The Glade 4.0

I may be the only one here who's a fan of Alpha Shade, but in case I'm not: Joe just came off hiatus this week, and says he's back to stay. And if I am the only fan here, I shouldn't be. Farsky, Phe, and Khross; you guys at least need to check it out post haste, you'll love it. And probably some others whose tastes I'm not as certain about.

Check it out. Flip through a few of the recent pages to get a feel for the matured artistic style, then start at the beginning. The first chapter sees Joe feel out his artistic voice a bit, and by the second chapter the style's locked in. It's 100% beautiful, though (and vector-based; you can zoom the comic to get a surprising amount of fine detail out of it with no loss in quality!), and the story's neat. It's a long-form story-driven webcomic with fantastical science fiction concepts (very dieselpunk airships and psychic cats in an otherwise WWI era setting) and a lot of talent.

It's on its third chapter, and each chapter is graphic-novel sized at around a hundred pages. It's never been a quick updater, as they're full-comic-sized pages and.. well, you'll see when you see some of the art.. but the hiatus Joe's coming off of aside, it's 2-5 pages a month when it's rolling.

But yeah, check it out. It's got this tiny niche audience (even before the hiatus) that it totally deserves to expand.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I've seen it before, but with such long update times it's easy to forget about it. Remind me when he's got a graphic novel. ...he'd probably be better off doing black and white art and ahaving more updates. I actually like black and white books. You don't always need colors to have awesome art.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Yeah, I'd still read if it were black and white. I'm not sure Joe's artistic finickyness would allow him to be satisfied with it, though.

They've got two graphic novels, though. You can pick up chapters 1 & 2 for <$40 at their store. I've got both and they're beautiful.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades