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Personally I found Order of Tales to be a lot stronger than Rice Boy. (And Vattu is shaping up to blow them both away, although I suppose it could still flub the landing). Rice Boy is beautiful, and very atmospheric, but the narrative is too… abstract? For my tastes. I couldn’t really get invested the way I can with Evan’s later works.
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Snake Maze posted:Personally I found Order of Tales to be a lot stronger than Rice Boy. (And Vattu is shaping up to blow them both away, although I suppose it could still flub the landing). Rice Boy is beautiful, and very atmospheric, but the narrative is too… abstract? For my tastes. I couldn’t really get invested the way I can with Evan’s later works. Honestly all of Evan Dahm's longform webcomics are very meandering and atmospheric for the first 90% of their run, with the remaining 10% being a really baller finale (Vattu is not quite done but it's well into the finale and surpassing all expectations so far.)
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flavor.flv posted:Okay cool here's Rice Boy Ah, and now for my favorite comic starring a man with a television for a head.
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ultrafilter posted:I picked page 77 and by god you're right.
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Ten Earth Shattering Blows  and then he disintegrated NO MORAL END OF STORY
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vyelkin posted:I'm really enjoying Stand Still Stay Silent and it has gorgeous art, but I will be honest, the limited range of colour tones and similar character designs makes it very difficult for me to tell the characters apart and remember who's who and what their deal is from one comic to the next. Yeah, I had the same problem. It's less of an issue once they start the expedition proper because there's only the core cast to keep track of most of the time, and when they do interact with the supporting cast it's over the radio. Having them in separate locations helps keep everyone sorted out. Trying to keep track of all the nationalities and the languages and which languages are mutually intelligible was a complete ballache as well, especially when I could barely tell the characters apart to begin with. Here's a real simple version: Every language except Finnish is at least somewhat mutually intelligible, so the crew at large can communicate (with varying degrees of difficulty, but you don't have to keep track of it). The exception is, Lalli (the twiggy catboy Scout), who is Finnish and only speaks Finnish. He can only talk to his cousin, Tuuri (the short mechanic with tiny hair). Tuuri speaks several languages and can translate between Lalli and the rest of the crew as long as she's present. Tuuri is also the only member of the crew that isn't immune to the disease that wiped out most of the world, so she's supposed to avoid hazardous situations. This does mean that the scout can't talk to the rest of the crew when they're exploring dangerous areas, but I can't imagine that being a serious problem.
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The New Adventures of the Duck Avenger      ah the arch-criminal act of brooding on a rooftop, go get that villain!
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i love how dumb Ulf is at the start of TBC. he's so very dumb.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:The New Adventures of the Duck Avenger That whole page is Watchmen as hell
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vyelkin posted:I'm pretty sure that's in Trixie but I don't remember for certain. Awesome, thank you! I'm reading Trixie now and it's got that charming Thorsby writing but he figured out that Microsoft Paint can just draw straight lines if you want it to. I'm not sure how i feel about the art, but the writing is great.
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CzarChasm posted:Ok, let's try this again, from the top That's actually some really good advice.
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Vagabong posted:drat I didn't realise this was a secret Aphelion prequel. Ten Earth Shattering Trans-Dimensional Post-Human Threats
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Jose Valasquez posted:This kid has to be related to Lostclock And Beavis 
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This is Home, from Ryoko's The Dragon's School is on Top of the Mountain anthology. I'm going to post a few of the interconnected stories from that book, all relating to the Beast.                 
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Been a bit slack on posting because I'm sick. I still love unicorn jelly. Last time, on Unicorn Jelly: Lupiko the witch and Uni went out to go save some guy's daughter, who was attacked by a crystal basilisk. Unfortunately they smashed the basilisk, so they couldn't create a cure from its crystal blood. So Uni just stabbed the girl with the holy unicorn magic he is full of (from getting pissed on by a unicorn)     "itai!" is of course japanese for "ouch!"  and that's how Lupiko accidentally ended up with a daughter who got mad crystal brains from being attacked by a crystal basilisk
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Mx. posted:i love how dumb Ulf is at the start of TBC. he's so very dumb. The best kind of protagonist for this kind of story is definitely an absolute dipshit. Silly Newbie posted:And Beavis Probably not a coincidence; character designs that evoke a mix of enthusiasm and idiocy.
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Oh no. I just spent an hour and 45 minutes reading all the way through Transdimensional Brain Chip. It was excellent, but now I just really want to read other people reacting to it. I definitely would have been better off waiting and following along in the thread.
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CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:going to use all of my willpower to not read a full archive of thorsby this time and read along with the thread Same. gently caress chores and job-work and anything else that requires willpower, this is more important.
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last time: the storm passes, a ghost owl gives the nod   this time - tension! how will she cr oh an owl has a solution, ok. e: this is comic 100, by the way. we shall celebrate with owls 
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Loving the quality and diversity in the thread at the moment. The full spectrum of ghastliness, from Owl Comic to Aphelion Every visual style from SSSS subtle colour and fabulous landscapes, through to Thorsby's "your weird friend when you were 11" drawings Every variation of hero and anti-hero, from Whomp to 10ESB A Good Thread.
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Accidental Space Spy has a lot of hot hot alien babes, but it really drags on. And without spoilers, the overarching plot is pretty threadbare and the final act barely matters, and I'm pretty sure he throws in a farce close to the end that is as intricate as ever but just makes the story even slower (that's not a spoiler, it'd be crazier if there wasn't a farce). So I'm happy we've gone with TBC. It's got my personal favourite Thorsby strip which isn't even that funny or well-drawn or insightful, it's just because I read TBC first and that one was the point where I realised "oh, this isn't merely exploring a silly concept, this guy is actually really good at storytelling".
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there's so much good thorsby dialogue  there were some memorable parts of Accidental Space Spy I wanted to post but they're way harder to find. Trixie Slaugheraxe 4 life
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Mx. posted:there's so much good thorsby dialogue  also you can tell just from this panel that there's a farce going down
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Hitmen for Destiny was fulfilling and had a very satisfactory ending. Glad to have read it all  uvar posted:So I'm happy we've gone with TBC. It's got my personal favourite Thorsby strip which isn't even that funny or well-drawn or insightful, it's just because I read TBC first and that one was the point where I realised "oh, this isn't merely exploring a silly concept, this guy is actually really good at storytelling". I read it a few weeks ago and had a really good time. Which page number is the strip you are talking about?
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which is the thorsby comic where the stars disappear all of a sudden?? its trixie slaughteraxe right?
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Oh man, I remember posting in the thorsby thread when that was going out live. We figured out the twist coming, but it was still drat satisfying to read You're all in for a treat when that comes back around. I recommend not reading ahead, the posts are going to be excellent
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I don't really like TBC but I suppose we might as well just work through the full Thorsby archive and see it all.
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Nice Pete tries to do a pure deed of good heart and intention and take the child to the actual secret ice cream parlour, and he gets his van stolen for his efforts. What is this world coming to? Anyway, here's Rice Boy       Two shadowy weirdos sent to find and protect a chosen one in the name of fulfilling prophecies, huh? Didn't we just have a comic about that?
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