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Poison Mushroom posted:It's like having cereal for breakfast. Not particularly exciting or important, but once you're in the habit, there's not really a reason to stop? This is basically how I feel about QC, and a few other comics that remain in my feed for no special reason. It's kind of fun, isn't going to annoy me unreasonably, and doesn't consume much time. Overall it is a reasonable entertainment transaction, like when we used to watch an okay television show that came on between two other shows we wanted to watch, back when shows being on at specific times was a thing. Someday some really amazing comic might push it out of the list, but until then it isn't hurting anything in there, and it makes me smile, so what the hell.
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I don't think I had ever heard of it before I saw another webcomic link to it, but there's apparently a popular comic about hockey called Check Please. It's made a quarter million dollars in a week.
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Thank you for reminding me about 'Ultracar' eugh.
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Pyroclastic posted:I don't think I had ever heard of it before I saw another webcomic link to it, but there's apparently a popular comic about hockey called Check Please. This is how the comic appears if you go to their site.  For gently caress's sake people, stop hosting webcomics on tumblr if you aren't going to go through the effort of writing/obtaining css to make it actually readable without clicking through each panel individually unless that is specifically the design you're going for. This just makes me feel like I got bait and switched; I thought I was going to read pages of a comic, not click through a slideshow. It could easily be fit into a normal sized page too, it's just chopped up for...reasons, I guess. I read a little of it and it looks like it's "catering to tumblr" the webcomic but say what you will, they raised three times the amount their first kickstarter did in four days so good for them I guess? I can't find anything the author's done to raise such a fanbase besides this comic, so good for her I guess.
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That hockey comic's been posted in this thread before but I don't think it got a lot of traction. Good on them, IMO. I found a bunch of new artists at SPX this year, one of them's Amelia Onorato: http://ameliaonorato.com/comics/index.html who has a few completed short comics up: http://sorgincomic.tumblr.com http://ameliaonorato.com/bridgesofarta/?id=1 http://fortesfortunacomic.tumblr.com http://ultimathulecomic.tumblr.com/post/118067696551/page-1 and i haven't read the others.
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Another (ongoing) comic that's really good if kind of slow is Sylvania: http://sylvaniacomic.com
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Wrist Watch posted:This is how the comic appears if you go to their site. I know both io9 and The Mary Sue promoted the hell out of it when its Kickstarter went online. That's where I found out about it. I've got it bookmarked in my "to read" pile, but yeah the godawful formatting on its host tumblr is really off-putting. Also, if we're plugging cool webcomics, here's one I found a few months ago that's kind of flown under the radar that's about to start it's sixth chapter after like a 3 month delay: Color Blind. It's a pretty nifty fantasy webcomic that does some fun things with colours/grayscale and it's all done on pen and paper. The art and story start out a little rough, but it's gotten incredibly good lately on both fronts.
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fritz posted:Another (ongoing) comic that's really good if kind of slow is Sylvania: http://sylvaniacomic.com i found out about here a little while ago, she did the art of my favorite paradox space comic. i agree her comic is pretty good, but the pacing, both in comic and out feels glacial
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So, might be jinxing it but I think Rules of nature is about to ensure in Kiwi Blitz.
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ConanThe3rd posted:So, might be jinxing it but I think Rules of nature is about to ensure in Kiwi Blitz. Has anyone actually died in Kiwi Blitz yet? Also yeah, I can see this situation going horribly awry for Steffi very quickly. Gear probably is the one character in the comic who would just straight up kill someone on screen. Plus Jones has kind of been Ramsay Bolton-levels of great at playing people off one another and tooling the good guys in a way that doesn't look like it's changing any time soon.
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nine-gear crow posted:Has anyone actually died in Kiwi Blitz yet? Not as far as I can recall, the closest we've gotten is the security guy who got stabbed by Gear in track 9.
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nine-gear crow posted:Has anyone actually died in Kiwi Blitz yet? Also yeah, I can see this situation going horribly awry for Steffi very quickly. Gear probably is the one character in the comic who would just straight up kill someone on screen. Plus Jones has kind of been Ramsay Bolton-levels of great at playing people off one another and tooling the good guys in a way that doesn't look like it's changing any time soon. Honestly I feel like Jones is a good example of a villain who's dangerous because she isn't really all that smart and I hope she doesn't degenerate into genuine competence.
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nine-gear crow posted:Has anyone actually died in Kiwi Blitz yet? Also yeah, I can see this situation going horribly awry for Steffi very quickly. Gear probably is the one character in the comic who would just straight up kill someone on screen. Plus Jones has kind of been Ramsay Bolton-levels of great at playing people off one another and tooling the good guys in a way that doesn't look like it's changing any time soon. Mary's gone on record saying that we're in the last 25% of the story so maybe this is the start of the Return of the Jedai turn for the heroes? At the very least that sword is probably going to do something of worth before Gear gets to make Steffi's day even worse. ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Morbi posted:Latchkey Kingdom fuckin rules I accidentally read the last page first but even as a one panel comic this is hilarious.
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Renaissance Robot posted:I accidentally read the last page first but even as a one panel comic this is hilarious. 
