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Spiderforest Comics! Keys! Chirault! Twilight Lady!
on April 29, 2012 at 12:37 pmPosted In: Uncategorized
Things moved ahead and about a little faster than I could handle these last few weeks, so I unfortunately fell behind with the Spiderforest Comic of the Week events lately. But I will remedy this now! Here are THREE great Spiderforest comics to have a look at, and hopefully stick around to read!
Firstly, Keys. This is a very neat and cleanly drawn and designed piece that starts with a retelling of an ancient legend before the relevant story begins. Pushing 80 story pages now, it is hitting its stride and looking great. The strip itself is fully operational, even if the auxiliary pages currently lead nowhere.
Secondly, Chirault. This is another brilliant looking comic that has been building it’s archive for several years. The artwork looks fantastic with watercolour effects and a soft, washed look. I don’t think I could summarise it better than the comic’s own About page, so I’ll just repeat that here:
Chirault is a fantasy webcomic, started in mid-2007 and currently updating one page every week (on Fridays). It’s about this weirdo named Kiran and this tiny kid who sits on his shoulder and tells him to do things. Sort of, anyway. There are also demons and imploding cities and the possibility of the world’s imminent demise, in roughly that order of mention. It’s a little complicated I guess.
Finally, have a look at Twilight Lady. A graphic novel styled comic featuring supernatural demonic events and a second, created ‘personality’ that is threatening to become the dominant presence in the mind of the Twilight Lady, a god-like entity born into the world. I may not have done the strip justice with that summary, so go and give it a look yourself! Three strips a week, too!
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This week’s Spiderforest Webcomic of the Week is ‘Dream*Scar’ by Heather Meade. Another long form graphic novel style piece, this one deals with post-modern day reality combined with the new awareness that ‘unhumans’, or creatures of myth and lore, walk amongst us. Give this one a look, if only because Dream*Scar seems to have a small but rabid following – when D*S linked School Spirit the other week, they came flocking to check it out themselves! It does have a rating of PG-13, so just be aware kids might spot something they wouldn’t hear in the sch… nah, they know those words anyway, don’t they? Give Dream*Scar a try. It looks fantastic.
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You may have noted that there appeared to be no Spiderforest Comic of the Week last week, but there was. It was School Spirit’s turn, so I didn’t think it necessary to tell you all to read it if you were already here. This week though, we have Cetiya! A world where magic is technology and spells and incantations and abilities are downloaded into people like data. An interesting premise, even if my decidedly non-sci-fi reading mind had trouble putting it all together while I was reading through it! A definitely different slant on the sci-fi, futuristic graphic novel plot and setting, and one you may well enjoy, so give it a look! A warning though, that it is rated Web-16, so there is a little bit of bad language and a little partial nudity… so ask Mum’s permission first and don’t get me into trouble!
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This week’s Spiderforest Webcomic of the Week is another long form graphic style novel, this time dealing with vampires (that don’t sparkle in the sun) in what turns out to be a post apocalyptic world. Tigershark’s ‘The Only Half Saga’ was a fairly easy read for a strip that’s been going on and off since 2007, helped by the fact more than just a few pages feature silent action or even single poses. This speeds up the read through a little, although some of the time they feel a little unnecessary, but it does make up for the times when the dialogue drags on in other pages. I found that I missed important things through the story (such as the fact he is 600 years old and I completely missed the ‘interim’ centuries while I read through!) and once I got over the first chapter where Cabal looks like a buff 25 year old hotty but is apparently only 12 years old, I felt much more comfortable with the character when he ‘grew’ into his body from chapter two onwards!
This is only one of several projects Tigershark works on, but due to it having a definite M rating, and several pages featuring Magic Words and, on a few occasions, pink bits that I don’t want kids to see, I’m linking here instead her Deviant Art page instead! I’m sure you can find a link to her comics from there. Say g’day if you drop by and let her know School Spirit says ‘g’day’ too!
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It’s the annual Spiderforest Comic Of The Week again, and first horse out the gate this time is KEZ’s ‘The War Of The Winds‘. KEZ has been drawing this lengthy ‘prose novel turned graphic novel with learn as you go comic skills’ since the same era that School Spirit first turned up on the scene, so she’s been at it awhile now. A fantasy world, an epic story, and all that goes with it. I’ve started reading it from go to whoa again just the other night and I’m almost through it again, so it’s not the longest read you’ll see. Some of the characters are nice and deep, and while particularly early on I felt it suffered from a lack of balance between graphic novel and prose novel, it’s a great example of how you can learn on your feet and keep running! Give it a good shot!
Another Spiderforest Comic Of The Week next… er… week!
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