Next Town Over - A Steampunk Western

[espanolbot]

Because Webcomics Need Love Too.

Here's a bit from a good webcomic that I've been reading lately.
















You can continue reading it here,
http://squidbunnies.com/nto/?p=65

And on a similar theme, here's a fun song about what Steampunk actually is,

Comments

[domino_blue]

I didn't even think it was a attempt to undercut the Cyberpunk genre till a couple years ago, I just thought it was always there and that people just like using the aesthetic in stories. That and I see people use Steampunk all the fucking time for random shit, even something that's more Cyberpunk.

[baihu]

Just wondering, what would the Fallout series count as? I know people would say cyberpunk, but it's description specifically states it is 'set in an alternate universe where human technology has not reduce or minimize electronics to the degree that it has in similar stage of civilization in our timeline' (paraphrasing so bad...)

Basically, the entire idea of Fallout is the tech was inefficient, bulky, and not subtle or 'elegant'. You wouldn't find iPods before the nuclear fallout in the Fallout timeline because their tech never went to that stage.

I always thought cyberpunk meant more along the lines of say, The Matrix, so been wondering what Fallout would count as (aside from nuclear dystopian/apocalypse).

[espanolbot]

Fallout is technically speaking Atompunk, which is a 50s/60s feel with an emphasis on nuclear powered devices.

There are a lot of different terms for retrofuturistic fiction, which it's fun to backtrack and classify things as.

For example, Stonepunk is a modern feel but with variations on Stone Age technology. This covers both the Flintstones, and the British TV show Cavegirl (personally I think that the Flintstones is just based at the same time as the Jetsons, except they couldn't afford to live in the sky cities like the protagonists of the other show).

Sandelpunk includes modern variations on Roman or Ancient Greek stuff, for another example, and would include things like the Asterix comics as well as Disney's Hercules.