Geek Overture

I’m going to say it up front: MS Paint Adventures, and in particular the current story, Homestuck, is one of the most interesting pieces of entertainment on the entire webnets. Here is the first panel and one of our heroes, one John Egbert, whose birthday is today. The whole adventure is presented in the form [...]

The greasy, generalisation-generating folks forming the rank and file of webcomics are subject to most of the negative effects of a publication process with no editors and no pressure to produce income. The writing is often uninspired and derivative, the art half-finished and (shudder) copy-pasted. The two-guys-playing-video-games format became so saturated it launched a pretty [...]

In the spirit of bigging up things that probably don’t require it, this week on Webcomics Wednesday we’re looking at the New York Comic Con, specifically people who are going to be signing books there, specificallyer Chris Hastings and his The Adventures of Dr McNinja, an ongoing strip about a doctor who blah blah you get the idea.

On our quest to find cool things for your eyes on the internet, we mosey into town on the back of Octopus Pie, a narrative comic by Meredith Gran, New Yorker, cartoonist, twitterian.

We have just so much to share with you guys. The internet is a big and wonderful place, and you might not have seen all the cool stuff yet! How fortunate for you that you have such good friends here at GeekOverture to take you on a magic carpet ride through the intertubes.