The Wandering Ones
http://www.wanderingones.com
This review is based on the last year's (2005) worth of comics.
Art
Clint Hollingsworth does an excellent job conveying his post apocalyptic world. The pages are filled with scenes of overgrowth and wilderness contrasted sharply by the ugliness of modern architecture and weaponry.
The characters themselves are realistically drawn, there's no doubt Hollingsworth is a skilled artist and very good at drawing different ethnicities. That said I sometimes have a hard time telling the characters apart. Former Reich Consript Max is a pivotal character and the love interest of the Master Scout Ravenwing, yet he looks like a dozen or so other bearded men that turn up throughout this long running series. Whenever the story switches to different characters I find I have to get my bearings again. This sameness is more apparent among the female characters, as Ravenwing herself is the only female I can consistently recognize.
Writing
The Wandering Ones is like a crash course in tracking school. Hollingsworth himself studies tracking and his characters sound intelligent when they talk about it.
Ravenwing is a pretty bad ass chick, able to dissapear into the wild at will and can throw a pretty mean boot to the head. If you read long enough the characters develop different personalities especially the Good Guys. Max started out as a simple confused conscript for the black hats, and over the years has become a heroic/romantic lead..
As a writer Hollingsworth knows how to construct expository dialog while keeping the characters in their own time. He also knows to throw in some twists at a regular pace, introducing characters that you grow to love or hate, but always miss when they die. This is really refreshing among the ocean of one - liners that seems to make up the majority of dialog in webcomics.
Overall
The Wandering Ones has always been one of the best webcomics out there in my opinion. The pacing is slow but generally worth the read. I would recommend visiting every few weeks rather than daily so you can get a generous helping of the story. Fans of Mark Shultz or Monique MCNaughton will enjoy this comic a lot.
http://www.wanderingones.com
This review is based on the last year's (2005) worth of comics.
Art
Clint Hollingsworth does an excellent job conveying his post apocalyptic world. The pages are filled with scenes of overgrowth and wilderness contrasted sharply by the ugliness of modern architecture and weaponry.
The characters themselves are realistically drawn, there's no doubt Hollingsworth is a skilled artist and very good at drawing different ethnicities. That said I sometimes have a hard time telling the characters apart. Former Reich Consript Max is a pivotal character and the love interest of the Master Scout Ravenwing, yet he looks like a dozen or so other bearded men that turn up throughout this long running series. Whenever the story switches to different characters I find I have to get my bearings again. This sameness is more apparent among the female characters, as Ravenwing herself is the only female I can consistently recognize.
Writing
The Wandering Ones is like a crash course in tracking school. Hollingsworth himself studies tracking and his characters sound intelligent when they talk about it.
Ravenwing is a pretty bad ass chick, able to dissapear into the wild at will and can throw a pretty mean boot to the head. If you read long enough the characters develop different personalities especially the Good Guys. Max started out as a simple confused conscript for the black hats, and over the years has become a heroic/romantic lead..
As a writer Hollingsworth knows how to construct expository dialog while keeping the characters in their own time. He also knows to throw in some twists at a regular pace, introducing characters that you grow to love or hate, but always miss when they die. This is really refreshing among the ocean of one - liners that seems to make up the majority of dialog in webcomics.
Overall
The Wandering Ones has always been one of the best webcomics out there in my opinion. The pacing is slow but generally worth the read. I would recommend visiting every few weeks rather than daily so you can get a generous helping of the story. Fans of Mark Shultz or Monique MCNaughton will enjoy this comic a lot.
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