Webcomic Review: BarteNERDS
on August 10, 2015 at 12:01 am
Webcomic: BarteNERDS
Creator: Joe Simonetti
Format: Color, three or four panel strip
Updates: Mondays
Genre: Comedy, slice of life, geek stuff
Themes: Geek stuff, bars, video games
Characters: Joe, redheaded girl
Archive: Begins October 1, 2012
BarteNERDS is a slice-of-life webcomic about the author and his job as a bartender and his nerdy life. Reading the About section, however, reveals that the comic is really more about the kind of life he’d actually like to have. I think it’s a mixture of both his mental fantasies and what actually happens.
Joe plays a lot of video games, watches movies and TV. His opinions come out in the comic and it’s not a bad take on nerd stuff. The art has certainly progressed. I guess I would like to see more of the bar job integrated in the comic more and I imagine if he did more than a semi-weekly post, the characters would progress more rapidly.
Overall, I’d say the comic is decent. The website could use a cast list and perhaps Joe could explore the idea of creating a fictional girlfriend for himself. So if you’d like to check out a webcomic with a long run, but not an overly huge archive, check out BarteNERDS. There’s also some animated shorts and one episode of a podcast about Rick & Morty.
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