2013 WEB COMIC REVIEW 04: SISTER CLAIR

WEB COMIC: SISTER CLAIRE
CREATOR: Yumino
UPDATES:  MONDAYS
ARCHIVE: CHAPTER 8 PAGE 230
GENRE: MANGA INFLUENCE, AMERICAN, SUSPENSE, NUN FU ACTION

Happy birthday to me! I guess you guys are the one who get the gift. Here we go with another web comic review and after those few black and white web comics it's time for some color and some nuns. Introducing Sister Clair and the holy church of kick ass!

PROS: Wow this webcomic a really different, nothing quite like it online I've seen. The main character is likable and the supporting cast is also surprisingly good. I flipped thru 2 chapters easy and had to force myself to stop to start writing this review! The art work has a cool cartoony style and story moves along rather nicely even with no early action. There is a cast page and I haven't seen one of them on a web comic site in awhile. No page button problems here. One of the better web comic page plans I've seen I will be taking notes from the creator here.

CONS: Hmmm... let's see. Nothing really stands out. I just don't know the name of who does this comic for sure. Yumino? The web page while nice could have been put together a little better.

LAST WORD: I found nothing really annoying about this web comic. There is a forum and there are few other things to see while you visit. New readers will have a  nice size archive and the pages load fast. I don't know the name of who the creator is, despite knowing how they look. I don't know what the "connect" page is for? Maybe it's not done yet. I recommend this one for you guys. I think most of you will like it. To top it off I also was impressed on how the creator put his web comic pages together. I might start rating on this!

OVERALL SCORE: 8.0 CONCEPT: 9.0 Sister Claire is a novice nun, and all she ever wanted was to have a purpose. In answer to her prayers, a beautiful blue businesswoman named Gabrielle explodes out her toilet and tells her she’s pregnant with the new Messiah.  Could this miracle be a tied to the Nun’s dubious crusade against the Witches?   As her simple black and white world gives way to a startlingly technicolor reality.  ART: 8.5 The artist draws characters in perspective well. The backgrounds are done fair enough.  COLORING OR SHADING: 9.0 I love color and the artist chooses the colors well for each scene to set the mood  and enhance facial expression. The use of shadows give depth to each scene. The use of special affects are almost non existent, however. WRITING AND SPELLING: 10 One of the better written or easy to read webcomics I've seen this year. At no point was I confused who said what. That being said spelling and grammar look A okay! WEB PAGE:  8.0 While the web page looks fine, something looks like it could be better. I just can't put my finger on it. Maybe something  with ad placement? Beside that the web site offers a forum and Cast info. All info is easy to find except the name of the person who does this web comic. There is email address but the name doesn't fit the person I see. ENTERTAINMENT: 9.0 I'll just say this web comic isn't easy to stop reading. The suspense which isn't heavy is enough to keep you flipping pages. Also things happen you would not expect to happen, which I love! POST FREQUENCY: 5.0 Once a week in color on top of  decent art work isn't bad at all. POPULARITY: 5.0 This web comic gets comments near the level of Wayrift. One page I saw 61 comments!. This web comic has a PR 4! Not to shabby, for some reason getting past a page rank of 3 is a pain..

2013 WEB COMIC REVIEW 03: S-MORSHITAS ART STUDIO

WEB COMIC: S-MORISHITAS ART STUDIO "LOVE, LOVE, FIGHTING"
CREATOR: SHAREAN MORISHITA
UPDATES: EVERY WEEK
ARCHIVE: CHAPTER 03 PG 10
GENRE: MANGA

Hey there! It's you boy Strife here with another web comic review and this one is a change of pace for me. Yup, it's another manga but this is a different genre type. I chose it for a specific reason... read and found out. It's called  S-MORISHITAS ART STUDIO

PROS: Wow there is synopsis. Great job! There is some real nice art to see and the story is entertaining. The lead character is colorful and refreshing. The setting is also a big surprise.

CONS: I had no idea what page I was on... I hate that. The answer came later looking through comments but it wasn't where it "normally" is. You can't access archive to skip sections with out reading almost the whole web comic.

