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vyelkin posted:lol I don't mind the talking, in fact I like talking more than the infinite meaningless punches, it just bugs me how often the story has gone back to the same well of "oh Alison got hosed up and now a new character we didn't meet before has appeared to explain things", there's lots of ways to do talking that aren't that otoh these godly dipshits have been stuck with each other for thousands of years, of course they're gonna talk the new girls ears off
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i was stuck waiting on stuff for a whole day and managed to binge Spacetrawler from 2012 to 2017 or so, and it really does feel like a comic that started off perfectly fine in 2012, as a comedic one-pager thing which reads great as a daily morning distraction. As a whole and as a complete read, because of how high-key dramatic the story is (intergalactic liberation of a slave race involving multiple wars) but low-key presentation where everything is placed under a veneer of irony and sarcasm, it very much reads like a mcu/joss whedon joint brought up to extremes but without the girlboss-but-actually-sexist stuff. Almost every time something major or significant happens, there's a quip or joke to undercut it. like did you realise Martina by pressing a button just annihilated a major base of operations for the eebs production of spacetrawlers that completely destabilized the economy of the galactic federation at large and that she massacred thousands of different races? I didn't even realise the impact because of the jokes, until several strips from now. somewhere later in the second book there's a genuinely heartfelt sequence (The killing of a world-destroyer while one character demands another character, who had previously been presented as a chaos elemental, to stop "performing" and actually show their real emotions) that gets also undercut with a quip at the last panel, which was so bad even the comment section had people complaining about it. Christopher Baldiwn is a very talented and prolific cartoonist with an insane work ethic, but I really really wish he did not commit to an arbitrary jokes-per-strip in his writing. The stories in Spacetrawler are actually not bad but also, the second story involves two characters whose roles are purely punching people and it showed that he regretted creating two instead of one, especially as one of them was meant to be a one-note violence monkeycheese machine (the kangaroo). i'm just only getting into the third story and i'm kinda hoping he has grown to not do this anymore, at least there are... less characters and it appears the original crew of the fish dude, the sarcastic tentacle horse and the idiot who looks like a big walking penis are no longer part of the main cast, if you read story 2 you can really tell he's sick of them and just threw them into a decoy mission and literally cut off their spaceship's wings to stall them away from the main plot.
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Anyway speaking of determinism let's get into some TAOThe Saddest Rhino posted:XU YU REFUSES THE WORLD ZHUANGZI SPEAKS 庄子说 WHO'S THE MASTER?  ZHUANGZI SPEAKS ABOUT NOT SPEAKING  i'm pretty sure that hanging text in the first panel is meant to be in the previous comic, but then, the lack of it in the first one seemed to have elevated it. that's why it is better to not speak a single word. i'm a genius YAO'S QUESTION  also lol at the art error in the first panel. You can kinda feel Tsai was getting old and forgetting things, and his editors didn't care
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Christopher Baldwin Oh poo poo! I've mostly been giving Spacetrawler a pass because of all the torture porn vibes, so I missed that he wrote it. A lot of stuff makes sense now. Bruno was an extremely Whedon Feminist work right down to the barely disguised fetishes (his "semi-autobiographical" comic about a female college student somehow manages to work in some of the same fantasies as Spacetrawler's constant amputations and brain clamping, so if you were wondering if this was his fetish or not now you know.)
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the holy poopacy posted:It's unusually janky even by k6bd standards but mostly I always just assumed like, weird esoteric martial arts stance Yeah the finger pose is i think both a reference to a specific kind of hand positioning you see in buddhist art and also clearly a spirit kind of move. The legs are egregiously big for sure, but the pose itself is fine. A lot of the wilder poses are clearly referencing or influenced by the kind of contortions you see in various religious art traditions depicting gods and heros and I dig it even when it's janky. I like it as a choice.
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Like, he's just kind of tapping Jagganoth with two joined fingertips and that somehow blows Jagganoth through the fabric of reality, it's ok for him to be weirdly contorted because the effects of whatever he's doing isn't really connected to his actual motions. The proportions are still goofy and hosed up though.
