Body [quote="M_Northstar"]You know, last week, as I was walking somewhere, for some reason I came to think of one of my all-time favourite comics. I spent some twenty minutes in pleasant contemplation of the brilliance that was Dan Miller's Kid Radd. In due time, it occurred to me that although Kid Radd was not exactly [i]old[/i], having run between 2002 and 2004, it might still, in the hectic busyness of the Internet, be too old for some folks to have heard of it. So heartrending was this thought, that I decided on the spot that, old or not, concluded or not, this week's recommendation should be Kid Radd. If you haven't read this comic, now's your chance. If you already have, post a reply with your best quotes and opinions, by way of the edification of your juniors. [size=16][b][u][comic]12[/comic][/u][/b][/size] [url=http://www.kidradd.com/][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/M_Northstar/krbanner2.gif[/IMG][/url] Meet Radd, hero of the classic 80's game Kid Radd. Entirely controlled by his player, Radd runs, jumps, shoots, and frequently dies, in order to defeat his evil older brother Gnarl, and rescue his babe-ular girlfriend, Sheena. But that's only the beginning: one day, Radd's game is ripped to ROM and put up on the net, where it is promptly hacked by the Moderators, a society of do-gooder free sprites bent on liberating characters from their games. Wether they like it or not. Radd, unaccustomed to having to set and achieve his own agendas for the first time in his life, finds his newfound "freedom", with its necessary but not so obvious limitations (not to mention the obvious but not-so-necessary ones) more of a burden than a relief. But, even as he finds himself rebelling in all the wrong ways against the expectations of a high paced, modern, society, changes are in the wind that may well *require* the services of a rebel, wrong headed or not, and Radd may just be the most well placed dork to take up an old role with new perspectives: that of a Hero Sprite trying to save the world. Follow Radd's funny, epic, journey as he and his friends, aboard the rogue Moderator cruiser "The Highscore", seek to twart an evil bent on destroying cyberspace, and perhaps even all the world. [b]About:[/b] In art, minimalism is a way of life. Taking away one aspect of a medium and trying to see how much of its functions can be dispensed with, or be taken over by other aspects, grants the artist invaluable insight and mastery of his medium. Wether just a "silent" comic dispensing with speech balloons, or a Cubist painting dispensing with perspectives, artists are always experimenting with extremes. Yet, only the brilliant Dan Miller has ever excercised minimalism with a resource uniquely belonging to web-comics: bandwidth. Arguing that the ever increasing bandwidth requirements evident in the bloated, modern, websites, catering almost exclusively to broadband users, was excluding a significant number of users, in 2002 Dan Miller set out to explore alternative ways of creating comics, and thus was Kid Radd born. Through the options offered by HTML and the GIF file format, Dan places pixelart elements either against other pixelart, or simple HTML-generated gradients, for a surprisingly sofisticated look. Creative use of occasional Midi-files and animated GIFs then trade a modicum of the freed bandwidth for action sequences that would make John Woo turn green of envy. Wether you approach Kid Radd to be entertained by hilarious jokes, looking for a well-told story, or with an eye to web-site design, you are unlikely to leave unsatisfied. Or at all ;-) [b]Name:[/b] Kid Radd [b]Autor/Artist:[/b] Dan Miller [b]Updates:[/b] Concluded [b]Style:[/b] Pixel art [b]Format:[/b] Colour, one panel at a time [b]Content:[/b] Continuous story + fourth wall breaking side gags [b]Genre:[/b] Humour/philosophy [/quote]