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Have any of you read Tales From Alderwood? It's wrapping up its very lengthy second chapter, so now is not a bad time to catch up and see if it's up your alley. It's about Katherine, a beginner mage/street thief in a loosely DnD inspired setting, who's magical curiosity has her stumbling into situations way above her punching weight. If you like it by pages 15-16 it's probably your cup of tea.
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I don't remember if it came out when it was actually relevant, but I was looking at the old webcomic Daisy Owl recently despite it having been over for about 12 years, and discovered that the guy behind it went on to make Sunshine Heavy Industries, a game about designing spaceships. It's a cute and chill little game and I recommend checking it out.
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Jan 13, 2023 21:30
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isasphere posted:Have any of you read Tales From Alderwood? It's wrapping up its very lengthy second chapter, so now is not a bad time to catch up and see if it's up your alley. I like it, the writing is very Webcomic, though, I don't really know how else to describe it but it smacks of webcomic
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Jan 13, 2023 21:45
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isasphere posted:Have any of you read Tales From Alderwood? It's wrapping up its very lengthy second chapter, so now is not a bad time to catch up and see if it's up your alley. Poop, I was really hoping this would be longer than it is! It's like 200 pages but the pacing is pretty slow. The art is very fun, it does a fabulous job of balancing simplicity and detail. Writing isn't super gripping but it's cute.
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Jan 13, 2023 22:31
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Tales from Alderwood has been posted in the CCCC webcomics thread (the good bad webcomics thread). There's also comics being posted piecemeal in there and also the PYF Comics thread if folks are looking to find stuff to read. BSS mods expunged the webcomics readers too hard for daring to be critical to webcomics, back in the day.
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Jan 14, 2023 14:14
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The recent QC plot is just so aggressively boring. I just do not give a single poo poo about any of the two dozen new characters or their dumb problems.
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Jan 25, 2023 03:53
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Safari Disco Lion posted:QC is just so aggressively boring.
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Jan 25, 2023 04:03
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As opposed to that opinion which is so daring and exciting.
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Jan 25, 2023 04:22
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QC cycles characters to keep the soap opera dynamic fresh but basically the same flavor, so when you find yourself bored of the characters I recommend just letting it go. It no longer serves you any purpose.
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Jan 25, 2023 05:15
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i am still eagerly waiting for the day jj snaps and unleashes something of insane genius
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Jan 25, 2023 11:15
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a strange fowl posted:i am still eagerly waiting for the day jj snaps and unleashes something of insane genius Well, it’s nice to have something that’ll last your entire life.
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Jan 25, 2023 16:39
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It's only frustrating to me cus he's clearly trying to drag out the drama of "am I writing Martin out of teh comic or am I abandoning the beloved Northampton setting?" for as long as he can take it, when the answer honestly probably would've been to write Marten out years ago and keep Claire.
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Jan 25, 2023 16:42
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Neito posted:It's only frustrating to me cus he's clearly trying to drag out the drama of "am I writing Martin out of teh comic or am I abandoning the beloved Northampton setting?" for as long as he can take it, when the answer honestly probably would've been to write Marten out years ago and keep Claire. Really? I thought he made it clear early on he didn't intend to do either of those things.
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Jan 25, 2023 18:48
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QC is a slow-paced comic about living in a small place where not much ever happens, despite occasional diversions into weird high-tech stuff that exists on the periphery, and if you've been reading the comic and expecting that to change, you only have yourself to blame.a strange fowl posted:i am still eagerly waiting for the day jj snaps and unleashes something of insane genius He did Alice Grove, I think that's the most you're ever going to get.
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Jan 25, 2023 19:30
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SlothfulCobra posted:QC is a slow-paced comic about living in a small place where not much ever happens And yet it's not as slow paced as The Whiteboard, which reached its 20th anniversary last year but a character who has been there since the start is still only 24. It's like watching M*A*S*H, which had a Christmas episode in each of its 11 seasons but is set entirely during the Korean War (1950-53). (Mind you, Doc lampshades that often enough. After one storyline contained two Halloweens and two Christmases despite covering just one weekend in story time, he did a week long segment where eight months story time passed... during the course of one five minute conversation.)
