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seekingferretI haven't plugged it in a while, so...
My favorite webcomic is a hard SF furry comic called Freefall. I first discovered it years back when Websnark wrote a brilliant essay contrasting it to Schlock Mercenary. Freefall and Schlock Mercenary both do hard science fiction, and they both do funny, but other than that they have virtually nothing in common.
Freefall is about a conniving alien named Sam, a diligent anthropomorphic wolf named Florence, a loopy robot named Helix, and their struggles to survive and make their mark on the world. With the world being a place dominated by humans. Freefall is incredibly slow paced, sometimes taking months to carry out a single philosophical argument. Right now we're about two months on from the successful completion of a storyline that's been running for at least a year and a half, and the characters are still occupying themselves with sophisticated arguments about how to improve their social engineering to prevent the events of the storyline from happening again. And the comic's rigor about hard SFnal things like orbital mechanics is astonishing. You sometimes need to do math to get the jokes. Not know math. Do math.
Whenever I describe it I inevitably make it sound phenomenally unappealing, but it is funny and smart and weird, and that is a great combination.
http://freefall.purrsia.com
Today is the third day of the Omer
My favorite webcomic is a hard SF furry comic called Freefall. I first discovered it years back when Websnark wrote a brilliant essay contrasting it to Schlock Mercenary. Freefall and Schlock Mercenary both do hard science fiction, and they both do funny, but other than that they have virtually nothing in common.
Freefall is about a conniving alien named Sam, a diligent anthropomorphic wolf named Florence, a loopy robot named Helix, and their struggles to survive and make their mark on the world. With the world being a place dominated by humans. Freefall is incredibly slow paced, sometimes taking months to carry out a single philosophical argument. Right now we're about two months on from the successful completion of a storyline that's been running for at least a year and a half, and the characters are still occupying themselves with sophisticated arguments about how to improve their social engineering to prevent the events of the storyline from happening again. And the comic's rigor about hard SFnal things like orbital mechanics is astonishing. You sometimes need to do math to get the jokes. Not know math. Do math.
Whenever I describe it I inevitably make it sound phenomenally unappealing, but it is funny and smart and weird, and that is a great combination.
http://freefall.purrsia.com
Today is the third day of the Omer
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Date: 2013-03-29 04:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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