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I'd stopped reading PvP, but John Solomon posted this link on Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad and like a fool, I followed it. Sad, really. Like seeing that funny uncle you remember as a kid later in life as a vomit-encrusted drunk.
I've been trimming some webcomics from the daily-or-whenever-they-update reading list lately. I'm done with:
PVP - at some point I realized that all the characters except Skull and a couple of minor ones were jerks, and I didn't really care what they were doing.
Arthur, King of Time and Space - The art was already on the low side of primitive, but lately he's been doing a bunch of them in an even more primitive style where the characters are just geometric shapes--the conceit is that this is the style that Arthur-the-webcartoonist uses. The fact is that Arthur-the-webcartoonist is a lazy hack, and Paul Gadzikowski becomes one whenever he posts another of these strips.**
8-bit Theater - was one of the first webcomics I started reading, and is probably still the best and most ambitious sprite-comic...but the funny left the building long ago.
Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad is a funny, foul-mouthed blog that absolutely savages the worst in webcomics. It is pitiless and mean-spirited, and the webcomics it attacks are utterly deserving of the ill-treatment it dishes out.
Be warned, it's not for the faint-of-heart, both in terms of the language it uses and just how sickeningly bad some of the comics it links to are (and not in a hyperbolic, oh, I get the vapors looking at bad art kind of way, but a that is disgustingly vile, racist, hateful I wish I hadn't seen it kind of way). And it's funny.
A second caveat is that it's become a group blog, with other pseudonymous authors besides the original John Solomon...and they (Mike Saul and Lilith Esther so far, but who knows how many more they'll add) don't have his talent for invective.
A birthday present from Jeff, this volume features the founding of the 70's Marvel super-team: the Defenders, originally an "un-team" consisting of Dr. Strange, The Silver Surfer, The Hulk, and The Sub-Mariner, who would briefly band together to fight some world-threatening menace before once again going their lonely separate ways. The first stories are scattered among the various titles the heroes appeared in, plus Marvel Feature, before they were actually given a book of their own.
What's truly remarkable about this is just what a god-awful writer Roy Thomas was. My rose-colored nostalgia glasses don't kick in until well into the series, so it was something of a shock to me to find it nearly unreadable--a wince-inducing mix of bombastic dialog, narration that seems to assume that the art will be indecipherable, and stunningly incoherent plot. The plotting nadir, though, was was probably reached in Marvel Feature Presents: The Defenders #1 (the sixth tale in the book), which really does make me wonder whether Thomas was drunk or stoned when he penned it. Let me try to convey the truly mind-boggling stupidity of this tale...
had a hankering to work on a Marvel or DC comic? Well, now you can scratch your itch to create comics by committee by participating in Infinity on 30 Credits a Day, David Morgan-Mar's new project. You sign up on the website, indicating which tasks you're willing to lend a hand with (plot, dialog, art, website coding, etc) and then as they come up DMM picks a handful of people (starting with ones who haven't contributed yet) from the list for that type of task and they all make their short contribution (e.g. 200 words to describe a scene, or a character design) and the participants in the project vote for their favorite in order of preference. The winning entry becomes official.
So far, the decisions have been made on:
Genre: SF
Title: Infinity on 30 Credits a Day
Logo: (see the site)
Collective Name for the Participants: The Infinite Monkeys
Core Cast: Daisy Hoshino, Jimmers, and Jake Starr (see the site for descriptions)
and voting is currently under weigh for the character references sketches for the core cast, favorites icon, and prose description of the opening scene.
I've got a space on ComicSpace (more or less MySpace for comics fans and creators). I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to use it for...eventually they plan on letting you host comics, list your favorites, and various other things, but right now it just lets you make a public profile and set up a network of friends. So far I've rediscovered several online friends that I'd lost touch with, so it's been well worth it for that alone. Come on along and make a (free) space, and invite me to be your friend.
You can follow the link to see all the comics that I track...
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