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Our Current Top Five as of October 1, 2008.
Templar, Sparkneedle and Blikada by Spike & Matt
Oh, but yes. Fantasy deserves more realists, and it looks like the genre has new champions in Spike and her
co, Matt. Blending wonder with bitter is the work of mastercrafts, and we look forward to seeing everything that
comes out of these Chicago minds.
This includes the latest Templar collection, The Mob Goes Wild, which has just arrived in the mail.
True joy comes only to those who hold such wonders in their own grubby paws.
Heliothaumic by Ben Riley
In reimagining The Midlands, the webcomic of his youth, Riley wrestles with issues of prejudice, power,
longevity and material exhaustion that his generation will likely face into their old age. The world of
Heliothaumic stands between twin precipices of the abandonment of feudalism by fantasy races, and their
equal unreadiness for the onrush of a technomagical singularity. History collapses in on the characters across both
space and time—elves without an Edda risk epic fail, while wandering prodigals try to make up their
own victory conditions of life.
The Secret Knots by Juan Santapau
Chilean Santapau places layers of color upon meaning while
describing his work as "comics about things we do without knowing why," but it is far more than a silkscreen
Seinfeld.
Santapau's polished styles take quirky twists and slices of life a calculated half-step into the Twilight Zone. Each
tale is another near-perfect expression of the longing that all creators share to simply be both
inside and in on Creation: "I'd hide inside J.F. Sebastian's building and wait till Rutger Hauer says his
speech and the movie is over, and then I'd come out and live there forever."
His latest series, "Unspeakable", is a Cthulhu Mythos coming of age story, and is not to be missed.
What Birds Know by Emelie Friberg & Mattias Thorelli
Friberg & Thorelli and their Hallon Press bring a vision of another world, with a common familiar shape, filled with
ordinary people and their daily lives and loves, and the castle of runic evil and gibbering infection that they live
a barely-comfortable distance from.
Three friends embark on a mushroom-collecting class assignment-cum-camping trip, and open an unnatural gate of
forgotten dread. Soon their forest frolic is beset with hauntings of rot and a uniquely horrific discharge from
their bodies, making them wish their worst adolescent problem was coping with boys back home putting the moves on
them.
Lackadaisy by Tracy J. Butler
This paean to speakeasy culture—via the anthropomorphic comics that were taking shape in that very period of
history—is not quite like anything else on the web. Or in print, for that matter. Vividly professional
characterization and vibrant panelology make Lackadaisy a bright young tour de force.
Also has a collection coming out soon.
THE PAN-MULTIVERSAL LINK EXCHANGE
"...because we can."
The following webcomics link back to Yamara.
Our favorites are above. But the ones below are
"safe on our block". Because the multiverse of the interweb is like gang turf in that regard.
Want in? There are rules. Read and
follow them, then write us.
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