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Something to say about the website is that the background of the page changes as if it were part of the page itself. It's usually unremarkable, but in some dramatic moments it packs a hefty punch on the overall look of the page. It doesn't go to MSPA-level lengths, but it's also much prettier.
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If bratty kids being annoying is something that severely hinders your enjoyment of stories, then you should skip the entirety of the first chapter and start at chapter 2. Sette is easier to tolerate there. Also, nothing of real importance happens in chapter 1 anyway -- it sets the scene a bit, but then the scene changes. Anything that needs to be known will be recapped and repeated (cf. OP, see: exposition issues) so don't worry about missing critical plot elements by doing so.
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Feb 1, 2013 23:12
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Hallgerd posted:Still, answer to a 'what are smoke eels?' question found through it. The words she uses to describe the Khert make it sound like a computer program. quote:The khert has little glitches in it; little hiccoughs in its structure. One of these hiccoughs is eels. For some reason when the khert finds these conglomerations of pseudo-cells, it reads them as eels, and grants them permission to not only exist, but to multiply over time and form smoke eels and move like eels and affect matter like eels.
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Feb 3, 2013 16:28
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Whitenoise Poster posted:It's kinda creepy and it's starting to put me off the comic. Same. Especially after reading these DeviantArt cartoon and archived Formspring pages that have been linked to before. Which make the whole scene a lot more disturbing (Murkoph being the author's pet and the whole Unsounded setting being apparently built around him (  ), Ashley Cope admitting to have a "licking fetish" (x2 combo) and how look what happens here, and more...I'll still give her the benefit of the doubt for a while, but if it turns into "Sexy Undead Rapethlon 2013" I'm out.
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Feb 15, 2013 13:00
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Crisco Kid posted:I'm a bit surprised the latest foray into disturbing territory has turned so many readers off, readers who presumably were okay with the child sacrifice/molestation/fever dream segment from earlier in the comic. The main difference was that the culprits in the previous segment didn't have an aura of "author's pet" and a long series of comments from the fandom going along the lines of "he's so sexy, I wish he'd eat *me*~". This is the kind of subtle, little difference that separate "these characters are horrible and I hope they'll be stopped by the heroes" from "this author is disturbed and I'll stop reading this story" -- an important difference!
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Feb 21, 2013 03:31
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They seem to like the titcrow a lot (stained glass windows of her in the basement pirate's mansion) and titcrow's all about kidnapping infants to nurse with her toxic milk. (So they die and she has to kidnap more children, and so on.) It'd be kind of a strange symbol for well-intentioned, altruistic people. It's more a symbol of a futile, selfish search for something unattainable, only resulting in the death of innocents.
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Apr 7, 2013 00:23
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TheFuzzyLumpkin posted:I don't know - he's in the papers, he instructs students, he preaches - he's clearly a pretty public figure at this point. If they try to arrest him for assaulting the councilor, he gets to turn around and say "I did it because the councilor was promoting BIOLOGICAL WARFARE." Therefore, silence him with blackmail. Good thing he brought a perfect piece of blackmail material to work on this fateful day. We're gonna get the source for this flashback.
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Apr 30, 2013 19:33
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EgoEgress posted:Also, is Lemuel Duane's older or younger brother? I can't seem to recall if it's been mentioned one way or another. Duane looks older.
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May 10, 2013 23:06
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Someone is very confident that being a highly skilled specialist provides complete immunity to punching political leaders in the face. Political leaders who are planning genocide, consider you an inferior breed of man, and don't hold your profession in high esteem to begin with.
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May 15, 2013 11:00
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Fabricated posted:The author has only really killed people with very little characterization so far I thought Ephsephin had good characterization, with personality quirks and a backstory. (Of course he was a low-level villain meant to be both loathed and pitied; which isn't really a safe characterization.)
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Jun 7, 2013 22:43
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idonotlikepeas posted:murdered alongside his favorite daughter Also I think Ashley is aware that many of her readers don't really like Murkoph. I doubt that'll change her plans for the characters much, though.
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Jun 28, 2013 18:40
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Cowcaster posted:I mean, I haven't read any of the non-comic materials That's why. Ashley Cope posted:I suppose it's my fault for spending twelve years filling up my galleries with pictures and comics of him. He's always been a catharsis for me; a reason to cut lose and draw and write horrible poo poo for no real reason. But this existence of all that playful and meaningless stuff's made a bunch of people pass prejudgment in a really weird way that I've honestly never seen before. If the character had never been seen anywhere outside of his very few pages so far in the comic, I don't think anyone would be giving a crap. A good chunk of the comments for his introduction are basically "Yay Murkoph! Awesome!" and the next few pages also have comments such as this: Crazy person posted:Murk's mouth looks verrrrry nice. I think if I have to be eaten, that would be the mouth I'd like to eat me. The lesson here is that internet comments are terrible; but anyway between the creepy fans going "sooo dreamy" over a stitched corpse that rapes people and the side material that engendered said creepy fans, there was reason to believe it's a character we're supposed to love. After all, those readers who had been exposed to him earlier do love him...
