To show I’m not all about the science (though it’s mostly about the science), I thought I would review the web comics I linked to on my blogroll.\u00a0 Go ahead, scroll all the way to the bottom.\u00a0 There they are.\u00a0 As a younger kid, I used to enjoy comics.\u00a0 But there was a problem, I didn’t have the money for all of them and when there was a crossover event… oh boy.\u00a0 So I drifted away from comic books.\u00a0 I still have a few, Transformers #1-42, Classic X-Men #1-90 or so.\u00a0 All good stuff.<\/p>\n
But with the advent of the internet and self publishing, there’s a fair number of books and web comics that are really worth losing a week or two of productivity on.<\/p>\n
I found out about Sluggy Freelance<\/a> after reading some of John Ringo’s books.\u00a0 I enjoyed it for a time, but got burned out around year 8 or 9.\u00a0 It’s been going on a long time.<\/p>\n xkcd<\/a> is kind of a geek classic.\u00a0 It’s smart, funny, meaningful, and oddly compelling… for a bunch of stick figures with no faces.\u00a0 If you like jokes about Fourier transforms, then you’ll enjoy it.<\/p>\n Wayward Sons <\/a>is a true, old-fashioned comic book, just published on the net.\u00a0 It has a very interesting premise, if you can suspend disbelief for a few moments.\u00a0 Basically, what if all the old gods of history were just refugees from another dimension?\u00a0 And they are still here?\u00a0 I love fantasy and science fiction, but I can separate reality from comics.<\/p>\n I really don’t know why I like Girls with Slingshots<\/a> so much.\u00a0 It’s funny in that kind of nuts way that Big Bang Theory used to be.\u00a0 For all the talking cactus named McPedro, to the ghostly kitty who uttersDooooooooom, it still a comic about men, women, and getting along in this weird thing we call life.<\/p>\n Grrl Power<\/a> is a fairly new comic.\u00a0 It only takes a few minutes to run through the whole series so far.\u00a0 It is funny, it is somewhat over the top, but I like it in that classic superhero fashion.\u00a0 My only real complaint is the author tries to do too much in a single panel and the effect is often lost in the chaos.<\/p>\n Blue Milk Special<\/a> is a chronological parody of the original Star Wars films.\u00a0 It’s got everything from an easily confused Vader who drinks too much coffee to a chain-smoking, over sexed Leia.\u00a0 If you like Star Wars, you’ll love this.<\/p>\n