It's a bullet point night, and I had two posts sitting in the queue, so yeah.

[roadrunnertwice]

Welcome to the new year. Read more fucking comics!

• If you're not reading MSPA: Homestuck yet, the joke's on you. 'Nuff said.
• Spacetrawler — a kickin' sci-fi ensmble rampage that combines everything Baldwin learned from his years doing Bruno, Little Dee, Bad Mile, and those MAD Magazine pieces, plus a few new tricks.
• Modern Fried Snake — I'm still trying to figure out what I think about this one, but it would be a shame for it to fly under the radar.
• Liz Fuckin' Prince is on the internet! If I haven't subjected you to Will You Still Love Me If I Wet the Bed yet, you are missing out.
• The Meek is one of the most technically astonishing serials I've seen in a while. Go and see.
• Buttercup Festival has been back for a while and deserves more love. (It's mostly the more contemplative subspecies these days, but it still occasionally lapses into old-skool absurdity.)
• You've got about a semester left to get with the program on Bobwhite.
• If anyone links you to Oglaf and you happen to be at work, DON'T CLICK.
• The improbably-back-from-the-dead award goes to Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life, which I was surprised to find myself still rather fond of.
• Forming is completely insane. I guarantee you are not ready for it.

And all the usual suspects, including Family Man and Dicebox, both of which recently turned one book old.

Comments

[roadrunnertwice]

Nah, that's cool! Mostly what I'm up to with these kinds of posts is just running stuff in front of folk in case any of it strikes a chord. I'm glad you dig Forming; I think my brother and I found that one independently and were both shocked when we found out the other one was reading it too. I think it has that kind of WAY underground vibe that might make you honestly kind of afraid of the cartoonist, except that it's so relentlessly self-aware and self-mocking.

(If you have a reading style that makes keeping track of your place a pain in the butt, you might try Serialist. I do the RSS thing, which never seemed to catch on with the general public but which turns out to be a great way to read way too many comics in the time it would otherwise take to read a few too many comics.)

[fozwalla.livejournal.com]

Haha. My reading style is "keep it open in a tab until I feel like getting back to it, sometimes weeks later." I can see how this would get annoying the more comics I add. Thanks for the link.

Forming is bizarre, definitely, but I don't think I'm having as strong a reaction as you. I'm not any more afraid of the cartoonist than I am of the guy doing Homestuck, which is less violent and in your face, but definitely weird in its own way. But I do like Forming. Nice art. I'll try to wrap up the story so far later tonight.