Monthly Archives: August 2010

Digital Strips 208 – Horizons Watch: HIKYM and Nathan Sorry

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Episode 208 Direct Download

When we first started doing Horizons Watches all those many years ago, I hoped for a future where listeners would take sides. I wanted to see factions arise, take up arms against each other and battle to the death in the comments section. I wanted those honest and hardworking people who liked my picks and always thought I was right to put up a violent and glorious struggle against the unwashed masses of savages who sided with Mr. Sigler.

So far, this has not happened.

If there were ever an episode to inspire such a revolt, this would be the one however. We have both picked comics that speak to us on very personal levels. If you want to know what I, Steve “The Geek” Shinney stand for, look no further than my pick “How I Killed You Master” and if you want to know what vile eldritch machinery powers Jason “The Midnight Cartooner” Sigler, you’ll fine no better example than “Nathan Sorry.”

And so I send out the call to arms. It’s time to choose a side. Are you with Team Steve, or Team Jason. The time is now!

Also the show notes are now!
Epicsplosion
Good Ship Chronicles
Nerf Now
Awkward Zombie
PVP
Harvey awards
Hark a Vagrant
High Moon
Power Out
Sin Titulo
Abominable Charles Christopher
Order of Tales
Vattu
8-Bit theater
Atomic Robot
Chronicle
Strewth

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CALL FOR GUEST STRIPS! Featuring Wes Molebash (Max vs. Max)

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Guest strips are great for so many different reasons:

  1. They can help get an unknown creator more, much-needed exposure
  2. They provide us with different takes on characters we know and love
  3. They give the creator in charge a chance to step back and take a vacation, knowing their beloved comic is in good hands

Ok, so only three reasons, but they’re all really good ones. And they all apply to Wes Molebash, who would like to build up a buffer of guest comics for his latest work, Max. vs. Max. Here are the official details of the deal from Wes himself:

I’ve recently received a couple guest strips from some Max vs. Max readers, and I thought it might be a good idea to put out a call for guest strips that I can use for a rainy day (or rainy week).  So if you’d like to draw a guest strip for Max vs. Max and earn some free promotion on my site, here’s what you gotta do: Send your guest strips to me at wes (at) maxvsmax (dot) com and use Guest Strip Submission as the subject.  If you do not use Guest Strip Submission as the subject, then it is likely your submission will get buried in my inbox never to be seen again.

Save your comics as .PNG or .GIF files and make sure they are 980 pixels wide.  I don’t care how tall they are.  They can be black-and-white, color, grayscale . . . whatever.  Draw my comic the way YOU would draw my comic.

I don’t really care what you write about or what characters you feature.  I do ask that you keep it fairly clean (PG or PG-13).

I’m not sure when these strips will run.  They may get published at the end of the month during my wedding week, or I may save them for a later date.  You may want to keep that in mind during your writing process.

Please include any links and pertinent information about your blog/comic strip/website in the body of your email.  I want to send you some link love for helping me out, and I won’t be able to do that if you don’t give me a URL.

So send ’em in and help a brother out! If you have any questions, leave ’em in the comments and Wes will personally respond to your burning queries.

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GOOD NEWS: Evan Dahm Continues To Do More Things

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With Order of Tales wrapped and ready to be immortalized in print form for all eternity, fans of the master of all things epic and eccentric wondered when they might next see his work gracing the pages of their Internets. Thankfully, Dahm is taking no time off and his next tale from Overside, Vattu, has already begun. The archive is only seven pages deep thus far, so get in while its young and for heaven’s sake, if you haven’t read the previous works, get to that right now!

Not only is Dahm not stopping, he’s teaming up with Templar, AZ‘s Spike (the subject of our next Book Club, by the way) to create a Tumblr page dedicated to whatever the heck they might come up with together. I fully expect bizarre, hauntingly beautiful images from this thing daily, people, so bookmark it for your daily fix of the mythic and macabre.

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Digital Strips 207 – Review Hark! a Vagrant

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Download Episode 207

People always ask why we never (or at least rarely) review the big name strips. I normally mumble something about wanted to give exposure to the little guy and then say I have to use the bathroom where I just sit on the toilet wait for who ever it is to go away.

Now though, I won’t have to do that anymore. I can just point to this episode and tell people that the answers they seek are held within. This week we take on the monolith under which history and hysteria meet on a daily basis that is Kate Beaton’s Hark! a Vagrant. If you’ve never read this strip your in for a treat and if you have you’re probably wondering why we’re so late to the party.

The truth is we’re never late for a party, a party doesn’t start until we arrive. And so you see, Hark a Vagrant wasn’t awesome, until right now.

We do talk a bit about what makes it the success it is and cast some blame upon it for a lot of the drivel it makes us read.

But that’s not all folks. We also take on all comers who dare to suggest that our beloved medium has bitten the dust and learn a whole lot about the exotic ecosystem that is the Idaho High School System. It’s good time, one of my favorite recent shows to be honest.

Here are the show notes for it:
High Moon
Modern Tales
PVP
Penny Arcade
Milk Toof
Ctrl Alt Del
Half Pixel
Evil Inc
Webcomics.com
Wonderella
Dresden Codak
Axe Cop
Doctor McNinja

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