Category: Comics

Magnus, Robot Fighter #0

  02/26/2015       Farla      11 Comments

So I tried taking the gameboy with me and instead of getting anything done I just forgot it, so that’ll have to be delayed further. Magnus today. Remember all those good times we had, not hearing about this comic? They end now.

When last we left off, Whitey picked up another ethnic sidekick, this time one willing to die for him. He backhands the evil progressive woman and runs off with the proper lady who understands his dick means he should totally be in charge. It’s about to get still worse!

Luckily we don’t need to deal with that today, because in fine comics tradition, it’s time for a #0 issue. If you aren’t familiar with the general disregard comics has for people trying to read a series, you might think I should have started with this one, but the zero just means it’s set in the past. According to the note, this is set between #2 and #3, but the internet tells me it came out after #3 and also I think you need to get as far as Evil Ice Queen Bitch pointing out how objectively she is totally right and all hail our non-prejudiced robot overlords before reading this. (more…)

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Magnus, Robot Fighter #5

  12/12/2015       Farla      38 Comments

Hey, remember this? I bet you hoped it was over. But no! We will be over after this, but I saw the horror and you have to too.

When last we left off, Magnus: ROBOT FIGHTER had descended into the sewers with his jive-talking sidekick now literally just a talking head he carries around for the fawning commentary. There, he met his wife.

It is time to see a whole new terrible side of him. (more…)

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The Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle

  03/17/2016       SpoonyViking      27 Comments

Welcome to the jungle / It ain’t all fun and games…

Hello again, everyone! Now that I’m close to finishing my Master’s, I’ll try to go back to posting semi-regularly. To (re)start things off, I’m going to cover something which I promised Farla quite some time ago: the “Dresden Files” comics. I won’t be looking at them as adaptations of a preexisting work, however, but rather, as original works themselves – as if they were an entirely separate franchise. I believe that will allow me to evaluate them in a fairer manner than if I analysed them as part of a book series which I already dislike. That also means I don’t have any plans of covering the comics that are straight adaptations of the novels.

So, without further ado, let me start with Welcome to the Jungle, the first “Dresden” comic book – one that is chronologically set before the first novel, Storm Front, although it was released in 2008 (which means the book series was already up to Small Favor at that point).

Oh, before I forget: there will be spoilers. (more…)

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Empowered (Comic)

  05/21/2016       Farla      8 Comments

So, I just found out Empowered (or at least the first volume) is now online as a webcomic.

Empowered is a comic about a superhero who gets her powers from her suit, which unfortunately is incredibly sheer and revealing, and double unfortunately can be torn apart by basically anything, so she generally ends up getting depowered and tied up in sexually suggestive ways while people make sexually suggestive or just flat out sexual comments. And every time I try to figure out how to explain how this is true but at the same time it’s actually really good and it’s got characterization and reasons and decency to it, I can’t. But I don’t have to now because you can just look at it yourself thanks to the magic of internet links.

Empowered: it’s way better than it sounds, and not just because it sounds incredibly awful!

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