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So anyone else floored by the SSSS artist teaching herself how to code in C# all by her lonesome on top of updating her full-color webcomic 4 times a week in order to make her own video-game I mean jesus christ what did she trade Satan for that kind of stamina?
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From the website's blog: quote:Now why did I decide to do this? Frankly, I've always planned on "eventually" slowing down to 4 pages a week, because while 5 pages is doable it's quite exhausting in the long run. Each page takes me about 15-16 hours to finish, so my typical work schedule for the last few years has been almost 80 hours/week just to draw the comic pages. It's a bit of a grind sometimes, especially during chapters that span over several months on end.  This is a person who thinks doing 60 hours a week of work on one project, and an extra day on a different project (that requires learning a new skill from scratch!) is slowing down.
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Nov 29, 2016 22:43
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Pinch Me Im Meming posted:So anyone else floored by the SSSS artist teaching herself how to code in C# all by her lonesome on top of updating her full-color webcomic 4 times a week in order to make her own video-game I mean jesus christ what did she trade Satan for that kind of stamina? Forget stamina, she must have wrists of tungsten to be able to draw that much at that level of detail.
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Nov 29, 2016 22:49
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When you say "I want to be a mangaka when I grow up!" and really loving mean it
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Nov 29, 2016 23:25
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I was going to ask if the comic was her main job but then I saw that it takes her around 15 hours to finish a comic and she's been spending 80 hours a week every week for the past few years doing this and suddenly it seemed like a silly question. Holy poo poo.
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Nov 29, 2016 23:39
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Captain Oblivious posted:This guy raises a lot of questions just by existing. He seems to be a long tailed opossum, not a short tailed. I would have expected there to be a few short tail families of wealth and prestige, given Our Boy Freddy, but a long tail comes as a surprise. I'm curious how his family overcame both institutional disadvantage and sheer lifespan disadvantage to hack it in upper crust society. I didn't know there were ethnicities of animal people to keep track of within species. I would of thought with orders of magnitude more species to keep track of than races in the real world, there wouldn't be that much room to find meaning for intra-species differences.
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Nov 30, 2016 00:15
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SlothfulCobra posted:I didn't know there were ethnicities of animal people to keep track of within species. I would of thought with orders of magnitude more species to keep track of than races in the real world, there wouldn't be that much room to find meaning for intra-species differences.
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Nov 30, 2016 00:47
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SlothfulCobra posted:I didn't know there were ethnicities of animal people to keep track of within species. I would of thought with orders of magnitude more species to keep track of than races in the real world, there wouldn't be that much room to find meaning for intra-species differences. Short tailed opossums have SOME magic and buy the mainstream creation myth that lambasts the opossum goddess as an evil traitor. They're "the good ones" to a degree. Given their whole society runs off magic that's also a big deal. Having any magic is way different than "literally antithetical to magic".
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Nov 30, 2016 01:22
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I don't know why it would be this conversation of all the dozens you guys have had about Poppy over the years, but it inspired me today to start reading the comic Pretty good so far
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Nov 30, 2016 01:33
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I'm 5 chapters in now and thoroughly hooked. Can someone give me the lowdown on what happened with chapter 3? When/why did it get added?
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Nov 30, 2016 03:29
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Regy Rusty posted:I'm 5 chapters in now and thoroughly hooked. I believe it ran between (the current) Chapter 4 and Chapter 5, because Morbi needed to introduce some things that would come into play later, like the smuggler opossums and introducing Chicadino, or show some things like Lily's eye getting fixed.
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Nov 30, 2016 03:40
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Pyroclastic posted:I believe it ran between (the current) Chapter 4 and Chapter 5, because Morbi needed to introduce some things that would come into play later, like the smuggler opossums and introducing Chicadino, or show some things like Lily's eye getting fixed. That's precisely it. It was pretty disorienting at the time. People reading nowadays are getting the way better version. I did a reread recently and it flows nicely.
