Bitstrips: Boundless Creativity
The latest big thing among my circle of Interfriends is Bitstrips, a site that lets you create your own comic strips. The concept is simple: create an account, build your avatar and start making comic strips starring your avatar, (or better, your friends' avatars) and a library of characters props, scenes and furniture.
The drag-and-drop interface is pretty simple; it took me all of 10 minutes to write and lay out my first strip (after about an hour and a half of agonizing over my avatar, which still needs a proper goatee). Don't expect me to be churning out Penny Arcade or PvP Online anytime soon, but the basics are there and I've already seen some fairly clever (if a bit niche) comics in the past 24 hours or so.
And so, without further ado, I present (assuming the embed code works properly) my very first comic strip, starring none other than me.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
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2010-06-11 23:40
An outrageous, silly, hyperactive chain of explosions and aerobatics that hits all the right nostalgia buttons while managing to bring the classic eighties television series into the twenty-first century. Sure, the plot is silly and the action generally falls somewhere between ridiculous and preposterous (occasionally veering well beyond ludicrous), but it's fun and entertaining and doesn't ask (or want, for that matter) you to think too much. In other words, it's THE A-TEAM.
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