Despite having several cartoonist, friends, I’ve never been very good at keeping up with webcomics–the only ones I read with any regularity are Dinosaur Comics, Penny Arcade and Achewood. Thanks to the link from Ryan North of Dino Comics, I’ve got a new favorite comic to follow up with — MS Paint Adventures! It’s basicaly an old school King’s Quest 1 era adventure game in comics form where the artist, Andrew Hussie, sets up a scenario and page by page, readers suggest the actions for the character to do, and then the next day, there’s new pages based on the suggestions. It’s really quite brilliant. Considering how deep his archives are, I’m probably quite late to the party, but for those like me who have never read it, there’s plenty of content to keep you reading!
For more choose-your-own-adventure style comics, I highly recommend the works of Jason Shiga. Whereas MSPA is a community-driven game, filtered through an artist, Shiga’s works are the insanely clever creations of one man whose brain must be structured like a moebius strip of neurons. You can try out several of his interactive works online, but to really get a sense of how amazing they are, you have to see the hand-crafted printed copies. Such is his brilliance that the comics medium alone cannot contain him! He is also a blackbelt in LEGO technic wizardry, as demonstrated by a hand-cranked arm wrestling machine that he built out of the plastic bricks. Does his brilliance know no bounds? Recently he has (no joke) taken up performing raps about Tupac’s sexual orientation. Perhaps it does.
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I always make it a point that no matter how many years the archives go back, If I start reading a new webcomic then I have to spend a week or two going through from the beginning to get caught up on the story. Of course, I always seem to find a new webcomic when I have a lot of homework to do, so I end up procrastinating (It’s worth it).
And besides, It’s sort of interesting to see how the person’s style has evolved over time, especially if it’s a hand drawn comic. Plus I can’t stand the thought that there’s jokes and storylines that I’ve missed.
Some of the webcomics I read are:
Least I could do
The noob
Looking for Group
The Dreamland Chronicles
Shortpacked
Agh…curse you Jake! I should’ve known better, but now I’m growing addicted to MS Paint Adventures! And as I mentioned before, lucky me with my OCD, I’m now intent on reading every page of the comic. I’ve already managed to get up to the image that you posted in your post, and there’s no sign of me stopping.
Thank god for the save/load system here though. I wish every webcomic I read had that. It would make having to read through all the archives that much easier.
[...] manga editor Jake Forbes, who is now working on the Return to Labyrinth series, takes a look at an interactive webcomic, MS Paint Adventures and finds a lot to love about Jason Shiga’s [...]