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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm all about the digressions, I want to know what's happening with Russia! What IS it like on the steppe??? TBH, I'm kinda bouncing around the series because it does in fact have a metaplot, and some pretty great character arcs, but it does also have a LOT of digressions and the metaplot is one of those 'one inch per volume' where one or two volumes might be focused entirely on a new tribe/culture and the metaplot advances only in the last few pages. Combine with there being 13 volumes, and each chapter being like 30+ pages long, not knowing how much the thread would be up for historical novel Japanese manga interrupt since it's not very high-action, AND the main plot having a lot of historically accurately discussed arranged marriage/patriarchal bullshit/etc. that I didn't want people taking out of context and going lol blue star on me about, I've basically been just picking out some of the chapters that stand alone well to kind of show it off in the hopes people who like what they're seeing spend  for the extra-sized hardback editions with the colour covers to find out what's going on with Russia, the Steppe, and how drat pretty the clothes can get (very). By the way, here's some video clips of the artist inking a panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y3fDiQTU4E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45S8UhdshJw No digital cheating or screentones, everything is done by hand.
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coolusername posted:By the way, here's some video clips of the artist inking a panel: asdlfjasdklfjlkjads;j'kasfasdf That's insane Completely insane Inking that embroidery must take longer than actually embroidering it I promise to never again complain about accidentally drawing on the wrong layer, or the fill bucket being finicky, ever
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coolusername posted:TBH, I'm kinda bouncing around the series because it does in fact have a metaplot, and some pretty great character arcs, but it does also have a LOT of digressions and the metaplot is one of those 'one inch per volume' where one or two volumes might be focused entirely on a new tribe/culture and the metaplot advances only in the last few pages. Combine with there being 13 volumes, and each chapter being like 30+ pages long, not knowing how much the thread would be up for historical novel Japanese manga interrupt since it's not very high-action, AND the main plot having a lot of historically accurately discussed arranged marriage/patriarchal bullshit/etc. that I didn't want people taking out of context and going lol blue star on me about, I've basically been just picking out some of the chapters that stand alone well to kind of show it off in the hopes people who like what they're seeing spend holy poo poo
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm all about the digressions, I want to know what's happening with Russia! What IS it like on the steppe??? Oh you know, it's always stepping off
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm all about the digressions, I want to know what's happening with Russia! What IS it like on the steppe??? If I know anything about the mid 19th century what is happening with Russia is bad.
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Hempuli posted:Sorry for not posting Lies, Sisters & Wives for a bit; I was visiting my parents and didn't have my laptop with me, followed by a day of headache. I'll get back to it soon.
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Josef bugman posted:If I know anything about the mid 19th century what is happening with Russia is measured by the dead peasants. E:∆∆∆ haha.
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Splicer posted:But Hempuli you told me you'd stopped posting because your father died in a bizarre webcomics accident! What? Splicer's dad is away on a business trip, which is why their sister had to come and feed their dog
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Splicer posted:But Hempuli you told me you'd stopped posting because your father died in a bizarre webcomics accident! Tree Bucket posted:What? Splicer's dad is away on a business trip, which is why their sister had to come and feed their dog By popular demand posted:But the dog claims to have been on a business trip to Singapore at the time! Unfortunately I have to reveal that the dog has a condition that makes it regularly hallucinate that it is my parent. The business trip story is complete nonsense, and I had to make up the story of visiting my parents in Singapore to placate the dog. Best not ask Splicer's sister or the dog about this, though, because... because it's all very sad and tragic. Would you want to remind them of this sad condition, or my father's absolutely-true death in the bizarre webcomics accident?!
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Josef bugman posted:If I know anything about the mid 19th century what is happening with Russia is bad.  I wasn’t expecting anyone to care much for it so I was just showing off some of my favourite art, but since there’s people actually turning on yurt monitors for “RSI is a competitive sport: the manga”, I’ll go back to chapter 1 and I’ll post through the first arc in order. It won’t take us that long to catch up to what I’ve shown since I’ve only posted bits from volumes 1 and 2.
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Boba Pearl posted:Steppe Into The Ring E01-U11 Steppe Into The Ring E01-U12  loving, drawing acrobatics and monsters and poo poo is hard. drat.
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Absolutely! On a completely unrelated note, can anyone explain to me why the chars in qualia are so upset abt being "fixed"? I mean, robot girl saved their lives, id be down to be a bit more android
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Sprue posted:Absolutely! You wouldn't be freaked out knowing that part of your body is literally made out of scrap metal? I think it's less being upset at Yukari about it and more that it came as a result of a seriously traumatic event that left her questioning whether she's even really human, with one very obvious target who actively involved herself. More trauma than hatred.
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There's also the existential dread associated with "she can't see a difference between humans and a jungle gym and is demonstrably correct "
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Hempuli posted:Unfortunately I have to reveal that the dog has a condition that makes it regularly hallucinate that it is my parent. The business trip story is complete nonsense, and I had to make up the story of visiting my parents in Singapore to placate the dog. Best not ask Splicer's sister or the dog about this, though, because... because it's all very sad and tragic. Would you want to remind them of this sad condition, or my father's absolutely-true death in the bizarre webcomics accident?! And he's dead???
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Tenebrais posted:You wouldn't be freaked out knowing that part of your body is literally made out of scrap metal? Also Yukari did the operation without anaesthetic, which is probably going to lead to hard feelings even if your life was saved.
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Sprue posted:Absolutely! I literally had a nightmare about this comic last night (same operation except the mobile phone was in my shoulder). It's the nonconsensual bodily invasion (coupled with the nonchalance shown by the purple-eyed girl) as well as the idea that your body isn't yours or might be something else, like a robot. "Existential dread" Iike Tenebrais wrote is a great description. I like the comic, but I think it's super scary and gross!
