Tree Bucket posted:

It sounds like they really really shouldn't

Tree Bucket posted:

The art for the weird mute wartmonster porn comic gives me the same vibes as the art for Hierarchy of Genres. It just feels off somehow; a scratchy feeling in the brain. You can feel the crazy amounts off effort that went into it. Lines erased and redrawn for hours.
Meanwhile stuff like Nedroid or KC Green or Ranking of Kings looks like the artist finds drawing as easy as breathing.

vyelkin posted:

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Something very realistic about Christian Ulf thinking he can convert his other selves by monotonously reading Bible verses out of context, when the whole reason he converted was because of having relationships and a community offered with the religion. his penis

the holy poopacy posted:

Hierarchy was lovely and fun but it also wound up being like 50% exposition. A lot of fantasy comix go through this phase where they have a Really Big Story they want to tell but they want to get to the good bits without taking a decade to get there. So they wind up bouncing from one big pivotal moment to another with exposition in between to fill in plot & worldbuilding details, without any real connective tissue in the form of smaller story arcs, etc.

the holy poopacy posted:

rydiafan posted:

I think flag guy in the lower right panel holds the new record for "most stoked about what's going on" in this comic, or indeed in anything ever.

Edit: Actually, every panel with him is amazing.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

weird naked old knight dude waiting for the weird pantsless man to give the order to fire him from a trebuchet

not even tied up or anything, just passing the time. none of the people on that lizard have weapons

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

i think he's just lazy

Philippe posted:

Thorsby comics are the diametric opposite: The author has Big Moments that they want to get to, but getting to them and establishing the world are part of the fun.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

TBC so far has been relatively grounded, compared to Hitmen for Destiny establishing pretty much immediately how it's in a huge multiverse full of ridiculous poo poo and that it revolves more around the characters than the world is required for it to make any structural sense.

Captain Hygiene posted:

I was just wondering how far we were in TBC, I knew it wasn’t super long but I wasn't sure exactly how long.

I'm finding the Christian Ulf plotline to be kind of dragging for me. Everything else is good and I'm curious what's going on in the background as things develop, but adding in them sniping back and forth about religion just isn't grabbing me.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

weird naked old knight dude waiting for the weird pantsless man to give the order to fire him from a trebuchet

not even tied up or anything, just passing the time. none of the people on that lizard have weapons

Captain Hygiene posted:

I was just wondering how far we were in TBC, I knew it wasn’t super long but I wasn't sure exactly how long.

I'm finding the Christian Ulf plotline to be kind of dragging for me. Everything else is good and I'm curious what's going on in the background as things develop, but adding in them sniping back and forth about religion just isn't grabbing me.

ultrafilter posted:

Whybird posted:

He's about to be fired from a catapult, how could you possibly turn down an opportunity like that

Hempuli posted:

A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible
PAUL'S SCIENCE CORNER
July 23, 2004

Hempuli posted:

A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible
PAUL'S SCIENCE CORNER
July 23, 2004

Hempuli posted:

A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible

Boba Pearl posted:

I will not say what parts are over exagerated, under exagerated, or which parts were changed to protect identities. Assume it's all bullshit.

Well everyone knows about the rumor that the BDSM panel at Dashcon had live demonstrations, and how it was debunked because there was wooden floors and Dashcon had wooden floors? Part of that is because of... Certain clean up hazards, a faux tile mat was laid out with a pattern wood panelling over the carpet. The guy who took the video said the whole thing was made up because they were getting blasted on Tumblr, and a bunch of people from that day ended up getting crabs. I heard this third hand from the chick I was dating at the time, who heard it from a brony she knew through some circle. We were gonna go, but I had sense that it was going to be a poo poo show, and also kids were going to get in and anyone who showed up was probably a pedo. Not like a brony pony thing, but the whole thing was sketch as gently caress. I don't go anywhere near conventions like that. There either wholesome, or they're explicitly for sucking and trucking. Like BDSM or the kink walk at pride is one thing, but if there's a mix of adults and kids and not a ton of security / name tags / all that poo poo I stay the gently caress away. I'm a transwoman, it's impossible to avoid being called a pedophile at one of these things (though I was still an egg at the time and just thought I loved drag.) I didn't go to dashcon, but I did go to a bunch of bars around Dashcon.

I saw someone do Goatse IRL and then turned their butthole into a prawn when they prolapsed.

Hempuli posted:

drat horror queefs posted:

The self-immolation strip of A Lesson Is Learned exists permanently in my head

(also the buff skeleton one)

Seldom Posts posted:

I liked it and hierarchy of genres, and yeah I'm not really interested in going back after the reboots.

I wish they had just stuck with them instead of folding after mild criticism. There are always going to be people who don't like what you're doing. I read the first arc of Hitman for Destiny and then dropped out during the big exposition cafeteria bit but obviously tons of people love that comic.

Valiantman posted:

For the record, as a Christian, I find the religion farce funny and not at all insulting. I'd imagine some rituals make exactly as much sense to an outsider as taping a fish on your head. It fits the theme of the comic to have religiosity in it have as little nuance as relationships in general. I still chuckle at the Satan ad.

Kit Walker posted:

That's actually the very next one and is definitely one of my favorite pages of all time

Fyadophobic posted:

I think it works fine for the premise of the comic. That is to say, it's not about religion so much as it is about a very surface-level understanding of religion filtered through a character dumb enough to get a back alley brain implant. Ulf's grasp on the nuances of atheism/Christianity/etc are all about on the same level, regardless of which Ulf it is.