Sunday PM Arktoons

Episode 2 of CHICAGO TYPEWRITER: Poe’s Oddities

Episode 2 of SWAN KNIGHT SAGA: Bring Forth Your Tribute

We’re also pleased to note that Bounding Into Comics has launched a weekly Arktoons roundup, featuring a brief analysis of the best comics of the previous week.

Arkhaven’s most popular title is from the Brazilian powerhouse Super Prumo Comics. 

I could start with the word, “stark,” and then work my way down the synonyms in powerthesaurus but I’ll stick with, “stark.”  This book is shockingly stark.  

Life-crushing, starvation-making, soul-rending Communism should have been thrown on the ash heap of the 20th century as an abject failure.  Everyone knows that it has always resulted in poverty, brutal oppression, and deaths in the millions.

Instead, it’s on the rise again. The countries that resisted its call during the twentieth century seem determined to follow this blood-soaked road once again on the grounds that, “Communism is actually fine, it just hasn’t been done right, yet.” One wonders when it’s finally done right, will there be anyone left on Earth at all?

I’m only three issues in on this series by Luciano Cunha and I’m saying it now.  This one might finally be the new Watchmen.

UPDATE: This description of Arktoons by a daily reader would make for good advertising: “Every day I check the site, and every day I want more.”

Spread the word. Word of mouth is how Arktoons will grow over time. The media certainly isn’t going to provide any assistance in this regard.







Thursday Arktoons

ASCENDANT: Episode 2, Transfiguration

ALT★HERO: Q: Episode 2, Reassignment

A THRONE OF BONES: Episode 2, Our True Vocation

FLYING SPARKS: Episode 2, Secret Lives

CHUCK DIXON PRESENTS: ADVENTURE: The Frogmen: Episode 2, Dangerous Discoveries 

The dev team is also pleased to announce that the image processing time has been decreased by a factor of around 10x. If you were on mobile or a slow connection, you may have noticed that the images will pop up much faster now even though they are still high-resolution.

This is a result of switching the image display from PNG to a newer and more efficient file format that is supported by most, though not all, modern browsers. The Arktoons engine is now smart enough to determine whether your browser supports it or not, and if not, dials up either a PNG or a JPG that it can support. So, the problem some people were seeing on the first day, where no images appear in the episodes, should be resolved.


Episodes 2 (and in one case, 3)

 All five of the Wednesday Arktoons series have been updated for your reading pleasure.

ALT★HERO: Episode 2: Friends in High Places

DEUS VULT: Episode 2: Blood Sacrifice

GO MONSTER GO: Episode 2: The Ghost Car

MIDNIGHT’S WAR: Episode 2: The Wicked Dead

THE HAMMER OF FREEDOM: Episode 3: Watcher and Watched

You can probably expect several new series in June, as we’ve been hearing from creators in both Brazil and the USA who would like to utilize the new digital comics platform.

UPDATE: In addition to being the first series to 10,000 views on Arktoons, THE HAMMER OF FREEDOM is the first to 1,000 likes. Congratulations to Luciano and his Brazilian team at Super Prumo!