GAAK artist Monique MacNaughton and I have started a GAAK mirror site at DrunkDuck (www.drunkduck.com/GAAK). It was on DD back in November '04 that the story of four misfit teens named Zach, Jemmy, Plato, and Chubs setting out to stop the maniacal alien leader Gakk and his posse of "Acme Instant Alien Kreatures" and foil their fiendish plot to take over the earth and meet the original cast of "Star Trek" got it's start.

Serenity Tales is a site for fan webcomics of the movie Serenity. This is the kind of thing that a savvy promotional company would encourage to build a community/cult around a move (or television series, etc.). Of course, it only works if the object of the fan comics actually rocks itself...

What? Nobody around here has any comment about "Heroes"? Or is everyone waiting until the 2nd or 3rd episodes to do their commenting? Well, I like it. I liked how the Heroes powers are explained as the next step in human evolution (like the X-Men), as opposed to some super boy scout who crash lands on earth and decides to fight for truth, justice, etc, etc. I did like some of the Heroes stories better than others.

Hi, welcome back. Make sure you catch part 1, if you haven't read it yet. Thanks to all for the feedback, I'm glad you found it useful (if you did). This part looks at the same thing, pacing, but from a different angle.
Story Pulse - alternating action and exposition

If you've got a story to tell, and you've done some general planning out of what happens, it could help to look at the scenes, events etc. in terms of action versus exposition. Action doesn't just mean fistfights and carchases. Just having two people sitting in a cafeteria talking can be action, if their discussion is a crucial turning point in the story. Exposition to a lot of people is kind of a dirty word, but almost all stories need to have at least some of it. There will be moments where you have to explain something, the nature of the demonic power, the childhood event that made your protagonist such a nice guy, maybe just a bit of motivation that's not clear from the events itself. The kind of exposition that tends to get people's hackles up is the kind that is narrated by the author without involving the characters in any way. That's not the only way to do exposition, and in my experience, it's rare in comics.

It's been a big week for Crimson Dark.

Monday saw the end of Chapter 1, Tuesday heralded the new website, Wednesday celebrated the 50th strip by showing how the design of 'Niobe' came about and Friday's Title Page for Chapter 2 came with an announcement: Crimson Dark is coming to print.

The Gigcast has a fun interview with John Daiker of The Whovian Observer. You may remember John from his comic Cinderblock.

We also have webcomic news and talk about Drunkduck 2.0 with special guest Chuck Rowles, plus Kreg Stepp stops by.

Starting today at GAAK:Â when it comes to convincing skeptical small town suburbanites of the existence of aliens from outer space - a talking dog with a human head will work like a charm every time. Trust me on that one!

They said we'd never be able to keep it up! Well, actually, it was me who said we'd never be able to keep it up but, determined as ever to prove myself wrong, today BVC posts another page of its ongoing, re-dubbed spoof of "Shades", Lighten Up!.

Too busy to read from the beginning? Click here to jump straight to the latest page!

I don't know what the problem is between The Webcomic List's updating system and Webcomics Nation comics, but for some reason WCN comics are always listed as "could not connect to site". Even those that are listed as "normal" don't show current updates. And it happens again, and again, and again. AND it only seems to happen to WCN comics. Other Modern Tales family of sites (Graphic Smash, GirlaMatic, Serializer) seem immune to the "glitch".