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I guess it's going to depend on how willing you are to trust the author here. Like, maybe Jeph really does think that's how Executive Dysfunction works or maybe it's just what the character Ayo believes and is actually going to go somewhere, character development-wise. We won't really know until the arc plays out. I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt for the time being.Heavy Metal posted:Started reading Nedroid yesterday, this Beartato is going places! What a charming fellow. I have skipped/skimmed some of the early ones though. There's a whole bunch of recs just last page, check those out I reckon. Edit: argh last last page, dogshit page snipe isasphere posted:
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Emzedoh posted:There's a whole bunch of recs just last page, check those out I reckon. That was somebody asking for new webcomics, I'm okay with really old ones, and had my own unique set of thingies mentioned. But I get it, maybe I'll get into webcomics next time. I have a lot of fancy paper comics and books to read. But if somebody did want to recommend me some more cool character hangout webcomics I might like...  And thanks for the recs so far.
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I think you might be reading a little more hostility into my response than was intended. Get into webcomics this time, don't leave to next time!
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Emzedoh posted:I guess it's going to depend on how willing you are to trust the author here. Like, maybe Jeph really does think that's how Executive Dysfunction works or maybe it's just what the character Ayo believes and is actually going to go somewhere, character development-wise. We won't really know until the arc plays out. I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt for the time being. I've thought on that, though the suggestion came from Hannalore who's been the author's voice of positive engagement with mental health. Which is kind of the opposite of an armchair diagnosis of someone you met 10 minutes earlier. It could always be the opening of a story about how accepting there is an issue doesn't mean anything if you don't take steps to address it.
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disposablewords posted:Given Claire's response, professional help for Liz is most likely in her plans even if she has to steamroll everyone else at Cubetown into getting a therapist hired. It's also been mentioned that Dora's place has health insurance though that's all we know about it, and I don't know the particulars about relevant laws around it in Massachusetts to even begin to guess whether Ayo's going to get on it any time soon. Mass has MassHealth, which is a reasonably inexpensive, reasonably comprehensive state-run plan. Also, Northampton has Smith College, which is a respected member of the Seven Sisters, so there are students.
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Heavy Metal posted:That was somebody asking for new webcomics, I'm okay with really old ones, and had my own unique set of thingies mentioned. But I get it, maybe I'll get into webcomics next time. I have a lot of fancy paper comics and books to read. But if somebody did want to recommend me some more cool character hangout webcomics I might like... In that case, here are some I really like, forgive me if there are repeat recommendations, I'm trying to think of ones that haven't been mentioned lately: Vainglorious: A young dragon challenges the dragon queen and is punished to live amongst humans. He meets a runaway young man who is just as much of a disaster as the dragon. On-going. Harpy Gee: An elf goes in search of independence and adventure and makes friends. They all have adventures that range from the slice-of-life to the life-threatening. It's more charming than I'm making it sound. On-going. Sleepless Domain: Magical girls protect a city from nightly monsters. It's one of those stories where things get dark and realistic without being gross or going for just the shock value. The author takes a genuinely compassionate and mature look at depression and the death of loved ones, and more importantly, how to find support in recovery. It's much better than I'm making it sound. On-going. True Magic: Magic wielding rich jerks harass peasants for fun, said peasants decide to do something about it. It has a very anime sort of vibe/humor but the characters and story gain depth as things go on. The author recently switched to a text plus pictures format like in Paranatural, but I think it works. On-going. Flaky Pastry: A couple of university students search for a roommate when they are short of rent to pay their hungry dragon landlord. Humor/fantasy. It's also sort of anime-ish, but there is something appealing to me about the writing and art style. On hiatus. Everblue: A young man meets a shipwright and convinces her to go with him and explore the vast sea and islands of their world. They get tangled up in a political conspiracy, as is usual for these things. Beautiful art. On-going, with hiccups in the schedule. 164 Days: A young man searches for his missing brother with the aid of a mage, and discovers his family was up to shady stuff. Possibly on hiatus? It hasn't updated for a while and the author hasn't said anything. Solivaga: The dimension that provides mages with magic is going funky and monsters are spilling out. Mages are understandably concerned. The art is gorgeous. It's on pause while the author works on the next pages. Warning: body horror. Narbonic: A recently graduated programmer gets hired by a mad scientist and her assistant. They repeatedly try to take over the world with evil science. Humor. Complete. Gastrophobia: An Amazon warrior and her child go on adventures trying to make a living in fantasy ancient Greece. It's on hiatus while the author works on her current project: Yellow Brick Ramble: Loosely based on one of the books from the Wizard of Oz series; it follows Ozma as she runs away from her abusive mom to find adventure in the land of Oz. The story is completely written already and I think thumbnailed also, so it should update to the finish. Band Vs Band: The lighthearted music band Candy Hearts keep butting heads with their rivals, the punkier rock Sourballs, while their frontwomen try to figure out the attraction they feel for each other. On hiatus, the author got long covid.  