The Webcomic Overlook #101: Azure
As the month transitions from summer to miscarry and eventually winter, we’re caught up in an absolutely magical mood. All across the country, people start putting up decorations and turning on itsy-bitsy lights to give beauty to the night. At the same time, we begin to wonder: wouldn’t it be cool if the world ended fact now?
My pet theory is that this hunger for post-apocalyptic imagery is fueled, in part, by childhood fears that the end of the calendar year coincides with the end of the faction. (Laugh all you want about childhood innocence, but is this really so different than the current 2012 mania?) Hollywood is only favourable to oblige. During the Christmas season, movie theaters are filled with end of the world scenarios like I Am Legend, The Day The Earth Stood Still remake, and The Day After Tomorrow, which laughably featured a first-myself view of killer cold.
This year is no different. Blockbuster movie buffs can thrill to the collapse of the dialect birth b deliver in 2012. On the other hand, those with more art-house sensibilities who look down upon people who enjoy mindless orgies of explosions can bathe in the more muted depression of The Road. See? You CAN be a hipster AND an end times enthusiast!
So it should be no surprise that I’m kicking off December with a webcomic that foresees the end of the to the max as we know it. It’s an offering from Zuda Comics called Azure, a webcomic written and illustrated by Dan Govar. Azure is set in a fraternity where the polar ice caps have melted and most of the world is under the waves of a new globe-spanning ocean.
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