Remember! I’ll be at the Tucson Festival of Books next weekend! Check my schedule here and be sure to drop by!
Now, then. Check out what came in the mail today…
Aw yeah.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, but Unsounded by Ashley Cope remains one of my favorite webcomics out there. I seriously can’t praise its imagination and style enough (especially with the weird twists it’s been taking lately).
If you took my advice and supported Ashley’s Kickstarter, you should be getting your copy very soon now!
What you won’t get, however, is a neat little message like this…
Yeah. You like that? I mean, everyone got a sketch, but I got a neat little message ‘cuz Ashley and I are bros.
NBD.
Anyway, while I’m at it, there are a couple of webcomics I’ve been wanting to share with everyone because these two are really good and deserve to be shown!
O Human Star by Blue Delliquanti is something special.
I actually don’t use that word a lot because I think it’s a really significant word to use. A lot of webcomics are well-executed, have unique premises or are just plain fun (and it helps that O Human Star is all of those), but there’s something really magical about this.
In the near future, robotics have become a way of life. They are citizens, with their own rights, their own hopes, their own dreams. What’s more, the hopes and dreams of another person can be digitized and planted within them, leading to a sort of robotic resurrection. What happens when Alistair, deceased roboticist, is returned to life in a body he never asked for to take part in a family he didn’t know he had?
This comic is basically family drama in a future sci-fi backdrop. The concepts are neat, but it’s the relationships that make it what it is. Delliquanti has a lot of talent for interplay and dramatic tension. You owe it to yourselves to check this out.
Paranatural by Zack Morrison is a comic positively bristling with energy, style and humor. Just reading it feels electrifying for the amount of dynamic action he manages to cram into every page.
Being the new kid at school is tough enough even without the problems of seeing the spectral world of spirits and ghosts. Factor in zen bullies, overaggressive student newspapers, ghost-eating monsters from beyond the pale and crazy magic powers and our hero, Max, has one hell of a journey.
Paranatural is a favorite of mine for just how natural it all seems to look. The energy is off the charts, the flow and poses of the characters are amazing, the relationships are volatile and clever, everyone snaps off one-liners like it ain’t no thang and somehow, none of it feels forced or contrived. There’s a really awesome story here and it’s really, really, really fun to read!
Be sure to check all of them out.
ALL OF THEM.
NOW.