Is anything going to actually HAPPEN in this strip….or will it be more cloud-filter Photoshop panels that are indistiguishable from all the ones before them?

If the editors really believed in webcomics, they’d feature a much wider variety of them to show those unfamiliar with them the possibilities, and to highlight the talent out there the “Big Two” tend to crowd off the comic book sites. In principle, I absolutely support webcomics and the independent spirit fueling them, but the way to spotlight the art form isn’t to feature two rather unremarkable examples of it. Perhaps five to ten installments would be the limit for creators to enjoy the huge spotlight Blog@ allows them…so other creators could show what they’ve got following that stint.

The mind-numbing repetition of both “Super Duper” and “Global Freezing” have more than worn out their welcome. How about seeing what other up-and-coming creators have to say?

Mark,

I appreciate the editors on this site for having read a year’s worth of Global Freezing on my site, http://www.ComicsByEgg.com, before offering up this spotlight. I cannot tell you how happy this opportunity makes me! Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I wake up and want to put this out into the great ether.

To answer your question “Is anything going to actually HAPPEN in this strip….?” Yeah. Not to be snide, but yeah. Will it be Blackest Night or Secret Invasion with worlds colliding and epic action on a scale few can imagine? Not even. This comic is, I hope, a cerebral slow burn. [Global FREEZING. Slow BURN. Ha ha… That’s right folks, I’ll be here all week!] The plan is to completely establish the characters and let the story grow from there. I knew going in this is not going to be for everyone and I’m sorry it is not your cup of tea.

Still, if you want to see more happen may I suggest trying the ShadowGirls webcomic that’s running at the moment on http://www.ShadowGirlsComic.com [story by me, art by the amazing James Suhr. It’s a short story that has a beginning, middle and end] or Omega Chase at http://www.Th3rdWorld.com/web-comic/Omega-Chase [I edit it. Keith Dallas provides the words and Julio Molina-Muscara does the pretty pictures. It’s an eight-issue epic at its midpoint.] They’re more traditionally paced comics that should meet your criteria.

Regardless, thanks for reading Global Freezing and Super Duper. And thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it. Honestly.

Fred,

Thanks for reading as well. I genuinely thank you.

Egg Embry
http://www.ComicsByEgg.com

Hi Mark (and Kevin),
I personally find it funny that someone who says he supports the indie spirit and webcomics would choose to bash these two comics so publically on the site. If you feel so strongly about trying to get a wider range of comics on Newsarama why not take up your idea with the editors of the site instead of publicly trashing both of our comics? What does that accomplish? Aside from you sounding kind of like a jerk?

Sure you’re entitled to your opinion and all, but something I think people like being mean and hurtful just for the sake of being mean and hurtful. Kinda sad if you ask me.

Also, I don’t think either comic (and I’m totally biased here) are ‘mind-numbing repetitive’. It’s called telling a story. Sometimes stories take time to build, or even cover similar ideas and continue them for various pages. Is Spider-Man ‘mind-numbing repetitive’ because he struggles with money, women, and trying to help his Aunt May? Is Batman ‘mind numbing repetitive’ because he battles his rouges gallery over and over and over again? Uh, no. They’re called stories. Sometimes they bring in something new, something they return to the old, and sometimes stories have a slow build.

So from me, the 12 year old ‘artist’ (I prefer sorta-cartoonist), I say stop hating and try to bring some positivity to the comic world. If you’re so intent on ‘making it’ (based on the samples of your artwork on the site you so conveniently left a link for) you will get much farther by being nice and kind than you will by making yourself look like a huge jerk.

Best!
Brian Andersen (of the dreaded “So Super Duper”)

I personally find mainstream comics “mind numbing”. I read comics like So Super Duper because it’s passionate and personal. There is NO passion in Marvel and Dc titles. For me. I am 37 years old and own over 10,000 comics in my collection. I cannot even begin to tell you how many times, in my life time, major heroes have died and “resurrected” AGAIN! I am tired of drab colorless pages that like bad episodes of TV drama lit only by desk lamps.

With comics like Brian Andersen’s I get colorful pages and art that may not look like Alex Ross rejects, but there is a love and passion to it.

I am also an old school 2D animator. I have the same mentality that the pioneer cartoonists of Ub Iwerks and Fleischer Studios had toward Disney Studios. At what point does the art become so picture perfect that it is no longer “art” and looses its expression.

Brian Andersen may not be producing huge Zombie War comics with dead heroes coming back to life AGAIN (because that’s new and different, right?) But he offers a new, fun, and PERSONAL alternative.

Brian Andersen and comics LIKE his (NO, I am not referring to the gay subject matter) inspire cartoonists of varying “talent levels” to produce their own comics that are a true self expression. Because of people LIKE Brian Andersen, comics can and will continue to expand as an art form. And thank Jebus for that.