Better late then never. The Moderator contacted me some time ago to try out this nifty “Comic Fencing” format, but for whatever reason, I wasn’t ready to contribute until now. But beware, webcomic creators! El Santo is coming with his Shaolin shadowboxing and his Wu-Tang sword style to engage in a little comic fencing brouhaha.

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I’ll say right off the bat that I really enjoyed this. There. I took all the drama out of the review; you don’t have to wade through five or more paragraphs of my usual verbosity to get to the point.

The premise of the series is that Jessi and Matt are geeks who live together and are engaged. Complicating their daily existence is housemate Barry (who apparently is rich, still in college, and embodies the worst aspects of many fandoms), and Jessi’s buxom sister Maggie (Barry’s, and many fanboys’, object of lust).

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Hey everybody, this weeks review takes us back into the gag comic with storyline format, which is more my forte, so I’ll try and be gentle this time around, but I make no promises…

Ah, geeks. Nothing like em, is there? If they aren’t talking about whatever new X-men title is out then they’re chatting each other up about Harry Potter or whether Han or Greedo shot first. And please don’t get me started on Anime (grrr…) But hey, I didn’t fall far from the geek tree myself(I own all of the Paradox Press “Big Books”!) Man, all this geek talk is giving me a mental wedgy and a hankerin’ for some Pocky. The review? Yeah, moving on…

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Geeks Next Door is an exaggerated semi-autobiographic comic featuring four main characters. They are each very individual, with geekish likes and dislikes. Two are engaged, one is family and the other is a close friend whose parents prepaid five years of rent. That gives a decent mix of interactions for themes and storylines to work from. The gags are the sorts of things that happen in daily life if you’re a geek.

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This week’s review deals with Geeks Next Door, a webcomic done in the finest tradition of “overused cliché” meets “very low grade anime.” Even a cutting edge (heh) show like Teen Titans would be ashamed of this comic.

That’s pretty straightforward, isn’t it?

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