Pini’s Masque is up!

The Go!Comi people have upgraded their website and put up the first few pages of Wendy Pini’s new webcomic, The Masque of the Red Death, which takes Poe’s story as inspiration for a yaoi manga set in the future. To read it, you will need to register, which is relatively painless except that you are forced to choose or upload an avatar, which not all of us old folks have on hand. (I have a totally cool avatar, drawn for me by Tania del Rio, but if it weren’t for that I would have to choose a generic cartoon.)

I interviewed Pini for PWCW and Digital Strips earlier this year.

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Comments

  1. Brigid, I agree with you 100% about the avatar business and it’s going to be gone by the end of the weekend. Although we have beta-tested it, obviously the whole site will have a few design issues to shake out.

    The avatar business aside, I’m thrilled by how the holwe thing turned out and I’m really proud of the staff’s work.

  2. Hey Brigid, switch from gender neutral text, to male text!! XD

    I like the autoplay style of it, it will be interesting to see how it carries over to print.

  3. Just so everyone knows: The mandatory avatar in the membership signup is now GONE. Much easier to create an account now (and you can always add an avatar later in the “My Profile” section.

  4. Thanks, David!!!

  5. Wendy’s webcomic is a complete failure, or a victory of homophobia – as you wish… In a word, if you like/enjoy to watch two tapeworms having sex, this comic is for you… If you prefer a smooth homoerotica – switch to Kaori Yuki’s Boys Next Door…

  6. “Every piece of true art is erotic somehow, but not everything piece of erotic is a true art” – Wendy Pini’s Masque of the Red Death is a good example to this. Supposed to be a triumph of open-mindnessness it presents an absolutely unadorable couple on the foreground to follow their vain attempts to look and behave gorgeous. No gothic, no enjoyable erotism, no spirit of E.A.Poe in all this. gay community should be annoyed to watch their brothers portrayed this way. I foresee this project a huge commercial failure. Such life is. Put a flower on an artist’s tomb and sing child a lullaby.