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Nuns with Guns posted:there was something disappointing about realizing the entire point of the story was setting up someone's fetish. like, the buildup, the plot, the character development and then what it leads to is: "So then they merged into one body and walked off into the sunset" and nothing else was accomplished You would have found the story actually substantially better if you had not read a twitter post that the author enjoys stories where people share a body?
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Parts Kit posted:Is it just on my end or have the nav buttons on Kill Six Billion Demon's site disappeared? It's not just you.
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Unsounded has its own thread! It is indeed a quality webcomic. You might be re-evaluating your estimation of how dark it is as you read on.
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Ironically, its current arc is about an underground robot fighting ring.
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majormonotone posted:I don't mind the mystique guy because he gave us my all-time favorite Oglaf strip (nsfw obviously) "I will give you multiple solutions" is my favourite line in Oglaf. Also my favourite flirt in anything.
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Nov 22, 2015 23:49
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ConanThe3rd posted:SD 3-7: Good lord, we traded Tess for this. Given her eye glowing pink there, it's pretty clear she got a major power boost from the ordeal. Might be tactful to not reveal that.
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Dogwood Fleet posted:Sleepless Domain: wow, that's cold. Her parents are really lucky that their daughter Undine Wells had water powers. Would've been embarrassing if she could control gravity or something.
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Pavlov posted:Who the gently caress names a person "Quintessence" They didn't, her name is Tessa. That's just what she's named after. See also Sally and Gnome. I wonder if they get to pick their powers, or pick their names, or all got very lucky.
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Jan 1, 2016 19:05
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So far I'm waiting for it to become anything more than a retread of Madoka Magica. I'm fairly confident it will, but while I am enjoying it in the meantime it doesn't have anything special about it yet.
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Oneiros posted:What on earth makes Sleepless Domain a retread of Madoka? The fact that it's about magical girls and some died? A grimdark take on the genre, most of the characters die, and there's obviously some connection between magical girls and the monsters they fight. It's got plenty of chance to diverge from there, it just hasn't had enough happen yet to do that.
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Jan 29, 2016 00:56
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Nuns with Guns posted:Comparing queer people to rare and special magical beasts who probably have magic abilities that would let them easily take anyone in a one-on-one fight does have some Unfortunate Implications.... man why do people keep using monsters that way in comics? "Minorities, here represented by freaks and monsters" seems to be a common thread among allegorical stories. I guess it could be trying to say that if you're gay or what have you, this is what society makes you feel like. But I think it's more just that the author is usually seeing more of themselves in the opressors. I think the only time I've seen the regular ol' relatable humans be the minority is The Last Cowboy.
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Feb 26, 2016 15:02
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For those who still remember it exists, Ava's Demon updated.
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Does anyone else read Cassiopeia Quinn? It too has a female protagonist that spends most of the comic running around in skimpy outfits inspired by old B-movies. The authors don't make any pretense that it's about anything other than being sexy, and it still feels like she's more legitimately empowered than Diaz's doll. Also it's a very cute and cheerful comic in general. Worth a look if you like that saturday morning cartoon feel.
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8-Bit Scholar posted:
You seem to be coming from a perspective of "trigger warnings are bad, so the bad ones are trigger warnings and the good ones are not". A note at the start of the chapter/comic saying there will be scenes of sexual violence and discretion is advised is just as much a trigger warning as a page full of "warning: rape incoming, avert your eyes now" right on top of the event. They can be done well and they can be done badly but the spirit behind the are them same, and they are an overall good trend for many people and an irrelevant one to the rest, so why complain.
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May 27, 2016 20:37
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SlothfulCobra posted:The thing is, it seems like that classic kind of webcomic seems to be dying off slowly. One by one, the old guard retire, but there aren't really new webcomics like that cropping up so far as I know. Newer comics try keeping to consistent tones and are much better produced than their predecessors. Is this a change in what new artists are doing, or is it just that slightly-fantastical slice-of-life comics don't get popular at all now since a lot of the old classics still exist? (Or otherwise aren't interesting now that a lot of more focused stories are around)
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May 28, 2016 22:24
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The shared a pretty tender moment in that last scene. I'd be surprised if Kit's motivation is anything but romantic. Poppy seems pretty into it too.
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Dartonus posted:I think it's the lettering system in Flora, I've noticed it a couple other times when there's writing shown (such as with Fazzi's Shame Cube, and the note Poppy left for Lily.) And for that matter, the "death to dogs" sign on this page.
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Jun 25, 2016 10:13
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Nuebot posted:Does it ever update? A friend of mine got me to read it a while back and then like, for months there was nothing. It updated a bit then went on hiatus again so I stopped bothering. It looks really pretty but it's reaching Berserk levels of loving nothing without the crazy long archive. It's another victim of couldn't-handle-the-Kickstarter. Hopefully she'll go back to updating once she's done with all the book printing stuff.
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Jul 2, 2016 19:31
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The art for Blindsprings is adorable. The only thing I don't like about it is that it has a filler page for when the comic is late to update, which is frequently, so I'm often checking the site and just seeing the filler page instead of seeing if I've seen the latest page before. (I don't keep close track of when webcomics update, I just flick through my bookmarks every so often) Early on it seemed to be running a dichotomy of "woman/nature/good, man/science/bad" but it's become more nuanced in the setting's mythology and politics since then.
