Review: Tangled River
Tangled River by writer and artist Snowshadow on Webcomics has recently been completed after six years. Teenager Tanya and her mother live in a village on a planet settled several years ago by people from the colony ship Terra Nova . Her friends include the boisterous Elika ( aka “Licorice“) whose close friend is a native boy called Kobei. The original colonists (the adult “Alphas”) have rules for the youngsters (“Betas”) but - pubescent rebelliousness being a universal constant - these are blithely flouted. The settlers live a simplified existence, thanks to the mysterious failure of all their technology soon after their arrival. Their level of subsistence is about that of the natives, who resemble Plains Indians (including their use of bows and arrows). Luckily the planet is very Earth-like and the humans can eat the indigenous flora and fauna. There are several scattered settlements which regularly trade with each other, but much of the continent they inhabit is unexpl...

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