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Review of Shaw Island
Quite a find. Interesting characters with believable ranges of emotions. Clear drawing style and nicely readable text. And some really furkin'ly funny situations at times. I KNOW it's a good strip when I print out a copy so I can show it to the RL culprit of whom I am reminded when I read it.
I love the hamsters. The church humor as expressed by the crabs is bitingly right on at times. There were maybe 2 instances where I'm apparently not quite "with it" enough to catch some of the allusions made during the one-shots, but overall the social commentary/satire is pretty dead-on. How do people come up with swipes like this on a consistent basis?
The characters' "takes" on relationships are both funny and realistic. They actually have a maturity that is unexpected but highly welcome. This seems like a *gasp* intelligent comic. (Hope I haven't just ruined it for anybody.)
This one is probably going to join my list of Favorites for regular reading. I'll give it a 9 out of 10 incense burners. (Not a 10 due to the occasional need for better text editing that recurrs. Little words like "of", "at" and the like seem to get dropped from the dialog rather often. Not a major cause of heartburn, but not grounds for perfection either.)
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Mon Jan 27 2003 11:28 AM |
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I also would like to sign in on the list of "occasional" reviewers. Can't be sure how often I'll have sufficient time to go through an entire archive.
I think most everyone else has summed up my major complaints regarding this strip. At the beginning, the characters were practically indistinguishable from one another. (I didn't realize Ferrah's mom WAS her mom until the second appearance of the character in the storyline. She looks 'waaay too much like all the other teenage girls to distinguish her as an adult character.) Not only are all the girls done from the same cookiecutter, but greatgawdalmighty does EVERY female in that universe have boobs out the wazoo? Between the unremitting voluptuousness of all females and the incessent shedding/shredding of clothing, I was starting to feel like I was reading an illustrated version of some teenage boy's fantasies.
Obviously I'm not a cheesecake fan.
The plotline was jerky (as in a film missing action frames jerky, not stupid jerky), which I found annoying. The lettering problems, coloring which made actions hard to decipher and multitudinous interweaving plotlines were all drawbacks in "getting into" the story and developing any feelings for the characters.
I will admit that towards the end, once I finally got a handle on what was supposed to be going on, I began to be intrigued by the characters and the general story. Since I don't follow Manga or gaming, any derivative aspects totally escaped me. However, the annoying elements I noted were not really offset enough that I have any interest in going back to this world to follow the story further.
All in all, Shifters rates as a "dead link" on my bookmarks list. I won't be visiting again.
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Thu Jan 23 2003 08:51 AM |
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