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Going to have to second this. There's a whole range of comics catering to those more esoteric (and often quite boring, frankly) storylines, and a good many of
by angersock 12y ago
Going to have to second this.
There's a whole range of comics catering to those more esoteric (and often quite boring, frankly) storylines, and a good many of them have books for sale.
Check out Something Positive (terrible people), Stand Still, Stay Silent (kid friendly but a little dark, beautiful art), Dumbing of Age (ugh, but some people like it), Vattu (kid friendly, nice art, coming-of-age), Schlock Mercenary (goofy, sometimes a little mature but kid friendly), Gunnerkrigg Court (female protagonists), or any of several other dozens. All of those have books out, I believe, except for maybe SSSS.
EDIT:
Something Positive is probably the best-written webcomic out there today, with the best characters and dialog and plot--it's only flaw is that it might be a bit raw and inaccessible to people younger than teenagers (the first strip being a mean abortion joke probably doesn't help).
- jff 12y agoSomething Positive is a wall-of-text comic which, unfortunately also has very bad writing in its walls of text. I'm embarrassed to say I read the entire thing in high school in 2004, but in my defense I was starved for content and didn't know any better.
- angersock 12y agoSo, there's been 11 years of plot since then. But hey, that's cool, to each their own.
- saraid216 12y agoI think Dumbing of Age is targeted at people who are post-college, not kids. A lot of the humor and depth is most manifest to people who have gone through similar crap and can look back on it nostalgically.
- fernly 12y agoSSSS book 1 was funded by an indiegogo campaign[1] in October 2014, which pulled 500% of the target. Book should be available fairly soon. [1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stand-still-stay-silent-book-1 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/stand-still-stay-silent-b...