A Note about Checkerboard Nightmare
I've been thinking a lot recently about Kris Straub's Checkerboard Nightmare (classic). It is one of my favorite comics, and yet, I hesitate to recommend it to people.
People who I give webcomic recommendations to are generally people who don't read a lot of webcomics. As a result, I think they wouldn't be able to appreciate Chex as much as they should. I know the first time I started reading it, a few years ago, I didn't find it nearly as entertaining as I did when I tried it again more recently, and primarily because I was more familiar with webcomics at that point. Not that much of the humor doesn't stand on its own, because it does. It is just that people won't be drawn in the same way if they have to puzzle out "oh, I see, if Chex is doing that it must be something a lot of webcomic people do."
I read through the entire archives over the past few weeks, and I really think it is one of the best webcomics I've read, but I also wouldn't tell someone they should read it unless they already read at least a few other webcomics, which is a shame, because I'd like to be recommending it to more people.
On the other hand, Starslip Crisis, Straub's current project (or one of them, at any rate), doesn't have that drawback, and so, I can freely recommend it to people. At least, people who aren't opposed to science-fiction. However, Starslip will be a matter for another post.
That said, I might write more about Checkerboard Nightmare soon; I definitely have a lot of things stirring around in my head about it, but I am going to hold off until I can tell whether any of it is worth saying.
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