LAST WORD:  Yes, yes, yes! There is a synopsis for this web comic. I don't know why it's so hard for you guys to put what the hell your story is about! I decided to give a 9.5 just for one being there. This saves me time trying to figure what this story is about and maybe getting it wrong. This is what happened before with web comics the likes of EBEN 07 when I first reviewed some of them. Moving on, this is a nice web comic. Not a manga that will drive me crazy waiting for the next update. I'll say it's entertaining enough that I will read it once in awhile. I like how this web comic features a woman as the lead that is not well endowed or super skinny like most web comics I have read. Sharean has done something I wanted to do with my web comic but haven't shown just yet. As artist, particular us guys we do tend to draw all you women as super pin ups. Sorry about that. It's kinda conditioned and it's also fantasy fulfillment. To be fair we do tend to draw almost all of are heroic guys with big muscles. Manga kinda got us out of that... well for the most part. I think most of you who are not a over the top action or suspense/ romantic junky; like my self.... should like this one.  Most girls should love this one I would think.

OVERALL SCORE: 6.5 CONCEPT: 9.5 What makes someone worthy to be loved? Is it the shape of their body? Is it their weight? or are they worthy because of the amount of fame and fortune they might have? Come along and join Oriana as she tries to survive in a South Korean variety shows, while trying to learn the answers to her questions... ART: 6.5 The visuals and the animated  poses are quite good. The backgrounds like most "black and white manga are almost invisible .So I can't judge how good she is in doing them.She does show some flashes  but not enough to make me give a high score.*I have seen some of her other work through out her site and can see she can do real eye popping stuff. I however have to go on her body of work in this web comic only. Which is good but not impressive.Some drawings look sketchy at best. COLORING OR SHADING: 7.0 It looks good enough. The most colorful(well shaded) one is Oriana of coarse but everything else  found me wanting a little more.   WRITING AND SPELLING: 8.0 The characters speech match there personalities so I expect a little over the top dialog. Sometimes the speech balloons don't match there responses in order(page 4 or is it 5, stand out as an example).  WEB PAGE LAYOUT: 7.5 The web page looks nice and well organized(at least at first glance). Everything can be easily found except the page number or even the chapter? It's there but you to have scroll down where the comments are  and  look closely. I didn't see it until a number of site visits.You can't move through the archive unless if you read almost the whole web comics over again. Okay maybe not the whole webcomic but you are forced to start at the first page every damn time. This  isn't a blogger template now, Comicpress  is supposed to not have this issue. ENTERTAINMENT: 8.0 Besides the headaches above the story was some fun and the lead character is adorable. POST FREQUENCY: 5.5 Once every week in" black in white" for a mom isn't bad. The amount of the work on the backgrounds are suspect however. POPULARITY: 3.0 After a year of creation( I think) a PR2 is not bad. She does get comments so she get's a lot of love.

2013 WEB COMIC REVIEW 02: MOSTERFUL

WEB COMIC: MONSTERFUL
CREATOR: PABLO AND MARIALE FLORENTINO
UPDATES: SAT AND SUN
ARCHIVE: CHAPTER 18 PAGE 10
GENRE: MANGA SCHOOL DAZE WITH SOME CHIBI TOPPING

First I would like to thank all that read my blog you guys are great! I tried to make sure I didn't do a super hero comic back to back. So I decided to go totally another way... today's web comic is called Monsterful!

PROS: Classic Manga style in full effect. Plenty of characters to keep track of laced with some mild humor. The art a takes drastic leap in the later chapters so it's a good progression. This site has almost everything you can think of except maybe a forum.

CONS: The only thing with most Manga like this one is you can't tell the guys from the girls at times. I hate that. This is also can be banner ad heavy site *at times.

LAST WORD: This site is organized pretty well despite having a lot of content. There are only three ads most times on this site I saw and yet the size of these ads can be over powering. Or in other words a little detracting. Perhaps the social networking buttons don't help, despite them being smartly placed. As for the web comic;those who love Manga or Chibi will like this one. The characters are entertaining and you don't know what to expect with each update. The only thing that threw me for a loop was mistaken the guys for girls and that's biggie for me. There seems to be a active fan base so there should be plenty of company to discus this one.

OVERALL SCORE: 7.0 CONCEPT: 8.5 Interesting.. this appears to be web comic about school students that are monsters but turn out be just like your average teenagers. Then again everybody in this comic is some form of monster. Not original but not over done ether. ART: 8.5 A nice progression from  from chapter 01  to chapter 18. The Manga Chebie style looks good as well. I do dislike when I can't tell the girls from the boys. COLORING OR SHADING: 9.0 The shading is nicely done and not plain like some  online manga I've come across.  WRITING AND SPELLING: 8.5 No misspells I could find but the way this manga is written there may be grammar issues from time to time. I say this from the fact that is written how each individual talks.  WEB PAGE LAYOUT: 8.5 This web page looks  cool and there are plenty of working links and no page  download slow downs. There is one banner ad too many on top of the social networking buttons. They are a little detracting, the reason is that they are all huuuge! Let me add that they must change there ads constantly because I had no issues on a later visit. Hmm... go figure. ENTERTAINMENT: 7.5 This comic has a lot going on and can be a little fun and yet at times confusing. POST FREQUENCY  6.0  Twice a week in black in white  is acceptable.. POPULARITY: 3.0  A PR of 2 is far from impressive  ( I'm not poking fun I have a weak PR2  as  well) on the other hand This comic gets comments and I mean the kind that  are paragraphs long. Great job there!

