Attagirl, Jess! MAJOR congrats on completing the entire saga! I jumped on a little late back in 2023; it seems you and Jasper have completed the saga, which admittedly leaves me a bit guilty at not having finished my first go around. But I remain committed to more than one read-through, as a saga is best experienced more than once.
I find Matt's art style to work wonderfully in tandem with his exceptional narrative skills. And I do mean exceptional; he manages to evoke such a wide breadth of emotions and pathos, all while moving the plot forward at a comfortable pace, allowing for the reader to soak up the details while envisioning the overall endgame. And Matt's art style is adorable to boot; characters like Gilda, Bernadette, and the Piranha have a general cuteness about them, and in the prequel arc "The Pontue Legacy", I often found myself enamored with the romance between Blessed Child Zyle and Princess Sarah -- the way that Matt writes their budding love for each other had me saying to myself over and over "Man, Zyle's got it SO good."
I also have to admit that "Gilda And Meek" is one of the few things that pulled me through 2024, arguably the most difficult year of my life with me losing five very dear people close to me through the span of the year. Reading each episode (especially when I got to The Pontue Legacy) gave me the much needed reprieve and uplifting to pull me away from the emotionally draining personal losses I had to take in. The uniqueness of the webcomic and how it pushed me to look at many things from a new angle is why I coined my praise-phrase to describe "Gilda And Meek" summarily: "Gilda And Meek and the Un-Iverse is a webcomic so unlike any I have ever read."
Matt's stellar writing and adorable art shows that it IS possible to make a comic with cute characters and a deep enriching plot WITHOUT needing a publisher's "blessing" or "endorsement", which is sadly something sorely missing in the floundering comic book industry these days.
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I find Matt's art style to work wonderfully in tandem with his exceptional narrative skills. And I do mean exceptional; he manages to evoke such a wide breadth of emotions and pathos, all while moving the plot forward at a comfortable pace, allowing for the reader to soak up the details while envisioning the overall endgame. And Matt's art style is adorable to boot; characters like Gilda, Bernadette, and the Piranha have a general cuteness about them, and in the prequel arc "The Pontue Legacy", I often found myself enamored with the romance between Blessed Child Zyle and Princess Sarah -- the way that Matt writes their budding love for each other had me saying to myself over and over "Man, Zyle's got it SO good."
I also have to admit that "Gilda And Meek" is one of the few things that pulled me through 2024, arguably the most difficult year of my life with me losing five very dear people close to me through the span of the year. Reading each episode (especially when I got to The Pontue Legacy) gave me the much needed reprieve and uplifting to pull me away from the emotionally draining personal losses I had to take in. The uniqueness of the webcomic and how it pushed me to look at many things from a new angle is why I coined my praise-phrase to describe "Gilda And Meek" summarily: "Gilda And Meek and the Un-Iverse is a webcomic so unlike any I have ever read."
Matt's stellar writing and adorable art shows that it IS possible to make a comic with cute characters and a deep enriching plot WITHOUT needing a publisher's "blessing" or "endorsement", which is sadly something sorely missing in the floundering comic book industry these days.