Sorry for the lack of updates. Of course, there are probably only three people reading this blog anyway, but none-the-less my apology goes out to those three people.

I'm still catching up with my webcomic reading after my vacation, so I don't have a whole lot to say. But here are a few tidbits. On with the show!

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Cutest. Strip. Ever. Seriously, even if you don't know anything about the character or the story going on in Wapsi Square, you can't deny the cuteness of that last panel. Just try.

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On the heels of "Cutest Strip Ever", we have "Best Obscure Joke Ever" over at Nothing Nice To Say. I feel special because while I don't get a lot of references in NNTS, I got this one straight off the bat. Go me!

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I was checking links to comics that I haven't checked up on in a while (hey, I read a lot of them), and it looks like Spell Check has started over from scratch. It didn't get too far into the story before the restart, so you aren't missing too much if you're just reading it now, but if you don't check out the site you are missing too much. Abe has one of the most interactive and interesting webcomic page setups I've seen and I applaud him for it. Most webcomic creators, myself included, don't utilize the web for it's interactiveness as much as we could, so it's great to see a fresh approach. Oh, and his art style rocks, too.

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First up, not only is this strip funny, but they use the word "pop" rather than "soda". Mitch Clem, you rock my world.

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Wow, I can't believe it, but Zach Miller was true to his word that one of his characters would die this month. I thought it might have just been a clever gag or something, but damned if I wasn't wrong. It'll be interesting to see if the character stays dead or if it becomes a "comic book death".

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And now back to a familiar subject - Dominic Deegan. The first four panels of today's strip (7/30/07) almost makes up for the whole superhero costume debacle. The look on Dominic's face in the fourth panel had me laughing.

However, I need to backtrack a few strips and talk about what I saw as a problem. DD has always been a pretty smart mixture of comedy and drama. It's tough to mix those two, because at times it's like mixing oil and water, and you end up with a mess. This is how I saw this particular strip. In other circumstances, I would have cheered about this strip, as it places the protagonist into a very tight spot. But the fact that Gregory is wearing that ridiculous outfit takes away from that drama, seriously damaging the storyline at that point. Let me state that the two ideas - the catch 22 and the superhero outfit - could have worked apart from each other. I do think the SuperGreg thing would have worked in a purely comical storyline, but not in a dramatic one. And the catch 22 scenario should have been saved for a time when Gregory wasn't in superhero duds.

Again, I know how hard it is to mix the comic and the dramatic, and far be it for me to be speaking of it regarding a veteran like Mookie, but everyone slips up now and again.

At least Gregory is out of the superhero outfit. ;-)

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