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A Wizard of Goatse posted:I find petty and shortsighted characters unrelatable because I don't need to actually have anything at stake for me to rush to the defense of awful people, merely the opportunity to deploy a zinger I heard a blog use against an imaginary guy from the bad team I know you wouldn't have any way of knowing this, but stormgale isn't from the USA
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Has anyone ever heard of Drop Out? It's a 100+ page one-shot webcomic about two college fellas on a road trip to kill themselves. It's pretty dark but in a way that makes it engaging instead of gratuitous. I have mixed feelings about the ending but liked it overall and it, for a brief moment, filled the hole that Cheap Thrills left.
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Nuns with Guns posted:I know you wouldn't have any way of knowing this, but stormgale isn't from the USA Name a country then, if you think there's one where some gangster isn't trying to lowkey subvert the state and take anything of value that it holds, and a solid middle-class constituency that either openly cheers for them or personally dislikes them but lends them material support regardless. That is the stakes in the story, it's not some manichean battle of good and evil against the shadowy anime villain and his henchgoons who're threatening to disrupt the status quo; all the well-meaning bourgeois characters are also ultimately on his side, whether they know it or not, because he is the status quo that they depend on for the little things that make up their lives, whether that's the money to keep their homes or just a sense of belonging. That's a conflict that could be papered over so long as the underclass protagonist didn't openly challenge the system and it all just came down to personal niceness at no real expense to themselves, now it can't be. Petunia's the most ideologically bougie character in the comic, but Boris straight up feeds off of popularity, he's gonna stay a rebel when word gets out that he's housing terrorists? A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Nov 4, 2017 |
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Boris straight up feeds off of popularity Boris is the size of his own self-image, not the size of the crowd. He's ego-driven, not popularity-driven.
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As I cause wizard to Woah I'll try and sum up my thoughts I think my issue comes up to this (And this is basically personal preference): I found When the focus and scope of the story was small, it was nicely balanced and the fact of the world being kinda crappy was an interesting backdrop and influence to the story. Now we are reaching the point that Kingdoms are getting involved the scope of our interaction with the story is still Mostly Poppy's rather keyhole like interpretation, which feels like we've widened the conflict but the slice of it we are getting is still so small (duh that's a protagonist but poppy's so narrow and bullheaded) which dosen't engage me in the same way the gang turf wars or Lilly's desire to be a doctor do.
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The switch to this prose/comic format has made the pacing significantly worse and I can't put my finger on how.
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Morbi please make the next update full comic style, no words, just full smackdown 
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Oxxidation posted:The switch to this prose/comic format has made the pacing significantly worse and I can't put my finger on how. It's probably because it takes a reader longer to consume it. Reading a full page of text is a more active exercise than reading a comic, which can usually be easily interpreted at a glance, barring dialogue. The actual content being delivered is way more dense, though. In 12 updates, I've told the same amount of plot that was originally going to take between 20-30 to do, and that's not including the stuff I was planning on cutting down to streamline the script back when it still was a comic outline, like most of the Boris scene and Hallia's voice mails. And yeah, we're hitting the first full-comic page next update. That's still the most practical way I feel I can present action scenes.
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This markov generator has become indistinguishable from the twitter account it's parodying https://twitter.com/jeph_ebooks/status/927136067454607361
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I don’t really get how this related to webcomics but I need to know if this is a thing I can actually buy
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Fortis posted:I don’t really get how this related to webcomics but I need to know if this is a thing I can actually buy Here you go
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This is so upsetting I think my immune system reacted to it.
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ahahahah this rules
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I refuse to believe he drew that.
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There's another print in the store that looks surprisingly decent, completely unlike anything I've ever seen Buckley draw. I'm shook
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He's improved to the level of tumblr nintendo fan. That's good enough I guess.  hmmmm tho. How's he not being C&D'd if he's selling em? Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:How's he not being C&D'd if he's selling em? lol nintendo does t actually care about metroid’s IP
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Synthbuttrange posted:He's improved to the level of tumblr nintendo fan. That's good enough I guess. I think as long it's not flooding the market and not passing as an official Nintendo product, it's ok. I do often see Pokémon fanart and trinkets being sold at conventions without problems.
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Tim Buckley ...good? The end of a webcomic era, coming from the Keenspaceous period and now the end of the Lossassic
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That era ended when he successfully became a father.
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It seems it's never too late to decide you can actually try to improve.
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I remember, ages ago, he did some what interesting and competent artwork This was around or before the great CAD ending of whenever the gently caress And then he never put effort into anything again
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That reminds me of that one time Dobson made some Harry Potter print or something and some people accused him of tracing a photo of big ben from Wikipedia, so in response he made a video of him freehanding the entire thing and it turned out he was actually just that accurate when using a reference. People were all "holy poo poo, he can actually draw?"
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Yep. About thirty seconds later, it turned into "and he draws that?"
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Yeah Dobson seems like a guy who can actually draw real well if he tries but just settled into his lovely high school style. I remember some timeline thing he posted once and you could see a lot of improvement while he was in school and a lot of regression afterwards.
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The Property of Hate Kickstarter is in its last few days, and it's just a few thousand short of its goal. Guess it won't be hitting that Reprint Volume 1 stretch goal that I was hoping for.
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I think it's funny that Tim Buckley is a father now. I'm proud of him!
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Jess Fink won an Ignatz award- good for her! It's nice to see web based creators getting recognition.
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FunkyAl posted:I think it's funny that Tim Buckley is a father now. I'm proud of him!
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PMush Perfect posted:Sometimes, childbirth can be as hard on the woman as on the man. you laugh now but this kid is going to be some kind of gaming messiah in 32 years
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also i just want to point out it's gonna be loving weird for that kid when they discover loss
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