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Renaissance Robot posted:I was going to say "what's gay about Poppy" before I remembered the answer is "at least one B-list and maybe one C-list character". As of today's Poppy, I wish to formally retract this opinion and adopt Morbi's instead, ie that this comic is super gay. I mean, the last panel might actually be even gayer than the chapter cover
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Tollymain posted:i've tried to come up with a way to describe it and all i can think of is "dr seuss but with grotesquerie instead of whimsy and also the artist is a furry probably?" I'd say it's like a combination of Jack and Goblins, only in a good way. I sort of like grotesque, exaggerated art and I think it deserves a fair shake.
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:I tried it and it's oscillating between verbose and pedantic. A successful pastiche.
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May 17, 2016 20:48
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:I tried it and it's oscillating between verbose and pedantic. I tried it and it's loving awesome with a fantastic mix of dry wit and low comedy.
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May 17, 2016 20:53
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ReagaNOMNOMicks posted:I tried it and it's oscillating between verbose and pedantic. It's going for a Jack Vancian flavor. I think it works.
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Actually reading it, yes, it is a good Fafhrd and Gray Mouser pastiche. The dialogue and pacing feel right out of the stories, just with swears. And penises. e: And that was all  Again, there should be against linking interesting comics still in their infancy.
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May 17, 2016 20:55
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Actually reading it, yes, it is a good Fafhrd and Gray Mouser pastiche. The dialogue and pacing feel right out of the stories, just with swears. And penises. Hey, the more eyeballs the sooner the artist will probably set up a Patreon and maybe do more pages a week. vvv Nah, he's still doing it. He posted it on /r/fantasy earlier today, that's how I found it. Megazver fucked around with this message at 21:11 on May 17, 2016 |
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May 17, 2016 21:05
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A lot of neat comics end about 30 pages in, that doesn't mean those 30 pages aren't worthwhile or enjoyable.
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May 17, 2016 21:08
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yeah says it updates Sundays. So, agonizingly slowly, I'll have forgotten it exists in two weeks, but still updatingPick posted:I'd say it's like a combination of Jack and Goblins, only in a good way. I'm going to start describing every comic like this
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May 17, 2016 21:16
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Actually reading it, yes, it is a good Fafhrd and Gray Mouser pastiche. The dialogue and pacing feel right out of the stories, just with swears. And penises. One of the Fafhrd & Gray Mouser stories involve stealing a treasure from a house that is made of a central tower with two small dome-shaped wings. The author had a foreword where he basically said "I somehow didn't realize just how phallic that was when I wrote it."
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May 17, 2016 21:35
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Pick posted:I'd say it's like a combination of Jack and Goblins, only in a good way. Having read and in a very tortured way enjoyed both of those comics in my youth, I'm not sure that's possible. I can't even begin to imagine what you mean.
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May 17, 2016 21:39
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Pick posted:I'd say it's like a combination of Jack and Goblins, only in a good way. wat
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May 17, 2016 22:06
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Well I guess it's too high-level for me. I'm already barely coping with Achewwod.
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May 17, 2016 22:19
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Renaissance Robot posted:Having read and in a very tortured way enjoyed both of those comics in my youth, I'm not sure that's possible. I can't even begin to imagine what you mean. Specifically the art style. A lot of highly-emotive monstrous beings with a 90s western-animation feel, combined with high-detail backgrounds with heavy linework (and intensity of linework fairly consistent from the background to the foreground). I don't think there's enough plot yet to characterize any aspect of it.
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May 17, 2016 22:38
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Kramjacks posted:These creatures seem to cry a lot. 
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May 17, 2016 23:00
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:yeah says it updates Sundays. So, agonizingly slowly, I'll have forgotten it exists in two weeks, but still updating Does the comic have an RSS feed? I don't use them, because I am a loving luddite, but that would remind you each time it updates right?
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May 17, 2016 23:10
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Not lumpy enough, a shameful parody 3/10
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May 17, 2016 23:15
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Yeah, but like, I like emotive work? I'd much rather read melodrama with a lot of crying and at least attempts at deep feeling--love, distress, etc--than something detached.
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May 17, 2016 23:28
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Pick posted:Yeah, but like, I like emotive work? I'd much rather read melodrama with a lot of crying and at least attempts at deep feeling--love, distress, etc--than something detached. Agreedo. People are too shy about sentimentality sometimes.
