What do you get when you mix equal parts of cynicism, simple joys of life, statements on society, humour, love for Canada, music, geekiness, everything else good in the world, and a stiking good-looking Polack? If you answered “YOU PHYLL! YOU!” you would in fact be correct, though I was talking about Peter Chiykowski’s Rock, Paper, Cynic. It is an amazing comic that I stumbled across a few days ago, and have been enjoying thoroughly. And by enjoy thoroughly, I mean I have been using it as an excuse to not to my work for classes, or work on the revamp of my own comic. But it is good, I promise. On to the boring review things where I don’t have much opportunity to pretend to be clever, or stroke my own ego.
Rock, Paper, Cynic is a webcomic that also releases music “now-and-then” while updating biweekly, on Mondays and Fridays. The art style ranges from charmingly simple, to photographs and digitally edited photographs, with the occasional wall of text. The humour ranges from easily accessible to jokes that I feel like I may have been the only person to laugh at, though I mean that in a good way.
With no story or narrative lasting more than a few comics in a row, there isn’t much I can talk about there. The charm and wit seeps through in most of the comics, so I happily can do without any sense of narrative in this situation. The sometimes introspective comics make me happy, but I am a brooding little moody bitch. My only major complaint for the comic would be that sometimes the font is a little hard to read, but that may just be me… I’m known to get weird about fonts though.
Overall, this has been an amazingly entertaining and insightful read for me. Comes with the Phyll stamp of approval. Show some love to the Canadian. They do it better on top.
In other news, FCW has been superbusy, seemingly doing nothing. Cory finally got a job, Darren is preparing to go back to school, and I have been working on getting various webcomic projects going again, and with school. If nothing else, I will be trying to maintain the site a little better, at the sacrifice of my own hard work(and possibly some goats). We will be updating more, if you have any comics that you would like reviewed, you can personally email them to me at bottledgraffiti@gmail.com, or find whatever the official FCW email is on contact page, but as of this moment I would probably just email me if I was you. That is it for now, hopefully I’ll have more charm to ooze at you all in a couple days…
Phyll
