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There's Sword Interval, although I think most folks here know about it already. I also recommend Gosu which is a pretty fun high-powered martial arts series whose creator just recently came back from a cancer scare. My Giant Nerd Boyfriend is another fun one, just a cute slice of life. oriongates fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Nov 17, 2020 |
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This is it, thanks! Also, on the Webtoons front, linking the two I mentioned earlier: Lore Olympus - A retelling primarily of the story of hades and persephone (but also involving a number of other myths), but with the realm of the gods being more "modern", with phones and offices and stuff. Fair warning: There's some rape and other unpleasant stuff that happens, although it's not at all the core focus of the comic. Sweet Home - Everyone is turning into monsters, and the monsters are killing anyone who hasn't. A group of survivors struggles against threats both internal and external, as they slowly dwindle in numbers from being killed or turning into monsters themselves. Some individuals seems to be stuck halfway between human and monster, though, and may be the key to survival. This one is completely finished at this point. This one actually did well enough they made a live action TV series off it which is on... Netflix Asia, I think? GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Nov 17, 2020 |
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Tenebrais posted:My Webtoon picks: I opened to this page at random and I'm already sold. https://www.webtoons.com/en/comedy/axed/s2-ep-43-1-meep/viewer?title_no=1558&episode_no=91  I'll check out everybody's links and do some trip reports or something later. Thanks!
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I gotta say I really don't dig the webtoon format. I guess it's more intended to be read on phones, since a lot of it doesn't seem to scale right for my desktop windows, and then it's gotta be infinite scrolling, which is just a hassle to me.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I gotta say I really don't dig the webtoon format. I guess it's more intended to be read on phones, since a lot of it doesn't seem to scale right for my desktop windows, and then it's gotta be infinite scrolling, which is just a hassle to me. I've got a lot of benefit out of just scaling down the Webtoon page. It makes the UI buttons a bit small but the comics are much more readable at 70%.
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Sweet Home was fairly nice but I felt it was at its strongest in the first..eh...quarter or so. After that it felt like the quality kind of wavered back & forth, and sometimes it felt like it kept repeating beats too much. Still not bad and I enjoyed reading it, though. Although, for some reason, maybe its just on my end and its a glitch, most of sweet home's translation got wiped out? There's only 14 chapters of it up now but it went to like 130 or so iirc. I had to search elsewhere for untranslated reuploads of the last 2 or 3 chapters.
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Axed update: I just binged around 32 chapters of this and I love it to death. I kind of hate it's core message that wage labor is good actually but the plot is such a non-element in the big picture that I can't really bring myself to care all that much. Definitely one I'd highly recommend.
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rannum posted:Sweet Home was fairly nice but I felt it was at its strongest in the first..eh...quarter or so. After that it felt like the quality kind of wavered back & forth, and sometimes it felt like it kept repeating beats too much. Once a series finishes, after a certain grace period they go into the vault and you gotta go into the webtoon ecosystem to see the rest.
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John Allison has been posting pictures from his upcoming story Circus Windows, starring Lottie and Mildred from Bad Machinery. This pic caught my eye.
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More Lottie? More Mildred? Yessssss.
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flatluigi posted:this is a hell of a comic and the most recent page is one of the most terrifying things i've ever seen in a webcomic Just binged through it, confirmed for v. good
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A new Never Satisfied page, in which someone reveals they are spectacularly petty, a chaos gremlin, or both.
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PMush Perfect posted:A new Never Satisfied page, in which someone reveals they are spectacularly petty, a chaos gremlin, or both. I mean she recently had a pretty big life event that has shifted her aggressively towards whatever the stage beyond Chaos Gremlin is.
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She also could really, really use some leverage right now and this is it.
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At least some of the outburst due to the heightened emotions that come from being a husk. From the change in her jaw you can see it's clearly influencing her.
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Dr Subterfuge posted:At least some of the outburst due to the heightened emotions that come from being a husk. From the change in her jaw you can see it's clearly influencing her. I'm really enjoying her as a terrifying secret werewolf, this is a great development and I'm very much looking forward to the terrible results.
