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I'd say the only really bad arc in Doctor McNinja is the McNinja Burger, but it lays the groundwork for so much payoff later. Also it has the single best throwaway gag in the comic. King Radical: (walks in, incensed about this 'burger makes you fart' nonsense) Bonald McRonald: Oh no. He's here. The Burger King.
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Ditocoaf posted:I try to describe it in these terms. It's as if Chris Hastings took it as a challenge to write a fully satisfying and worthwhile comic in a setting constructed entirely out of what should be the thinnest jokes imaginable, and somehow succeeded with flying colors. It's drat impressive. See also 'Gwenpool.'
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Jul 30, 2021 15:18
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GlyphGryph posted:In Wilde news - I wonder what specifically Oscar is freaking out about here. There's so many possibilities! Primarily I think it's that Cliff is now in danger. And that Cliff has put himself in danger to save Oscar. Again. Which he doesn't like and the bear doesn't like.
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shirts and skins posted:Naw Mcninja was good from the get go. Remember, it started as a one off project (an art school assignment iirc?) that people liked enough for him to keep doing. One of the arcs before he brought on a colorist is Dracula's moon base, which may be the best part of the whole thing. It was a joke comic he did for a Something Awful art contest, then he decided to keep it going as webcomic.
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shirts and skins posted:Naw Mcninja was good from the get go. Remember, it started as a one off project (an art school assignment iirc?) that people liked enough for him to keep doing. One of the arcs before he brought on a colorist is Dracula's moon base, which may be the best part of the whole thing. The literal pirates vs. ninja chapter at the beginning was pretty bad even at the time and has not improved with age, but thankfully it's sandwiched by solid stuff
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Dr Subterfuge posted:Primarily I think it's that Cliff is now in danger. And that Cliff has put himself in danger to save Oscar. Again. Which he doesn't like and the bear doesn't like. On the other hand who among us, given the chance and ability, wouldn't goomba-stomp a great evil?
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There are some points where Dr. McNinja loses its momentum and you feel the monkeycheese, but I don't think there's a bad storyline. I particularly love the crazy tennis island, especially an extremely annoyed McNinja producing an Ace bandage to fix a twisted ankle just in time for Hortense to shoot him in the knee
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This is probably a good time to mention a webcomic that I only started following, Emmy the Robot by Dominic Cellini. It’s only been running for a little over a year now. It follows a robot nanny, or Nandroid, named Emmy as she serves the Delaire family. In terms of art and writing it is cutesy and twee (although I still like it) but readers (myself included) have noticed a sinister undercurrent to the comic. The entries on the WMG page on TV tropes go into it better than I could. In the current storyline for example, Emmy’s hand seems to be malfunctioning during Madeline’s (the girl Emmy takes care of) birthday party. I keep waiting for something horrible to happen.
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I should reread Dr. McNinja sometime. I don't think I've ever just gone through the entire run after it ended.
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"Stupid ideas taken very seriously: Dr. McNinja"
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Clown Corps has a shocking reveal.
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Dawgstar posted:Clown Corps has a shocking reveal. Yeah and this is reframing that first chapter in some peculiar ways.
