Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
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We were the best thing. Do you hear me? THE BEST THING.

I am overjoyed and overwhelmed to finally—after a year of work and email exchanges and hoping and working some more—be able to say this to you all:

The Best Thing is now live at Thrillbent.com.

The Best Thing is a story about magical girls, and what suddenly discovering that you're a chosen warrior does to you. It's about powers with no instruction manual, lives that don't come with helpful animal sidekicks or prophetic dreams. It's about Ashley, and Takala, and Nikki, and Dani, and Crystal. Five girls who find out they're so much more, and proceed to burn the world.

Drawn by Erica Henderson (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) and written by me (lots of stuff, if you're here, you know the drill), The Best Thing will be updating every Monday over at Thrillbent. Please consider subscribing and supporting my burgeoning comics career, so that they give me the X-Men and I can spend all my money buying original art.

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Huzzah! I am so excited for this! *rushes to share with fellow Seanan fans*
Yay!
I think we need to pray for a co-produced movie agreement too. I've heard Marvel is holding back a lot on X-Men because they don't want to free new stories to Fox. And I think I heard the series is cancelled for the Battleworld.
Well, yes.
What is the best way for me to throw my money at you for this endeavor? Should I subscribe? Wait until it's in the store? Or is this not a money-throwing kind of thing?
I pressed the subscribe button on general principle, but it would be nice to know what the best thing to do to support this.

vixyish

2 years ago

seanan_mcguire

2 years ago

Congratulations! It's great to see it live. Erica is amazing. :D
Yes she is. :)
I can already tell this is going to give me a wicked case of the feels.
Yay!
So, is that guy lying? Cause I don't see the point of getting into a story when I know it will end badly...
While I very much want you to subscribe, I'm...I'm not going to directly spoil the entire ending. :P
The Best Thing is ALREADY THE BEST THING. ♥ Can't wait for more!
Yay!
*has passed out from excitement*
YAY!
I'd like to see what the story reads like before I go throwing money at it. Just like I prefer to do with real books. Let me read a chapter for free & I may be willing to pay four bucks for the rest of it.
At least when I posted this, there was a chapter available to read for free.

*goes*
*checks*

Chapter 1 is still free, it's just no longer at the top. Click the image of chapter 1 to load the free material.

Fred Capp

2 years ago

This sounds awesome! It seems like you can read the past chapters free, just not the most current one? (Kinda like the simul-stream shows on Crunchyroll.) I would happily subscribe...except they only have iOS support for mobile, and I'm on Android.

I will definitely be sharing it with my comic-loving friends soon, though. :)

Hooray!
I love the layout, and the dynamic way it updates. Can't wait to see how it progresses.

On the subject of best things, I'm reliably informed by friends who went to Eastercon this weekend that you were the highlight of the event.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend, but one day I make it to a con.
Squee! ::dashes off to Thrillbent to subscribe::
Glee.
Congratulations!
Thank you!
I don't have the comic vocabulary to feel comfortable expressing what I loved most about this but I will try anyway. When I first loaded the comic I thought there was some sort of software glitch and it hadn't loaded all the way since I had never read a comic that used panels and layout in this manner. I pressed the next button just to see if the next page was glitchy too and learned the secret of how this layout/panel/whatever progresses. I love the way this was used throughout the comic not sure if that is a writing thing, an art thing, a some other involved thing or something else entirely but please pass my appreciation to the correct parties. I loved it once i figure out what was going on!
It's the way Thrillbent designs their stories, and I love it!
People may already know all about Thrillbent, but since nobody's mentioned its origin, I thought I'd be Exposition Guy for a few minutes. I try not to care about pedigree, but Thrillbent ( www.thrillbent.com ) has a very reputable one. Seanan's "The Best Thing" is sitting at a creator's table with some great company.

Mark Waid co-created the site in 2012, originally as an entirely free website for digital comics. He is a big name in the industry. Among other things, he wrote "Kingdom Come," drawn by Alex Ross, for DC. Waid wrote "The Flash" for what seemed forever -- he made Wally West into an awesome successor to Barry Allen. And he won an Eisner Award, too.

So when Mark Waid said he was going to make digital comics work, people laughed at him all over the Internet. People would read the free content and never pay for anything that wasn't. That's what I did, I admit. I read for free, then walked away rather than pay a measly four dollars a month to support the creators. For shame.

Well, it's 2015, and Thrillbent is still here. You can read the first chapters of most stories for free. Waid has an ongoing stories of his own up there, too. For four dollars a month, you get access to _three years worth of back stories_, plus a PDF of Waid's graphic novel. I would say that Thrillbent's approach is like Britain's 2000 A.D. ongoing anthology, but I haven't read that in years. Some of Thrillbent's titles are now coming out in print, too (IDW).

I hadn't read Thrillbent in a while. So I've missed out on a lot of good stories. So far I've tried the series Insufferable, The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood, The Eighth Seal, Luther (short story), and (obviously) The Best Thing. I like horror, but there are all sorts of stuff on there. Anybody else want to recommend a story there, and tell us why? (But please, please avoid spoilers.)

Mack
I am so pleased to be a part of this family of stories.
I am not a comic book person, but I finally checked out The Best Thing tonight. I read the first chapter. I subscribed. I will now sit here and not let myself binge on it, since there's papers to be graded, but oh, the temptation.
Yay!