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My ideal comic would probably be Eric Nylund's Mortal Coils books in a visual format
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SGR hiatus update:John Allison posted:*** Upcoming, in order subject to change *** He also notes a switch back to larger sized pages, but also going to a M-W-F schedule.
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Jul 2, 2018 21:14
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My dream webcomic would be a science fiction story with a carefully designed premise that is not pastiche and also with an ending.
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Jul 3, 2018 03:46
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My dream webcomic would be Digger 2: I Just Want More Digger, or Homestuck But With An Editor.
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Jul 3, 2018 03:55
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bob and george but with more effort
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Jul 3, 2018 04:01
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A gaming webcomic that both updates frequently and is good. I know that's a wild dream, you can only have one or the other. Okay that one was a joke, my dream comic would be one that takes the piss at comics, like DC and Marvel (or other) ones. Wonderella kind of scratches that itch but what I'm really thinking is what if Gutters but written by not a total hack.
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Jul 3, 2018 04:27
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Bongo Bill posted:My dream webcomic would be a science fiction story with a carefully designed premise that is not pastiche and also with an ending. A soft sci-fi comic that's set post-singularity, and looks at how that world runs by making a slice-of-life set there. Seems like a neat way to explore a setting without getting to caught up in navel-gazing. Questionable Content but brave/interesting.
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Jul 3, 2018 04:34
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My dream webcomic is my own webcomic, actually starting the dang thing, and also for someone to start posting it in the bad webcomics thread without anyone realizing it's mine
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Jul 3, 2018 04:34
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Bongo Bill posted:My dream webcomic would be a science fiction story with a carefully designed premise that is not pastiche and also with an ending. One Way?
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Jul 3, 2018 04:47
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The closest I'll ever see to my platonic webcomic ideal is Concerned, the half-life and death of Gordon Frohman. Unlike many webcomics, it knew how to end.
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Jul 3, 2018 15:26
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Dream webcomic for me I think would just be something partway between Cheap Thrills and Octopus Pie in writing/tone but gayer and set in like a small/medium size town that could resemble someplace I've lived.
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Jul 3, 2018 16:30
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My dream comic involves someone discovering a secret magical society and promptly doing everything possible to blow that thing wide open or tear it down. Stuff like Fables or any story involving a fantastic world of magic that exists hidden in our own just bothers me more and more as time goes on.
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Jul 3, 2018 17:11
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that seems like kind of a dick move
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Jul 3, 2018 17:16
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A.o.D. posted:The closest I'll ever see to my platonic webcomic ideal is Concerned, the half-life and death of Gordon Frohman. Unlike many webcomics, it knew how to end. I'm still in mild shock that it ended. You're right, though.
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Jul 3, 2018 17:20
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I want a comic that is the movie I fervently hoped, with little real expectation, that Prometheus would be. Team of researchers, abandoned alien planet, lots of ruins porn, lots of big questions. Dark corners, immense machinery with unknown or unknowable purposes. Definitely a reference to Shelley's Ozymandias.. I guess maybe I could go reread Rendezvous With Rama again...
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Jul 3, 2018 17:22
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Ofaloaf posted:My dream comic involves someone discovering a secret magical society and promptly doing everything possible to blow that thing wide open or tear it down. gently caress I’d read that.
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Jul 3, 2018 17:31
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Tollymain posted:that seems like kind of a dick move And all those skills and data kept squirreled away! Just imagine how many lives could be saved if the Secret Society of Magical Beings shared healing spells or whatever the gently caress. Shapeshifting involves controlled changes in mass and anatomy- I dunno, depending on what sort of fantasy shapeshifting is being used, I'd imagine that some of the principles of that could be used to treat cancerous cells. Hell, just being able to magically produce fire or lightning could do wonders for the reduction of all sorts of harmful power generation by substituting a nuclear reactor for a magical really hot fire that keeps a steam turbine going, even if it requires paying some wizard real high wages to keep that fire going. There's a discussion in there about whether it's moral to keep patently useful information stuff secret and used for only an elite community, and there's a followup to that about what's right to share and what controls should be applied where, but that latter conversation can't be fairly had without that former one being settled first.
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theres also the part where generally speaking humans are dangerously paranoid apes and blowing this kind of thing wide-open would go very poorly imo
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Jul 3, 2018 18:30
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The hidden species in these stories are always assholes tho.
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Jul 3, 2018 18:36
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sometimes its like real life where mostly its just the ones in charge and their useful idiots
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Jul 3, 2018 18:39
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The Big Bad in a lot of stories comes from within those magical communities. Voldemort's a wizard, pretty nearly all the villains in Fables are fables themselves, etc. The actions taken by these antagonists also often have an effect on regular people, be it through direct violent actions or spillover, but these victims or their relations are rarely ever shown any sort of justice.
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Jul 3, 2018 18:45
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Ofaloaf posted:They're magical gated communities with a wealth of information and skills and sometimes Actual Literal Wealth which they have consciously chosen to keep strictly to themselves. They're inherently more powerful than us and are commonly shown to still interact with the Regular World and influence it, but instead of submitting to our common laws they sometimes even apply their laws to common people without letting folks even know what's going on- in Harry Potter, regular folks get zapped with memory charms plenty, which seems like a really gross violation of a person if you try to take the concept seriously. Oh hey look it's the plot of the first season of Legend of Korra. Edit: didn't mean to make that come across so dismissively. Just suggesting that you check out that show if you haven't already.
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Jul 3, 2018 18:47
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Korra dropped that plot like a sack of bricks, though. And the benders, while innately having a leg up thanks to bending, aren't really a secret world.
