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Faves.
Always love XKCD - The giant mega-comic strip Drag and Click from this year was wow!
Homestuck is pure evil genius. You have to start at the beginning. Trust it.
Stardrop has a lot of heart and written brilliantly. Also need to start at the start.
Union of Heros German Photocomics. Love this strip!
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Stardrop on caffeine
Actually, one of my favorite comic strips happens to be about caffeine this week.
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Walking Mage on taxes. . .
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Ooo! I can get behind some link pimpage
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On taxation. . .
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Yay! 3D animation hammers another nail in!I don'e like 3D animation.
Anime should be driven by people who can draw. Cool pictures are something I can't make; it's a skill. Cool pictures to me and most people are a sort of magic which enthralls and excites. They have spark! By contrast, I or anybody else can sit down at a PC and with half an effort make our own "Red v.s. Blue" stuff. Poof! The instant you can make the magic yourself, the magic is no longer magic.
Welcome to the world of souless video game cut scenes. If you can afford the graphics card, then you too can make movies. Hooray.
Let me dig up a quote here, from "Thieves and Kings" guy, Mark Oakley's website here where he uses a 'Matrix-ism' which stuck in my mind to get his point across. (He was griping about exactly this stuff, though regarding Disney's move in the same 3D direction. His editorial is still up. Oakley's work is scorchingly good, but he's bloody slow! I can't tell if he's got actual talent or if he just gets there by taking his time.) Anyways:
"Rather like the, Matrix as described by Lawrence Fishbourn's character, the world of 3D animation must obey rules, and as such, it creates its own limitations. --Whereas 2D animation is limited only by the imagination.
Think about that crazy 'baby and rabbit in the kitchen' cartoon at the beginning of, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. Unless you start animating via Photoshop or Flash, (both 2D tools), you will simply never get a computer to achieve those same kinds of effects. Remember? --Black and white kitchen floor tiles soaring over the screen at ten thousand miles per hour, flying babies and rabbits, kitchen implements, irons and creamed carrots hurtling through a universe which a 3D animation program couldn't even begin to rationally comprehend. --But which the human mind can embrace as easily and as naturally as understanding laughter. Human minds are so much more!"
Shirow's work always seemed kind of souless to me, so maybe this move is appropriate.
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Some GREAT Comics worth mentioning
8-Bit Theatre - A really funny online Comic that uses the sprites from Final Fantasy.
Bob and George - Another online comic that uses Mega Man sprites Bob and George
Thieves and Kings - One of THE best fantasy adventure comics out there.
Finder - Another great adventure comic.
THB - Paul Pope has one of the most original art styles IMO, good stuff.
Optic Nerve - A comic about different peoples everyday lives.
Poison Elves - About an elf with a really bad temper.
Strangers in Paradise - Yeah it stars 2 women, but it has some of the best art and stories I've ever read in a comic.
A Distant Soil - An adventure story about kids with psychic powers.
