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The Saddest Rhino posted:(can't recall the name) the one that starts with just a bunch of strangers planning a mass suicide.
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What's the short one where your body fills up with holes where insects live? That one is gross. Also the one where everyone has a balloon shaped like your head that tries to catch and hang you, not as gross but very weird.
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Jul 10, 2022 12:12
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Killer balloons? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jksRQcI9NA
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Hanging Balloons! I love Junji Ito, maybe I'll post some too
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It’s worth mentioning that Junji Ito is known for both gag manga and horror manga, and his horror manga is probably as effective as it is because he knows exactly how to blend the two together. Guy can take the most ridiculous premise and turn it into nightmare fuel
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He's a master of the shocking reveal panel, which is important in both horror and comedy. For a comedy example, look at any Whomp strip.
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Jul 10, 2022 13:34
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Philippe posted:He's a master of the shocking reveal panel, which is important in both horror and comedy. For a comedy example, look at any Whomp strip. 
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Philippe posted:He's a master of the shocking reveal panel, which is important in both horror and comedy. For a comedy example, look at any Whomp strip. I never realized Junji Ito did Whomp, but I guess that does explain a few things
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Sleve McDichael posted:Hanging Balloons! By popular demand posted:Killer balloons? It is very funny that these are almost the exact same premise Also, pokemon    I guess there's only so many things you can do with the idea of living balloons
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At some point Hentai Kamen will get posted at this rate
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There's a lot of overlap in the writing, directing and acting skills for good comedy and horror. Same reason why comedic actors often do so well in drama. Comedy is actually really hard to do well, and requites a lot of understanding of things like pacing, timing, expression and nuance.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There's a lot of overlap in the writing, directing and acting skills for good comedy and horror. Same reason why comedic actors often do so well in drama. Comedy is actually really hard to do well, and requites a lot of understanding of things like pacing, timing, expression and nuance. Yeah, I recently watched a video essay going into some detail of what makes an effective jump scare in a horror movie, and it lines up really closely with how to tell a good joke. You set up the premise, you build on it by adding additional factors, and then you draw it out, build the tension, circle around the inevitable reveal for as long as your audience will put up with. And then it's all about finding the exact right moment to dispel that tension, be it through jump scare or punch line, and to do it in a way that still manages to surprise the audience even after you've primed them to expect it.
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, I recently watched a video essay going into some detail of what makes an effective jump scare in a horror movie, and it lines up really closely with how to tell a good joke. You set up the premise, you build on it by adding additional factors, and then you draw it out, build the tension, circle around the inevitable reveal for as long as your audience will put up with. And then it's all about finding the exact right moment to dispel that tension, be it through jump scare or punch line, and to do it in a way that still manages to surprise the audience even after you've primed them to expect it. That's a perfect way of describing it. The Enigma at Amigara Fault follows this principle to the drat letter. The panel where the protagonist finds the hole shaped like him (and the final panel, of course) is inevitable, but the path there is full of ups and downs. He meets another person mystified by the holes, oh no she finds a hole that looks like her, it's fine we plugged it up with stones, oh no she's gone, etc. Junji Ito loves the gross reveal, but he also revels in preparing you for it.
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It goes even deeper than that. Laughter is a modified fear response, it activates the exact same part of the brain. Evolutionary biologists think that it originally evolved to let the tribe know you were safe even though you just got surprised by something This all goes to explain why Jordan Peele made such a smooth and successful transition from sketch comedy to horror movies
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the seductress is my favorite character, every strip she's in is great even by tredlocity standards
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Trixie Slaughteraxe for PresidentHempuli posted:Nobody touch Architect  Vanished  Picking mushrooms  Don't fall   Deaths: 2 (+1 giraffe monster) Hempuli has a new favorite as of 16:01 on Jul 17, 2022 |
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TCB just horizontal carrying my employer away from dangerous critters.
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Squidster posted:Qualia the Purple Qualia the Purple Episode 10: 22-30 of 30         
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Hell yes. Transdimensional Hand Phone.
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, I recently watched a video essay going into some detail of what makes an effective jump scare in a horror movie, and it lines up really closely with how to tell a good joke. You set up the premise, you build on it by adding additional factors, and then you draw it out, build the tension, circle around the inevitable reveal for as long as your audience will put up with. And then it's all about finding the exact right moment to dispel that tension, be it through jump scare or punch line, and to do it in a way that still manages to surprise the audience even after you've primed them to expect it. Can you link said essay? Also, queer space wizard adventures is very good.
