Okay, fine, I'll do a quick post. But you should probably know that this blog is basically dead.

Narbonic is on WebcomicsNation?

How did I miss this?

Or the bigger question, why isn't anyone else talking about it?

This is awesome! Incredible! Fundamentally awe-inspiring! Really, really cool!

Go! Read! Now! It's free!

*Runs off going "w00h00"*

Holy *crap.* Why do I let these things pile up? This is like... the fourth multi-post I've done...

(From, as usual, a crapload of comics. Only a few small pics up, because trying to put them all here would make your mind explode. And your browser.)

Okay.

A list of strips that I'm plugging today: Shortpacked, Get Fuzzy, Inverloch, Narbonic, Home On The Strange, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Digger, Dominic Deegan, and Birdsworth.

I don't know what it was, but... all of these strips? Made out of pure awesome today.

In Shortpacked, Robin is forcing Amber to go and meet her online boyfriend, and I must say that I am ridiculously curious as to how this is going to play out. It also looks like it's all going to start going down tomorrow. But who knows? We'll just have to see.

Get Fuzzy.

Today's strip was just... funny. I giggled. For a long time. Go. Read.

DRAMA IN INVERLOCH! THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE LIKE. ...THAT IS ALL!

I'd say more about Narbonic, but... lots of people are already talking about the Lovelace twist, and I'm flabbergasted just like everyone else. Hey, why not jump on the bandwagon and pretend I have something to add?

Dominic Deegan. I cheered, man. "Get your hands off of my husband." w00t! Of course, Melna just rocks in any circumstances, and I'm secretly hoping that she and Stonewater will end up together, even though he seems to have a thing for Grench. Hmmm... Gah, I'm such a fanboy...

CAD. Hijinks will ensue, I just know it. Know it, man. Cuz, see... We're swinging back around to the subject of Ethan and Lilah's marriage, which has been on the back burner for a while, ever since the big announcement. And today, it's revealed that Lilah's parents have never met Ethan. Now... this is a big event for anybody, and quite probably a cause to be nervous. But... Ethan (of all people, has a reason to wonder about how his fiancee's parents will react to him) is completely oblivious. "That should be interesting to watch," indeed.

Digger. I have to admit that I did not see this coming. She... she ran the bad guys up against... the vampire vegetables! THE VAMPIRE VEGETABLES, MAN! Those things kicked butt. Hehehehehehe...

Home on the Strange is funny. The Ferrett is funny. And today's strip hit the nail on the head, man. S'good stuff.

Finally, a plug for Birdsworth, Gilead Pellaeon's new fixed-art comic strip, which I had high hopes for. It made me laugh today, for the first time, which is a good thing. There aren't too many strips, so head over there and give the guy some support. He could use it.

...Hmmm. I think that's all. Go away. I got nuthin' else.

_Kneefers

The screaming, on the other hand, was probably a bad sign.

(From... wow. From lots of stuff... Okay, I'll list. In order, it's Least I Could Do, Starslip Crisis, and goats. And Melonpool is mentioned. And the one above is from The Splendid Everlasting. And in case you were wondering, the title of the post is a Digger reference.)

To start out, I'd like to say that Digger is free right now. If you haven't read it, read it. If you have read it, reread it. It's much fun.

Okay, in case you didn't notice, I haven't posted anything here in a while. A while being... let's just leave it at 'a while', shall we? This is not because I no longer am feeling the love for y'all, but rather because school generally sucks, and I barely have time to read webcomics, much less write about reading them. So this is a probably vain attempt to cover everything that has especially caught my eye both today and over the past weeks.
Anydangway, this leaves me with lots to say and not a lot of time to say it in, so I'll attempt to be brief. First up is Least I Could Do. This strip is from today, and it made me stop and think for a second. In this storyline we've had an interesting view of Rayne going from being mildly offput by his long-lost sister and niece to truly growing fond of the little girl. They shot people with Nerf guns in Wal-Mart, quoted Star Wars, learned swear words, and insulted people, and somewhere in the middle of it he found himself attatched to his new niece. His line as he is about to leave underscores the contrast of his character. "When you're older, stay away from guys like me." He has no illusions about his behavior, but, on some level, he really does care about those he is close to.

It's good stuff, all in all.

Next up: CLIFFHANGER IN SSC. WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN? WHO KNOWS? I KNOW I SURE DON'T!

...yeah. Straub has me seriously on tenderhooks here. Nothing much to say about this. Read Gilead Pellaeon's post about the many mysterious forces acting on our intreped heroes and the rising tension of the situation during the party, climaxing at this point as Jovia and her father are trapped in the pod that's about to fire its engines without disengaging. He pretty much covers all the bases.
Nextly: goats.

Yeah, it's an old strip, but I just want to say that it made me laugh so hard that the person next to me in study hall hit me and told me to shut up.

...Just thought you'd like to know.

Also, I wanted to express my *joy* that Melonpool updated again today. I'd been missing my comicky goodness from that particular angle.

Aaaaaand... yeah, I think I'm done. Go to bed.

_Kneefers

I Hear He's Up To That Evil Stuff

(From 8-Bit Theater. Click for full sized No One Wants To See That.)

I have a theory.

This theory has rather disturbing connotations, but I believe that it holds up under scrutiny.

This theory is that the longer a strip goes on (especially if this strip is related, however tangetially, to geek culture or gaming) the possibility of a reference to Chocobos or Pokemon (or some other cute critters from a video game) having sex becomes more and more likely. (Can't lay my hands on the individual strip, but if Penny Arcade didn't already do something like this I'll be very surprised.)

