Thursday, May 2, 2024

Web Comics

 Keeping this one pretty short, if only because I want to spend my writing time working on Goblins. So, here's a few webcomics I enjoy! 

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Purple Hyacinth is pretty good. Cop vs assassin romance. Very attractive people doing crime stuff. Great sense of humor, compelling story. I'm just hoping this one finishes, been a while since it posted.

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint is badass. "Dokja was an average office worker whose sole interest was reading his favorite web novel 'Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse.' But when the novel suddenly becomes reality, he is the only person who knows how the world will end." It's way more exciting than that, but yeah, the meta-narrative about living through a fated story is quite excellent honestly, for the anime sensibilities here.

Kill Six Billion Demons is like what if Moebius made a comic about hell, but still maintained that sense of wonder that Moebius could sometimes provoke.

Here, for instance, is the Bus.


Lovely.

And here's Stand Still, Stay Silent. The About page for the comic does more that I can to sell it: https://sssscomic.com/?id=about

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Not an exhaustive list, or even my favorites, but I enjoyed them, and they're all ongoing.

Honorable mention, this one has some controversy tied to it, but its relevant given that its: Goblins! I'm no expert on internet controversies, but from what I understand, the webcomic includes a character who is assaulted. The character in question and the storyline involved were mirrors of the real-world trauma that the author's mother went through and were written into the webcomic with the mom's permission, but readers didn't know that at the time and thought the author may have been trivializing rape as a plot device. This happens in stories, and it's inappropriate when it happens, but having read it myself I don't believe the author was being problematic here.
Still, its a slow-going webcomic, and the art is much rougher than some of the others.

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Anyway, I'm off to go write. Dueces.