tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-05-04:509203 click, click, click goes the keyboard graycardinal 2010-11-05T04:03:02Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-05-04:509203:19465 2010-11-05T04:03:02Z 2010-11-05T04:03:02Z "Once Upon a December" (from <i>Anastasia</i>) mellow public 2 I've historically been a tough sell for Web-comics, but here are two I've been following for awhile now and enjoying.&nbsp; The links will take you to the opening installment of each.<br /><br /><a href="http://comics.shipsinker.com/?id=478">Outrage</a><br />Crossover starring the Sixth Doctor and the cast of <em>Jem</em> -- the latter being a 1980s animated series about an all-girl rock band and their amazing high-tech holographic technology.&nbsp; If you're an old school Who-fan, this is fun for the Whovian shoutouts; if you're a <em>Jem </em>fan, this will totally explain why Eric Raymond was such a slimeball and how Techrat pulled off some of his unlikelier creations.&nbsp; That said -- the art is on the cartoony side, and may strike some viewers as unduly primitive.&nbsp; Updated irregularly, more or less once or twice a week.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.namesakecomic.com/?p=62">Namesake</a><br />Just launched very recently, this is a lush and ambitious-looking story involving a modern tween sucked into a complicated, multi-layered adventure in which reality and story blur into one another -- and more than that I shouldn't say lest I foreshadow the opening plot twists too clearly. &nbsp;The artwork is impressive as h*ll (especially the occasional full color pages) and the storyline, though just barely unfolding as yet, looks extremely promising.&nbsp; Updated three times a week, so far with impeccable promptness.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=graycardinal&ditemid=19465" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments