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.
Comics!
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*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.
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April 6 2015, 17:04:35 UTC 2 years ago
I will definitely be sharing it with my comic-loving friends soon, though. :)
June 23 2015, 20:15:00 UTC 2 years ago
Ooh! Another webcomic to read!
April 6 2015, 20:17:02 UTC 2 years ago
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.
RE: Ooh! Another webcomic to read!
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Pedigree
April 10 2015, 03:08:42 UTC 2 years ago
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
RE: Pedigree
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