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I feel like we've been building up to String Theory's, like, long-tail plot since it started. Like has this all been setup, or is that just me?
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I disagree about the faces in Iothera looking the same. On the contrary, I think the artist does a great job with facial variety for each character. For example, if Takako and Cassandra (the two women on today's page) switched hairstyles it would still be easy to tell them apart; their eyes, noses and mouths are different. I do agree, however, that the body proportions seem off and the poses are rather stiff. But I don't want to sound like I am bashing the comic or that I hate it; quite the opposite. FourLeaf fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Aug 7, 2013 |
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Oh man I'm a little lat in doing this but thank you for giving my stuff a shout-out, idonotlikepeas! And thanks also for the kind words, Kismet and Grantaire!! In other news, I've been reading a pretty cool Comic Biography about Ayn Rand, Doomsday My Dear has a rad new character, and if you're not reading Iothera because of some nitpicky art things, then you're missing out on a thoughtful comic with a great design sense and some mighty intriguing plot threads. Fricked up but true.
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FunkyAl posted:In other news, I've been reading a pretty cool Comic Biography about Ayn Rand This is really interesting. And Doomsday My Dear continues to be great.
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FunkyAl posted:In other news, I've been reading a pretty cool Comic Biography about Ayn Rand Hey, didn't this guy do a bunch of comics about working in a hospital or something? I remember them being pretty great.
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a bloody icon posted:Thank you for linking my comic! For the uninformed, it is about the relationships and rivalries of the members of two gangs in a city called Riverside set just pre-Prohibition. It's really excellent and I think the screentone thing you've been doing lately works very well. Have you considered scanning some yellowed newsprint paper (as in, the paper type without actual print on it, not newspapers) for background texture, to up the "old newspaper" look? I think that could end up looking really neat.
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Aug 7, 2013 10:32
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If we're suggesting stuff, Prague Race should go into, what, Fantasy?
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Dabbo posted:Hey, didn't this guy do a bunch of comics about working in a hospital or something? I remember them being pretty great. Yep, that's Darryl Cunningham! We both did talks at the same Laydeez Do Comics meeting earlier in the year, he is a very nice fellow who does extremely interesting work.
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I really love his comics on mental illness, he's very empathetic and presents his time working as a psychiatric nurse in a way that doesn't make a freakshow of the patients. 
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He's also done a few comics on debunking modern hoaxes (the only one I can think of offhand is the Andrew Wakefield vaccine-autism thing.)
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Yes!! I'm really grateful for that and I hope they've educated at least some people on the issue. Also I find his style really appealing.
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weavernaut posted:It's really excellent and I think the screentone thing you've been doing lately works very well. That is an interesting idea and I will have to experiment with it. I was adding textures from the internet for a little while but I decided eventually to do without.
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I think staining printer painter with weak tea might achieve a similar look, too? Worth a try anyway.
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There seems to be sufficient interest that it might make sense to just have a separate Goon Comics section in the OP. I'll get to work on that. In the meantime, here's another comic to look at: Princess Planet. This comic is, in essence, a collection of gags and wacky hijinks surrounding a princess (with a planetful of contemporaries, perhaps?) her princessing ways and occasional heroics (or even SUPER heroics), and her crazy family. Here are some example panels:    It's complete now, but there's plenty of it to read through. What do you think, thread?
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Princess Planet rocks and deserves love.
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idonotlikepeas posted:What do you think, thread? I like it!
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I just came across Henchgirl, a newer comic in the super-hero parody subgenre. It isn't very long yet, but something about the free-wheeling artstyle is very appealing to me. There's some clear Kate Beaton influence.
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Rei_ posted:I feel like we've been building up to String Theory's, like, long-tail plot since it started. Like has this all been setup, or is that just me? It's not just you. My own cynical take is that we've got like another year or two of updates before we get past "backstory". I think I'm going to try and find another webcomic that updates more frequently to take its place, and then come back to it every few months when someone mentions it again.
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I feel good enough about the magical girl transformation page I just posted to mention that I make a comic called Ellie Starling's Very Long Walk. I think a few people read it but I'm not sure.
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Travis that is an extremely charming comic and I like it!
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:It's not just you. My own cynical take is that we've got like another year or two of updates before we get past "backstory". I think I'm going to try and find another webcomic that updates more frequently to take its place, and then come back to it every few months when someone mentions it again. I think part of that might have to do with the comic's original description/"About" which some people remember. I now see the comic as being in full swing, but I did feel like you for a while too.
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Great, a new thread. I follow too many webcomics, so I'm plugging a few that haven't been mentioned yet. Skin Deep is about a hidden society of mythical creatures who live among us. What's really cool to me is that a lot of the characters are from lesser known myths. Ghost Story, a comic about a struggling ghost hunter, just started up a few weeks ago, but it is going to be pretty awesome. Balderdash is a cute comic. Its about a witch who wants to be a baker, and it has some really pretty art. Solstoria is about a young girl who wants to be a knight, and is just lovely as well. I don't think Nimona was mentioned yet, which is a real shame because its awesome. It's about a girl with shapeshifting powers who becomes a sidekick to a supervillain.
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Fame Throwa posted:Great, a new thread. I follow too many webcomics, so I'm plugging a few that haven't been mentioned yet. Just wanna say thanks for those primo links and keep up the good work.
