Second Review

Wapsi Square

Art -

The art of Wapsi Square is confident and skillful, Paul Taylor really knows his stuff.. Character designs are all distinctive and designed in a unique looking cartoon style. Most of the archives are black and white with occasional color, though in the last year I've noticed that Taylor has branched out into screen tones quite a bit.

Really there's nothing bad I can say about the art, I think it looks fantastic.

Writing -

Wapsi Square is an ongoing real to life story with some fantastical elements (such as a mexican god of beverage that the main character Monica discovers early on.) Paul Taylor has a nice grasp of sequential art and leaves each strip at the cusp of a new plot twist. There's a lot of webtoonists out there that could learn from this guy.

On the negative side I'm not estatic about the current Muse storyline. The three Muses are likable enough but I'm not really into supernatural atonement stories. At the moment I find the Tomboy Rachel and her sturggle to try and help Monica deal with her demons, much more interesting then Monica herself.

But I'm confident this will change in due time. Wapsi Square is strongest when the characters are seeking and most often missing opportunities to fall in love and it will turn back to that eventually.

Overall -

Wapsi Square is an enjoyable comic, though perhaps not for everyone (lots of boob jokes). I would recommend reading this daily as there is always something new going on.

-Wrong