It’s another fabulous Friday, and that – of course – means it’s time for this week’s featured web-comic! This week we’re featuring The Becoming, by dynamic duo Jeff and Douang. The Becoming is a meld of several periods of European culture mixed with occult magic all layered onto a steam-punk base.

The art for The Becoming is actually fairly well done, but it seems to concentrate more on costumes and background elements than selecting the best shots or giving the characters natural movement and emotions, but it seems to be improving with time.

The story starts off with a big bang and a very exciting death. Unfortunately, while there have been many interesting plot lines started, none of them have really been developed enough to make me bond with the characters. This is a problem that a lot of complex stories end up encountering, actually, but I’m sure that it will end up resolving itself in the end. Right now, we’re more than a chapter into the story and very little of the background has actually been explained; it’s a little difficult to decipher the story without having any context to place it and its’ characters in. This is a good thing for writers to keep in mind – even though you know what’s going to happen in your story and the details of its world, the readers do not. And if you don’t provide enough for them to latch onto at a timely enough pace, then the readers will become disenchanted.

That’s not to say that The Becoming won’t ultimately deliver on its’ promises. It’s certainly heading in that direction, and those promises and mysteries are interesting enough (and the art is cool enough) to keep this web-comic fan reading. So, if you have the time to read 30 some-odd pages of comic, then give The Becoming a look-see!

That’s all for this week’s edition of Fresh Finds Friday. Thanks for dropping by!

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