Digital Strips 138 – Zuda Watch 4

This month Zuda invited back some of it’s previous competitors for another shot. They had to produce another eight pages to go along with their previous attempts and the longer format really helps the read know which comics are real contenders and which ones were just pretenders.

Because we had so much at our disposal, we were able to really form some strong opinions about most of the entries. Those we liked, we liked a lot and the rest we disliked with more passion than usual.

Do your picks match ours? Let us know what you think.

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Digital Strips 137 – Review: Harvey Nominees

We take our shots at the Harvey nominees this time and discuss the differences that occur when you let everybody vote rather than just a select few. It’s a Web comic discussion with deep political overtones that we never mention and never thought about.

The strips this time are:

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

E-Z Street

Penny Arcade

Perry Bible Fellowship

The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allen Poo.

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Digital Strips 136 – Review: Eisner Award Nominees

It’s award season for the world of comics once again, and to celebrate we’re going to show up at the ceremony, mock the losers and try to find some way to attach ourselves to the winner and just make a general mess of everything. But until we can make tickets to the show in photoshop, we’ve made this show where we give our takes on each the nominees and explain why we think it should win, or go down in a pile of flames, tears and broken dreams. We also give our picks on what we think should have been nominated, but didn’t this year.



If you want to read ahead so you get all the jokes, the comics we talk about are as follows:

The Abominable Charles Christopher

Immortal

The Process

Panda Xpress!

Sugarshock (you have to scroll all the way to the bottom then all the way to the right)
Our picks:

A.D.

Riceboy

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Digital Strips 135 – Review: Good Ship Chronicles

It’s show time again. This time we review Good Ship Chronicles by Tauhid Bondia and let me tell you, the ship isn’t the only thing that’s good about this strip. We spend most of the time singing the praises of this high class, high adventure set in a distant future where everything is just like Star Trek, only much much funnier. Don’t miss this strip or this episode.

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Digital Strips 134 – Zuda Watch 3

In this episode of Digital Strips we talk about patterns. All kinds of patterns and how the should and should not be used in a Zuda entry. Mostly we deal the pattern of most of the entries being of the Sci-fi and superhero genre, and the patterns (read: cliches or tropes) involved in this kinds of stories. We also hit such patterns found in horror, noir, romance and the totally lack of patterns in one of this months entires.

If you don’t know how to vote in this months competition, want to hear if we love/hated your pick or just want to hear some really good transitions by yours truly, look no further than this episode.

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The Rice is Done

The war is over, the prophecy has been fulfilled, the great journey is at an end. The epic that is Rice Boy has come to an end. Rice Boy is/was a long form comic following the adventures of an unlikely messiah, the small and unassuming Rice Boy. Creator Evan Dahm has done and excellent job. Go check it out. If you’re still not convinced here’s a review of the strip Midnight and I did a while back.

 

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Goodbye Old Niche Comic, Hello New Niche Comic

Just a quick bit of news because I can’t seem to delete my double post of my review below, but I can replace it with something else (Yay Internet!).

Maniac Graffiti, one of my favorite comics that I’ve never mentioned hear because only World of Warcraft players  would enjoy it has come to an end. Creator Anya has decided to quit the game and with it the comic. The strip however, is still excellent and I urge everyone who does or has played WoW to check out the archive. The strip had a lot of great in-world jokes and a really fun and intricate style about it. You should also take a look at the commissions of other people’s characters that are included with a lot of the later strips. All in all a great look at the world’s most popular MMORPG.

In other, yet similar new, VGCats creator Scott Ramsoomair has started a new comic based entirely on the PokeSaga called “Super Effective.” I don’t know how long a strip all about Pokemon can last, but I’m happy to see him try.

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Comic in Print Review: The World of Quest, volumn 1

Did your grade school have a big toy? A big piece of play ground equipment for the kinds the climb all over to burn off extra energy and possibly hurt themselves. My school had a great big toy. It came with all the essential big toy parts, ladders, slides, monkey bars but ours also have a castle, complete with turrets and a draw bridge, a space ship with lasers, a view screen and a helpful robot and a superhero/supervillian lair full of all kinds of super equipment.

While all the “cool kids” (no one is really cool in fourth grade) were playing football and trying to kiss girls, my friends and I were having the time of our lives pretending to be all the cartoon heroes of the time: Ninja Turtles, He-man, Darkwing Duck, the Thundercats. I don’t know who kids these days are pretending to be, but they should be imaging that they are in the World of Quest.

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Digital Strips 133 – Zuda Watch 2

With our apologies, this is a Brigid-less podcast as someone had to do the hard work from the front lines and get the dirt at New York Comicon. But while the boss is away, the dorks will play. Midnight and I had the place to ourselves. Between loud and obnoxious parties, we did manage to be a little bit responsible. We brought in the paper, fed the fish and most importantly, watched the Zuda.

This month’s Zuda crop is full of grim looks at the future and punching. We explore both of these important literary themes in depth as we review each of the ten contestants and give our thoughts.

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Digital Strips 132 – Review: Chronicle

Have you ever had the feeling that you posted the latest exciting episode of Digital Strips only to realize right before bed two days later that you hadn’t? If you have let me know. We probably have a lot of other things in common and should hang out.

This show is old school Digital Strips. In a throw back to the good old days of yore, we offer you a review with a lot of dissenting opinions, vicious rants and personal attacks. It’s as if nothing has changed at all. This week we take on Chronicle by Josh Way. While we all found things that we liked and disliked about the stretch, I don’t think there was a single issue that we all agreed on.

Still, good times are had, laughs are shared and we all feel closer to one another, and that we’re right and the other two are idiots when they disagree with us. You to can take part in these feelings of togetherness. Just plug in your earphones and listen in.

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