I’ve wanted to write about Wowio for a while now and a recent explosion of adds pimping the Web Comic Sore Thumbs collections (and considering the amount cleavage in said advertising, I think pimping is the perfect word for it) appearing of various site’s Project Wonderful banners has given me the excuse I’ve been looking for.

If you haven’t tired Wowio yet, go give it a try. I’ve been using it regularly for a few months now and have nothing but good things to say about it. I even the name, it’s fun to say. Try it. Wowio. I bet you’re smiling right now.

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Seven Seas changed its webcomics around lately, and one of the new ones is a truly idiosyncratic Japanese comic called Neconoclasm, by Yizuno Asaki.

Neconoclasm gathers so many Japanese manga tropes into a single strip that it’s practically a primer on manga all by itself. The characters are cat-girls. (The title is a pun on neko, the Japanese word for cat.) They are cute (moe) cat-girls. And the format is 4-koma, vertical four-panel strips with humor that takes a little getting used to.

(Actually, this comic will make no sense at all unless you remember to read it right-to-left, because it’s imported from Japan and Seven Seas chose to keep the original, unflipped format. It’s a bit tougher with 4-koma than with regular manga, because with a smaller strip you don’t have as many visual cues.)

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To judge Mike Maihack’s Cow and Buffalo based solely on its own merits is to analyze a very minimalistic approach to webcomics. While the characters offer more variety than the stick figures of say, xkcd, it still only takes a few brush strokes to create any character on the roster. But take a look at any of Maihack’s other works and you’ll see that he is more than capable of more detailed work, and really anything in between. So why employ this bare-bones technique for two whimsical fellas like Cow and Buffalo? The answer is simply one word: fun. And Adventures in Sandwich Making, a tale of time-travel, pet dinosaurs, and, strangely enough, very little actual sandwich-making, provides just that, and in generous portions.

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*Spoilers Ahead! Spoilers Ahead! Enter At Your Own Risk!*

About a week ago, Mr. J. Carr and Mr. Mo-Effin’ Kahn passed the duty of blogging about PvP: The Series onto me. As with my previous review, I just don’t know where I fall yet, with so many pros and cons rushing to the surface with each viewing. So I’ve decided to start writing and just see if it gets me somewhere. Join me, won’t you?

Enjoyment is ultimately what you want from entertainment, right? Especially from a cartoon? Well, for me, episode 2 did not deliver in that respect.

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Sure, Vol. 2 of You'll Have That by Wes Molebash has been out for weeks now, possibly even months. And yes, I finished the book in less than an hour's reading time about two months prior to this writing. So why is this review so late in coming? Probably because I'm still not sure what I think of it.

To start with, I love You'll Have That. The premise hits home with me as a recently married man and I've been enjoying the non-threatening antics of Andy and Katie ever since I came across them a year or so ago. The comedy, as always, is consistent, fluffy, and sharp and the characters, though nothing conducive to dynamicism, are as lovable and huggable as ever. So why did I feel a sense of betrayal when I finished this, the latest volume in the YHT collection?

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The first thing you need to know about My Poorly Drawn Life is that it’s actually drawn pretty well. That’s because the artist is Tania del Rio, and there’s an example of her skill right here on the page: She drew my avatar. Tania is best known as the artist who brought manga style to Sabrina the Teenage Witch. She also co-authored the book Mangaka America with her husband, Will Staehle, and she always seems to have a couple of projects in the works.

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Sometimes I wonder why Joseph and Christopher put up with me for so long. Since the beginning they’ve sent us a constant stream of swag and there’s very few things that make me smile more. You can imagine how happy I was to get the second chapter to Alpha-shade in the mail. The first book was pure art and I had no complaints. If you’ve been keeping along with the story you know that the whole story is unwrapping like the storyboard to a movie. The previous book was full of action, creatures, and high-tech. We were introduced to the world that is ruled by the Great Northern and Southern Empires in an explosion of chaos where everything seems to be on the brink of complete collapse.

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OK, so Brandon and I decided to do a chatlog review of the new PVP animated series together, rather than record a show about it. This has been edited for clarity, as Instant Messaging has a naturally weird flow. So here, for your perusal, is what two critics think about PVP: The Animated Series.

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