a large automobile posted:

Mikl posted:

Yeah, but what can Undine do about it? Goops can apparently teleport, appearing and disappearing where and when she wishes. Unless something changes significantly, fighting monsters and mitigating the damage is all magical girls can do.

Undine has no way to know this, of course. This is all meta reasoning, for all she knows Goops is a normal (though evil) magical girl with normal limitations.

Tenebrais posted:

The big problem is the main thing Undine can do about Goopy is the thing she's most afraid will be dangerous - ie talking to the other girls about her. She doesn't know enough to actively hunt her down, so she'd have to gather information, which means finding out if other people have seen signs of her; but as far as she can tell anyone knowing about her is going to endanger them, since Goopy does target people.

She can try to find her out and about, but that's not really any different from just normal patrolling, so if she doesn't show up there's no sense of progress. The only other possibility is to try to find Mark, but she's not really got any leads there either, and I'm not sure if she knows anything about what he's doing either.

rannum posted:

Ironically maybe the best person they could luck into, Anemone who is the closest to knowing what's going on and knows their plight, is probably never going to interact with other girls again after the Tressa disaster

PetraCore posted:

Anemone also seems to have ways of picking up information without being noticed, on account of it's hard to notice her anyways. She doesn't seem to know who Goops is, but she's aware of the general situation.

quote:

Cloudscratcher is the story of a group of freedom fighters in their struggles against the Margoth Empire. Squaring off in a world high above the clouds, where people build their civilizations atop craggy mountains and lifeless plateaus, the crew of the Cloudscratcher--a motley crew of various heroes of great skill, all united by lives torn apart by the Empire's machinations--fight the seemingly endless fight for the future. It won't be an easy fight, however, as the Margoth Empire boasts superior numbers, advanced technology, and leaders that are as skilled as they are ruthless. And making matters worse, a terrifying new Emperor has taken control, and under his rule, the Empire has grown even stronger, and their goal of complete global domination seems to creep ever-closer...

Their struggles will take the Cloudscratcher crew all over the world, to places beyond the imagination! From towering mountaintop metropolises, to ancient ruins, to the dens of sky pirates, and even the harsh world below the clouds...! The deck may be stacked against them, but with their combined skills, a little luck, and a surprise ace in the hole, this small group of rebels may very well turn the tide in the world's favor! Of course, the crew's problems go beyond just the Empire; sky pirates, crime syndicates, mercenaries, thieves, you name it! No one said being the good guys was easy...!

So strap yourself in and get ready for a sky-high adventure aboard the Cloudscratcher!

quote:

Q: What was the inspiration for this comic?

A: Cloudscratcher was primarily inspired by the animated movies and TV shows of the 1990's, as well as the Crimson Skies game series. The overall style and feel of the comic is a love-letter to 90's animation, particularly Disney's animated TV shows, and the early animated films of Don Bluth. Also, I have a thing for high-flying dieselpunk settings...

Q: So when're we gonna see some blood and cussin'!?

A: The content of the comic is staying in the realm of the aforementioned animated programs. Language stays G-rated, blood gets shed only when necessary, and any harsh content will be kept to a minimum.

Q: Is this a furry comic?

A: No. Neither I, nor anyone associated with the comic have anything to do with the furry fandom. The anthropomorphic aesthetic is a stylistic choice, and nothing more.

Discendo Vox posted:

Mr Phillby posted:

Tbh it looks fine apart from the weird ITS FUNNY ANIMALS ACTUALLY energy that faq gives off. Reminds me of all those lakadaisy fans who took a while to come to terms with liking "furry" content because it was well done and good so it couldn't possibly be a furry thing?!

Am going to need elaboration on the author being Alt Right though, thats not something I can separate art and artist from even if its not present in the work.

Discendo Vox posted:

I had no idea, I never thought to check the author's social media at all.

fun hater posted:

the author seems to consider himself a anime journalist as well and decided that he really needed to get involved in the wrong side of the vic mignogna case

e: oh you can also just like. go to his twitter and look at it with your eyes i guess

Apraxin posted:

Hopefully this goes better than the previous recommendation:

https://www.missingmondaycomic.com/

Missing Monday is a mystery/romance/adventure with fantasy elements (keeping it vague because it's hard to go into details with spoiling; also I suck at write-ups). The plot's interesting, the characters are engaging, and the romance is sweet, at least to me. The author's been putting up a weekly page more or less every Tuesday for the past nine years and gets about 5 comments on average, so if even one person here starts reading I'll consider it a win.

(Also her twitter is mostly art doodles and cat pictures, so probably an improvement over the last guy.)

Cat Mattress posted:

RHJunior (heh, another raging alt-righter).

Nuns with Guns posted:

Man, I was wondering if that guy was still going a few weeks ago. I remember being on another forum where someone linked his mostly innocuous raccoon fantasy comic and he showed up to rant about how there was only one true god and all the other religions across history were illusions and lies by deceivers.

Mors Rattus posted:

Oh poo poo I used to read that guy’s comics before he became too insufferable even for dumbass 12 year old me.

He literally deleted a large chunk of one of them because it crossed over with another furry comic that was too open about premarital sex and somehow he hadn’t noticed, and retconned a second hugely because his original premise involved misunderstood Buddhist mysticism and he decided that wasn’t Christian enough.

a large automobile posted:

PMush Perfect posted:

There are so many good potential tag lines for this as an avatar.

RHJunior posted:

The Moon is Rightfully America's

Or at least it was, by some of the oldest laws known to humanity--- Right of discovery and conquest. From the moment we first planted an American boot on Lunar soil.

Until our government essentially it away.

"Thief! Thief! The American wants to steal the Moon!" Oh shut up. First time ever that we land on territory that doesn't have natives to wring your hands over or trees to hug, and you're gonna squeal that we wanted to claim it? Typical. You won't let us claim an airless, lifeless rock out of sheer spite. So our milksop government folds like wet toast and makes some blithering proclamation about how the Moon "belongs to the nations of the world"--- despite it being American scientists, technology, and astronauts that made the trip possible. Thereby guaranteeing that nobody would EVER go back.

We should have told y'all to go pound sand. The usual crowd of French popcorn farts would have squealed about American Imperialism (over a BARREN AIRLESS ROCK no less), and Kennedy should have looked them in the eye and said "You want to stake a claim there? Come and get it." And given presidential orders for a permanent lunar military base. Wouldn't have to be much: just a little space hut occupied continually by one or two men.

Within the week every country on the planet that could screw a nut onto a bolt would be building a lunar colony rocket, just to spite us. We and every other country on the planet would have mining colonies on the Moon today, and we'd be halfway to settling Mars, if we had just treated the Lunar territory like every other territory on the planet: first come, first served.

Instead we gave it to the biggest collection of do-nothing weenies on Planet Earth--- the United Nations. And the Final Frontier died on the pagan altar of collectivism, at the hands of the Tragedy of the Commons.

We could still do it today. We SHOULD still do it today. The Space Race would take off the next day.

But of course not. That would be too CAPITALIST.

Ague Proof posted:

nine-gear crow posted:

I read that entire rant in the voice of Andrew Ryan in my head. I suddenly get why this dude writes and draws alt-hits 1930s air piracy comics that’s basically TaleSpin but shittier.

nine-gear crow posted:

I read that entire rant in the voice of Andrew Ryan in my head. I suddenly get why this dude writes and draws alt-hits 1930s air piracy comics that’s basically TaleSpin but shittier.

Digamma-F-Wau posted:

that's RH Junior's rant, not the guy who makes the TaleSpin-esque comic

Mors Rattus posted:

Incidentally, RH Junior also did a giant weirdass "crossover" with Schlock Mercenary in one of his comics about the koala AI declaring that the universe is too improbable to exist without God as the finale of slowly driving himself nuts trying to force himself to not believe this.

And by crossover I mean he wrote and drew the entire thing and the Schlock Mercenary guy didn't tell him to take it down.

Joe Slowboat posted:

Do we know if Howard knows about it?

nine-gear crow posted:

I'm guessing no, because Howard seems like he's a very non-crazy, non-rear end in a top hat, non-right wing dude who'd probably be appalled by poo poo like that if he knew. For example, Larry Correia used to be a recurring guest on Howard's writing podcast with Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, and Mary Robinette Kowal, and ever since Correia outed himself as an alt-right nutbag he's curiously never been back on Writing Excuses

habeasdorkus posted:

e: Though of what's been recommended on here, The Sword Interval is DOPE AS HELL. What was the name of the author's other, completed, comic?

Ebola Dog posted:

It's not completed but his other comic is called derelict. If I remember correctly they stopped updating derelict because they are actually making money doing the sword interval, which is fair enough.