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sgsguruI've never been a comics fan, outside of the daily funnies. But lately, I've found a couple I really like:
Girl Genius. This is one of the few ongoing stories where all the characters are intelligent -- including the supposedly not-too-bright comic relief. It's an excellent mixture of drama and pie-in-the-face silliness. (a pink dirigible??)
Gunnerkrigg Court. Starts out like a very Y YA story, but gets dark very quickly. Gotta love a six year old with a stuffed toy full of lockpicks .... (Six? Eight? How old is Antimony at the start?)
Free Fall. One of my interests in SF is the depiction of other viewpoints. In Free Fall, all three main characters are nonhuman intelligences: a squidlike scavenger, a robot trying to perform far beyond its programming, and an intelligent wolf. It's totally played for laughs, but it has some very interesting insights. The humans are the least "human" of the characters, but they're mostly bureaucrats, middle managers, telemarketers, and so forth.
Girl Genius. This is one of the few ongoing stories where all the characters are intelligent -- including the supposedly not-too-bright comic relief. It's an excellent mixture of drama and pie-in-the-face silliness. (a pink dirigible??)
Gunnerkrigg Court. Starts out like a very Y YA story, but gets dark very quickly. Gotta love a six year old with a stuffed toy full of lockpicks .... (Six? Eight? How old is Antimony at the start?)
Free Fall. One of my interests in SF is the depiction of other viewpoints. In Free Fall, all three main characters are nonhuman intelligences: a squidlike scavenger, a robot trying to perform far beyond its programming, and an intelligent wolf. It's totally played for laughs, but it has some very interesting insights. The humans are the least "human" of the characters, but they're mostly bureaucrats, middle managers, telemarketers, and so forth.