Astral Aves: The witchy heiress of a witchy prince goes on a self-imposed quest to achieve godhood like the mythical hero she read about as a child. Her childhood friends decide to help. On hiatus. It hasn't updated in years and while the author is active on twitter, they have not said anything official about the state of the comic. Commander Kitty: The adventures of an arrogant space captain and his crew. On hiatus. From peeking at his twitter account years ago, the author got trapped in the vicious cycle of "updating the comic less often to take on outside paid work to survive, less comic updates meant less comic monetary support; must take on more paid work to survive so postponing comic updates, etc". These two are hosted on Tapas: Dungeons and Doodles: A DnD campaign in comic form. Good art, there's something warm about the characters. It updates monthly. Pretzel 2 Meet U: Two friends retire from adventuring to open a bakery. One is an idiot and the other enables her. Humor. Complete. This one is on webtoon: Scoob and Shag: The adventures of Scooby and Shaggy from Scooby Doo. They start like comic shitposts, then the genre changes to horror/suspense, then to shounen anime. It features many other cartoon characters. It's so earnest in everything it does that it becomes compelling. The author had burned out but recently started updating again. EDIT: Forgot to add, there is body and existential horror in this one too, particularly in the latest pages. These were interactive pictures plus text adventures like Homestuck: Blood Is Mine: A woman wakes up in a hospital, wearing a nurse's uniform and bandaged up. There are monsters lurking... Horror (of the body and existential varieties) but also humor. It manages to alternate between violent bloody horror/death scenarios and genuine friendship and love. The author unfortunately burned out before the story finished properly, but wrapped up the plot with epilogues. All Night Laundry: A university student just wants to do her laundry but gets wrapped up in alternate universe terrifying adventures. Horror (also of the body and existential varieties). Do not read if you have photosensivity. It has bright green flashing lights at several parts. Also do not read if you've recently lost pets. It's complete. If you want something completely inoffensive to counterbalance the horror, I remember liking: Faux Paus: It's about talking animals living on a farm for animal actors. It's very newspaper comic strip in tone and humor. Kind of aggressively heteronormative? It has some dated gender/relationship jokes. Borderline technically not a comic but it's webcomic-adjacent: Heart Works: A serial heartbreaker accidentally gets appointed as guardian of the magical-technological source of energy for the city, which relies on the power of love of its two guardians who are supposed to be soulmates. It's kind of a clickable storyboard in format. It updates slowly but regularly. isasphere fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Feb 1, 2024 |
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I also have some tentative recs of stories I haven't finished reading but have liked so far: Doomsday, My Dear: A pandemic ravages England, and potential carriers are persecuted. Drama/suspense. Excellent character interactions. Bookwyrms: A young woman finds work at a university's library with her old childhood friend, whose mentor finds a history book that has been altered. They start uncovering a conspiracy that apparently got the girl's parents killed. On-going, pretty art. Hero Oh Hero: Okay, this one has separate storylines that follow different characters in the same world and I have only read the latest one titled "Held": It features the adopted daughter of a renowed mage and adventurer as she learns magic and combat. It's updating multiple times a day as a special treat. Webtoon: Cursed Princess Club: Gwendolyn, a princess of the Pastel Kingdom lives a happy life with her family. One day, her father arranges with the neighboring friendly king for all their children to meet and potentially marry, and Gwendolyn finds out a truth no one in her family ever even hinted about : She is ugly. She runs away into the woods and chances upon other strange princesses who have formed a support club: The Cursed Princess Club. This one is genuinely so much better than it seems at first glance, though I haven't caught up with the archive and I hope the quality stays like that. All of Gwendolyn's family genuinely love her and support her and treat her just the same as they do her sisters. But the children all lived such an isolated life in the castle with their loving but overprotective father that they simply never realized that Gwendolyn was different from the others and their father treated them all equally, so the conflict arises when Gwendolyn doesn't want to worry her family and keeps her realization to herself, like a secret curse that she has to figure out on her own. isasphere fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:It could always be the opening of a story about how accepting there is an issue doesn't mean anything if you don't take steps to address it. He's hit this note on Faye and Dora already, too. Years ago now in real time, but he does demonstrably show that part of dealing with a mental health issue is actually dealing with it.