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Nov 30, 2016 05:23
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Yeah I was asking because the Chicadino stuff seemed so crucial that I had a hard time imagining what it had been like going from 2 to what is now 4. Also I love the name Chicadino it makes me chuckle every time
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Regy Rusty posted:Yeah I was asking because the Chicadino stuff seemed so crucial that I had a hard time imagining what it had been like going from 2 to what is now 4. I really enjoy that, thus far, Chicadino is simply a pragmatic rear end in a top hat that is hyper conscious of the fact that wasting resources on petty grudges is a good way to ruin everything. Still a horrible person, possibly even a monster if he's intentionally complicit in the poo poo alluded to in the recent intermission, but yeah. Good characterization.
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Nov 30, 2016 07:24
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I'm not sure if he is a monster, considering how small potatoes the schemes we've seen so far. Sure, he was running an insurance scam and he's probably involved in the blood smuggling, but it's a long way from that to actually supplying the stuff or being involved with little miss eldritch horror. He's got his fingers (er, feathers) in a lot of unsavory pies, but more than anything he's just been trying to keep his head down while he does the books and keeps his money flowing in, and he's pretty charming about it to boot. All we know is that he knows way more than he lets on.
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Nov 30, 2016 07:53
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SlothfulCobra posted:I'm not sure if he is a monster, considering how small potatoes the schemes we've seen so far. Sure, he was running an insurance scam and he's probably involved in the blood smuggling, but it's a long way from that to actually supplying the stuff or being involved with little miss eldritch horror. He's got his fingers (er, feathers) in a lot of unsavory pies, but more than anything he's just been trying to keep his head down while he does the books and keeps his money flowing in, and he's pretty charming about it to boot. His goons have been shown to consider murder as perfectly on the table in day to day business so lets not undersell the guy here. How much of a bastard he is really depends on the depth of his involvement with Poda though. Poda is horrifying.
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Nov 30, 2016 08:58
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He's clearly involved in some way with the destruction of the monastery, given that that was accomplished using the stolen god's blood and that he mentioned near the beginning of the comic that he was going to take over Fennecland soon and it was the destruction of Fennecland's supply of dragon's blood that allowed him to become Prime Minister. Edit: Anyone want to start the countdown until Poppy punches Chicadino so hard his socks fly off? The Lone Badger fucked around with this message at 11:02 on Nov 30, 2016 |
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Speeeeeaking of webcomics, I have a new one! So here I go, pimpin' my poo poo. Don't hate the player, hate the game! My strip is called Kobayashi Maru, a satirical sci-fi/adventure comic comic poking fun at you-know-what-trek. If you enjoyed my comic Weapon Brown, ye might dig my new project as well. I hope you'll let me know what you think! 
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Regy Rusty posted:Yeah I was asking because the Chicadino stuff seemed so crucial that I had a hard time imagining what it had been like going from 2 to what is now 4. Originally, the major events of the gang war chapter (Poppy meeting Chicadino, getting the debt resolved, introducing Charlie/Harley/Fazzi, etc.) was going to take place after the dragon one, but I realized partway through the chapter that it would make a lot more sense during the period where Poppy's arms were hosed up, so I could set up a few things in a more satisfying manner. I was also kind of stressed out at the time, and a big dumb jokey story was exactly what I needed. I've been really glad to hear that most new readers never even notice it was added retroactively, better art aside.
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Death Ray posted:Speeeeeaking of webcomics, I have a new one! So here I go, pimpin' my poo poo. Don't hate the player, hate the game!
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Nov 30, 2016 12:32
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I think they're actually both naked, he's just got stripey skin Why are they both naked
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Nov 30, 2016 12:35
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You guys have never read a Jason Yungbluth comic before, I take it.
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Nov 30, 2016 12:59
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Forgall posted:why is she naked She was obviously waiting to use the showers, but the the shower stall was locked up, so she called the hamburglar to open it up, and both were surprised to find out it was occupied by kung-fu fighting skeletons. Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Nov 30, 2016 |
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Nov 30, 2016 13:00
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Forgall posted:why is she naked you're asking the man who wrote a story where cyborg charlie brown had sex with little orphan annie in a post-apocalyptic wasteland why he drew people naked?
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I mean, I don't mind. I'm just curious.
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Nov 30, 2016 14:20
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Wow that's a lot of casual racism / rape jokes when I check that site out. Maybe cool it on the South Park marathons, mate.
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Nov 30, 2016 14:35
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Morbi posted:Originally, the major events of the gang war chapter (Poppy meeting Chicadino, getting the debt resolved, introducing Charlie/Harley/Fazzi, etc.) was going to take place after the dragon one, but I realized partway through the chapter that it would make a lot more sense during the period where Poppy's arms were hosed up, so I could set up a few things in a more satisfying manner. I was also kind of stressed out at the time, and a big dumb jokey story was exactly what I needed. Honestly if it weren't for the author notes at the bottom saying it was added later, I might not have noticed anything at all. It flowed quite naturally! Anyway thanks for the explanation. I'm really enjoying your comic and expect I'll be finished catching up today.
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Nuns with Guns posted:you're asking the man who wrote a story where cyborg charlie brown had sex with little orphan annie in a post-apocalyptic wasteland why he drew people naked?  what
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Wrist Watch posted:
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Nov 30, 2016 15:37
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Oh poo poo he's the guy that did weapon brown? That thing was awesome! Super hosed up obviously, but a real page turner. Cracking art too. e/ I just now noticed he says that in his post, in my defence I was reading on my tiny phone before and also have the stupid head from a wicked cold 
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Nov 30, 2016 17:26
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Yeah, I bought it in print along with some of the extras like development work. I'm still not sure how he can do it. My first thought upon seeing that page was, jeez, that's way too much detail you'll never be able to keep it up. Then I saw it was JY and I was like, never mind! Actually, it was the thumbnails for panel compositions which were my favorite part. He has a really good eye for it. Got to say I'm not particularly keen on the content, but I felt the same way about Redtail's Dream and I bought that too  .
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Agean90 posted:look up weapon brown I read a little of it and it seems like it owns, but that whole "loving little orphan Annie" thing has me wary of sticking with it. I mean, I'm going to anyway because I never got to play Doom when I was younger and playing it recently opened my eyes to a whole new world of ultraviolence that I never knew existed, and this looks like it'll scratch that itch until I upgrade my pc to a level where I can play it again
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Cat Mattress posted:She was obviously waiting to use the showers, but the the shower stall was locked up, so she called the hamburglar to open it up, and both were surprised to find out it was occupied by kung-fu fighting skeletons. Um, thank you! I thought I made it clear, but people be all "I don't know a Hamburglar when I'm lookin' at one"!
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Wrist Watch posted:I read a little of it and it seems like it owns, but that whole "loving little orphan Annie" thing has me wary of sticking with it. The Annie character is just a woman with blank eyes and curly hair, not an actual little orphan girl.
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Straight White Shark posted:The Annie character is just a woman with blank eyes and curly hair, not an actual little orphan girl. Yeah there's plenty of hosed up things happening in WB, but it is an adult woman named Annie.
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Nov 30, 2016 19:18
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Clarissa, on the hand, is like ten or something
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Just Offscreen posted:Yeah there's plenty of hosed up things happening in WB, but it is an adult woman named Annie. She's an adult alt-reality version of little orphan annie, same as the other comic strip children in weapon brown Not So Fast posted:Wow that's a lot of casual racism / rape jokes when I check that site out. Welome to hell, aka underground comix
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Nuns with Guns posted:She's an adult alt-reality version of little orphan annie, same as the other comic strip children in weapon brown Comics....but spelled with an x? At long last I have found media hip and with it enough to "rap" with me, as the youths do...!
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I refuse to click that link now, but this is starting to sound like exactly the kind of poo poo 14 year old me would have been really into, then looked back on years later and realized in retrospect that it's actually really loving weird and questionable. So, yeah, just skipping straight to the last step there.
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I don't regret backing the kickstarter one bit, but I certainly couldn't recommend it to everyone here.
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