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Grantaire posted:
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Do we know what she's going for?
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Sep 22, 2014 23:27
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I'm assuming Poppy's reaching for her heart medication in her bag. The Queen's a shareholder of the pharmaceutical company it comes from.
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Rincewind posted:Expecting to Fly has been so, so good. By far my favorite of the between-Bad Machinery arc comics he's done. Expecting to Fly is a lot of fun, though, and it just got started!
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Hi guys I'm told this is the place to go when you actually like webcomics, so I'd like to share with you one of my favourites. It's about two roommates and their wacky adventures, their relationships, and their sexual expression. It's called Moon Over June! The comic is usually pretty  but don't worry, I'm only going to post the worksafe stuff.   Before you think it's all violet on violet, those are just the earliest strips and the artist eases into full colour at strip 45-47 and on.  As you can tell Summer isn't exactly what you would call a role model, but she's an interesting flawed character to watch grow.
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Thank you for sharing.
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Hi, GBS webcomics thread. How are you all?
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Elissia posted:Hi guys I'm told this is the place to go when you actually like webcomics, so I'd like to share with you one of my favourites. It's about two roommates and their wacky adventures, their relationships, and their sexual expression. It's called Moon Over June! The comic is usually pretty Funny story, the previous iteration of this thread hated on moon over june so much that we hurt SuperHappy's feelings. This happened in like... 2011? It's cool if you like it though.
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Luke Johnson posted:Funny story, the previous iteration of this thread hated on moon over june so much that we hurt SuperHappy's feelings. This happened in like... 2011? It's cool if you like it though. I think I may be the only other person who actually does. Probably not for the same reason though.
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Hi, GBS webcomics thread. How are you all? Hi. We're sorry about the MoJ, have some Moogles:    
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Elissia posted:I think I may be the only other person who actually does. Probably not for the same reason though. Okay I'm actually curious why you like it. Are there jokes in the speech bubbles? I can't read them because of my bad eyes.
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Moddington posted:Hi. We're sorry about the MoJ, have some Moogles: We are not, in fact, sorry.
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Luke Johnson posted:Okay I'm actually curious why you like it. Are there jokes in the speech bubbles? I can't read them because of my bad eyes. Sometimes there are, yeah. It's mostly the art and anatomy though. It's all got a surreal not-quite-human feeling to it that draws me in. A comparison was made in the other thread about MOJ is probably what you would get if you fed a machine a couple sitcoms and loads of lesbian porn and then told it to make a comic about humans.
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I finally binge-read Ava's Demons. I didn't realize it'd be so quick to read, If it were six panels a page it'd only be like 200 pages.
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From what I've seen, Moon Over June is basically Least I Could Do but with lesbians, and the smug faces replaced with really bizarre faces.
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Elissia posted:Sometimes there are, yeah. It's mostly the art and anatomy though. It's all got a surreal not-quite-human feeling to it that draws me in. A comparison was made in the other thread about MOJ is probably what you would get if you fed a machine a couple sitcoms and loads of lesbian porn and then told it to make a comic about humans. For some reason, I think you would like forming.
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SlothfulCobra posted:From what I've seen, Moon Over June is basically Least I Could Do but with lesbians, and the smug faces replaced with really bizarre faces. All I needed to know about MOJ, I learned from watching doubleDildoMachine.gif
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Bell_ posted:Giant Days had Susan Ptolemy. After reading today's page I guess that a) Erin did rat out Shelly, and b) Shelly followed through on her threat, or that even the threat of a curse is enough to banish a person to hell, eventually. Plus backstory got revealed, but who cares, Allison referenced a SGR story.
