It’s less than two weeks before my wedding, so of course I’ve become addicted to an ever-changing fantasy action RPG with a massive online community. I’m not talking about World of Warcraft – I’m talking about the free, cross-platform, and open-source roguelike Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup title screen
I just got The Moth or the Flame by Joshua Ray and Follow Me by Jesse Moynihan in the mail yesterday.
I started reading Follow Me last nite and its dope! Then I went to Jesse Moynihan’s website and lo and behold, it turns out he makes a totally crazy full-color webcomic about our Atlantean past. It’s called Forming, here’s a quote from the summary:
Central golden boy Mithras, lands in Atlantis around 10,000 B.C. Within a hundred years he has transformed the Atlantean population into a slave force to mine Earth’s precious minerals. He has children with human labor captain Gaia because the freaky star-shaped birthmark on her face is a sign of the elements. Their offspring are gifted with awesome abilities but the children, in general, creep Mithras out.
One such child, Arges, stumbles across the head of a dead dog in the forest. The head is possessed by a channeling entity. He warns, “You can no longer trust your father.”
“That’s what my sister said.” Arges replies.In Canaan another alien, Serapis the Androgyne, arrives with a group of creatures cloned from his DNA, The Nephalim Guard. They encounter Adam & Eve and begin a period of observation and stealth known as OPERATION: HEAVENLY SWORD.
Also be sure to check out Frank Santoro’s notes on Mat Brinkman’s MULTIFORCE, here’s a great quote from the end:
The pieces of the multifaceted storyline grow together and create a life of their own. The web that’s fastened is a solid structure, a jewel that reflects each point of the story as it turns. Like some galaxy contained in an aquarium, Multiforce vibrates beyond the comic book page. Mat Brinkman may be the spiral architect of this generation of cartoonists.
