Webcomics: Reviews of Conceptual Heist, Ménage à 3, and Smash: Monstrous - a podcast by Stergios Botzakis & Derek Royal

Time Codes:

• 00:00:29 - Introduction
• 00:03:22 - Catching up and con season
• 00:05:37 - Update on Poe and the Mysteriads
• 00:09:10 - Conceptual Heist
• 00:37:07 - Ménage à 3
• 01:06:29 - Smash: Monstrous
• 01:24:09 - Wrap up
• 01:26:13 - Contact us

This month Sean and Derek offer a genre buffet of webcomics goodness. They begin with Jay D’Ici and Matt G. Gagnon's Conceptual Heist, a heist narrative with a unique science fiction twist. As the guys reveal, the story is solid, and the black-and-white art, accentuated with a monochromatic blue, suggests a noir tone. After that they discuss a highly popular webcomic that has been around since 2008, Gisele Lagace and David Lumsdon's Ménage à 3. Derek and Sean describe this as a cross among Strangers in Paradise, Archie, and the TV series Three's Company...but more suggestive and explicit than the latter. While the guys can see the appeal of this thrice-weekly strip, they nonetheless feel that reading its various narrative arcs over a more concentrated time period -- as opposed to experiencing this story as its pages are released -- doesn't necessarily work in the webcomic's favor. Finally, the guys wrap up with fun completed webcomic from Chris A. Bolton and Kyle Bolton, Monstrous. This is a mini-story within their Smash world, one that the Bolton brothers completed between their earlier work, Smash: Trial by Fire, and the next Smash book that will be published through Candlewick Press.

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