Scott Kurtz, creator of the PVP web comic, has announced that his strip is returning to print in the pages of PC Gamer Magazine. The return of the strip will be marked with a two page spread in the April 2005 issue and will feature original strips not seen on the web.
Continuing the theme of reviewing the biggest strips I can find we bring you Sinfest. Here is a strip I can never decide if I enjoy it or not. The writer and artist is Tatsuya Ishida and uses Sinfest as a social commentary. There is no basic plot other then broad variety of stereotypical characters interacting and commenting on the world around them. First we have Slick who is a wannabe player representing your typical clueless male and there is Monique the tramp representing the worst in females. Supporting roles go to Criminy the bow-tie wielding geek, Continue reading
Last week Zampzon gave a review on You’ll Have That and received our first comment to the blog. Another strip called Martin’s Misdirection was mentioned and I jumped, as in I read it the next day but took a week to write this, on the chance to review someone’s recommendation. This is a strip from James Burks who has many high profile experiences under his belt. Upon first look I thought the strip was too detailed in it’s sketching but then I realized all the details were in my head. James is so good in his simplicity that he is able to suggest a whole world in a single frame.
A few years ago when I first started reading digital strips there were some obvious strips I was going to read first. One of these is Diesel Sweeties. Now I’ve never been a fan of pixel comics but Richard Stevens has done an excellent job creating both his characters and the different plots. As anyone who has visited other pixilated strips has notice most have taken old 8-bit game characters and posed them together and simply acted out play or the games the characters were created for. Such techniques do allow for fast production and instant character development but Continue reading
I was very upset when I found my favorite strip had gone on hiatus. I paid Overcaffeinated many visits and found every single strip to be hilarious. It always helps if every strip seems to have been written from your own experiences but if I ever get around to making my own strip I hope I can tell jokes as well this. The creator’s name is Sergio I. Villarreal Pou and he is currently using the site for a blog, although he keeps his old strip up for your perusal. As Sergio became overloaded at work he stopped updating his comic but did manage to write Continue reading
I don’t know when it happened but at some point I started to love political cartoons. Of course at first I liked them merely because they had really famous people looking silly. With the printed strip dying off one of the unfortunate side-affects has been the decline in quality of these social commentaries. Here’s the web is providing an outlet. There are cartoonists like Bill Mitchell who have gone completely digital and AWOL from the printed world and has been publishing online since 1995.
At the top of my list of strips to read is Ctrl+Alt+Del. This is a relatively young strip and has recently come into its own with the strip creator Tim Buckley going full time. Much like Penny Arcade, of which Tim is annoyed to be compared to, the strip focuses on the lives of two gamers and the video game industry. This is were most similarities end as whenever the humor is not directly related to a gaming it will be concerned with the daily lives of its main characters, Ethan and Lucas. It is mostly situational humor and can be quite silly at times. Continue reading