… your friendly neighborhood sasquatch, The Abominable Charles Christopher! According to the Joe Shuster Awards, anyway. Congratulations, Karl Kerschl! Give yourself a pack of Timbits. You deserve it.
There’s something you should know about what webcomics I select to be reviewed on this blog. Sometimes, I’m hopelessly attracted to the online equivalent of “bright, shiny objects.” That is to say, I’m easily distracted by some of the stupidest things. It does me absolutely no good to draft up a schedule, since I’d be champing at the bit to review something I’d only encountered at a passing glance. Two months ago, I drafted an ambitious plan to check out a list of review candidates. All of them were potential gems for review fodder. And I’d been doing well following it … until now.
It’s not that I’ve abandoned that list. The one or two of you looking forward to my take on Wasted Talent will be happy to know that I’ve already written a barely legible preliminary draft that I hope to have up cleaned up and ready by next week. However, as I finished penning my Marilith review, I ran smack dab into one such bright, shiny object.
Wondering what “Krazy Krow”* had been up to since he wrapped up his magnum opus, I clicked on Spinnerette, which he developed with artist Walter Gustavo Gomez. It answers the age-old question: “What if Spider-Man was a girl?”
OK, apologies for the lateness again. I’m going to have to stop posting these, since it ends up turning the entire blog into a string of apologies. Let’s just say the long weekend was longer than I expected, I now find myself in the position of entertaining visiting relatives, which gives me little time currently at the moment to read and review webcomics. Super sorry. Let’s just say that this site is going to be sporadically updated over summer in general.
But hey, some interesting webcomic news came down the pipeline while I was not-sunning myself on the cloudy beaches of Oregon. A few highlights:
And let me just say I appreciate the hard work Robot 6′s Brigid Alverson is putting into her webcomic-related posts these last few days … it makes us slackers look really, really bad. Check out her blog at Paperless Comics, where she links to some interviews with Octopus Pie‘s Meredith Gran, Velia, Dear‘s Rina Piccolo, and others.
That’s it for now. Oh, yeah, a note to Canadians that the Joe Shuster Awards are this Saturday, and the webcomic field is stacked. Here’s a full list:
Outstanding Web Comics Creator or Creative Team / Créateur ou Créateurs Exceptionnel de Bandes Dessinées Web
Incidentally, I’ve only just realized that many of my most recent reviews (and several of my upcoming reviews) are Canadian in origin. Which kinda freaks me out … AND, actually, helps explain why a lot of Webcomic Overlook readers hail from the Great White North. Good luck to all nominees.