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Jan 25, 2023 19:57
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I'm kind of into QC having turned into this "worm's eye view of the early days of the technological singularity" thing. Like I'm not going to call it a work of genius or anything, but Jeph set down years ago some basic themes and has been hewing largely to them - one in a strip where a character (I think Hannelore) describes how people are so bombarded with change these days that there's no energy to get worked up about it anymore for a lot of people, and in some other strips where mostly Marten but some other characters come to terms with how they're not going to be superstars in whatever field. We're in the singularity, and sure humanity is being sidelined by super-AI and is no longer the rock-star intelligence of the solar system, but that's all happening at a very high level and for most people life just goes on. Just now with robots who are also muddling through. I still winced when I saw this new guy who has the same body model as Pintsize and is also a little chaos goblin of a person because goddamn man it's hard to be more blatant about sticking in a replacement character, though.
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disposablewords posted:We're in the singularity, and sure humanity is being sidelined by super-AI and is no longer the rock-star intelligence of the solar system, but that's all happening at a very high level and for most people life just goes on. It's completely unrealistic that some big nation, most likely the US, would not just end all life on the planet as this realization sets in though.
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Jan 26, 2023 02:34
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If I cared about realism I wouldn't be interested in any stories that feature the singularity anyway.
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Jan 26, 2023 02:36
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im sure that even if claire and marten fully move to quirky robot island qc is going to do the same thing it's always done and jump back and forth between whatever batch of characters jacques is interested in at the moment instead of actually writing anyone out
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Jan 26, 2023 04:55
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If anything the new setting just means more wacky funsters to fixate on for a month
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disposablewords posted:I'm kind of into QC having turned into this "worm's eye view of the early days of the technological singularity" thing. Like I'm not going to call it a work of genius or anything, but Jeph set down years ago some basic themes and has been hewing largely to them - one in a strip where a character (I think Hannelore) describes how people are so bombarded with change these days that there's no energy to get worked up about it anymore for a lot of people, and in some other strips where mostly Marten but some other characters come to terms with how they're not going to be superstars in whatever field. We're in the singularity, and sure humanity is being sidelined by super-AI and is no longer the rock-star intelligence of the solar system, but that's all happening at a very high level and for most people life just goes on. Just now with robots who are also muddling through. Mostly Agree. Either way I think Martain and Claire moving to robot town would be just fine because: dmboogie posted:im sure that even if claire and marten fully move to quirky robot island qc is going to do the same thing it's always done and jump back and forth between whatever batch of characters jacques is interested in at the moment instead of actually writing anyone out Like does it even matter if Faye and her robot girlfriend live in the same city as Martain and Clair or any other group of characters Jeph decides to focus on for a while? Other than when they go to hang out at the coffee shop or visit someone else's apartment or house every few months which they could totally just do anyways. As long as they are a weekend trip away, it will change nothing, just another "oh what have you been up to", and even then it mostly doesn't matter because entire subsets of characters barely interact with each other as it is. I'm not worried in the first place because I'm not invested enough for there to be much that could happen that would cause me to be bothered, but I do enjoy the weird robot AI stuff more than anything lately, so I'm for it as much as I can be.
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Joe Slowboat posted:Well, it’s nice to have something that’ll last your entire life.
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a strange fowl posted:i never expected cad to deliver either, but watching the madness of the epilogue unfold in real time was a magical experience CAD ended? Wow.
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Jedit posted:CAD ended? Wow. Trigger warning: strangling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e60JlM6ZXHc
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Jedit posted:CAD ended? Wow. Not really, but it did move away from its older format a significant amount.
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Did the person writing Vigils for friends recommend it here? Because I read it and it was a hoot! Loved it.
