Now that I've taken this plunge into unreality, I really, really wanna do an android robot computer... Really, really, -really- wanna. A lot of the comics out there - Megatokyo, Applegeeks, Comedity, have these really sweet-natured pretty computer robot girls. So I wanna do Nikolas Kai (My computer, Nicky. Y'all know Nicky, right?) up as a gorgeous hunk of long-haired boy flesh. And I have a few really funny jokes in mind about it (Like Athlon's run a little hot... Rawr)... But the thing is... Well. I've always had a pretty clear image of Nicky. He looks a little like a good-aligned Kai from David Mack's Circle of Blood, but different. It's as clear in my mind as the image of my personal Muse... And that's well and good, but then one day I met the walking, talking, breathing -image- of Nicky. o.O And that's kinda weird.
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Talking with your own visualized conscience, imagining yourself as a cat in the mirror, hallucinating a dragon to talk to, thinking of your computer as a really hot person, is one kind of unreality. It's all clearly internal, and makes sense in a diary.
Megatokyo has gone off on a completely different type of unreality, where computers can be girls with growing breasts, women can have wings implanted into them, girls can do magical things that defy the laws of physics, etc. It's getting more difficult for me to follow Megatokyo, as I don't understand what's possible in that fantasy world.
David Mack's Kabuki and anything by William Gibson are a different level, presuming the existance of technology that's plausible though not current, and illustrating the hallucinations and imaginations of the main characters. Kabuki is artistically beautiful, and Gibson is incredibly well written. However, that style of unreality is incredibly difficult to pull off. I am very picky about Mack's writing, and I have yet to see a well-done visual representation of a Gibson story.
http://girlgeniusonline.com/ is a similar style, with fastasy technology, humans made from spare parts, talking cats, technology and magic being indistinguishable.
I think the key to doing a good fantasy is setting up the environment clearly at the beginning, so we can keep it in the back of our mind while focussing on the characters. Start off with "This is a land of Mad Science, or Elven Magic, or Crazy Artists."
The world of Girl Genius is beyond insane, but it's always been like that, so I'm happy. Yet I'm about to stop reading Megatokyo, because I can't handle a new world change every few pages. r*k*milholland has satisfied his desire to do both a diary style comic and a fantasy comic by making two different comics.