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I was not expecting the 9 Chickweed Lane crossover and hope this is as far as it goes
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All that guy needs to do is punch him in the mouth, which will cause him to lower his arms and reveal the band-aid on his belly button which can be struck for massive damage.
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Sep 5, 2018 23:18
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I just think hippomouth looks too much like Mr. Magoo in that third panel to take him seriously.
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Sep 7, 2018 00:30
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Sep 7, 2018 03:09
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Why they speak. In such way. Short phrases. Such a pain.
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Sep 7, 2018 03:23
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"flag on the moon. how did it get there?"
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Sep 7, 2018 03:31
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Brought To You By posted:Why they speak.
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Sep 7, 2018 03:53
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The final chapter really is the best time for all this
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Sep 7, 2018 04:03
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It doesn't seem to be showing up on the site
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Sep 7, 2018 04:22
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this is why you have to outline your stories ahead of time, this would have been a good scene to start the story with. if the story had actually been about the conspiracy, which it wasn't, it was about clevtrick
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Sep 7, 2018 04:27
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i'm laughing at how he had a big meal and he's clearly tuckered out and ready to nap
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Sep 7, 2018 04:35
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Elephant Parade posted:the ominous dialogue is actually pretty decent; nobody would be complaining about it if it wasn't in Strange Flailing Plotlines Yeah I was absolutely certain this was gonna immediately wind up having been ~a dream all along~ so whatever this is is already miles better than it has any business being Still holding on "the Conspiracy really is a ZOG analogue of shifty outsiders lording over us from the shadows as per every fascist's wet dreams, and Allison will ultimately defeat them with the Mighty Fist of Whitey"
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Sep 7, 2018 04:40
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my passion for this comic has rekindled now it's been confirmed to be on its deathbed, i've really enjoyed the fundamentally harmless kind of fable of hubris and sexual frustration that has been the short sad life of strong female protagonist
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Sep 7, 2018 05:01
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all action occurs offscreen
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Sep 7, 2018 05:04
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and the graceful arc of this thread from love to hate has been beautiful to behold, bless all you wonderful creatures. and nobody got doxxed or stalked or harassed in any way except for when i briefly killed, cooked and ate mulligan irl. a bss success story
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Sep 7, 2018 05:05
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Clevin will defeat old vore man by feeding him all the pasta.
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Sep 7, 2018 05:08
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Elephant Parade posted:the ominous dialogue is actually pretty decent; nobody would be complaining about it if it wasn't in Strange Flailing Plotlines It's not though. It's extremely cliche and has very little impact, because there's no atmosphere to make it work. I hate (I actually love) to compare this comic to Hellboy, but Mike Mignola is a master of taking these kinds of short phrases with ominous implication and making them actually very creepy, and he has to employ a host of methods to do that. Weird camera angles, oppressive gloom, word balloons worming around corners, all the tricks that make sequential art stand well. Though honestly 'pastel babyman says A Meal Now... What Then?' would never work. Because of the soft light and color, the lack of dynamism, the total lack of atmosphere and also the pointlessly archaic and High Drama word pairs.
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Sep 7, 2018 05:13
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What am next?
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Sep 7, 2018 05:22
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That table still only has two legs
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Sep 7, 2018 05:26
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wait a loving minute
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Synthbuttrange posted:wait a loving minute weird. It being a trace or copy/paste isn't really offensive, given that it's internet comix, but why not copy over many of the other details?
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It's cool that they solved(?) the mystery of who had taken over Patrick's superminion network while he was out conspiracy hunting, but I'm not really clear what they were doing with that network. There was graffiti-ing Menace's silhouette on buildings and... taunting Cleaver into attacking Alison? Were they hoping vandalism and one incident of mild super-villainy would make Patrick bust through their wall? Anyway, what other plot points are still left dangling and would ideally receive some resolution by the end? I count the conspiracy, the fake professor, the threat from Max's mom, maybe Mary's apparently ongoing stab crusade, a possible love triangle with Alison/Clevin/Patrick, Alison's dad having cancer, and the success/failure of Alison's app service.
