I was pleasantly surprised to find Tales of a Checkered Man had made its way onto The Pull List (for 7/6/2011) on Ain't it Cool News! Read an excerpt of the review below, or just click on the graphic to the right and hop on over to the main post itself!
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TALES OF A CHECKERED MAN Webcomic
Writer: Denver Brubaker
Artist: Denver Brubaker
Reviewer: Lyzard
With newspapers seemingly on their way out, like so many things, it is up to the Internet to keep up tradition. Without the funnies in the Sunday newspaper, comic strip readers can now turn to their favorite web comic for respite. TALES OF A CHECKERED MAN is a fun ode to the strip form of comic telling.
Started April 5, 2010, with an update every Tuesday and Thursday, TALES OF A CHECKERED MAN follows a hero sans superpower. Think Batman…just not as awesome. Our hero has acrophobia and is more likely having a mid-life crisis than a deep need to serve justice. But he’s all Exotic City’s got.
TALES OF A CHECKERED MAN must be read from the beginning. The strip is a continuous storyline, unlike other web comic strips like PENNY ARCADE or PHD that allow readers to jump in and out for the most part. TALES OF A CHECKERED MAN is broken up into sections (such as “Dark Prelude” and “Weird Tales”). By going to the Archive section of the website, readers can find where one section begins and another ends. However, despite the breakup, events in a previous section affect the plot and characters in latter sections. But with most of the strips being three to four panels long, it won’t take you long to catch up on the adventures of our checkered caped vigilante.
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