Webcomic Beacon #21: Comic Brainstorm Session #4: Villains

The Usual Suspects are once again joined by Eric, Thom, and Gothia. It’s another webcomic brainstorm session! This week we punch out some details on our story villains! It’s a good discussion again this week! Mark Savary reviews True Loves 2; and Peter Tarkulich gives his impression of Everything Goes. We also clean up our promo segment of Strip Fight!

Milestones: DMFA will hit 900 strips soon, and best wishes go out to Amber and her family. Also, The KAMics recently hit 800 strips; Here There Be Dragons hits 200; Neo Earth hits 1 Year; and Stud Kickass hits 100.

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Notes: Sites mentioned this week: Comic Genesis Cookout (Hurry! Registration ends in less than 2 weeks!), Dead Days, Odd Fish, Zebra Girl, T-N-T Comic, World’s Worst Webcomic, and Sorcery 101.

Webcomic Beacon #20: Jenny Everywhere

Fes and Aaron along with Jenny Everywhere comic creators Steve Wintle, Nelson Evergreen, Scott D. M. Simmons, and Benj Christensen. We discuss Jenny Everywhere: the Open source, Public Domain webcomic sensation. The origin, the character, the comics, and the idea. Take a listen to the show and see how you can join the party! Mark Savary brings us a review of Sarah Zero; and Peter Tarkulich gives his impression of The Sealed Gate.

One Milestone this week: Poharex turns 1 year!

Thanks to Diana Nock for this week’s cover! Her own rendition of Jenny Everywhere!

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Current Jenny Everywhere projects: The Jenny Everywhere Chronicles and The Crossing Over Worlds. Also, it must be known that Nelson Evergreen’s “Jenny Nowhere” idea is released as open source. So have fun and see what you can do!

Sites mentioned this week: Jenny Everywhere, Jenny Origin, Jenny FAQs, Soulless Mate, Names Not Down, Dame Fine Hostile Takeover, Barbelith Community, Cars, The Shifter Archive (Check here for up-to-date news), The Scandal Sheet, Infinity Apartment, He is Just a Rat, Exclaim! article, New York Times article, Wikipedia article, The Death of Jenny Everywhere, The “Nudist” colony one (MATURE!), Old JennyEverywhere.com site, When Casting Calls, The Nipped Nap, and Bear and Kitten.

Webcomic Beacon #19: Doing Webcomic Reviews

Fes, Tanya, and Brett Hainly discuss why we used to review webcomics and why it has worn us numb. Why? Hint: We blame people that never learn. The show runs very long today. Perhaps its because we found so much that pisses us off. Aaron of The Best of What’s Left, a long time contributor to the show has officially become another co-host for the show!

On top of that, we decided to go with Mark Savory, of Autumn Lake, to be our new Webcomic Reviewer! Officially! That’s right, he can do the webcomic reviews, instead!  This week he reviews a comic that follows the story of Dracula by Bram Stoker, though it’s done in a furry style! Check out Dracula!

Milestones this week include: Paranoia High hits 200 strips, Roomies hits 400 strips, Ardra hits 100 strips, and Boxcar Astronaut hits 1 Year.

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Notes: Sites mentioned this week (in mentioned order): Winger, The Webcomic List Forums, 8-Bit Theater, XKCD, Candi, College Roomies From Hell, Aaron Edwards’ Blog, Joel Fagin Tutorials, Darken, Crow Feathers, Dominic Deegan, (and for fun: ) Dominic Durgan, Diana Nock, Rene Engstrom, Something Awful Forums, and Grant Thomas.

Other Webcomic Reviewers: Tangents and Websnark. If you know others, Let me know and I’ll add them to our main Reviewer’s list.

Webcomic Beacon #18: Guest Comics & Fan-Art

Fes, Tanya, and Aaron are in the studio, talking about Guest Comics, Fan Art, and the etiquette that should be practiced around them. We are down all of the rest of our regular contributers this week, we hope to correct that soon! Some changes are slated for the near future, out of necessity.

Webcomic Milestones: American Gothic Daily has hit over 200 strips, Girly will be hitting 5 years online, and Girl-a-Matic has hit 5 years online! Congrats!

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Notes: Sites mentioned this week (in mentioned order): Magical Misfits, Somery C, Ardra, Charles & Henry, Masters of the Art, Jenny Everywhere and the Crossing Over Worlds, Dinosaur Comics, Wayward Robot, Dum Bum, Times Like This, Camp Calomine, DMFA, The Webcomic List, Chip Shop Adventures, Phantasus, Plush and Blood, Guest Strip Project, WebcomicZ, Infinity Apartment, and Jenny Everywhere Chronicles.