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MockingQuantum posted:Hey, there's a webcomics thread. I shouldn't be surprised. Spacetrawler ended, and the creator's done two since then--one where the character art experiment wasn't very successful, but the story was alright, and another one that's apparently winding up soon. He just announced last week that Spacetrawler is coming back, though!
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MockingQuantum posted:Hey, there's a webcomics thread. I shouldn't be surprised. Paranatural isn't as grim as Broodhollow and SSSS can get, but it tackles paranormal monsters as well; it has more of an Earthbound approach to the tone/writing. A Ghost Story is a good horror/comedy comic, too, that doesn't lean on absurdity as much as Paranatural. Sword Interval is just gearing up into a spooky horror story and overall seems like an interesting paranormal investigation/monster hunting comic so far.
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MockingQuantum posted:Hey, there's a webcomics thread. I shouldn't be surprised. Did you finish reading Starslip? Because it ended in 2012 and its grand finale was, well, a work of art.
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In the post-ap + supernatural creepiness genre, take a look at Derelict. Same author as Sword Interval.
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MockingQuantum posted:Any others along those lines that I absolutely have to read? 
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Nuns with Guns posted:Paranatural isn't as grim as Broodhollow and SSSS can get, but it tackles paranormal monsters as well; it has more of an Earthbound approach to the tone/writing. Really the horror comes to how ether incompetent, egotistical, or Bad at thier Job any empowered adult (Agent May excluded) is.
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I'm sexy
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Jul 11, 2016 09:54
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Holy lol That's probably some sort of record.
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Can someone do a recap of what all happened in this first chapter? I don't wanna go through 2800+ comics to do it myself.
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Man bites dog. Also some stuff about robots gaining personhood? Honestly that seemed like kind of a B-plot.
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Cat Mattress posted:Holy lol 
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nimby posted:Can someone do a recap of what all happened in this first chapter? I don't wanna go through 2800+ comics to do it myself. Sam Starfall scammed himself a GMO AI anthro-wolf space-engineer named Florence while living on a planet colonized by humans. They have zany adventures getting Sam's orbital shuttle spaceship working. They meet some AI robots, who it turns out had their brains modeled on the same design as Florence's brain. Then they find out that the robots are under threat of being permanently lobotomized by a program originally designed as a failsafe against robot revolt/runaway by an evil corporate executive who hopes to take over ownership of the robots' assets. They eventually convince the colony to allow the robots to live freely and independently de jure (instead of de facto, which had been happening on a small scale as robots bought themselves out rather than be scrapped) and thwart the executive's plans. Oh yeah and somewhere in there the wolf engineer started dating a human veterinarian. There's other stuff that happens in there too, and I'm probably forgetting a couple of plot arcs.
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I suddenly no longer feel that insecure about how long it's taking me to get Poppy through Act 1 of 4
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Also Sam scammed an entire planet out of the whole deal so that his species will have something when they achieve space travel instead of humanity getting everything.
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I feel like "Thus endeth Chapter 1" here somehow takes the crown of Longest Setup For A Punchline In A Webcomic from Clevinger's gag in 8-Bit. But maybe that's just me.
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Morbi posted:I suddenly no longer feel that insecure about how long it's taking me to get Poppy through Act 1 of 4 This makes me happy because it means Poppy will be around for a long time. It is a good comic.
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Nuebot posted:This makes me happy because it means Poppy will be around for a long time. It is a good comic. I'm also holding out hope for the sequel: Dr. Lily.
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Sword Interval: Oh. I don't think that that is good.
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The Lone Badger posted:Sword Interval: Oh. I don't think that that is good. no, definitely not. Eight young male ghosts, seems like that's the two named freshmen plus the six unidentified but mutilated male corpses that were retrieved from the flooded ruins of the hall. Harry Tamerlane might be the ghost in the top right corner, and Francis Redmond looks to be the one in the dead center of the bottom row. Guess we'll get to find out what happened to them pretty soon...