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Plankhandles posted:So, I've been out of the Webcomics Reading Business for a few years and wanted to dive back in as a way to wind down at night. I've been keeping an open mind and reading at least a few pages of everything I've chosen to click. As with all things there are a lot of duds, a good amount of middling work, and a few gems. Not very many things have really taken me by surprise... Except for, of all things, a sparkledeer comic I stumbled across. If someone had told me two weeks ago that I'd read through the archive of something like this, I'd have called them nuts. But the art is really gorgeous, and I couldn't help taking my time to enjoy the colors, the environmental designs, the effects. The characters are a little flat, but the worldbuilding and plot (which finally hit, after 100+ pages) have the potential to be fun as they grow. It's http://goldenshrike.thecomicseries.com/ for anyone who's interested. habituallyred posted:Hitmen For Destiny
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Yeah honestly a lot of Thorsby's body of work has been, like. Great. He's got a good grasp of using MSPaint after all of these years and while it's not the prettiest work in the world, he knows how to use it as a medium for his works, which are uniquely his own creations and an equal mix of silly and intricately considered. Also I'd put forth Please Forgive Me!!!. I read all of It Hurts!! in a binge and while it was generally alright it didn't super grab me and I don't think a lot of the tone served its purposes very well. PFM's a very solid sequel work that, while I wasn't sure what to expect from it, ends up going in a direction that I think works a lot better than IH did. I also really like how Broodhollow starts with a flashback and then plays with that starting point in an interesting way. Also Starslip. Straub's got a good handle on plotting in a way that kind of sleight-of-hands into a different story but it feels organic. Also in Starslip he really plays with how hosed up time police can be. Caught me by surprise in a bad way: thanks Hussie for writing Starlight Calliope because it helped me understand that you can in fact write a protagonist who is so stupidly naive that the rest of the comic having people with brain cells can't compensate for having a boring dumbass for a hero.
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GlyphGryph posted:In Wilde news - I wonder what specifically Oscar is freaking out about here. There's so many possibilities! You’re overthinking it It’s simply that Oscar grasps they’re out of their league here
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I do think it's unintentionally hilarious that the multiple Broodhollow attempted reboots/restarts seemed to be taking place during a time loop plot.
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Dawgstar posted:Clown Corps has a shocking reveal. It'd probably shock me a lot more if I could remember who ....Oats.... was. girl dick energy posted:I do think it's unintentionally hilarious that the multiple Broodhollow attempted reboots/restarts seemed to be taking place during a time loop plot. It has successfully restarted several times, but we keep forgetting.
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The_Other posted:This is probably a good time to mention a webcomic that I only started following, Emmy the Robot by Dominic Cellini. It’s only been running for a little over a year now. It follows a robot nanny, or Nandroid, named Emmy as she serves the Delaire family. In terms of art and writing it is cutesy and twee (although I still like it) but readers (myself included) have noticed a sinister undercurrent to the comic. The entries on the WMG page on TV tropes go into it better than I could. I just had surgery on my arm last week, but I enjoyed this enough that I had to make the slow effort to one-handedly type out that I love everything about this! The cuteness and wholesomeness with a simultaneous sense of dread is spot on. I like the art too! A+ would recommend.
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girl dick energy posted:I do think it's unintentionally hilarious that the multiple Broodhollow attempted reboots/restarts seemed to be taking place during a time loop plot. It's been a while since I read Broodhollow but wait what does this mean
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The Lone Badger posted:It'd probably shock me a lot more if I could remember who ....Oats.... was. Binky's partner.
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Dawgstar posted:Binky's partner.
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Dawgstar posted:Binky's partner. Not his partner, that's Mustard. Oats is a trainee, in her first week at the start of the story. After McBell saved her life, Oats had been prodding Binky for updates on how she was getting along. She was also one of the few people he told about the raid on the peanut factory, so a lot of people saw this coming.
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Twenty Four posted:I just had surgery on my arm last week, but I enjoyed this enough that I had to make the slow effort to one-handedly type out that I love everything about this! The cuteness and wholesomeness with a simultaneous sense of dread is spot on. I like the art too! A+ would recommend. Glad to hear that you liked it! I hope your arm feels better! Of course a day after posting my original comment, something terrible does happen.
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I'd like to also recommend Dr. McNinja. It shouldn't work. It's absolutely ludicrous in concept. And it not only got better as it went along and developed an interesting cast of characters, but it retained all the completely off the wall dadaism it started with. The denouement is loving magical.  Also, there is never going to be anything cooler than surfing a Dracula robot from orbit to ground.
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habeasdorkus posted:I'd like to also recommend Dr. McNinja. It shouldn't work. It's absolutely ludicrous in concept. And it not only got better as it went along and developed an interesting cast of characters, but it retained all the completely off the wall dadaism it started with. The denouement is loving magical. Scream, Dracula. Scream.
