For our second Eyeskream review we bring Commissioned. This strip is written and drawn by Obsidian, I can?t find a last name, and is about a fantasy artist named O, the artist himself. It follows him as he tries to establish himself by doing Fantasy Art “commissions” and his life as he works and plays with his RPG group.

I have yet to find another strip with quite the same style. O does an excellent job with the panel layout and coloring while keeping the backgrounds and non character details simple. Continue reading →

This is our first review of 5 from the Eyeskream comics group. It’s rare to find a superhero strip that’s funny after spending most of my life reading the dramatic ones. In Flying Ferret we have one that comes pretty close. It is written and drawn by Douglas Curtis and follows an unlikely “augmented vigilante” by the name of Flying Ferret. The best way to describe it is as a spoof on superheroes with FF embodying whether a superhero should truly have anything to “angst” over.

The overall style of the strip is reminiscent of the golden age of comics. Continue reading →

You had to know this was coming. I made it through Fred Gallagher’s Megatokyo archives and I finally understand the love\hate relationship so many have with this strip. Megatokyo is an anime strip about two guys in their twenties, Piro and Largo, who are stranded in Tokyo. Piro is your normal sane artist who has a tendency to mess up all relationships while Largo is a maniac who is so completely addicted to games that he can’t separate reality from game fiction. Continue reading →

Here is a surprising strip by Jeph Jacques which I was led to by Scott’s blog. Questionable Content might be the best new strip I’ve read this year with many, many qualities I look for in a daily updated webcomic. The story revolves around Marten, a 20-something music nerd, his anthropomorphic PC named Pintsize, and Faye, who accidentally burned her apartment down while trying to make toast. The obvious plot line is the interaction of the seemingly plutonic relationship between Marten and Faye. There are also many side plots such as the Indie scene and making fun of Goths.

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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.

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Sheldon by Dave Kellett is one of my personal favorites. The story centers on a young boy genius who runs his own multi-national corporation while still trying hard to have a normal childhood. He lives with his Grandfather and a talking duck, the result of one of Sheldon’s brilliant experiments. Sarcasm apparently came with the power of speech.

The writing is very clever and I really like the line work in the strip. While clearly inspired by classic newspaper strip styles, Continue reading →

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 →