They feel plenty epic to me
Aug. 7th, 2012 07:49 pmI was chatting with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
marycrawford recently, and discovered we are both mad about and emotionally invested in a webcomic (also being released in print form) called The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal. And of course this is one of those things where I've been all "ohhhh man I should post about that sometime". So hey...sometime is now!
The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal is by E.K. Weaver, who is also Big Big Truck Productions (who you might remember from the awesome Anime Music Video Failed Experiments in Video Editing). (RENDER!)
The art for the storyline itself is almost all black and white with rare color splash pages, but the website also has a bunch of wonderful color pieces which I hiiiighly recommend you check out (in the Extras and Store sections, for instance).
This is Amal:
He's a gay Indian-American med student who's just come out to his family and been disowned. That night he meets TJ (who looks much more sedate here than is ever usual for him...):
And they make a deal to drive across the country together from Berkeley to Providence, Rhode Island--Amal to attend his little sister's college graduation, and TJ apparently on the track of a job.
It's a fantastic road-trip story, with layered characterization, rich settings, eroticism, mystery (especially regarding TJ), comedy, bonding (and arguing) over pop culture, and terrific art! It's up to Chapter 31 so far on the website, and Volume One has come out in print, covering up through Chapter 12.
I could talk about it for ages, but I'll just leave it there for now and encourage you to give it a look, if it seems relevant to your interests. If you want to know a bit more about it, here's a glowing review with some sample panels, and here's an interview with E.K. Weaver.
Um, in summary: ♥ _________ ♥
marycrawford recently, and discovered we are both mad about and emotionally invested in a webcomic (also being released in print form) called The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal. And of course this is one of those things where I've been all "ohhhh man I should post about that sometime". So hey...sometime is now!The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal is by E.K. Weaver, who is also Big Big Truck Productions (who you might remember from the awesome Anime Music Video Failed Experiments in Video Editing). (RENDER!)
The art for the storyline itself is almost all black and white with rare color splash pages, but the website also has a bunch of wonderful color pieces which I hiiiighly recommend you check out (in the Extras and Store sections, for instance).
This is Amal:
He's a gay Indian-American med student who's just come out to his family and been disowned. That night he meets TJ (who looks much more sedate here than is ever usual for him...):
And they make a deal to drive across the country together from Berkeley to Providence, Rhode Island--Amal to attend his little sister's college graduation, and TJ apparently on the track of a job.
It's a fantastic road-trip story, with layered characterization, rich settings, eroticism, mystery (especially regarding TJ), comedy, bonding (and arguing) over pop culture, and terrific art! It's up to Chapter 31 so far on the website, and Volume One has come out in print, covering up through Chapter 12.
I could talk about it for ages, but I'll just leave it there for now and encourage you to give it a look, if it seems relevant to your interests. If you want to know a bit more about it, here's a glowing review with some sample panels, and here's an interview with E.K. Weaver.
Um, in summary: ♥ _________ ♥
