Paranatural

Paranatural
Author(s) Zack Morrison
Website http://www.paranatural.net/
Current status / schedule Updates Tuesdays and Fridays
Launch date June 30, 2010[1]
End date Currently updating
Publisher(s) Hiveworks Comics LLC
Genre(s) Action, comedy

Paranatural is a webcomic written and illustrated by Zack Morrison. The comic follows the story of Max, the new kid at school, and the other members of the Activity Club as they fight ghosts, investigate the secrets of Mayview, and interact with their fellow middle school students.

The comic began on ComicFury and Smackjeeves in 2010 before later moving to its own site.[2][1][3]

Content

The comic follows the adventures of Max and the Activity Club throughout their adventures. They fight ghosts and bullies, play hitball, and solve the mysteries of the town.[4]

Max, the protagonist of Paranatural

The story is told through an omniscient third person, sometimes including guest art or mini-comics. The comic is drawn page by page in a standard panel format, including shifted panels and extraneous movements depending on the activity going on. Morrison also includes alt text on each page, with a short comment on the page.

Morrison interacts with his readers through the text underneath the pages as well as both his Twitter[5] and Tumblr[6] accounts.

Reception

Comic Book Resources has described Paranatural as "fun, action-packed and visually inventive", with "enjoyable character moments", and compared it to Dragon Ball Z.[4] PopOptiq considered it to be "brimming with wit and humor",[7] while io9 emphasized that there is "a rich story sitting behind all that humor,"[8] and recommended it as worthy of an Eisner Award.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 http://web.archive.org/web/20101214110204/http://paranatural.thecomicseries.com/archive
  2. ↑ Pellegrini, Mark (2012-11-13). "Paranatural (A Webcomic By Zack Morrison) – AiPT!". Adventures in Poor Taste.
  3. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20110531215845/http://paranatural.smackjeeves.com/comics/1033313/the-story-begins/
  4. 1 2 Cruz, Larry (May 27, 2014). "'Paranatural': It's over 9,000 (spooks)". Comic Book Resources.
  5. ↑ "Zack Morrison (@paranaturalzack) | Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  6. ↑ "HUMAN RANCH". firstnamezacklastnamemorrison.tumblr.com. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  7. ↑ Rico, Elizabeth (January 11, 2015). "‘Paranatural’ is witty, humorous, and filled to the brim with spirits". PopOptiq.
  8. ↑ Davis, Lauren (April 13, 2013). "Saturday Webcomic: Being haunted isn't the weirdest thing about Paranatural's bonkers middle school". io9.
  9. ↑ Davis, Lauren (April 16, 2014). "51 Awesome Webcomics The Eisners Have Completely Failed To Recognize". io9.
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