03/13: I So Could Have Directed Transformers

Now, this is probably the first "late" comic I've done for awhile. Partially my fault, partially me going to an overnight trip on wednesday. Now, I didn't finish the strip on monday because I was too busy watching American Psycho. Tuesday I was in Pasadena staying in a hotel to do AV work all the next day. Wednesday I was working on more Gray Matters, but I also spent quite a bit of time browsing Imperiumnova.com and chess.com to get the time back that i lost on tuesday.

And now the strip is done today :P

Now, to comic strips.

Whispered Apologies is a comic strip where the dialogue and art are put together by different artists without cooperation. Much of the writing is done by Ryan North, John Campbell, David Malki! (the exclamation point is part of his name) and Joey Comeau. The comic is actually similar to Gray Matters, where the text doesn't often quite match the visuals.

Through Whispered Apologies, I found a few other artists such as the maker of Tweep. Tweep reminds me quite a bit of Scary-Go-Round, except minus the british humor and bizarre supernatural antics. Actually, that makes the two strips almost completely different. I mean, they both feature lots of comical banter, except where Scary-Go-Round is just bizarre, and no doubt a bit lost in translation across the atlantic, Tweep is very hilarious, and much more relationship oriented. Plus they both have the same kind of illustrator-pen lines (except... y'know... when Scary-Go-Round is being hand drawn).

I also found Flaky Pastry through Whispered Apologies, although it sucks. Okay, it doesn't suck, but when you compare the fantastic art to the terribly cliche and just plain un-funny dialogue and story, I can't really keep reading.

Compare that to Buttersafe, the other comic I discovered from Whispered Apologies, and you can just toss Flaky Pastry into the garbage can with the rest of the stale bread. Buttersafe doesn't have a single strip in the archive which isn't fantastic. The art is diverse and experimental, the writing and humor at the exact opposite of safe. You'll not find a single cliche joke in Buttersafe's archive.

The next course of action is to find more comics that have butter in their names, because obviously its a sign of quality.