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A Girl and Her Fed
Patrick Harris
Issue date: 2/5/10 Section: Comics
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This week I want to talk to you about "A Girl and Her Fed" which is a very interesting comic by a reclusive creature known only as Otter. Well, I'm sure she actually has a name, but I don't know what it is and a quick Google search isn't turning it up, and frankly that's just not the point.
AGAHF is a comic about civil rights. Actually, it's a comic about ghosts, technology, the nature of humanity, and a fair amount of sex. But it's really about civil rights. The main characters are a young woman who sees ghosts, a federal agent, a talking koala bear, and the ghost of Ben Franklin. They're foiling a government plot to do horrible things to people that involves a crossover of advanced technology and the energies of the afterlife, but I'm not really inclined to tell you much beyond that because discovering it as you go is half the fun.
Now, this one is story-based. To be specific it's one long story - you probably won't have any success jumping in right now; you really need to start at the beginning. The trouble is there's two beginnings - the original comics, and the redone strips that are slowly replacing them. Otter says she wants to clean up some plot points that she has since refined, and replace the art so it matches the later strips, because she finds these steps necessary before publication is possible. Personally, I liked the original stuff, but it's her comic. And she works as an editor, so she presumably knows what she's talking about. At any rate you can start with whichever you like; links to everything can be found on the front page of the site.
One word of warning: the first chapter will be ending soon (March, probably). For a few months updates will consist of revised strips as discussed above, and a few mini-stories connecting the chapters. Then chapter two will start up, hopefully sometime this summer. If you can't deal with that, I guess you can wait. But I really don't think you want to miss out on this strip, so check it out at http://www.agirlandherfed.com
This week I want to talk to you about "A Girl and Her Fed" which is a very interesting comic by a reclusive creature known only as Otter. Well, I'm sure she actually has a name, but I don't know what it is and a quick Google search isn't turning it up, and frankly that's just not the point.
AGAHF is a comic about civil rights. Actually, it's a comic about ghosts, technology, the nature of humanity, and a fair amount of sex. But it's really about civil rights. The main characters are a young woman who sees ghosts, a federal agent, a talking koala bear, and the ghost of Ben Franklin. They're foiling a government plot to do horrible things to people that involves a crossover of advanced technology and the energies of the afterlife, but I'm not really inclined to tell you much beyond that because discovering it as you go is half the fun.
Now, this one is story-based. To be specific it's one long story - you probably won't have any success jumping in right now; you really need to start at the beginning. The trouble is there's two beginnings - the original comics, and the redone strips that are slowly replacing them. Otter says she wants to clean up some plot points that she has since refined, and replace the art so it matches the later strips, because she finds these steps necessary before publication is possible. Personally, I liked the original stuff, but it's her comic. And she works as an editor, so she presumably knows what she's talking about. At any rate you can start with whichever you like; links to everything can be found on the front page of the site.
One word of warning: the first chapter will be ending soon (March, probably). For a few months updates will consist of revised strips as discussed above, and a few mini-stories connecting the chapters. Then chapter two will start up, hopefully sometime this summer. If you can't deal with that, I guess you can wait. But I really don't think you want to miss out on this strip, so check it out at http://www.agirlandherfed.com
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