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[Link] The Midlands [Comments] 
Gotta say something about The Midlands, just so I have a link to it. Not like it's going anywhere, it's been cranking away since 2001. If the art weren't so well developed it would be easy to dismiss it as a high-school girl's comic (except the author is a guy). It's insanely wordy, with internal monologues spilling out for paragraphs below each panel, often in unreadably small print. The artist has figured out how to capture the beauty of waiflike tiawanese girls, but seems to have only a handfull of poses for them. The characters all have angsty backstories and relationships. Despite all this, there's a lot to motivate me to try to penetrate the murky layers of this comic after a casual review the archives. The title seems to refer to the many-worlds theory that drives the wildly complex universe in which the story is set (so complicated that the FAQ is an entire wiki), dwelling heavily on alternate histories of the British Empire and the orient. The dialog, while a little repetitive with cursing, is occasionally roll-off-your-chair funny in that "you had to be there" way that real people talk
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