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/alexnorrislegalfund Apparently Alex Morris who drew some good comics is in a legal dispute over ownership of his work because of a board game, sounds lovely.
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Benagain posted:https://www.gofundme.com/f/alexnorrislegalfund Golden Bell are an extremely scummy company who have pulled this poo poo on a lot of independent creators. They were banned from working on Kickstarter because of their M-O of approaching funded kickstarters to offer to help with "fulfillment" and then handing over contracts they knew naive people wouldn't read or understand that effectively signs away the creator's IP rights to them. It doesn't stop them from keeping that up but approaching people behind the scenes now. It's come up a bunch related to TG discussions: Kai Tave posted:Here's some unexpected industry news: the guy who makes those "Oh No" comics you may have seen on twitter, with a pink blob guy, he's currently involved in a lawsuit because a board game company got him tangled up in a predatory contract they claim gives them ownership over his comic. That company? Golden Bell Studios.
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Samovar posted:Did the person writing Vigils for friends recommend it here? Because I read it and it was a hoot! Loved it. Yeah, I remember that! Vigils also did a crossover with Merry Hell recently, which I read through and also enjoyed a lot. There's something charming about that kind of grungy, punky webcomic still existing and being funny in the modern day.
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Nuns with Guns posted:Golden Bell are an extremely scummy company who have pulled this poo poo on a lot of independent creators. They were banned from working on Kickstarter because of their M-O of approaching funded kickstarters to offer to help with "fulfillment" and then handing over contracts they knew naive people wouldn't read or understand that effectively signs away the creator's IP rights to them. It doesn't stop them from keeping that up but approaching people behind the scenes now. Oh man, Golden Bell. They have a history of screwing over comic creators like that. One of the founders tried to rope me into their comics publishing scheme a while back when I met him at Baltimore Comic Con. I still have the "Sunday Comics" broadsheet he was passing around at the con. Some of the artists I know got roped into it (thankfully for the last time once his scummy behavior came to light)
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Samovar posted:Did the person writing Vigils for friends recommend it here? Because I read it and it was a hoot! Loved it. Yes, me! Thank you very much
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Tenebrais posted:Yeah, I remember that! This is very kind, thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it. The comic (Merry Hell) will be coming back on the 28th Feb.
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Jan 30, 2023 22:45
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The latest Vigils for Friends has some banger pages
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Does anyone remember Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge? It was a challenge where webcomic creators bet on who can last the longest without missing an update to their webcomic. Well, I found out that it ended in 2020. It lasted 15 years. https://twitter.com/MikkiHEL/status/1287713550811758592 (thread)
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Mister Beeg posted:Does anyone remember Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge? It was a challenge where webcomic creators bet on who can last the longest without missing an update to their webcomic. holy poo poo lol
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Mister Beeg posted:Does anyone remember Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge? It was a challenge where webcomic creators bet on who can last the longest without missing an update to their webcomic. do you think this qualifies as torture?
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Mister Beeg posted:Does anyone remember Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge? It was a challenge where webcomic creators bet on who can last the longest without missing an update to their webcomic. Weird, I thought Howard Tayler was in the DGIMC and I don't recall him missing a day on Schlock Mercenary. Which ended three days before that tweet, and might have been what made someone think of it.
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Jedit posted:Weird, I thought Howard Tayler was in the DGIMC and I don't recall him missing a day on Schlock Mercenary. Which ended three days before that tweet, and might have been what made someone think of it. I thought he missed one (1) day because of a transformer exploding and taking out the server farm that hosted the comic, but he says otherwise.
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Yeah, the comic that day did go up before the end as a barebone html page on an alternate server showing just that, once the domain-record update had propagated. Regardless, the DGIMC seems to have only specified a new comic every weekday and the server room exploded on a saturday. Slashrat fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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Today was the 20th anniversary of Dinosaur Comics and that makes me feel weird.
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