Review: Fire and Water (Zuda)

Fire and Water

The story is a metaphor of an inner journey. The human beings live inside the mountains over an Earth covered by toxic clouds, since the Big Fire destroyed all the lands. Skarlett decides to leave, looking for...

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I'm not against poetry webcomics... but I'm not for them either. I'm just not that into them. So when I started reading this I knew I wasn't gonna like it.

That doesn't change the fact that it's a good webcomic. It's just poetic enough to be a poem, but not so poetic that all you wanna do is grab the writer by the neck and shake the shit out of them until they "stop being pretentious and just spit it out already!!" 

Actually, only the first half of this is a "poetry" comic before settling in to an actual story. That part didn't really grab me either but like I've always said about the Zuda format - you don't really get enough to make a solid decision on weather or not you want this single webcomic to be the one you get to keep reading in just 8 pages... and because of the nature of this comic, that's more like 4 pages. 

The main character seems cool, but I'd love to know a little more about what's going on in this world before voting for it. 

The art is fantastic. For those of you who've read Clinical Assassin", the graphic novel I wrote, or my political webcomic strip Untelevised, you've probably noticed I love to use grayscale (When J.C. offered to do the art on Clinical Assassin in grayscale I couldn't say no) with only a few pieces of color (ie Untelevised)

It was cool to see something similar in this comic. When Scarlett is collecting fire and water, the subtle use of color for the two elements adds a whole new... element (sorry) to the art. It would've been nice to see those colors standing out on a grayscale canvas instead of the plain looking inked line-art. But don't think I'm criticizing the art because I'm not. I really did love it.

Overall this one does a good job of mixing poetry with art. If you're in to that kinda thing you might like this.

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Webcomics Nation Is Back Up

The site is back up so I'm working on tomorrow's strip. I took a different approach to this one. I've done all (well most) of the art first. I'll add some dialogue later... when I think of something hilarious.

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An Untelevised Strip For The Last Debate

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The Town Hall For It All

I did this political cartoon for today's 'Untelevised' installment. This one is cropped from the standard 700px width of the comic though. If you're reading this from the Untelevised website you can see what I mean. I'd planned on doing a different strip today but this idea kinda hit me late last night and I went with it. Hope you like it.

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New Layout For My Webcomics

I've made some changes to the layout of my webcomics. Mostly to Untelevised and also a few changes to Clinical Assassin

I'm still looking into making a few more "adjustments" later but I like it for now.

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Untelevised Is... Untelevised

WebcomicsNation.com is down right now. I'm not sure what's going on but as long as it's down I can't update 'Untelevised' so if anybody came here looking for information that's what happened. I have no idea when it'll be back up again but as soon as it is I'll update the comic as quick as possible.

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Savage Runs His Mouth Again

Today's update for Untelevised is about Michael Savage and the comments he made the other day about Autistic Children (something about their parents using it as an excuse instead of telling their children to "stfu")

There was some stuff on the news about people protesting and promising to boycot his advertisers. I don't know what difference it would make, most of his listeners agree with him... that's kinda why they listen to him in the first place.

It's hardly the first time he's said something this stupid before either. Almost every night he says something rude and offensive about whatever large group of people he happens to be talking about that day.

The good news is he's old...
Have A Nice Day.

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Untelevised Hits 10000

Untelevised reached 10,000 pageviews yesterday. It's been my most successful webcomic so far. Shan and Shanny is still ahead of it with about 16300 pageviews but that series is almost 2 years old now (Untelevised is less than 2 months old)

I've been wanting to make some t-shirt designs based on the series so hopefully I can do that sometime next week. If anybody has any requests let me know. (email: ShanBruceLee@yahoo.com)

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Obama Sketch From 'Untelevised' Series

This is the latest installment of Untelevised that went live this morning. I did it last night while I was listening to him give his victory speech after passing the delegate mark to become the Democratic Nominee for President!

It's probably one of the best sketch portraits I've ever done, so the fact that it only took a few hours to go from a blank piece of paper to this finished strip is pretty damn good for me. It's a good sign that my art skills are improving.

I probably won't be doing any sketches like this for a while, but it was fun to do and hopefully I'll get a chance to do some more. For now I'm sticking to caricatures and stick figure politicians.

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'Shan and Shanny' Put On Hold

I've been really busy lately with Untelevised and the print version of Clinical Assassin and as a result I haven't been able to do anything with the Shan and Shanny series.

It's not that I've completely neglected the series, it's just that... well I've pretty much completely neglected it. But I do plan on eventually doing some more pages for the series. I have a lot of fun stuff floating around in the back of my head that I had planned on doing eventually, but at this point I'd rather focus on my more serious and, honestly, more important work.

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Off and Running

I'm just 3 days in now and Untelevised is off to a great start. Of the four webcomics I've done, 'Untelevised' has had the best 1st and 2nd day and the 3rd looks like it could be even better (it's 4:00am as I'm writing this)

It was my second highest comic yesterday (based on page views) which is pretty impressive considering the comic consists of one page and a title page. It even gave Clinical Assassin a run for it's money. (Just to put that in perspective, 'Clinical Assassin' is by far my highest ranking comic - It nearly doubles the total page hits for my other two comics on Saturdays, the day I update it)

Let's hope this holds. Like I said in this article yesterday, I've already got the first 10 strips ready to be uploaded so I've got a good head start. By the time I reach that 10th strip I should have a good idea of how well the comic is gonna be recieved.

I'll be sure to update again around that time.

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