Here's some comics

[roadrunnertwice]

A friend recently started reading Stand Still Stay Silent on my rec, then blasted past me and finished the whole thing while I was still poking along. (I'm only in like chapter 6. Here are my thoughts on SSSS: 1. The prologue is fucking dead-on about the speed things happen at in a real live pandemic, can't even believe it was posted in 2013 rather than yesterday. 2. Sigrun is brave, caring, resourceful, and dumber than a box of fukkin rocks, I love her.)

Anyway, said friend then asked if I had other recs, so I threw this together, and now that I think about it, no reason not to post it for everyone else too. Some of these I've recced before, some I have not (or it's been a while). On some of these, I link to start pages instead of homepages to avoid spoilers or be more convenient.

(Casual reminder that eardogger dot com is a cool way to mark your spot. 🐶)

Some completed stuff

• Bad Machinery - Top-quality mystery-solving preteens.
• A Redtail's Dream - Same cartoonist as Stand Still Stay Silent; this is the comic she did before that. I haven't read it yet.
• As the Crow Flies - (I think it's completed. I'm only partway through.) Tense awkwardness at a Christian summer camp for girls, and a tentative friendship between the only Black kid there and the only trans kid there.
• The Chairs' Hiatus - Hella feelings after the breakup of a cult-popular rock duo. I liked this.
• Decrypting Rita - Stylish, intentionally disorienting.
• Mare Internum - Set on Mars, incredible ecology design and art, assume basically all content warnings due to protagonist's nightmarishly bad mental health.
• Octopus Pie - Completed, but re-running several times a week with author commentary. Slice-of-life comedy/drama.

Some ongoing stuff

• Brainchild - Slow-burn supernatural suspense.
• Kochab - Quiet fantasy, gorgeous character/environment design and draftsmanship, some slow-burn romantic tension.
• Incredible Doom - Same cartoonist as Chairs' Hiatus. Haven't read this yet but it looks cool.
• Goodbye to Halos - Fantasy/action, extra-queer, with a low-key gentle worldview despite the occasionally traumatic state of its world.
• Night Physics - I think this is on semi-permanent hiatus, but it's not exactly plot-driven so it shouldn't abandon you on a cliffhanger. Incredible atmosphere.
• Barbarous - Modern/urban fantasy. One of my favorites right now.
• Necropolis - Sword gals. Incredible art.
• Oh Human Star - Protagonist is brought back from the dead into a near-future Minneapolis populated by a mix of humans and robots... and immediately has to confront all his old relationship issues and gender shit.
• Dicebox - An all-time fave. This is even more SF than you think it is. Be prepared to work, and also be prepared to have an excellent time.

Comments

[sporky_rat]

Look, 'Stand Still, Stay Silent' is SO GOOD, I am actually considering buying the ebook versions of it. And now you've given MORE delicious recs! YES.

[alierak]

I too blasted past you after your rec of SSSS, thank you! And here is some unicode nonsense: 🤪😂😷although I don't know if that will help you debug.

[jesse_the_k]

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