I was on a friend's blog when I came across an ad for the amazing new webcomic
Saint's Way by unbelievable college student Yasmin Liang.
There's a gang of stuff going on in this serial set in a world that has wizards, superhumans, aliens and an evacuated New York City, but I posted this sequence since it featured the meeting of two important characters:
the fabulously designed African American superchick Citizen III, and Vivian, the super-strong little girl who for whatever reason decides to run away to the Big Apple. Liang hasn't yet revealed what Viv is running from, or why she chose New York, but it's obviously serious business, because somebody called the Saint Organization has empowered Phyllis to hire Solomon Wynn to catch her and bring her back.
He may not look like much, but Solomon is known to bring back his marks alive and relatively undamaged, even the super-powered ones. Whoever the Saint Organization is, they have used him repeatedly, and Phyllis taps him to help track Vivian down.
It's hard to say where
Saint's Way is going at this point. What I can say is that it's fabulously well drawn and written. It is slowly paced. Some pages are wide open and airy, while others are loaded with revealing but natural dialogue. Liang is humble about her work, but it looks like she's enjoying it... I know I am! When I got to the latest page, I was hit with that "Aw, man... I have to wait for more?" feeling, but you don't hafta talk me off the ledge, the book is apparently updated every Sunday! To peep the comic for yourself,
click here.
holla!
-samax.