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Rincewind posted:Expecting to Fly has been so, so good. By far my favorite of the between-Bad Machinery arc comics he's done. I agree, it inspired me to read everything again from the beginning starting with Bobbins Dang that second last panel, I guess someone was listening http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20140923 edit: same as what the guy above was referencing Vesi fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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Can someone briefly explain what the relationship is between Scarygoround, Bad Machinery, Bobbins and all the rest, because I have absolutely no idea what they are, why there's so many or where to start and the new reader section does nothing to change that.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Can someone briefly explain what the relationship is between Scarygoround, Bad Machinery, Bobbins and all the rest, because I have absolutely no idea what they are, why there's so many or where to start and the new reader section does nothing to change that. Bobbins is an office-comedy strip. Scary-Go-Round is a supernatural horror comedy featuring some of the same characters and set at an indeterminate amount of time later. Bad Machinery is an occasionally supernatural kids-solving-mysteries serial set six years in the future featuring minor characters from Scary-Go-Round. Expecting To Fly is a miniseries featuring the Scary-Go-Round characters in high school.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Can someone briefly explain what the relationship is between Scarygoround, Bad Machinery, Bobbins and all the rest, because I have absolutely no idea what they are, why there's so many or where to start and the new reader section does nothing to change that. It's all chronological. Start with bobbins. The early stuff is pretty awful and it takes him a bit to find his groove with the writing, and he loses whatever "artist" he has partway through. You can kind of watch his style go from talking heads in a blank panel to the actually pretty great looking stuff he puts out today. Then read SGR which is generally really good. Then read BM. The new bobbins stuff you'll hit reading through BM, but once you get to the end of it you can read specifically that stuff with the link if you want. It's just a shame that Expecting to Fly means you can't read Giant Days anymore. That arc was quite good. Anyone who's read them know if Her and the other one are worth dropping a couple bucks on for a pdf or something?
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:Can someone briefly explain what the relationship is between Scarygoround, Bad Machinery, Bobbins and all the rest, because I have absolutely no idea what they are, why there's so many or where to start and the new reader section does nothing to change that. They're all centered around the same fictional UK town of Tackleford and take place in roughly this timeline: Expecting to Fly, Bobbins, Scary Go Round, Giant Days, Bad Machinery Bobbins was John Allison's first webcomic and SGR immediately followed it up. Originally SGR had a different cast in the same setting but a lot of Bobbins characters eventually returned. When SGR ended he started Bad Machinery, which takes place 3 years later and is largely centered around a different cast but SGR characters still show up occasionally. Giant Days takes place during the 3 year span between SGR and Bad Machinery and is about one SGR character at college. Expecting to Fly is his latest 'side story' and is about the Bobbins/SGR cast in high school. Recently he has also been doing short strips focusing on SGR cast memebers who aren't really a core part of Bad Machinery using the Bobbins name, but those are separate from the original and are distinguishable by being short strips that show up periodically in the Bad Machinery archives. Anyway I think I have that right.
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Yeah, I think all of that is more or less it. He doesn't really advertise the connections back to his really old stuff because you don't actually need them to understand what's going on these days and I think he's sort of embarrassed by some of his old work, which isn't surprising after a decade and a half of artistic development. (The first Bobbins strip is 16 years old, almost to the day.) Some of the characters from old Bobbins are still around in the background of Bad Machinery; for example, the current between-cases story, Expecting to Fly, is partly about Shelley Winters, one of the three people in that very first Bobbins strip from 1998. But all you really need to know about her is well established in Bad Machinery itself or in neo-Bobbins. (As is the thing with her sister Erin that has people ooh-ing about today's strip.) I'd recommend starting at the beginning of Bad Machinery, really, and checking out the older stuff if it holds your interest.
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Eldercain posted:Start with bobbins. The early stuff is pretty awful and it takes him a bit to find his groove with the writing, and he loses whatever "artist" he has partway through. The art was 100% John Allison, he just switched it up.
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Gabriel Pope posted:The art was 100% John Allison, he just switched it up. Then what was that weird transition period? I seem to remember a comic about someing leaving the team or something and assumed the abrupt art change to illustrator meant it was an artist. I started reading bad machinery first and it's pretty good by itself, but having come back through and knowing who Mr. Beckwith and amy etc are made some of the stuff like the party at kroptokin's make a lot more sense. You could probably skip bobbins honestly but SGR is pretty drat good and around the giant days arc (not the side story of the same name) he really takes off with it. e: http://www.scarygoround.com/bobbins/index-archive.php?date=20000619 this one Feline Mind Meld fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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Holly is berating John Allison for having taken a hiatus.
