Apr. 15th, 2009

Oog.

Apr. 15th, 2009 10:48 pm
wombat1138: (narbat)
Have been over-indulging in wikitude, leading to an urge to play "Okami" all over again. I did restart the game just after finishing, but didn't pursue it very far; this time of year, the skylight wipes out the tv screen for much of the day and of course sunset is much later.

Finally managed to reformat my camera card, but haven't yet tried to use it again. Have also been researching more beadage acquisitions, all of which means I really, really need to resume setting up new eBay listings.

And have also been gulping down "Digger", after getting all three print volumes from Sofawolf Press. Bought the first one some years ago, then forgot about it until the recent announcement that the webcomic had gone from subscription mode to free access, which caused me to check for additional printings. Not sure when volume 4 may be coming out, but the corresponding online version picks up here after the end of volume 3. The entire run is online, but it'll take a lot of catching up to pick up from the start, and I find the printed page a much easier medium for me to appreciate the artwork-- I have a tendency to focus on dialogue/captions and ignore the art when reading comics/manga, which especially doesn't do justice to the work in this case.

In a way, "Digger" strikes me as being paradoxically very similar to "Girl Genius" in some ways and completely different in others. There's a certain steampunkish sensibility to both works wrt the focus on rational sci/tech, but GG is a much more boisterous affair: more characters, more light-hearted complications (romance, slapstick, and fan service), and a general sense of brightly colored baroque melodrama-- there's even an explicitly operatic piece of storytelling embedded into the narrative, as well as occasional fits of meta-narrative hijinks. "Digger" has a deceptively spare, stripped-down look, with stark black-on-white (or sometimes white-on-black; I wonder how she does that) sweeping brushstrokes and fine shadings for the important bits and less "busy" backgrounds. (By comparison, Stan Sakai also does some great monochrome work in "Usagi Yojimbo", but his art tends to make me think that it's drawn as if waiting for someone to color it in.) Athough "Digger" doesn't lack a sense of humor, its level of random fanservice is nearly nonexistent, and it can touch on much darker, deeper territory (and not just literally, what with the story starting with Digger loopily burrowing underground).

Looks like the next "Digger" installment isn't going to upload before tomorrow morning, though, so I might as well go to bed.

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