We did it, we recorded ourselves talking 200 times.

This is a super special episode in which we talk to two special guests that should be well known to old time fans of the show. We discuss a wide array of topics, getting right to the very meat of what Web comics are and what they mean to us and to the world. We also talk about how web comics can capitalize on blogs and conventions to become more than any other medium could ever hope to and we end with our favorite web comics.

It’s a long show and one with a lot stuff to respond to so please do so in the magical area below.

Show Notes:
Digital Strips Adventures
Bramble Vine
Perry Bible Fellowship
PVP
Penny Arcade
Woody After Hours
Fleen
Least I could do
Candi
Finders Keepers
Princess and Giant
Wonderella
Guns of Shadow Valley
Greetings from Wonderland
Dorm Dorks
Doodles from deGrandLand
Chippy and Lupus
Abominable Charles Christopher
My life in a cube
Bear and Tiger
Pajama Forest
Edmund Finney
Imagine this
Rice Boy
Dark Legacy
Omake Theater

We actually lost Daku’s (spoiler?) sign off. Sorry about that.

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Every year people get paid to decide which comics are the best, and recently they’ve began to come down from their ivory, print-laden, towers to make the same judgement on web comics. Some times they make the right choice (PVP) some times, they really botch it up (Sugarshock). Still though, in my own unbiased opinion, I think the better committee would be one assembled from experts specifically from the web comics field, from people who have a much wider knowledge of what the web is capable of, people who have goatee’s and wear baseball hats, even indoors.

My personal gripes aside, this is the strongest year of nominees that I’ve ever seen. Two Digital Strips favorites, the world’s first Zuda instant winner, the standard “Artsy” comic and a comic with cowboys. There’s a lot of variety and a lot of good stuff to read. They are:

The Abominable Charles Christopher
Bayou
The Guns of Shadow Valley
Power Out
Sin Titulo

How do this years picks stand up to the litmus test of people featured on an episode of Digital Strips? Will we ever recover from the outrage of Sugarshock winning? What crazy thing will Jason say to offend his wife next? You’ll have to tune in to find out.

After you tune in, let us know what you think in the show notes. We love comments, almost as much as we love commenters.

Show Notes:
Abominable show (turns out it was a nominee two years ago, we should have mentioned that in the show, but I’m not sure why it’s been nominated twice, what’s the deal guys?)
Sin Titalo Show
Rice Boy
David Gallaher
Transmission X
Kukuburi
Facebook link

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This is going to come as a big surprise to a lot of you I’m sure, but back when I was in Jr. High, I a bit of a nerd. Shocking, I know. After hours of being the odd man out at school, mentally tiring homework and physically taxing sports, the only thing I had to look forward to was a solid hour and a half of Late Night TV. I’d watch the first half of Leno, Letterman and O’Brien religiously, and experience that still effects me and the way I arrange the furniture in my living room.

Apparently I’m not the only person on the Internet to be so influenced by the Kings of Late Night. Woody after Hours is practically a love letter to the late night talk show format. It’s a very interesting new comic about a lovable everyman at his quest to make it big in the world of late night. Besides the normal gag-a-day wackiness, Woody invites guests from other Web comics to sit on the couch and be featured on the show.

It’s a great idea and a fun way to collaborate with other creators, but how does the execution hold up? You’ll have to tune in to find out. That’s what we call a teaser folks.

Show Notes:
Gigcast
Amazing Super Zeros
Blambot
Nate Peikos
Escape from Planet Nowhere
Snowflakes
No Need for Bushido
Edmund Finney’s Quest for the Meaning of Life
Monster plex
Chronicle
Lucy’s Imps
Mimes
Imagine This
Scot Kurtz
Girls with Slingshots
Questionable Content
Looking for group

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Apparently, I’m such a bad cook, I can make chicken taste like pee. But that’s neither here nor there. Where is both here and there is Horizons Watch, which means we’ve got two more comics for you that we think have the potential to be the next big thing.

We talk first about Lucy Phurr’s Imps. A fun romp with a lot of color and a lot of character. We then move on to Zahra’s Paradise, by far the most serious, political and possibly important comic that we’ve ever featured.

We also talk about web comics voting sites, what it means to be a conceptual comic, how to be more real to your listeners, how much I hate it when people say my name wrong and most importantly, Street Fighter.

Join in on the fun. The comments sections is laid bare before you, please make proper use of it.

Show Notes:
ExtraLife Radio
Commissioned
order of the stick
cru the dwarf

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What’s this, a new show type, from Digital Strips? They never do that.

This time we’re trying something a little different. Realm of Atland is a strip that I have read and loved for years. Its creator Nate Peikos is a big part of the community with all his fonts available at Blambot. Years ago, Daku and Zampson (and maybe Phil) did an over glowing review of the strip.

Now, years later, everyone who is cool has read Realm of Atland and fantasized about marrying either Lily or Bruce, depending on their personal preference between buxom priestesses and rugged minotaur barbarians. Jason on the other hand, is not cool, so I had to sit him down and force him to read the first 50 strips and now, like a bunch of high school kids or empty-nesters, we’re going to discuss what we read.

And we want you to join in the fun. Please let us know what you think of this strip and about our show about it. The comments section below is a great place for that. And if you haven’t read Atland, now is a great time to start. And if you’ve tried in the past and decided you hate things that are awesome, at least listen to the first two minutes of the show. Their probably my favorite two minutes since I started this gig.

Oh and in the show we said we’d talk about the elephant size boobs in the room, but bosoms such as these demand their own show, so that’ll probably be in the next episode, unless you want to talk about them now. In the comments.

Show Notes:
Questionable Content
Coverville
Not Invented Here
PVP, I don’t know why I said Penny Arcade. I’m a dummy
Superfogeys
8Bit theater
Order of the Stick
Legend of Bill
My Sister the Freak
Looking for group
Least I could do

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I hate when I have to sit down and figure out an introduction to a show. I have to be creative but I already started listening to an old episode of Arrested Development and I can’t stop. So rather than wait till its over and then apply myself to the project at hand, I’m just going to say “Mr. F” and let the cool listeners know how funny that really is.

This may have been the strongest Zuda month on record. Even if it isn’t, then it’s certainly the one with the best average layout. But strong months don’t mean that every comic is strong. As fully trained Internet blow hards, we can always find something to call poopy. Tune in to find out who made us sign praises and who just made us sign.

Be sure to listen to the ending, I’m trying something different and I’d really like some feedback.

Show Notes:
Hydebound
Eldritch
Meadowlands
Mr. Trilbok Signs the Blues
Dan + Clue
Junito
Queer Romance
Stereophonic Ninja Boy
Terminus
The Zombie Hand

Lovecraft is Missing
Hourglass Falls is what he meant
Octane Jungle
Crooked Man

And be sure to join us next time when we have a very special episode in which I finally get Jason to read Realm of Atland.

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Lock the door, horde some food and set yourself up to survive the zombie hordes, because the world is about to end. The final sign of the apocalypse has finally happened, Steve and Jason have reviewed a manga.

This week’s offering is the very dividing By Moon Alone by Honoel A. Ibardolaza (alone?). We talk about a lot of stuff involved here, we discuss why Jason hates all things Japanese and why Steve wants to like it. We delve into art, writing and pacing, all the usual comic topics you expect from us. Only this time about a comic you probably never expected us to do.

We also ramble on about 3-D movies, the time paradox that is the state of Idaho, why Apple has changed the way Jason poops and a bunch of other fun stuff. Join us won’t you?

Show Notes:
Gastrophobia
SuperFogeyes
Wes Molebash
PVP
Dawn of Time
Strike the Earth
Dwarf Fortress
Order of the Stick
Realm of Atland
Red vs Blue
Extra Life

If I missed anything, please let me know.

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Wow, that may just be the longest title in the history of Horizons Watches. I’ll have to check to know for sure and we all knot that I won’t do that so we’ll all just accept it as fact.

This week we head back beyond the atmosphere and hang out in space for two more sci-fi comics. Both these comics are just little babies, taking their first breathes of Internet air, but so far they have entertained us with their coos, goos and because they’re babies, even their poos.

The comics are Escape From Planet Nowhere by Otis Frampton and The Loneliest Astronauts by Kevin Church and Ming Doyle and about the only thing these two comics have in common is that they happen in space and they appear on this show. Tune in and enjoy, or else.

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