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Wilde Life is an excellent webcomic about a young man, Oscar Wilde (no, not that Oscar Wilde, but named after him), who moves into an extremely small town in Oklahoma. Which turns out to be...a little strange.
You can start reading there! But if you want more information, with some minor spoilers--as it's only two chapters in, all spoilers are by nature fairly minor at this point--read on.
There are, you see, some supernatural aspects in the local town. But the comic isn't gag-a-day (My girlfriend is Satan! ha ha!) or horror (...and is destroying all that is good!), but something more like slice of life with occasional life-or-death situations. It's sweet, and entertaining, and paced like a comic book rather than a newspaper strip.
And, gosh. The art is nice, but what I love most of all is the characters. Oscar gets to play the non-supernatural straight man, but he's not dull. He's not a man-child, he's not wildly terrified by things being strange: he reacts in plausible but fairly practical ways. He's nice, he's got some good turns of phrase, and he takes real joy in his own life, strange as it's gotten.
His roommate is a mathematician from the 1950s. He did not quite realize that he was signing on to have a roommate when he rented this house, but she's a good one. Sort of incorporeal, but a pleasant conversationalist! Very considerate!
There's also a teenager he met lately, who's having trouble with his peer group. That peer group being a pack of wolves. Clifford is sort of a jerk, but in that very realistic fourteen-years-old-and-secretly-a-werewolf kind of way. Plus being new to town. It's hard on the social life! And sometimes on the health.
It's early enough in that there's not a lot to catch up on, and I've been really enjoying all the developments so far. I expect great things out of this comic, and hope the artist does well enough through Patreon to be able to focus on it full-time. Go forth and read.
You can start reading there! But if you want more information, with some minor spoilers--as it's only two chapters in, all spoilers are by nature fairly minor at this point--read on.
There are, you see, some supernatural aspects in the local town. But the comic isn't gag-a-day (My girlfriend is Satan! ha ha!) or horror (...and is destroying all that is good!), but something more like slice of life with occasional life-or-death situations. It's sweet, and entertaining, and paced like a comic book rather than a newspaper strip.
And, gosh. The art is nice, but what I love most of all is the characters. Oscar gets to play the non-supernatural straight man, but he's not dull. He's not a man-child, he's not wildly terrified by things being strange: he reacts in plausible but fairly practical ways. He's nice, he's got some good turns of phrase, and he takes real joy in his own life, strange as it's gotten.
His roommate is a mathematician from the 1950s. He did not quite realize that he was signing on to have a roommate when he rented this house, but she's a good one. Sort of incorporeal, but a pleasant conversationalist! Very considerate!
There's also a teenager he met lately, who's having trouble with his peer group. That peer group being a pack of wolves. Clifford is sort of a jerk, but in that very realistic fourteen-years-old-and-secretly-a-werewolf kind of way. Plus being new to town. It's hard on the social life! And sometimes on the health.
It's early enough in that there's not a lot to catch up on, and I've been really enjoying all the developments so far. I expect great things out of this comic, and hope the artist does well enough through Patreon to be able to focus on it full-time. Go forth and read.
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