[Batman]

Zot! Online: Hearts and Minds. It's not for everyone. If you don't dig the cosmic stuff, or a cartoony art-style, you won't dig this. But otherwise, check it out: it's amazing; it's online; it was designed with online reading in mind, so it's much more web-navigation-friendly than a regular uploaded comic book; and it's free.

The characters are from a print comic book from the 80s, but I would say that you won't be lost at all if you've never read Zot before, and it won't spoil the earlier comics for you at all, except to the extent that you know that none of the characters featured died in any previous installments. Oh, and that one minor character was turned into a monkey at some point. Good times.

[Batman]

OK, come on people, all I'm asking for is ten or twenty minutes of your time (depending on your reading speed.) Hell, if you really don't like it, it should take even less time than that to come to that conclusion and click away.

Even if all you have to say is, "Sorry, wasn't my kind of thing," or "Read it; it was OK," I'd like to hear it. I may call you a DAMN PHILISTINE!!! but anyway I'd know somebody at least gave it a shot....

[Ryan Who Loves Punk]

"There's his fortress, Jenny, and it's a big one!"

EDIT: OK, so this was pretty good. Some unexpected twists here. And yeah, it's free, so check it out.

[Batman]

Man, I was right in the middle of writing up a "OK, so you read it. So what the hell did you think of it?" post (except with more cursing) when I saw your edit.

It's kind of faint praise (both in the phrasing and, well, the source.) Nonetheless, other comics people here--follow the link, give it a try!

[Ryan Who Loves Punk]

Well, I didn't find it the greatest thing I had ever read. But it was pretty good, and it's free. I feel that appropriately sums up my opinion.

[Loki]

I made it through until the point at which Zot and the main baddie start talking. I like the concept of a web comic that takes full advantage of the web. That was neat. Like the giant up and down panel where people are falling. Awesome idea.

The story itself didn't do much for me. A small thing, but "Zot" as a hero name is way to cheesey for me. Also, that type of cosmic saga (reminiscent of the FF from the 80s) doesn't do much for me. Later on I may try to complete the story.


Several hundred points for the style, though. Again - I loved the concept.

[Batman]

Yeah, that falling panel is awesome. I wonder if I can hotlink it here? I'll give it a try, so people who don't feel like taking ten or twenty minutes of their lives to check this out can see what we're talking about.

The cheesiness is intentional, it's supposed to be kind of a jarring juxtaposition of cheesy and kind of deep. But, like I said from the start, I wouldn't expect it to be to everyone's taste. Thanks for giving it a shot, loki.

[The Canadian Content]

That's pretty cool.