2013 WEB COMIC REVIEW 01: SUPERNORMAL STEP

WEB COMIC : SUPERNORMAL STEP
CREATOR: MICHEAL LEE LUNSFORD
UPDATES: MON AND THUR
ARCHIVE: 9 CHAPTERS ??? UNKNOWN PAGE COUNT
GENRE: SUPER HERO

Happy new year! Yes I know that is late as hell. Please bear with me, this my first post of 2013. I was unsure of when and if I would do web comic awards this year. I started so late and did not reach my quota of at least 40 reviews. Oh well I have a web comic review for ya It's called Supernormal Step!

PROS: This is one colorful, funny ride. The characters are memorable even if you tend to forget most of their names.  This comic just makes you want to keep reading. I went through chapter one before I even knew it. There is plenty to see at this site from store browsing, deviant art, a gallery and more.

CONS:  How many pages are in a chapter? You can only comment on updates if you join the forum. This can take awhile. This web page is one step from being ad heavy. No synopsis to be found.

LAST WORLD: This is decent comic. The first chapter did a great job to make me want to see more pages. The page numbers are absent but that's too bad. I'll  cut Micheal, slack since he has such a big archive and that would be a pain to redo. You can't share comments until you join the forum, which as I stated above may take awhile. The web site does have plenty of cool links and pages! The ads are well organized, I'll give him that. On the other hand it's almost too much. I did like what I read and saw but  I couldn't tell you what the story is about in one sentence even after reading the first chapter. Some web comics don't really need a "About page" but this one does. That is a must for any web comics that is graphic novel like. (Update)I will add that the character page does point out what the focus of the story is by reading about: Fiona. This was not apparent from what I was reading at first. Also what the story is about is normally not in the "Cast page" so my synopsis complaint will stand.

OVERALL SCORE: 7.5 CONCEPT: 7.0 Aliens, super powers and magic are in this one.  Fiona is the Heroin that is just trying to help those that can't help themselves and she just wants to get back home. I did not find this out til I ripped the site apart for info. It was in plain sight but not where it would normally be. It should not have been that hard. ART: 8.0 Nice work and still improving.  COLORING OR SHADING: 8.0 The coloring works nicely with the art style.  Nice use of shadows and even a good attempt at highlights. There are no jaw dropping color affects. WRITING AND SPELLING: 9.0 The writing  and spelling looks okay. Some pages can be a bit wordy however.  The story is easy to follow but would be hard to explain until you find the stories objective by accident in the character page. WEB PAGE LAYOUT: 9.0 Nicely done! The web page, despite being ad heavy is very well organized. It looks pretty good , loads fast and most info is easy to find and all links appear to work.  The only draw back is if you try to comment on a update. You need to join the forum and it takes awhile to be approved. I'm still waiting... ENTERTAINMENT: 9.0  This web comic kept me flipping pages for a whole chapter and more.  The characters will tickle you at times. POST FREQUENCY: 6.0 Twice a week in full color is decent. POPULARITY: 5.0 A Page rank of 4 and a okay size member forum may mean... this web comic may just be starting to hit it's stride!

2012 WEB COMIC REVIEW 11(REVISIT): SPYING WITH LANA

WEB COMIC: SPYING WITH LANA
CREATOR: SEAN HAVINGTON
UPDATES: MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ARCHIVE : UNKNOWN, THEY ARE ORGANIZED now 12 CASE FILES NOT NUMBERED
GENRE: SEXY SUPER SPY

This year almost over already and we didn't blow up so a guess I'll do a web comic review (revisit) and It's called Spying With Lana. I did this one before but I just had to do a revisit with what this guy has done with the coloring and story!

PROS:  Once again for the guys there are are sexy girl spies with tight to no clothing. For the women, there are women kicking guy ass. Very good visual art and color even  rocks in black & white. It doesn't matter! The site is well organized. Scratch that last part, this is mostly a guy web comic.

CONS: The creator says this comic is for 13 year old or higher but this comic seems to come close to being at least rated R. Then again T.V. these days crosses this line as well. Not sure why but I had some slow page issues flipping through the archive? It could of been my Internet connection at the time. There is no synopsis for this comic. You can't comment on this comic and there is still no forum ether.

