Never Not A Nerd

Natalie Dee is responsible for all of those weird, cutesy-ass drawing of cupcakes and monkeys and stuff.  The ones you see on t-shirts and all sorts of different peoples’ web pages.  On the MyBook and the FaceSpace, or whatever you call it nowadays.  And I say cutesy-ass with no disrespect, in fact it’s her art style that adds to the humor of her daily drawings.  Every day of the week, Natalie Dee, a mastermind over at Sharing Machine, does some very good work with what must be ease.  I mean, come on, she does a piece every day.  She’s got talent.

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Remember how I said Dr. McNinja’s colorist Anthony Clark had his own webcomic?  Well here we go.

Anthony’s site is Nedroid, where he does comics about two best friends Reginald and Beartato.  I like to assume that a Beartato is made when you take a potato and you honey roast it.  Hard.  Like, with intensity and stuff.  But yeah, the two are close friends who go on adventures and spend a lot of time just learning about things.  Mainly because they know so very little.

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I don’t know what to say, really.  Kick-Ass was released in hardcover last week and I’m just not sure.  The concept of the story is a simple one, and it’s one we’ve seen many times before: why don’t people in real life try to be superheroes?  Well, it’s because they’d be killed rather quickly, that’s why.  Fortunately, that’s something Millar opts not to ignore in his story.  But still, the main problem I seem to have with this story is that there’s no one actually likable throughout (with the exception of Kick-Ass’ father, and that’s only because he’s barely in it).  Therefore, let’s take a look at the Yays and Nays of the story before the movie is released.

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Okay.  So you’ve been reading Garfield for quite a while.  Since childhood, let’s say.  It’s getting pretty old, right?  The same basic elements seem consistent throughout: the cat kicks the dog off the table, eats pasta and ridicules his owner.  Ah, Jon Arbuckle, you poor, miserable bastard.  Your life really is a monotonous string of torment with that fat, lazy cat as your only companion.  I mean, is it any wonder Liz doesn’t want to date him?  Women aren’t too into the dude with a bad perm that hangs out with his cat all day.  Where was I?  Oh yes.  We’re all familiar with Garfield and how boring he can seem.  But what if there was no Garfield?

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I felt like taking a look at something a little different this week by observing a limited story entitled Josh & Imp.  A story by Jon Bernhardt and art by Diana Nock, it’s about a young man named Josh who meets the teenage sidekick of his city’s Batman-like superhero.  Josh and Imp are out on a date, exploring the details of their relationship and the problems that comes along with trying to be intimate with a masked super-heroine.  Secret identities are tough, especially when it comes to trying to express one’s feelings.

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Not all webcomics are drawings of cheap shots taken at video games.  Some of them aren’t even drawings at all.  Some of them are photographs of blackboards and a guy in a lab coat.  Dante Shepherd’s Surviving the World gives the reader advice on important things that will permit them to keep on going in life.  He throws on his coat and Red Sox cap and does his best to ensure that we’re paying close attention to the things that are most vital in the world.  I mean, when you stop to think that someone would take the time to keep us up on key knowledge like this, we should definitely take the time to give his comic a look.

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I love me some awkward things, and Pictures for Sad Children certainly fits that description.  John Campbell writes and draws an awkward webcomic exploring death, confusion, odd social trends, human and inhuman interaction, and confusion.  He does this in the most peculiar way possible, but doesn’t manage to alienate the reader.  At least, that’s been my experience with it.

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The floating head of Abraham Lincoln.  Really, if I explain past that, I’m just ruining things.  But I suppose given that this is a review, I must go further.  The floating head of Abraham Lincoln stars in Thinkin’ Lincoln, a webcomic by Miles Grover.  It details little adventures and jokes about history and wacky situations with Lincoln’s closest friends, like George Washington or Queen Elizabeth II.  Abe just cruises around and learns important things about life, love, and the world in general.  With the help of Charles Darwin and Zombie Mark Twain, he will reach adulthood and learn a number of life lessons.  It may not seem like it fits, but it certainly does.

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Are you into medicine and/or brutal slayings?  Do you watch surgical videos and Kung-Fu movies?  Do you enjoy the combination of lab coats and masks?  If you… um… read any of these questions, you should read The Adventures of Dr. McNinja.  The series, written by Chris Hastings, inked by Kent Archer, and colored by Anthony Clark (whose own webcomic will likely be featured here in the future) follows a doctor who is also a ninja.  My power of description knows no bounds.

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I’m going to do a little belated rundown of what I feel were the best of the comics released last year that I’ve read, that everyone should be taking a look at.  Hit the button to find out my entirely correct opinions.

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