Megan

Hello and welcome to Screen Tones, where we talk anything and everything webcomics! Today, we're going to be doing a fun little roundtable about some of the things we're reading right now! I'm Megan, I use she/her pronouns, and I make the webcomic Sorcery Shenanigans.

00:13.66

Krispy

And I'm Krispy, I use she/they pronouns, and I make the webcomics Ghost Junk Sickness and Lunar Blight.

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Varethane

And I'm Varethane, I use she/they pronouns, and I make the webcomics Chirault and Wychwood.

00:29.44

Megan

All righty! So I guess I'll just start us off. Um I think at least us in this little little jam. Sash are familiar with Tiger Tiger and I sure did catch up on it.

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Krispy

You bet.

00:41.45

Varethane

And our cabal.

00:47.12

Megan

It will be very easy for me to be spoiler-free, because I don't remember details, just vibes, and the vibes are great. We're getting into a very action-packed section. It's so good. The main character.

00:56.87

Krispy

Hm.

01:06.73

Megan

Fabulous Ah lady character who's just like independent “I'm going to go study sea sponges and nobody's going to stop me!” and I think that's great. Ah yeah, we love that for her. Ah.

01:15.16

Krispy

I like that! What is it about, Meg? What's the premise?

01:21.63

Megan

It's literally about that character, and that she wants to go study sea sponges, and she steals her brother's boat to do it, and it's fabulous me too. Ah, ah.

01:29.40

Varethane

It's great! I just received the first book. So I've been reading it, too. I just caught up on it. I'm not caught up on the website, but I finished the first printed volume which is lovely, very fun to read. Ah, I just love her.

01:44.59

Megan

Beautiful. It's so thick. Honestly.

01:47.27

Varethane

So nice. The art style is gorgeous in print, too. It's really nicely suited to it, this monochrome kind of traditional look where it's all it's like it's been pencil shaded or like with inks, it's got this lovely texture to it, just in the artwork itself.

02:01.00

Megan

Mmmm, for sure.

02:07.35

Varethane

Expressions are incredible, on like every character every reaction panel. It's just so funny, like it'll tone change and it stays and like entertaining. It doesn't feel out of place to go from like a serious moment to like “Ahh, now the character is making a silly reaction!” because it just feels like that's them.

02:13.78

Megan

Mmm-hmm.

02:23.10

Krispy

Mmm.

02:23.25

Megan

Yeah, Petra is really good at writing very believable characters, like very human characters, and her inks? Fabulous. Honestly, one of many traditional comics that inspire me.

02:24.53

Varethane

Like that's the character, you know?

02:28.83

Krispy

Mmm.

02:43.50

Megan

To get better at inks. Fabulous.

02:46.69

Krispy

Yeah, I absolutely love that, and I like the work that Petra puts into their stuff. Um, like you said, expressions, textures, and the tonal shifts handled extremely well, that is a super skill to do.

02:58.23

Megan

Yes.

03:00.68

Varethane

Oh my God, it goes from so funny to like the most like horrific eldreitch monstrosity that like the lines all coalescing, like so organic and flowing, and it's like so cool. Art goals.

03:03.46

Krispy

Ah.

03:08.30

Megan

Who.

03:10.35

Krispy

My.

03:16.71

Megan

For sure.

03:19.76

Krispy

Art goals, and like a little amazing nugget of a webcomic that you can read for free at tiger-tiger.com

03:24.50

Megan

Yeah, yeah. Sometimes I am honestly surprised what a webbed comic. I am amazed at what is a free comic every time I look at a new one, I'm like “This is free!” You're just.

03:26.94

Varethane

Wow, a webbed comic, you say.

03:30.14

Krispy

I.

03:42.80

Krispy

Um, yeah, that's it. It's well that the physical, ah but it is amazing to think about like the quality and.

03:43.15

Megan

Giving this to me.

03:43.58

Varethane

I could just read it right now, but I did actually pay for it to have the book.

03:47.67

Megan

Why not.

