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Wednesday PM Arktoons

MIDNIGHT’S WAR Episode 7: Vampire War

THE HAMMER OF FREEDOM Episode 8: Leave Him to Us
The panel below is a good example of the massive level of detail available on Arktoons standard resolution, which provides 81 percent more graphic detail than Webtoons or Tapas. Although it’s interesting to note that Webtoons has recently introduced a new 1080-wide cover element, which tends to indicate that they are paying attention to the way in which Arkhaven is changing the digital comics game.
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Wednesday AM Arktoons

DEUS VULT Episode 7: Schemes of the Devil

ALT★HERO Episode 7: One Falls, Another Rises
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve got several new series underway, including one set in Selenoth that is being created in a new style that we’re calling an “illustrated episode”, which I suspect may turn out to be an extremely popular series format. But the new series that everyone is most anticipating is almost certainly DAY OF THE PILLOW, which will be a four-panel comic illustrated by Lacey Fairchild and set in the world of HYPERGAMOUSE.
A review from SG:

I like the latest episode of #AltHero. Was thinking its another cartoon comic where punches fly, and that’s that. But here, punches actually have weight & consequences.

One of the foundations that distinguished ALT★HERO from the start is non-continuity. We’re not interested in writing stories where Batman catches the Joker again, only to let him go and commit more murder and mayhem in order to convince himself that he is the superior individual.

Monday PM Arktoons

COSMIC WARRIOR Episode 6: You Are the Cosmic Warrior

CHUCK DIXON PRESENTS: WAR Episode 6: The Rivers Run Red

And Bounding Into Comics rounds up last week’s Arktoons:
Drama has a history of getting the short shift in comic books. Understandable of course, the bread and butter of comics publishers in the U.S. have always been superheroes. And neither superheroes nor supervillains freely lend themselves to prolonged deep self-examination leading to an existential crisis that finally resolves itself in a cathartic release.
However, it was superheroes that the drama was revolving around, and the drama was usually political. The first rule of drama is that politics makes for bad drama. A political drama’s first function, and indeed primary obligation, is to sermonize.  And sermons are not engaging stories, they are lectures.
Things were always different in Europe. Not better, just different. American comics were banned in Italy in 1939 by Mussolini and in France by the Communists in 1949. This protectionism allowed native comics to expand and fill the void left in the marketplace.
European comics writers either embraced the political restrictions or learned to get around them in order to tell their stories. Catholic comic books did much better in Europe than they did in America. The upshot of all this is that drama titles had a more fertile field to grow in across the Atlantic.