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The_Other posted:This is probably a good time to mention a webcomic that I only started following, Emmy the Robot by Dominic Cellini. It’s only been running for a little over a year now. It follows a robot nanny, or Nandroid, named Emmy as she serves the Delaire family. In terms of art and writing it is cutesy and twee (although I still like it) but readers (myself included) have noticed a sinister undercurrent to the comic. The entries on the WMG page on TV tropes go into it better than I could. Oh yes, I'm only a few pages in and already it's giving me that zeerusty 50s failed utopia vibe that I've been missing since Venture Bros ended.
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fun hater posted:The Yaoi Wisher Chronicles You know what? I have not stopped thinking about this since I saw your comment days ago. Can't believe you'd cast a hex like this, cursing me to wander this world with questions unanswered until the end of time. For everyone else: Thanks for the suggestions! I'll definitely check out Hitmen for Destiny and Emmy the Robot. Doctor McNinja was something my pals used to read in high school, and I haven't thought about it in a decade. Crazy to think how long-running some of these webcomics were/are, and how many of them have staying power like that. And now, with my mind on old webcomics, I'm fondly remembering Alien Loves Predator. It was one of the first webcomics I can remember reading every week, never missing an update. Just so simple, charming, and funny. On the 0.00% chance any of you never read it, I'd recommend checking it out.
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Plankhandles posted:Alien Loves Predator. I was just thinking about this the other day. It had a really good sense of humor, and the photo comic style made people like me that can't draw to save their life feel a little better lol. It was pretty fun! The_Other posted:Glad to hear that you liked it! I hope your arm feels better! Thanks! And dang yeah, the aftermath from this has me worried, but, it was definitely coming, foreshadowing would be an understatement. It looks like a once a week update schedule but I don't see what day it is if there is a usual one? Or is it a "regular but no specific day" sort of thing?
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Twenty Four posted:Thanks! And dang yeah, the aftermath from this has me worried, but, it was definitely coming, foreshadowing would be an understatement. It looks like a once a week update schedule but I don't see what day it is if there is a usual one? Or is it a "regular but no specific day" sort of thing? "regular but no specific day" seems to cover it. Cellini seems to update the comic once or twice a week.
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Antigravitas posted:
I use "Oh, I am going to DEVOUR that sonofabitch" all the time when I get mad.
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For me, the top moment of Dr. McNinja was when McNinja called down Dracula's moon laser to free the ultimate diplomat and bring peace to humans and dinosaurs in the future. "They don't usually like the laser" e: which of course was immediately preceded by Chuck Goodrich sacrificing himself so that the Nasaghast would finally destroy the Horrorsaurus, saving the last of the giant lumberjacks to turn the tide in the battle between humans and dinosaurs. god I loved that comic Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Aug 2, 2021 |
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That arc has some of my favorite moments and alt text. "I love that multiple people guessed that [the ultimate diplomat] was Barney."
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The NASAghasts are legit one of the coolest/creepiest monster designs I've ever seen and all they are is space suits with skeletons inside
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Though I think my favorite scene in the entire comic is when Franz gets the upper hand by making a ton of cheap, weak clones of Dr. McNinja and setting them on himself in order to weaponize the Inverse Ninja Law to weaken the Doc. Equally great is how Dr. McNinja counters this strategy, by invoking buddy action movie tropes and fighting with Franz against the clone army. That, or the end of the But Why A Gorilla arc? 
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The_Other posted:"regular but no specific day" seems to cover it. Cellini seems to update the comic once or twice a week. Thanks!
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TwoPair posted:The NASAghasts are legit one of the coolest/creepiest monster designs I've ever seen and all they are is space suits with skeletons inside Chris Hastings draws some sweet skeletons, death as a maitre d' looks legit pretty creepy.
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The way the very last fight was won by hitting the guy with Dracula, fangs first, in order to turn him into a vampire, and then hitting him with the Pope tickled me.
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Say, even the old pages are pretty funny. Thanks for shaming me into finally reading Doctor McNinja. (And thanks for spoiler tagging beats from a comic that ended years ago and has been around for nearly two decades.  )
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I always thought Junti's arc in Vattu was pretty boring but I have been proven wrong
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