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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Does it take a lot these days to impress you? Then you’re not alone.

After countless examples of absolute turd-knockers blinding innocent bystanders with science, one of them finally get’s a taste of his own medicine. String Theory by Beckey Grundy starts in a hospital with it’s main character learning that he lost his eyes. Fortunately they gave him some fact ones because it’s the future. Unfortunately that’s the last good thing to happen to the poor guys in the next two and a half chapters of comic.

This episode we talk about all kinds of artsy topics, like the use of color, contrast between foreground and background, cool covers and more. We also talk about when it’s best to cut your loses and stop trying to the funny all the time. Mostly though, we talk about this comic and what we’ve learned from it, both about the art form and about our selves.

All this, plus news, references to other comics, dropped names and so much more all on the latest episode of Digital Strips.

Show Notes:
Captain Excelsior (Stupendous)
DJ Coffman’s Program
Web comics dot com
Web comics.me
the overlook
Questionable Content
Scenes from the Multiverse
Storming the Tower
Cyanide and Happiness
Imagine This
Joe Loves Crappy Movies
Bullfinch
Bug
XKCD

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It is Monday morning once again and fat orange cats around the world are upset about it. Fans of Digital Strips Book Club on the other hand, could not be happier because another episode is ready for their auditory consumption.

This week we continue our in-depth look at Templar Arizona, a very well established, beloved and brown comic by Spike. I’m learning a lot about the comic and myself at the same time as I read it. I just wish I was learning more about dinosaurs as well. Because that makes learning about anything fun, even math. 2nd grade taught me that.

Still haven’t gotten much feed back on this format, one way or the other, so please, let us know what you think of Digital Strips Book club. Inquiring minds want to know.

Not much in the way of show notes this week but here’s what we got.
Edmund Finney
Order of the Stick

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I don’t care what the experts say, I still think that cheap-o brand Apple Jacks taste just as good as the name brand. Also Digital Strips gives you just as much entertainment for you podcasting dollar at the quote unquote “professionals.” That may have to be our new slogan “Digital Strips, the cheap-o brand Apple Jacks of the Internet.”

It’s girl week hear at “Digital Strips, the cheap-o brand Apple Jacks of the Internet.” Two strips have just crested over the horizon and the only thing they have in common, besides being comics on the Internet that we decided to talk about, is female lead characters. Both of us had a rough time with the fairer sex in Jr. High so we normally avoid anything that has to do with them. These comics just may change our minds.

The strips in question and Red’s Planet and Rigby the Barbarian. Listen in as we end up comparing the two comics more than we ever have on one of these shows. Thrill as we join the brave heroines on some fun-filled adventures the likes of which can only be found in Web-comics (or videos games, but that’s another podcast). Feel our pain as technical difficulties force us to read the news, a second time. All this and more on this episode of “Digital Strips, the cheap-o brand Apple Jacks of the Internet.”

Show Notes:
Penny Arcade
PVP
Ding
Cyanide and Happiness
Comixed
Diesel Sweeties
Oil furnace
Lovecraft is Missing
Ellie Connelly
Dawn of Time
Bug

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I am not a smart man. There are, however, a few universal truths that I know for a fact. Every who drives faster than me is an idiot. If four guys live together one of them will pee with the door open. And absolutely everything is better with Cheese.

While most people would agree with me on the topics of bacon and chili fries, I can no prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that cheese can even make a simple greeting better.

This week we take a look and the often puny, usually short and always quality Hello with Cheese.

Show Notes (links to be inserted later today)
Bloodbowl
The Bean
DJ Coffman
Nate Piekos
Scott Kurtz
Templar Arizona
Riceboy and the Rest
Spike Writes Evan Draws
Brock Heasley
Maps and Legends
Pictures for Sad Children
Bug
Bear and Tiger(the Fart Joke)
Snowflakes
SMBC (the penis one)
Penny Arcade
Wes Molebash
XKCD
Garfield minus Garfield
Rip Haywire
Bear Nuts
Commissioned
Imagine This
Pajama Forest
Strewth
Cheese cast
Red’s Planet
Rigby the Barbarian

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Whew boy, what to say about this one? The fun thing about book clubs is that they force you to read something you normally wouldn’t. They’re like English Class for grownups. The same thing is true of our own book club. There is no way I would have read Templar Arizona if it weren’t for this show. It’s too serious, too real, too slow and too brown. It’s hard for something like this to compete for my disordered attention span when there’s stuff like Omake Theater.

Still I’m glad Jason made me read the first 100 pages of TempAz. I’ve learned a lot about myself and what I want out of comics and how that isn’t always what’s best for me. If that sentence didn’t make much sense, check out the show and see if that helps. How’s that for a teaser?

And how as these for Show Notes:
Superfogeys
tall tale radio
Web comic overlook
Instapaper
Bug
Chickenhare
Order of the Stick
Hello with Cheese

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