Intermission

Hello, loyal reader! (Mom...)

This blog was created as an assignment for my Professional Writing class. My professor feels it is necessary to be comfortable writing for internet audiences if one wants to write for a living. The assignment was to create an informative blog that targets a specific audience.

I chose webcomics. Comics I love in general, as a medium that meshes words and pictures to create a startlingly fluent way to absorb information. Webcomics I adore, as my first real introduction to what comics can be and how varied the genres and art really are. I thought, what is better than a blog that can help out readers new to the medium? And so, Webcomics Weeder is here.

Because I was only allowed to update after a grading cycle, and only with the Prof's permission, I did not update regularly. Then I became bogged down with assignments. Now I am in Finals Week, and have no time for anything but studying and writing. After Finals, I'll be off to France for two weeks, and will not return until the end of May. My blog has been forced to simmer on a back burner.

But I will not let it simmer there forever. Beginning June 2, I will be posting reviews twice a week: Mondays and Fridays. In between, if I find interesting news pertaining to webcomics I'll make a post.

I would love to get suggestions for comics to read. I've read quite a few, but I'm always looking for something new.

Though I'm not an ambitious blogger, I hope this blog does help out people who are slopping through piles of webcomics. Happy reading, and I'll be back in June!

When I Am King

When I Am King

Demian.5

Fantasy?

R (And I Mean That!)

When I Am King is a webcomic classic. It has been noted by some of the greats of comics, including Mr. Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud.

The art is an enhanced stick-figure theme, and it is "silent." But the whole site is slick. This is the first comic I had ever encountered that used the computer format to its advantage. Flash is used in some places, as are computer-illustrated scenes. For the most part, though, the frames are static. This doesn't keep the comic from being interactive. To read the comic, you must scroll frame by frame. Sometimes you must scroll up, sometimes forward, sometimes down, sometimes a combination of all three. The anticipation created simply by scrolling is almost rediculous.

As for the story, an Egyptian king goes out for a walk, loses his loincloth, and must find a new one so that his guards will recognize him. It sounds simple, but the artist managed to shove in full-on nudity, sex, beastiality, drug use and child abuse. You won't believe how graphic stick people can be.

The comic is finished, and takes maybe an hour to read. I have no complaints to add, but I want to reiterate: SEX! NUDITY! DRUGS! BEASTIALITY! If you have a problem with any of these, don't read this comic!