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Ditocoaf posted:He definitely reads this thread, since every time Prequel is mentioned, this exact line of discussion always leads to him chiming in to defend himself from this exact allegation. To poor results. ...man I just wanted to enjoy dumb elder scrolls nonsense. Shame to hear about the author. Still, gonna be interesting when we manifest them in the thread once again, after their long slumber.
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Well that was a disappointing thing to learn about a comic I got into a few months ago, yeesh.
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lol I feel like this exact same conversation happens every 3 months or so in this thread "Hey Prequel updated" "Wasn't the author a creep?" "Yes he was" <2 to 3 posts about creep poo poo> "oh...." <Kazerad posts> <goons dog pile on for like a page> then maybe someone gets probated for 6 hours and the thread moves on until the dance restarts. it's the new QC derail. edit: I forgot a crucial part of the cycle currently in play TwoPair fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Aug 22, 2022 |
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Ditocoaf posted:He definitely reads this thread, since every time Prequel is mentioned, this exact line of discussion always leads to him chiming in to defend himself from this exact allegation. To poor results. He's obsessed with people talking about him or his comic. He set up google alerts and poo poo to help notify him whenever either his online handle or his comic are mentioned anywhere online.
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Aug 22, 2022 05:10
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This continues to be the General Webcomics Thread for Liking Webcomics in and not the Highly-Specific Webcomics Thread for Attempting to Summon Webcomic Artists For Public Mockery. Let's not be weird.
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y'all hosed up the Summon Weirdo ritual and got me instead read MDA probably Blood is Mine first because MDA is getting real meta insider baseball here lately
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Nuns with Guns posted:He's obsessed with people talking about him or his comic. He set up google alerts and poo poo to help notify him whenever either his online handle or his comic are mentioned anywhere online. I don't think that's obsession, I think it's just part of making something! The whole reason services like Google Alerts exist is so companies and creators can track discussions about their work. It's a really good source of feedback and good way to find communities interested in your stuff - or critical of it, which can be just as important. Tracking discussions is very common practice for businesses, but still kind of stigmatized for artists, so I feel obligated to speak up in defense of it when it's criticized. It's hard enough for self-employed artists to make a living, and I don't think there's any reason to make it harder by stigmatizing the tools and tactics used by non-art businesses - especially tools and tactics specifically designed for finding and connecting with an audience. And I know that sometimes talking about these things makes me the villain (e.g. saying that it's okay for artists to work for low pay), but I also think these are ideas that should be given a degree of defense (e.g. nearly every webcomic in this thread got its start as someone doing artwork for no pay other than exposure. It was a conscious, tactical choice that we made rather than working for someone who would pay us a livable wage outright). I swear I'm not trying to be a nuisance or poo poo up the thread, I just feel like sometimes I get mythologized into an inaccessible evil figure, and I want to stress that pretty much all my writing is readily available online (including my 8 year old Tumblr, where you can read my 8-year-ago takes on things), and I am very easy to get in contact with (a@foxmage.com, Kazerad#3286). If I say something that is factually inaccurate or morally wrong, I do want to know, and I'm not averse to correcting or reneging on things I said ten years ago. I make no claims of being 100% correct, or particularly eloquent, but I would like to work toward both of those as a goal.
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Though he know's it's confirmation, Still he shows no hesitation; Posting he's not weird or mad: Kazerad, Kazerad, Kazerad! Splicer fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Aug 22, 2022 |
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Rand Brittain posted:This continues to be the General Webcomics Thread for Liking Webcomics in and not the Highly-Specific Webcomics Thread for Attempting to Summon Webcomic Artists For Public Mockery. Are you sure Are you really really sure
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Oh my god hahaha, here we go
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before everyone piles on the namesearching is sort of weird but ultimately harmless, it was the gamergate stuff that really made people go "oh no" so I'm just checking in re: your thoughts on that as of tyool 2022
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its actually that hes an overt misogynist that makes it evident in his work
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On a completely different note, Ben Fleuter, creator of Sword Interval, has started a new comic! The opening page is very strong.
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Kazerad posted:Tracking discussions is very common practice for businesses, but still kind of stigmatized for artists, so I feel obligated to speak up in defense of it when it's criticized. It's hard enough for self-employed artists to make a living, and I don't think there's any reason to make it harder by stigmatizing the tools and tactics used by non-art businesses - especially tools and tactics specifically designed for finding and connecting with an audience. Tools to track audience reception to poo poo isn't there for you to interject into every conversation because you're a self-obsessed creep. gently caress back off to the chan boards you love so much that you'd lie down and justify gamergate for them. I don't think you're some Always Chaotic Evil demon. Being a pathetic weirdo who's desperate for attention and acclaim is too mundane for that.
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Lunatic Sledge posted:y'all hosed up the Summon Weirdo ritual and got me instead Today's comic was amazing by the way. Thank you for the work you put into it.