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May 17, 2016 23:43
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Renaissance Robot posted:As of today's Poppy, I wish to formally retract this opinion and adopt Morbi's instead, ie that this comic is super gay.  Is about the best summary I can give of Poppy's monday update. Also for added humor, I was referring back to the harlequin romance novel chapter cover. I hadn't noticed previously the Quibble & Moonshine author logo. It really takes the whole thing to a new level of "aside from the animal people I can totally picture this in a Walmart".
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Captain Oblivious posted:
Give it like five years and this would totally fit right in at Wal-Mart. It deserves to be
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Captain Oblivious posted:
I spent like an entire week just googling trashy vintage romance novels to get the exact look I wanted for that cover. It was the best.
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Android Blues posted:Agreedo. People are too shy about sentimentality sometimes. It feels weird to read comics where the characters are more blase about their own situations than I am as the observer. Hell, I've had to cut a lot of my dispassionate friends out of my life in the last few years because being around their apathy is so contagiously dispiriting. If that leaves me constantly refreshing Cucumber Quest and Bittersweet Candy Bowl then so be it  .
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May 18, 2016 00:35
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So beautiful.
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Morbi posted:I spent like an entire week just googling trashy vintage romance novels to get the exact look I wanted for that cover. The Walmart near me literally has a full section with a bigass HARLEQUIN sign above it containing exactly these kinds of books and I can tell you that your research was not in vain 
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In light of recent Rat Queen events, Spike Trotman sent out a call for webcomics with tough ladies and got a lot of suggestions: https://twitter.com/Iron_Spike/status/732458382746091520 some of which are "eh" but there's a lot of winners in there.
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fritz posted:In light of recent Rat Queen events, Spike Trotman sent out a call for webcomics with tough ladies and got a lot of suggestions: https://twitter.com/Iron_Spike/status/732458382746091520 some of which are "eh" but there's a lot of winners in there. wait what happened with rat queens?
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May 18, 2016 01:26
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Wifebeater's back on board
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SynthOrange posted:Wifebeater's back on board Possibly was never truly off, in fact. Author kept supporting him and one of the new artists wants nothing to do with the series, to the point that she's selling off the old artwork to not have it around anymore.
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Pick posted:It feels weird to read comics where the characters are more blase about their own situations than I am as the observer. Hell, I've had to cut a lot of my dispassionate friends out of my life in the last few years because being around their apathy is so contagiously dispiriting. If that leaves me constantly refreshing Cucumber Quest and Bittersweet Candy Bowl then so be it having some demonstrative characters who clearly give a poo poo about what's going on is p key to making a story great, but some kid's epic fantasy comic is almost certainly not a great work capable of selling any of that, and a lotta comics out there go with the drama equivalent of the slasher movie bimbo who can't go three steps without tripping over something. there's not really a good way to fail at writing sympathetic characters but there's at least one profoundly obnoxious way. also if you're loving with like Vattu here in favor of... that thing I will fight you also also that's a real good list and I've never heard of any of those A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 03:57 on May 18, 2016 |
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Hey that reminds me, is Thunt still dead? I remember that being a running gag back when the bad thread was remotely readable
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TwoPair posted:Hey that reminds me, is Thunt still dead? I remember that being a running gag back when the bad thread was remotely readable Vaguely related, what was that one weird but kind of endearing fantasy webcomic that was gone over in the Bad Webcomic Thread, about...Okay I know how generic this is going to sound, but it was about a bunch of animal people and it had like, color pencil style colors. The main character was this really hosed up looking Cat Knight with a messed up ear and eye who was half senile and also the best character.
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Burkion posted:Vaguely related, what was that one weird but kind of endearing fantasy webcomic that was gone over in the Bad Webcomic Thread, about...Okay I know how generic this is going to sound, but it was about a bunch of animal people and it had like, color pencil style colors. Harkovast
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May 18, 2016 04:32
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I legitimately and truly like Harkovast.
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Tollymain posted:i've tried to come up with a way to describe it and all i can think of is "dr seuss but with grotesquerie instead of whimsy and also the artist is a furry probably?" This is the vibe I'm getting. It's unsettling to look at.
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Pick posted:I legitimately and truly like Harkovast. So do I. It's not even a guilty pleasure it's just a nice thing to read. It feels super sincere. Thanks Fortis!
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May 18, 2016 04:41
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is harkovast done by the same person as the 'the eye! the mouth! the eye!' comic or just someone who draws very similarly
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Burkion posted:So do I. It's one of the few comics that has made me laugh out loud, and that's when Sir Muir was fighting the lizard guy who is all up for some ~revengeance~, but neither recognizes the lizard guy nor in fact even really knows where he is  .
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