Monthly Archives: October 2011

Heads up all…

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Heads up… I’m taking a break from reviews in October (and maybe November… I’m playing around with doing NaNoWriMo, the 50K word time-waster, this year again). I’ve got a lot to do in real life right now, and webcomic reviews are going to have to take a back seat. I may come back shortly Halloween time to take a look at some spoooooky webcomics (including, perhaps, finally posting that Red Light Properties review I’ve been working on since, oh, the beginning of the year). But beyond that, I don’t know. I’ll be traveling a little, loving a little, dressing up to scare impressionable kids a little… all that stuff.

Thanks to everyone for reading the Webcomic Overlook. And fear not! The Webcomic Overlook will be back.

Sean Kleefeld talkin’ webcomics at MTV

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OK, how did I miss this? Xaviar Xerexes over at Comixtalk reports that Sean Kleefeld, of the Kleefeld on Comics blog, has apparently been talking webcomics over at MTV. For quite a while now, apparently.

So far, he’s blogged about how webcomics are still experimenting over whether stories should end or go on indefinitely, commented on the effects of reader feedback, and covered the ease of performing a retcon in an online medium.

There’s a lot of interesting stuff, and I’m kinda pissed at myself that I’m only finding about it now.

Random Quickie: Power Play

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I got an email recently from Reilly Brown that Power Play, a comic he illustrates with writer Kurt Christenson, will be making a debut at New York Comic Con next week. I got a chance to see an advanced copy, and I have to say it’s very well done. Young men and women gain superpowers, but rather than learning that with great power come great responsibility, they show off their skills in super parkour and live to get tons of hits on YouTube.

Enter Mac, a full-bodied college-aged slacker who gains his powers the old school way of getting zapped by lightning. Suddenly, he finds out he can take on the properties of any material he touches. So, sorta like the Absorbing Man. He comes into contact with beer, and he starts leaking gallons of yellow fluid. His “friends” quickly see dollar signs in their eyes … and decide that he’s destined for fame and fortune in the Power Play tournament, which is extreme sports for people with superpowers.

Thus far, it’s a fun, lighthearted tale… something like the Archie gang meets TV’s Teen Titans. Some of the hip youth dialogue is kinda corny (“Oh, snap! Tentacle Bitchslap! Bam!”), but that’s part of the charm. The superheroes we meet have interesting designs: one looks a little like Mandrake the Magician, and other is an octopus in a hoodie. Who can hate that? And I admit, I have a fondness for the Ice Queen, a skimpily dressed ice skater with a Schwarzenegger-like vocabulary of cold-based puns.

Power Play is available online only at Comixology, which is currently running a free preview.

Crabcake Confidential: Shockwave, Darkside

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The say that in space, no one can hear you scream. But can they see you wearing rectangular glasses where one side is red and the other side is blue?

Shockwave, Darkside is a webcomic written by Jay Weisman and illustrated by Weilin Yang and team (who are the same art team behind previous reviewed Keenspot stablemate Wayward Sons). It’s a comic based on an indie movie of the same name. Despite a title that sounds like it could be title of a weepy Tori Amos single, Shockwave, Darkside is actually 3-D sci-fi movie where two factions on the movie fight over patches of water. That’s fairly ambitious for a film without a big Hollywood budget. The movie’s most prominent actor is a fellow by the name of Bill Sage. Also it has Filipino actress Mei Melancon, who played Psylocke in X-Men: The Last Stand.

Wait a minute… Psylocke was in that movie?!?!?

The comic is, in a way, equally ambitious. Because along with being tied to a risky indie project, it’s also coming atcha… in 3D!

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