03:59.18

Krispy

The just… the journeys that you get to go on for stories, that you get to read for free, like what? Holy heck, I'm blown away by that! If it's ok for me to kind of jump right in…

04:06.22

Megan

Um.

04:13.63

Megan

Absolutely, please do! What are you reading, Krispy?

04:14.86

Varethane

Do it like.

04:18.23

Krispy

Well one of my favorite webcomics of all time that I am reading is Bicycle Boy by Jackarais, and it is a story about these two kind of wayward, post-apocalyptic fellows navigating this terrain that has been absolutely destroyed, and finding pockets of civilization. There is a half-humanoid little Android moment. They call him Poet. He meets up with Machk, and they kind of go on this journey to figure out what the heck happened to Poet. So you know, you meet these ragtag kind of teams, these disturbing discoveries, dynamic moments of just kind of horror that the human, you know, that mankind kind of goes through during these kind of fallouts with society…humanity and stuff like that, and it's done so. Well, I love how visceral it is. I love how just like you can feel how like everything is just kind of gone downhill. You can see how their wounds they receive during their travels are just so intense. The moments that they talk about how to survive is one of my favorite portrayals of characters that I just like to see, and I've said this in other episodes, where I'm like, I want to see messy characters! This is great, I just like to see characters that are not fully composed, I like to see characters that are just absolutely losing their selves.

05:58.58

Megan

Mm.

06:06.31

Krispy

In navigating such crazy terrain. And you know, this is not even talking about the presentation of the webcomic itself. It also has a print form, which is gorgeous. But the whole thing is beautifully colored and stuff like that, and you can see the growth. My favorite thing in web comics is that you can see how bicycle boy started out now. It had its 10 year anniversary last year. So it's gonna be 11 years old this year in 2024, and

06:26.40

Megan

A.

06:36.94

Megan

For our.

06:43.75

Krispy

to see the style shift is my absolute fave. You start with these kind of more painterly lines and painter not painterly lines but just painterly altogether the lines are a little bit more wispy and stuff like that, and as the comic you know.

06:58.12

Megan

Oooh.

07:01.96

Krispy

Goes through its transformation, Jackarais goes with more bold lines, and the colors of the environment are really intense. They're saturated. It's exciting! I like how it looks like a block print So it's one of my favorites! I could talk forever about this.

07:24.32

Megan

Well I mean.

07:24.60

Varethane

It's just an incredible comic. I love the setting in that one too. Like the fact that it's a post-apocalyptic dystopian kind of place that's been this blasted landscape with parts of it like irradiated and people are navigating through it. But it's not like.

07:30.42

Krispy

Who.

07:42.40

Varethane

There's so many post-apocalyptic stories that are like, “And here's like destroyed New York!” or iconic places like that. But this is set more in rural areas, like it feels kind of Great Lakes-y, Detroit-like rust belt sort of zone, and I feel like that's not a common pick

07:51.27

Krispy

Mm.

07:54.64

Megan

Thane.

07:59.60

Krispy

Yeah.

08:00.74

Varethane

for these kinds of narratives, and then when you get to see like these very familiar communities and places, or at least familiar for like North Americans in certain areas.It's neat the attention to detail in the places where it's set in. It's great! Yeah.

08:14.21

Krispy

Yeah.

08:20.73

Krispy

Thane, it's your turn.

08:22.19

Varethane

Um, well. So things that I'm reading! We have already discussed a bit of Tiger Tiger, just an incredible comic that I'm like literally actively in the middle of getting caught up on as we record this episode. Um, but another comic that I absolutely love, which is on hiatus right now. But god, it was made in a laboratory for me. It's called broken. It's a SpiderForest comic, so you can find it I know the title of it if you look up “broken web comic” ah, you may very well find a lot of like help I can't find the website for this comic.

08:45.44

Megan

Is this the of it.

08:59.41

Varethane

Page is broken or something like that. But if you look it up on SpiderForest, you can find it there. It's a fantasy horror comic. The description on About page is it's about a psychic zombie kid befriending a fairy general and trying to deal with guilt, grief and PTSD.

