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OK something is actually happening now https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-59 Alt text: what if it's just like. a normal wolf. you ever think of that guys.
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I'm fearful of head boops in this series.
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Dec 17, 2021 14:49
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The last string of updates have been really good, the last one especially. Spooky stuff!
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Feb 1, 2022 20:43
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where wolf there wolf I’ll overlook that it’s basically Vicar Amelia
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Feb 1, 2022 22:34
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Is this still a novel Has the writing improved?
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Feb 5, 2022 16:14
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It is still a novel; the prose is still fairly purple. Zack is a good writer, but they aren’t great at prose. Which isn’t a knock against them, as writing for comics and writing a novel are two very different things, and Zack’s experience is clearly in writing for a comic and they’re very talented at it. I dunno how to compromise though. They have a legitimate health issue, and they can’t afford to destroy their hand doing the comic on the side. The only real solution is for Paranatural to become a full-time gig so they have less on their plate, and presenting Paranatural isn’t likely to grow their Patreon or shop sales. And I feel really lovely saying “Yeah, this thing you’re doing to keep providing us free material without risking their livelihood isn’t up to snuff,” but my interest has definitely dropped off. I did like the page introducing the werewolf, but…that was because of the art 
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Feb 5, 2022 23:19
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For what it's worth it seems like they're getting more comfortable with the new medium and are starting to play with it, which is cool. Hopefully that continues to happen!
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Feb 6, 2022 00:50
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https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-70 Finally some proper insight into Isabel's dad. I wonder if the black color signifies some kinda relation.
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Mar 11, 2022 18:32
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zack trying less to make up for the lack of funny art with constant jokes has really, really, really improved the writing in the last few updates.
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Mar 12, 2022 05:59
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will paranatural's story ever actually move forward ever again
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Apr 10, 2022 00:47
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Patware posted:will paranatural's story ever actually move forward ever again Been a while now, but Pages 71-74 has a fairly good scene and fight. https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-71 https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-72 https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-73 https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-74 Guess it'll be time to meet Isaac soon. edit: Wow it's been a lot longer than I thought, there are more pages: https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-75 https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-76 https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-77 SKULL.GIF fucked around with this message at 02:41 on May 7, 2022 |
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May 7, 2022 02:04
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Wow this is some "Apollo fires sunlight at Superman" levels of "oh poo poo you done hosed up".
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May 7, 2022 02:37
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SKULL.GIF posted:Been a while now, but Pages 71-74 has a fairly good scene and fight. these are literally all flashbacks. flashbacks are good when they come in from time to time but jesus christ
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May 7, 2022 15:53
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Patware posted:these are literally all flashbacks. flashbacks are good when they come in from time to time but jesus christ Yes, this entire chapter is Mr. Spender reflecting on his interactions with the three original members of the Activity Club.
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May 7, 2022 15:56
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yes. my complaint is that i wish we spent some time between all these flashbacks with the story moving forward the last time the story featured its nominal viewpoint protagonist was 2018
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May 7, 2022 18:34
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Paranatural more like Zeno's paradoxural
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I mean, the last time present-ish-Max was in the story was in the beginning of 2020. I think following up a "Let's follow one of the side characters" chapter with a "Let's have three pretty long flashback sequences" chapter is a choice, but like, looking at it long-term pacing it feels about right for a Big Flashback Sequence?
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May 12, 2022 10:08
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Has the writing gotten as fun as the visuals Has zack confirmed that the rest of paranatural will be this instead of a comic, or is it still an "experiment"
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The writing is solid, and an enjoyable read. It's not as good as the visual comic, but Zack is a master of that medium so it's maybe not a fair comparison. As a bonus the written form reveals a lot more setting stuff that wouldn't be as apparent in a comic. Don't know how the plan to continue going forward but they seem pretty comfortable with this at the moment?
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They’re getting a lot more storytelling done this way which I’ve been appreciating. We probably wouldn’t have been this far into flashback 3 until sometime next year
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May 13, 2022 21:02
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Dang, Catnine got owned before he could even see it coming
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Fecha posted:They’re getting a lot more storytelling done this way which I’ve been appreciating. We probably wouldn’t have been this far into flashback 3 until sometime next year The writing is also getting better, and I feel like they’re incorporating the limited art in better ways.
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Update.
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Jun 17, 2022 14:57
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the joke is no longer funny
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Jun 17, 2022 15:26
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Honestly loving the outfits on Isaac's parents.
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Jun 17, 2022 15:34
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This is too much
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quote:you know i'm gonna return from a long break with my worst visual gag  e: ngl they look cute in those outfits
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Jun 17, 2022 19:38
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https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-86 Well that's something. I guess that explains why Isaac is being kept away from consortium business.
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https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-87 Well that's a fair bit of revelations.
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Kyte posted:Well that's a fair bit of revelations. I've been keeping up on-and-off but didn't we already know the wight is B.L.'s spirit? I wonder what she told Spender to convince him that Isaac mustn't find out anything, but in a way that wouldn't tip off Spender on what to dig into.
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SKULL.GIF posted:I've been keeping up on-and-off but didn't we already know the wight is B.L.'s spirit? i think the revelation is that BL is a spirit herself. might be that sandman's only had one "owner" all this time and she's just been shifting forms through the generations
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Way I read it either she's a wight pretending to be a spectral or she's been a wight-spectral so long the human part has burnt off. Given she's apparently very bad at making faces that pass for human I suspect the former.
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The flipside is that a Wight, we have been told, can only communicate through their horrifying Wight Wails. Boss Leader might be a spirit that has managed to wrangle the wight's power and pass herself off as a medium that way. Either way it is a shocking revelation that the person who doesn't have a real name or a real face turned out to not be a real person.
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Tenebrais posted:
The consortium already employs spirits like Isabel's grandfather and that stuff seems fairly out in the open as far as the organization goes. I'm not sure why she would need to hide that she's a spirit from the consortium at large if that's all it was. It's possible she might be some supernatural creature that's not a spirit. If werewolves and vampires are on the table already, she could really be anything. Well anything that doesn't naturally have a human face I suppose. Maybe a lich adjacent thing?
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I wonder if she's connected to the spider that rescued Max all the way back then. The dream realm does seem spider cocoon shaped, kinda, and if she's secretly a spirit that's using the Wight and the Consortium to bring her other spirits to feed on, that fits with the spider motif.
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https://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-7-page-89 One good thing about the new text format is that information gets dispensed a lot faster. Dude's gotten better at writing, for that matter.
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"You see yourself in everyone, and hardly any of yourself in you." is a good line.
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...not to be a downer, but I'm seeing a whole paragraph where Zack drops a major reveal in a narrational aside that's completely irrelevant to anything that's actually happening on this page.
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if you mean the paragraph about BL’s true nature, that information was implied by the previous two pages and it’s the real reason Isaac had been excluded from the group (because Catnine figured it out instantly)
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yeah like, i've got a lot of critiques on the prose writing (though the steady improvement is clear) but we did learn all of that stuff what Zack's doing there is making absolutely sure the reader 'gets it' since a lot of that information has been spread out over a long time. the problem is that they're very, very inconsistent as to narrative viewpoint so the sudden shift out of Spender's head is jarring and can make you think too hard about how out of nowhere the paragraph has come personally i'm not a fan of nearly any omniscient narrative viewpoint, i prefer to stay in a specific character's head per-scene, unless the author is very specifically having a character doing the narration. those asides then make sense, as the character can pause telling the story for a moment to tell the reader something directly
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