Here are a couple of comics when you need of a change of mood:
nemu nemu is a cute comic that isn't nauseating, like bad cute work can be. Oh, I suppose a real curmudgeon could find it too cute, and grumble, but a lot of people can use it when they need a cheer-up. Spouse collaborators Kyubikitsy and Kimonostereo know how to be sweet. It's not just the candy, it's the flavor. I always feel better after I read this comic. View it now, before the FDA requires a doctor's prescription.
Busybee Comics, by fluffy, are wacky, weird and wonderful, like drug store candy before they banned all those chemicals. Fluffy has an art style all her own, helping you feel like you're reading a tale from a different universe. It's a big archive, and periodically the story and style change abruptly. The "pernicious" sequence is especially good. Occasionally kinky in ways that were new to me. As a long time reader of The Stark Fist of Removal and Viz I thought I'd seen it all.
Speaking of spouse collaborators, I don't know of many in webcomics, though there are quite a few where one partner manages the business affairs. Can you add to this list of artistic spouse collaborators?
Kyubikitsy & Kimonostereo of nemu nemu
The Foglios of Girl Genius
Drew and Natalie Dee of the Toothpaste for Dinner/Married to the Sea family of comics
Mithandir and Alien of Chasing the Sunset
and of course, Pug and me do Li'l Nyet and Scratchin Post
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Hey, thanks for the review! (But, uh, I prefer gender-neutral pronouns, and I personally spell my pseudonym all-lowercase as an artsy aesthetic thing although I don't make such a big deal about it anymore.)
Also, I don't particularly like Pernicious much. Have you gotten to Unity yet? That comic I actually care about.
When I complete Unity I'll probably restart Pernicious in the way I originally intended it to be, namely lots of short little stories about two kids having zany adventures in an abandoned high-energy physics lab, making fun of comic and sci-fi clichés. Somewhere along the line I got stuck in setting-establishment and forgot about the story-telling (which is something I hope I've avoided in Unity).
Well, that's not much of a review for all those years of work. We'll call it an endorsement, and you can send me a check.
No, I'm not done yet. It will be weeks, probably. I wanted to write a post about comics that lift my mood if I am feeling less than cheerful, and it sort of got away and turned into a blob of ideas...
I understand your feelings on gender pronouns. People always think Li'l Nyet is a boy, which is understandable, but it doesn't change the fact that she's a she.
Night School is a spouse collaboration between EvilEmperorNick and Amelius from DrunkDuck. (Amelius is best known for Charby the Vampirate.)
Why is it "understandable" that Li'l Nyet is sometimes assumed to be a boy? Because she's in charge? Flat-chested? Not conventionally beautiful? (She'll always be beautiful to me.)
It's not specified for a long time in the strip. And I invented the character yet didn't know myself for a long time. I think you finally decided.
I actually always thought Nyet was female from the very beginning. I guess I'm just odd in that respect.
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