Zephyr by Wereviking

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Rated 7.03 out of 10 Statistics

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Genre: Superhero / Crime

Audience: anyone

Updated: none

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Occasional Sexual Content

Frequent Coarse Language

Frequent Violence

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Overall Rating: 7.031

Average Rating: 8.75 (Guests), 8.63 (Members)

Ranking: #13

Rating Count: 20 (16 Guests, 4 members)

1 indicates a weighted rating.

Synopsis

"A superhero webcomic in prose"

Zephyr is a prose webcomic influenced by postliterary writing and Sturgeon’s law. It’s 2009 on the eastern seaboard of the United States. The place is Atlantic City: a sweeping longitudinal metropolis designed by Frank Lloyd Wright following widespread devastation in 1984. Superhumans are not only real, they’re human. All too human, as Nietzsche would say. 

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"An astonishing achievement -- and ongoing!"

Rating: 9 / 10

I started reading the self-described Wereviking’s Zephyr chronicles half a year ago and was drawn in to the chaotic and dense style, the strong narrative voice and the very original take on the superhero genre, which is not something that would normally appeal. I cooled on the series when new posts related more to its secondary storyline—the main character Zephyr waking up in a parallel universe…Read More

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Diablo says November 26th 2009 | Report

A cool well maintained and ongoing work of fiction looking at one of my favourite genres. The authr references alot of my favourite films and writers and those influences can be felt all throughout Zephyr, a superhero who takes the turds in the wash and mostly manages to emerge in style. Funny and engagng.

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Lorcan says November 13th 2009 | Report

Yeah I stopped by and had a look at this project after seeing a reference to the review on Twitter. I’m really impressed, even though I somehow started in the middle of the third chapter. Now I am reading the backstory and it’s a very cool read. A review to follow.