Hitmen for Destiny - your new favorite webcomic
Sunday, April 5, 2009
If you've finished your taxes and you're spending a lazy Sunday wondering what to do with yourself, we have the answer: you are going to be up late tonight reading Hitmen For Destiny, easily one of the greatest online comics ever.
At first Øyvind Thorsby's art seems crude and kind of ugly, somewhere between Rocky and Bullwinkle and a five-year-old kid's doodles. But once you start reading you quickly get sucked into the story, and the drawing takes on a charm all its own. We follow the adventures of Annette, an average young American woman who comes into possession of a mystical sword that grants her awesome powers. She soon finds herself journeying between dimensions, fighting monsters and picking up strange new friends as she goes. The strip is endlessly imaginative, hilarious, thrilling, violent, sweet and gross, all at the same time. It's hard to think of anything to compare it to... Picture a collaboration between Joss Whedon and Henry Darger, with Dr. Seuss dropping by now and then to toss in a monster or two.
We're not asking you to give Thorsby's strip a chance, we're insisting. Just read two or three pages (you just click on a page to go to the next one in the sequence) and we can pretty much guarantee you'll be hooked forever.
At first Øyvind Thorsby's art seems crude and kind of ugly, somewhere between Rocky and Bullwinkle and a five-year-old kid's doodles. But once you start reading you quickly get sucked into the story, and the drawing takes on a charm all its own. We follow the adventures of Annette, an average young American woman who comes into possession of a mystical sword that grants her awesome powers. She soon finds herself journeying between dimensions, fighting monsters and picking up strange new friends as she goes. The strip is endlessly imaginative, hilarious, thrilling, violent, sweet and gross, all at the same time. It's hard to think of anything to compare it to... Picture a collaboration between Joss Whedon and Henry Darger, with Dr. Seuss dropping by now and then to toss in a monster or two.
We're not asking you to give Thorsby's strip a chance, we're insisting. Just read two or three pages (you just click on a page to go to the next one in the sequence) and we can pretty much guarantee you'll be hooked forever.
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