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Gossamer Commons

Later today, I'll be posting PLotW¹ but before that happens here's a different link that you should really check out. Gossamer Commons is a relatively recent webcomic, started back in March 2005 by Eric Burns and Greg Holkan. Eric writes, Greg draws. The premise is something like so; the main character, Keith, has saved the life of a fairy child. Since he did this while knowing that seeing the fairy would mark him for death²; the Fairies owe him 1 boon of Keith's choosing. As Keith has longed to be a published author; he requests, as his boon, that the Fairies give him a muse so he can great the great American novel. A novel that will inspire generations to come and will be read by annoyed college freshmen four hundred years from now. Mr. Holkan uses a variety of methods in his artwork on the strip and so far it's working really well, but the thing that keeps me coming back and reading the new strip is the writing (done by Mr. Burns.). Since I'm not much of a writer myself; I charge you with looking at today's strip for an example how good this strip can be.

Keep up the good work fellas, we'll be watching you!

¹ Pukka's Links of the Week
² Apparently in the GC world just seeing one of the Fairies will automagically mark you for death.

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