sovay: (Cho Hakkai: intelligence)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-11-14 11:43 am

Are you talking about philosophy or the committee?

And courtesy of [livejournal.com profile] shweta_narayan, the webcomic that ate my life yesterday: Family Man. The Enlightenment! Judaism! University politics! Theological debates! In-jokes about Ovid! In-jokes about Rousseau! Careful research of taxonomically appropriate pine trees! Our half-Jewish protagonist just tried to defend a dissertation on Spinoza at Göttingen in 1768. The werewolves at his new lectureship are the least of his problems.

In the meantime, Kate Beaton has been reviewed by The Economist.

I am not doing anything near that interesting today. I still have this book, though.

[identity profile] margavriel.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I looked at the "current" strip. Don't understand it at all. Maybe if I look at back entries, it will make more sense.

[identity profile] movingfinger.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Some webcomics are strips (you can start anywhere) and some are graphic novels being published serially. Family Man is the latter.

I recall it being more crudely drawn; I tried to read it awhile back and couldn't get into it. The characters' individuation still needs some work, but the story's putting pieces in place for something big and interesting, it seems.

[identity profile] shweta-narayan.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Bite Me is more crudely drawn, being Dylan's earlier work. Might that be what you're thinking of?

[identity profile] movingfinger.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it was definitely a b/w comic I recall, and not in full-page format as the present version is presented but in shorter strip-like bits.

[identity profile] shweta-narayan.livejournal.com 2011-11-14 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I have no idea, because I've been reading Family Man since it was at the prologue, and it's always looked this way...

Must be merging multiverses.