Post by mentalguru on Dec 1, 2010 14:36:47 GMT -5
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I cannot recommed this webcomic enough. While at first Antimony (the main protaganist) is rather strange character who doesn't behave like a child very much, this is later somewhat explained, and while she has difficulty sometimes showing emotions sometimes, she certainly has them.
A wonderful modern fantasy webcomic set in England, while some odd twinges of Harry Potter (a teacher for instance who was a previous admirer of the main protaganists mother- plus there are houses, but that's true for all british schools really), I have to say this is far superior to it in everyway. In everyway. Terrific storytelling where very few people are entirely good or evil and redemption and murky histories and pasts abound. It's sometimes immensely difficult to figure out if some are really antagonists here if at all- no-one seems to be evil for the sake of evil here and protaganists are shown to not be entirely good all the time either. They make mistakes themselves.
I would say it gets a whole lot better after the first few chapters though.
Includes various mythologies including the Native American Coyote (despite the English setting) and various european demon dogs including Renard, who is a major character and whose past is particulary interesting as well as Ysengrin, (minor spoiler but his moment of understanding with antimony is great). That's quite a few chapters ahead though! I think I really like how 'Tom' the author can make even the initially scariest character have various sides too as well as things which seem clear cut and answered turn out to be more complicated than when they first appear.
Here is page 1:
www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1
I cannot recommed this webcomic enough. While at first Antimony (the main protaganist) is rather strange character who doesn't behave like a child very much, this is later somewhat explained, and while she has difficulty sometimes showing emotions sometimes, she certainly has them.
A wonderful modern fantasy webcomic set in England, while some odd twinges of Harry Potter (a teacher for instance who was a previous admirer of the main protaganists mother- plus there are houses, but that's true for all british schools really), I have to say this is far superior to it in everyway. In everyway. Terrific storytelling where very few people are entirely good or evil and redemption and murky histories and pasts abound. It's sometimes immensely difficult to figure out if some are really antagonists here if at all- no-one seems to be evil for the sake of evil here and protaganists are shown to not be entirely good all the time either. They make mistakes themselves.
I would say it gets a whole lot better after the first few chapters though.
Includes various mythologies including the Native American Coyote (despite the English setting) and various european demon dogs including Renard, who is a major character and whose past is particulary interesting as well as Ysengrin, (minor spoiler but his moment of understanding with antimony is great). That's quite a few chapters ahead though! I think I really like how 'Tom' the author can make even the initially scariest character have various sides too as well as things which seem clear cut and answered turn out to be more complicated than when they first appear.
Here is page 1:
www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=1