YAWC: Misery Loves Sherman

[thewayne]

It's been a while since I made a new YAWC post, and for anyone who has forgotten, YAWC stands for Yet Another Web Comic. I have a submenu button bar thing labeled Breakfast in Firefox and it opens 43(!) web comics every morning for me, along with Wired, Slashdot, and Angry Zen Master for news fixes.

I read Unshelved every day, and today's Sunday strip was by another webcomic artist, Chris Eliopoulos, a rare event. Chris has been nominated for Eisner and Harvery awards and actually makes a living as a freelance illustrator and has several mainline comicbooks for Marvel and DC to his credit.

His comic, Misery Loves Sherman is a pretty decent strip about a kid who's always getting beaten up by his little sister and happens to have two aliens living in his room. Christ started it on the last day of 2007 and has broken the 300 mark! Has a bit of a Calvin & Hobbs feel (IMO) along with some good contemporary criticism.

Check it out, you might like it. I've just started on the archive, hopefully I can stretch it out for a few days.

Comments

[thedragonweaver.livejournal.com]

43? Piker. I've got 91 for my Mon-Wed-Fri rotation (three days or fewer plus the dailies.) Safari asks me if I really want to open that many tabs.

Yes. Yes I do.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I know there are a lot more that I'd like to read, but my goal is to read them over breakfast, just like I did when I read newspapers. I dropped PVP for Sherman as I've never been a big fan, I think that I kept reading it in hopes that I would finally get whatever everyone else saw in it, but that didn't happen. I'll be dropping Angells 2200 soon as that strip finished its current chapter and won't start up again until next January: the people who make it want to build up a huge stockpile before they start again. And as much as I hate to say it, I'm giving serious thought to dropping Sluggy Freelance. I just don't find the strip as amusing as I used to with the directions that Pete's been taking it.

We'll have to compare lists some time, it's been a year since I last published my breakfast comics list.