Webcomics I'm following

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:03:02 GMT

I've historically been a tough sell for Web-comics, but here are two I've been following for awhile now and enjoying. The links will take you to the opening installment of each.

Outrage
Crossover starring the Sixth Doctor and the cast of Jem -- the latter being a 1980s animated series about an all-girl rock band and their amazing high-tech holographic technology. If you're an old school Who-fan, this is fun for the Whovian shoutouts; if you're a Jem fan, this will totally explain why Eric Raymond was such a slimeball and how Techrat pulled off some of his unlikelier creations. That said -- the art is on the cartoony side, and may strike some viewers as unduly primitive. Updated irregularly, more or less once or twice a week.

Namesake
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. 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. Updated three times a week, so far with impeccable promptness.

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Webcomics I'm following