Webcomics again

    I finished reading Casey & Andy last night and I wish it had been better. It really could have been. The geekiness and mayhem were frequently hilarious. Unfortunately, it nearly invariably fell apart where it came to women in the comic.
    lost_angelwings  has written extensively (I have this bad habit of sending people strips that particularly irk me) about the sexism that keeps creeping in (I wrote a little of it too) and I really do not feel like going over it again. There would be times when I thought it was getting better and then something would show up to make me think I had been too optimistic again.
    It is a real shame, since the rest of the comic was generally of a highly hilarious nature. Did go downhill toward the end though, as he (the real Andy) lost his enthusiasm for creating it. As the comic stands now, it has been on indefinite hiatus for a year now, stopped in the middle of what was to be the climactic final storyline.
    Also, as far as I am concerned Quantum Cop (and Crook) are female. It is pretty clear that the characters are intended to be male but I am going to read them how I want for my own enjoyment.

    And, that being done with, I am now reading Cat and Girl. I read some of it already in the past, which is why I can say at the beginning that Cat and Girl is one of my very favourite comics. Normally I prefer ongoing storylines to the gag-a-day format, so this is an exception. I want to say it is a blend of the surreal and the absurd, but not knowing about artistic movements (oh look, something else to learn about) I am not confident to say so.
    When I started reading Calvin and Hobbes I thought it reminded me of Cat and Girl, but although they could both be described as "A young child and ver talking animal companion" that is really not where the similarity lies. More likely it is the sense I get where, even when what the two characters are saying to each other works as a conversation, it still feels as if they are not really talking about the same thing.
    The Far Side is something else Cat and Girl reminds me of. Again it is difficult for me to put a finger on why, but I think it is that blend of surreal and absurdist humour.
    I am not sure why, either, I feel compelled to comment on art styles, but Cat and Girl has the feel of a newspaper comic to me, albeit with cleaner lines and larger format.
    Cat and Girl are Pokemon
    Cat and Girl find The Teddybear Picnic
    Cat and Girl versus The Printed Word (also there are Beatnik Vampires)
    Cat and Girl battle International Communism
    Cat and Girl live La Vida Loca
    Cat and Girl versus an International Army Comprised Solely of Bees
    Cat and Girl search for the Real America
    Cat and Girl see Death at Denny's
    Cat and Girl versus the abandoned House
    Celebrating a Century of Cat and Girl
    Meet the Cast of Cat and Girl (does not include Grrl, who commutes from a different year)
    Those are all from Cat and Girl Primitif, which I surmise to be strips from before the comic went online. You can find the others at the bottom of the archive page.
    The first actual strip is Cat and Girl in Cyberspace. I think it sets the tone for what follows fairly well. But, I really am not good at critical assessment of works. Which is why I do not do reviews.

Desteamed

    So, no writing yesterday. Only 76 words the day before. Not going so well this month. I wonder if I maybe should consider bringing these entries more private and talking more about the actual content of the stories.
    Still trying to reach back into Discourteous Joe's past to enact retroactive changes. My Sekrit Projekt bobs and swirls on eddies of enthusiasm. I often worry I will not have the energy to keep it up over the long haul, but I suppose the best I can do is to make sure I feel ready and try my best. If it falls apart then it falls apart.

    With little being done of late it is difficult to find things to say, probably unwise to reach for them too.
    I am not sure when this frequently referred to Sekrit Projekt will actually officially be revealed. It depends on when and if I find the momentum rolling sufficiently. Currently I am 3 days behind. If I make the effort tonight or tomorrow I may catch up. I may even get ahead. Surprising. I thought I was closer to a month behind.

    Lack of writing is very frustrating to me. At this moment it is, because I am right now swept up in the excitement of it and it seems there is no amount of words that would be sufficient to sate me, yet this morning I was worried that none of my stories were interesting enough for me to care to write them. Hopefully this feeling can be kept and held onto long enough to be useful.
    And not scattered too thin. I may seem spread storily thin now, but when in March I took up my pen again I was trying to work on nine at once. At the moment I do not think it a good idea to try to be productive on so many stories at once, it seems too thinning of focus for me to write each well, yet I also am easily diverted in interested and seem to need a handful of stories to work or else when I lose heart in one there will be nothing handy to catch my interest and I may fade from writing altogether for a month or more.
    What it is tempting to call a delicate balancing act. I did still fade even when working on so many, however, so I do not think it is so simple as ensuring there is always something different to work on. Something still being worked on.