So now ULTRA-lad! has his own site!? Yes. This is an adjunct to the Act-i-vate site so that the Titan Tot can have a domain of his own. The Act-i-vate comic will have the most recent comics updates. Those of you who want to read beyond what’s available here are encouraged to visit that site. So without further ado, let’s get on with the show!
ULTRA-Lad! triumphant!? It appears the Mighty Mite has won this round but is more trouble on the horizon? Read this week’s update and see!
To read this week’s update, click here:
http://act-i-vate.com/56-2-9.comic
To read last week’s update, click here:
http://act-i-vate.com/56-2-8.comic
To read from the beginning of Chapter 2, click here:
http://act-i-vate.com/56-2-1.comic
To read from the beginning of Chapter 1, click here:
http://act-i-vate.com/56.comic
Thanks for reading! See you next week!
This Monday December 8th, I’ll have a story up at Smith Magazine as part of their online anthology of Next-Door Neighbor Stories edited by Dean Haspiel. Titled, Vs, this story was written by Alexis Sottile and I back in the day and it is a harrowing tale of my cryptozoological New York rental history! See! My terrible run-ins with vociferous fowls! Frankensteinian pooches! Tentacled jam bands! Drunken cro-magnons! Pill-pushing werewolves and many many more! IT’S ALL 100% TRUE MEMOIR COMICS AT THEIR FINEST! See you there!
Heidi MacDonald recently posted a small notice about “The Transmigration of ULTRA-lad” on her highly trafficked comics blog, The Beat! Thanks Heidi!
My Act-i-vate webcomic, The Transmigration of ULTRA-lad! has just been dealt a significant honor by being named Comic Critique’s Best Webcomic of 2008! Thank you so much, Adam McGovern and thank you Comic Critique! This is not something I expected seeing how this project is still very young but it’s a welcome affirmation of my hard work.
Here’s what Adam has to say,
2008 Eisner nominee Infurnari is standing at a celestial height from which the award’s namesake, the architects of early MAD, C.C. Beck, Chris Ware and Honoré Daumier can be seen clearly and their unlikely connections traced. ULTRA-Lad is faux-antiqued on simulated decomposing yellow paper in the most elegant of high-tech media, but “retro” doesn’t begin to describe this multi-directional ricochet from print-pop prehistory to the horizons of storytelling and up and down through the many layers of what it could be and never was. This is happy-warrior hero fiction better than what you remember, and dark Manichean meta-adventure with more indomitable charm than anyone else has realized is possible. Infurnari weaves a hallucinatory spell and enfolds the reader in immersive atmospheres with the lushest of stark ink and the most sparing of edible color. ULTRA-Lad is stream-of-consciousness storytelling from deep fairytale forests and the basements of mad geniuses far below utopian skyscraper kingdoms that never came. It seems random because the ideas fire so fast and assuredly that there’s no time for the artist to need overthinking or the reader to second-guess the cortical level at which the agile wordplay, dizzying humor, turbulent emotional shadings and acrobatic line enter present consciousness and comic history. It’s coming through to our continuum one page a week, completely free and pricelessly promising.
Thanks, everybody! I sincerely appreciate your loyalty, support and readership.