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To provide some methadone for our OotS smack, I can suggest checking out Skullkickers. It's not particularly mind-blowing or exceptionally witty, but it's a professionally-drawn D&D-inspired comic about two blockhead mercenaries/adventurers who wander around having lots of violent encounters and conducting unorthodox diplomacy. "A fun romp" would be a fairly thorough description of it. Plus, it's already been published in several books and is only now getting gradually re-published online, so it's pretty much guaranteed to keep an uninterrupted schedule for a long time 
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NihilCredo posted:To provide some methadone for our OotS smack, I can suggest checking out Skullkickers. It's not particularly mind-blowing or exceptionally witty, but it's a professionally-drawn D&D-inspired comic about two blockhead mercenaries/adventurers who wander around having lots of violent encounters and conducting unorthodox diplomacy. "A fun romp" would be a fairly thorough description of it. If we're talking other D&D comics, I prefer Nodwick.
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Nov 3, 2012 22:23
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All these posts, and still no update (yes, I know Rich still has a useless hand, but a man can hope). You're all assholes, and I hate you. ...I'm part of the problem. 
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Nov 4, 2012 00:37
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LashLightning posted:Why are we talking about Questionable Content (A bland, if regular and reliable comic) when there are more comics more related to OOTS, like Rusty and Co? I absolutely love the sense of motion you get in this comic.
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Nov 4, 2012 08:49
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You'd think Rich would let in some guest comics for this, come to think of it.
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Nov 4, 2012 11:31
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Gamerofthegame posted:You'd think Rich would let in some guest comics for this, come to think of it. He has used a few, then decided long ago not to use guest comics anymore. I think that with his health troubles, he figured he risked having his archive filled by more guest comics than "host" comics, which would just be odd. His fans are used to waiting.
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Nov 4, 2012 14:12
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Every time I read an archive of some webcomic I loving hate guest comic week or whatever and flip past it as fast as possible. He's making the right choice.
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Nov 6, 2012 07:04
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Unless there's somehow KC Green or Beaton in there. Or the Dead Winter fellow. Basically those three
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Nov 6, 2012 07:58
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Yeah I keep an eye out for styles of the people I like but usually it's pretty dull.
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Nov 6, 2012 13:05
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At least it's not as bad as 5-6 years ago, when no matter what the comic was about the characters would stop and play video games for the entirety of the guest artist week.
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Nov 7, 2012 03:09
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A real update! Got an email from Rich via Kickstarter about lost packages, and also that the cast is off, and he's started physical therapy, but may not be drawing again until the end of the year.
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Nov 7, 2012 21:33
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Colonial Air Force posted:A real update! Yeah, I got it too. There's a whole bunch of stuff about stragglers' orders. At the bottom is the update to his situation Finally, here's that last paragraph for everyone who has their books: I'm back to work on what I can do to get some more of the digital rewards out. It's mostly just writing at this stage; I have no idea if I'll even be drawing by the end of the year. And if I am, I have to bring back the regular updated comic before I finish any new rewards. But the digital content WILL get out, even if I have to retrain the way I draw to do it. All I ask is that you have patience with me and my thumb until then. Thanks for all that you've shown so far. --Rich Edit: the post on the GitP homepage is slightly different I got my cast taken off on Friday—the hurricane pushed my appointment back a few days—and had my first physical therapy appointment Monday. I have a splint now, but I can take it off for a few times a day to stretch my hand. The surface wound is healing well, but right now I have almost no mobility in my thumb. I can slightly wiggle the tip, and that's about it. It's going to take some time to get back to the point where I can hold a pencil or use a mouse with that hand (and I don't have enough control with my left hand to draw). I can type normally again for short bursts, if I'm careful, though my wrist on that hand is now very weak from being immobilized for so long. So I'll be getting some work done, even if it will be all behind-the-scenes work for the time being. And I'll be able to return to more frequent status updates on my condition and what's going on around here. Will I get to update the comic before the end of the year? I really don't know. It depends on how therapy goes, but I'm trying my hardest. Right now, therapy is my full-time job and I'll be working only when it doesn't interfere with that. All I ask is for your continued patience as I relearn the process of moving my hand. ConfusedUs fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Nov 8, 2012 |
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Nov 8, 2012 00:07
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Jesus, he really hosed his hand up but good.
