Posts Tagged ‘webcomics’

"Save Hiatus" remains on — sigh — hiatus while Adam and I both deal with the parts of our lives that demand money, there's still places to get your whacky space fun on. I highly recommend "The Good Ship Chronicles," by Tauhid Bondia. It's the story of the ongoing reality show based on the Starcorp Delivery/Transport ship, the SS Gossamer. Captained by Hap Manning, the ship is the last stop for less-0than-stellar crewmen who have been transferred from other ships. Manning takes that as a challenge.

The various in and outs of daily starship life, combined with the regular holovision diary entries of the crew and the occasional event as someone else screws with them for ratings, leads to a hilarious webcomic. You got your overbearing and mildly delusional captain, your competent and long-suffering first officer, your openly racist and sexist counselor, your skilled doctor banished for haviung more integrity than sense, your feisty, sexy head of security, your overweight and wheelchair-bound engineer, your too-cool-for-starschool alien rep, your brimming-with too-much-information pilot, your intern who was killed in a tragic rescuing, and more.  The artwork's as good as any webcomic I've seen and the humor rocks. Go check it out.

Just come back when we're ready, OK?

Joel Watson of HijinksEnsue.com was away this week and asked Adam and myself if we'd be interested in supplying a guest comic to his geek-friendly strip. We were, and we did.

(Note: our comic today is entirely SFW, previous comics in his archives include NSFW language)

PRESS RELEASE

The Network and What’s the Use Productions have jointly announced that the episode of Hiatus that aired April 18, 2008, will be the final one. Production on the show has halted, and there have been no public plans to carry on with the show in any capacity on The Network or any other venue.

"Hiatus has been an important part of The Network’s history, and Manny Ulrich’s visionary show has broken the boundaries of what television is capable of," said Cornelius Snyvel, Presidential-Adjunct of Entertainment, The Network, in a prepared statement. "We'd like to thank Manny, the incredible cast, and the talented workers who put their hearts and souls into this engaging creation that nonetheless made us less cash for the time slot than a re-rerun of ‘Midgets, Midgets, Midgets.’ It was not an easy decision for us, but we had to go with what was best for our stockholders.

“We hope Manny will make more shows for us,” Snyvel said, before slamming his door and pulling his shades down.

Manny Ulrich could not be reached for comment and may not be aware of the current status of his show. The creative genius of “Mars Cops” and “How Can I Be Pregnant?” is on a sabbatical in the Honduras and should be approached with caution.

Hiatus was introduced as a mid-season replacement in February to cover lost programming during the writers’ strike. Despite being broadcast out of order and regularly pre-empted, Hiatus quickly earned a devoted following of enthusiastic fans. It is unknown at this time what the future holds for this franchise.

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And we've already seen what it's being replaced with.

OK, I couldn't let it die. The show was just too good, too special. And when an insanely talented friend wanted to start a webcomic and needed a writer and a subject, well…

Join Ven, Casey, and their friends as they fight to keep their favorite TV show alive despite network indifference and hostility. Also, other geek stuff. The very first strip was posted a few minutes ago, and I wanted you guys to know about it first because you've always been there for Hiatus in the past. With luck, new strips will appear (starting next week) every Monday and Friday.

There's also a forum to post episode discussions, fan fiction, and fan art, and I hope those of you who have already created some will post it there as well.

Come on over for the launch of the web's newest comic, and help save Hiatus!

www.savehiatus.com

While we wait for Joss and Dark Horse to whomp up some more Serenity comics, Browncoats do what they do best… make their own. Serenity Tales seeks to be a repository for fan comics and strips about the Big Damn Heroes. There are four comics up there now and more to come, along with (in the works) links to every Firefly reference in a web comic, ever.

Not the place for pinups, although there are some nice ones on the front page, they're taking submissions and will host if you like. Browncoat artists? Take that fan fiction to the next level!

If you've been reading Phil & Kaja Foglio's "Girl Genius" — and if not, I have little use for you, begone — you might be wondering why the next issue isn't out. It went online! And it's free!

You can read all the previous comics, plus the new stuff which is coming out a page at a time, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Hilarious and engaging, beautifully drawn, and just damnably odd, "Girl Genius" is like nothing you've ever read before.

Unless, of course, you're a regular reader, as you should be. In which case go catch up.

Girl Genius Online: www.girlgeniusonline.com