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i think most of us never actually get over the first characters we came up with in high school, most webcomicniks just don't admit to it
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why did none of you fuckers tell me about Scoob and Shag
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Jan 25, 2019 02:43
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Dabir posted:why did none of you fuckers tell me about Scoob and Shag pikachode posted:i think most of us never actually get over the first characters we came up with in high school, most webcomicniks just don't admit to it
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Jan 25, 2019 02:49
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pikachode posted:i think most of us never actually get over the first characters we came up with in high school, most webcomicniks just don't admit to it That's not true, David Willis practically brags about it! 
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Jan 25, 2019 04:17
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TwoPair posted:That's not true, David Willis practically brags about it! Nah, those are characters he came up with in elementary school. Totally different.
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Jan 25, 2019 04:44
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Walky is David Willis in brown face. That always got a laugh out of me.
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Dabir posted:why did none of you fuckers tell me about Scoob and Shag
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Dabir posted:why did none of you fuckers tell me about Scoob and Shag so is this dude ripping off Crow Cillers without the gay stuff or is 'nihilistic saturday morning cartoon characters trapped in a dream-logic horror house' just its own genre now A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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Jan 25, 2019 20:36
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Dabir posted:why did none of you fuckers tell me about Scoob and Shag Dear lord, this feels like Tails got Trolled.
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Jan 25, 2019 22:03
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Oh hey it's the CYELATM peeps in ep 42
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whats up everybody i live once more and im here to bring you the latest in webcomic developments i find interesting, like paranatural still being good over in never satisfied, lucy apparently isnt supposed to be able to do this! somehow this manages to answer nothing while opening up new questions. never change corny     (i think somethings weird w the hand positions between pages 2 and 3 here but its still a sick composition)   honestly thats a super pretty first page there  a ghost story debuts one of its most ghosthavingest pages yet. eat poo poo jed lmao and finally over in gunnerkrigg court im sure everythings fine (im sure everythings fine)  
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Jan 28, 2019 15:09
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I swear Parley is getting bigger every time she appears. She's turning into a meat mountain and I love it.
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Jan 28, 2019 15:46
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Gunnerkrigg's so loving dull and I'm not 100% sure it ever wasn't
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Jan 28, 2019 16:38
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Mordja posted:Gunnerkrigg's so loving dull and I'm not 100% sure it ever wasn't The pacing is super slow, which made the whole Loup thing stand out as a weird jump. Honestly I preferred it slow; also if the borderline abusive behavior by Dad Carver gets chalked up to 'he's an awkward person' and that's not really dealt with I'm gonna be very disappointed.
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Jan 28, 2019 16:50
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Previously, on O Human Star: Robots fall into a river. Now, on O Human Star: https://twitter.com/bluedelliquanti/status/1089902260899856387
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Mordja posted:Gunnerkrigg's so loving dull and I'm not 100% sure it ever wasn't it was never exactly fast paced but it had a sort of lowkey spooky childrens' novel tone that worked ok, but now it's gotten into what's apparently supposed to be its climax it's become clear the big reveal is just a long slow sad wet fart A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Jan 28, 2019 |
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General Webcomics Thread For Not Liking Good Things In
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Personally, I like Gunnerkrigg, I just haven't liked this major plot twist/development, in part because of a tonal shift and in part because I think the Carver Sr arc didn't really work out in a way that felt satisfying, and the Loup stuff is getting in the way. If the 'Antimony is doubled' development sets up a confrontation between her wilder and more restrained sides, and maybe deals with her dissociated anger flame-blob, that would be nice... but a weird way to approach it. But wilder, long-haired Annie has a better relationship with her dad, too - he's apparently just awkward and his terrible behavior towards her has been elided.
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Jan 28, 2019 21:41
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At some point, Gunnerkrigg Court switched over from fantastic mysteries to character drama, and that's kinda sad
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:it was never exactly fast paced but it had a sort of lowkey spooky childrens' novel tone that worked ok, but now it's gotten into what's apparently supposed to be its climax it's become clear the big reveal is just a long slow sad wet fart is it supposed to be the climax? i was under the impression were a ways into act ii
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I was onboard for the dad stuff, the dad stuff was always coming and him being an absolute fuckup she just kind of awkwardly tries and fails to bond with rang much truer than some Harry Potter chosen one poo poo where he has a totally valid reason to ditch his daughter and when he finally shows up they get a heartwarming reunion and pick up like they never left off. The whole comic's been kind of a slow arc from mystery kid adventures to tougher interpersonal stuff as the characters grew, and it seemed like there was some kind of payoff in sight. But yeah, it never really goes anywhere and suddenly it's all put aside for The Loup Show, and there's nothing interesting about Loup.Tollymain posted:is it supposed to be the climax? i was under the impression were a ways into act ii maybe? but a bunch of significant threads had just started to come together and if the whole Loup anime battle thing isn't setting the plot in motion to start resolving quicklike it's a of all: a really jarring and apparently pointless digression that hasn't added anything in a bunch of chapters and b of all: forecasting like 50 more chapters of glacially-paced dithering where the story just sort of... meanders along aimlessly. There's not all that much story left to wring out of the fixings Gunnerkrigg has here, and the conflict driving it got a whole lot less complicated than it was when there were vaguely sympathetic characters outside the Court. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Jan 28, 2019 |
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Jan 28, 2019 22:24
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Its story was thrown for a loup.