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Jul 3, 2018 18:55
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Yeah, there's something really classist about normal people being some lesser beings incapable of understanding or dealing with the things that the class of ~special~ people deal with. All the muggles are just annoying herds of cattle to be redirected from anything supernatural to not disrupt the natural order. Of course, it's an interesting dynamic for the lower classes to be totally unaware that the upper classes exist. Might make a good metaphor for the the futility of the american dream.
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Jul 3, 2018 18:57
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SlothfulCobra posted:Yeah, there's something really classist about normal people being some lesser beings incapable of understanding or dealing with the things that the class of ~special~ people deal with. All the muggles are just annoying herds of cattle to be redirected from anything supernatural to not disrupt the natural order. thats not what i said at all tho
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Jul 3, 2018 19:01
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Ofaloaf posted:Korra dropped that plot like a sack of bricks, though. And the benders, while innately having a leg up thanks to bending, aren't really a secret world. The benders are actually kinda exactly like your example of if the wizards in Harry Potter just took manual labor jobs.
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Jul 3, 2018 19:07
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That actually brings up something that bugged me about How To Be A Werewolf, which I think I've seen in some other urban fantasy webcomics too. I find it kinda bit weird that apparently being a werewolf makes it so that you can heal from any normal human illness, like brain damage or tumors. And it's possible to call in a favor to get a werewolf to bite the sick person and make everything better. Something feels off about being able to save someone you like or think is special enough to be inducted into your secret society and everyone else can get hosed.
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I'd like to see a take on The Water Margin set in the Pacific Northwest. It could work as an anthology.
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Nuns with Guns posted:That actually brings up something that bugged me about How To Be A Werewolf, which I think I've seen in some other urban fantasy webcomics too. I find it kinda bit weird that apparently being a werewolf makes it so that you can heal from any normal human illness, like brain damage or tumors. And it's possible to call in a favor to get a werewolf to bite the sick person and make everything better. Something feels off about being able to save someone you like or think is special enough to be inducted into your secret society and everyone else can get hosed. Yeah, this bugged me, too. The author seems to have made so many very thoughtful worldbuilding details that I'm kind of surprised it's not addressed. I feel like this could get explained away if there was like a limit to the number of werewolves that one werewolf could turn? Or if there were significant risks in the turning process - high chance of death or something even if an experienced werewolf did it.
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Ofaloaf posted:They're magical gated communities with a wealth of information and skills and sometimes Actual Literal Wealth which they have consciously chosen to keep strictly to themselves. They're inherently more powerful than us and are commonly shown to still interact with the Regular World and influence it, but instead of submitting to our common laws they sometimes even apply their laws to common people without letting folks even know what's going on- in Harry Potter, regular folks get zapped with memory charms plenty, which seems like a really gross violation of a person if you try to take the concept seriously. Does a civilization ever have the right to go uncolonized? The global south has vast mineral wealth, enormous pools of labor, exotic spices and medicines, and some really nice beaches they weren't really making optimal use of before the British and Spanish introduced them to the greater good. You can just find the magical land of Original Character Do Not Steal grating and masturbatory without dressing it up.
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stab stabby posted:Yeah, this bugged me, too. The author seems to have made so many very thoughtful worldbuilding details that I'm kind of surprised it's not addressed. I feel like this could get explained away if there was like a limit to the number of werewolves that one werewolf could turn? Or if there were significant risks in the turning process - high chance of death or something even if an experienced werewolf did it. I’m pretty sure she’s mentioned risk before as being a big factor if you just bite folks at random because if it doesn’t go right they die. Just, that doesn’t really matter when your other option is inoperable malignant brain tumor.
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Jul 3, 2018 21:54
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Does a civilization ever have the right to go uncolonized? The global south has vast mineral wealth, enormous pools of labor, exotic spices and medicines, and some really nice beaches they weren't really making optimal use of before the British and Spanish introduced them to the greater good. Yeah you can gently caress right off with this bullshit
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Jul 3, 2018 21:59
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Does a civilization ever have the right to go uncolonized? Yes
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Dogwood Fleet posted:I'd like to see a take on The Water Margin set in the Pacific Northwest. It could work as an anthology. I'd be happy with a decent take on The Water Margin.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Does a civilization ever have the right to go uncolonized? The global south has vast mineral wealth, enormous pools of labor, exotic spices and medicines, and some really nice beaches they weren't really making optimal use of before the British and Spanish introduced them to the greater good. Dumbledore teaching a muggle how to make fire is definitely the same as the immeasurable suffering of countless people due to European Imperalism. This was a smart post to make in response to a legitimate criticism of a fantasy trope.
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Jul 3, 2018 22:38
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Mors Rattus posted:I’m pretty sure she’s mentioned risk before as being a big factor if you just bite folks at random because if it doesn’t go right they die. It's implied that it can go bad, but that's weird too because something going spectacularly wrong in a hospital sounds like a great way to blow the cover right off the masquerade.
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Jul 3, 2018 22:46
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I mean, who'd want to read a story about an insular subculture that fears the scrutiny of the mainstream?
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Jul 3, 2018 22:47
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i would also love to read that story but instead its someone who gets rejected from like, a skull and bones society but with magic and makes it their mission to ruin their club meetings every week out of petty revenge e: actually dibs
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Jul 3, 2018 23:04
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fun hater posted:i would also love to read that story but instead its someone who gets rejected from like, a skull and bones society but with magic and makes it their mission to ruin their club meetings every week out of petty revenge Isn’t that what you’ve already been writing
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from now on everyone has to write a tale of petty revenge gone terribly wrong, for my sake
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