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aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Snail Dust [Date] 3/16/00 [Comments] | Napoleon, the author of this new comic, has a lot going on. You should read all her pages to get the full flavor. Snail Dust is published at random intervals, but is worth checking every once in a while. It's about three teens, and their real-life world. They hang around, have siblings and parents, play around on computers. The title is a pretty good metaphor for real life (as in "Caught in the.."), although a tiny glimmer of magic has begun to creep into the story for one of the characters. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Avalon [Date] 3/23/00 [Comments] | This comic has anime based art, anime situations (girl shows up at a party dressed too formally, academics and romance, girl attempts to fight rumors of being a lesbian), and is set in... Canada? Avalon is the name of the Canadian high school that this comic's characters all attend. If you find the setting counfusing at all, he explains it all in his FAQ. My first rave for this comic is the art, which I think is superb. Secondly, the humor is original and unique. Thirdly, I get the impression that the author is in touch with his subjects, which makes it honest, enjoyable reading. And it's nice to know that somebody out there still listens to Rush. The site was really pretty nice looking for a hand-maintained site...it's been moved to one of the big online comics' hosts recently, which gave it banner ads and homogenized the layout and navigation somewhat, but it still has the orginal beautiful blue color and custom-imported font. Update 5/5/02I've been reading this one less and less; for some reason, I have had a hard time following the story line on a day-to-day basis thanks to the tangled relationships between the characters. However, when reading the story from beginning to end the clarity of the writing stands out; it's absolutely brilliant. What may seem like melodrama at first is actually character growth which unfolds with the gradualness of real life. So, my advice is to consider Avalon to be some kind of graphic novel. Any current strip will make no sense unless you've read the first, but it's very satisfying to become familiar with the characters and experience their growth over time, and try to untangle the "web of twistiness" yourself. Also, the guest strips, now a permanent feature of Sundays, add a whole new dimension by deconstructing the Avalon storyline, either through fanfics or original strips with the dialog humorously changed. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Cool Cat Studio [Date] 3/30/00 [Comments] | This amazing brand new comic has only been going a week or two. That's why the site is fast and there aren't any banner ads yet. I had to recommend it as quickly as possible so that you could track its progress from near-birth. The drawing on this one is unbelievable, and the concept seems fully developed. The humor seems pretty good too, but as the link which referred me to it the first time said (approximately): "Evil Cats! What more could you possibly want?" | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Out Of Fika [Date] 4/6/00 [Comments] | Another one of the few, the proud, the 7-day comics, Out Of Fika has only been going since December but I'm quite hooked. Based on the legend of an obscure (and possibly insane) Norse goddess, this comic is filled with "Watchmen"-level mystique, cleverly camouflaged by a playful writing and drawing style. There's superheroes and mad scientists running around, and Fika herself is charmingly short tempered and purple-haired. The artist used to publish giant color comics on tuesdays before the burden became too great; maybe someday it will be able to resume. The storyline has lots of directions it can go, but it's taking it's time doing it so that we have enough opportunities to ponder the surreal and emotive events that unfold. Update 3/5/01 Currently on sabbattical. Out Of Fika dropped off the web completely for about 6 months, and then one day reappeared with a new storyline and no hint of the earlier material. I am happy to report, however, that all known Out of Fika strips recently seem to have been posted to the archive to tide us over during the current hiatus. Read them now before they're taken down again! Update 1/8/02A couple of months ago this address went dead and cannot be reached. Fika's gone again, don't say you weren't warned! RIP. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Sinfest [Date] 4/13/00 [Comments] | The title says it all; this comic aims to offend anybody it can with it's hyper-sophisticated ("Pimpin'") attitude. The author's art is also quite slick, as steeped in pop cultural references as everything else in the strip. Despite all of this, this comic is occasionally surprizingly fresh. In between parodying just about every Calvin Clein advertisement ever done, and showing the characters of syndicated comics in various sexual positions, Tatsuya Ishida is on target with such mundane topics as dogs versus cats, women and men, and of course God. In most of the religion comics, my favorites, God is shown as a hand in the clouds, mocking the devil with hand puppets, or any humans that have the gall to whine. Sinfest is not for the weak of stomach, but it's quite a window on the follibles of humanity and it will be interesting to see where it goes. Amazingly, produced 7 days a week. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] It's Gravy! [Date] 4/20/00 [Comments] | It's Gravy! is a nice simple comic, with a nice simple web site, and a loooong archive. I'm pretty happy that the author is able to crank these out reliably, because I find his sense of humor pretty funny, in a relaxed sort of way. The character page(Currently unaccessable 5/01) gives you a pretty good idea for the flavor of this comic. The main character is Andy, described as "pretty much a normal kid, he's imaginative but gullible.", while his best friend Paul "occasionally makes really bad comics about Andy and posts them on his homepage." You can kind of see the origin of It's Gravy! right there :) Actually, Paul strikes me as a more grownup character, sort of like the professor on Gilliagan's Island, only maybe not that mature. The drawing style is not fancy, but still pretty expressive, sort of like Sluggy in that regard, and the humor is cheap, funny, and just whacked enough to make it unique and worth reading every day. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] LCD [Date] 04/27/00 [Comments] | I've been following this one for a while, and would have recommended it sooner if it were published more frequently. But it's pretty cute; it's a comic about TV news, and LCD of course stands for Lowest Common Denominator. I get the impression that this comic is written for the fun of it's author, full of jokes at the expense of the industry and interesting (and well-drawn) characters; this is what makes it worth checking a couple of times a week. The first-person perspective is LCD's strength: the characters are refreshingly "real" western (not just the usual stereotypes), with fully thought-out backgrounds that make the three main women characters more than just pretty faces. Update 6/5/03 On Sabbatical. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Dragon Tails [Date] 5/4/00 [Comments] | Ok, I admit that I was skeptical of this one after hearing about it (I got a recommendation). But having checked it out, I have to wholeheartedly advertise it. As expected, it's a humorous look at the lives of a bunch of computer-rendered dragons. But, contrary to my expectations, I think it's pretty funny. Perhaps the best part is that it's a really sweet, G-rated humor which I find unique on the Net, without being too stupid (IMHO). The rendering is pretty good, but a bit dark on my computer -- a telltale sign of macintosh produced graphics. It's been going 7 days a week since last year, so it has an enormous archive. How does the author find the time to do this comic? | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Minding My Own Business [Date] 5/11/00 [Comments] | It's another anime inspired comic. The art is amateur, but I really respect the way he tries something new all the time. The unique aspect of this comic is its writing. In fact also in the style of a lot of anime (or perhaps more accurately, magna), MMOB focuses on tangled relationships. There are long, dreamy sequences with melancholy song lyrics woven in, or characters are represented by their emotions, or as projections of how they look to others. It's totally angst-ridden, but so creative about it that I nonetheless keep checking it every once in a while to see what he's come up with next. Published at semi-random intervals somehow adding up to most of the days of each week. Update 1/30/03I checked this one recently and found it had moved. Along with the move, the author brought a new drawing style and new developments. The original archive appears to be gone. I like the new stuff, it's a little more polished while still holding onto the original contemplative style. My link to this comic has been changed to the new site. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Minimum Security [Date] 5/18/00 [Comments] | As the author states, the title of "Minimum Security" refers to a comment from someone just released from prison who was pointing out the repressiveness of American society: "I'm still not free; I'm just in minimum security." This folk-art-drawn comic is the leftist, feminist, political and social commentary you might see in weekly papers around the country, if you like that sort of thing. I do; this is a particularly good example, and I'm glad its available on the web. Be sure to check out the author's yummy paintings as well. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Wandering Ones [Date] 5/25/00 [Comments] | The Wandering Ones is a type of comic you might be surprised to see me recommending, a "serious" daily serial. I can't stand seeing these in print, but I guess the pain of the slow refresh rate is somehow softened by the frequency of the same thing elsewhere on the web. The thing about this one that keeps me checking it every day is its classic science fiction plot, and it's successful "EC" vintage style art. This comic was just recently started (In fact, I read it on its first day), so it will be interesting to see where it goes. Tip: start at the first comic to get the benefit of the writing so far. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Everything Jake [Date] 6/1/00 [Comments] | I have a pretty big gripe about this comic. It's POV is painfully immature. It's the story of Jake, college freshman, who is humiliated in this comic in just about every possible way. Women are portrayed as irrational sex objects. Most of the characters are stupid. So why do I check it every single day (it's 7 days a week), causing me to recommend it here? Strangely, it's entirely possible that all of this is intentional, and what we're seeing is successfull POV writing. Embarassing or not, I kind of like Jake anyhow. But most of all, it's so nicely drawn. Keep checking it; I think it's really going to turn into something. Update 7/15/02Everything Jake is still around, which is a good reason to revisit my review. The author is struggling against the usual herculean odds of keeping a daily comic going. These days it's mostly MWF and a lot of text in between the drawings. I like the superhero mystery, which we still don't get to see more than a tiny bit of, and I still like the characters. But in between that there are some really rough parts that just can't reconcile. Monster points off for actually using technobabble like "Energy Signature". | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Bench [Date] 6/8/00 [Comments] | Remember when I told you about a little side project to Penny Arcade called "The Bench?" Well, those of you that liked Penny Arcade probably know that The Bench has been fully developed into an independent organism by its original authors. Now it has its own domain name, and all comics are submitted by the readers. There is even a highly automated system for accepting submissions. The basic concept remains the same: A guy and a squirrel and a bench, develop it however you want. It's a pretty rarified concept; how many submissions could there be? How about two thousand so far and still growing rapidly? The sheer enormity of this collection is its surprising drawback, because you have to view it a page at a time, which takes a while. There's a wide variety in the quality of the work. There's a lot of crap, fawning references to the Penny Arcade universe or gags dependent on already-stale current events, but there's also a good number of pieces of timeless genius, or at least creative uses of paintshop. With a T1 or better connection this huge archive can be an entertaining project to complete. Update 4/19/01Recently vanished off the net for lack of a human host (somebody to maintain the huge archive of strips, accept new submissions, and pay for the immense disk space and traffic required), I am not sure when this will be coming back. The Bench was a much beloved institution; I can't believe that there isn't somebody among its collective fans who won't pick it up! | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Cruel Fate [Date] 6/15/00 [Comments] | Holy mushroom clouds, Batman! Another new comic by Eight! Cruel Fate is a so-called "mini-series" hosted by Keenspot, the current home of Road Waffles. It will run only for the month of June, and is promised to be a complete story within that time. The link I gave over on the left is to the first comic in the story; use this link to go to the daily current page. It's gotten off to a bang so far, rapidly shifting into the Eight trademark nihilism with a suicide attempt in the first week (you have been warned). But even so, the introspection present in much of his work aside from Road Waffles and the old Max Panic is here as well, making me excited every day to see where this story is going to go. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] AM i DUMMY [Date] 6/22/00 [Comments] | This is one of the comic book style on-line comics that I mentioned a long time ago in comparison to Max Panic. I found this late one night and read as much as I could (it's hosted by probably the world's slowest server) and found it visually and thematically disturbing. The story wanders around a bit, starting with a pretty miserable main character, who hates his life so much that his own cat is compelled to mention in english "You've gotta stop trying to think so much". If you're interested in something lighter, it turns out that the author of AM i DUMMY has an archive of earlier discontinued works. I recommend the formative SUN SHiNE DAZE, which features such crowd pleasing elements as bright color computer rendering, big anime eyes, a bunch of punks wandering around the country in a tour bus, a psycho killer, and a kid who may be crossing over into a paranormal combat world. It's a great story until it basically imploded in the last issue and Tep wisely decided to kill it. Update 5/10/01One day I checked this comic, and it's gone! I guess he forgot to pay for his domain. This comic was something special. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Superstar Car Wash [Date] 6/29/00 [Comments] | It's Superstar Car Wash, the comic that makes Red Meat look drawn from scratch every day. Basically, the author has taken a bunch of high-contrast-xeroxed images of famous people or characters (and occasionally the author or his friends) and slapped them down in comic panels, which are then themselved xeroxed three or four times as required to make a full strip, and then dialog is added to imply that the characters are engaing in oral sex or masturbation or what-have-you. Not for kids, I guess. It's actually occasionally pretty funny, and fun to see the pop icons of our childhood get used for cheap laughs, but the best part is that you can read the entire archive without feeling too bad about it. Just crunch 'em down like popcorn. Actually, the best part is that the archive's background makes fun of "TAB" soda. No longer updated, but the archive is there. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Boat Anchor [Date] 7/6/00 10/31/02 [Comments] | Well, last time I checked, this webcomic was DEAD. No updates since March, no clue as to what happened. Too bad, because it was really on a roll. Well, just read the archive; there's plenty there. I find this comic to be unlike any other on the web. The art may seem a little puzzling at first. It looks like it was drawn with a mouse, and the characters are all drawn really tiny. This seems to fit right in with the subject of the strip, however, which is that your computer at work hates you. Having toiled in this air-conditioned environment for most of my "career", I find the humor in "Boat Anchor" to be roll-on-the-floor funny, and spot-on. Update 3/5/01Sadly, it seems that Boat Anchor is no more. Updates suddenly stopped about a year ago, and now the site is totally off the Web. I still do web searches for it every once in a while but haven't come up with anything yet. If anybody knows what happened to this strip, let me know. I liked Boat Anchor so much that I would even find a home for its old archive on the web somewhere if it still exists. Update 10/31/02It's Back! Somehow, the author has managed to bring back this project and even got the URL. It's better than ever; as the author said in an e-mail alerting me, "same characters, but now it's drawn with a tablet". However, in an even more rare twist, all the hilarious old comics are still available in the archive. Check it all out now! | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Diary Of A Crazed Mimbanite [Date] 7/13/00 [Comments] | I recently found this Star Wars parody on the web, recommended by a link on a very obscure comic page. Updated irregularly, this is the work of a hard-core fan. It seems to be generally a post-"Phantom Menace" perspective, but still covers the first three movies and contains references to backstory elements you wouldn't pick up except by total immersion. The characters page helps somewhat in explaining the chactactitures' odd points, although a lot of it is the author's own crazed perspective, which may be explained on the about the author page. Update 10/31/02 There is no indication why this comic suddenly stopped updating, but the archive is still up and available. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Dizzy Dustbin [Date] 7/20/00 [Comments] | Just started this month, on the web page of the author of You Damn Kid, this comic is purported to be the work of "an old army buddy" of his grandfather's that he "found in the attic". As you can tell, I don't buy it. But these comics have been funny so far. The premise makes a great excuse for some pretty rude humor, as well. Update 5/10/01The URL changed a bit; update your bookmarks | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] explodingdog [Date] 7/27/00 [Comments] | Found this truly odd thing on the Web thanks to a link from Penny Arcade. Is it a web comic or some kind of web art? On a fairly regular basis, the artist will take 4 or 5 short phrases sent to him by readers and make a one-panel drawing based on each one. The drawing style is very basic and compelling, but what's really amazing is the "writing" that goes between the original phrase and the artist's finished scene. explodingdog will sometimes make you laugh, and sometimes make you cry; a mark of great skill. It's a fascinating zone of uber-creativity found between the borders of more commonplace art. It's has been happening since this January, so the archive is up to thousands of pictures already; I tend to like the more recent stuff over the first ones, although I've found a few of my favorite jems in January's pages nonetheless. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Modern Living [Date] 8/10/00 [Comments] | You might debate whether this qualifies as a web comic. But it was recommended to me as such and has some of the characteristics of my other picks, specifically regular updates, an archive, and a visual drawing style. Rather than a collection of static panels, however, Modern Living is an interactive flash animation, a medium found only on the Internet. You advance the "story" of the animation by interacting with it, either by clicking on certain parts or merely through mouse-overs. There's an audio component as well; he's done some really neat things with looped music -- I recommend examples number 67 and number 63 in particular. The character of this comic is a self portrait of the author himself, and is said to be an autobiography in progress. As such, it is occasionally depressing and self-loathing, but it is also occasionally tender. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Too Fat To Be A Rock Star [Date] 12/7/00 [Comments] | This comic has both the greatest name and the greatest URL. It's the adventures of a sort of "Young Meatloaf"-like character, his band and friends. Later on he gets a girlfriend. You just know he's based on someone real, someone probably a lot like someone we know. Perhaps this is what causes the humor to impress me as fresh and funny; maybe it's simply weird enough to tickle my funny bone. The characters are obviously fully realized and there are lots of "been there" inside music jokes. I also respect that the author is keeping up all his early work, especially since it's pretty important to the continuity of the story and characters. Even though it's not as pretty at the start as, say, Sluggy Freelance, it's some of the funniest stuff, and it's really neat to see how the artist's style has evolved. Sadly, I've discovered just now that the strip is going on hiatus until January, but the archive, which my link starts you at the front of, will provide you all the fun you need till then. Update 3/25/01Too Fat To Be A Rock Star is back! Consequently, I have updated my main link for this comic to it's current comic. Updated approximately three times a week. Update 12/25/01It's gone! It's back! He lost his old URL so I've updated my link to the new one. Update 6/5/03 Given up for good, even the new URL is gone. Update 1/8/04 Remi's maintaining too-fat.com again! The sharp-looking site now contains recent non-fat work, although reposting of the old archives is promised in the hazy future. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Modern Tales: Odd Jobs [Date] 12/14/00 [Comments] | Totally the coolest thing on the web right now. A "private detective" story in formation, this stylishly drawn black-and-white twice weekly comic is the noir adventures of David DiAngelo, making a living taking odd jobs where the cutting edge of personal technology meets the dark underside of middle America. Only a couple of months old, it's first story line has already knocked my socks off, with so many twists, turns and tensions, drawn out with savory anticipation, that checking this comic is the first thing I do each tuesday and thursday. This comic is often compared to the best episodes of "Twin Peaks", a fair if unimaginative comparision, so I'm sure you'll like it. Update 5/25/02Odd Jobs has joined the mostly stellar webcomic collective Modern Tales, one of a few webcomic pay sites that is springing up in an effort to find monentary support for the bandwidth costs that web comics incur. Odd Jobs is generous enough to maintain the three most recent comics at the old site for free, but to see the archives you must be a member of the collective. Now, it doesn't cost much, and you get all the other comics on the site to go with it, as I understand, so why not bite the bullet and join? Update 7/17/03 Finally changed the Modern Tales link to the new story. Sorry for the delay. Update 1/21/04 The author has moved entiredly to Modern Tales so I removed the old link. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Diesel Sweeties [Date] 12/21/00 [Comments] | I've kinda cooled on this one since I first discovered it, but the stunning mix of fresh concepts that make up Diesel Sweeties will probably still have the same effect on you as it did on me. This comic was my first exposure to the surprisingly vast world of "pixel" art on the web. Although blown up to a large size, the visual medium here is how much expression can you fit into characters composed of the same number of pixels as the Mario Brothers or Pac-Man. Answer: it's darned respectable. As a PC-age dinosaur, I find that this art form really talks to me. Secondly, the characters are instantly lovable. There's Clango the robot, his girlfriend Maura a jaded ex-porn star, her wonton little sister, their friend "Indy Pete", and a growing phlanx of guest friend appearances who are increasingly dragging the strip down. Lastly, it's got "Diesel" in the title. I recommended this one excitedly to the WTS by e-mail before, but several months later it's still worth a look, and now updated a glorious 5 days a week. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Living In Greytown [Date] 1/4/01 [Comments] | Living In Greytown embodies everything that is great about what quaintly used to be called "underground comics". It's an explosion of surreal and slightly disturbing characters, art, and stories made sense of by reading the character bios or just reading the entire archive from the start (the latter strongly recommended). There's only one premise here. Greytown is a town from which there is no escape, thanks to a particular devil, "Phil". Phil is too unimaginative to actually torture the people and talking animals who are unlucky enough to enter or inhabit Greytown; fortunately they are all too willing to do that themselves. All the characters are terrifically cute, which makes the drama of their wretched lives all that much more heartbreaking. In the story, Phil recently faced down a much more evil demon for control of the town, so it's hard to say where this story will go, but I check it every day in total anticipation that it will be great. Also, be sure to check out the author's other project, Otaku Feh!. If you find Living In Greytown to be too burdened with plot, Otaku Feh is just what's on the artist's mind this week. It recently ran a thorough a hilarious parody of Sinfest which ended in controversy, so you'd better check it out before it vanishes for some reason. Update 3/1/02LiG ended magnificantly recently. I was sad, until Dave started up Lizard | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Crater Kid [Date] 1/11/01 [Comments] | It gives me great pleasure to finally get the chance to recommend this comic. It's a little bit different than most of the others I read, a colorful serial in 3-panel daily format. It's a mixture of eye-candy (a hip homage to 1950's design and science-fiction, so slick looking that I avoided it for a while thinking it to be a scam of some type) and some pretty clever story lines. An energetic cowboy outfit-wearin' kid is zapped to an alien planet where everything is patterned after meticulously studied drive-in movies, because the hipster Diz and floating, glass-bowl-covered "Sponge" have a premonition that he is a "true hero". So far he has helped them solve two mysteries of their odd and thematic world ("The Screaming Stones" and "Howling Mountain"), and now faces simultaneous dangers in the new "The Whispering Well". Although built on a solid kitch foundation, the stories turn out to be anything but cliche, touched with meloncholy and requiring unusual thinking on the part of the Kid, but never straying out of "G" rating territory. Update 5/5/02I don't know why, but this comic is now just re-running it's archives, so I'm putting it on the inactive list. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Puffy Cloud [Date] 1/18/01 [Comments] | With only a few comics published so far, "Puffy Cloud" assumes you know all about its characters without a whole lot of development. That's because it relies on the solid foundation of superhero parody, so it can leave behind all the overhead of explaining the situation and launch directly into the jokes. However, the humor is very laid back, using the superhero context as a flavor rather than a pretext. Puffy Cloud spends less time saving the city with his friend "Bottle Rocket" than hanging out with his lazy roommate or just doing laundry. He doesn't have a flashy costume, and his super power is as vauge as a "ground hugging fog". The art is subtly humorous too; like the humor the strength is in what is not shown. Sorry about all the broken links in his archive; these comics always seem to pick the week I post them for a disasterous site redesign. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Polymer City [Date] 1/25/01 [Comments] | Another comic born of video gaming culture, Polymer City also has the bonus influence of a "big chicks with muscles" subculture and an attractive "furry" character thrown in as well. I think it's boffo and love the super-clean line drawing style. I'll never be pleased with navigating the archives for this comic; the ones for this year have the old system, only accessable from links on the front page, but while the year one archive finally has "previous/next" links the hilarious titles which used to exist in those frustrating front page links are lost. Update 5/10/01 This comic wasn't updated for a long time, although the old site was still there. I figured it was dead, but it turns out that it moved without telling us! I finally found it; I've changed the link, update your bookmarks accordingly. Update 7/15/02Polymer City lost their URL recently, and man was I sad. I finally found its new home just as word was getting out via other artists' web sites, so I've updated my link according. It's weird how something can just suddenly disappear off the net sometimes, especially without the owner's permission. Update 1/30/03 Wow, this comic was going great with a suspenseful serial story and then the author just freakin pulled the plug. It's still updating, but these days I can't bear to even check it because of the memory of the heights it had achieved. Just my opinion. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Superosity [Date] 2/1/01 [Comments] | From the creator of Keenspot, this is one of the comics that I first hated, now can't live without. My initial negative feelings were from my first visual impressions; the author is one of those who enjoys drawing ugly characters for the humor of it. The situation is a little far out there too, although you'd think that would be no surprise in the webcomic world. Brothers Chris and Bobby wear superhero outfits, but don't do anything although they are apparently well-nigh indestructable. Chris has befriended a sentient ironing board, who has the ability to invent anything including time travel and acts as Chris' guardian. They are supported by a thoroughly unlikely cast of extras such as a cigarette smoking turtle with a mohawk, an alternate-timeline Kato Kaelin, a horrendous looking school janitor, etc. Fortunately, it all somehow hangs together with a cynical and consistently insane world view. Taking any nearly impossible situation, you usually get Chris's sweet-but-stupid perspective and Bobby's uncontainable rage. Hollywood producers, internet companies, politicians are mercilessly portrayed. It's all infinitely quotable. In general, the two best parts of this comic are Bobby, who always says exactly what's on his mind, and Chris' one true love Arcadia, who is a total babe, one of my favorite cartoon women on the internet! | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Bad Boys Of Computer Science [Date] 2/08/01 [Comments] | The typical autobiographical comic about a college student computer geek and his friends. BBOCC is endeared to me mostly for its art, although its author so freely acknowledges the woodenness of his style as to make a "bench" file for his strip available. Still, I like it, and the author's sense of humor is good for a surprise most of the time. Part of the on-line gaming conspiracy, expect to see jokes about all the current games, although he's also got plenty of original content on the subject so he's not just posing. Published whenever possible, with a nice long archive. Update 1/30/03 The URL is gone. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Robot Stories: Real Tales of Retail [Date] 2/22/01 [Comments] | Part of the "Diesel Sweeties" robot empire, this comic uses the prism of the mechanical man to tell alternately transcendently metaphorical or depressingly true-life stories of the retail grind. It's ingeniously coded to look like it's been drawn on the back of a paper bag when the boss isn't looking (and in the early stages, was updated infrequently enough to believe it). Although it's really well drawn, I'm a fan of "Robot Stories" for the writing. So far it hasn't lost its originality in the first few strips, so I get the impression that Neil will be able to milk that crappy job for ideas for a long while. Update 6/5/03 Still going strong, after a frightening break around January 2003. Update 1/8/04 On Sabattical while the author reconsiders his motivation. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Shinku-tokimekisempukaku [Date] 3/2/01 [Comments] | This cartoonist should have no trouble getting the URL... Found this by accident just this week, I think it's pretty funny. It's another example of the ubiquity and creativity of gaming culture on the Net, sort of a "SunShine Daze" meets "Wendy the On-line comic". I enjoy the great art on this one, the fact that the artist is not afraid to draw the hands Real Big to fit all four fingers on, Nichole's guest strips, and the way that the characters are all so free-swearing. Update 1/25/02Shinku has ended. There's a new comic, but I can't seem to get into it for some reason, I guess because it's a serial. But check it out. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Untitled Again [Date] 3/09/01 [Comments] | It's hard to believe that I've only found one link to this comic so far! Obviously the work of an art student similar to the main character, this comic revisits the old story of the artist whose works become real. This comic stands out for the modern and realistic development of the events which unfold, the art, and the occasional equally satisfying forays into the characters themselves. The characters (and apparently the author too) are young and horny, so the story has already gotten to the point where they attempt to create a female roommate. So far I've found this story line a little misogynistic, but it's only comedy after all, and it seems to be getting more tolerable again. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Check out the other comics in the mini-network, "The Four Toontellers", of which Untitled Again is a part. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Life's So Rad [Date] 3/29/01 [Comments] | Well, I finally got around to recommending one of Corey Marie Kitley's webcomics. She's been publishing for years, a venerable old name on the 'net, but I just couldn't get into the art until recently. Something about the pencil shading, and those eyes. The current story has pulled me in, however. It features Corey and her boyfriend and their friends and their band, and is pretty polished looking. Web comics based on the author and friends are not so unusual, but this one is such a blurring of web comic and web journal that it's almost frightening. However, at the moment it's also one of the few that deals with happy characters, so it's kind of a lift to read. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Peep [Date] 4/5/01 [Comments] | This month's darling of the Internet, Peep may seem at first like a throwaway effort, nothing more than a whimsical doodle, possibly one of those saccharine awful things. But it's not, fortunately; it's more like a parody of all that. Often, the words are in the form of a poem, which is one of the great things about this comic, but instead of the usual uplifting lesson there's a surprise ending, as in the first one. Sometimes it starts out weird and stays that way, as in "hooker peep". Hopefully the author, Nichole Stabile, will be able to continue not taking this comic seriously for a while. Update 3/5/02Gone, after a period of inactivity. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] 11 Will Die [Date] 4/12/00 [Comments] | Just found this one this week! I'm so excited that once again the awesome comic of the week I was going to recommend this week has been bumped back. First off, what a great name! Secondly, what a great setup for a story (although are those dice I hear rolling in the background?). Then I find out that the author has set it up as a great writing experiment, where who will die next is being fed to him by a panel of friends, and he writes it from there. Lastly, darn nice drawin'. Points off for not setting up the archive with serial links that allow us to read it like a book. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Ko Fight Club [Date] 4/19/01 [Comments] | I really should have mentioned this one a while ago, right after finding it through Too Fat To Be A Rock Star, especially since it's a comic about board games and I'm writing for Wunderland here! Russ seems to share the Looney's love of games; he is a great fan of Go, and knows about those "German-style board games", and has a parlor night of his own down in Austin, Texas. (Austin is also the source of Shinkutokimekisempukaku and other neat stuff I've coincidentally found recently, apparently apparently it's some kind of rising Net Culture Nexus.) I haven't had a chance to fully explore the riches of this site yet, but from when I started reading a few weeks ago the comic has been throughly entertaining, mostly due to its highly experimental approach. Some weeks it's job search jokes with the figure of a guy talking on the phone, then it's comics made with hand-carved stamps of bugs and snails, then it's a hand drawn extravaganza where he sets his favorite characters (and mine) from other comics against each other in a deathmatch ("Russ, you lazy bastard! Draw me in color! I've been in color for weeks!"). Somewhere in here too are strips for The Bench, Bench adaptions for the Watchmen, and lots of Go jokes I haven't gotten to yet. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Ancient Messages [Date] 4/26/01 [Comments] | The review that pointed me in the direction of this comic (from the author of Too Fat To Be A Rock Star) was just three letters, "WOW", but I tend to agree. It's the story of a young woman (13 years old? Younger?) who has to go live with her creepy uncle in the country while her hateful parents get a divorce. She eventually realizes that he's not so bad, but we soon learn that dark forces are afoot, and an epic story is just beginning to unfold, and she's caught in the middle of it. As Remi also points out, the art on this comic is just right; a simple line style which is really quite expressive and appropriate to the POV of the heroine. Update 5/5/02The author is ending the comic, having had a good run. Although it is going at the moment, it will soon join the ranks of "static with archive". | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Call Me Julius Caesar [Date] 5/10/01 [Comments] | Wow! Just found this last night and I'm flipping over it! To those familiar with the mystique of Magna, it may not seem so different, but right now there's nothing like it on Keenspace. Apparently produced by a Thailander, the disclaimer reads (suspiciously I might add) "WARNING::my english is so poor,i mean,real bad-_-dont forget to ignore my gramma as well & Nothing here is really about Roman history,most are from my own imagination.so if u saw sth weird in my comix,just ignore it,okay?". I'm really grooving on the crazy words - teen angst - - SF - magna layout mix, and the art is just totally fabulous. I apologize in advance, however, for the hours you will spend downloading each strip; it's either the world's slowest server or the world's farthest away. It will be worth it. Update 8/5/01Ha, the joke's on me. I recommended this comic and it was already dead! No updates since March, but for some reason it's address is still accessable, so check out the limited archive if you wish. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Nukees [Date] 05/17/01 [Comments] | Nukees has been published on the web for a long time. I've had some issues with it (King Lucia), but it won me over with it's recent Gav gets an afterlife story, so here it is. Published out of Berkely, with lots of local in-jokes, it's main character based on the author started off as a perpetual student, now is described more often as a mad scientist. He and his friends in the same department build improbable nuclear powered devices and basically live the physics/engineering college wet dream. Both physics and college jokes have gotten a little too old for me, but despite the fantasy setting the characters have a lot of hidden depth. The character of "Suzy Gee", at first a triumph of drawing, has now become a very interesting and sympathetic bridge to the real world. Other characters, although less complex, are still pretty likeable. Nukees has evolved nicely over the years and I now check it frequently. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Celly's Wings [Date] 05/24/01 [Comments] | With six issues posted it's time to recommend this "book form" comic; I've been following it since its early days. It's a cute "anime style" by a talented high-school (now college) artist who loves to render herself and her friends, and write a melodramatic fantasy universe to put them in. One of the most exciting things about the comic is being able to learn a little bit about the author. She's got so much self confidence that it's really inspiring ("Multiracial, baby! Yeah!"), and it's impossible not to love such a bold expression. The art just keeps getting better and better, and has a good mastery of manga principles in both form and content, so I hope Starline doesn't quit soon. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Exploitation Now [Date] 6/7/01 [Comments] | Exploitation Now is a fun comic because it doesn't get too hung up on what genre it is or type of plot you should expect. This is an anime-influenced sexy- main- character- with- an- odd- "furry"- roommate- and- a- megalomaniacal- teenaged- girl- landlord- with- a- basement- full- of- high- tech- weapons,- a- lazer- blasting- arm- prosthetic- and- a- "Dark Angel"- backstory type of comic. The archive is long and there's lots of links to related precursor material by the same artist. The comic may have recently aquired a direction with the recent suspenseful "Jordon" backstory, but I'm not holding my breath. This is a relatively young comic, so catch it while its still fresh. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Look What I Brought Home [Date] 6/14/01 [Comments] | Since the WWN's on vacation this week, it's a perfect opportunity to sneak in a recommendation for Look What I Brought Home. This is probably the most digusting comic on the Internet, not necessarily for the crude, sexually deviant, taboo-squishing subject matter, but for the casual way it pulls it off. The authors (Yeah, right, like anybody's wife would ever be caught dead associated with something like this) don't seem to be working too hard to be this gross. Consequently it's often shockingly funny. The drawing style is deceivingly simple, and the unwashed characters seem so natural that it's easy to get the impression that, maybe somewhere, life is like this. Serious recalibration will be required after reading this comic, and you may need to shower repeatedly after logging off, but it's funny enough that I would be remiss in not listing it among my top comics. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Not Gonna Take It [Date] 6/21/01 [Comments] | Another great high-school furry comic. This one has knocked me off my chair for the clarity of its writing and its excellent drawing. The main characters are all anthropromorphic cats. In a surpisingly refreshing twist, the main character is a popular and handsome athelete, his girlfriend is the popular cheerleeder. There's no hint of irony, however their friends are a little rougher, a shy kid covering it up with swagger and a young girl who happens to be a witch and has an adorable bird for a best friend. The recent Kiwi story was so full of pleasant surprises that I'm surprised I never found this comic until just recently. Points off for having a title that gets that stupid song stuck in my head every time. Will the author continue to write NGTI after she graduates? Update 8/8/02The answer was no. I wonder what happened? Update 6/5/03 Still sputtering along with occasional updates. The author continues to experiment with drawing styles and plot directions, most of which are interesting. but she's too busy with RL to keep up and the new site design is incredibly slow to download. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Journey To The West [Date] 6/28/01 [Comments] | Oh my. Journey To The West is a rare find, something that can truly be called Internet Art. I haven't stumbled across work of this caliber since my earliest days hunting for webcomics. It's insanely beautiful, deep, compelling, experimental and bold. Making use of the full palatte of computer generated visual textures, as well as linkage and animation that you almost never see anymore, every panel is a visual feast unrestricted to any single artistic style. The characters are amazingly multi-dimensional given the number of pages and amount of dialog that have been published so far. The story is complex while at the same time unhurried, and involves many modern myths including one of my favorites, the Men In Black. But more than just the story, the author is packing Journey To The West with massive doses of philosophy with no fear of educational presentation. Zen anecdotes and principles are frequently explored, as is the mystery of the Sonoran west. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The List Of The Day [Date] 7/5/01 [Comments] | Ok, the LOTD, part of the Dilbert page, is not really a web comic. It is, however, a enormously entertaining comic-related site that I read whenever at all possible and which can eat up hours of web surfing time. Contrary to my expectations, the comic itself has not lost any of its edge and remains funny on a daily basis. I mean, how much can you say about your dumb boss, and besides Scott did that whole animated series thing. You'd think the well would be tapped dry, but he always comes up with something new and interesting. But that's just the icing on the cake. The real pleasure is the LOTD, a forum where readers submit entries to categories like "Best things to say on the phone when you know your office mates are evesdropping" or "Worst reasons for denying training requests". I love reading the often real-life horror stories of these tourtured twisting drones, sprinkled with occasionally innane references to current events or politics. It's also interesting that the best stories come not only from the white collar workers, but also members of the armed forces and the fast-food sector, making the LOTD a visceral and sympathetic window on the world. The number of entries is often 20 or so pages long, sorted by popularity due to the use of a "voting" option, and there's also a sadly weekly "short list" which is the condensed top 20 entries from some earlier category. The archive is only 5 days deep, so you have to check it often. Update 4/8/02The sellout of Dilbert continues, as the LOTD was cut for failing to generate internet revenue. Well, it was getting repetitive, but I'll still miss it. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons [Date] 7/12/01 [Comments] | This comic is not active, but it's so good that I have to mention it anyways. We all know and love Lynda Barry, and there's probably even outlets for "Ernie Pook's Comeek" out there, although I haven't found them. This is not that one, but one which claims to be more autobiographical. True or not, the stories in this comic are compelling, and interesting, and from a "looking back" perspective that an oldster such as myself can really identify with. It is very interesting to read these and feel like you're getting a glimpse into the famous artist's past and present life. Update 1/8/01One Hundred Demons is over, but you can now get Ernie Pook at this address, so everything is good. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] And Then There Was Fred [Date] 7/26/01 [Comments] | I am not running out of web comics, I just happen to like this one even though it is over. My link starts you at the front of the archive. There's no "calendar" table for the archive, so you'll just have to read it like a book. It doesn't look like much, a quickly dashed off stick figure comic similar on the surface to "Cynicalman". The humor is a lot quirkier though, very charming in a "Mutts" sort of way, with enough of a storyline to pull you through to it's end last February. Plus, it has one of the best animated link buttons EVER on the last page. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Toonbots [Date] 08/02/01 [Comments] | Hard on the eyes, lame, but a hilarious concept to the geeks among us. The comic is not written, it is defined using XML, a universal data definition language, and then generated using the Toon-o-Matic program. He gives the source code for each comic! Haw (snort!). The author writes: To me, the Toon-o-Matic itself is the work of art. The strip is a by-product. Like hot dogs." | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Ashfield Online [Date] 08/10/01 [Comments] | I might as well jump on the bandwagon for this comic; I wasn't sure what to think of it when it first came out but it's been around long enough to be taken seriously. Also titled "?", a name that cannot be bookmarked in IE, this comic has only been drawn once. The captions change, and usually the background or some props, and sometimes color is added, and sometimes the unchanging Professor Ashfield himself is cut up and mutilated in entertaining ways. Sometimes his eyeballs move. But usually the best jokes are the most minimal ones; it's a little like The Angriest Dog In The World. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] When I Am King [Date] 08/16/01 [Comments] | This comic is Weird with a capital W. I'm not the only one who thinks so; it's been getting a lot of press recently. I'm a trend whore! Anyhow, this is a comic where the King and his countrymen are drawn from geometric shapes so the people resemble curved-cornered refridgerators with heads, the King's sarong gets eaten by a camel pretty early in the series, and he spends most of the strip running around naked, trying to find underwear and keep from getting his pecker stung by bees. All the while pursued by the camel, who wants oral sex. The author's bio indicates he's from Switzerland. Ah -- it's european. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Gene Catlow [Date] 9/06/01 [Comments] | Okay, let's pick something up out of the back bin and dust it off. Hmmm... Gene Catlow. This is a pretty good comic, one I followed avidly for a while. It's pretty unique, well drawn, from the furry genre. In this world, all the animals live in an upright-walking clothes-wearing society, and have to deal with the problem of getting along together. They also have to deal with the problem of getting along with humankind. It's a great setup, seriously explored in order to make parallels to our own world, but I've found the main characters to be far too preachy and righteous. For maximum entertainment value, start at the first strip or try the rather interesting Synopsis Page | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Indie Rock Pete hits Indie Rock Bottom [Date] 4/18/02 [Comments] | I'm sorry I was too busy to recommend this series while it was running, but it's done now and you can read the entire story from start to finish. I recommend trying to read it one page a day as it was originally delivered; the artwork was the aspect of this story I found most amazing and it is most effective savored slowly. Of all the characters to originate in Diesel Sweeties, Indie Rock Pete seems to have the greatest inspiration for readers and other artists; he's the favorite topic of guest strips and crossovers. In this entire Keenspot mini-series devoted to him, we get to hear a little bit of what goes on inside his head, but as the art makes clear, it is one of the more loving tributes to the fool everybody loves to hate. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Norman P. Function [Date] 4/18/02 [Comments] | Ok, Eric Dunne keeps trying new comic ideas, which is why there are so many pointers in my web picks to his pages. There's the original, still-running "You Damn Kid", followed by the currently quiescent historical fake-out "Dizzy Dustbin", and now two new comics that I really like a lot, "Norman P. Function" and "The Beevnics" (reviewed below). Norman has to be my favorite of all, a twisted tale unique on the Internet, with a style and pacing that puts it above your ordinary non-squitior or looney-bin comic styles. So far, this has been my favorite Dunne comic, but it's updated infrequently. Update 7/15/02Recently moved behind a "club" wall. The price is not bad, but mysteriously, membership is closed. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Beevnicks [Date] 4/18/02 [Comments] | Eric was rapidly approaching burnout when this clip-art style comic originally appeared, but rather than being a cop-out vehicle this comic has matured into a full work in its own right. Not just using the same cutouts all the time, Mr. Dunne has fun with them, changing the expressions or other details for a plot device, or flashing back to show us the same characters in the past or interacting with the new character of the week. The comic really hit its stride with the long serial clown story recently, which often had me on the edge of my seat for the next plot turn. Of course, there's plenty of that trademark raunchy humor that in this case leads to plenty of cutout nudity. Update 7/15/02Same as Norman, above. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Jackie's Fridge [Date] 4/18/02 [Comments] | With 500 comics in Keenspace, how can you tell which ones are amazing? It's hard, but every once in a while I follow a link from one of the more established comics and find a gem like this one. Fabulous art is coupled with a soap-opera story line lightened by the core conceit of a young woman moving into a new appartment inhabited by an evil refridgerator. Except it's not that evil any more, and there's an annoying evil Guinea pig instead. This comic is also blessed with lots of commentatry from the artist, always a bonus in my opinion, and has the unusual policy that if a comic is not finished in time for whatever reason, we get the unfinished version in whatever state it got to and the author moves on. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Hole in the Wall [Date] 4/18/02 [Comments] | A "life in college" strip with an undisguised "anime" influence. It's confidently drawn and seems relatively stable, apparently anchored to a college paper's publishing schedule. "Hole In The Wall" refers to the dormitory lifestyle. There's an "everyman" guy, his crazy roommate, and the fabulous girl he'd like to go out with who hangs around. Like most reviewers on the web, my reaction to this comic is: "Sigh... It's just like my life when I was in school." | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] BloodLark [Date] 4/18/02 [Comments] | EIGHT is finally doing another comic. Brilliant as ever, this one was updated on time for three months before I found it, whereafter it started getting spotty. Eight is taking the worn fantasy and adventuring genere and giving it his usual fresh and entertaining spin. Despite the darkness and real-life misery of his characters, it's cool that each comic ends on some kind of joke. Update 5/5/02 Totally dead. Too bad he's keeping that depressing final page up. Update 1/30/03 The URL is gone. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Cat And Girl [Date] 4/25/02 [Comments] | The confidence of both art and writing in this comic gives away the author as a master. Cat and Girl are bohemian companions. Cat is a tall, adventuresome beat, Girl is a cute, savy bookworm. Together they argue about culture and smash stuff. I love the characters, their friendship, and their commentary. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Intelligent Humor [Date] 5/2/02 [Comments] | A highly entertaining non-sequitor comic of the same style and format as Bob The Angry Flower. this comic was published from 1988 to sometime in the 90's. The site is a fan collection of all the old comics they could find and scan; read it slowly; it's a limited supply. For me, the distinguishing lure of this comic is its lovable characers; the big and gentle Gummy Nummy, the firey Rusty the cat, Honda Civic Boy, Seth and Gregg. Many installations poke at the superhero basis of comics with hilarious "vs" battles between odd characters, and rarely does a plot last for more than about half of the panels. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] WIGU [Date] 5/9/02 [Comments] | Last in my recent "Thank God It's Back" entries, the creator of the brilliant When I Grow Up is trying a new direction with a comic about a kid. I was a little worried at first, but Jeffery Roland has left the safety of the original conceits of his characters and they're flying on their own now, lost in the unfairly stupid world bearing a strong resemblance to our own. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Lizard [Date] 5/16/02 [Comments] | The hole left in my day when "Living In Greytown" ended has been filled again. This story has many of the same characters, now set entertainingly in the greater world, with the same meloncholy touches and personal joys that characterized the original comic. For those of you not as hung up on the past, the title character is a good humored little family guy, but no fool either, just trying to get through each day like the rest of us. He has a lovable family and friends all with their own stories. The comic is amazingly enough PG rated, and is published every single damn day in color. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] 6:35 [Date] 5/23/02 [Comments] | Wow! I just found this one and it is something special. With a compelling drawing style, it has a post-high-school perspective, and tells the small, private stories of everyday life and friendship. I haven't finished reading the archive yet, it's only 16 entries long and I'm trying to spread it out over as much time as possible. However, to get the best flavor of what 6:35 is all about, I think this one and this one sum it up best. If you want to experience that feeling of being young and clever again, you will get your wish in this budding masterpiece. Update 2/1/06Link updated to 6:35's new home on the Web. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Eversummer Eve [Date] 5/30/02 [Comments] | Another entry in the "Why is this free?" category. This is an american magna-inspired magic-and-alternate-universe story in a comic book format, not too much different from others except that's so well drawn! Amazingly finished, totally clean lines, nice looking characters, and a good story too. I haven't read more than the first issue, but I'm looking forward to savoring the whole archive. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Leisure Town [Date] 6/6/02 [Comments] | How do insanely great works like this go on for years before I find out about them? "Liesure Town" is probably the most amazing thing I've seen on the Internet since exploding dog. It's visually incredible, thematicly disturbing, and utterly funny. The author constructs stories using photography of some kind of plastic toys set in astounding real-world sets. The sequence of panels is often occompanied by text containing the innner dialog of one of the characters. Those familiar with the work will notice that there are a couple different themes to be found in the huge archive. The first is the stories of pathetic losers, specifically the kind found associated with the internet. In fact, the web site is currently organized as a fake "webzine", with "articles" and "message boards" each of which is really a not-very-disguised story. The characters' delusions are broken down bit by bit throughout their internal rambling dialogs until even they cannot avoid facing terrible reality. Earlier stories focused on a more straightforward chaos, in which these same adorable creatures (there seems to be only about 20, reused and reused for each story) undergo extremely physical misadventures of building hilarity. Examples of the latter type of story are "Extreme Cyclist Lexiconology", in which the relatively triumphant terms such as "sparkler" and "whirligig" give way to the more unfortunate illustrations for "balance blackout" and "wang chung", and "Umbrella Patrol", in which a character asked to watch a friend's umbrella instead takes it on a series of ever more irresponsible adventures. Sterling examples of the former story are the "Manage Your Web Dollars!" article, in which the "successful" .com consultant simply wanders around town searching for his lost ATM card, oscillating wildly between self importance and the realization of what a joke his life is, and "Nobody Came To My Winter Solstice Party, a message board rant in which a thoughly adorable character pleads for any response to his description of the great but snubbed party he threw and sent out e-vites for, and then concludes with an excited invitation to his next shindig. The LiesureTown archive is unbelivably huge, dating back to 1997, and with some stories exceeding 100 pages! I'll be reading this one for a while. Update 1/8/04 So sad! It appears that LT is no longer. The site is up, but shows only a goodbye message Update 2/1/06It's back! No new material, but it looks like the whole archive has been reposted. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Smallest Sound [Date] 6/13/02 [Comments] | Updated very infrequently, The Smallest Sound is more of a personal visual media outlet for the author, who is one of those "Jim Reardon" types of people who produces only rare and intermittant works of such incredible genius that they eclipse other artists' lifetimes of work. So, enjoy "Printer" and other comic stories, then check it out every once in a while and keep your eye on it for new stuff. Update 4/3/03 Checked this one recently and the URL seems to be the unused property of some band now. Guess it's gone. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Mike The Atomic Triangle [Date] 7/18/02 [Comments] | Not really the name of this strip, which is renamed and reinvented every week. This comic is one of those that the Internet is for, experimenting with format, shape, the concept of narrative, browser tricks, whatever. Mike himself is a recent addition the comic, and there's no guarantee that he'll be around by the time you read this, but it's kind of cool that he looks like a character from Iceland. Oh yeah, there's no "archive" as such, but usually you can find a link somewhere in any day's comic that will lead back to the previous one, up to a point. Who is the mysterious "Jack Masters?". | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Comic Journals! The Journal Comic Life with Leslie Toddbot's Comic Journal [Date] 7/25/02 8/1/02 [Comments] | Wow! What an amazingly simple idea, I'm stunned that I haven't seen it until just now. I found these three within short order of each other, and they are all amazing, each with it's own unique flavor. What they have in common is what happens when an artist is forced to come up with a panel strip about something that happened that day, and make it interesting or funny. Leslie's life seems the most real, or perhaps I find his drawing style to be realistic. He works at a sucky job at a video store, and wastes hours a day like me reading webcomics. He also takes the rare step of putting links in his comics themselves. Drew Weing's boldly named "The Journal Comic" is more prolific, and stretches the extra inch to make each story a complete joke a day. Of course, many days the joke is how much time was wasted on the internet. His comic is more about his relationships with his friends. I totally love the brutal self portraiture of his character; that nose is usually the first laugh of every installment I view. Todd Webb's Comic Journal is vastly different artistically. It has a much simpler, block-print look, with the author's self portrait accurately described by him as "lemon headed". In a sense though, this makes it much more compelling. The stories may not be all that, but an entry will summarize a day's worth of shopping by focusing simply on a pair of shoes. It goes without saying that the rest of these authors' web sites are filled with fascinating material that you should read. I'm leaving the navigation of that to you though. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Something Positive [Date] 8/15/02 [Comments] | Lesbian Sex. D&D. Bad Theater. Anime Cons. Bad language. It's basically a comic about Boston fandom. Cynical, foul tempered guy hangs out in Boston with two oriental chicks and has a bunch of equally cynical friends, all fairly self absorbed. Like they make the Seinfeld cast look like Mother Tehresa. Also I'm not kidding about the language. Redeemed by the adorable boneless cat and the art, which is as excellent as Penny Arcade. Favorite quotes: "Don't you dare blame this on my taste buds! I could menstrate a better cup of coffee than this!", and "What is that God awful stench! We always seem to get the train car that smells like somebody gutted a hobo!". Basically, if you can get past the first comic in the archive, it gets mellower and more likable from there on. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Cheese-N-Rice [Date] 8/22/02 [Comments] | For every comic there is an equal but opposite comic. For "Something Positive" it is "Cheese-N-Rice". I have been reading them simultaneously these days. Cheese-N-Rice is utterly wholesome, inspired by the doodles in the artist's high-school notebook and documenting the adventures of characters you can take home to meet Mom. It is set in the real world, and the relationships between people are on an ordinary, everyday level, and funny in that way. Two women, a "geek" and a "blonde" are best friends, try to meet better-than-moronic guys at the local bars, share an apartment, etc. Nicely done and ready for syndication. Warning: Links to "Cathy" and pop-up ads. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Scary Go Round [Date] 9/5/02 [Comments] | Yay! John Allison is making a comic again! Yay! Focusing now on two college students who appeared briefly in the epic Bobbins and utilizing the trademark color cutout style he uses to avoid having to draw with pen and ink despite his obvious raw talent, SGR has the same killer wit that makes John's work a pleasure in whatever medium. Now it's a spooky mystery, so get your Halloween on and wait every Tuesday and Thursday for this comic to be updated. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Kung Fool/Crazy Kimchi [Date] 9/12/02 [Comments] | It's a web comic that's fashionably late :) No, really, Kung Fool is more of an experience than just a comic. It's got some entertaining non-static components, such as the "?" balloon that you can click for each comic tobget the story so far, or sometimes flash components. The art and characters are fabulous, and the story riveting. However, Kung Fool is also a directory of the author's recently found internet treasures, an excellent guide to the internet in itself. Update 6/5/03 Still going. The current Kung Fool story line seems to have sputtered out, but in it's place a new daily comic has arisen, along with a correspondingly updated links page that KICKS ASS!!! This is positively the first comic I check every day now (when I can, generally Not Safe For Work); "crazy kimchi" is a forehead beadingly high-production-value comic about whatever's on the author's mind, and his links are guided by the outrage we all feel about the recent takeover of our country by anti-american elements. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Piggy Hunter [Date] 9/19/02 [Comments] | A very well-done comic of the parody-of-magna genre, obviously written for the author's own pleasure but stilly very funny. In this comic, the heroine's familiar is a tiny cartoon pig. They spend the first few comics of the series humorously making 4th wall references and trying to figure out where to go with it, then poke fun at cop, mech, fantasy, and romantic plot devices simultaneously before falling into a long period of inactivity. Enjoy the archive and hope for resumption of regular updates soon! | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Big Nate [Date] 9/26/02 [Comments] | Another of the few syndicated comics worth reading on the Internet. It's true that the plotting and art are the same mind-numbing syndication formula that never changes. However, Big Nate is a comic within a comic, and the inner comics, which are "drawn" by the main character are hilarious and edgy. I can also respect this comic because the main character is kind of a jerk; I always find anti-heroes more interesting and sympathetic. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Elftor [Date] 10/3/02 [Comments] | Prepare to be offended! Elftor is near and dear to my heart because it is made with MS Paint, which I haven't seen since Boat Anchor. But it's also pretty funny if you like sophomoric humor, such as Jesus machine-gunning pagans, or anything with Osama Bin Laden, abortion, murder, etc. What can I say, it's just so rude it's funny. Sort of the Beastie Boys of web comics. My favorite character: "Cheezetor". Also entertaining is the fact that the author's gone to the trouble to make an icon for his page with will appear in the title bar of your browser or the bookmark. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The Devil's Panties [Date] 10/10/02 [Comments] | So, um, panties, man! This fresh and feminist comic is apparently based on the author, her friends, and her observations on the world. It's almost a member of the "comic journal" genre, and it's reassuring that somebody out there has a life this good. I check this comic frequently to get doses of the author's energetic attitude, and to check on her cute friend's miraculously stable relationship. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Pupkin [Date] 10/24/02 [Comments] | Weird. Innovative. Creepy. Compelling. Pupkin is pretty unusual even for internet comics. The simple drawing style and apparently random plot direction fail to detract from the genius of this comic. Just when you think that Pupkin couldn't get any wierder, you are served up yet another surprise. Some days I can't bring myself to read it, other days it's the first one I check. Looking over the archive, however, provides a better perspective, and the power of the best strips hasn't faded one bit over time. The fictional Bobby Crosby provides a commentary on the strip most days, and claims to have absolutely no idea where it's going in general, with strips being written shortly before they are posted. Update reliablity is almost 100%, so let's hope it doesn't just suddenly end any time soon. Update 1/30/03 As predictable, Pupkin is over and the site is now trash. Check out the archive if you want, it may be back some day, and is still a very good read. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Sephen [Date] 11/7/02 [Comments] | Don't blink. This is Eight's latest comic. It looks like a good post-apocalyptic yarn with his tradmark waif character, giant flying robots, carelessly spastic plot direction, and a central mystery. Send him some money already, I'd like to see this one make it to the end. Update 6/5/03 Dead again, link to the most recent comic lost in the new site redesign; why do I bother hoping. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] The K Chronicles [Date] 11/14/02 [Comments] | Salon has about five web comics, all of which are very good. The K chronicles is one that I avoided for a little bit after finding Story Minute, solely on the basis of the Oliphant-like style in which the main character was rendered. Good thing I read some anyway. The author is a trip! The comics are generally his observations on life, with my favorites being the monthly "Life's Little Victories" segments, all modest and all true. Enjoy the author's travels around the country or his occasionally uncontainable outrage over the erosion of our American rights. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Small Stories [Date] 11/21/02 [Comments] | Small Stories has been around long enough for me to lose the link and then find it again, so I think it can be counted on to continue. The writing totally lives up to the name of the series, with pages and pages devoted to simple conversations, each panel adding compelling depths to each sentence. The characters are ordinary, often due to their autobiographical origins. The art is fabulously polished. The stories I got hooked on were the currently running but almost concluded Same Difference, and the haunting Super Unleaded, both of which I recommend highly. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Um In The Coil's livejournal [Date] 1/30/03 [Comments] | Here's the latest hot new thing: outletless free spirits are using this livejournal thing as a kind of underground comics channel. Free of the continual server problems of Keenspace, but also free of any obligating schedule or archive space, you can find all kinds of honest and personal art going down here. There's also no way to locate it except by following links, mostly from Something Positive. So here is a jewel in the rough; you can say you read it back before it got it's own web site. Um is doing a variety of things with his livejournal, including journalling, but for some reason he has undertaken the task of illustrating the story "Anthem" by Ayn Rand. The art is a spooky block-print style which befits this fascinating tale of a lost-technology future, and the natural emotion and suspense of the story is intensified masterfully by the serial nature of this medium. There's also something else going on, currently only called "untitled". By the time you check this out who knows where that will be, but I'll endevor to keep you updated. Update 6/5/03 Well, Anthem was given up right in the middle, guess I'll have to read the book. There's been a new comic idea that also sputtered and a few illustrations. I still check it every week because this guy is a genius and may yet come up with something new. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] You Wish's livejournal [Date] 2/6/03 [Comments] | Here's another livejournal comic, again recommended via SP. This one seems to be the notebook gleanings of a young kid, her friends, and her job. It's all very light and airy, no particular plot, just whatever happened that day that was funny. The art is fabulously expressive although sadly mostly unfinished. Check out her SP guest strip for a tantalizing look at this artist's full potential | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Unicorn Jelly [Date] 02/13/03 [Comments] | Just found this one, can't have been going long... let's see... May 2000??? How could I have not heard about this before now? And it's even ending, I can tell because the story has jumped ahead 300 years. Unicorn Jelly is many things, among them a serial, so don't bother starting at the most recent strip; my link is to the very beginning. Includng that, this comic fulfills almost every potential of webcomics. It is a completely realized, richly layered graphic novel exploring the relationships between the spiritual and technological, as well as between all kinds of people, set in a unique universe with its own physics and dangers, with a faithful japanese magnaesque storytelling method, complete with such touchstones as jellies and slimes, witches, lost technology, and sound effects such as "Jiri, Jiri". As if all that wasn't enough, just about evey other day in the archive has an easter egg, a link to additional bonus content that helps explain the dense background (usually just at the right times), or expands the story. But most of the times the easter eggs are just for fun, such as one day's comic rendered in blacklight poster colors for instance. Sorry to give such late notice on this one, but read the archive and catch the exciting conclusion! Update 6/5/03 The story is over, read the entire story. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Queen of Wands [Date] 2/20/03 [Comments] | Another friend of Something Positive, I can't figure out why the author of this comic seems so unsure of herself in her bio. It's a typical friends and housemates story loosely based on the author's life like many webcomics, but the art is fantastic and the writing is a whole different flavor of the Boston attitude that makes SP so entertaining. We've been lucky to get daily updates for a while, so the characters have been developing nicely and there seems to be no shortage of material. I hope! | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Ghost 2138 [Date] 3/6/03 [Comments] | It's currently on Hiatus, but you have to check this out anyway. This on-line graphic novel in progress experiments with so many elements of comic-book tradition, and does them well, that it's hard to describe. Ok, here is my favorite part about Ghost 2138. It's set right here, in Washington D.C., in a cool blade-runneresque future. There's a fully developed political history which explains why the story has skyscrapers, furries, assault cops, skeleton gangs, mafia, berserker androids, and superhero elements all thrown together (of course the real reason is that the authors are just having fun). In the center of this story is the unwitting hero, a dreamer who starts getting powers for reasons we don't yet know, who takes it all in stride because he's just that sure that it's because he's "the man". | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] DeVia Dirkdancer - DeViations [Date] 3/13/03 [Comments] | Not so much a comic as an exercise in computer rendering of nearly naked fantasy women, DeViations is notable for its visual success. It's very good looking. There was an interesting tutorial a while back on how he creates the comic. But, aside from the rendering, there's not much going on. A question in the FAQ asks "Why isn't it funny", to which the printed answer is that it's all inside jokes, but really the reason is that it's simply all about the imaging. Very download intensive, be warned! Update 3/22/03OK, I admit it! I have actually been following the current story line in DeViations with great interest, and it is very good. The trio of (nearly naked) main characters have emerged into the real world, finding themselves at a science fiction convention, following the trail of demonic power that has destroyed their own universe. References to D&D and LARP culture are quite humorous to us in the know, but more importantly, I would hesitate to offend the author of such an impressive artistic work, which obviously requires a great deal of skill and effort to produce. I can only say to Mr Troll: I offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally without basis in fact, was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my remarks may have caused you, or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat such a slander at any time in the future! | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] College Roomies From Hell [Date] 3/27/03 [Comments] | Well, I've been reading this one more recently so I should recommend it. It's not that it's all that new, in fact it was one I was reading back when the idea for this web page started back in 1997. It looked a lot different then, and in particular it since picked up a few hallmark elements some of which I just haven't been able to decide how I feel about. On the plus side, the art is spiffy now, not only polished but attactive. These are some of the cutest, most distinctive comic characters on the web. However, I began to find the plot lines a little too long and over-dramatic to keep up with. Also, the fantasy elements that developed for all the characters are also things that a lot of fans of this comic love that I can't get into, even if the characters are otherwise extremely likable. All of which is strange since I still read Sluggy Freelance which has most of the same elements; your mileage will vary. This page can be agony to download without a fast network connection. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Orange Tango [Date] 4/3/03 [Comments] | I've gotta recommend this one soon before updates end! This was announced as a playback of a previously published set of comics, by Brent Kirk, the brother of Derik Kirk, on the Small Stories web site while Derik is taking a break. The comics are completely different from Derik's studious, careful style, more wild and hysterically funny, post-high-school reminiscences contemporarily penned. Aside from the breathless homages to insane characters from his Taco Bell job, the story of the high school play "Rumors" has me on the edge of my seat every day. Thank goodness that this has been updated every day recently. Since these were made years ago, however, they probably won't continue past the month or so of needed fill-in time, so I hope the Orange Tango archive site stays up and you all can get a chance to read every one. Update 6/5/03 No more new comics, the complete archive is online. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Wapsi Square [Date] 4/10/03 [Comments] | This comic looks to me like a newspaper publication that's also on the web, but in fact the opposite is true. The syndication-ready art and story lines are in fact a labor of love wasting away in the obscurity of Keenspace; I would never have known about it if it wasn't for an intrigueing link button on Kung Fool. The most interesting characters in this comic are the female ones; they are all very sympathetically written and have a lot of depth, which I think is unusual because the author is a guy. The comic is mostly about their relationships, although their varied heritages are also explored with surprising authenticity. The comic is updated reliably, which is good because I am so addicted to this one right now that I can't wait to see what happens to the characters in each story line. Points off for an anthropromorphic dog, even if he's still occasionally entertaining. Update 11/01/03 New URL, link updated. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Klyde Morris [Date] 4/17/03 [Comments] | Proving that there is a niche comic out there for everyone, even me, here is a comic about current events in the aeronautics and space industries. And ants. This one takes some time to get used to, but it's worth the effort because it is genuinely funny. For real life reasons which are in themselves hilarious (I won't go into it, just read the author's background, the comic's main character is an ant who works as a commercial pilot, and has otherwise worked a wide variety of jobs all within the industry or flight school. The subject of the bulk of recent comics is the shenanigans of public officials, which (mercifully) the author makes no attempt to draw except as voices behind closed doors. In fact, the best drawing in the comic is of airplanes and rockets. However, if the reader should want to read more comics about ants (and who wouldn't), there are tons and tons of other ant comics by the author in the archives, about four distinguishable independent story lines which imagine a parallel world right beneath our feet in which ants have airports, submarines, starships, and news media. Or if you like, just get a chuckle out of the pomposity of the author himself, as the entire web site is in the third person. He imagines himself as an enemy to blowhards, which is ironic because he seems to be his own worst enemy. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Spellshocked [Date] 4/24/03 [Comments] | With so many comics on keenspace, how can you tell which ones are good? One way is somebody hands your webmaster a cool color business card advertising the comic. Sorry it's taken me so long to put up a review of this one, I checked it out immediately and have been checking it ever since. This is a monthly fantasy comic in which a young dragon shows up for his first day at a magic college, meeting his roommate, a fox who has been faking magic with science, and has several adventures meeting the locals and getting the hang of the place. Then one of the characters' parents show up and it takes a sharp turn into theater, a la Unlike Minerva, but it looks like that's over now. The monthly schedule is to accommodate the production of the beautiful color pages; the wait is definitely worth it. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Mnemesis [Date] 6/5/03 [Comments] | Wow! Get ready for some good old fashioned story tellin'. By the quality of the introductory chapters and the character development so far, the author makes clear that we can expect a full exploration of the philosophical implications of the scenario he's set up. Here's what has happened to our characters so far: they've awakened after their deaths in some kind of afterlife, which resembles a weird gigantic city filled with everyone who's ever died, and there's no sun. They have to get used to their apparently meaningless new life with individually varying levels of death-trauma-induced amnesia. With no sign of any keepers in this lonely afterlife, friendship, love, work, business and religion run rampant. We have not yet found out what the title means in relation to the story. This compelling tale is served well by the author's accessable comic-book drawing style and the flashes of humorous comic relief, helping draw the reader in unawares. The author has gained a lot of artistic confidence since his first major story A God's Life, now completed, and it just keeps getting better. It is nice to find somebody out there not afraid to tinker with the basic metaphisical questions and write a good story in the process. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] S.S.D.D. [Date] 6/19/03 [Comments] | I have no idea what S.S.D.D. stands for, sorry. However, the comic has been around for a while and it's getting better and better, so it's high time I put up a link to it. It started out as kind of an aimless gag-a-day strip with a bunch of rough-looking "furries" who blew things up and had sex and drugs. Recently though, I discovered that the author has woven in a fascinating sci-fi thread wherein some characters from a future apparently influenced by the old main characters end up in the past trying to sort it all out. The old characters really grew on me also as I caught up with the archive. The author occasionally babbles about how he's not a stinking Yank, he's from England dammit, but you really get the picture from the voices in this flash-animated short story. Also immense fun is the now-famous Dictator Test, in which you attempt to figure out the right answers to get "George W Bush" as the answer. Update 6/18/03 I thought I recommended this before now, but I can't find the evidence in the WWN archives, so here it is. The sci-fi story is starting up again; as of the time of this posting he's doing a "the story so far" review which is an entertaining retelling but you should go back through the archives and read the original for yourself to get the full background. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Elf Only Inn [Date] 7/17/03 [Comments] | Just found this one and I am ROFL!!! As usual, it has been going on for a while, and the archive adds a great dimension to the comic. The premise: a cranky guy who likes to roleplay as an elf tries to start a chat room entitled "Elf Only Inn" to attract like minded geeks. However instead his room is visited by users from a variety of other online worlds, and they won't leave, much to his consternation. Eventually they all become an online community of their own. The art on EOI has undergone a couple of transitions. Seizing on the observation that posters to chat rooms use id pictures that rarely change, the artist deliberately made a cut-and-paste comic in which the characters similarly did not change (also taking the opportunity to make fun of cut-and-paste comics). The reason this conceit worked is because the writing was hilarious enough to carry the whole comic. However, the author bit the bullet and has since proven that he can really DRAW! The comic is now incredibly beautiful, and yet the author has done more than just draw it, using the opportunity for motion to further parody the synergy between online fantasy and the mundane "real world". But now the writing has also cranked up several notches, and under each comic the story is continued with further punchlines in chat-room format. Elf Only In is unique in that the real characters in this comic are not the on-line ones that you see drawn, but the fictional people posting behind them, and they continue to grow more and more interesting. Update 7/21/03 Of course, it ends the week I post the review. Archives still good. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Particle Sphere [Date] 7/31/03 [Comments] | There's no way I could not like something as creative and bold on the Web as Particle Sphere. It is of course "sequential art", but in an experimental format takes inspiration from the cosmic style of the plot, in which the main character (Particle) rides interdimesional bubbles between giant space stations of which she seems to be a caretaker. She's currently involved in a showdown with some charismatic space pirates who are running a Robin Hood operation against an interlanetary shipping company. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Rules Of Make Believe [Date] 8/14/03 [Comments] | Magna as realized by it's inventors is a surprisingly rigid and rigorous traditional form. There's a range of certain "looks" for the art and another range of stock settings and story lines. This makes the latest round of indignation over "bad magna" by non-japanese seem all the more absurd to me. However, I generally find that on the Net the magna-inspired comics that filter their way up to my attention are very American, generally only referring to one or two traditional elements as interests the artist. What's cool about RoMB is that even if the artist is one of those dreaded non-japanese, this is a full-up exercise in making a realistic magna, nothing is left out and the attention to detail is exquisite. The first key to the reader is that the pages must be read right to left! Then there is the Shoujo style art, with glossy brushwork and pretty boys and girls. The story is set in an industrial-driven cyberpunk near-future, with virtual reality battles in bad-neigborhood arcades, and a story arc that looks like it could stretch out for years. This has me a little worried, as a matter of fact, as this level of production value tends to be very draining, so let's hope that RoMB can continue for many more issues. Update 1/8/04 "Paused". These fail to restart more often than not, but this one is worth holding your breath for. Update 4/1/04ROMB has been back for several weeks now, congratulations on a successful return from the abyss!! Also, the author has advised me of a new URL, although the old one is also still working for now. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] File 49 [Date] 8/21/03 [Comments] | Red. Freaking. Alert. File 49 is exactly the reason why I search the internet for comics. Apparently the work of an inspired amateur, this work has a riveting, well-told plot and great art that is one of my main reasons for reading. The story's based on the classic "X-files/Escape From Witch Mountain/kids with mental powers running from both a government organization and the private organization that created them" foundation. So far it has centered around just three who have banded together. In a short course of time (but with five chapters so far!) we've really gotten to know these characters and the web of interpersonal dynamics set up by their ages, their unfamiliarity with each other and their powers as they struggle for safety against unknown odds. There are also assorted mysterious secondary characters they interact with and they are not sure if they can trust. One of these characters is featured in perhaps the most intriguing banner I've seen for a comic, in which this man is pointing a gun at the kids, and the line reads "He swore he'd protect them". The art is developing nicely, and although it has a folky look it is naturally expressive, conveying much of the story's emotion and giving the feeling of being in some of the characters' heads. For web cartoonists, the art is often the greatest obstacle, so in this case where according to the background information on the site the story arc has already been fully plotted, let's hope the author can keep up the admirable output volume. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Antihero For Hire [Date] 9/4/03 [Comments] | This comic started just recently, in stark contrast to most of the ones I find which are ending as I discover them. There are several encouraging signs that this comic will continue well past my posting of this review. First off, the background for the freshly minted characters is both fun and well thought out. Secondly, you can observe the start of a story arc in the first couple of months, one that at the time of this writing has set up a delightful mystery. Thirdly, the balance between humor, parody, and serious story struck by the author is unique enough that even he has trouble describing it on his own FAQ, ensuring a fresh tone and plenty of new territory to explore. Visit and encourage the author to keep it up! | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] As If! [Date] 9/11/03 [Comments] | OhMyGawd! It's like totally the 80's in this comic! First clue, main page color scheme is that insane Miami Vice pink and blue. But, much like a certain TV show that was too good to live, the nostalgia in this comic is based on more universal themes than just the temporal setting, and is a captivating melodrama with real and likable characters. It's the story of two girls in high school who meet and form the kind of strong bond of friendship that only a couple of geeks can have, despite their differences and various melodramas. It's been going for a while, so there's a way big archive, and reading through it the thing that amazed me was the quality of the art. Just about every page that scrolled onto the screen made me gasp; it's hard to believe that it's been updating so reliably for so long. If you ever wanted to know what happens to the characters, just read the authors' bios; they stay best friends, and start a webcomic together based on their lives (this kind of takes the mystery out of the fullness of the characters, but on the plus side it explains the visual beauty of the comic itself; the artist is a pro with a day job working for Disney). | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
aa0dc228_Number_12_s_Web_Comics_Picks__Comments | [Link] Counting The Cracks [Date] 9/18/03 [Comments] | Brilliance. Yep, that's pretty much the word to describe Counting The Cracks. The author is just experimenting, pondering the big questions, trying something new more often than not, and saying things more interestingly than you usually see on the Net. Pretty much an instant classic, perhaps all the more intersting because the author often hints that he's either frustrated or bored, so it could end any day. Update 1/8/04 I guess he got bored. Archive is still up. | [] | Number 12's Web Comics Picks | Comments | http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Number12/OnTheWeb/comics.html | 13/1438042989891.18_20150728002309-00332-ip-10-236-191-2_849460886_3.json |
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