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Meanwhile in Witchy, Nyneve has a perfectly reasonable reaction to some weirdo smelling you.
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So, ok, wait a minute. In Poppy, apparently Friedrich's spectral arm is actually just a semi-astral-projection that only encompasses the arm, and he can pull his whole spirit out and send it somewhere... But in the dragon fight, he powered up and summoned like dozens of loving arms. How does that work? Can he split his astral projection? Could he take another one of those power tabs and summon like 6 spectral Friedrichs?
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Friedrich's arms are a creation of the "Soul Patch" prosthesis he has, just like most of the bird characters. This spirit projection poo poo he's doing right now is a complex magical act that requires meditation and would probably violate an EULA. He could split his projection into multiple independent forms as well as any of us could control two bodies at once. Which is to say, probably not well.
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Morbi posted:He could split his projection into multiple independent forms as well as any of us could control two bodies at once. Which is to say, probably not well. If he were a manipulator or a conjurer he wouldn't have that problem.
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So then it's not that his normal arm is simply a half-finished normal projection, there's actually a difference from Friedrich normally summoning his missing arm(s) to fight, and the astral projection stunt he's pulling right now? I get it now, thanks Morbi!
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Wilde Life: Darcy's pretty great.
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Captain Bravo posted:So, ok, wait a minute. In Poppy, apparently Friedrich's spectral arm is actually just a semi-astral-projection that only encompasses the arm, and he can pull his whole spirit out and send it somewhere... Forget about Friedrich's arm; let's talk about how cute the seal operator is.
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Her flattering comment to Friedrich shows that she is a seal of approval.
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Catching up on long-running joke-a-day webcomics makes me wish I was reading anything besides Penny Arcade circa 2003.
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MockingQuantum posted:Catching up on long-running joke-a-day webcomics makes me wish I was reading anything besides Penny Arcade circa 2003. What is with this thread and deliberately torturing itself with poo poo it doesn't enjoy.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:What is with this thread and deliberately torturing itself with poo poo it doesn't enjoy. It took me a bit to parse that sentence too; he's not saying that he's reading 2003-era Penny Arcade, he's saying he wishes that back in 2003 he had been reading something other than Penny Arcade, because there was so much better out there and he didn't realize it.
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Cat Mattress posted:Her flattering comment to Friedrich shows that she is a seal of approval. You don't want to meet the seal of disapproval.
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The Lord of Hats posted:It took me a bit to parse that sentence too; he's not saying that he's reading 2003-era Penny Arcade, he's saying he wishes that back in 2003 he had been reading something other than Penny Arcade, because there was so much better out there and he didn't realize it. Yeah, that's what I meant, it was poorly phrased.
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MockingQuantum posted:Catching up on long-running joke-a-day webcomics makes me wish I was reading anything besides Penny Arcade circa 2003. I can't believe I used to sincerely recommend vgcats to people.
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Xinder posted:I can't believe I used to sincerely recommend vgcats to people. Oh man I actually read that too, I totally forgot it existed. I also read Checkerboard Nightmare, now that I think about it.
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MockingQuantum posted:Oh man I actually read that too, I totally forgot it existed. Checkerboard Nightmare was amazing, though. Really, everything Straub has done is brilliant, to the point where I'm almost baffled that a single page of text is what got him the big bucks.
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Carrasco posted:single page of text is what got him the big bucks. Whats this?
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Kramjacks posted:Whats this? Well, I don't know if he got "big bucks" for it, but he came up with the Candle Cove thing, which got fairly popular as a 'creepypasta', and then it got optioned. I'm guessing that's what Carrasco is referring to. But, yeah, Straub is a great webcomicsman and I hope we see a bunch more Broodhollow soon.
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I'm always really impressed by just how different Straub's comedy is from his horror fiction. It took me embarrassingly long to connect his various works together in my head.
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