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Travis343 posted:I feel good enough about the magical girl transformation page I just posted to mention that I make a comic called Ellie Starling's Very Long Walk. I think a few people read it but I'm not sure. I was just about to post this, I've really been enjoying this comic since I found it a few weeks ago, It kind of reminds me of Cucumber Quest with a bit less paper Mario and a bit more Legend of Zelda and old school Final Fantasy. Some other decent fantasy comics I haven't seen mentioned yet, The Fox Sister: This is a story about one girl's quest for revenge against a shape shifting fox demon that killed her family, it's also a story about the rise of Christianity in post war Korea. Notable for using <marks like this> when people are speaking in English. Has some realy Amazing art but only updates once a week. Namesake: The titular namesakes in this comic are people with the same names as the protagonists from story books who find themselves whisked away to the worlds of those stories to go on their own hero's journey and solve the problems that have arisen since the original protagonist left. The comic fallows a girl named Emma who for reasons yet unknown is sucked into the land of Oz instead of the next Dorthy. Gos for a story book illustration look with muted colors in a limited number of shades.
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Strong Female Protagonist updated. I admit I thought this would happen but I had my doubts the whole time. Really glad Feral didn't get burned completely to cinders. Having burned organs must hurt so goddamn bad though.
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A Redtail's Dream Is a Finnish webcomic (written in English) and is unutterably pretty. The story is simple and charming, it's a straightforward supernatural quest story with an episodic structure but plenty of Stuff Happening, and also involves the worlds cutest dog/snake/rabbit/moose/etc). Super regular page-a-day schedule in full digital-painted colour glory, it's on it's way to finishing up in the next few months I think then the author plans to start her REAL webcomic since this was just meant to be a warmup project that kinda expanded in the telling.
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I'd like to nominate The Intrepid Girlbot, the adventures of a plucky robot and her eclectic mix of friends and acquaintances.
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Seconding A Redtail's Dream. It has one of the most well done portrayals of a "kind of jaded" teenager I think I've seen. It is absolutely fantastic and everyone should read it.
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Travis343 posted:I feel good enough about the magical girl transformation page I just posted to mention that I make a comic called Ellie Starling's Very Long Walk. I think a few people read it but I'm not sure. Oh dang, I didn't know you were a goon!
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Strong Female Protagonist updated. I admit I thought this would happen but I had my doubts the whole time. They attacked before the doctors started opening her up again, which may have contributed to her survival. So her internal organs shouldn't have been hit by direct fire unless it burned through her skin, muscle and fat and only damaged through conducted heat, it would still be agonising though.
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Strong Female Protagonist updated. I admit I thought this would happen but I had my doubts the whole time. I like how Feral was already healing as she was hobbling out of the hospital. She got her arms back by the time she told Alison to not make street hamburgers.
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Urban Space Cowboy posted:(a.) Don't hotlink images, (b.) I give up, how is this a joke about webcomics? (a.) Oops, thanks for reminding me. I edited the post to include a link to the source as well as rehosting the image. (b.) I guess it's more a joke about comics in general, I edited the post to say that too. I just like the idea of subverting the expectation that the characters aren't interacting 3-dimensionally with the word balloons by having them all obscured with ridiculous hair. e: That last update made me finally subscribe to Strong Female Protagonist, I want to see where this is going. Anybody have weird issues with it in feedly? It says the site is "dormant" even though the last entry is from 6 hours ago user on probation fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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100 HOGS AGREE posted:Strong Female Protagonist updated. I admit I thought this would happen but I had my doubts the whole time. Yeah I figured she'd regenerate as well, though it would have been interesting if Allison slipped a bit more down to evil. It'll be interesting to see if she has any consequences from threatening to murder an entire crowd.
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Travis343 posted:I feel good enough about the magical girl transformation page I just posted to mention that I make a comic called Ellie Starling's Very Long Walk. I think a few people read it but I'm not sure. The art's a little iffy at first, but this is pretty cute! Also, I am a sucker for gifs. It kind of has a video-game Narnia feel to it.
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Urban Space Cowboy posted:(a.) Don't hotlink images, (b.) I give up, how is this a joke about webcomics? I honestly thought that was a personal shot at Chapel Chronicles at first. I have no idea past that.
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Urban Space Cowboy posted:(b.) I give up, how is this a joke about webcomics? I'm pretty sure it's an inversion of the too many words problem. Patrick Spens fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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Popping into the new thread to link my comic, Bad Reputation, which is about to start its fourth chapter! It's about pirates and ugly people mostly. Some other stuff later. I'd also like to link: Drunkards of the Cosmos Monster's Garden and Bittersweet Candy Bowl!
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AriadneThread posted:The art's a little iffy at first, but this is pretty cute! Also, I am a sucker for gifs. It kind of has a video-game Narnia feel to it. I think you mean to say that the art is kind of horrifying at first. I'm actually redoing the entire first chapter because I stupidly drew it at something like 3x5 inches and a bunch of them are inconsistently sized. I'm taking the opportunity to bring the art more in-line with the latest pages. Thanks to everybody who commented on my comic! I think being compared to Cucumber Quest is about the highest praise I've ever received.
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Today's Demons Mirror.  Read from here to the next two. It's a sort of instant feast magic thing. I didn't even notice she was holding something in the last update.
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