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Our Current Top Five as of January 25, 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.
Lackadaisy by Tracy J. Butler
Ehhh, let BoingBoing celebrate ApeLad's aping Harriman on internet memes—I got yer Jazz Age LOLcats
right heah!
This paean to speakeasy culture—via the anthropomorphic comics 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.
Dresden Codak by Aaron Diaz
Candy-colored detours through the realms of physics, Hollywood, and natural philosophy leave the protagonists of
Dresden Codak walking around, like stepchildren of The Phantom Tollbooth, struggling to build a
parliamentary democracy of the mind.
...Diaz is delving into a continuing narrative of time travel and the singularity, titled "Hob", which means he is now
our unwitting
disciple.
Oh, you need more proof? Kimiko's line, "Victor Hugo once got so mad he threw a baseball through a dog,"
sounds like probably something we might have added to Wikipedia at some point or other. Maybe.
Heliothaumic by Ben Riley
After 550-odd pages, Riley's The Midlands suddenly exploded (literally so, in our
pastiche response) and was replaced with a new take
on that world's history—the dust has yet to clear, but he's already reshaped his continents, and his
characters, declaring: "The Midlands has been going for like a million years, and now suddenly it's just... stopped.
But it's not quite like that. Heliothaumic is what I think The Midlands ought to have been, but wasn't because it
was laden with dumb ideas and plotlines that seemed rad when I was in middleschool." But his elf noir spinoff
Empire Song was rad enough
to survive the rift.
Family Man by Dylan Meconis
An Eighteenth Century scholar has more problems with religious
prejudice than with the night creatures that haunt his world in this brave not-quite-prequel to Bite Me. And
don't miss her exhaustive notes, adding the
final period detail to her fine period detail.
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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