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Glagha posted:Yeah, I can see that but I'm pretty sure that's just Duane's thing. Like he uses extremely purple prose and references theater all the time. He's a giant nerd. Duane is a giant nerd, and worse, he's a highly educated giant nerd who adores the Continental tongue, so he speaks like someone who was born with a university English department shoved up his butt. e: he's still not alone in that, though, the dialogue in Unsounded definitely suffers from an overabundance of affect.
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Calaveron posted:Isn't Penny arcade done by unpaid interns now There's never been any confirmation but the art's become so uneven that it's not an unfair guess.
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darthbob88 posted:As cliche as it is to say, whoa Poppy. this prose is really bad
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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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Nov 4, 2017 23:46
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God dammit, Avshalom.
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Nov 10, 2017 02:03
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Rand Brittain posted:I mean, let's be serious: how many characters do you think will still be alive when the story is over? If anything Rocky's been coming apart faster than anyone else in the cast. In more ways than one!
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Victor seems like an obvious choice for first major character death, maybe Mordecai and Serafine/Nicolai somewhere down the line. The three adorable kids, not a chance in hell. They'll be hit by some hardships, like Rocky's injury, but I think Tracy Butler is too pure-hearted and too enamoured with them for them to actually kick the bucket. The comic has a whimsical streak that's absolutely integral to its tone and what makes it enjoyable for the author to make in the first place, and having one of those three die would kill that part of the comic 100% dead. The whimsy's kind of been gone for a while, except maybe when the Savoys are around. It's still plenty goofy in side-strips but for like half the main comic's run it's just been steadily deepening poverty, desperation and moral turpitude. Even Rocky's gone from "ha ha" funny to "strained chuckle while eyeing possible escape routes" funny.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Has it really though Considering he did that after absconding from her dorm room with a gaping head wound, I'd call that a "strained chuckle" kind of moment. All of Rocky's antics have gained this nasty edge after he hinted at why he had to leave town in the first place.
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Jan 28, 2018 17:21
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Cat Mattress posted:http://www.scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20180306 i give props to allison for going "sigh guess i'll have to continue my comic that i wanted to quit, i'll just make a whole new cast of next-gen characters and you will love them all"
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Lurdiak posted:The kid is 15, 6'2" jesus christ
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Stormgale posted:Woah... poppy. it's the latter, her eyes are still focused on the boulder she was punching and not on the incoming hand
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i feel like stand still stay silent may be wrapping up unless some serious chicanery happens on the way back to jolly old iceland
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ava's demon has probably the most repellent cast i've ever seen in a webcomic that wasn't about videogames ava herself is merely stammering and passive but absolutely everyone else is so awful
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May 24, 2018 18:17
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Tenebrais posted:Well they are fifteen. the millennia-old demon aliens are horrible too! and so is the robot of indeterminate age and gender, though they do (well, did) have a fantastic haircut
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:SGR: I’m trying to think if there’s anything worse than being the Guy Fieri of unboxing. I guess maybe being a rapist, maybe. but you repeat yourself
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Samuringa posted:It's more of a South America thing, I reckon? One Hundred Years of Solitude, House of Spirits, Like Water For Chocolate. its most well-known originator was colombian but at this point it can't really be claimed by any one culture
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Samuringa posted:Oh, my bad, didn't mean it to be about cultural appropriation, just that I couldn't think of works like that outside of that region. salman rushdie's the first one that always comes to my mind
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May 30, 2018 19:25
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Vonnie posted:Welp, Poppys dead. at first i thought you meant the comic itself and my next thought was "finally, took long enough"
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Jun 1, 2018 17:31
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apparently she also tried to solicit doxx of the person who called her out on it? webcomics drama is a dismal scene
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Jun 11, 2018 14:26
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rip ava's demon, slain by the "AND THEN THEY ALL hosed" bird
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Jun 11, 2018 22:06
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Zebra Girl matured about as deftly as any other webcomic I've seen. The only other one that pulled itself out of zany-comedy doldrums into more intricate storytelling with as much success that I've read is Sam & Fuzzy, which never really left the humor behind.
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we have spent eight months on a single fight scene i clock this as a comic update rate of 0.35 paranaturals
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awful hospital just had a crucial enemy encounter whose outcome was dependent on the commenters submitting a lengthy and cogent plea in emoji it was a resounding success
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Parts Kit posted:Yeah some poo poo is going down. i haven't kept up with vattu in a long time but i read up to the latest update and ohhh dear, this is all going to get a lot worse before it gets better
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Sep 7, 2018 13:23
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the fact that vattu is so much more grounded than rice boy and order of tales is making the plot way more inescapably bleak, too there's no kind of mystic quest that can save you from politics
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neogeo0823 posted:Like that one guy from waaaay long ago who kept singing that Bah Ram Ewe song from back around the gang fight story. fazzi's lucky star gives her vocal chords squarewave properties so it's probably like getting serenaded by a fax machine
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iospace posted:That's one of those webcomics I should totally read but haven't it sputtered out pretty badly
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Oct 22, 2018 15:27
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Tollymain posted:where are you getting this idea from lmao i'm not talking about breaks, the strip-to-strip pacing started to suffer badly from chapter 4(?) onward it suffered from the same issues Paranatural had, they just didn't set in quite as quickly
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Oct 22, 2018 19:48
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the one strip where a person sees peter pan outside and he says "flying is easy, you just have to think positive thoughts" and the person quietly shuts the window, draws the blinds and goes to bed
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Nov 15, 2018 20:40
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also largely obsolete now that the concept of the singularity has been superseded by imminent climate apocalypse
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the only two comics i've seen that successfully transitioned from zany early-oughts Jhonen Vasquez fare to actual drama were Sam & Fuzzy and Zebra Girl, and while the latter did it with more elegance the former managed to stay reasonably funny even after the change
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Nov 29, 2018 16:47
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it's gone the dr mcninja route of taking absurdist concepts and incorporating them into a functional narrative framework (in S&F's case it's mostly about the disintegration of identity and morality) instead of just jazz-handsing at a ninja polar bear or a malevolent refrigerator and waiting for the APPLAUSE sign to light up whether or not it's successful is a different matter but at least it shows significant growth on the creator's part
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Kojiro posted:Oh heck yeah, heard too much about people dying at 50 after working on manga on 3 hours sleep a night to gently caress up in that particular manner sounds like an upside to me
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Joe Slowboat posted:How well do you have to know them? when you think about it, do any of us really know anyone
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Tollymain posted:lmao pascalle lepas is ramping the horror in previous chapters of wilde life w a burning monster truck cliff's life seems unpleasant
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neogeo0823 posted:This is completely off topic, but I'm intensely curious. Why do you seem so... engrossed? No, obsessed? Maybe. I guess infatuated, with the general concepts and ideas of egg laying, birds/chickens, anal... reverse birthing? Unbirthing? And webcomics and people/yourself being bodily intertwined? It's just, such a weird gimmick to have. I'm not trying to like, call you out or anything, I genuinely wanna know at this point. question not the ways of avshalom
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