Purple HyacinthĪ sweeping world-building saga full of sociopolitical and interpersonal drama, writer Ephemerys and artist Sophism’s Purple Hyacinth is a mystery-drama with a taste for high narrative stakes thoughtfully informed by romance and humor.
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Seeing their neighbors, friends, and family turned into grossly mutated and monstrous representations of their deepest, darkest desires, Cha and a ragtag but resilient group of survivors must quickly come to terms with the idea of fighting for their survival and care for each other during the darkest days of their lives.Ī found family story of a exceptionally cruel kind, Sweet Home’s gradual narrative ramping-up with shocking visual reveals and deeply effective jump scares is among the best of Webtoon’s non-romance offerings, and fans of the completed series can follow up with Bastard and Shotgun Boy from the same team. Support CBH on Patreon for exclusive rewards, or Donate here! Thank you for reading! When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a qualifying affiliate commission.Ĭomic Book Herald’s reading orders and guides are also made possible by reader support on Patreon, and generous reader donations.Īny size contribution will help keep CBH alive and full of new comics guides and content. Bad luck! Even worse luck when Hyun-Soo and his neighbors come to realize that the world outside their apartment is actually falling prey to a “monsterization” apocalypse.Ĭomic Book Herald is reader-supported. Recently adapted into a live action Netflix original series, writer Kim Carnby and illustrator Hwang Young-Chan’s horror series Sweet Home is masterclass in narrative escalation, and one that best exemplifies the tightly executed pacing and payoff that Webtoon’s vertical-only reading format can facilitate.įollowing the death of his family in a tragic car accident, depressed high school student Cha Hyun-Soo moves into an apartment complex called Green Home only to find that the room, and the entire complex, is seemingly haunted or under assault by grotesque humanoid monsters that whisper things to him and pass by his peephole like taunting terrors. Where does one start with the 500+ weekly comics, most (if not all) of which are worthy of your time? With our list of the best of both ongoing and completed offerings on the platform below, of course! 10. Yes, Webtoon’s annual readership in excess of 100 billion is deserved, but also daunting. It’s also irrefutably (at times impenetrably) dense, hosting a wide array of romance, action, supernatural, sports, and horror comics updated weekly. Providing an intuitive, accessible, and highly functional digital-first desktop and mobile platform for both international and local readers and creators-including a female readership and creatorship in excess of 60%-Webtoon has ushered in an indisputable but often critically overlooked revolution in comics publishing with its dramatic take on comic democratization, narrative and visual formats, and finely tuned publishing practices. Because comics should have no boundaries.Originally launched as a platform exclusively for hosting Korean manhwa in 2004, Naver Webtoon, LINE Webtoon, or (more frequently) just Webtoon has become a monolith in webcomic circles for good reason since its expansion into Western comics hosting and translation in the mid-2010s. LINE WEBTOON is always available, and always for free. Whatever your platform, wherever you are, From Star Wars to the top manga hits on the planet, to groundbreaking webcomics and everything in between, LINE WEBTOON is comics for everyone, by everyone. to develop mobile-first, digitally optimized comics, LINE WEBTOON embracesĪll genres of content. Webtoon also optimizes digital reading experience for the users with its smooth scrolling webcomics, and continues to break ground by incorporating cross-platform special effects in its FX Toon.
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Pioneering the digital realm early on for comic creators, Webtoon now proudly serves tens of thousands of talented professional and amateur creators from all over the world. NAVER Webtoon, launched on June 23rd, 2004 in Korea by NAVER (Korea's biggest internet company), started to globally take off as LINE WEBTOON in2014, and now has grown into one of the biggest digital comics provider in the world with over 17million monthly users.
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