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There was also the bit where Yay bullies Elliott into finally getting professional help, which he's apparently been resisting for years.
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https://swordinterval.tumblr.com/ Ben Fleuter's reposting Sword Interval in a not-Webtoons format, going to do a chunk of 10-15 pages weekly looks like. Good opportunity to give it a look if you haven't before, or an excuse to reread it.
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disposablewords posted:https://swordinterval.tumblr.com/ Oh poo poo I might actually read this now
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Emzedoh posted:I think you might be reading a little more hostility into my response than was intended. Get into webcomics this time, don't leave to next time! Text is wacky sometimes, I was just being a ham looking for recommendations, no worries! isasphere posted:In that case, here are some I really like, forgive me if there are repeat recommendations, I'm trying to think of ones that haven't been mentioned lately: Much appreciated! That's very cool, mondo cool as Vegeta would say.
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Wish he wouldn’t have bailed on his Beekeeper’s Tale comic after the prologue, it looked really great as usual with all of his stuff
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isasphere posted:Cursed Princess Club: Gwendolyn, a princess of the Pastel Kingdom lives a happy life with her family. One day, her father arranges with the neighboring friendly king for all their children to meet and potentially marry, and Gwendolyn finds out a truth no one in her family ever even hinted about : She is ugly. She runs away into the woods and chances upon other strange princesses who have formed a support club: The Cursed Princess Club. I'm gonna second this one.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:I've thought on that, though the suggestion came from Hannalore who's been the author's voice of positive engagement with mental health. Which is kind of the opposite of an armchair diagnosis of someone you met 10 minutes earlier. That's a fair point, she is positioned as the reliable source so far: Hannalore could be waiting for Ayo to be feeling a little less delicate before bringing anything else up though, girl's a wreck. Or yeah, Jeph screwed up, we'll find out at some point. Heavy Metal posted:Text is wacky sometimes, I was just being a ham looking for recommendations, no worries! No worries o/
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Is....is JJ trying to make Ayo as unlikable as possible?
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So what's everyone's over/under on the year that Jeph pivots entirely into a deranged sci-fi premise of "humans are obsolete except as mentally unstable therapists diving wildly into the new domain of AI psychiatry"? I'm setting it at 2028. e: Unrelated, once again I've gotten 80% through a re-read of GPF and have just finished the arc that wraps up with Nick losing Earth in a pocket dimension and every time I try to power through the final 20% to catch up I just want to start over to where the comic actually has some vague semblance of "grounding". Goddammit Darlington. Kazinsal fucked around with this message at 10:09 on Feb 3, 2024 |
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MikeJF posted:But why? For the same reason that one dude has eaten an average of two Big Macs a day for the past fifty years, I guess.
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isasphere posted:Narbonic: A recently graduated programmer gets hired by a mad scientist and her assistant. They repeatedly try to take over the world with evil science. Humor. Complete. The author has also finished another comic in the same setting (but with mostly different characters and set some years later), Skin Horse. And for a different take on mad science romance than Narbonic, check out A Miracle of Science and say hi to the Martian Hivemind.
