It’s a holiday here in America. I really don’t think I need to say that though. We Americans are pretty outspoken about our holidays. I don’t think too many people are caught off guard by any one of them any more (except Mother’s Day, which sneak attacks thousands of men every year). This goes along with the general theme of being American of “non-sublety.†We are not a nation of ninjas, I’ll tell you what.
Anyway, it’s time for another episode of Digital Strips Horizon’s Watch. This month we bring two more quality up and comers to the Brotherhood of Web Comics for your approval. First we do Free Mars by Dave Pauwels and Nicolas R. Giacondino, a grungy, flowing and epic tale of the rock and roll and the revolution of Mars. Next we go back in time to the days of Reconstruction, wood ships and piracy with Oyster War by Ben Towle one of those neo-oldschool comics that I love so much.
We also talk about Mario and video games in general for a bit. I share a little life lesson I learned about eavesdropping on old people and Jason raves about having a Mac.
We then hear the first of our Mario themed songs, “Pipes†by Seventh Epic.
We then go to news. Jason mentions a couple new comics. Bucko and Cochlea and Eustachea (Jason couldn’t say it properly so I can’t find it, if you can translate his babbling into a link, let me know EDIT: Link now present and working. You’re welcome. – MIDNIGHT). Then we talk about Kate Beaton, Meredith Gran and Carly Monardo take on “Strong Female Characters†and about how I apparently don’t know enough dirty words.
We then hit the latest book releases from Scenes from a Multiverse and Imagine This.
The mushroom popping tunes continue with “Monstrous Turtles†by Zircon.
We finally get in to the reviews, giving both comics the what for. We also mention Spacetrawler, Ellie Connelly and Rigby the Barbarian. We talk a lot about scope and how some stories don’t have a good sense of it.
Sorry, I’m wrapping this up. It’s about time for me to celebrate the birth of my nation by eating pancakes in the park. God bless America. And pancakes.
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I’m taking a good long look at Oyster Wars. This Ben Towle is a great artist and I want to check out some of his other stuff. I’m kind of jealous of this style because there’s something about it that says “class”. I’m really impressed with these creators who do these period pieces and do them well. That takes a lot of research to do it right. Oh, by the way, I’m a big fan of your show.
Thanks for the comment Denny, glad to have you aboard.
I agree, “Classy” is a word you can’t help but use to describe his art. I totally have soft spot for these period pieces too.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/flash%20hey,%20guess%20what%25253F%20I%20won./bobmitchell/blog%20pics/the%20daily%20superman/WorldsFinest-199-26-20a.jpg
Hey Steve – in one of your episodes ( I think about six months ago )
you mention the Superman / Flash races and how neither of them would ever win. Well World Finest #199 begs to differ. Flash and Superman in a weakened state crawl towards some lever to stop some sort of bomb. Flash gets there first and says “Hey, guess what? I won!” Hopefully the above link will work.
Nice. It’s about time they let the poor guy win one.