Alex Kolesar and Joe Kovell’s No Need For Bushido.
That cryptic last panel has my interest piqued. Good use of humor as a diversionary tactic to offset the revelation of something sinister (and perhaps sexual?) going on.
Come across a better one? Feel free to post your own link…
“Humans certainly are pathetic creatures”
From Jason Lai’s Project ROL: Retribution of Lambs. When a line doesn’t even require punctuation to make it good, you know it’s good.
But hey… if you’ve come across a better one, let me know about it.
JE Draft’s The Challenges of Zona. In an era of increasing emphasis on visual literacy at the expense of… well, just plain literacy… and where scriptwriters have an overtendency to make their characters talk in quips and one-liners masking as dialogue, Mr Draft is to be commended for actually giving us something to read. Loads, in fact. Thanks, JE!
… goes to a recent installment of J. Stefaniak’s Dragon Girl Noriko. Apart from that last panel successfully creating in me a strong desire to find out what happens next, I have a thing for dinosaur chase scenes in general.
There’s been an influx of new visitors this week, I suspect mostly due to ads I’ve been running on fellow webcomic sites. (Though I would like to think there’s some positive word-of-mouth going about as well. Or am I deluded?)
From my own experience as a reader of webcomics, when I stumble upon a new one I tend to look at the latest update first. I don’t bother with the written synopsis of what the comic’s about, nor do I wish to go through a whole bunch of character descriptions. And I don’t immediately go to the first page and begin pouring through the archives until the comic has sufficiently engaged me for enough days that I’m compelled to go back and read it from the beginning.
I suspect this is the way most people approach their webcomic-surfing. Which is why humor/gag strips tend to have bigger audiences than strips with continuing storylines. (Although recently it’s been encouraging to see an increasing number of continuing story-based webcomics gaining massive followings. You know who you are…)
This is all my rather roundabout way of explaining why I don’t have a lengthy synopsis of what Twilight Lady is about or a whole bunch of character descriptions on this site. My intention for this strip is that though it’s a continuing story, casual readers ought to be able to jump in at any time and enjoy the latest plot developments and sticky situations the characters find themselves in without necessarily having to start from page 1. Such is the criteria for any good soap opera, after all… so why not a webcomic?
Of course, my ambition is to deliver something much more layered than your run-of-the-mill soap (pretension alert!), and readers who stick around for some time (or even choose to read from the beginning) will find the full Twilight Lady experience richly rewarding.
That’s a promise.
Fictional stories either take place in the real world or a fantasy world.
Sometimes, the distinction is obvious. TV cop shows like NYPD Blue and Homicide generally take place in the real world. The Star Wars movies, on the other hand, take place in a fantasy universe, as does Lord of the Rings.
What about a show like Smallville, however? Smallville conceivably takes place in the real world because on the show, the existence of aliens and super-powered beings are kept secret from the public at large. (The X-Files falls in the same category.)
The Marvel Universe is a fantasy world. In that universe, Spider-Man can be seen swinging across Manhattan skyscrapers, people are aware of the existence of mutants and their potential threat to humans, Wonder Woman can be spotted in her invisible jet… (I know… wrong universe. Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.) Now… the moment Smallville’s creators decide to have the public learn of Superman’s existence, the show moves into the “fantasy world” category.
What I intend to do with Twilight Lady is begin in the real world and move slowly into a realm of fantasy. You’ll see this world change, for better or worse, as a result of the introduction of the being known as the Lady in the Hood. This change will be gradual, happening over the course of the entire series. By the end, you will witness a completely new realm, vastly different from the “real world” depicted in the opening chapters which you’re currently reading.
Of course, the real real world – our world – will no doubt change as well, in the time that I’m going to be working on this project. It will be interesting to compare the eventual reality to the fantasy.
While I’m working on the next part of the saga, I thought I’d rerun the very first Twilight Lady tale, “The Secret of Cass Corridor”, for the benefit of new visitors. This story will update at a rate of 2-4 pages daily until it’s done.
If you’re wondering where to find the most recent Twilight Lady tale, “The Disappeared”, it’s still available at my Drunkduck mirror site.
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