Read: Not So Distant

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Kate today recommended to me a brand new webcomic by the name of Not So Distant. She had seen it on Aaron Diaz’s Dresden Codak, a not-often updated but sublime comic itself.

Here’s the first panel:

It’s a story about a young alien archaeologist studying the remains of a dead Earth. Or is he? I’m about halfway in right now, so there’s still some mysteries that I need to unravel. But it’s riveting and whimsical at the same time, so I’m hooked.

Luckily, we are only about 75 panels in, so it’s still possible to get caught up! I absolutely hate feeling like I’ll never be able to read the new installments because of an insurmountable backlog, so that certainly made getting into Not So Distant a lot more palatable to me.

Comments (3)

  1. dave

    So you’ve got me hooked. I have to admire anybody that can sustain the effort through 75 pages, good or bad; and this is really clever.

  2. nickjs1984

    She doesn’t show any signs of stopping any time soon, either. Which is great because I’m completely addicted – not least to the “ship” that takes a page out of Doctor Who/House of Leaves. 😛

  3. Nick

    Dammit. And then I read through to the end, waited a few days and realized that the blog might have some clues. It did: comic over. 🙁