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New Webcomics I’ve Picked Up
Jan. 16th, 2015 07:52 amThere are probably a bunch of comics that, for whatever reason, I “should” be reading but I never really got into. But I have recently added a bunch to the regular reading list:
The first (and most recent): Do you feel like a terrible person? Then you might want to be reading The League of Super Redundant Heroes. In a similar vein to The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, it’s a strip about superheroes who are terrible at their jobs and at life in general. Which sucks and is hilarious.
Another fun strip to pick up, this one a bit more for the discerning intellectual, is Hamlet’s Danish. It's a gag-a-day (gag-a-week) strip done by the creator of Rob and Elliot. It’s solid and generally continuity-free.
I’ve also picked up Leftover Soup and Carbon Dating, though I’m less straightforward in recommending them. Both definitely have some solidly funny bits (and the former couches several of those bits in cooking wizardry and totally-broken rpgs, both of which appeal to me), but both are also written by guys who are just a little too full of how “enlightened” they are, and like to create “thought experiment” situations that might be a bit uncomfortable to people who know the reality of them. “Preachy” might also be a useful descriptor for Carbon Dating.
And finally, Jeff Rowland (creator of Wigu and Overcompensating, master do-stuff guy at Topatoco) has finally come back to the “making comics” thing with Iverly. It’s about talking animals and it’s just as insane as pretty much everything else he’s written. (His previous comics included a story ostensibly about a young boy and his family that ended up being a battle between Space Mummy and a flying potato made of poison.) That said, I kinda love Observation Duck regardless of the other insanity involved.
The first (and most recent): Do you feel like a terrible person? Then you might want to be reading The League of Super Redundant Heroes. In a similar vein to The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, it’s a strip about superheroes who are terrible at their jobs and at life in general. Which sucks and is hilarious.
Another fun strip to pick up, this one a bit more for the discerning intellectual, is Hamlet’s Danish. It's a gag-a-day (gag-a-week) strip done by the creator of Rob and Elliot. It’s solid and generally continuity-free.
I’ve also picked up Leftover Soup and Carbon Dating, though I’m less straightforward in recommending them. Both definitely have some solidly funny bits (and the former couches several of those bits in cooking wizardry and totally-broken rpgs, both of which appeal to me), but both are also written by guys who are just a little too full of how “enlightened” they are, and like to create “thought experiment” situations that might be a bit uncomfortable to people who know the reality of them. “Preachy” might also be a useful descriptor for Carbon Dating.
And finally, Jeff Rowland (creator of Wigu and Overcompensating, master do-stuff guy at Topatoco) has finally come back to the “making comics” thing with Iverly. It’s about talking animals and it’s just as insane as pretty much everything else he’s written. (His previous comics included a story ostensibly about a young boy and his family that ended up being a battle between Space Mummy and a flying potato made of poison.) That said, I kinda love Observation Duck regardless of the other insanity involved.