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Jul 16, 2016 20:51
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MockingQuantum posted:I'm itching for some supernatural magicky type webcomic goodness and I'm all caught up on Broodhollow. Can't decide between Paranatural, Unsounded. and Gunnerkrigg Court. Haven't read any of them. Help me decide! Read all of them. But for general mood, Gunnerkrigg is more mystery and exploraiton, Paranatural is more whimsy and action, and Unsounded is more horrifying brutality.
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Jul 16, 2016 21:01
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Gunnerkrigg doesn't really have an overall plot, I don't think. Each chapter does, and some of them link together in threads (like Kat and the robots, or the ghost of Jeanne) but there isn't any central thing pulling them together other than that they all happen at Gunnerkrigg Court. The characters are just steadily uncovering mysteries and growing up together.
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Jul 16, 2016 23:17
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mycot posted:Yeah rule based magic is in fuckin everything and I think the last writer to really have a "magic is just magic" approach was Tolkien? Well, Kill Six Billion Demons seems to have magic pretty much boiling down to "when you're strong enough the world just caves to your will" as far as its mechanics go.
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Jul 17, 2016 18:34
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SlothfulCobra posted:Gandalf didn't have a ring, he got his power because he was some kind of scion of one of Middle Earth's gods. I thought Gandalf had one of the three elven rings?
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The Lord of Hats posted:Personally, it's really interesting to me to think of humans as being just kind of there mixed in with everyone else. I feel like the way this would usually be done would have humans set apart from the animal people--not necessarily better or worse, but not part of the same group. I'm not entirely sure what it is that Poppy does that sells that aspect so well to me--possibly it's the fact that this is the only human we've ever seen--but the fact that Lila happens to be a human feels about as significant in-universe as the fact that the gatekeeper was a seal. I really dig it. One thing that seems to have happened with the human in Poppy - and this might just be me seeing things, but hey - is that she seems to have been designed in the same way as the animal people, in that a bunch of specifically-human characteristics have been laid over the basic humanoid model. It's all a little exaggeratedly human. She's pulling expressive faces in every panel. Her costume shows off her bald limbs and human feet. She has a distinctive downward-pointing nose. There's tools built into her costume. It's like other animals had been asked to describe humans and a character design was based off that, and it makes her fit better in with the other character designs.
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Is the deer girl thing meant to be a trans-friendly character? Maybe I just wasn't paying attention but I don't remember her turning up before that page.
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AriadneThread posted:i remember years ago in college having to go past where all the math professors kept their offices on campus One of my lecturers used to have the Nerd Sniping comic on her door (the one about how certain types of people will be completely distracted by an interesting problem). She took it down when people started coming in to discuss the resistor puzzle.
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Wrist Watch posted:While I'd love to see something new from Shive, there's a certain magic EGS has that a lot of other long running comics don't quite have where it's clear he's still doing it because he honestly just loves his dopey world and its weird rules have a good consistency to them. I feel like when he finally gets bored of it he'll stop, but it seems more like a labor of love than something he's doing because it's raking in the cash or whatever. I feel like if he does decide to drop EGS and start something from scratch as an adult, it'll be either generic urban fantasy or actual fetish porn, and won't be greatly entertaining to read either way.
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howe_sam posted:I'm eagerly awaiting the story behind Shauna's dyed tips. She's going all punk and rebellious. Although considering Shauna's journey re: social class, it's interesting that dyed hair is more of a middle-class rebelliousness, the sort of thing you see a lot in art colleges.
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So everything's turning topsy-turvy in Poppy O'possum.
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She faces the webcomic artists' worst fear: Getting ten times your funding and feeling like you have to do something to justify the amount of money you got.
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nimby posted:I like that McNinja ended. Not because I wanted it to end, but more good webcomic should be able to reach an end most people are happy with. I'll drink to that. It's rare to see a webcomic come to a conclusion rather than just stop updating when the author runs out of steam, so it's greatly satisfying to read an actual ending even at the cost of a comic I've been reading for years.
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I keep forgetting Ava's Demon is updating again.
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Lottie is already clearly a dangerous nutter though.
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Onean posted:Latest Kiwi Blitz. Everything I thought I knew is wrong.
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Apr 10, 2017 15:47
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So Ava's Demon finally managed to get the four protagonists in one room together.
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Apr 27, 2017 21:19
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The K6BD thread is, however, regularly reminded that someone really doesn't like Clevin.
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May 12, 2017 01:05
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So basically like VGCats then.
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May 20, 2017 18:45
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Eh, I'm reading through it now, it's alright. I slowly feels less like a 13-year-old's 2-edgy-4-this bullshit once the story goes somewhere. Personally I'd say just start reading at page 100, though. I can't imagine I'd have kept reading the comic if I found it before that page had happened.
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Alright, so I finished It Hurts. I stand by my earlier judgement that the early pages are trash and can mostly be skipped, but the final ones are fantastic and the comic makes an incline in quality so smooth that, other than the jump at page 100, you don't really notice it's getting better until you look back. On the whole, a Good Comic, but I don't think I'd have liked it anywhere near as much if I hadn't been able to read it all in short succession.
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So Sylvania, a comic about witches in space, has finally put witches in space. Also, whoa poppy
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