GastroPhobia – A web comic we truly love!
Cast of Characters
I wish I’d known about GastroPhobia sooner: I would’ve worked it into the course. This blogger from io9.com gives you the lowdown on this irresistibly awesome web comic:
GastroPhobia elevates silliness to an art form. Phobia forms one half of our titular crew, a former Amazon warrior turned barbarian huntress who wanders the Grecian forests with her pudgy, smart-mouthed son Gastro. But the woods of this version of ancient Greece don’t hold mere Nemean lions or Erymanthian boar. No, Gastro and Phobia encounter a far odder creatures: a monstrous version of Bambi, warrior mockingbirds, time travelers, and, of course, those magical pretty ponies.
Despite McGuire’s talent for juggling anachronisms, GastroPhobia is at its heart a screwy sendup of Greek myths and legends, and there are sly references to the labors of Hercules and Zeus’ propensity for seducing women in animal form. And that poor Sphinx only has one riddle, and everyone already knows it.