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Sep 7, 2018 05:37
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WAIT WAIT EVEN MORE I JUST REALIZED WHAT ELSE WAS BUGGING ME
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Sep 7, 2018 05:43
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What am I looking at here
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Joe Slowboat posted:It's not though. It's extremely cliche and has very little impact, because there's no atmosphere to make it work. I hate (I actually love) to compare this comic to Hellboy, but Mike Mignola is a master of taking these kinds of short phrases with ominous implication and making them actually very creepy, and he has to employ a host of methods to do that. Weird camera angles, oppressive gloom, word balloons worming around corners, all the tricks that make sequential art stand well. Mike Mignola's version of this whole chapter so far would be two pages. And both of them would be like 50% black ink, at least.
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Sep 7, 2018 05:50
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Burkion posted:What am I looking at here Thats one single chair pasted into three spots. Then the whole scene got copied and pasted again.
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Joe Slowboat posted:It's not though. It's extremely cliche and has very little impact, because there's no atmosphere to make it work. I hate (I actually love) to compare this comic to Hellboy, but Mike Mignola is a master of taking these kinds of short phrases with ominous implication and making them actually very creepy, and he has to employ a host of methods to do that. Weird camera angles, oppressive gloom, word balloons worming around corners, all the tricks that make sequential art stand well. Mignola is one of the top five artists in comics easily and Ostertag struggles daily with the basics of anatomy, perspective, and motion so this comes off like declaring a four-year-old's macaroni art is no Vermeer she just made you a little heart man, say thank you and leave it on the fridge for a couple days A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Sep 7, 2018 |
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Sep 7, 2018 06:10
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Mignola is one of the top five artists in comics easily and Ostertag struggles daily with the basics of anatomy, perspective, and motion so this comes off like declaring a four-year-old's macaroni art is no Vermeer My point is that Mike "Hellboy" Mignola has to go all-out to make this kind of thing ominous. There's a whole variety of tricks available to give something like this more weight; Cliches aren't bad but they do require real skill to breathe life into dead, beaten horses. Mignola has that skill, and that's unusual, while the SFP crew absolutely refuse to recognize that they don't have that skill. The combination of the comic's tonal ambitions and their total lack of effort to realize those ambitions just really stands out here. EDIT: I'll put the heart on the fridge when it has red glitter on it, and some ribbons, and not before.
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happy threatened species day everyone
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Synthbuttrange posted:WAIT WAIT EVEN MORE I JUST REALIZED WHAT ELSE WAS BUGGING ME okay, what the gently caress. I can see that it's just one "plane" of it, that the depth was added per case, but...why?
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Discendo Vox posted:okay, what the gently caress. I can see that it's just one "plane" of it, that the depth was added per case, but...why? Honestly given how hard Ostertag seems to have checked out of the art except when drawing weird monsters, I'm mostly surprised it took this long to see obvious copy-paste jobs to fill in that unnecessary background detail.
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Sep 7, 2018 06:37
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copy/pasting would've avoided the incredible shapeshifting c--- THE CUPS WERE FORESHADOWING GENIUS
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the more I look at the scene the more amazed I am like theres only an inch between the chair seats and the underside of the table yet suit guy is somehow squeezed in there.
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Sep 7, 2018 06:44
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shapeshifter all the dots are connected. everything was canon
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Sep 7, 2018 07:46
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Recycled art elements, which ehhh  It's not super super great but ehhh there's much bigger things to complain about with this comic. e: It''s a good catch though and interesting to see
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Sep 7, 2018 08:46
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The old man is Cotton Hill, the lady is Lisa Simpson, and the thumb man is Charlie Brown.
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Sep 7, 2018 11:29
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Sticking to my theory of first gen super dudes 
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Sep 7, 2018 11:57
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TheHan posted:
If you had told me you swapped thumbelino and cragface lady's faces around on photoshop I'd totally believe you
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Sep 7, 2018 13:15
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The comic still has time for this. In many final acts, there's a sense of, say, urgency.
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Elephant Parade posted:the ominous dialogue is actually pretty decent; nobody would be complaining about it if it wasn't in Strange Flailing Plotlines Nah, the suit man was just using full sentences one page ago. Having them suddenly start speaking in this clipped speech makes no sense and comes across as dumb. This sounds better. quote:"A fool?"
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