though. After just a montage of pure hedonism and general asshattery, it turns out that
Spoiler:
his archenemy from 300 years ago is somehow still alive, set a trap for him by manufacturing impossibly pure cocaine, apparently knowing that would lead him straight to him...and having lured him into this trap, proceeds to just run at him and throw a punch.
All of which arguably makes even less sense in context.
I remember when I first delved into the comic that I really liked Joyce. Growing up in a Christian, sliiiightly fundamentalist household, I sympathized with her constant out-of-touchness and increasingly grudging adherence to her family traditions. And I was surprised when a review called her horribly written, because she seemed pretty realistic to me.
But then I saw a strip from one of Willis's earlier comics,a fairly powerful one where Joyce is outside arguing with God, and I realized that we don't really see a lot of that from DoA. I mean, a lot of Christianity is the trappings of it. The limits on media. The sappy language. The weird attitudes towards sex. And DoA gets that bit. But it also misses the parts of the Christian experience that make it worthwhile as a religion rather than just a culture or a philsoophy. We don't see Joyce pray. We don't see Joyce studying the Bible, aside from the bit where she's trying reassess the Bible's stance on gay marriage. We've seen her go to church, but she picks it based on the band alone (and yes, that is a factor, but it can't be the only factor!) and out of the two times she's gone, maybe two strips are spent on how she actually feels about going to church rather than making jokes, usually at her expense. And where in blazes are her Christian friends? I'm one of the most introverted Christians I know at college, and I still found a group of Christians to hang out with by the third week. And that's something you're supposed to have as a Christian; that's part of why the institution of a church is so important: to allow you to keep in contact with other Christians so that you can keep each other on the level, like a safety net. Long story short, I feel like she's presented as fervorous in her Christianity, but that kind of fervor comes with devotion, and she isn't shown with enough devotion to back it up, I guess? It's weird to have her dramatically spout Bible verses to defend her best friend without her doing any Bible reading at any point.
Yes, I know, not all Christians do this sort of thing, and I'll admit my views about Christianity may not be the same as Joyce's congregation's, but Joyce is supposed to be the one well-rounded element of fundamentalist Christianity. Of the remaining ones, Billie's Christianity borders on nominal and nominal alone, Joyce's parents are something out of a fedoratheist's nightmare, and Becky's, well, Becky. So if you want a Christian in DoA who's sympathetic and more than nominal, Joyce is all you've got. And what we've got is, essentially, an expanded Hollywood version. More sympathetic than the average, but not fully fleshed out.
It's still probably the best depiction of a fundamentalist in a webcomic today. Joyce is still a decent 'fish out of water learns to breath' character. And I trust Willis to do a better job with this than, say, Jacques. But it does feel like Willis is skimping out on making Joyce well-rounded. Which is sad because from what I've heard of pre-DOA Joyce, he's totally capable of doing so.
The whole bit with the Hymnal show reminds me a lot of the ramshackle Christian films that my friends watch (and often make fun of) after divine service and the cartoons that ran on TV before church that were a decade old 15 years ago.
It did get a bit much with the soundtrack to the last party
Dr McNinja's ending, Homestuck's ending, Schlock Mercenary's ending, Sam and Fuzzy's ending. And ASW and Gunshow and Brawl in the Family are already out.
Homestuck's been ending for years though, maybe it'll go on ending for a long time.
Seeing "The End" as the title of the newest McNinja story shook me though. I could tell it was building up to something, I just didn't think it was, well, the end.
I didn't know Schlock was ending though, maybe I'll catch up on it.
While we're recommending comics that are still in the full flush of their youth, I recommend Monster Pulse (which is sort of like Animorphs if instead of morphing they rebelled with 'mons...made out of their own organs) and Widdershins (Victorian wizards and bounty hunters and SIN).
I wouldn't be surprised if Gunnerkrigg wasn't working up to...well, not ending, but certainly a climax of some sort. Especially with Mr. Game Changer coming in two chapters ago.
And Schlock Mercenary isn't ending soon-soon. I'm almost certain that this isn't the last book, and Taylor's books go on forever. Delegates and Delegations was short because it was just a year long.
Still, the last chapter tied up most of the loose ends that have been hanging around the series, including one that's been waggling in the wind since the first book. And like I said, at this point they're high-level DnD players looking for gods to kill. And there's only one left for slaying.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
and I checked the news update on the site and apparently it's been almost over for a month now...
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
This will be a little more apparent when we meet their leader in like 5 pages and he rides in on a motorcycle made of skeletons."
I need to finish catching up on K6BD so I can be there when this happens.
Someone also pointed out that he'd mentioned the bio organic motorcycles on his tumblr or something, but skeletons hadn't been specified.
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
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
All of which arguably makes even less sense in context.
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
Seeing "The End" as the title of the newest McNinja story shook me though. I could tell it was building up to something, I just didn't think it was, well, the end.
I didn't know Schlock was ending though, maybe I'll catch up on it.
Back still seems to be in its early stages and probably has a way to go yet
While we're recommending comics that are still in the full flush of their youth, I recommend Monster Pulse (which is sort of like Animorphs if instead of morphing they rebelled with 'mons...made out of their own organs) and Widdershins (Victorian wizards and bounty hunters and SIN).
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