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Samovar posted:Can you link said essay? Sure, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llpsjbNQIns
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Apocalypse Johto—Battlefield Kanto Part 4: Silver Standard Chapter 34: Power Surge            And then Candace died in her sleep and Sabrina took over the world The End ...okay, not really. But this is where Apocalypse Johto posting does come to an end. No more pages exist. Towards the end, updates had gotten... rather sporadic. Now, I know the reason for that, but I'm gonna leave it to Saber to decide if that's to be elaborated on. But at some point after posting those pages, he did post a message talking about another thing he had been working on, which I at least at the time read as "...but when I'm done with that, it's back to AJ". Obviously, that didn't happen. From the planning IRC convos that were had back in the day, I do know some things that were going to happen and what ultimately was going to be revealed as the reason for the Change, and if Saber hadn't come to the thread and said he'll explain what was going to happen, I would have summed up what I knew. But now I'll leave it to the man himself! EDIT: And an extra special thanks to him for uploading the whole shebang to his new domain with SSL so I didn't have to rehost every goshdang page myself! Four months of posting this, almost to the day. 935 pages in total. It's been interesting to revisit, if nothing else. I would be lying if I said that Apocalypse Johto was not one of the influences on the One Piece fanfic that's my current primary writing project. It's still the only Nuzlocke comic I've really read, I've just seen a few pages of some others. I might start posting something else, I have some thoughts, but I'll have a break from comic posting for now. If I do decide to post something else, whatever it'll be, it'll be something completely different. KennyMan666 has a new favorite as of 18:43 on Jul 10, 2022 |
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Ten Earth Shattering Blows -- Tome One: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nuclearpasta/ten-earth-shattering-blows-tome-one €33 for the physical book, €16 shipping to the US, but I wanted to point out to Americans like me who don't generally follow currency exchange that as of today, the euro and the dollar are basically at parity 
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Empty Sandwich posted:Ten Earth Shattering Blows -- Tome One: Man that'd be awesome, but I've learned my lesson to just not buy printed webcomic compilations. They look cool as hell, but it turns out I will literally never actually read them and I really don't need more things taking up space at my place. Fortunately I don't have to feel too bad about this one, since they're already over their goal with weeks left to go.
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It's been so long since I've been thanked for loving Pupkin.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Man that'd be awesome, but I've learned my lesson to just not buy printed webcomic compilations. They look cool as hell, but it turns out I will literally never actually read them and I really don't need more things taking up space at my place. Fortunately I don't have to feel too bad about this one, since they're already over their goal with weeks left to go. You got burned by Achewood too, huh
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Hempuli posted:Trixie Slaughteraxe for President "Is that how the magic works?" "No, that's how sarcasm works." lol got 'er
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Philippe posted:You got burned by Achewood too, huh
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Hempuli posted:Trixie Slaughteraxe for President Lol. It sounds like it would literally just take one creature deciding to bash its head into a force field, to permanently unmake you as a wizard.
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Layers of Fear - Part 4     
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KennyMan666 posted:...okay, not really. But this is where Apocalypse Johto posting does come to an end. No more pages exist. So I've only been reading this thread the last week or so but thanks for posting this. There's an awful lot of comics out there where the art style is 'read an awful lot of manga', it's nice to see one where the style is 'read an awful lot of ONI and SLG.'
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Koburn posted:Layers of Fear - Part 4 I typically don't mind the wild plot swings in Ito's work, but this one was out of left field even by his standards presumably Narumi would've been curious at some point in the past why she had all those extra teeth
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Barry Bluejeans posted:presumably Narumi would've been curious at some point in the past why she had all those extra teeth Honestly I probably wouldn't bother going to the doctor if I found out I had years' worth of smaller mes inside myself as long as I wasn't in an active medical emergency
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She's going to cut a few layers off to do that thing she mentioned a few pages ago right
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I guarantee the mother's gonna end up peeling one or both of her daughters until they're cute little babies again E: RBA Starblade posted:She's going to cut a few layers off to do that thing she mentioned a few pages ago right 
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Barry Bluejeans posted:I typically don't mind the wild plot swings in Ito's work, but this one was out of left field even by his standards I mean, she mentioned it in the car earlier: it sounds like when she was a child she tried to bring the situation with her teeth to her mom's attention, but the mom couldn't be bothered. At the time it just seemed like a random example of "little sister gets all the attention", but turns out to be setup for this.
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that's perfectly fine, my real issue is that it establishes an outwardly-visible indicator of the curse if it's something that would only show up on x-ray, I can buy that it would go unnoticed for both women to this point - not so much that all the doctors and dentists that examined them throughout their childhood/adolescence somehow missed those extra chompers
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KennyMan666 posted:Apocalypse Johto—Battlefield Kanto Part 4: Silver Standard Yeah, that ending is a bit disappointing.
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cant cook creole bream posted:As a native German speaker, that last exchange felt a bit stupid. "She's like a [Cake shaped like a tree]." "It's more like the shape of a tree!". he's saying that a cake doesn't grow rings like a tree does or a snail shell does "she's like a thing that looks like a thing!" "no, she's more like the second thing itself"
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