New Comics, Part 1
I've added some new comics to my reading schedule as well my links list, and I thought I'd share. Because it's my blog, damn it.
Bad Gods: Lore Sjöberg is a venerable Internet humorist, inspiring belly laughs as one of the Brunching Shuttlecocks, as the creator of Table of Malcontents, and as the author of the Alt Text blog for Wired. Bad Gods started as a weekly Flash animation, went dormant for awhile, and recently resurfaced as a non-animated meta Internet observational humor sort of thing. I'm not quite sure where this new incarnation is going, but I've kept it in my RSS reader despite a year-long dearth of updates. Lore is the kind of funny I aspire to, before I devolve into fart jokes and incessant profanity. Updates M&W.
Gunnerkrigg Court: Gunnerkrigg Court concerns the supernatural goings-on at the spooky titular boarding school. It has a very graphic novel kind of feel, with interesting panel layouts and a rich color palette. Author/artist Tom Siddell writes convincing dialog for children, which is rare. Better yet, he knows when it's appropriate to drop the "blah blah" and let the visuals tell the story, which is nearly unheard of in a lot of online cartooning. The serialized story isn't comedy necessarily, but it does observe richly emotional and comic moments between the players (human and otherwise). Updates M,W&F.
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