Same Difference

Same Difference is a 16-part online comic focusing on a Bay Area friendship between two twentysomethings. Jerry pointed it out, and it’s been getting citations for a few days, as the story arc just completed.

It’s really quite excellent – not standard webcomics fare, which can tend to reflect the demands of the web by presenting condensed, efficient bursts.

This well written and thoughtful, and the script takes its’ time in moving from point A to point B. Additionally, considering the work technically, the author, Derek Kirk Kim, has a strong grasp of comics craft.

In several passages he uses the story to display this command. While these presentations felt tentative, as though it was the artists’ first use of the method or that a given technique was being invented as the page was designed, they are uniformly successful.

In this thread, he’s invited reactions to and discussion of the 2-year project.

Blimp Week Bonus Beats

The horror of blimps:

“Using the artificial convection of my central heating, the blimp stealthily departed my office. It moved silently through the living and drifted to the staircase. Gliding wraithlike over the staircase it then entered the bedroom where my wife and I lay sleeping peacefully.”

I laughed, and laughed, and then I laughed some more. Then Viv came in to look worriedly at me, and my stomach hurt. Then I laughed still more.

Via email from Paul Frankenstein.