Superpowers or Supernatural

As I said in my last post, I’ve found a lot of good new webcomics to link to.  Rather than posting another Webcomic Dump, I’m going to post a few links at a time with descriptions.  So here we go.  Today’s recommendations fall into two categories.

 

Superheroes:

Minor Acts of Heroism, by Adriana Ferguson and K. Van Dam.  It’s  fun take on superheroes, new enough that I found myself inspired to try to reinvent genres.   I found it this afternoon and read the whole thing through (granted, the archives aren’t extensive).  I was laughing the whole time.  The characters are entertaining and well-developed for as few pages as there are and the dialog is hilarious.  My roommate probably wanted to strangle me for laughing so much while she was working on The Big Paper.

Ratfist, by Doug TenNapel.   A lot of people have been talking about this one lately.  It’s a humorous take on superheroes from the guy behind Earthworm Jim.

Everyday Heroes, by Ed Gedeon.  Been reading this one for a while.  A family of superheroes relocates to a new town and sets about trying to settle in.  It’s cute, it’s funny and it’s family-friendly (with the exception of one dark backstory).  The art isn’t quite as jaw-droppingly gorgeous as a lot of the comics I link to, but it’s still worth the read.

 

Werewolves:

Walking on Broken Glass, written by Samantha Mathis, art by Caytlin Vilbrandt.   This is getting off to a bit of a slow start as characters develop, but apparently one of the main characters is a werewolf.  The character interaction is fun, and I’m looking forward to the plot picking up.

Black Forest, by Stevie Wilson.  A farmhand is bitten by a werewolf and is forced to relocate to a village inhabited entirely by werewolves and regular humans who can keep a secret.  The art’s nice, the characters are fun and I’m looking forward to seeing how Wilson has the different werewolf societies set up.

Strays, by Samantha Whitten and Stacey Pefferkorn.  Not werewolves, exactly, but wolf-like people in a fantasy world that’s faintly medieval.   Gorgeous art, interesting characters and a fascinating plot that’s continuously unfolding.

 

Happy reading!

Phantastic Student

P.S.  So close to getting the new Toby Daye and Mercy Thompson books!  So excited!  So going to review them!

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Things To Look Forward To

March 1st

Two of my all-time favorite urban fantasy series release their latest installments!

Seanan McGuire‘s Late Eclipses.  Toby Daye gets in trouble, yells, curses and bleeds.   Faeries are snarky and scary.  Yay, faeries!  (Also, Seanan’s posting some really fun/informative lists on her blog as she prepares for the book release.)

Patricia Briggs‘s River Marked.  Mercy Thompson gets in trouble, yells, fixes some things and breaks others.  She gets yelled at by werewolves.  Yay, werewolves!

March 4

By the end of the day, I’ll have finished off all my tests for the week.

The end of the day also marks the beginning of the first real break of the semester.

I get to go home, where my copies of Late Eclipses and River Marked await me.

I have a week to read whatever the hell I want.

I have a week to sleep.

And I have a week where I get to eat food that someone else cooked – or at least raid a well-stocked kitchen.

 

In other news…

I’ve started and caught up on a whole ton of webcomics since my last post, but I feel that dumping a bunch of links with no reason or rhyme is unfair to the stories and their creators.  So for now I’ll just link to two of them.

Free Mars, written by Dave Pauwels and art by Nicolas R. Giacondino.  I think it was originally called The Sisters Grim.  Mars is colonized and the militant government is upsetting some people.   There’s an attempt at revolution.  An all-girls band gets caught in the crossfire.  Good art, good story and developing characters.

FreakAngels, written by Warren Ellis (yes, that one) and art by Paul Duffield.   This is amazing.  Yes, I am late to the party on this one (when am I not?) but I’m glad I had the chance to read so much of it at once.  The art is gorgeous, the story is complicated, the themes are clear without necessarily reflecting a definite opinion, and the characters are well-written.   In the two evening it took me to get through the archives, I quoted bits of dialog to my roommate…  Well, I lost count.  Also, our neighbors are probably really nervous right now.

Everyone’s busy this weekend, so I suppose I’ll spend the time alternately sleeping and gorging on media.

Gleefully,

Phantastic Student

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