Long time, no see, sweet blog!

Man, this not being able to log in thing is tough, I tell you. TOUGH!

So, Penny and Aggie is wrapping up its current storyline, and you know? It was pretty good. The pacing was way too slow, and there were strips where nothing whatsoever actually happened, but still! Character development! Things (eventually) happened! Things (mostly) made sense! Way to go, P&A!

In other news, how much fun is Friendly Hostility? I love this spur of the moment roadtrip to Vegas to help Fox get his groove back. I love the twists and turns this strip takes. I love that it's not afraid to be silly. Most of all, I love Derringer. Can we have more of him, please?

That's it for today. Welcome back!

--Lilac

I wish my name wasn't a prediction

Jinx here!

So uh, before we even got a chance to say anything nice, a pair of authors found us. Um. Thank you for not telling us we sucked, we're just getting started and we didn't mean for anyone to find this until we actually got down to writing.

It's actually Penny and Aggie's fault we made this, it was the comic we talked about the most.

So it sort of works that he's the first one to find us. In a 'let me die now' kind of way.


Something new to me I like:

I've finished reading all the archives for Goblins and I really really like it. I don't know why, because really violent stuff makes me all wincey, and if there's one thing Goblins has... it's a lot of violence and sudden, painful character death. The fate of this spoiler, for instance, still sticks with me

It's about these DnD goblins and what happens when their camp gets raided one time too many.

They've mostly all got names from the Fortune Teller that describe parts of their destinies. Chief, Big Ears, Asks Nonsense, Dies Horribly, etc.

Favourite moment:
Cheap gag gone horribly right

Plus the art really grows on you. I like this comic!


Quick notes:

Elf Only Inn is in the middle of a nice little plot, and I'm sort of torn between wanting to watch April make more confessions for one-liners or finding out who Barbvine is. My vote is on Geoph, because I'm having trouble thinking of anyone else. Now, if I could only think of a single motive...

Narbonic!
I'm sort of freaked out by how Dave's face hasn't really changed expression in a while, but now that I think about it, the face didn't really do that much before, of course, now it's more blank than disinterested or scared.

Lupin is the cutest and I really wish the posters on the messageboard hadn't suggested incest for Dave's little heart when he met his daughter because that's haunting me.

The other storyline I'm really enjoying right now is Starslip Crisis which has sent Cutter off to command school. It's sort of like Legally Blonde, except with a drunken space pirate, no lawyers, and a talking squid.

But I've been picturing that one really angry student as a chihuahua so the image fits, okay.

Good christ, Lilac is better at this than me.

-Jinx

You know, all that is wrong with Penny and Aggie can be summed up in this sentence:

They named a character THARQA.

"Tharqa" isn't the name of human teen female. It's a species from Star Trek. It's a noise you make when you're clearing your throat. It's a bunch of random letters strung together. But it does not, in any way, resemble an actual name.

(Okay, I fully expect people to start telling me about all the Tharqas they have known and loved. I'ma tell you right now, I don't believe you. "Tharqa" is NOT a real name. You're going to have to scan in birth certificates as proof.)

Jinx says: "she's not a human though. She's fat! So she gets a weird name to show her otherwordliness, that sounds like the name of a troll."

Word. Why didn't T Campbell just call her "Belligerent Bertha" and be done with it?


-Lilac