Sketchy Details.
Hel-lo Internet.
This is my first installment in Sapo Entertainment’s corner of the blogosphere, and I’m not entirely sure what to do with it.
It’s not that I’ve never blogged before, in fact, I have several blogs that I neglect equally, each of them started to make a comment on someone else’s blog; except for the MySpace blog, which I posted in once, and only because I didn’t know any better.
This is why I don’t have a Blogger account- most of the people I know who are on it let anyone post. As for the ones that don’t… Well, I’ll probably get around to it when one of them writes something so thought-provoking that I feel the need to go through the process of registering for another blog site.
At any rate, now that the introductions are out of the way, on with the blog.
Since I started with Sapo Entertainment, webcomics have become a large part of my work, as has reading webcomics. So, the Thursday blog will be about webcomics, at least until I think of something more interesting, because heaven knows, no one’s ever done something like that before…
Oh, and in case you were wondering, I’ll mostly be writing about comics that I actually read, whether I know/have a vested interest in the people involved with them or not, as opposed to writing about “the industry,” or affects that other industries are having on webcomics. I just don’t stay current enough with the comics in my Bookmark folder to monitor trends; I apologize ahead of time.
that having been said, if you feel like having me write something about your comic, feel free to email a link to your comic to cottonfluff at gmail dot com.
Our first installment is a comic that I stumbled across while posting in talkaboutcomics.com’s bulletin board, and is called “The Front.” It’s written and drawn by Jerry Drozd of Make Like a Tree Comics.
This comic, as it turns out, is actually a month away from ending. It’s a 6-part miniseries that I started reading about two months or so ago, and I only found out that it’s as close to ending as it is by actually looking for the homepage so I could link it in this blog posting. (The link on the forum led right to the comic, and I bookmarked it there, heedless of anything else that might actually be at the site. Shame on me.)
Anyway, the art style’s superheroic, but not like anything that I’ve ever seen before (which might not be saying much), and is probably reminicent of something that I would know if I’d read more physical comics.* But I am a different breed of geek, so I do the best that I can.
I’ve only gotten to Part 3 so far, and I’ve found it to be quite an entertaining read. It’s a “coming of age” story, it’s got metahumans, and it even pokes fun at some of our traditional concepts of villainy. The only issue I’ve had with it is that it’s in black and white- and that only because there is a character who gets referred to several times by the other characters as “Orange Guy.”
So yeah, I’m not complaining very much about The Front, and you probably won’t either. I’ll be clicking back to it tomorrow on my lunch hour.
That’s it for this installment of [insert catchy column name here, probably something along the lines of "Webcomics Weekly"] I’ll see you next week; I actually have to finish my own comic pages.
*About 15 minutes after writing that, I stumbled over another part of the Make Like a Tree site, and it turns out that they did all three issues of PPV, a physical comic which I’ve actually bought, enjoyed, and wished that there had been more of. Life’s funny like that, I suppose.
It also turns out that they do/have done a number of other real-life things, go look over their site for more.