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Allison doesn't like to talk about the connection between all his strips because it makes the back-catalogue seem intimidating. His new stuff is made to stand on its own, with the connection to his older comic being just a bonus for long-time readers. But yeah, the main comics go: Bobbins, then Scary Go Round, then Bad Machinery. They were written in that order, and take place in that order, but for quality, I recommend them in the opposite order:
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Old bobbins is really pretty bad and easily skippable. That said, the man has come so SO far. Giant days owns but I think without having read SGR it wouldn't be nearly as good since about half of it is exploring a character from that series. Has anyone here read Her or Murder She Writes? With how good his side storied have been I want to know if I'm missing out.
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Eldercain posted:Old bobbins is really pretty bad and easily skippable. That said, the man has come so SO far. It's been ages since I've read either of them, but I remember Murder She Writes being really charming and good. Her was a perfectly serviceable story in the vein of the SGRs of yore, IIRC (I really don't remeber it that well), but it wasn't super memorable.
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Murder She Writes plops Shelly and Lotte in an Agatha Christie style whodunit. I don't remember Her at all. That! was pretty good, if you like the idea of Shelly running around in a classic 50's monster movie.
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Eldercain posted:Old bobbins is really pretty bad and easily skippable. That said, the man has come so SO far. I don't think I've read Her (or you confusing it with THAT? Because it's pretty darn good), but Murder She Writes is absolutely wonderful. And apparently there's going to a be a sequel. 
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Old-school Bobbins is kind of like the Tackleford equivalent of pre-party Achewood, in that everybody's there but their characterization is a bit off. What always stood out in particular to me was how Ryan used to be known as Ryan Beck and he was treated as "that one Hanna-Barbera character that everybody ditches" during a holiday storyline; he's sure come a long way since, considering he and Amy are the only two characters that have stayed in the spotlight since Bobbins. I guess JA and I have the same favorite characters  The best decision Allison ever made was to ditch the focus on Rachel and Tessa completely early on in Scary Go Round, considering I couldn't even remember their names when I wrote this post. I still can't believe it's been nine years since I first started reading it; I was going into the eighth grade at the time, for Pete's sake. The sense of charm I got from the strip then still holds when I read whatever comes up on scarygoround.com today. Leroy Dennui fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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howe_sam posted:Murder She Writes plops Shelly and Lotte in an Agatha Christie style whodunit. I don't remember Her at all. Oh, I was getting Her and THAT confused, I guess. I have literally no idea what Her is, then.
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And again: if you haven't read any of this stuff, just read Bad Machinery. John Allison would probably be horrified to see everyone trying to disentangle it all for you. He's said that he hates how the back-catalogue can scare people away from the newer work he's more proud of. (Or, if you're up for a humongous archive binge and watching an artist grow, the SGR archive is here. These two links are the only places you need to bother with considering, as a new reader.) Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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Rincewind posted:Oh, I was getting Her and THAT confused, I guess. I have literally no idea what Her is, then. Yeah I'm probably confused on it too. All I remember is the title is a pronoun that is basically useless to google. Think I might go pitch the 3bux or whatever it is to allison for the right to read Murder She Writes since nobody gives much of a gently caress about the other one. Leroy Dennui posted:Old-school Bobbins is kind of like the Tackleford equivalent of pre-party Achewood, This is basically spot on. Maybe even pre-cats achewood.
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howe_sam posted:Murder She Writes plops Shelly and Lotte in an Agatha Christie style whodunit. I don't remember Her at all. Her was the one where Shelley fought giant insects in a mid-american town whilst on a book tour. Also bobbins is kind of rubbish (which is easy to remember because that is what bobbins means).
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I've come to realize through seeing his twitter quoted repeatedly by people I follow that KC Green is basically the Woody Allen of webcomic artists, and I don't mean that as a compliment.
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mr. stefan posted:I've come to realize through seeing his twitter quoted repeatedly by people I follow that KC Green is basically the Woody Allen of webcomic artists, and I don't mean that as a compliment. .....Does KC have an adopted daughter we should be worried about?
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