Fuck you I'm a dragon

For whatever reason, one of my favourite things is comics set in the First World War.

Swan Song (Babouche/Dorison/Herzet) is an interesting war story in that the action is entirely against the main characters' own side. The actual enemy does not even appear in it. The greatest danger to the soldiers is their own command - but in fighting against it, they too must become enemies to their fellow soldiers, men just like them.


It's also satisfyingly tragic, with moments of levity sprinkled all over it. The characters are frustratingly plausible human beings (I especially liked Larzac and Kazinsky) and the core of the story appropriately bleak.

My only problem with it was that at some points the art is genuinely so messy that it's difficult to follow the action.

Caught up on Skin Deep. I don't remember liking Bloodcarver so much.
Actually I didn't remember most of the plot very clearly, so I'm rereading the entire comic. :D Here's Eleanor

Finally read Otoyomegatari #14! I can see the sense in Baimat deciding to marry Aigul. She's so gentle that she didn't want to let her previous abusive husband be killed, while her sisters wanted him dead. Seems like she'll be a very safe partner for a calm and gentle guy like Baimat (unlike, say, Jahan Bike, who might behead him if she didn't like something he does).

ETA: how I wanted the horse race in this volume to end

Snowflake Challenge #14: Make a promo or a rec list

I'm going to rec Unsounded, a long-running fantasy webcomic by Ashley Cope!

No panic.

Hey what if...
...lions were extinct in this fantasy world but our protagonist had a lion tail for mysterious reasons?
...magic worked a bit like coding? (reality.exe can crash too, if you aren't careful)
...zombies had feelings, too?
...every bit of smoke or shed blood was at risk of becoming possessed by bad memories and taking the shape of eels?
...the lord of thieves of New Tawhoque sent his daughter and heir, accompanied by an undead bodyguard, to collect tribute from his nephew in another town, and they ran into a party of slave traders who do unspeakable things with silver from a world before time?

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Book 1 of Unsounded is finished. It starts here.

Book 2 only just started.