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Unintentional double-post.Kazerad posted:Stuff about analytics The Thread posted:Violence Okay, sorry I brought it up.
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Kazerad, I read your comic back when it was on the MSPA forums. I think I even got a user command in. I lost track of it at some point, but I'm saying this as someone who was a real fan for a while: There's no point in defending yourself in this thread anymore. The people in this thread just generally do not like you, for reasons they're very eager to tell you about. I've seen you pop into this thread to defend something or another for years now. You haven't seemed to convince anyone of anything, and as you can see above, your appearances have just become a running joke at this point. Given that you're not going to convince anyone here arguing, and you're not likely to change based on people here's complaints, I would really recommend you just stop worrying about this thread entirely.
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Tenebrais posted:On a completely different note, Ben Fleuter, creator of Sword Interval, has started a new comic! The intro pages for this are loving sick as hell and are what I was hoping this thread was discussing when I saw there were a bunch of new posts, cus honestly it deserves your time.
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J.A.B.C. posted:Today's comic was amazing by the way. Thank you for the work you put into it. I want you to know this means a lot, I have been sweating about this entire loving arc lmao
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Kojiro posted:The intro pages for this are loving sick as hell and are what I was hoping this thread was discussing when I saw there were a bunch of new posts, cus honestly it deserves your time. Man, Ben Fleuter can set a fuckin' mood when he wants to. Someone who actually knows how to use an endless scroll to his advantage, too.
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dammit who gave the sea lion a google alerts account? ANYWAY does anyone here read Christopher Baldwin's Spacetrawler? I like it, but it always seems to me to be kind of...off in its dialogue, like the author doesn't speak English as a first language. It's always seemed to be a bit wonky, but I can't put my finger on it. If you like comics with a long LONG back catalog and worldbuilding though you might want to check it out.
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Neophyte posted:ANYWAY does anyone here read Christopher Baldwin's Spacetrawler? I like it, but it always seems to me to be kind of...off in its dialogue, like the author doesn't speak English as a first language. It's always seemed to be a bit wonky, but I can't put my finger on it.
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It definitely reaffirmed my love of cake!
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Huh. Thought all the talk about spacetrawler was about a re-release. But this is a whole new series. Egg on my face for sure.
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Splicer posted:Though he know's it's confirmation,
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I'm pretty sure Spacetrawler got posted in one of these threads not that long ago. Quite the ride, I liked it.
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Tenebrais posted:On a completely different note, Ben Fleuter, creator of Sword Interval, has started a new comic! Osmosisch posted:I'm pretty sure Spacetrawler got posted in one of these threads not that long ago. Quite the ride, I liked it.
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Tenebrais posted:On a completely different note, Ben Fleuter, creator of Sword Interval, has started a new comic! On the one hand it is good that he's self-hosting, but the comic template he's using generates all the pages client side using JavaScript and can't support an RSS feed so this comic might as well not exist.
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it's crossposted to tumblr which does have rss feed support, for those of us oldheads who use rss feeds
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flatluigi posted:it's crossposted to tumblr which does have rss feed support, for those of us oldheads who use rss feeds Oh poo poo, I was gonna ask because I'm one of those oldheads. Sword Interval was dope as hell, even with the truncated ending due to real life ecological catastrophe.
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Lunatic Sledge posted:y'all hosed up the Summon Weirdo ritual and got me instead I got to > SCREAM AND DRAW BLOOD and I'm hooked, definitely going to read the rest of Blood is Mine. disposablewords posted:Man, Ben Fleuter can set a fuckin' mood when he wants to. Someone who actually knows how to use an endless scroll to his advantage, too. This has bumped Sword Interval way up on my to-read list, too. ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Aug 23, 2022 |
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girl dick energy posted:Is this supposed to be to the tune of the Beetlejuice theme or the Freakazoid theme?
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Splicer posted:Whatever brings you joy
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ToxicFrog posted:I got to > SCREAM AND DRAW BLOOD and I'm hooked, definitely going to read the rest of Blood is Mine. Sword Interval sadly doesn’t get to do that much of this kind of thing, because it’s on webtoons, but you can tell Fleuter was straining against the webtoons format. I’m super glad he moved to his own hosting and then immediately started playing with the space and style he has available. It’s a very good sign that this is going to be an even better comic than SI.
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habeasdorkus posted:Sword Interval was dope as hell, even with the truncated ending due to real life ecological catastrophe.
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habeasdorkus posted:Oh poo poo, I was gonna ask because I'm one of those oldheads. read this and it would be much much better if roughly 10% of the updates weren't "i'm so sorry, no update this week". overall it comes across as much much too ambitious for the (admittedly incredible) design, drafting and general art level skills on display. occasional issues with composition and plotting. it doesn't seem like he could ever output the comic he wanted and it comes out in the text a lot, in particular with the ending where he clearly wants to include what this and that are a metaphor for and as such gets insanely on the nose about everything.
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