Sequential Art

Sequential Art doesn't impress from the beginning. No linked HTML pages let you browse through the archive, all you have are links to each of the 100+ comics (and that's not even perfect since the copyright gets in between and makes it hard to click on a few links). The comic is only an offshoot from the artist's site with nothing to calling attention to it.

Getting through the archives however, you start seeing the normal signs of an interesting comic: Clean artwork, frequent updates. Then, "This comic is clever," then, "I can relate to that." By the end of the archives all six of Scott Adams's Humor Formula make an appearance.

Explaination of the background always tends to be a weak point regaurdless of the medium. The characters in the comic already know their history, so it appears stupid when the author tries to explain during the story. It's no less awkward when the story is interrupted to explain the background; a clutter of text does not belong in a comic.

In most cases the reader simply doesn't need to know all the details. Was Star Wars IV any less a movie because it left the origin of the Empire to later films? Coming back to Sequential Art, we have human characters and anthropomorphic ones, no explaination needed, and none interrupts the strip.

There's really not much you can add to this. The classic & amusing mix of innocent and coniving characters; jabs at how our society functions; cute visual gags. The quality of writing speaks for itself.