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Jun 29, 2013 00:37
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bigbigtruck posted:Yes, this, and I do wonder if said hand-wringing would even be happening here were Unsounded written by a dude. It'd be a lot worse. Murkoph would be suspected of being a self-insert. Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Jul 2, 2013 |
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Jul 2, 2013 16:50
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britt posted:To add to this and the lion connection, there's also this piece of old art. I mean it is really old and things could have changed since then, but the fact that I remember there used to be a comment on it that said the lion was her brother and it's now been removed, makes me think it's something the artist doesn't want people knowing yet. One of the author's comments here is: Ashley Cope posted:Ah-ah, this is just concept art for an entirely different project (an illustrated book). What you see here doesn't necessarily apply to Sette in the comic. Don't jump to conclusions
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Jul 3, 2013 17:13
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I do not believe her claim about Pantoffel at all.
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Sep 11, 2013 16:12
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idonotlikepeas posted:Basically, Murkoph is Scrappy Doo. Screepy Doo.
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Oct 16, 2013 13:21
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It's quite clear in my opinion she is the monster/perversion/thing not properly handled by the khert. She's the one who stayed inside the khert for a while, keeping it open all that time.
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Oct 28, 2013 16:46
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Fabricated posted:What is it with all of the creepy/touchy imagery surrounding Sette's father? Ashley Cope has a creepy quota to fill in each page.
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Nov 4, 2013 15:19
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The Aldish certainly know how to turn public executions into a fun and wholesome show.
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Nov 25, 2013 10:30
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Looks like Hamsteak isn't down for the count yet. I guess Elka becoming a large ham motivated her to show that nobody beats her largeness and hamitude.
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Jan 15, 2014 16:20
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http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch08/ch08_66.html Doesn't seem like she excused her.
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Jan 27, 2014 10:54
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In the Best World, Sette, this would be seen as an early promotion.
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Feb 21, 2014 16:03
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Grognan posted:Seems to be working to get people up and ready to quit this comic because the dude is so loathsome. That's effective characterization for a villain. No. Hitchcock or whoever else said that a story is as good as its villain. The takeaway from that is that a good villain makes you like the story, but a villain that makes you dislike the story is a bad villain. A good loathsome villain is someone you're supposed to loathe as a pretend person, on a direct level. It makes you invested in the story because you want to see the villain get a comeuppance and the heroes prevail. If you dislike the villain as a character design decision and on a meta level, then it's a terrible villain. I'd like Unsounded a lot more if Murkoph wasn't in it at all, and that's not because of how repugnant the character is within the setting (characters like Starfish or Cutter are similarly vile) but because his presence takes me completely out of the story and makes me question the author's motives, skills, and sanity.
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Aug 1, 2014 11:09
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All the guards are now either out, or out cold. Interesting that the guards are fighting among themselves.
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Aug 25, 2014 15:40
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WAMPA_STOMPA posted:Just noticed the borderline child porn drawn on the wall in the background of this page. The graffiti are meant to insult her, not to arouse passersby.
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Nov 11, 2014 14:31
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"Man, are you alright?" seems like the appropriate thing to say after you accidentally cut off both of a colleague's arms. You never know. Maybe they actually are all right.
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Nov 17, 2014 15:50
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In today's update, the important thing is the best mug design ever.
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Dec 22, 2014 09:44
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Fabricated posted:People don't seem nearly alarmed enough by the gigantic evil hellstorm of smoke eels, even if the regular mean variety aren't terribly unusual. The flying boobs are rather upset about it, though.
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Jan 23, 2015 13:12
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PleasingFungus posted:Be really careful about your mindset when you check this update, this page is super serious, upsetting, and grimdark and probably nsfw. Is he taking the "hole" aspect from the flying butts?  
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Jan 28, 2015 18:23
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"He died as he lived: smothered in butts."
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Jan 31, 2015 01:09
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Fabricated posted:So he's a pedophile AND a hair sniffer. Where's this man's mod star? With his fish.
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Feb 20, 2015 21:25
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His name is Starfish, he's the star, he's the fish.
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Feb 21, 2015 15:40
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One wouldn't think that the sentence "and then, the world erupted into a geyser of gore" would come up often in conversation, but anything is possible in Ashley Cope's Unsounded.
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Apr 13, 2015 21:02
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The Deadly Nevergreen finally earns its name. It's deadly, and pretty much the opposite of green.
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May 22, 2015 10:04
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http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/ch10-p89 Unsounded is now Cucumber Quest
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Jun 5, 2015 15:17
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If Murkoph actually really is Ssael, Duane will completely lose it.
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Jun 11, 2015 23:02
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Bad Seafood posted:For how much he was built up, Stockyard certainly didn't hang around for too long. He should have quit while he was ahead. I guess he'll be a bit more detached about the whole thing now.
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Jun 29, 2015 13:11
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Gabriel Pope posted:Starfish will be inspired when Duane and Sette die in his arms and take over as the main protagonist. The rest of Unsounded is a Buddy Cops story starring Starfish and Murkoph.
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Aug 15, 2015 22:57
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Captain Oblivious posted:Edit: I find myself wondering what the hell an Aesthete is. I'm guessing he's a sapient zombie like Duane? This one word isn't an invention from the author; it's a real word with a real word meaning. http://www.tfd.com/aesthete Reminds me of when I saw people use the word ascetics when it was quite clear that they really meant aesthetics.
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Wonderslug posted:I forget, do we know what the significance of "L12" might be? The Lizardic 12 secret society
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