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:Dolmistaska Thanks for updating us! Poor PM, though.
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Last time, in Vigils for Friends:Samovar posted:
Today: Boy, do you remember that phrase 'the customer is always right'? I do hope the person who coined that got fusilladed.    Edit: I also am not seeing what was so egregiously wrong about Solomon's pose in that one panel. Samovar has a new favorite as of 05:43 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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Phthisis posted:It took forever to finish this because I just started a new job and my car immediately broke down and has been out of commission, but I couldn't get over how insane that one drawing of Solomon was. sorry but this 'fixed' version looks a bazillion times worse Remember the time people tried to fix the penny arcade scout troop comic and turns out they'd just completely misinterpreted what was going on in the story? lmao
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Phthisis posted:It took forever to finish this because I just started a new job and my car immediately broke down and has been out of commission, but I couldn't get over how insane that one drawing of Solomon was. Y’know, I agree that on a technical level your modified version is better (that is, with Solomon’s legs facing towards Jagganoth). And I think that just goes to show that it’s easy to gloss over bits of art in comics that are a bit off. Especially if the artist leans into wild stylistic choices like Araki does. Abbadon runs the gamut of incredibly tight stylistic perspective fuckery to absolute jank, but it’s easy for me to handwave the imperfections mycatscrimes posted:Yeah the finger pose is i think both a reference to a specific kind of hand positioning you see in buddhist art and also clearly a spirit kind of move. The legs are egregiously big for sure, but the pose itself is fine. A lot of the wilder poses are clearly referencing or influenced by the kind of contortions you see in various religious art traditions depicting gods and heros and I dig it even when it's janky. I like it as a choice. I’ll also agree with this, and I think it’s a big part of why I can roll with it. Even when something feels off I can just think “yeah that’s probably something you’d do with magic martial arts” and not dwell on it much further Kit Walker has a new favorite as of 07:45 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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Synthbuttrange posted:Remember the time people tried to fix the penny arcade scout troop comic and turns out they'd just completely misinterpreted what was going on in the story? lmao
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Reaching the uncomfortable conclusion that Abaddon drew that shot of Jagganoth by placing his phone on the ground between his feet, with the camera set to a ten second timer.
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Phthisis posted:It took forever to finish this because I just started a new job and my car immediately broke down and has been out of commission, but I couldn't get over how insane that one drawing of Solomon was.  (Timg'd for huge, oops) Chicken Parmigiana has a new favorite as of 07:53 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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Tree Bucket posted:Come to think of it, the narnia books also had a sorcerer-queen Jadis who was frozen in time. Bearer of The Word that kills everyone on a planet except yourself. Handy! I was gonna say I got that reference. Also either way it feels like something very modern. Brutalism and greenery are a great combo. Allison is just a shonen protagonist, going on a tour of the setting's medical facilities ranging from the finest hospitals to the filthiest back rooms is as standard as punching people. In fact it makes a lot of sense for someone whose primary activity is getting in fights. literallyjustadhd.png
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Emzedoh posted:Takako-san chapter 35 Takako-san chapter 36 Takako vs the Pavlovian response         No checkerboard bonus page today, what the hell
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Are the disguised Beagle Boys supposed to remind the reader of RAF terrorists with automatic weapons because Donald Duck just got real, lmao
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Almost every time something major or significant happens, there's a quip or joke to undercut it. like did you realise Martina by pressing a button just annihilated a major base of operations for the eebs production of spacetrawlers that completely destabilized the economy of the galactic federation at large and that she massacred thousands of different races? I totally agree with seeing the tonal dissonance and being annoyed at some of the mandatory punchlines, but I feel like this particular point came through just fine. Possibly due to reading it at a pace of two pages a day; I feel like Spacetrawler in particular is a real bad comic to binge. And I'm not sure it'd actually be improved by having a more sincere tone; the universe is loving miserable and I think I'd have to put it down if it was played straight. I dunno, it's a comic that I like even though it's composed of elements that I hate, and I am having a hard time