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The mechanics of how souls and ghosts work in Poppy unfortunately mean that this comic can't fit into canon... But in my heart, I absolutely want to believe Mary has attempted to fellate a ghost at least once.
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Morbi posted:The mechanics of how souls and ghosts work in Poppy unfortunately mean that this comic can't fit into canon... Is it because the ghostly tail thing starts above the waist? 
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Renaissance Robot posted:Is it because the ghostly tail thing starts above the waist? 
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101 Ways to Do It with Incomplete Equipment: A Mary Moonshine Mack Manual
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Morbi posted:But in my heart, I absolutely want to believe Mary has attempted to fellate a ghost at least once. Well really, who hasn't?
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Gutter Owl posted:Well really, who hasn't?
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I think Mary is doing a little more than that, unless completely derobing then diving under the covers is what all the kids are doing nowadays prior to fellatio and I'm just really out of touch.
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Holy crap, why have I not heard of The Last Halloween until now (spoilers, it's cuz I didn't watch Strip Search at all, I assume). I love it, totally up my alley, really great monster design. Anything else out there like it?
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MockingQuantum posted:Holy crap, why have I not heard of The Last Halloween until now (spoilers, it's cuz I didn't watch Strip Search at all, I assume). I love it, totally up my alley, really great monster design. Anything else out there like it? have you read her other comic: https://www.jspowerhour.com/ ?
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Hogge Wild posted:have you read her other comic: https://www.jspowerhour.com/ ? I just started it, yeah. Not quite as appealing to me as The Last Halloween was, but still good.
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MockingQuantum posted:Holy crap, why have I not heard of The Last Halloween until now (spoilers, it's cuz I didn't watch Strip Search at all, I assume). I love it, totally up my alley, really great monster design. Anything else out there like it? I enjoy it, though sometimes it's a bit too... internet-y? Flippant? Love the art, though. For other cool/weird creature designs, try Aphelion, Kill Six Billion Demons, and Ectopiary. Not at all similar in tone, and none of them except KSBD update regularly, though.
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I was scanning through my subscriptions for the post above, and I came across Hobo Lobo of Hamelin, a beautiful and ambitious project that last updated ~2 years ago and I presume to be dead. I also have fond memories of the extremely flawed Hero: a story - a comic about sexual tension between pretty anime boys that, due to its format, managed to be peaceful and absurdly wordy at the same time. What failed comics were you all disappointed to see unfinished? Particularly ambitious or experimental ones.
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i remember when i was a teen there was something called flatwood i think? there was so much black ink used in the art the protagonist felt like negative space, and it was sort of surreal/dreamlike and then it stopped updating and then the domain lapsed
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I think the big one for me is Reman Mythology. Another was this comic I can't remember the name of, but it was about three bros who get teleported into the middle of some intergalactic hijinks involving ~mythical armor~. There was an arc about gladiator fights in a prison complex. The more I try to describe it, the dumber it sounds, but it was oddly engaging. I think the author got 3/4 through his story before he just stopped updating. stab stabby fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Oct 1, 2016 |
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Goodbye Chains was a neat historical comic about train robbing, dialectal materialism, homosexuality, and single-minded revenge in the late 1800s American west. Ended up collapsing three years ago due to a creator breakdown. The real tragedy is, that link goes to a tumblr page now, mostly full of years-old bitching from jilted fans. The original site had an extensive, well researched, and witty page of historical notes, which can now only be party recovered on the Wayback Machine.
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Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name still makes me bitter. It wasn't super experimental, but I loved the occasionally somewhat art deco style of the whole thing. I will never understand why Stone just dropped off the face of the earth one day.
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DreamShipWrecked posted:Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name still makes me bitter. It wasn't super experimental, but I loved the occasionally somewhat art deco style of the whole thing. I will never understand why Stone just dropped off the face of the earth one day. She's apparently done it so often with projects in the past that it's borderline pathological. Seems to be sticking with her latest comic, but I don't know how much it updates.
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Not Drunk Enough updates twice a week with reasonable regularity.
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Oxxidation posted:She's apparently done it so often with projects in the past that it's borderline pathological. I don't know how many is too many but iirc, she's discarded two or maybe three longform webcomics? Plus a few projects that she only posted on her devianart. I don't think there's anything deeper there, tho, than her getting bored with the project. She seems to derive most of her fun from bouncing characters off one another, like most of HinaBN, so when that gets repetitive I guess there's not much reason to go on
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Just learned about a comic called Zana, about an alternate future world where South African apartheid never ended and now white 'royals' run all of africa, mixed-race 'urbans' presumably live in cities, and dark 'tribals' live in what amount to rural ghettos. And the Royals are...unpleasant, in the two pages they've appeared. I'm reminded of Belgian Congo. Only a few pages so far, and the art's really nice.
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The art is the only thing good about that comic. Your explanation is good but I'd add in that the girl I assume is the main character is a half black/white girl, an edgy 16 year old who's introduced as thinking ancestry and religion and rituals are like, totally bunk man. The white royalty encourage villages to periodically do a literal I feel like there's a reason most sci-fi stories throw their thinly veiled racism analogues behind aliens or fantasy races or whatever.
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http://picturesforsadchildren.com/ huh.
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Remind me what his malfunction was? PFSC was really good.
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