The great thing about finals week is it's the perfect time to catch up on the archives of all the different webcomics I've been meaning to read.

It's striking me as rather interesting, actually, how comics transfer from the newspaper to the net. The fact that you *can* read the archives, for one, the sense that there are small segments of a larger work, and the larger work is important enough to merit saving to old pieces. It also makes it a lot easier, I think, for authors to create more complex storylines, because they can assume the audience has read the entire story, or can if they get lost (sometimes there are links off to the side, directing the reader to relevent back story). There are certainly a lot that are still rather disconnected isolated strips by the same person in the same style, but I find longer, more...epic? comics are far more prevelant on the web (and far more interesting & easier to get in to than mary worth & prince valiant).

Married to the Sea is a daily webcomic that takes 19th century prints and sometimes merges multiple ones, and always adds modern-esque captions to them. Of late a lot of them have been referencing blogs. This has been my favorite. Today's is what brought it to mind. What's interesting to me, a lot of the blog comments/commentary hark back to the early days of blogging as I perceive it.

The whole web comic thing is kinda interesting to me, the sort of audience it seems to get.