Today I wanted to tell you all about Warbot in Accounting (WiA), shown on the left, brought to us by the good people at Nuklear Power. This is a very good, but infrequently updated, comic following the life of the titular decomissioned Warbot as he persues his new career in the business world. Warbot is silent, huge, and ridiculously slow. To conform with Warbot's pace, the comic tends to be somewhat long and slow-paced itself (the last one had 22 panels in 11 rows) and there is very little dialog. But this is all part of the joke, so don't rush through a strip but rather savor each panel and the often subtle differences between panels. The other part of the joke is the general misfit nature of warbot in his new life and his sad attempts to fit in. Although pretty funny, Warbot can also be a bit of a downer, which is no small feat using a character with no dialog or facial expressions. One last note: the artwork is pretty good and is detail-oriented. The details really make it work so don't miss out (see his little tie in the panel above).
While you are at Nuklear Power, you might be interested in checking out some other things there. They have the regularly updated 8-Bit Theater, but I can't say that I've really gotten into it. The art is ripped directly from Final Fantasy, which is kind of funny at first and then annoying after a while. But I can recommend Atomic Robo. This is a full-fledged newstand comic book which they have some samples of which are pretty good. I found their navigation kind of confusing so I'll just put the links to the sample comics here and here. I think the second one is hysterical.
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