Among our both talented and reviled reviewers, we find (in no particular order…)

Crackwalker aka Dylan Edwards has been an illustrator, theatre tech, diswasher, librarian, musician, animator, computer literacy instructor, graphic designer, and most recently a writer for childrens’ television. He is married with three kids and living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Comix CV: Dylan has a webcomic called ‘Crackwalker‘ on Drunk Duck, and wrote another called ‘Hero High‘ on Zeros2Heroes. He writes a monthly webcomics column on his blog called ‘Crackwalking’. He is exactly one-half of the indy comics sensation known as 50/50 Comics.
http://www.drunkduck.com/crackwalker
http://www.hero-high.com
http://crackwalking.blogspot.com
http://www.geocities.com/fifty_fifty_comics

The following creators light Crackwalker’s world on fire: Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Basil Wolverton, Alan Moore, Jeff Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Chris Bachalo, Skottie Young, Seth Fisher, Leinil Yu, Moebius, Mark and Vaughn Bode, Stuart Immonen, Mike Mignola, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Eduardo Risso, Brian K Vaughn, Grant Morisson, Frank Quitely, Art Spiegelman, Amanda Conner, Clayton Crain, Warren Ellis and Ed Brubaker… for starters anyways.

Crackwalker’s Modus Operandi: “Webcomics get me jazzed like no other medium. I see them as ‘Comics 2.0′ and if you can’t get behind that then you are just gonna miss the train to Awesometown, my friends.”

Rudy Guara (bio yet to be added.)

Ruby Caston (bio yet to be added.)

Naomi Craig, usually known as the Sly Eagle, hails from the nation’s capital but much prefers her more recent small-town existence in Vermont. She has a B.A. in Literature and had a fair amount of formal training in writing, but is mostly self-taught as an artist. The Prime of Ambition, a fantasy/drama graphic novel with a peculiar title, is her second comic (the first can only be found in the hard-copy archives of

Marlboro College, or buried firmly in the bottom of Sly’s desk drawer) and first online comic. While new to the webcomic critiquing scene as far as output is concerned, she’s followed the scene since 2001. While opinionated, she likes to be fair.

Probable biases: Is a firm believer that good writing will not save a comic with bad art. You’re working a visual medium, people. If you can’t get it to work for you, use another venue. Similarly, good art will not save a comic with bad writing. Also, has little humor and finds gag-a-day formats tedious, especially when there’s no consistent story. Heart belongs to the long form or graphic novel. Hates vampires and zombies.

Talekyn, aka Anthony Cardno, has been described by the people upon whose web-comics he regularly comments as “opinionated but polite.” He prefers to think of this as a compliment and not a statement on the size of his ego. Anthony has almost no artistic skills, but enjoys writing. He was born in Queens NY, grew up in the Hudson Valley region, went to college in western NY and now lives in northwestern NJ and holds down a day job that requires him to travel the country around 100 days per year, which gives him plenty of time to sit in hotel rooms and review web-comics. More of his ramblings can be found at http://talekyn.livejournal.com.

Potential Biases:

Jim Purcell

We’d also like to that Jim Purcell, of http://beenbettercomic.com/ for the new banner!

— Occasional and Retired Reviewers—

“The Doctor,” who prefers to keep his real identity private, shows up from time to time to review comics for us. With opinions ranging from the insightful to the slightly eccentr

ic, his qualifications for doing so are being an avid (if not old fashioned) comic fan, and the fact that he’s willing to give his opinion, asked or no! His opinions are honest, and done from a point of view that doesn’t coddle the artist or cut them slack “because it’s hard to make a webcomic.” Bad comics are called bad, good are called good. If you can’t handle that, or have a fragile ego, then don’t read his reviews.

-Admitted Bias(es): Not being an artist himself, reviews are given from the standpoint of someone who was asked to read the work and give his take on it, rather than from a viewpoint of someone possessing an eye for artistic development or the like. Not a fan of anime or the anime-like trends in comics, as a general rule, nor of the trend to include vulgarity just for the sake of vulgarity in virtually everything. Also biased toward the old idea that “If you ask my opinion, don’t get mad if you end up not liking it.”

MPD57 hails from the shores of the Old World. He has a love for the Golden Age of American comic books and their place in popular culture. He would like comics to return to their rightful place at the centre of pop culture, but realises that might be some way off!

His extraordinary ego cannot be contained by one blog so you’ll also find him at The Webcomic Witchfinder (edit: link is defunct) where he blogs on his favourite subject - DC’s monthly Zuda competition. He’s happy to argue a point (any point) with anyone he meets which means his worst trait is playing Devil’s Advocate too often. He is relatively new to webcomics having watched print comics die on their feet for too long and sees the burgeoning webcomic scene as a fresh start for an old medium. With that in mind he likes comic strips that push both buttons and boundaries, that not only stretch the envelope, but lick the stamp and pop it in the post as well. He also has a strange way with metaphors.

Larry Cruz (aka El Santo) Despite taking some classes in in cartooning and figure painting, El Santo has never published a webcomic. He did, for a short time, have a strip printed in the college newspaper, but it was never online. Santo is more of a critic. He used to review video games and anime for the now defunct “Guthwulf” site. Now, he has set his rueful sights on webcomics. Santo has been a casual reader of webcomics since “Argon Zark!” lit up the scene like hair made out of lightning bolts. His critiques can be found at both his personal blog (The Webcomic Overlook) and the ComixTalk site. El Santo hails from Seattle, Washington, and, despite implications from his online handle, is not actually a Mexican wrestler.

Reviewer Biases: El Santo’s reviews tend to be skewed toward older readers, thus he may be hurt and confused by obscure references in video game comics. He also happens to like pretty things, thus may be swayed by stunning artwork … maybe.

Jack Carter, who also reviews webcomics on http://webcomicasylum.blogspot.com/ and updates http://offkiltercomics.comicdish.com/, http://www.twoheadstalking.blogspot.com/ and http://gothymcgee.comicgenesis.com/. Jack is a busy guy and he’ll tell you straight up what he liked and what he didn’t like.

Biases: Jack’s favorite webcomic genre would have to be the gag a day format, but that doesn’t mean he won’t give all webcomics a fair shake.

Finally, Delos Woodruff reviews comics and creates the Frog Pond webcomic, among other things.

-Known Biases: Delos likes funny, serious, long, short and all kinds of other comics, with the exception of horror. For Delos, it is not about whether he ‘likes’ the comic or not. He claims that his values and your values about what is good will differ. Instead, he’d rather tell you about the comic and let you make up your own mind based on that information. He is smugly self assured that you will be able to successfully make your own decision.