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Webcomic Recc Week 1

☆.:*[ Click here to read TEN EARTH SHATTERING BLOWS! ]*:.☆

Hello, dear readers.

For this 1-month hiatus, every week I would like to tell you about one of my favourite webcomics, so that you have something delicious to tide you over while you wait for BB’s return. That, and because I need an excuse to tell everyone about these stories. Webcomics thrive on word of mouth more than anything, especially with how corporatized and algorithmfucked the modern internet is.

Now! On to Ten Earth Shattering Blows by Nuclearpasta. If you haven’t heard of this one yet, how are you reading Bicycle Boy!? Do you love scantily clad bandits? Do you appreciate a good crotch shot? Are you hungry for a bushel of batshit desert insanity, chock full of BIG MUSCLES, wacky enemies, and bombastic fight scenes? Look no further. This one’s got giant lizards.

TESB is a violent fantasy roadtrip (lizard…trip?) about a brutal warrior woman named Joy, and a displaced princess named Lady Landabella Trastan who sometimes has demons crawl out of her face. No big deal. Joy kidnaps her for her own means, but is pursued across the desert by a whole cavalry brigade of bandits on big lizards, small lizards, blue lizards, green lizards, and wooden-wheeled-thingamajigs and catapults and good god, it’s just a hot mess. Chapter three was – no joke – a massive, nonstop, bewildering, stupidly cool fight scene. It was 100 pages long. You really gotta see it for yourself.

But there are other things, strange things, lurking in the desert, too – like a teleporting magician who appears to be shaved down into a something right out of a Gunther Von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibit (from this very famous page). There was also a very tall, very bendy man? And one time Landa got covered with entire bucket of beetles that are also drugs.

Just what the hell is going on here? Who, or what, put the face-curse on Landa? How many dudes is Joy going to clobber to death? Only one way to find out.

Nuclearpasta is a very technical artist with a knack for drawing just about anything, but he is a master at drawing the human body. The characters climb up ladders and hack each other to bits and get flung off high places (lizards) at such extreme, foreshortened angles, and not a limb looks to be out of place. As someone who struggles with this, I am in awe at every pose. The comic's environments are enormous and sprawling, leaving you feeling like a dust mote in a vast universe. It is truly a feast for the eyes.

If you like Mad Max: Fury Road, DUNE, or Conan the Barbarian, you’re gonna love this one.

What’s more, Nuclearpasta is now in the midst of an explosively successful kickstarter to print Ten Earth Shattering Blows’ first book! I got my copy, you should get one too. :D

See you next week for another recc!

Relevant Links:

Ten Earth Shattering Blows Webcomic Site

Ten Earth Shattering Blows: Tome 1 Kickstarter

Nuclearpasta @ Patreon

Nuclearpasta @ Twitter

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