09:00.92

Krispy

Mmm.

09:18.10

Varethane

And it's like, I feel like that's almost like underselling it, like the relationship kicks off like this. It’s this fae society where people have these glowing wings that they can use to fly around and the society is kind of stratified. The fairy General. He's like a kind of homunculus like a government construct basically who his job is to fight eldritch abominations and this psychic zombie kid is like also a construct by the government but like.

09:35.20

Krispy

Oh my god.

09:38.25

Megan

Mm.

09:46.30

Varethane

Was basically kidnapped on account of having psychic powers, and turned into basically an undead tool like an Automaton. And the general's job was to straight up control his body like a puppet and move him around and blast things with his more powerful abilities. Basically.

09:53.32

Megan

Oh.

10:06.21

Varethane

And essentially, this supposedly undead tool wakes up, and begins to actually show signs of retaining a personality and a soul. And the general is the only person who recognizes this, and the more he tries to kind of “Like wait, I think this is a person, like I think this is actually a person who like has thoughts and feelings and stuff!” But the society that he's in does not support this kind of thing, and they end up on the run together. And it's a whole like - layers of conspiracies starting to unravel and like… oh man, the imagery is so good. Eldritch monstrosities are incredible. There's some panels that make use of limited animation to sell these glowing energy blasts, and like magic circles and stuff, just it's a visual feast the entire time. The villains look incredible. Um, and I mean.

10:45.56

Megan

Moon.

10:45.79

Krispy

What.

11:01.21

Varethane

All these things that I'm mentioning, like super-powerful characters getting controlled, and that the main character has white hair, which is ah anyway as I said, it is made in a laboratory for me in specific. So I have to give it a shout out.

11:02.99

Krispy

F.

11:04.20

Megan

Listen.

11:14.27

Krispy

Ah, it's my catnip.

11:16.30

Megan

I mean you weren't kidding, literally, I'll be honest I don't need to add another comic to my list. But I think I will be today ,that was wrong.

11:19.18

Varethane

It really is, I recommend checking it out.

11:24.80

Krispy

Yeah, same!

11:28.57

Varethane

No, please do! It's so good. It's like, aaaaah read it!

11:34.90

Megan

And God, I can feel the hold back every time you're like it sounds good, and the fact that they like the craft of limited animation. Fabulous.

11:38.36

Krispy

Yeah.

11:46.64

Krispy

I love that. Absolutely love that when people do that in webcomics. Exactly.

11:53.70

Megan

That's webbed comics for you.

11:54.98

Varethane

There's kind of two ways of approaching the comic, because the way that it is posted on its host site, and I believe also on Tapas. Basically the pages are drawn as full standard pages with like you know, multiple panels to a page.

11:58.32

Megan

Wow.

12:11.25

Krispy

Mm.

12:11.47

Megan

Um.

12:11.71

Varethane

The way it's presented on the site. Each page is broken down into a single panel so you flip through them and it's kind of an interesting way like it's presented. It almost feels like a bit of an animation, where you can go through it, but in the printed version and I believe also on Patreon.

12:16.40

Krispy

Oh.

12:22.95

Krispy

You whom.

12:23.71

Megan

Oh.

12:30.44

Varethane

Ah, you can read it like the original page spreads. It's just an interesting way of presenting the comic. You don't see that very often.

12:36.44

Megan

That's so interesting. Yeah.

12:36.97

Krispy

No, I actually really like that. That's very smart if you're thinking of printing it and having it in different formats, because format is a really huge thing that people are kind of battling with a lot in like.

12:48.47

Megan

Same.

12:52.41

Krispy

“I started with scroll but now I really want to print”, and I know that people have successfully done it, but the amount of work that it takes to reformat scroll into traditional without making it look like…. yeah.

12:58.43

Megan

Yeah, yeah.

13:05.16

Varethane

Um, boring.

