Title: Paradigm Shift http://www.paradigmshiftmanga.com/ps/part-one-equilibrium.html
Creator(s): Dirk Tiede
Art
Tiede is one of the best draftsmen out there. Even if you normally shy away from art with a manga influence, Tiede makes it worth your while. The squeaky clean lines and shading are very pleasing to the eye. And the Chicago (and later other locales) city-scapes are a real treat. This is espeacially true if you ever lived in Chicago because every location in the book is a real place.
The layouts in Paradigm Shift are dynamic and exciting and rarely if ever confusing. Even though the tall pages for this web-comic appear to be formatted for print, Tiede tries to maximize the reading experience for both web and print by designing the pages to be read five at a time online. The bottom of each page is made to flow into the top of the following page to make scrolling down into the next page seemless.
Writing
Paradigm Shift is a police procedural with a hint of X-Files. The story telling is excellent and captivating. Like many web-comics Tiede indulges in the freedom of not having a limit of pages to tell his story. Manga fans probably will not notice. But readers of primarily a superhero comics may not get into the story until they reach book three.
The main characters are classic comic relief and straight man. The feisty McAllister is, well, feisty. Her partner Mike Stuart is calm and disciplined. Both are mostly one note or two dimensional. The depth of the characters works if your reading the series as it's updated- a page at a time. But makes reading the printed version a bit watered down emotionally.
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