Here we feature those people who've helped and inspired us in the past.
Please take a moment and visit their sites as well.
Classic Battletech is
where it all starts. The definative giant-robot game, its twenty-five year run
is an industry marvel, second only to the incredible richness of the actual
game and fiction themselves. Now led by Catalyst Game Labs, the return of the
"unseen", the launching of a new video game, and the continual expansion of the
core game has brought about yet another golden age in gameplay. I'm proud to
have been a small part of it, with the comic and as a game demonstrator.
Gerry Swanson
is the creator of Biozoic, a non-dialogue based comic that
looks into the depths of our past to bring a futuristic story to life. On
an unknown planet, we watch a world locked in a Jurassic-type epoch filled
with creatures on the razor thin edge of survival. Quite possibly one of
the best looks at monster/dinosaur life ever.
Really Pathetic Productions
has satire articles as well as famed photo
comics. Block It examines the lives and perils of your average everyday
toy. All My Hexes (incidentally the inspiration for Miniature Rules) is a
surreal look at what your miniatures and RPG counters just might be
getting away with behind your back.
Order of the Stick really needs no
introduction, but it's inclusion is near mandatory. One of the most beloved and
widely read webcomics, the humor, drama, and attention to all that we gamers
love and hate about our other lives is played out in near perfection by Rich
Burlew.
Erfworld is the long time companion
to Order of the Stick, now hosted on a seperate spectacular website all of its own.
The story of Lord Hamster, a gamer who has the (mis?)fortune to be drawn into one of
his own games, repleat with the injokes and pop culture references that most Game
Masters cannot hope to refrain themselves from. A compelling story, with amazing art.
Questionable Content
is the work of Jeph Jaques, and follows the lives of several young New England hipsters
in a slightly more surrealistic world than our own. Of special note is the large and
complete archive which is amazing, as it shows the remarkable progress that Jeph has
made in his artstyle, from the cartoony beginning to the amazing (and still improving)
style of today. Practice, it seems, can make perfect.
I don't usually go for "parody" or "reimagining" of other peoples work, but sometimes
someone comes along with an idea that's just so wrong, it's right.
Weapon Brown by Jason Yungbluth
captures a grown up Charlie Brown (yes, the wishy-washy kid from Schulz) in the horror
of a post-apocalyptic world battling the forces of the (United Features) SYNDICATE. You'll
have fun trying to spot your favorite cartoon characters in their Fallout-esque avatars
of radioactive mayhem. May be considered NSFW, some pages of the website are most assuredly
so.