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Nov 8, 2012 03:44
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Reminds me of last year's hockey season, when Ottawa's best goaltender flayed his stick hand open while trying to separate frozen chicken breasts. Right around playoff time, too. Tense times, guys. Tense times.
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New update for Kick- Ok, that's just ridiculous. Morland Studios are making OOTS Figures. Pledgers can get free shipping for a short while, though. Rich's thumb is still healing. Also, I know beggars can't be choosers but I can't wait for the Summer edition of the paper figures to come out this winter/next spring!
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Nov 13, 2012 14:20
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Rich should do a couple of joke comics where he draws with his left hand.
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greatn posted:Rich should do a couple of joke comics where he draws with his left hand.
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Is there a QC thread? There should be a QC thread. After today, there needs to be a QC thread. References to hand-stabbiness required.
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sfwarlock posted:Is there a QC thread? There should be a QC thread. After today, there needs to be a QC thread. References to hand-stabbiness required. Nah. It gets a bit of discussion over in the general webcomics thread.
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Nov 19, 2012 08:09
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This is why you buy Short and Long term disability insurance, even if you are under 30. Nice to hear the news.
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At first I was like "Man how hard could it be using a mouse hurrr" then I thought about trying to use Photoshop/Illustrator with just my off-hand (and worse, no ability to do all the shortcutting that requires two hands) and yeah, it would basically mean everything taking about fifty times longer.
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Out of curiosity, I browsed the thread and noticed a lot of Goblins hate. I've never read it, and from the reactions here, I shouldn't, but what's so loathed about it? I'm not trying to start anything, I'm just curious.
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Anatharon posted:Out of curiosity, I browsed the thread and noticed a lot of Goblins hate. I've never read it, and from the reactions here, I shouldn't, but what's so loathed about it? It's bad. Bad art. Bad story. Bad characters. I cannot think of a single good thing about Goblins, except, maybe, that the updates come so slowly.
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Nov 22, 2012 05:37
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Anatharon posted:Out of curiosity, I browsed the thread and noticed a lot of Goblins hate. I've never read it, and from the reactions here, I shouldn't, but what's so loathed about it? Ugly. Ugly ugly ugly. Also pretty dumb, as far as the plot goes.
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Anatharon posted:Out of curiosity, I browsed the thread and noticed a lot of Goblins hate. I've never read it, and from the reactions here, I shouldn't, but what's so loathed about it? There's a lot of things that can be said about Goblins, but what it ultimately comes down to is that the author, Thunt, is a pretty bad storyteller. He can build a world, he can build characters, and he can weave a plot, but when it comes to actually taking that world and that plot and putting them in motion it comes out very awkwardly. Thunt is a big fan of words. He's not as bad as some other webcomic artists that we like to trash around these parts, but he relishes the opportunity to throw explanation or exposition at the reader via inappropriate monologues. This is, unfortunately enough, frequently necessary because the world he's built is so loving weird in so many different ways that readers need constant reminding about how weird it is. Also, there's a whole bunch of entirely divergent plotlines that follow characters around as they split up, which doesn't help anything at all. The guy also has a thing for torturing and killing characters off in incredibly gruesome (and lovingly-rendered) ways, like the monster whose merest touch causes your flesh to slowly bubble and rot away in an excruciating fashion, or the harmless-sounding "cause light wounds" spell reducing someone's face to a smoking crater. Even the non-fatal bad things that happen to characters are weird and terrible, often marking the characters grotesquely and permanently. Finally, the artwork isn't very good! It's much better than it was in the past, with a unified and consistent style with easily-identified characters and features. The anatomy and linework are terrible though, and the panels are laid out pretty terribly. The artist's also taken to shading pages (usually a few days after the page first goes up), which, while pretty decent-looking, usually only serves to make the pages darker and even harder to read. e: vvv Exactly. blastron fucked around with this message at 10:16 on Nov 22, 2012 |
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blastron posted:Goblins. So it is the Song of Ice and Fire of webcomics.
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ZearothK posted:So it is the Song of Ice and Fire of webcomics. Let's not start something here. On the otherhand- RUSTY AND CO, BITCHES!  Silly slapstick punchline, yeah, but it's still good!
