HITMEN FOR DESTINY

At first Øyvind Thorsby's art for his webcomic Hitmen For Destiny 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.

The comic follows the adventures of Annette, an average young 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.

I'm not asking you to give Thorsby's strip a chance, I'm insisting. Just read two or three pages (you just click on a page to go to the next one in the sequence) and I can pretty much guarantee you'll be hooked forever.