13:05.41

Megan

You're reformatting it? yeah.

13:06.90

Krispy

Yeah, I honestly I call it like a picture book I'm like “Oh no, it looks like a picture book!” because they're all just kind of pasted with a white background everywhere on a big spread of a page, and I'm like “This works on mobile for pacing but I it doesn't oh that can”.

13:10.39

Megan

Over.

13:14.30

Varethane

M.

13:21.76

Megan

That is a lot of work.

13:22.27

Varethane

Um, yeah.

13:25.87

Krispy

It could look a little dicey that way. But when you were talking about that, it was reminding me of the format that they did for Ava's Demon. Isn't it similar? Where they have like a panel basically, or it's just like a single moment as you kind of go through it, or…?

13:36.55

Varethane

Well the reading experience might be similar in terms of the pacing alone. Ava's Demon, though, I believe was constructed with those rectangles in mind. It was almost like a kind of a Homestuck-ish approach, where each of those panels will be.

13:46.25

Krispy

Mm. Oh.

13:49.37

Megan

Moon. Oh yes.

13:55.72

Varethane

The same uniform size as sort of I think it's a bit of a 3 by 4 ratio, where they're like a little bit wider than they are tall, and then some of the updates will be full animations within that space. So it's like putting together an animated construction, and then just presenting it frame by frame.

14:01.17

Megan

Over.

14:06.79

Krispy

Mmmm.

14:13.10

Krispy

Mmmm.

14:13.32

Varethane

Whereas in this case, it's actually like a full comic spread, with some being like super narrow, or some might be really wide, and there's like bleed panels. So each one will be a different shape. Um, and it's interesting because like… this might sound like “Oh but what if you have like a panel with elements that bleed over into the next one”

14:17.61

Krispy

Oh I like that? yeah.

14:22.22

Megan

It's some name.

14:31.73

Varethane

But it's actually really well constructed, like you don't get the feel that you're missing something when you're reading through the cut-apart version. But then, when you see it all together in one piece. It's like an extra treat, like just this extra layer where you can see how the elements are interacting with each other and.. yeah, I recommend also checking out the book, because it’s very cool.

14:37.48

Krispy

Mm.

14:38.26

Megan

No else.

14:50.92

Varethane

Book because it's very cool.

14:52.31

Megan

Wow! Well yeah, obviously yeah, that's really impressive! I will say, I guess I'll start our second round. Ah I'll start us off with The Glass Scientists. Ah i.

14:53.41

Krispy

That's fantastic.

15:04.90

Krispy

Oh.

15:10.70

Megan

Ah, let me see hold on pause I have to check already I'll start off our second round of comics we're reading and I'll start with The Glass Scientists by Sage Cotugno. Ah, it's obviously.

15:14.62

Krispy

Pausing.

15:24.75

screentonescast

Hell yes.

15:27.74

Megan

Also started out as a webcomic. You can get it in print. Um, but Sage has such great color work with their already tasty inks. Ah, every.

15:40.32

Krispy

Mm.

15:45.32

Megan

Every little panel, every little page is just like a visual feast for your eyes. If you don't know what The Glass Scientists is about. it is essentially a sort of Jekyll and Hyde retelling or reimagining. Um, so you do have that as well as I think a little bit of Frankenstein and Frankenstein's monster as some side characters in there as well. It's basically Hyde starts a society for like.

16:13.79

Krispy

Oh.

16:23.47

Megan

The misfits of the world, like there's a werewolf in there, some really brainy science people, like people that society just doesn't accept for one reason or another. And he's just trying to show.

16:25.38

Krispy

Who.

16:37.48

Krispy

Um.

16:40.75

Megan

Their talents, their skills, that they are just like people, you know, they're just a little bit different, a little bit weird. And he doesn't really notice it. Ah but he's also one of them you know playing into that whole almost said Jekyll

16:43.55

Krispy

Now.

