02/25: Music Lessons

Quite a jump in theme, I think. I was probably going overboard with the generous use of Surprise Sex, and I'm sure my tiny tiny fanbase suffered for it. Well, time to alienate the ones who are left!

I've only got mediocre comics today. Commissioned Comic follows fictional character O, a comic version of himself. Whenever the comics doesn't revolve around him playing role playing games with his friends, he's taking them on outrageous romps into the wider world - that is, outside of his basement. This usually results in him making a mess or showcasing his amazing skills as a nerd (maybe both). The jokes heavily follow standard pen and paper rpg tropes, so if this is your first of such comics you may enjoy it, otherwise you'll find it a fairly well drawn derivative comic.

A friend of mine showed me Venus Envy as a better example of one of the few comics that deal with transexual characters. It's apparently that or The Wotch (I'll spare you a link that will degrade your IQ). The comic follows Zoe, a girl that was born biologically a boy, and later Larson, a boy born biologically as a girl. While it deals with the fairly complex issues of growing up with the stigma attached to such situations, it starts poorly drawn and it's attempts at humor often fall flat. Alot of the plot lines follow Zoe drooling over boys, which is not a particularly thrilling plot in less unusual comics, and does no better here.The art has steadily improved, but if the current storyarch (involving a friend that tries to kill Zoe because she thinks Zoe 'is perfect and has everything handed to her') is any indication, the writing hasn't.