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Dora really is a jerk to her brother every chance she gets, although now it does at least feel like it's intentional on the part of the author.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I gotta say I really don't dig the webtoon format. I guess it's more intended to be read on phones, since a lot of it doesn't seem to scale right for my desktop windows, and then it's gotta be infinite scrolling, which is just a hassle to me. Same. I might just be too used to traditional pages, but there's something about webtoons format that seems really... content sparse? Like the panels are always too spread out, without enough going on in each of them. Why does there have to be half a page of whitespace between each panel? Whenever I try to get into one, I always find myself scrolling faster and faster trying to keep the pace reasonable, and at some point my eyes glaze over or my scrolling finger gives out, and I click away. It's frustrating because there are probably some good stories there, but I just can't get past the format to find out.
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Pavlov posted:Same. I might just be too used to traditional pages, but there's something about webtoons format that seems really... content sparse? Like the panels are always too spread out, without enough going on in each of them. Why does there have to be half a page of whitespace between each panel? They’re optimized for phone viewing. Webtoon began life in Korea, where this is the norm and phone reading is the most common method.
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Mors Rattus posted:They’re optimized for phone viewing. Webtoon began life in Korea, where this is the norm and phone reading is the most common method. do koreans also have phone screens the size of a postage stamp? cuz mine can very comfortably display more than one panel at a time reading an entire page and then clicking to get to the next one sure feels a hell of a lot more optimized than reading the same scene by scrolling through half a dozen entire screens of content to see each panel individually
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I find it works for me as a pacing tool. I dunno, it's more of a stylistic foible of the medium than anything else, I think.
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Android Blues posted:I find it works for me as a pacing tool. I dunno, it's more of a stylistic foible of the medium than anything else, I think. I can get behind this in theory but I haven't really found any that did it in a way that worked for me personally It doesn't help that a lot of webtoons seem to fuckin loooooove decompression, which is bad enough in a whole page format tbf most Korean webtoons do seem better at using the format than Western knockoffs usually are, but I don't read Korean so that's not much help to me
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I think the empty space can work well for pacing in scenes that call for it, but it gets cargo-culted a bit too much.
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I think part of the idea is to support page-down style flipping. So you can be sure each full screen you go down has a complete panel in it, and you don't get it awkwardly cut off in the middle.
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While I'm not super familiar with the space, I feel like I've seen Chinese comics do the thin-width infinite-canvas thing better. There seems to be less tiny panels swimming in white space. Better page usage, feels a lot more condensed. I wish I had a good example, but I haven't really been going out of my way to find them.
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I've avoided Webtoon because the two comics I wanted to read were behind some weird loving paywall where you get one free one a day and it would cost like $30 to read the whole thing, and it was only 100 chapters or so and long completed.
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Yeah reading webtoons on my phone is a bunch of swiping to get past unused white space. Reading them on pc is worse. It's kind of a pain in the rear end. Feels like what happens when people realize they don't have to plan their page composition around physical constraints and so just sort of gave up.
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I thought we got all that "Infinite Canvas" poo poo out of our systems back in the 00's! 
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Speaking of Sword Interval, it’s over now. The last couple bits of story kind of lost me but it was always a treat to read.
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At least the stuff from the 2000s that got a limited print run can be found in a closet a decade from now and revisited in some capacity. So many of these Webtoon strips will be lost to time within a decade because they’re impossible to print and reliant on a specific type of 3rd party website in order to exist. It’s kind of sad really.