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Their bodies are literally simultaneously human and robot and the fact that this mechanically gifted little kid can put you back together again using spare parts from a cellphone or broken jungle gym proves it pretty solidly. Some people are going to find that more traumatic than others. Even though I think I'd personally be pretty happy to be repaired by my trans-universal girlfriend if I was bleeding to death, the experience of actually going through it might be a bit more traumatic than the idea of it alone.
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It's transhumanism, and for some people that is the most terrifying, and for others it's the most liberating. The main characters are having the same dilemma we are where some are finding it freeing and amazing, and others are having nothing but fear and dread.
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Yeah it's like a version of involuntary transhumanism where your conception of what a human is wasn't really that accurate in the first place and you were always partially something else without knowing it until someone else was suddenly able to access an aspect of your existence that you never were able to.
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coolusername posted:
Awesome! I've always been fascinated by clothing from these types of culture. People used to dress so much more brilliantly than we do now. 
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Sprue posted:On a completely unrelated note, can anyone explain to me why the chars in qualia are so upset abt being "fixed"? I mean, robot girl saved their lives, id be down to be a bit more android Becoming part android would be following the rules. A team of specialists would take some technology that you've seen before, and connect it to your body in a familiar-looking big ol' hospital. Parts of your body weren't broken, and invisibly replaced by rusty rebar without warning. The poor kid went through a traumatic experience that they can never explain to anyone else without ending up in a psych ward. The rules have been permanently broken, and maybe they were never real at all. If she ever gets a paper cut, will her flesh split open to reveal an Akira Cronenberg mass underneath? Yukarii's repairs have lasted until now, but will they one day just... stop? The poor girl has no way to navigate her new reality. This stuff is part of why I like the comic so much; Yukarii is terrifying. She's sweet and kind and bumbling as a teen, but what will she become?
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Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman 150  I have no real notes, other than it's exactly two weeks until Half-Life 2: Episode 1 is released. I've paid for and preloaded it... have you? (Also, a Hemi is apparently some sort of truck engine or something. I'm not really much of a car guy.) 151  There's a brief mention of the Combine using a teleporter to drain the Earth's ocean in Valve's book "Raising The Bar", and because I'm a dork I remember things like that. I can't remember my own cell phone number, but I remember that. 152  So, I've gotten some interesting feedback on the three Frank comics I ran last week. These comics will herein be referred to as the "Frank Tangent" for the simple reason that I enjoy referring to things herein whenever I get the chance. Anyway, in regards to the Frank Tangent, well, some people didn't think it was funny, which isn't in itself a big deal. Not everyone is going to think every comic is funny, and I get plenty of regular feedback from people telling me what they don't find funny. Which is fine! But some people seemed to think I was deliberately trying to not be funny. As in, I was trying to make serious, deep, meaningful comics. That I fully expected people to feel the weight of Frank's death, the sorrow of his children and widow and friends. The word "poignant" was thrown around a lot. Um, here's the thing, and I'll make this promise right here and now. I will never intentionally be serious, deep, meaningful, or poignant here. Ever. This ain't For Better or For Worse, for gently caress's sake. This is a jokey strip about a video game. I will never have a "point" or try to make you "think." I try to be clever, but I don't try to be real. This I so swear. So, why did people think that I was trying to be serious? Well, the humor was a lot less slapsticky and a lot more deadpan than it usually is, I guess. There weren't traditional punchlines, but I sort of thought the entire tangent was a punchline, 'cos, you know, the Combine don't have kids, or wives, or friends, or little funerals for each other. Just like they don't interview humans for positions in Citadel Purchasing or have gunships named Bruce or any of the other silly things that this comic has depicted. I mean, come on -- sad little Combine kiddies and a little gravestone by the ocean? It's just plain ridiculous. How anyone could take that seriously is completely beyond me. Anyway, I liked this little tangent a lot -- I think they're some of my favorites of the comics I've done so far. What I find interesting is that the death of a Combine soldier somehow, weirdly, resonated with certain readers, while not long ago a very pleasant young woman named Sandy was unceremoniously engulfed and regurgitated by a barnacle, and yet nary an eyelash was batted (to say nothing of the perhaps hundreds of innocent human lives lost in Ravenholm in these very pages). Bizarre.
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coolusername posted:I'll be posting most of this entire chapter as we travel once again back to the mid-19th century Silk Road with A Bride's Story to learn about... embroidery! This is one of my favourite chapters artistically, although it'll take a little set up to get to the insane embroidery panels. Actually I didn’t realise Volume 1 cold opens with a platonic, politically arranged child marriage which while historically/culturally fitting and nothing happens let’s just not, since none of the other engagements/marriages are like that I’ll just keep on posting from volume 2: embroidery boogaloo.           
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Squidster posted:Qualia the Purple Episode 07: 29-36 of 42         
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Squidster posted:Qualia the Purple KennyMan666 has a new favorite as of 19:48 on Jun 30, 2022 |
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Squidster posted:Qualia the Purple That’s a swerve. I was expecting it to stay in the highschool vibes 
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Qwertycoatl posted:Qualia The Wild Ride has barely begun Oh god. I'm trying my best not to read ahead. I too was expecting it to stay as a high school story.
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The art in A Bride's Story is mostly outstanding, but the insane detail of the clothes really run head first into the manga style where the faces are just empty surfaces with two giant eyes and a tiny mouth.
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Pretty sure Same Hat is grounds for a divorce, or possibly duel, in this setting. E: also I've really enjoyed redrawing comics in other comics styles in this thread, but the 18-hours-per-panel embroidery saga is not happening Tree Bucket has a new favorite as of 00:32 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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