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blastron posted:There's a lot of things that can be said about Goblins, but what it ultimately comes down to is that the author, Thunt, is a pretty bad storyteller. Also, he's a bit of a butt. His behavior during the last webcomic popularity contest was rather ugly. (His fans were even worse, but then again, fans always are.) Rusty & co., on the other hand, is a delightful silly D&D comic, with great art, good anatomy and posture, fluid movement, and endearing characters (even the villains).
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I believe there was also something that went on for a while involving him antagonizing a rape victim? I don't remember the details, and honestly really don't want to. Basically he's a terrible person who doesn't even have the talent or skill to allow you to ignore that; his readership consists mostly of people who read his comic because he writes about D&D and so "He's obviously one of us." Sometimes I loving hate nerds.
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One of his otherwise-bland characters has Ye Tragicke Backstorye involving rape, because she's a woman and that's the only way to make them interesting (am I right fellas) and during the voting for said webcomic popularity contest, the most recent strip during the last round of voting was that character having a traumatic flashback about her rapist. So people clicked on the link and got a faceful of man-on-(snake)woman violence without any prior warning, which made someone complain that it was a) kind of triggery; and b) why so much rape and violence anyway? If there's one thing that nerds hate, it's something they love/enjoy/care about/vaguely know of being besmirched by Some Goddamn Female, and before you could say "men's rights activist" the shitlordery was in full swing. Hunt made a big blog post about it on the webcomic site, saying that this woman was crazy because the latest comic had nothing to do with rape! Which was true, since it had updated since her initial post, but never let facts get in the way of a good rant. He went on to say that she shouldn't be blamed for lying about his webcomic (or something along those line, at any rate), and here was her email address so all his fans could very pointedly not harass her. Which was either blithering stupidity or uncharacteristic subtlety, neither of which boded well for the poor woman.
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It's even dumber than that. A group was fighting an evil clone of one their members, and that evil clone had a pet demon. The demon wasn't happy about it, though, and the snake woman had learned the demon's name, so she used it to both free it from its pact and banish it back to hell. The demon replies by saying something rapey to its former master, but it sorta looks like it said that to the snake woman since she was the one talking to it. So, Thunt goes on and on about how it's misinterpreted out of context and stuff... And it's the next page which has the rape flashback. While Thunt was defending his comic claiming there's no rape in it, he was drawing a page with rape. There's no words for this.
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Jesus Christ, why do you people keep bringing up Goblins.
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Cabbit posted:Jesus Christ, why do you people keep bringing up Goblins. In other words, get well soon, Rich. Please.
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There are far worse things that could happen, like the p-word (do not click). Oh gods, it would cost me $18 in shipping when buying the Don't Split The Party book from the official store and the total cost is about the same as buying and shipping it from a local store. And that's only because the shipping is free from the local store this weekend. They do not have any in the actual store I walk past every day. 
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New thumb update! http://www.giantitp.com/index.html#nxVTl064ek881OnVCiL
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For those of us who enjoyed Rusty & Co, it looks like they got some sort of legal threat, entire website is down and the facebook page speaks of lawyers.
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quote:A lot of people who have been collecting the holiday ornaments for the past eight years have asked whether there would be a 2012 edition, and the answer has changed over the weeks. In late October, the answer was, "Sure!" because I was hopeful I'd be back to work. Then by the beginning of this month, it was, "No," because I wasn't. But now, it's, "Surprisingly, yes," and it's all because of a forgotten file. Miko was a great character, not least for the rage she seemed to inspire. I admire his fortitude in killing her stone dead too, a less writer would have kept her around to troll the fanbase.
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Soonmot posted:For those of us who enjoyed Rusty & Co, it looks like they got some sort of legal threat, entire website is down and the facebook page speaks of lawyers. Weren't they doing something incredibly silly like putting rust monster plushes on their kickstarter?
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RickoniX posted:Weren't they doing something incredibly silly like putting rust monster plushes on their kickstarter? This is what I assume got them their C&D. It's a shame, it was a really well drawn webcomic.
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Soonmot posted:This is what I assume got them their C&D. It's a shame, it was a really well drawn webcomic. Yeah. Direct likenesses of copyrighted characters are usually frowned upon.
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