Digital Strips 222 – Review: ChickenHare

I have survived enough yummy stuffing to clog all my arteries with bread, sudden snow storms and 3 days with my family and I have done it all to bring you guys the latest episode of Digital Strips. Today the comic sacrificed to the gods of podcastery is Chickenhare, by Chris Grine. It’s a fantasy adventure tale without orcs, and it’s good, so how often does that happen? (Quite often actually, thanks to the magic of Web comics, but I still like to make a big deal out of it in case the video game industry is listening).

We talk about this comic, the fact that most of it cannot be found online, the transition to color, the characters, the dialogue and everything else that tickles our fancy. We take a look at some new comics and some classics that are pushing into new areas. And we do it all as quickly as possible, because Jason had the sniffles.

One of the shorter shows recently, so you’ve not no reason not to listen.

Show Notes:
Order of the Stick
Questionable Content
Imagine this
Pie Comic
Dracula vs King Arthur
Web comic factory
Rice Boy
Meek
Bean

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Digital Strips 221 – Book Club : Templar Az, part 3

Ugh, so sorry for the delay on this one. I won’t gross you out with the details of my illness and just say it was gross.

So this week we’re headed back to the brownest spot on the map, Templar Arizona as we read deeper into chapter three. Mostly we talk about pacing, why it’s so important for a comic, what makes for good and bad pacing and what can over come it.

It’s a fun show full of comical insight, clever analogies and Jason admitting he was wrong. Join us won’t you and then hit up the comments section.

Show notes (links coming soon)
Our Valued Customers
Web Comics Weekly
HalfPixel
Web comics dot com
Brad Guigar
Web comics What’s cooking
Legend of Bill
Dog eat Doug
PC Wienies
ChickenHare

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Digital Strips 220 – Review: Super Normal Step

I hope you like the old-school Digital Strips, because that’s how this episode is gonna roll.

There is a definite streak of disagreement running through this podcast. Jason and I could not seem to find any common ground and you, the good listeners get to reap the benefits.

We set our sites on Super Normal Step, the type of long form, page-based story strip we haven’t hit for a while. It’s full of action, adventure and smart-mouth fuzzy bunnies. Rather than settle into our normal routine of discussing the art and writing in a structured and civilized fashion we spend most of our time arguing our main thesis of whether or not the comic is good and refer back to these aspects as we go. It’s sort of different format and I’m curious what you guys thought, so please let us know.

Also as always we’re eagerly awaiting comments and emails so keep those coming.

Show Notes
Nodwick
Full Frontal Nerdity
Our Valued Customers
The Meek
Not Mad
The Dish
Web comics Beacon
Gigcast

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McCloud Demands Bigger Online Presence For “His Face All Red” Creator Carroll

In lieu of more talky-talky this week, we’ll try to bring you some news the old-school DS way, via short, succinct, savory blog posts. And what better way to kick off the week than with an amazing comic from a new face.

Scott McCloud, finder of all things amazing and new, blogs briefly about Emily Carroll, the creator behind the overnight success that is His Face All Red. Steve mentioned in our (now lost to the Interether) most recent episode that I probably recognized her name from combining poet Emily Dickinson and author Lewis Carroll, which is entirely possible. The entire comic, all ten, infinitely-canvassed pages of it, is incredibly haunting and does a great job of evoking that classic horror style in the vein of Edgar Allan Poe.

Do as the McCloud commands and demand a larger, more consolidated presence for this next up-and-coming webcomics star!

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Status of Episode 220

Sometimes it rains pennies from Heaven. Sometimes it rains cats and dogs. And sometimes those cats and dogs go poop in the air and the turds land on your face.

Metaphorically, that’s what happened to episode 220. Due to some technical hurdles I don’t have anything to post for you guys and I’m very sorry about that. I’ll try to have a general recap typed up in the next couple of days but I’ve spent most of the evening typing up my grandfather’s eulogy for my Grandma who typed it up herself, but didn’t know how to save it so she printed it and mailed me a copy to type up.

You gotta love grandmas.

So yeah, I’m kinda typed out for one night but will tell you guys all about Chava and Don Anders and Cleopatra in Spaaaaace in the coming day or so.

Or better yet, read the comics yourself and throw your thoughts about these comics in the comments below. Then it’ll be like we’re all learning together.

Once again, we apologize for the momentary lapse in coolness.

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Digital Strips 219 – Review: Faraday the Blob

Super sorry for the delay folks, not sure why I was dumb last weekend, I just was.

This week we take an in depth look at Faraday the Blob, a comic that is so web comics that I could just say that and be done with it all. But I’ve been told that that is vague and not really an adjective and that I should say more. When I say something is web comicy, I mean it’s funny, edgy, weird, that it does stuff that would just never fly in the print world. FtB is all this, more and a bag of chips.

This week we also talk about pizza etiquette, the nature of strips clubs in Utah and web comics news.

Show Notes
Mcrib Locator dot com
Retail
Boxcar Astronaut
Spooky Doofus
Legend of Bill
Imagine This
Superfogeys
Zombie Street Fighter
Topataco
XKCD
Copper
Beaver and Steve
Scenes from a Multiverse
Pokeweed

Faraday Comics Mentioned
the Vuvesela one
Strip 37
Strip 57
Strip 60

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