9/8: Mostly Fanboy Enthusiasm Today

Favorite comic of the day has gotta go to Wonderella. "...real busy with my charity work..."

But the comic that's got me salivating for upcoming installments is Starslip Crisis: Alterverse War. Kristofer Straub is writing this as a prequel and a crossover with 29 other comics-- including Fans! I don't think anyone else has really done a webcomics-based uber-crossover in quite a while, and Straub is an accomplished mimic as well as one of the best writers we've got in the field right now. Looking forward to it.

Related and I missed it: almost a year to the day after its last installment, Checkerboard Nightmare gets two in one shot.

Howard Tayler knows where his next batch of new readers are coming from.

Covered already: I wish they'd stop calling this kind of stuff "comic books on cell phones." You can cram a comic onto a cell phone but the resulting format is nothing like a book.

PC Weenies' Krishna M. Sadasivam celebrates his impending fatherhood with a new autobiographical series... because... fatherhood means he'll have more free time? I wish Krishna all the best but I suspect that Uncubed may not last long enough to show us baby's first steps.

Alexander Danner and Tim Tylor have reminded me that Phil Foglio's early works Buck Godot: Zap Gun For Hire and What's New are now being serialized on his site, albeit without clearly labeled RSS feeds of their own. It's interesting to see this early work of Phil's again. Originally published in the recently deceased Dragon magazine, What's New is a pretty good torch-bearer for what "gamer comics" were like before that meant "videogamer comics." Godot has a few story problems that I think we all overlooked back in the 1980s: the first story shows a much meaner Godot than the others, and the "Rat and Teleporter" story relies on Godot pulling a staff of experts out of nowhere. But it's always lots of fun, and as with many webcomics, one of the pleasures is watching the creator continue to get better.