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I saw this in the bookstore today, then noticed a quote by Neil Gaiman, naming it his "favorite webcomic".
Neil Gaiman has a favorite webcomic?
*snatch, purchase, take home, read*
...why? Why did no one tell me?
Now I have so much catching up to do.
Oh well, at least I also have a healthy amount of story to burn through.
Very intriguing strip. On the first glance it seems like yet another "smart kids in a special school" deal, quickly shifting into a fascinating jigsaw puzzle plot surrounding a seemingly unflappable young girl named Antimony.
Oh, and it has a spirit-possessed, snarky stuffed wolf toy as a major supporting character.
What's not to like?
Well, other than the fact that Antimony has the weirdest head shape in all comicdom during many of the earlier strips?
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Gunnerkrigg is pretty darn awesome. I guess I assumed I'd heard about it hear, but thinking back, I think Questionable Content may have linked it and carried on about how great it was.
I also like Devil's Cake about a college student being stalked by what may be a sex-changing psychotic demon. It's a comedy! Somehow it works better than the premise suggests.
I've just started reading Misfile where a slacker angel accidentally changes a boy into a girl and ereases two years from another girl's life. It brings the drama, and it's an interesting exploration of self-identity and gender roles. However, it does have a teenage boy dealing with being a girl, so there's some crudeness here and there.
And since I still like teen angst drama in small doses, I read Red String. A high school student comes home one day, and her parents announce that they've arranged a marriage for her. She promptly goes out and meets her soul mate. It's good stuff.
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If I'm invested enough in the characters of a comic, I don't mind an extended story being given in smaller doses. Once MegaTokyo made the transition from a gag strip to massive extended arcs, I was able to follow it alright.
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I like Gunnerkrigg Court, but I don't love it. When I read that it was Gaiman's favorite webcomic my response was "really? Gunnerkrigg Court? Gaiman must not read all that many webcomics".
I have been enjoying the evolution of the artwork, though, and I love the way Coyote is drawn, but I agree with Tom that the pacing is off.
These days, the serious (mostly serious) webcomic I'm most enjoying is probably Thunderstruck (written by a former Hatracker from the Big Mouth Lion days, unless I'm getting my stories mixed up. Kate? am I recalling correctly?). At first I thought that some of the characters were acting as mouthpieces for the author's religious beliefs, and was annoyed by that, but I was wrong.
Another (mostly) serious comic I enjoy quite a bit is The Zombie Hunters, although it updates slowly enough (once a week, these days, though at times she switches to a twice a week schedule) that it's more satisfying to let it build up for a few months inbetween visits.
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quote:Originally posted by Puffy Treat: I saw this in the bookstore today, then noticed a quote by Neil Gaiman, naming it his "favorite webcomic".
Neil Gaiman has a favorite webcomic?
*snatch, purchase, take home, read* [/URL]
Funny, that's why I grabbed, "Little Brother" by Cori Doctorow at an airport. In that instance it was the Neil Gaiman blurb that said it was the best book he read in 2008.
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quote:Originally posted by Noemon: I like Gunnerkrigg Court, but I don't love it. When I read that it was Gaiman's favorite webcomic my response was "really? Gunnerkrigg Court? Gaiman must not read all that many webcomics".
I understand that being a writer can cut into one's web-surfing time.
Still, does "favorite webcomic" mean it's the one he thinks is the best webcomic?
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quote:Originally posted by Noemon: [qb] I like Gunnerkrigg Court, but I don't love it. When I read that it was Gaiman's favorite webcomic my response was "really? Gunnerkrigg Court? Gaiman must not read all that many webcomics".
I understand that being a writer can cut into one's web-surfing time.
Sure. I wasn't terribly surprised that he doesn't read a whole lot of webcomics.
quote:Still, does "favorite webcomic" mean it's the one he thinks is the best webcomic?
My favorite comic book is Knight of the Dinner Table, but I'll never claim it's the best comic I read.
That's an interesting question. I was certainly thinking of his endorsement as meaning that he thought of it as the best webcomic he was reading, but that doesn't mean that that was the way he was intending the word to be read.
Did something about my post get under your skin, Puffy? I could have been misreading your response, but it felt as I was reading it as though you were bristling slightly.
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