17:00.23

Megan

Jekyll and Hyde thingthat definitely comes in there. Um, you do meet Jekyll, and he is just about as crazy and insane as you would think any Jekyll interpretation would be, but all the characters. There are so many? um.

17:12.80

Krispy

Who.

17:19.51

Megan

Little characters from the society that pop in and out depending on who he's conversing with or working on stuff with. Everybody seems so well fleshed out, nobody feels like a side character, kind of left to the side, like not a lot of character development. Everybody gets really good treatment, and you really feel like everybody is so three-dimensional, they're people with problems and flaws and they don't feel perfect.

17:39.63

Krispy

Um.

17:52.42

Krispy

Yeah, do you think like it's interesting that Sage chose a world that you get to explore that's already kind of laid out, because it's a retelling? You basically have this nice little sandbox that you can kind of just change details, have fun, reimagine things different ways. Um and kind of you know, excite readers with like something like this. That's something that's interesting to me when I hear about.

18:22.50

Megan

Mmm.

18:25.55

Krispy

People who do stories that exist already but with their own kind of flavor. Um, and I don't know, that's kind of neat from what I've seen.

18:32.57

Megan

Yeah, ah for sure, I think…. I don't want to say everybody, but I think some people look at that, and go “Well, you didn't make everything from scratch!” So it's quote unquote “not as much work” as like making something from scratch, but to me it is.

18:43.65

Krispy

Me.

18:50.70

Megan

If not, in my personal opinion, more work, because I could not imagine picking apart a story like Jekyll and Hyde or you know a fairy tale reimagining and changing details.

18:51.51

Krispy

Who.

19:08.51

Megan

And maybe little bits about characters or the scenery they're in to create a different enough story that you're getting something new out of it, but that you can still tell what it's based on without screwing up the plot somehow, or things not connecting and making sense.

19:21.42

Krispy

Mm.

19:25.20

Krispy

Moon.

19:25.38

Varethane

And you also have to be aware not just of the original message, but of whatever the new thing that you want to impart that makes it yours. Like, why is it you who needs to retell this? Do you have something new to spin out of this original text? And that's like that extra layer of like.

19:27.39

Megan

And so.

19:31.78

Megan

Who.

19:33.70

Krispy

Yeah.

19:39.76

Megan

Who.

19:40.46

Krispy

Yeah.

19:45.37

Varethane

Text analysis, like keeping in the things that make it identifiable because if you change too much, then you might as well just not call it an adaptation anymore.

19:51.79

Krispy

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

19:51.89

Megan

Yeah, yeah, and I think all of that is just amazing, and so much to keep in mind. Um that people like Sage and anyone else who does like retellings or reimaginings like this is amazing. You know to put.

20:11.50

Krispy

Um.

20:11.86

Megan

All that extra thought in there to create something new, or give it a new like quote unquote “story” to tell, or a new kind of a narrative to add to the original, is quite a feat!

20:27.74

Krispy

Yeah, I like that! I think it's a neat tool that I've seen around in webcomic spheres people using previous existing stories taking twists on stuff like that. Um, I don't know, I think it's neat.

20:31.14

Megan

Movement.

20:38.57

Megan

No.

20:43.72

Krispy

Think it's like there's a place for all of these kinds of stories, and I think that, you know, from what I've seen of The Glass Scientists, Sage has really found their footing in a story like this, and is enjoying it for what I'm seeing, and I like that. Aaah, I'll talk about more comics!

20:45.80

Megan

For sure.

20:56.82

Megan

Um, yeah.

21:01.70

Megan

Bring more.

21:01.88

Varethane

We more comics overprepare.

21:04.27

Krispy

Ah, ah, more more? Um, so from that, I want to talk about another one that I picked up, binged, ate it all. It's gonna be ending soon, at least this year, which is really really cool. Ah wow, webcomic time and picking a length for your comic and keeping to it is incredible. But um, but this one is Puffer and Clarissa by J Nelson and

21:18.21

Megan

Wow.

21:36.17

Megan

M.

