Please pirates, read no further. Some have been known to loose their only eye when beholding the badassness of Chris Hasting's Doctor McNinja. The story revolves around a ninja, whose last name by absolute pure coincidence happens to be McNinja (from the famous Highland McNinjas). Some say he is even more powerful than Chuck Norris... (not me please don't roundhouse kick me in the head mr. Norris). Just one little nonconformity: Mc. Ninja's is a MD, much to his ninja parent's dismay.
The spirit of the Dr McNinja closely resembles that of ask a ninja: the humor revolves around the wildly exaggerated capacities and ruthlessness of the ninja, as well as the extreme seriousness with respect to hilariously ridiculous situations (like his ten year old assistant that grew a mustache by sheer force of will). An important component of the humor also comes with the rollover text commentary (rollover text is the small textboxes that pop up when you move the mouse over an image).
The artwork is realistic, inked black and white. Surprisingly, the lack of colour adds to the realism and quality of the art. The updates come in large panel tri-weekly installments.
What else is there to say? Go read Doctor McNinja, or suffer his wrath! (or as he likes to call it, ninja-star prescriptions)
oao
Cody
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Monday, March 19, 2007
The sluggy style
The first. The last. The Alpha and Omega if you will. Sluggy Freelance, the webcomic to end all webcomics. This is the story of two geeky yet manly (not in a good way, girls...) men and two feminine yet crazy (again, not in a good way) women, accompanied by a hyperactive and innocent ferret and a taciturn psychopathic bunny as well as a variety of frequently recurrent characters.
The author, Peter Abrams, makes his characters cross a number of surrealist situations disturbingly reminiscent of pop culture icons such as Alien, Buffy the VS, horror/zombie survival movies, etc. while managing an intricate coherence of the universe and background. The artwork goes from minimalist talking heads at the comics start in 1997 to intricate space roaming pirate ships at the end of 2006. Seems that daily online comics are quite an art school.
So what makes this webcomic the pinnacle of all webbed art? Several things. Firstly, it's consistency. One thing that the webcomic lovers that we are hate above all is to log on to our favorite online and find something along the lines of: "sorry, no comic today (damn lazy artist!) but here, enjoy this drawing I did of my dog when I was 12..." Peter never does this. Ever. I can't even imagine what his life must have been like when he still had another job.
Secondly, what am I looking for in a comic? I want it to be funny. I love the subtle awkward romances commonly found in these things, I adore the wacky action and subtle political commentaries, but a three panel webcomic that isn't funny at the end isn't worth squat. (yes I'm talking to you, Fred). Sluggy Freelance has all three. The romance, the action, the funny; but the funny trumps it all. Most webcomics take a bit of time and archive reading to get into the spirit and the story, but you can take one random page of the Sluggy's HUGE archives and be hooked. As you may have understood, it is the one comic that binds them all. The template against witch all others shall be measured.
Soooo, enough with the brainless worship. The VERY few defects of the comic include: black and white comics during the week; rather crappy art at the beginning of the series (almost kept me from starting to read it!) and...well, nothing on saturdays (saturdays used to be covered by the excellent guys from Rob and Elliot, sadly on hiatus).
That's about it. Start reading the comics, start going late to work and leave early just to get more comic time in...See you next week for a commentary with hopefully less unabashed praise.
Oao
The Cod.
The author, Peter Abrams, makes his characters cross a number of surrealist situations disturbingly reminiscent of pop culture icons such as Alien, Buffy the VS, horror/zombie survival movies, etc. while managing an intricate coherence of the universe and background. The artwork goes from minimalist talking heads at the comics start in 1997 to intricate space roaming pirate ships at the end of 2006. Seems that daily online comics are quite an art school.
So what makes this webcomic the pinnacle of all webbed art? Several things. Firstly, it's consistency. One thing that the webcomic lovers that we are hate above all is to log on to our favorite online and find something along the lines of: "sorry, no comic today (damn lazy artist!) but here, enjoy this drawing I did of my dog when I was 12..." Peter never does this. Ever. I can't even imagine what his life must have been like when he still had another job.
Secondly, what am I looking for in a comic? I want it to be funny. I love the subtle awkward romances commonly found in these things, I adore the wacky action and subtle political commentaries, but a three panel webcomic that isn't funny at the end isn't worth squat. (yes I'm talking to you, Fred). Sluggy Freelance has all three. The romance, the action, the funny; but the funny trumps it all. Most webcomics take a bit of time and archive reading to get into the spirit and the story, but you can take one random page of the Sluggy's HUGE archives and be hooked. As you may have understood, it is the one comic that binds them all. The template against witch all others shall be measured.
Soooo, enough with the brainless worship. The VERY few defects of the comic include: black and white comics during the week; rather crappy art at the beginning of the series (almost kept me from starting to read it!) and...well, nothing on saturdays (saturdays used to be covered by the excellent guys from Rob and Elliot, sadly on hiatus).
That's about it. Start reading the comics, start going late to work and leave early just to get more comic time in...See you next week for a commentary with hopefully less unabashed praise.
Oao
The Cod.
Now's the time to say something awesume
A few days ago, a friend who had expressed worries about my increasing addiction to the webbed comics suggested that I create an online web log depicting my precise and incisive analysis about these little three panel gems of modern art form.
Insert dreams of internet celebrity here... Just in case though, I run a rapid check on google. Oh well, I'll only be one of the 1,400,000 webcomic bloggers out there... I guess I'll have to rely on a really original idea, like taping myself doing something really stupid, for internet celebrity.
So here it is. The haphazard commentary of a LOT of webcomics, once a week, for what I hope will be your enjoyment.
oao
Cody
Insert dreams of internet celebrity here... Just in case though, I run a rapid check on google. Oh well, I'll only be one of the 1,400,000 webcomic bloggers out there... I guess I'll have to rely on a really original idea, like taping myself doing something really stupid, for internet celebrity.
So here it is. The haphazard commentary of a LOT of webcomics, once a week, for what I hope will be your enjoyment.
oao
Cody
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