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ToxicFrog posted:The author has also finished another comic in the same setting (but with mostly different characters and set some years later), Skin Horse. And for a different take on mad science romance than Narbonic, check out A Miracle of Science and say hi to the Martian Hivemind.
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It is 2028. Natasha and Amir make their first appearance in 15 years by being members of the wedding band at Dora and Tai's wedding. Jeph will introduce a quirky new character with some mental health issues who's working as a caterer at the reception.
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Splicer posted:A miracle of science is good and complete and deserves to be better known. Looks like I oughta check that out again, I know I read it but I don't remember a single thing about it
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Since people are looking for new comics, I figured I might as well plug my own. It's a sci-fi comedy set in a post-apocalyptic city trapped in a frozen image of the past, focusing mainly on an ADHD lesbian who thinks she's an alien. It's about a lot of things really, generally just trying to have fun with the kind of tropes in sci-fi/fantasy I can't get enough of. Running it on Tapas for the most part, it's on Webtoon too but I got locked out of my account after I deleted my Facebook so I dunno if I'll be able to continue it there anymore https://tapas.io/series/Alien-Heart
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I've been reading Alien Heart for a while! I really like it and have missed seeing it in my notifications while it's on hiatus. Thank you for making it!
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disposablewords posted:https://swordinterval.tumblr.com/ oh hey, was always curious about this and the webtoon format was a hard pass
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Jolyne Cujoh posted:I've been reading Alien Heart for a while! I really like it and have missed seeing it in my notifications while it's on hiatus. Thank you for making it! Ah no way! That’s awesome! Thanks so much for reading! I will return to it at some point too, just sorting my life out rn, trying to get a new job and move country is taking it out of me, but I’m working on some concepts and writing etc, will post on my Patreon only for a while as I figure out what sort of schedule I can stick to going forward. But I find it hard to leave behind for too long. I guess that’s a good sign!
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Splicer posted:A miracle of science is good and complete and deserves to be better known. Have those guys done anything else since? I remember they were doing another comic but it seemed to be on hiatus fairly early into its run or something.
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Their next comic is still "in hiatus" like 13 years later and the rest of either one's online presence I can find seems to have died not super long after. One of them, Sachs, had a LiveJournal update as late as 2018 talking about the functional death of that site, and barring going on some internet-detective deep search that's the latest thing I can find.
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Splicer posted:A miracle of science is good and complete and deserves to be better known. Wait holy poo poo I finally figured something out I always thought the open mouthed webcomic guy from Achewood's "your activities are so poorly conveyed" strip looked familiar but I could never figure out where from  E: linking to the achewood instead because woof, Onstad, language https://achewood.com/2005/01/17/title.html Phy fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Feb 9, 2024 |
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Another recommendation: Alethia: It's about an amnesiac robot exploring different robot societies. Someone smarter than me would word it better, but it examines how personal meaning, relationships and the exploitation in systems interact. It's on a possibly permanent hiatus, but ended on a thematically satisfying note.
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isasphere posted:Another recommendation: Yeah this one's a good 'un, and the theme song/music video is fantastic. "Don't tell me anything/ I'm not afraid to hear" is just such good theme song lyrics.
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Another recommendation (and self-plug) for anyone who likes goofy (but heartfelt!) fantasy stories: Blasphemous Saga Fantasy. I’ve been working on BSF since 2011. I feel like my elevator pitches never really work out, but let me give it another shot: Blasphemous Saga Fantasy is the story of a squire named Seb who has to help save the Chroma Kingdom after the established hero and his mentor/adoptive father, Xyrus (aka Master Knight) gets injured. Seb is joined by his new friend, the young witch Lina, his fellow adopted brother the Slime King, and the hammer-wielding princess of the kingdom, Ceris. Together, the party sets out on a journey to reclaim the Elemental Plants from Grrg’s golems, and it quickly becomes apparent that there’s more to Grrg’s plan than it originally seemed… … okay, I think that was pretty good. BSF is about that, but also fun monsters, cool golems, and, oddly enough, a lot about family relationships and how we navigate them. I didn’t really intend on that last one, but looking back, it’s definitely there! Plus, there’s a thief who moonlights as a security guard and is also a bat. It’s a lot of fun, you should check it out.
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