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Note that for the last few weeks the Loup story has gone on hold to have Annie confront herself, rather literally. If anything this latest arc is mixing the childhood mystery/personal drama aspects pretty well.
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Jan 28, 2019 22:38
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This IS a loup story though, they're dealing with the horrible stupid idiotic situation he's left them.
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Elephant Parade posted:At some point, Gunnerkrigg Court switched over from fantastic mysteries to character drama, and that's kinda sad Around Chapter 2
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And he's, like, made of the same disassociative split-personality issues Antimony keeps coming back to over and over, it's pretty clear how dealing with him's going to go and that this isn't a separate thing.
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Jan 28, 2019 23:24
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I just want her dad to not get off the hook for being a terrible father, but the comic really does seem to be aiming towards 'he's just awkward! You should forgive him for the emotional neglect and the intensely lovely behavior when he did come back, because he's chill now'
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Can anybody tell me the name of a webcomic short story I ran across some years back? It was all in shades of blue and it was a short story about a man who crashed in the mountains and used a zombie as an allegory for cannibalism.
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I mean, while I don't disagree with the GC issues posted thus far, does every plot point really need to be resolved in a conclusive and satisfying way to the reader? Using Tony "Is A Bit Of A Tosser" Carver as an example, yeah, he's been loving lovely to his daughter. There's no getting around that. But from Annie's perspective, which the comic has most always been shown from, it doesn't really matter why he's been lovely. All she wants is for him to accept her and be A Dad to. Last chapter, she got that a bit. Sure, it's not a satisfying end of that problem for us, the readers, but holy crap did it mean worlds to her. If he continues in that direction, then as far as Annie's concerned, who gives a poo poo why he did what he did, he's better now. As for the Loup stuff, this is going on now because Coyote planned it to happen. There's no way he didn't know it would happen this way. Something's going to happen at the end of this, but I don't know if there's enough info right now to figure out what. For now, all we can do is deal with the mess he's made, one problem at a time. The current problem is figuring out the twin Annie situation. No one quite has an answer yet to the issue because no one knows what's up. The characters in the comic haven't had months to mull over every time little detail and nuance that's been presented thus far. They've had, what, about a day? They're trying out ideas and hypotheses as they go and eventually they'll figure it out, like they always do.
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The 'he's just better now, ok' thing is the problem for me: people don't do that. Bad parents don't spontaneously get fixed and never be a problem again, so, if the comic doesn't deal with her father being prone to being incredibly lovely it's either intentionally leaving that ambiguous (which is not the tone right now) or psychologically unrealistic in a particularly frustrating way. Now, maybe it will return to that issue and deal with it! But, uh, this Loup stuff seems like a substantial distraction.
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I'm honestly wondering what you expect "deal with her father being lovely" to be. Neither of them has the option of leaving the Court, even before the current arc. They are both broken people, in more than one way. They're both, slowly, trying to deal with themselves, since the story began, and each other, since Tony has been reintroduced. No one has been "cured" or magically got better, it has been, as the entire comic story, unraveling at its own pace, which is often purposely made unclear but not maliciously. They can't fix him spontaneously and neither send him to "Bad Dad Jail" and call it a day.
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Yaaay thank you
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i feel like the donlans have probably ensured anthony and his daughter are seeing therapists lmao
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Gunnerkrigg Court had some interesting mysteries, but that only really gets you so far. I was sort of drifting away after things started to get in a rut, and then came the big reveal that Antimony had actually been failing all her classes for years and the audience wasn't even privy to the most important things going on with the viewpoint character, I didn't feel like reading it anymore. Some comics keep sucking you in because of sunk cost, but once you've missed it for a little while, then it might be more effort than its worth to catch up. I've been clean on El Goonish Shive for a while just because of the effort involved, but I really wanna get back into String Theory.
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Bad Dad is relatable, creepy wolf demon cloning you and giving you a quest to get 3 magic artifacts is not. The comic is way more enjoyable when it's about a bunch of dopey kids doing stuff and the supernatural weirdness of the setting is just kind of background flavor.
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Jan 29, 2019 05:36
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Why'd that lady get so big
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Jan 29, 2019 06:09
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Swole buff ladies are the hot new thing for webcomics thank god
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SlothfulCobra posted:Gunnerkrigg Court had some interesting mysteries, but that only really gets you so far. I was sort of drifting away after things started to get in a rut, and then came the big reveal that Antimony had actually been failing all her classes for years and the audience wasn't even privy to the most important things going on with the viewpoint character, I didn't feel like reading it anymore. Annie cheating off Kat's work had been shown a couple times before, the reveal was just "the court knew about the whole time."
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Yeah she wasn't failing until then, she was just heavily copying Kat's work (which we'd seen). The reveal was that the court knew and now she'd have to retake a year. Schoolwork hadn't been a major thing on her mind, it was mystery magic school adventures, and that was part of the whiplash that chapter was trying to evoke with her lovely dad showing up.
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