articulating why. Samovar posted:Boy, do you remember that phrase 'the customer is always right'? I do hope the person who coined that got fusilladed. As far as I'm aware, the original phrase is "the customer is always right, in matters of taste," and was only meant as a reminder not to argue if someone didn't like their soup or wanted to buy an ugly shirt or whatever. It's not your job to have an opinion on what they should like. Your ire should be aimed at whoever decided to omit the second part and use it as a declaration that service staff are property. E: barbecue at the folks posted:Are the disguised Beagle Boys supposed to remind the reader of RAF terrorists with automatic weapons because Donald Duck just got real, lmao I'm pretty sure they're supposed to evoke 20's movie gangsters with comical disguises, because that's all a tommy gun means to continental Europeans. E2: wait I'm thinking of the wrong RAF, but still, so long as it's the Beagle Boys I'm gonna go with gangster tropes Zulily Zoetrope has a new favorite as of 11:39 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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barbecue at the folks posted:Are the disguised Beagle Boys supposed to remind the reader of RAF terrorists with automatic weapons because Donald Duck just got real, lmao I think those are supposed to be old-school gangster tommy guns. Edit: I guess the RAF also used those, but in the US they are mostly associated with Prohibition era gangsters. SimonChris has a new favorite as of 11:26 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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Hey, I'm not saying my Solomon drawings are *good*, and I'd appreciate not getting poo poo for that. I am not an artist and it's just something I threw together to demonstrate how bad the pose and proportions are. I understand the comparisons with jojo, and while I do not think jojo is good, I think that type of stylistic inaccuracy is clearly intentional in jojo and definitely works to the effect its being used for. I don't really think that K6BD is trying to do the same thing. Or, if it is, I think it's poorly executed to the extent that it does not come off as intentional. I also don't really agree with the take that that pose is supposed to represent some kind of magical/godlike technique. Again, I understand what that type of thing would be referencing, and this was definitely something I thought a lot about when looking at the original image, particularly with the flowing cloth, but it just seems to lack intentionality to me. If that's what he was going for, I think it was pulled off poorly.
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the holy poopacy posted:Oh poo poo! I've mostly been giving Spacetrawler a pass because of all the torture porn vibes, so I missed that he wrote it. A lot of stuff makes sense now. Bruno was an extremely Whedon Feminist work right down to the barely disguised fetishes (his "semi-autobiographical" comic about a female college student somehow manages to work in some of the same fantasies as Spacetrawler's constant amputations and brain clamping, so if you were wondering if this was his fetish or not now you know.) gross    
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Phthisis posted:Hey, I'm not saying my Solomon drawings are *good*, and I'd appreciate not getting poo poo for that. I am not an artist and it's just something I threw together to demonstrate how bad the pose and proportions are. Even though the rearranging of the legs you did looks more believable anatomically it still feels less dynamic which I feel was the point of why he drew it the way he did. Legs sticking out weirdly aside, those feet are hosed. Hard to tell for sure but it appears he drew two left feet and that's my main issue with that pic. (Surprised no one has brought this up yet, or does my skimming betray me again and there was a whole chapter on how Solomon has two left feet?)
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Tree Bucket posted:I like this very vaporwave fast-bike-and-setting sun, only instead of palms there's pines and instead of dusk and neon there's sleet. Here's a quick a dirty thing based on the flag of the Communist party of Canada 
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Kill Six Billion Demons  quote:NOTHING, NOTHING,   quote:The Black Sun For the next page I really have to link to the site directly Not actually a spoiler: So I guess the shape of the universe is indeed the letter I
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 now that im looking for it, this is a left foot too when it should be a right foot. dont have any problem with the dynamism, but the wrong feet/hands thing will always gently caress me up lol
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Phthisis posted:Hey, I'm not saying my Solomon drawings are *good*, and I'd appreciate not getting poo poo for that. I am not an artist and it's just something I threw together to demonstrate how bad the pose and proportions are. I'm not trying to poo poo on your art, but I don't think the original drawing was anatomically incorrect. It wasn't a super exciting pose, but all the parts fit:  Your re-draw seems to interpret the legs being the other way around under the fabric. CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:
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