NOTE: This article is a webcomic review by my wife, Leah Love. Who also runs a blog on maternity, pregnancy, and baby stuff at www.OnMaternityBelts.com
I’ve spent so much time flipping through so many sub-par comics that when I finally got to this little gem I almost didn’t believe that I liked it. I like just about everything about this so far.
Why I love Strays Online
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.
This webcomic is worth a deeper look for the art alone, I suspect that the story could be told almost as effectively by design alone, though that would deprive us of some of the finer points which the dialogue presents. Though seeing as the bounty hunter, Feral, is entirely mute the dialogue is cleverly disguised as a monologue which is rather delish!
Even better, these little comedic moments that are funnily woven in amidst the dramatic, a perfect way to let the reader know that although ‘Strays’ could, it’s not going to take itself too seriously. Kudos to the writers’ comedic timing!
I’ve seen so many fantasy worlds, perhaps enough to make me tired of them altogether but apparently it only takes this one here to bring my interest back, and to keep me desirous for much, much more.
You can read Strays Online yourself at http://www.straysonline.com/