LAST WORD: This web comics score has increase from 8.0 to 9.0 when I last seen it. Due to the larger archive and the better webpage loads( more on that later). I love this guys coloring style it's boss! When I last reviewed this web comic there were some major website page slow downloads at the time but none now. Maybe it was my  internet connection before. Highly recommended!

OVERALL SCORE: 9.0* CONCEPT: 8.5 From what I gather,  Spying with Lana is about a super female spy as she works under cover on a porn star set. She is serious and tough. Not original but it doesn't remind me of anything. ART: 9.0 Sean still prefers to draw the  ladies. He has improved  and Lana looks better then ever. His men  look better formed now as well. COLORING OR SHADING: 10 This comic looks great in color and quite nice in black and white.The coloring effects are amazing, I have rarely seen better. WRITING AND SPELLING: 9.5  I was able to understand what was going on easily. The spelling and grammar check out okay. WEB PAGE LAYOUT: 9.0 The black background is cool. The comic page does seem to extend longer then you would think. There is still not  much else to do at this site. On plus side there is nice size archive. There is no blog, forum, or comment circle to keep coming back constantly. There is fan art and commission art for you to check out. This a mature comic but not total nudity... I think. The design is simple but  pleasing to the eye. A big plus is the website lets you read the comic easily which is the most important thing. There were no web page slow downloads this time! ENTERTAINMENT: 9.0 The comic was very fun to read. The missions she goes on and the mix ups and humor that happens are real treat. Only the slow page downloads made reading this at times a real pain. New guy reader will LOVE this one. Girls may enjoy this too but I think most girls will be curious why she never seems to keep cloths on. POST FREQUENCY: 8.5 Twice a week in full color as with the latest updates aren't bad. Sean's updates also are longer then normal comic pages too. It looks like he updates two pages at once. POPULARITY: 5.5 A Page rank of 4 is good. Especially without comments or a forum. This was the same score as last time but kudos for maintaining it.

2012 WEB COMIC REVIEW 10: (REVISIT) DARKBRAIN.COM

WEB COMIC: DARKBRAIN.COM
CREATOR: Various artist: Ryan Hawkins, Ernie Chan, Writers: Andrew Zar and many others
UPDATES: RANDOM BUT  DATED RELEASES
STATUS: ACTIVE
ARCHIVE: 10 DIFFERENT WEB COMICS IN ALL! FROM 60 TO 187 PAGES PER COMIC
AWARD: 2010 MOST ORIGINAL CONCEPT AWARD

I know it's been awhile but the holidays kicked my rear. I'm glad to share this revisit of this web comic's site The creators even more changes to further push this comic above the rest. To remind you again this isn't one comic per say but a series of comics. My favorite was Mirror, Mirror. As before I will review the site and the comics as one entity. Your right, I don't feel like doing a ton of extra work. DarkBrain.com  now has 10 comics in all!


PROS: This is a unique type of comic concept and that is why it won the "2011 Most Original Concept Award"!  Your also in luck on this site because you will be able to read and hear not one but five web comics. You also get great art, decent voice acting, and music.  There are multiple genres to chose from like fantasy, adventure, sci fi, action, drama and even horror! Each one looks to be interesting in it's own way. You can even influence the story with choices that you can make. They have a "About" page that you can hear what this site is all about. You can also see the various artist and talent, who is evolved with this comic. When you make a account with this web comic site you can adjust settings to your preference of gore and nudity. They even have new stories on there way.

CONS: I struggled to find one except you must have paid membership to view those whole comic series. I let it slide last time but there is no comment or forum to voice your love for there fine work. What a shame.

LAST WORD: One of the best concepts I came across online. A;so to those who haven't seen this website yet it is ADULT ONLY comic! They used to have toned down versions but there goes buck wild after pass the adult content page.They fixed that rather annoying viewing page options they had last year. You will see these stories come to life before your very eyes. I was very pleased and thankful they fixed or better explained many of the problems I had with this comic before. Good job guys and girls! My only gripe was that I used to have full access to their whole archive and now I can only see a sample. I understand the business since to this but when it was free before to people who were there when this site was still new  it's hard to want to pay full price now. At least Half  price for those were there some years ago would of been better. On the positive side they do have some cool freebies you will like.

