Now that Kass is finally out of the room, Ran swoops in to sample the new “research.”
Like the Val Salian Regional Field Guide, this is the first of another type of comic; Kass’ research notes, which will mostly be paired with illustrations of the aspect of life as a yinglet that is being written about.
Dear Diary
LIFE SUCKS!!!!!!!!!
It would be nice to see more of these, notes from Kass’ perspective.
Yinglets belong in an enclave with the safety of numbers. She needs to grab some yinglet male and get to it.
Kassen was a male, remember? You suggest he-now-she should just let some random yinglet push something into her body as an answer to her problems. So little compassion, what you suggest is the last thing she should do. Huddle up with/hide behind those she trusts would be a good idea until she reasserts her independence.
Hilarious diary.
And so began the story of Kassen Akoll, the most beautiful boob rat in the land.
Well, I found this this morning, hunting for good webcomics – “good” being scarce.
EXCELLENT. Thank you.
Ian – science fiction and fantasy reader since 1955 🙂
Hey Ian, were you born in 1955, or is that when you started reading sci-fi and fantasy? Do you happen to remember what you first read? I’m just curious, because I LOVE 1950’s speculative fiction—Easily, some of the very best.
I was born (and born grumpy!) in 1977, myself, and started with books like Harry Harrison’s The Stainless-Steel Rat, a few years later.
I’m so glad to see someone of your generation (no offense meant! please!), reading such an outstanding web-comic as this one.
It’s my belief, that they’re a wonderful new art-form, quite separate and apart from the comics, in hard-copy form (I mean, when was the last time YOU commented on a Superman comic, as it was being written, or critiqued the author of the latest Wolverine, on a typo? Or asked Alan Moore a question, that was answered?—no offense to Alan Moore!)
Audience participation—and, dare I say, integration? IS a big reason why I read O.O.P. and other web-comics, because the comments, and things like fan art, add so much life, and humor, and so many different *perspectives!*, to an already amazing and wonderful story.
I mean, just the fact that I’ve read this through more than once, in a single year’s time; that says a LOT about how interesting and delightful I find it, because it’s just not a common practice for me.
As someone who WAS born in 1955, I’d like to answer a couple of your questions to Ian. The first sci-fi book I can remember reading was one of the Doc Savage books back when I was about 10 years old. If Doc Savage isn’t considered sci-fi (and it might not actually), the first one I remember reading was “A Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I’ve been enamored with sci-fi for as long as I can remember. I’ve even started (finally) writing stories, too. If you’re interested, I can give you a link to one of my stories and you can see if you think I’m a decent writer.
These vignettes are what drew me in. They are a great way of exposing us to worldlore and character’s thoughts. I’m re-reading for the third time.
I love the description of his(her) tongue and how it could be used as a weapon. ROFLMAO.