21:36.87

Krispy

I am in love with this story, and it knows exactly what it wants to tell, how to tell it, and it wastes no time getting there. Puffer and Clarissa is a story about Puffer who is this absolutely little tiny ball of goodness, who wants to impress her mom and help show her mom that she can do what you know her mom can do. They're kind of traveling the world, and her mom is set on ruling it. As she was someone who came out of the grasp of the evil Lord Jell and ah to basically go after him and stop him from taking over the world. Her plan is to take it over herself, so they're going to find these tools. Do so puffer meets clarissa they go on adventures. It's awesome. Things are getting absolutely heated in the comic, I'm not going to spoil anything because you should read it? Um, but one of the things that I absolutely wanted to talk about was the style in this comic and I feel like it's honestly it's fresh. It knows exactly what it's doing, like I was talking about the length that looks extremely well thought out and planned and I like to see that every moment in any.

23:02.88

Megan

We had.

23:05.73

Krispy

Every little panel is meant for something. There is a beat there that exists to tell the story, and we're not wasting any time getting there, and it's just it is very refreshing to see not that slow burn is a problem because that looks in a mirror. Um, but.

23:19.98

Megan

Can change it.

23:25.47

Krispy

I don't know, it's just when I started reading this, and I'm like “Oh wow, we're already there! This is nice! I like the pace of this.” And I just like that we're getting places and and exploring stuff. Um, one of the things that I really really like about Puffer and Clarissa.

23:31.76

Megan

And.

23:44.60

Krispy

is I like that J is exploring dynamics that you don't get to see as much in the forefront, so Puffer and her mom have this really intense dynamic where Sharon, her mother, seems to project a lot of her controlling and almost a little bit of that insecurities from her past, losing that control of her own life, and and putting it onto Puffer who herselfis trying to deal with, you know, getting that acceptance and that approval.

24:17.79

Megan

M.

24:20.60

Krispy

And that love from her mother, and you know she meets Clarissa, and Clarissa is just like showing her that, you know, this is something that isn't perfect. It isn't something that Puffer is. You know, deserving of this treatment from Sharon's and securities and stuff like that. So I love the nuance. I'm just like yes, please show me more of these, you know, complicated relationships that I don't feel like I'm constantly being spelled out to me, I'm seeing the story unfold. It's a treat. It's a snack even like I can dip this Oh my God, I enjoy it so much.

24:51.87

Megan

And 1

25:02.95

Megan

He's just left.

25:07.23

Varethane

And I'm so impressed at any story that can be short. You'll tell everything that it wants to as someone who everything ends up being a thousand pages I'm like damn I yeah have.

25:14.89

Megan

Yeah, if you could, my gosh, if you could stick to your original page length. Amazing! Good on you!

25:20.29

Krispy

Oh.

25:26.57

Varethane

Oh yeah, even that, even just having it not double in length, from the point of like starting to the end was like damn, sticking to the plan and not letting things spiral out of there.

25:28.10

Krispy

Who.

25:30.69

Megan

Is.

25:36.36

Krispy

Well looking at it, and reflecting I'm just like, you know, it's a really good lesson on condensing stuff and.

25:38.46

Megan

Sticking to your guns gun on you.

25:50.22

Krispy

Just showing things and not being like, “oh is this too much” or whatever. It's like no, this is what it is, and the concepts don't have to be like massive or anything like that. It's all in the characters for this, and the world and J knows exactly what he's doing when he's.

25:54.63

Megan

M.

26:08.65

Krispy

Designing this stuff and you're getting thrown into this world. You can pick up on points easy, and I don't know, that's goals for me, also trying to do something a little bit shorter. Um, ah I did have to laugh about going over a thousand pages and you're like “Oh ok.”

26:22.17

Megan

What.

26:27.79

Megan

Thane.

26:28.45

Krispy

Ah, yeah, and then my next comic, Lunar Blight, I'm just like “Okay okay, it's gonna be shorter. It's gonna be shorter. We're not going to go over five hundred pages” and now we're like “Okay, well we'll go to 600, okay we'll go there, but no more!” and I'm just like… oh I swear if we go over 600 pages I'm.

