Zhi

A blog that bravely delves into the writhing morass of genre fiction webcomics.

Wednesday, 10 August 2016

Unfinished Pathways: The Black brick road of Oz

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There have been numerous wizard of oz remakes since the series was written at the begining of the twentieth century. I particularly recall t...
Sunday, 7 August 2016

Talk a walk on the wild side: Wilde life

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I find that reading webcomics is a typically a daily one page ritual that displaces the ongoing causal sense of narrative that a standard g...
Sunday, 24 April 2016

The color of magic: Vibe

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The first thing that hits the reader when reading this webcomic is a jarring gorgeosity of color.  It hits the retina in shock-waves. The...
Sunday, 28 February 2016

Anime lite: Awaken

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Awaken initially looks to be urban fantasy webcomic set in an alternate universe. From the first page the translucent globs of rich color ...
Wednesday, 7 October 2015

More ways than darkness: Broodhollow

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I'll admit I was never particularly interested in Kris Straub's Starslip . I thought the strip was facile and throwaway. Perha...
Monday, 6 July 2015

Private eyes are watching you: Doomsday, my dear

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A dystopia is easily made comedic and clunky by partisan blinkers and dated references. It's hard to pull it off artistically...
Friday, 15 May 2015

Quite a handfull: Prague race

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I'm easily led by whimsy, noble failures and sweet-nothings. One of my favourite paper comics that never truly worked-out was Chris...
Thursday, 14 May 2015

Preview: Otaku dad

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Welp, the creator of Whomp! has created a second comic that breaks the fourth wall to the point my head hurts. It's about Reggi...
Monday, 16 March 2015

Expeditions into Deviantart: Bomango & Serious Engineering

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Having read webcomics for 15 years I'd forgotten how primitive the early ecosystem of original webcomics actually was. Strips like Pe...
Saturday, 3 January 2015

Reason for being: Modus Operandi

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Modus Operandi is webcomic set in an alternate universe that slightly resembles our own. There's only one chapter at the time of...
Sunday, 10 August 2014

Lost at sea:Derelict

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Initially you'd not think this a genre comic but as a overwhelming sense of loneliness spreads out across  the ocean it becomes appare...
Sunday, 20 July 2014

Nifty for life: Sluggy Freelance

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I'm currently reading the entirety of Sluggy Freelance and I don't quite know if I'm strong enough. It is one of the o...
Saturday, 12 July 2014

New mythologies: happle tea

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Happle tea is a mix between a journal comic and an extended analysis of mythological systems and pantheons that works with a cute and ...
Saturday, 5 July 2014

You're as cold as ice, willing to sacrifice our love: Shiver Bureau

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If cyberpunk's curse is feckless thievery conflated with freedom of expression then steampunk's typical crime is to ignore the so...
Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Space prison blues: The Lydian option

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This webcomic is a heady mix of space opera sci-fi and the hard realism of inter-species bickering.The Tha'latta have captured a...
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