"This is the gay space comic of our dreams."

May 21, 2016 1:23 AM

Lady of the Shard is a space goddess love story.

Autostraddle:

The tale becomes an epic romance and an epic battle for power that feels like it’s taking up a comic much larger than this one.

Comics Beat, on Lady's novel format:

Each chapter is a single vertical scroll, the sequences stacking and forming seamlessly to tell the next step of the Acolyte’s story without missing a beat. (...)

Unlike the luscious and rich color palettes seen in Gigi’s ongoing Cucumber Quest comic, Lady of the Shard very deliberately limits itself to only two or three colors at a time – carefully delineating the context for each, a beautiful and trusting way to guide the reader along with the Acolyte.

The creator, Gigi D.G., also writes and illustrates the webcomic Cucumber Quest (previously). She talks more about Lady on her Twitter.

posted by glass origami robot (22 comments total)

Autostraddle link contains mild spoilers!
posted by glass origami robot at 1:26 AM on May 21, 2016

Oh. My. God. That was beautiful
posted by Strass at 2:33 AM on May 21, 2016

Yes. Yes it is.
posted by Too-Ticky at 4:27 AM on May 21, 2016

The Old God totally looks like Sean Young in her famous days.
posted by xigxag at 6:25 AM on May 21, 2016

Read a little so far. She's quite honest about the comic being not optimized for mobile devices, and I'm at a conference, so I've got it bookmarked for later. It might work better with a tablet in landscape, but it's pretty eye-straining on a phone.

Anyway, I found the art clunky and hard to parse at first, but, after about 3 pages, my "comics sight" fell into place, and the pages flow really well, and the characters are appealing and the world-building fun, interesting, and doled out with a light hand. In short, it's well worth pushing yourself for a few pages to see if it grows on you; I'm looking forward to picking it up
Again once I get home.
posted by GenjiandProust at 6:34 AM on May 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

This is awesome. Thanks!
posted by allthinky at 7:23 AM on May 21, 2016

Wow! That was really cool.
posted by tuesdayschild at 7:43 AM on May 21, 2016

Bookmarked for later awesomeness. Thank you!
posted by Ber at 7:44 AM on May 21, 2016

This was great!
posted by kyrademon at 8:03 AM on May 21, 2016

Really nice stuff, particularly liked the use of color.
posted by Artw at 9:04 AM on May 21, 2016

I love it.
posted by xarnop at 9:22 AM on May 21, 2016

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing this.
posted by anthy at 9:44 AM on May 21, 2016

Awwwwww! Thanks for making my weekend!
posted by orangutan at 10:13 AM on May 21, 2016

Daaaaaaaaaang.
posted by meemzi at 4:41 PM on May 21, 2016

guys, read Cucumber Quest too

it is very good
posted by DoctorFedora at 5:02 PM on May 21, 2016 [3 favorites]

MY HEART
posted by E. Whitehall at 10:06 PM on May 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

Also, this is a nice quick read (around an hour, if that) and it is just lovely
posted by DoctorFedora at 3:10 AM on May 22, 2016

D'awww.
posted by Halloween Jack at 10:29 AM on May 22, 2016

Finished it, on a tablet in landscape mode, where it worked pretty well. I liked it, both for the story and the art (the use of color is especially interesting, as others have noted). I kind of wish that it had been more fleshed out and extended, but the shorter form also has its charm.
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:09 AM on May 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

<3
posted by Drexen at 3:17 PM on May 23, 2016

Damn, that was great. Thanks for sharing it, glass origami robot!
posted by katrielalex at 3:20 PM on May 24, 2016 [1 favorite]

This was nice. It took me a couple chapters to realize the acolytes had a mask over their mouth, and that she wasn't just drawing them like South Park Canadians.
posted by DynamiteToast at 7:59 AM on May 25, 2016