Comments on: Crossed Free Webcomic

By: grace

grace — Sat, 12 May 2012 22:50:28 +0000

jim woodring sleeve? how much did it cost you??? i was thinking about getting hogman on my hip

By: dresden

dresden — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:07:33 +0000

hehe I love when Shannon recommends stuff. Super thorough!

By: Jon Are

Jon Are — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:13:32 +0000

Thanks for the comixology tip. The online content bit, I agree with you on, thinking of the history and purpose of W3.

Realistically I find that there seem to be a need for other business models than the content providers use today. I could endure some static advertising or a monthly fee for a streaming option to get my comics.(If it actually helped the (especially independent) creators, and not became yet another milking cow)

There are currently a project under development, and planned deployment late ’12, here for streaming of books which seems promising.

Until now it has just been possible to pay for one book, and download it. These books also has a quite high price since a non-food/transportation sales tax of 25% is not applicable for printed books, but it is for e-books(,software purchased online and services like Spotify, Dropbox, WoW), even though the government budget clearly states that changes in sales taxes should be used actively to encourage a lessening of environmental impact.

This forces any company that wants to sell any content online to Norwegian customers to register, and pay the 25% sales tax, putting the load on the companies, and in turn a higher price on the product to Norwegian customers.

Oh.. That was quite an OT comment on comics, but the whole sales-tax business just annoys me to such an extent, and I had to get it out…

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:54:26 +0000

Jon – You can get a lot of good stuff online at pay download sites (comixology, etc) that should be nation-independent, but I don’t personally have an ethical problem if you download pirate comics from https://mycomicpost.com/ and so on as long as you buy the stuff you think is worth it… Personally I think all art (at least digital art where individual copies don’t actually cost money — I’m not advocating stealing physical comics!) should be “shareware” or “pay what you think it’s worth to you”… Not that it’s my decision to make, not generally being the creator!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:56:26 +0000

lol!

By: Jon Are

Jon Are — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:04:44 +0000

Wow, that sure was a long list of recommendations. Thank you. It’s really hard to get to a comic book store here in Norway, so I’ll check out as many of these as I can on sites of questionable legality, and I’m sure I am going to find something of my liking. I do buy from online stores when I know that I like the series, but I just can’t risk that cash as a student if I don’t know whether I’m going to like the series or not.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:26:06 +0000

Oh boy Jon… There’s so much. Here are some things I’ve read recently that I’ve enjoyed: The Aldebaran and Betelguese series by Leo (recently translated into English), American Born Chinese, Cairo, Hard Time, Kinetic, Pigeons From Hell, Scalped (ok, this is a longer series, I admit), Shutterbug Follies, Suicide Forest, Sweet Tooth (ongoing longer series), The Alcoholic, A House in Venice, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, American Way, An Accidental Death, Animal Man, BPRD (there are lots of short run stories in this larger series), Burma Chronicles, Challenger Deep, Chance of a Lifetime, Cold War, Daddy’s Little Girl, Deep Sleeper, Doorways, Down, Driver for the Dead, Golden City, Hell Yeah (just started), Magneto (the mini-series about his childhood), Mudman, Murder Me Dead, Pigs, Rachel Rising (amazing), Remains, Rising Stars, Saucer County (just started), Serpo, Severed, Stitched, The Cape, The Fall, The Last Zombie (just started), The Law of the XII Tables (non-english but there are scanlations out there), The Manhattan Projects (new series), The Mission, The Song of the Vampires, The Vault, Touch, Virulents, Walk In, Wild Girl, XIII, Zero-G

Let’s see what else…

A Friendly game, A God Somewhere, Adam Among The Gods, Aquablue, Baltimore, BlackGas, Blankets, Caligula, Chronicles of Wormwood, Classwar, Dark Rain – A New Orleans Story, DMZ (ok, that’s a big series), Drafted, Ender’s Game, Freak Angels (free webcomic), Fun Home – A Family Tragicomic, H20, Habibi, Heavy Water, I Zombie, Ignition City, Let Me In, MEK (all about body modification!!!), Ministry of Space, Necronomicon (Alan Moore), Ocean, Orbiter, Paying For It, Phoenix Without Ashes, Red, Superman: Red Son, The Alcoholic, The Big Lie, The Chimpanzee Complex, The Executor, The Pro, Transmetropolitan (long series, sorry), The Walking Dead (also a long series, and ongoing, and obvious), WE3, Winter World, Y – The Last Man…

…whew! So there’s a nice big recommended list!!!

By: Jon Are

Jon Are — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:05:10 +0000

I’ve read the comic, and it looks promising. I prefer smaller series like this and Transmet, Doktor Sleepless, TLOEG and Kick-Ass. Do you have any other smaller, not-five-hundred-issue-series to recommend?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:43:59 +0000

You shoulda shown him your chest tattoo. A person CANT contain grief and erotic shock at the same moment, trust me.
On the first comic… Words fail.
https://wn.com/Flapjack_loves_Bubbie This also fails to answer. But damn.
Yes to a deeply Crossed tattoo. :D