Scary Go Round is one of my top three favorite webcomics. Before it existed, its predecessor, Bobbins, was one of my top three favorite webcomics. Therefore, I think you’ll understand that when the creator of Scary Go Round posts that his readers should link to him on their blogs, to help save him from needing to get a day job, I say “bloooooog…help master…blooooog” in good little zombie fashion.
Bobbins was a British situational comic, with slightly zany… okay, very zany, young professionals having slightly surreal but always amusing lives.
Scary Go Round, by contrast, features many of the same characters, but mostly some secondary characters from the first strip, getting into trouble with supernatural forces in a zany, British manner. The dialogue is witty, the characters are endearing (even the zombies!) and the plot amusing. The art, which is always full color, is my favorite webcomic art hands-down. And I have read an awful lot of webcomics.
Scary Go Round:
Art: 5 stars
Writing/Plot/Characters: 5 stars
Reliability: [Destined to eventually be graphical, Felicity’s webcomic rating system rates reliability from red (frustratingly sporadic) to green (reliable but human) and blue (webcomic artist suspected to be indestructible supercomputer)|text|Green].
“Christ, man! Sure she’s pale and no stranger to the casket, but the family of man needs harmony, be we white, black… or mottled grey!”
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Undead
Felicity has a problem with the undead. She really doesn’t like them. So if a piece of fiction can make even her sympathize with a zombie, it must be good. Scary Go Round is that good.
My only complaint is that it only updates four days a week (Tues-Fri). This is, of course, better than three days a week (a common web comic schedule), but not as good as 5-7. This is not to say that I expect more (I don’t; hey, I read Megatokyo and Ever Summer Eve), but rather to express my unhappiness when there is no update every Monday morning.
Re: Undead
But she’s the cutest zombie EVER!
“We’re going to fill your mouth with salt, sew up your lips, then return you to the ground with dignity. Because we aren’t animals, Miss.”
whimper
And just for the record, I have a very good relationship with zombies. My Vorpal Sword goes snicker-snack, the masterwork stiletto comes out—it’s all good! I enjoy slaying zombies, they mindlessly pursue me, waiting to be slain. Now vampires, them I really really hate. I mean, you can be either undead, or cool. Not both! Posers!