A New Webcomic
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 6:29 am
Fpr those who don't already have too many things filling their time, may i recommend and excellent (and quite new) webcomic: Far to the North.
The art is lovely, the story is interesting, and the dialog is sharp and witty.
In a Scandinavian/Finnish-looking society, Kelu, a young woman, is responsible for looking after her nieces and nephews ...who need looking after. Of course, Kelu is quite capable of getting into her own trouble; the combination is synergistic.
There seems to be more than a bit of jotun blood in the family - we don't know for sure just how tall Kelu is, but i wouldn't be surprised it it's a tad north of six feet. I
d say she's sixteen or seventeen - and she expected to go with her father and brothers to the "Trader's Fair", where she could hope to find a husband. Her father, OTOH, doesn't want to lose "his only daughter". So she's been left behind.
And that's where our story begins.
Well, actually it begins a few pages earlier, in a sequence that illustrates the "Kelu and the Kids Getting Into Trouble" dynamic.
And establishes that Kelu is not a young woman to trifle with - se sees off a monster many times her size, using only a crude improvised weapon.
They have two dogs that literally look like domesticated dire wolves. When one of them heads out into the woods to investigate something it senses/smells ... and comes back yelping like a smacked puppy ... Kelu deals.
There are only forty-two pages so far, so it's an easy binge.
A few images (Art copyright by Allison Gregory):
Kelu:
Kelu explains how things are going to be to her nephew:
Kelu's after-action brief to the kids:
Kelu's just had another adventure:
(That's the current page - in the comments, someone said "I wonder how many of these sorts of things have happened," and i said "None of them".)
T
The art is lovely, the story is interesting, and the dialog is sharp and witty.
In a Scandinavian/Finnish-looking society, Kelu, a young woman, is responsible for looking after her nieces and nephews ...who need looking after. Of course, Kelu is quite capable of getting into her own trouble; the combination is synergistic.
There seems to be more than a bit of jotun blood in the family - we don't know for sure just how tall Kelu is, but i wouldn't be surprised it it's a tad north of six feet. I
d say she's sixteen or seventeen - and she expected to go with her father and brothers to the "Trader's Fair", where she could hope to find a husband. Her father, OTOH, doesn't want to lose "his only daughter". So she's been left behind.
And that's where our story begins.
Well, actually it begins a few pages earlier, in a sequence that illustrates the "Kelu and the Kids Getting Into Trouble" dynamic.
And establishes that Kelu is not a young woman to trifle with - se sees off a monster many times her size, using only a crude improvised weapon.
They have two dogs that literally look like domesticated dire wolves. When one of them heads out into the woods to investigate something it senses/smells ... and comes back yelping like a smacked puppy ... Kelu deals.
There are only forty-two pages so far, so it's an easy binge.
A few images (Art copyright by Allison Gregory):
Kelu:
Kelu explains how things are going to be to her nephew:
Kelu's after-action brief to the kids:
Kelu's just had another adventure:
(That's the current page - in the comments, someone said "I wonder how many of these sorts of things have happened," and i said "None of them".)
T