26:29.48

Varethane

Ah.

26:34.75

Megan

Her.

26:43.22

Megan

Um, now.

26:47.32

Megan

Better not be me because I'm just gonna look at you and I'm gonna go I could' have seen this coming I'm gonna on night. The minute you were like “We're not doing more than 500!” is like yeah sure. Something about Lunar Blight tells me “no”.

26:47.60

Krispy

Calling somebody.

26:48.77

Varethane

Yeah I was optimistic that I could get oh good luck.

26:55.85

Krispy

Ah.

27:05.11

Krispy

Yeah, oh I'm going to hit pause renes may Edward Cullen oh no it's recorded to go.

27:11.77

Varethane

So my second final comic for this episode that I wanted to give a quick shout out to it's called The Storm Stained. Somehow both of the comics that I've shouted out in this episode are about like fae societies of winged people. This one has got more of like an insectoid wing sort of vibe. All the people in it, their designs are kind of loosely based on different kinds of insects. So there's like moth people, and like grasshopper people and stuff, the designs are super fun. It kind of starts out in like almost a magical school type of setting, where it's like this fairy society where people lost their wings generations ago.

27:41.00

Megan

Um.

27:47.72

Krispy

Ooh.

27:59.34

Varethane

But like every so often, like one fairy would be born with true wings, and there's like a prophecy that they're like the chosen one who will help like bring back everybody's real wings or whatever. And the main character is this kind of winged chosen one, but she very quickly discovers that like there's.

28:04.53

Megan

Mm.

28:18.89

Varethane

More going on to that, but like actually ah she is a not the first chosen one but not the first in like recently there's like a whole bunch of them who just kind of get chewed up and spat out by this system. Ah, and there's like. Potentially some shady stuff going on under the hood. Um, it's got really interesting, just incredible world building that's really unusual. There's a lot of attention paid to like.

28:37.84

Krispy

Ooh.

28:46.96

Varethane

Are they actually like teeny tiny people? Because there's like occasionally there's these beasts that they fight, and you're like “Wait a minute, that's an enormous raccoon or something, but it's actually super dangerous to them, because it is taking their resources and stuff” and it's this neat blend of like ah.

28:57.49

Megan

Um.

29:03.99

Varethane

Tones where like some parts of it get pretty dark and like violent. But then there's also sort of a bit of a whimsical flair to the way because they are also still like winged fairies and things are pretty cool. The creator is one of the OGs of webcomics who created Earthsong back in 2004, so has been at it for a while. This is her third comic, and all of them are pretty tight, and I recommend checking it out.

29:24.29

Krispy

Oh dang.

29:25.78

Megan

Nice.

29:34.81

Megan

Wel,l I mean I think I could probably speak for all of us when I say unfortunately my comic list will be longer after today. Or fortunately, but you know, fortunately unfortunately.

29:45.36

Varethane

And what's unfortunate about that?

29:51.45

Megan

Unfortunately fortunate! I will have to spend more time reading than I already do! But I think that wraps it up for our little “What are we up to, what are we reading” little jam we had today! So thank you guys so much for listening! I've been your host.

29:55.14

Krispy

Ah.

30:10.60

Megan

Megan and you can check my work at sorceryshenanigans.com

30:12.99

Krispy

And I've been Krispy. You can check my work at ghostjunksickness.com and lunarblight.com

30:21.76

Varethane

I still am Varethane, and you can check out my comics at chirault.sevensmith.net and at wychwoodcomic.com.

30:31.88

Krispy

I won't be Krispy for long. I'll be crunchy. What does that mean? Ahhh!

30:33.91

Megan

Now'll be somebody else tomorrow. Maybe I'll be Krispy I I don't think I could do that actually, can somebody else be Krispy, that seems like a lot. You do so much, I can't do it.

30:40.25

Varethane

Um, ah oh.

30:49.47

Krispy

Ah.