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BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

khy posted:

I definitely think it has one of the better 'invincible/invulnerable' character portrayals I've seen. I mean, if you're absolutely 100% invincible why WOULDN'T you block swords with your eyeballs just to freak people the gently caress out?



Shame it devolved into this garbage shower/dressing room scene we have going on now.

"This tepid art and poor action is cool" - Goon in the webcomic thread

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BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
Interesting in only how bad it is.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
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I found a very funny comic, I hope you like it here too. :)

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
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QC is actually incredibly bad. The art is extremely poor, and the writing is so boring that it's repellent.

BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Nov 17, 2015

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

djw175 posted:

More webcomics then!


Tove is a neat little goofy webcomic about a girl and her brother doing stuff after the end of the world.


Lost Nightmare is a cute webcomic about a nightmare and a dream trying to find the sandman. It's cute looking, but I don't really like its pacing.


The Glass Scientists is a comic about a bunch of mad scientists and their most recent addition, a werewolf botanist. It looks neat, but the author only seems to have one face with differing amounts of hair.

Decent

Anime (bad)

Anime (bad)

100 HOGS AGREE posted:

I think the disappointing thing about QC is it's like just right below good. Like Jeph is really close to having a much better comic he just doesn't go over that hump and do more interesting things with it. Instead he just keeps treading water.



"Right below good"

Notice the inexpressive line-work, the boxy, unnatural shapes that dominate the background, and the colouring that looks like it came out of MS Paint.

e: Like Red Robot towers over Pink Anime. Why not express that through perspective?

(The answer is that Jeph Jacques cannot draw)

BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Nov 17, 2015

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
There should be a rule against linking webcomics still in their prologue (Tove :argh:)

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

Pavlov posted:

Here we go, these were the first ones.





"2815"

"2817"

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
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Pavlov posted:

Yeah those were from last thread I think.

The joke is that QC needs to die.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

majormonotone posted:

Also it doesn't suck as hard as Megatokyo so there's that

Have you ever seen a page of OotS?

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
Monster Pulse feels increasingly like just straight-up Pokemon instead of a subversive twist on Pokemon.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

Renaissance Robot posted:

Did something happen to the bad webcomics thread? If not, please take this pile there.

Nah, it's a good one.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
Best thing since Buttlord GT.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
I like that Octotus Pie became a masterpiece of sequential art out of nowhere.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
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Not of plot or storytelling, mind you.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
Video game jokes

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
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Gosh if only this comic could respect the nuances of the magical girl genre

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

Pavlov posted:

I remember that in the madoka thread the mod banned the word 'deconstruction'.

Faith in humanity restored.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
I just rolled around in snow for a while.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

Phy posted:

Hang on, Fletcher Hanks' characters are public domain?

Which is why LOEG could cameo Stardust:

BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 08:23 on Feb 7, 2016

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

Renaissance Robot posted:

I'm partial to this one, mainly because of the dog:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcRnC5tkKTo

The pacing is terrible.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

neogeo0823 posted:

Boy are you gonna love this.

Wasn't this a Rick and Morty character?

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
I want to like Octopus Pie so bad, but the amazing art is used to tell a really vacuous story.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:

It's a fantastically written, extremely well-drawn depiction of the experience of being a directionless middle-class twentysomething in New York City, which happens to be the most exhaustively explored human experience in the history of english literature barring maybe being an author with writer's block, and possibly the least interesting

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
The earlier Octopus pie comics are really better, because the more constrained art fit the scale if storytelling.

It's expanded visually but this has ended up underlining the least interesting parts of the comic.

Also, it's really... American? In that almost solipsistic way that David Foster Wallace's writing is American. As a Euro, its nearly suffocating.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
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I remember liking those books as a teenager, they're probably fun if you're not looking for anything literary.

Now I'm wondering where I put them.

BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Feb 14, 2016

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
What do you have against Christian themes? That seems rather bigoted.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
"If it was Muslims or Jews it would be okay, but Christians? How dare they?" :rolleyes:

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

Oxxidation posted:

The only strongly Christian webcomic I can recall off the top of my head is that Nazi centaur thing, and only because the obvious contrast of subject matter there makes me feel a skosh unsettled.

Nazi or Nazy?

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
Lol at everybody ignoring Screwtape Letters.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
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It's an unfair criticism, but Minna Sundberg's dialogue reads exactly like every long-form webcomic. Like it's what I imagine when I think "webcomics that are not gag-a-day".

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
Also, the character designs aren't just a bit dull, they seem to have deteriorated, even if they fit the aesthetic.

BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Feb 17, 2016

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

Our most sacred sex position

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
First impressions of "Skin Deep":

- Author is one of those morons obsessed with Tumblr-style reader questions

- Starts with mopy college freshman being told how special she is and meeting wacky people

- Turning into an animal as a metaphor for queer awakening


Conclusion: LOL

BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Feb 26, 2016

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

Nuns with Guns posted:

does "Tumblr-style" mean like in-character text RP, or does she do reaction comics? Because responding to reader questions with comic reactions was a thing on DA waaay before Tumblr

"Tumblr-style" is probably wrong.

She answers a reader question daily with some sketch on hiatus.

addendum: :geno:

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy
The basic idea is fine, it's just muddled up by factors the authors bring in themselves.

Like X-Men. They represent a minority, but they go to a private schools, fly their own jets, and all look like supermodels. It becomes a allegory for how the upper classes are persecuted by the masses.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
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paradoxGentleman posted:

Also unlike minorities they are actually dangerous on account of shooting lasers and whatnot. I read a very good analysis of that a couple of days ago, I'll see if I can find it again.

Again, that's something that still works in principle. After all, societies isolate and marginalize its "dangerous" classes. You just need to accept laser eyes as metaphorical, so the story isn't actually about the rights of laser-eyed people.

The class elements (private school and jets etc.) is where X-Men's allegory falls apart.

e:

Oxxidation posted:

95% of Skin Deep's cast also seems to consist of wealthy dilettantes who exist entirely in coffeeshops and/or snarky bohemians who appear to make a living out of nothing but underground music gigs and poo poo-talking their friends, so it makes the whole social-struggle angle even harder to swallow.

The other thread has enjoyed Monster Pop (not to be confused with Monsterkind) for some time now, and it's somehow even worse about the monster minority thing. The author has basically forgotten that the comic was originally about that and not anime high-school crushes (in college).

The recent entries of Monster Pop had a literal lecture (in a university and everything) about how something being seemingly plotless isn't a bad thing, but it's interesting just to throw characters together and see how they interact.

BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Mar 7, 2016

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

Empress Theonora posted:

all of the incredible work that's being done

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

mr. stefan posted:

There's a perfectly reasonable explanation for goofy and Pluto.

Some dogs have no self-respect, Max.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
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Dresden Codak has really come to it's own now that it finally includes lesbianism. It really is a webcomic

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BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
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Of course I shall get into detail about my gay furry comic

BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Jul 16, 2016

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