I like it!
The thing I noticed about the first two panels of Nimona is how quickly and efficiently it set the mood of the strip. The variation of line and tone are simple and yet somehow combine to provide me with the knowledge that we are now in some sort of super- nefarious lair, and Nimona is not at all afraid of it.
I have to say how much I like her right away, I’m not even half way through the comic but I do admire her. Maybe it has to do with her expressions, her quirky sense of humor, her trauma based rage, or maybe it’s because she’s not another busty waif with oodles of wavy hair and pouted lips that are just sure to create sexual tension. No, Nimona’s not like that, she has character.
This Webcomic is such a successful combination of saccharine cuteness and diabolical crudeness that I am somehow glued to my computer screen, endlessly clicking ‘next’ until I thought that I should probably stop and write something so I could let you all know why you should be reading this.
The funny pages and I have had a falling out in recent years. Maybe not that recent. I had a paper in my hands every day the last week and there was only one (just ONE!) that could be counted as actually ‘funny.’ The rest were Hagar the Horrible. Emphasis on Horrible. So unfunny. That’s why I like the internet, it has funny comics!
First things first, the artwork. Beauty! The joint work of creators Samantha Whitten and Stacey Pefferkor and featuring their darling main character, Meela. Meela is a charming kid with wolf-like attributes and an unerring tenacity and sweetness of spirit. You will love her immediately. She’s on her own, reeling from the loss of her brother and barely surviving when our second main character, the bounty hunter called Feral, kicks his business right through her attempts at lonely survival.
We made it onto the “New and Noteworthy” Section of iTunes!!!
