Did Webcomics Declare A Hiatus And I Missed It?
Yeah, yeah, “webcomics” is a terrible word, always has been, and the reasons why are pretty well explored at this point, that’s not what’s relevant here. What is relevant is that so many strips seem to be between arcs, getting caught up after big pushes (lookin’ at you, TCAF 2011), or just plain quiet. My mailbag is empty (once I share the springtime miracle-of-life link below), and I’ve always got a backlog of potential stories there.
You know what? Screw it. I’m spending this weekend enjoying myself (hell, I even took off work the start of next week), so let everything go quiet for a week. It’ll come back. In the meantime:
- Corners seem to be turning. The Mystery War is over (with a final tally of Girls 7, Boys 8, given the ending of The Case of the Damned United, and how The Case of the Good Boy seemed to be one for the girls to my eye) leading one to wonder what interactions the six Tackleford Youngsters will do with their time. Probably kissing. Two weeks of guest strips and mysteries in the meantime.
- More corners: is Paul Taylor really killing off a main character? Yeah, plutonium is pretty serious stuff, but did Shelley really go someplace else physically and for real, or was it all just a metaphorical journey? It was certain that Monica would have to die to stop the calendar machine and she came through that with just a … detachable blade in her skull. Wait, detachable blade? And power source for what?
- Speaking of unspeakable horrors, those of you that get the jibblies from bugs might not want to click on this next link — it’s a six page comic detailing some of the more ick-inducing means that insects have of reproducing. If you’re curious but fearful, the text introduction gives a non-visual summary of the comic’s goings-on, along with a description of how it came to be. Ladies and gentlemen — Mother’s Day.
I still don’t understand this “webcomics is a terrible word” argument. “Webcomic” started as a description of the distribution medium — not as a business model, not as a label for a social scene, but an identification of the way the content was accessed.
It was, even when coined, a little inaccurate, because there were comics on Usenet and CompuServe and other bbs systems that were gathered under that umbrella, but as a general term that’s all it ever meant to me, and at it’s core that’s what it is. Just like if you say “comic book” you mean comics in a printed book format, and if you say “newspaper comics” you mean comics that appear in a newspaper.
By Christopher Wright on 05.15.11 2:13 pm
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