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readingatwork posted:At least the stuff from the 2000s that got a limited print run can be found in a closet a decade from now and revisited in some capacity. So many of these Webtoon strips will be lost to time within a decade because they’re impossible to print and reliant on a specific type of 3rd party website in order to exist. It’s kind of sad really. You're more likely to find remnants of extinct webcomics from people scraping and saving the files and rehosting them years later than print runs. This isn't any more of a liability than every other webcomic hosting website going down (which many of them have!) So it's not really something you can solely lay at the feet of one comic website. Speaking of rehosting webtoons, Beware the Villainess is fun: https://mangadex.org/title/47286/beware-of-the-villainess I'm linking the Mangadex translation because the original comic is only in Korean, as far as I know. I read through Mage and Demon Queen after people mentioned it here and it's cute, too: https://www.webtoons.com/en/comedy/mage-and-demon-queen/list?title_no=1438
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I am now up to date with Dumbing of Age and ready to announce my tier list. I know you've all been waiting for this and don't worry, the takes are searing hot. Excellent Tier Joyce, Walky, Dorothy, Ethan, Jacob. I feel like these are the characters Willis has most in common with? Their voices feel really consistent and their struggles are usually relatable and charming. Joyce is a good protagonist, she has a solid slow burn character arc that's easy to get invested in, and her running gags are consistently funny. Walky metamorphoses really quickly from a 2000s webcomic protagonist transplanted into a more modern strip to a fairly relatable teen burnout struggling with his own issues. Jacob spends a long time as a peripheral character, but once he gets some focus his voice feels well realised and interesting. Ethan is a sweetheart and is consistently characterised as such. Dorothy's relationship with Walky feels real as hell. Good Tier Joe, Carla, Mike, Amber, Sal, Dina. Sometimes their characterisation misses, sometimes it hits and they get a good arc where you feel for them. Joe's friendship with Joyce is a fun storyline and really humanises him. Carla is a little weirdo in a good, loveable way. Amber's superhero thing sometimes judders around tonally but mostly works, I think. Mike's final storyline actually hit for me and his unrequited thing for Ethan was poignant and subtle. Sal is fun and gets some good storylines but also sometimes feels a bit flat. Dina is two jokes but they're okay jokes. Dubious Tier Danny, Becky, Sarah, Ruth, Billie. Danny being played as the loveable loser who also told his crush he thought it would be good if his coma victim friend was dead, and then still getting played as the loveable loser feels bizarre. Becky is a nightmare whirlwind of saccharine mania who usually fails to feel even remotely real. Sarah is grumpy and misanthropic, but also never does anything, such that her presence in the comic is mostly like reading a version of Garfield who doesn't enjoy food and has few goals or motivations. Ruth and Billie's relationship is gruelling, and honestly, it's not that their co-dependency feels unrealistic or poorly written, it's more that I can't stand how grim it is to watch them mess each other up for years of comics. Outside of the relationship arc, Billie doesn't feel like she has a lot of character depth and can be pretty grating. Ruth's a little more compelling.
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Dr Subterfuge posted:At least some of the outburst due to the heightened emotions that come from being a husk. From the change in her jaw you can see it's clearly influencing her. Anyway she just got confirmation that Fidelia deliberately put Rin on a mission to capture and arrest Fidelia's own goddamn kid while failing to give information about the subject that might have made the situation safer for the people out to capture Lucy because it's information that incriminates Fidelia. My read is that she'd normally have tried to warn Seiji away from getting entangled with that mess, but it's not like he'd have listened to that anyway and this way she can seriously inconvenience someone she's angry at while maybe getting more information. I actually find her relationship with Seiji really interesting, because of all the bad parents in this comic she's one I think genuinely loves her kid and wants the best for him, but that she's also pretty bad at emotionally providing for him with all her own stresses and traumas. Bottling stuff up from the job until she goes on binges, but it's fine because her kid is old enough to feed himself, right? He's got someplace to sleep over at, so she doesn't need to come home EVERY night. Time to josh him about his relationship problems, in a way she means to be light teasing but he's going to take harder because she's bad at judging that stuff! PetraCore fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Dec 1, 2020 |
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I'm still just reading Vattu lol Updates picked back up with his work on his book done with but it feels like it's wrapping up.
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PetraCore posted:We know how Su fixated on the indirect cause of her husk transformation to a fault, along with Philomena being a convenient symbolic representation of the sort of class disparity Su has been struggling with and growing angry with her entire life. What's interesting to me is Rin seems a lot less fixated, but part of that is almost certainly that Su's an angry teenager and Rin's a grown woman in her 40s? late 30s? who has had a lot of time to see the mechanisms by which things are crap she can't fix despite having a powerful job. Doesn't make her less angry, but she does seem to have a few more decade's experience burying that anger so she can function. I'm really enjoying Secret Husk Rin, it's very clear that an adult husk is rare and extremely dangerous. I'm also excited to find out exactly how much self-control a husk can have, and kiiiiind of hoping she and Seiji can finally bond over crime and needless contrarianism.
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