Let's Watch Toward the Terra: Episode 17

Episode 17:

 

Let's Watch Toward the Terra: Episode 13

Episode 13: What hides on the Planet

Here's the 13th episode of Toward the Terra, retroactively posted because I was too lazy to do it before the 14th one. Apologies for the image quality, I hadn't really gotten a handle on this whole screen-capping thing when I took them.

Let's Watch Toward the Terra: episode 16

Episode 16: Omen of Change

Let's Watch Toward the Terra: episode 15

Episode 15: Omen of change

Let's Read Gunnerkrigg Court

(This review will evaluate Gunnerkrigg Court based on chapters 1-23, plus chapter 24 up to page 23)

I've always been fascinated by the idea of webcomics. A medium where creativity can be free to roam, unconstrained by issues of profit, sounds like a great concept.

And then I tried reading some webcomics and found out they're all cross-gender furry porn.

Okay, that was mean of me. Obviously that's not true, but there's no denying it: most webcomics suck, whether it's a case of an author ripping off every other story in sight instead of coming up with their own idea, or an artist who's trying to ride a jet-powered unicycle while juggling chainsaws before they can walk, or just someone who wants to saddle their story with some kind of cancerous fetish tumour. There are some great comedy webcomics out there, but I've always wanted to read a story driven comic, something with a proper overarching plot and well-developed characters. In spite of all the crap I've spent a long time searching, convinced that somehwere out there is a genuine diamond in the rough.

And then I found Tom Siddell's Gunnerkrigg Court, and while I won't be ready to call off the search until it's finished, let's just say I know where I'm placing my bets. Gunnerkrigg Court is, to me, far and away the best story-driven comic on the internet (and since it's in print now it also gives most "normal" comics a run for their money). So that's why, inspired by the Let's Watch I did of Toward the Terra and this annotated Re-Read of The Wheel of Time (which I am incidentally enjoying far more than trying to read the actual books themselves), I've decided to do my own little commentary project for Gunnerkrigg. The sensible way to do this would be to handle it by chapter, but since I'm an uber-fan I'm going to pull out all the stops and do it by page. All 300+ of them. This is clearly going to take a while.

Anyway, the first page will probably be up tomorrow some time. Enjoy.

Let's watch Toward the Terra: 14

Episode 14: Identical Memories

Toward the Terra is a sci-fi space opera series that went under a lot of people's radar for whatever reason, possibly because the first three episodes suck, but many who gave it a chance found it to be an overlooked gem. And by many I mean "me" of course.

So here's a Let's Watch, in which I make fun of low-resolution screenshots of the series and then review the episode in question, starting with episode 14 because that's when I got the idea. Grab some popcorn and get ready: