Concerned

I want to talk about Concerned, the Half Life and death of Gordon Frohman, because no-one else seems to have mentioned it. Which is a shame, because I think it is a really good comic. You will, however, need to have played through Half Life 2 to get a majority of the jokes, but honestly anyone who has a pc which can run Half Life 2 has a duty to play the damn game.

Concerned is one of a particular type of comic made inside a game, with photos taken in game. Typically they vary heavily in quality. I have to admit to not being a huge fan of one of the longest running comics, Jeff, or indeed many of the comics there (although Apostasy is great, styled more like a graphic novel than a webcomic). Concerned is great though. I discovered it through Lore, the creator of Lore comics, and the Brunching Shuttlecocks, the latter being an institution on the net, although sadly non existent these days.

Anyway, Concerned roughly follows the story of a bumbling idiot, Frohman, just ahead of the main character Freeman. It is a story comic, although it's not exactly that much trouble if you don't start from the very beginning- there is not too much plot development of a serious kind, nor character development. It's probably not the most original concept in the world, but it works, and it is worth a look.