Walk It Off, You…Wait, What?
From time to time I ask my housemate, who’s been a webcomics reader for quite a while, what she’d recommend I read. I’m trying, in large part, to seek out things I wouldn’t find on my own. Her taste sometimes surprises me, but there’s something to be said for that: when I asked her this week, she chided me for not having written about Looking for Group yet.
Oops, I said. Remind me what that’s about?
“It’s kind of a fantasy comic and it’s kind of making fun of fantasy comics,” she said. “I assume it’s making fun of World of Warcraft, but I’m not totally sure.”
Oh, I thought. Oh dear.
Written by Ryan Sohmer and drawn by Lar DeSouza, Looking For Group began about a year and a half ago and since then has garnered a fairly dedicated following (as well as a substantial archive, what with updating both Mondays and Thursdays). My housemate is much more of a fantasy reader than I am, so she’d twig more easily to some of the references and influences (turns out there is something of a surface World of Warcraft connection after all).
What drew me in, despite my substantial initial reticence, was that I actually found myself laughing out loud at my computer screen as I was reading. I started at the very beginning (I mean, just look at the archives–the design is compelling, eye-catching, well designed, and easy to navigate) and read through. It didn’t take long to figure out which character was which, who was the ‘good’ guy (Cale’Anon, generally just called Cale) and, well, who wasn’t (Richard, an undead Warlock, who’s a little Red Robot-ey; my housemate invoked Jack Sparrow). There’s a stack of other characters as well, ranging from panthers to imps to dwarves, but I’ll let you discover them on your own. It’s kind of cracking me up, even still, and I’m enjoying it very much.
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By World of Warcraft games » Blog Archive » Walk It Off, You…Wait, What? on 03.20.08 2:45 pm
I love the design of that site. Except that it loads horresdously slowly on dialup or crappy broadband, which is what I have in the middle of nowhere here.
By wing on 03.21.08 3:30 pm
Wait, are you implying that there are people out there who aren’t ardent followers of LFG?
Huh.
By Robby on 03.21.08 11:09 pm
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