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Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Webcomics





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Runa
Feb 13, 2011

the old ceremony posted:

it's essential that the form and function of the woman's bared breasts adhere to the laws of the video game

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

the old ceremony posted:

see this is the problem with turning your webcomic into a game, you attract gamers

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Acebuckeye13 posted:

RIP drilpencils

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

People find Oglaf erotic?

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

I just kind of lose track of it when it goes on hiatus, it just sort of happens

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Regy Rusty posted:

My first webcomic was Megatokyo

:shepicide:

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Bad Machinery is awesome and the rest I only know about through osmosis

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

What is it with people calling the bulk of their stories "prologues" anyway?

Have some confidence in your work, the story begins when you start telling it.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Jackard posted:

Maybe that really is the prologue though..?

Are you sure it wasn't just an independent story arc preceding a timeskip with an ending labelled END OF THE PROLOGUE designed to get readers to go "holy poo poo that was just the prologue?! :asoiaf:"

People have gotten dangerously close to stripping the word "prologue" of any meaningful, and therefore useful, definition.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

PMush Perfect posted:

God, I missed you.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

It's funny but it's a very unsettling kind of funny.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

NatGeo illustrations were loving lit

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

They ran afoul of TREE LAW

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

That sounds like a pretty mild take on Erfworld to me.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Yeah reading webtoons on my phone is a bunch of swiping to get past unused white space. Reading them on pc is worse. It's kind of a pain in the rear end.

Feels like what happens when people realize they don't have to plan their page composition around physical constraints and so just sort of gave up.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

lol kazerad

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Nuns with Guns posted:

The Chili's giftcard thing was a one-off joke suggestion a friend gave him for contributing some thing to some contest project Kazerad was working on iirc. His friend actually contributed something to that for free. However, he did put in some hardcore man hours throwing up the "actually it's about ethics in gaming journalism" smokescreen because /co/ likes his comic. And does weird poo poo like setting up google alerts to ping him whenever he's mentioned anywhere because he can't not look at people talking about him and I wish he'd gently caress off.

Heh, explains why its so easy to page him.

But yeah as it is, prequel is exactly what it's going for, however kind of gross that goal (catperson misery porn) might be.

Still, the national political throughline from gamergate, to pizzagate, to Qanon, to storming the Capitol definitely makes any past pro-gamergate remarks embarrassing as hell at a barest minimum.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

K6BD is hard to beat.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Tenebrais posted:

So someone in the PYF comics thread linked to this:

Clown Corps

And I'm loving it. It's both very silly and self-aware while taking its concept of a crack squad of crime-fighting battle clowns entirely seriously. Comic good.

This (cl)owns

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

At risk of being reductive, Clown Corps is basically My Clown Academia but as it turns out that's exactly my poo poo, who knew

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

You hate to see an art gaffe

With what we know about dinosaurs, diego brando's stand form should have feathers

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

If my scrolling thumb gets tired then it's a bad format for me.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

To be more precise, Megalovania was composed for an Earthbound romhack first.

Though its inclusion in Homestuck is almost certainly what cemented it as Toby Fox's calling card.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIowwZThIXM

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Captain Invictus, the fact that you're constantly trying to shoehorn anime into conversations without warning or prompting reflects poorly on your judgment, to say nothing of your willingness or lack thereof to spare a brief second of consideration for the people already present in the spaces you're inserting yourself into.

But you already knew that, because people have told you this before.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

TwoPair posted:

omg let the dude post about manga if he wants to, at least its actual content instead of more stuff about the same old comics that get discussed here all the time, or even better, posting about posting.

I mean if you actually want my opinions on Helck I think it's one half funny gag manga about an overpowered hero in the vein of one punch man and one half by the numbers fantasy adventure and unfortunately those two halves are clearly delineated by the point in the story where it starts to take itself seriously and loses its impish creative spark.

Also I'm pretty sure half of us already do post in ADTRW and I know where to go if I want to get opinions about the upcoming 2022 summer anime crop, but this is the place I lurk when I want to bask in petty sniping over years old arguments about gunnerkrigg court.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

And that's terrible

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

No it isn't that was a bit, keep living your truth jeph

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

oh no, I loved minus

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Alaois posted:

wilde life looks like a porno comic someone removed all of the pages of hardcore sex out of

lmao

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

It is possible to be ace but also gay or straight. It's also possible to be ace and married, as being asexual does not necessarily mean being aromantic and it's possible for ace people to want the companionship and emotional intimacy of a marriage while largely disregarding the physical aspects they're not interested in.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

disposablewords posted:

https://swordinterval.tumblr.com/

Ben Fleuter's reposting Sword Interval in a not-Webtoons format, going to do a chunk of 10-15 pages weekly looks like. Good opportunity to give it a look if you haven't before, or an excuse to reread it.

oh hey, was always curious about this and the webtoon format was a hard pass

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Joe Slowboat posted:

Do you mean specifically the kind of mystery box show where there isn't actually a solution in mind at the start, or just any show driven by a weird mystery at the core? Because I can think of plenty of shows I'd call 'mystery boxes' that worked fine because they started with a clear idea what the solution would be.

When people refer to "mystery box" writing it's usually a direct reference to a Ted Talk by JJ Abrams where he admitted that his technique for writing a successful show is to lure people in with promises of getting to see inside a metaphorical "mystery box" to get their attention and then keeping them engaged with promises of showing them what's in the box regardless of whether or not you actually thought about what you were going to put in there. It was his metaphor for writing in such a way as to string the audience along without necessarily having an actual story to tell.

He talked about it like it was a career-changing life hack, and to a degree it was. In so far as it was him explaining how he took advantage of the naivety of audiences for trusting him not to be full of it, and built an entire incredibly successful career on basically the laziest suspense writing imaginable. Unfortunately by admitting this everybody pretty much realized he was a Fraud and now had video proof of how proud he was admitting it, so his mystery box writing trick no longer works. He still continued to write after giving that Ted Talk but he was no longer able to so nakedly rely on his gimmick. His works have not been able to reach the same levels of acclaim and cultural penetration as they did when people were willing to give his writing the benefit of the doubt.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

And everyone who didn't see his Ted Talk saw the end of Lost which demonstrated the flaws with his gimmick anyway.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

The Lone Badger posted:

I thought you made sausage by listening to people speculating about the mystery, picking the best explanation, and making it have been true all along? You get a coherent plot, viewers get to feel smart.

This requires you to be actually clever, rather than merely thinking you're clever, and also not unnecessarily adversarial towards your audience.

So what I'm saying Eiichiro Oda probably does this with One Piece. If not the big picture stuff then sometimes for occasional callbacks to stuff he's forgotten but fans definitely didn't.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

I prefer Brennan Lee Mulligan's work encouraging Zac Oyama to eat imaginary spoiled deviled eggs over Strong Female Protagonist, as well meaning as that comic was.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Dawgstar posted:

This is, as the kids say, a Theme of the comic! You should be iffy! Binky is! Joe said very early on that he was going to look at his silly painted face people as law enforcement and what that means but, as said above, is probably not going to solve problems but it's something he's interested in exploring.

Yeah, exploring the ethics of superpowered law enforcement but filtered through the lens of a literal clownshow is an inspired idea.

At the very least it's unlikely to be as cowardly about it as its clearest and nearest inspiration, My Hero Academia.

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Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Forgot what thread I had open and spent about ten seconds wondering what Tim Sweeney's very specific monomania was

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