Review: Zuda August Competition

It's a little slow in this month's Zuda Competition. After reading all 10 stories I came away feeling a little let down. It's not that they all suck - there are some pretty good stories - it's just that nothing really jumped out at me.

The stories that stood out the most were Arctic and Absolute Magnitude - the current leader.

While the story of Arctic moved a little slow, the character design and scenery were more impressive than probably any other entry this month.

Absolute Magnitude, on the other hand, had some nice character introductions and plenty of action... but the dialogue felt a little weak. It's a stong entry in comparison to most of this month's competition, but doesn't really stand up to most of the previous winners.

Physikon featured some pretty good art and a nice premise but doesn't have that secret ingredient to make it better than everything else in the isle.

I think Cards Kill could've been a lot better if it didn't try to be so abstract through the first half of the story. Once it settled down after that it really wasn't that bad.

Aside from these entries, there are some really bad comics that as long as none of them are in contention by month's end I think I'll be able to live with the winner.