CSotD: He had me at “hardboiled shaman”
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Speaking, as we were yesterday, of strips that you need to read for awhile to get, here's a chance to get in on the groundfloor of a continuity webstrip.
Terry Laban, otherwise known as the husband in the husband-and-wife team that creates "Edge City," has launched a webcomic called "Muktuk Wolfsbreath: Hardboiled Shaman," that will update Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. It's about a shaman in Siberia but, as Terry admits upfront on his website, it is not intended as anthropology.
For which we are all grateful, though, based on Edge City's track record, I would expect it to remain reasonably respectful within its satiric setting, for which ditto.
Here are the reasons I'm adding it to my list and that you might want to do the same:
1. Terry is an established talent, so it's not likely to just kind of drift off into nothing, paint itself into corners or suddenly reveal a fatal logical hole in its premise.
2. It's a new webcomic but not a new concept; he created the character nearly 20 years ago and, in addition to a couple of Muktuk adventures he wrote and drew on his own, he wrote three DC comic books featuring the character.
3. The idea of a Sam Spade/Mike Hammer shaman in Siberia is amusing enough to get me on board, before he writes or draws anything more.
As I write this, there is only one episode to catch up with, and it's not necessary to follow the story: It simply announces and defines the character. You can click back to it, or start at the current set of panels, which should look as seen above. Obviously, if you've dredged this up from the archives …
(Everybody knows by now that, if you click on the cartoon, you get a bigger, more legible version, right?)
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