But anyway!

Today's 8-Bit Theater strip is funny, in the giggle-out-loud way that the old school 8-Bit archives are, which makes me happy. Because 8-Bit has gone downhill a little of late, and it hasn't been as consistently funny as it once was. But then Clevinger comes out with a strip like this one and I know why I'm reading again.

Because, for the record? Chocobo sex? Is funny.

Who upgraded nerd-boy?

(From Comedity. Click for full sized... er... not touching that one.)
I'm a simple man, after it's all over, I suppose.

Right now I could be soliloquizing eloquently about brilliant plot twists, touching moments, or mysterious goings-on in goats, Zebra Girl, Something Positive, GPF, or the like. (In fact, I wanted to talk about today's Sluggy Freelance, and the significance that the line "Who upgraded nerd-boy?" has to the evolution of the strip as a whole, but then... oh, wait, Websnark beat me to it. Never mind.)

I could be.

But I'm not. I'm talking about Comedity... basically because today's strip features a passle of hot girls holding a penguin.

And you just can't compete with that. 'Cuz... y'know... the penguin is like the Sinatra of birds.

(Comedity is a pretty good strip, in case you were wondering. It's got very solid, clean art, and a really good concept. And it's funny a good portion of the time. So I read it.)

Anyway, there's just something about today's strip. It has Garth sighing that the girls all flock to the penguin ("AWWW! He's so cute!"), and Garth's cool side going out of his head (because... dude, there are girls out here, and the only chick in Garth's head is that muse, and she's a little weird) and you just know that he's gonna get more attention than Garth himself.

I dunno. It just makes me giggle. I'm hopeless, aren't I?

There isn't a wound / that she can't heal / and I can tell her everything / except for how I feel.

(From Tailsteak. Click for full sized Wide Smiles and Bright Eyes in the full beginning-to-end version, because the strip is really big.)

This isn't really a recent-events type of snark, really. I just wanted to mention that I was working my way through the Band storyline of Tailsteak.com (if you've never read anything by Tailsteak, by the way, you are cold missing out on some hardcore awesomeness), and I came across the strip where they sing the song "Nathan's Girlfriend" and... well... I was completely floored.

And I knew I had to talk about it, even though its from way back who-knows-when. Because it's just simply awesome.

In the first place, the lyrics are phenomenal. I can totally see enormous crowds of preteen girls swooning as a band sings this onstage, even though I don't know what the music sounds like. I thought it was famous song for a minute, but as far as I can ascertain the a lyrics to this is all Tailsteak. (By the way, let me know in a comment if this actually is a professional song and I'm just stupid and uninformed, eh?)

Secondly is the way the music is drawn on the page. It's very difficult for someone, as a comic artist, to give a sense of music in a comic strip and not have it come across falsey. The reasons for this are simple: you listen to music, you don't read it. Because of this, there are simply so many things that need to be conveyed for you to actually hear a song that having it be represented with only pictures and words is rather difficult.

Just in case you were wondering? Tailsteak nails it in this strip. It's perfect, honestly.

Tailsteak is generally great with whatever he gets in his mind to do, and if you're not catching this daily, then you're missing out, big time. Go. Read. Now.

Life is like a sandwich. Sometimes you eat the sandwich, and some times the sandwich eats you.

(From Sluggy Freelance. Click for full sized SMOOCHIES!)


Every time somebody complains about Oceans Unmoving, I find myself perplexed.

Of course, I see many of the problems that people have with it. I agree with some of them. It was an entirely new cast suddenly tossed at us when what we wanted to see was Torg dealing with his newfound depression and retractedness coming off of That Which Redeems, (a storyarc which OU simply pales in comparison to). We wanted to see Oasis and Hereti-Corp. We wanted to see Aylee.

But we were given... Bun-Bun, a character that many Sluggites were growing tired of. By himself, with the new characters. Which left many people feeling detatched. They came looking for their Sluggish goodness every morning, and found something that simply didn't feel like Sluggy.

So people complained. They're still complaining, in fact. Which usually causes me to sigh and think "It's not that bad, guys." Because I liked OU. It's still funny. The story is interesting. And the concept is phenomenal.

And it still has Pete Abram's signature on the bottom, which is one of the most important things, to me. So I'm going to echo something that Occultatio said a while back, over at The Living Comic.

Don’t you freaking dare give up on this comic.

Occultatio was of the opinion that Sluggy should be given some major slack. He said "Pete Abrams as an author has won my faith on a level nearly on par with Bujold or even Gaiman. No, I don’t much like this current stuff, but dammit, I know it will get better."

I know it will get better.

Sluggy Freelance is one of my personal favorites. I was more impressed and enthralled with TWR than I have been with any comic storyarc, ever. So I put the work into OU. I went back over it and read it in chunks of a month at a time to get a better sense of the story as a whole. I combed the forums. And as a consequence, I know what's going on. And I'm enjoying the ending of OU immensely. And it just keeps getting better. It's not as good as Sluggy has been at times in the past, of course, but heck, this is Sluggy. At its worst, it still beats out a good seventy-five percent of the other comics on my list.

And something about today's strip just clicked for me. The subject matter, the way that it's put together, the art, the timing, the expressions, the dialogue... they all work together just right again, and today's strip, for some reason, just made me smile.