Tokyopop: A Farewell
It's been fourteen years since Tokyopop first came into existence. Paving the way for a manga revolution that was destined to storm the US. Sadly, Tokyopop will soon close its doors.
PAX East Day 3
I was feeling pretty on top of things Sunday. The alarm went off and I staggered over, hammered the button and slept until 7:45. Woke up, got everything ready to leave, glanced at the clock, saw that it said 8:27. Feeling really good at this point. I'm trying to decide in my head if I want to sit down on the hard concrete of the queue line again or pretend to be waiting on carpet for the opening of the Wyvern Theater for some presentation I don't know if I really want to see. I pull into a nice parking spot about a block from the BCEC and realize two things.
I forgot about Day Light's savings and I'm a complete idiot.
PAX East 2011
The Geekery will be at PAX East this weekend!
To be precise three of us will be there and we will be covering many things from the new Guild Wars 2 demo to Gamma World and anything else that just seems fancy!
Keep checking in throughout the weekend for more updates.
Feature Webcomic: Drive
Dave Kellet’s webcomic Sheldon has been around since 2001 and over the years has won over the hearts of many readers. A couple of years ago on the Sheldon website Dave started posting a page of the sci fi adventure Drive each Saturday. Over time Drive amassed enough strips to warrant the publication of the first volume of the comic. Just recently Drive was moved off of Sheldon to a page all it’s own and so far so good. The story revolves around the human galactic empire preparing to face off in a losing war. They are fighting against a race called "The Continuum of Makers" over some stolen drive technology that The Makers now wants back. The only hope lies in a tiny creature that no one knew existed and his mohawk that lets him pilot ships with the stolen Drive technology with astounding skill. They need to find more of his race to pilot the other ships and gain an edge in this war. Too bad the mysterious creature doesn’t know where they might be. Right now he can’t even remember his own name.
Feature Webcomic: String Theory
Physics is some pretty fancy stuff. Personally, I’m rather fond of it. When I came across a webcomic titled String Theory it naturally followed that I would read it and I’m glad I did. String Theory was created two years ago by Beckey Grundy. The comic isn’t so much about physics in general, but about Dr. Herville Albert Schtein who is particularly good at figuring out physics and works in a research lab. His hair is white from stress and he has biomechanical eyes that are red on black. He’s also a bit of an asshole mostly due to him being somewhat socially inexperienced and carrying a history of being mocked. String Theory follows Schtein as he makes a few bad choices and suffers a whole lot of bad luck.
Feature Webcomic: HERO
Another week has somehow poofed into past memory and it’s time for a new comic. Today I celebrate the return after almost a year long break of HERO by Hwei. Taken from the about page so as to avoid spoilers, “HERO is a story about a perfectly ordinary boy with no memory of the past and no urgency for the future; who one day accepts a most extraordinary offer to travel to distant places and invisible cities.” Of course during this journey the boy discovers much more about the world and himself then he ever expected. HERO takes a quiet and deep look at what it means to be a person and what it means to live.
Feature Webcomic: Minus
Unfortunately due to the ongoing snowpocolypse and that I found myself sick part of last week I missed an update. My apologies. To make up for it I’m going to discuss the wonderful comic Minus. Minus was created by Ryan Armand and ran from 2006 until it’s completion in 2008. After over two years since it’s completion, Minus is finally being collected into a long awaited print edition with added material that was not presented in the comic. In essence the story is about a young girl named Minus who happens to have special powers. Her power isn’t limited in any way. She can do anything that crosses her mind much to the excitement or dismay of the people around her. Minus is a wondrous story about taking all those things you imagined doing as a child and simply making them real.
Feature Webcomic: The Abominable Charles Christopher
Friday has come around again and that means I get to share another great webcomic with you! This week I’m going to talk about The Abominable Charles Christopher created by Karl Kerschl. The comic largely follows the story of Charles Christopher, a creature not quite animal and not quite human, and his interactions with the forest and it’s inhabitants and with human civilization. It’s an epic tale and often a very touching one. It has plenty of moments of humor too and incredible art. Just in preparing for this article I found myself reading through the entire archives yet another time. It is a beautiful comic filled with emotion and while reading I’ve found myself responding in kind with anything from joyful laughter to a melancholic tear.
Feature Webcomic: Nerf This
This weeks featured webcomic is Nerf This created by Scott Ferguson. In a couple of months this comic will hit it’s two year anniversary and it’s astounding to see all that Scott has accomplished in just two short years with this comic. The comic updates at a whopping five days a week (Mon-Fri) and he doesn’t short change it in any form, presenting each comic in full color and with gorgeous art. This already seems like a mountain of work to me, but in addition to Nerf This he also finds the time to release two other weekly webcomics, Scout Crossing and Motokool each holding enough weight to warrant their own post. Consider my mind blown.
Update: Scott announced the first Nerf This book earlier this morning! *joy*
Feature Webcomic: Hanna is Not a Boy’s Name
This week’s feature webcomic is Hanna is Not a Boy’s Name and one of my personal favorites. Created by Tessa Stone in 2009, Hanna is Not a Boy’s Name follows the story of the outgoing, reckless and always cheery Hanna Falk Cross and his probably over ambitious determination to be a paranormal investigator.
