Tai Lam on a Bike

There is a site called Read Comic Online, which I first saw when I on a fellow student's laptop during my last year of undergraduate studies.

(This site is definitely violating copyright, but on the other hand there is probably no pragmatic way I could buy physical copies of any of the Stranger Things comics when I started reading those, except in collected book versions; though I'd have to go to the library to read those. Also, I have yet to explore in-person comic book stores.)

In early 2024, I was browsing the site when I discovered the webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons (or KSBD).

Fair warning: if you thought that reading a Boruto chapter monthly (or a Naruto manga chapter back during its publication run) was painful, then the anticipation of waitng for each page of KSBD to be released might be too much for you.

Anyways, I somehow started reading the middle of the series online and quickly read through all the books available on Read Comic Online. As some context: it has been a while since the series has collected the later books into print form with Image Comics, so you can get a lot further into the story by reading the webcomic.

I was immediately hooked. But then I went to the actual KSBD website and realized I had no idea what was happening in the story, as the webcomic site is much further along than the completed print books avaialbe on Read Comic Online. So, I caught up with the story, as of early 2024.

I was initially shocked at the outer appearance of protagonist Allison when I first opened the KSBD webcomic site. Initially, she was drawn in a way that made be believe she was a villian, which was not the case and at first confused me. However, after catching up with the story, I understand how Allison came to her current state in the story.

I just wanted to talk about KSBD, as there is not much (meta-)explanatory material on KSBD generally online, except for rather obscure places — such as the comments under each page of KSBD.