OVERALL SCORE: 9.0 CONCEPT: 10 DarkBrain.com is web comic studio that produces graphic novel quality art and story with voice acting and music. Web comics that talk and have music are pretty original or are still new to the genre. I have heard people talk about doing comics like this, but this is the first web comic that has done it effectively. ART: 10 Top notch art that is polished and detailed on every comic. COLORING OR SHADING: 10 Also a strong point of all the comics on DarkBrain. WRITING AND SPELLING: 9.5 No misspells or bad grammar I could see. The writing can be scene with out the of the  tweaking controls. All the stories are easy to understand and follow. WEB PAGE LAYOUT: 9.5 The website looks and work better... NOW that you can actually see what you need to press with some page enlarging tweaks  It loads fast, with not too many ads. You no longer have to worry about enlarging text to be able to see. ENTERTAINMENT: 10  Despite the size issue these comics can be easily enjoyed. But turning a page and making choices might take the fun out of it from time to time. While we're on that subject, you can only make choices when you made a account with this site.  I just did. POST FREQUENCY: 6.0 It still doesn't say when, or I can't find it. I will say that when they put out a comic; they put out a entire issue at one time. So you have a whole book and not just a one page update to  read from. When you make a account your comic becomes your story and it extends from there. POPULARITY: 3.0  The site has PR of 3 which is okay. I still can't tell how many readers this website has because there no comment or forum post number gage to go by.   DarkBrain has made even more major improvements and you guys would love this more than most of those other overrated comics online. Highly recommended!

2012 WEB COMIC REVIEW 09 (REVISIT): TWO KINDS

WEB COMIC: TWO KINDS
CREATOR: TOM FISHBACH
UPDATES: EVERY WENDSDAY
STATUS: LAST UPDATED NOV. 30 2011
ARCHIVE: WOW 698 PAGES!

Once again this is that time of the year I revisit those comics that I was impressed by. Today's comic is I came across a couple years ago and still enjoy it. I'm sure you heard of it, the name is TwoKinds...


PROS: The art is top notch as well as the coloring. Manga lovers will love the the way the artist draws the animal/humanoid like characters and the way he writes this story. The story isn't to hard to follow and yet it's very deep and character driven. His site is well organized and I was able find everything I needed to easily to be able to write this review. Almost a 700 archive for a new reader to dive into!

CONS: I think due to the artist going to college and working, his updates maybe held hostage for donations at times(Not that I blame him), but I could be mistaken. I only read his donation paragraph twice and that's what it sounded like. Tom only updates once week. The story on the surface sounds too familiar to something I played or read with a character losing his memory at the beginning of the chapter. You still can't comment on this web comic except through the forum.

LAST WORD:  A fantastic comic! He must have a deal with KeenSpace, He does have his own domain it's just the Keenspace logo is all over. The characters are interesting and the story does remain fresh while exploring the racial tensions between the races. He gave me more to go in popularity score but regular comments would have made this easier. I went mainly by it's page rank that jumped a point! . His overall score is about the same he did improve some.

OVERALL SCORE: 8.5 CONCEPT: 9.0  Twokinds is a webcomic that takes place in a world conflicted with racial tension, primarily between the human-like Humans and the animal-like Keidran. A deep moving story except for the part about Trace losing his memory and struggling to regain it. I've played too many role playing games with the same type of beginning story, I guess. But I'm glad the story is so much more than that. ART: 9.5 Tom's manga style is  top notch and polished. He's also not scared to draw backgrounds. *Note: His was already good in his first chapter but he got progressively better by chapter 12. COLORING OR SHADING: 9.5 This is also top notch but I have had a chance to see some comics that are a little better. WRITING AND SPELLING: 9.5 The spelling and grammar check out good. The character writing is good but sometimes it was little choppy or I had to read some lines over a few times, to understand in the first chapter. WEB PAGE LAYOUT: 9.0 This site is well organized and put together. This is even more impressive since he uses web comic host like Keenspot. Everything is easy to find and the archive is huge. The site loads fast and there is no waste of space. The design on the archive pages is simple, but works. Some nice links like deviant art should give new and old readers some more things to look at. ENTERTAINMENT: 9.5 The story at first looks a lot like story I read before, but the building tension between the races and underlining love story is pleasant surprise. I will read this one from beginning to end. Tom did a great job here! POST FREQUENCY: 6.0 It's not bad that he updates once a week in color, but more updates would have been better. He does stay on schedule and 698 post show he doesn't take a week off. I had to give a extra half point just for that POPULARITY: 6.5 This comic is now  a  "Page Rank of 4". The  forum is lively place  that boast some huge numbers. I still think a normal comments field could have helped. Also This comic still ranks high in the Top Webcomics. Last year this was one of my most popular reviews.