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Just Offscreen posted:Jesus Christ lily- that's worrying. Boy, let me tell you, the weirdest thing about knowing your parents read your comic is getting upset messages from your mom whenever you write a bad thing happening to a child character.
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Oxxidation posted:So I was reading through Poppy O'Possum again and some of the foreshadowing in this chapter was pretty nuts. If you look carefully, the monk also had another appearance where they are suspiciously carrying a bug sprayer. Thinking up all of the potential foreshadowing is probably one of the most fun things about being a writer.
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Tollymain posted:on the other hand, the comic's been running for like a few months, 300 pages is a bit of an update pace :v Well, that's kind of how it goes when each "page" is just a single panel. The fact that they specifically seem to be approaching it with a cartoon production standard of making stock backgrounds to reuse from panel to panel cuts down on a lot of worktime as well. Personally, I have to admit I got sick of the MSPA approach of stuffing a bunch of dialogue underneath an image with a "chat window" framing device a couple of years ago. It creates a disconnect between the characters and the dialogue that makes it harder for me to get attached to them, and the interactions in Neo Kosmos aren't nearly as charming as early Homestuck was to compensate, so it's all kind of tedious. But maybe I'm just burnt out on awkward 20-somethings trying to emulate awkward teenager speech patterns, and the action/plot bits will be more successful at grabbing me. EDIT: Okay, I got further in and the sheer decompression in the comic is getting to totally ridiculous levels. Do we really need a dozen or so consecutive panels of characters just sitting in silence to establish a tense relationship? Morbi fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Nov 8, 2015 |
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Diaz seems like the kind of person who really just needs a PR person to slap his hand and go "no, Aaron" when he lets his ego go out of check. He could be the nicest man in the world in person, but his attitude online is just so smug and insufferable that he almost feels like a parody instead of a real person, and his policy of just mass-blocking after even the lightest of ribbings makes it clear he has very little intention of changing himself in that regard. Also, dude needs to just admit to himself that he enjoys drawing sexy cyborg ladies because he likes sexy cyborg ladies, instead of hiding behind gross assertions of "empowerment" or "celebrating women's bodies" or the like. There's really nothing shameful about it.
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Nov 17, 2015 06:03
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:when you're a webcomics person and there's like a dozen other people who do what you do, you're all struggling to make a living, none of you even had a revenue model until a couple years ago, and the only other people your work puts you in regular contact with are your horrific loving fans, I feel like you probably don't really get to pick your friends As a webcomics person, I have to disagree, the community's pretty fuckin' huge and interconnected. Being able to draw and throw fanart at people also tends to speed up the friendship process.
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Just Offscreen posted:I can certainly agree with that- I mean look at KSBD, and Undertale- they both sprang from that and went off and became more. No, but at one point I had plans to do one about sky privateers. Skyvateers. It was called Seven Skies and it died before it even began and became one of those things that just rattles around in my head, occasionally getting mental updates. Poppy was born purely out of good ol' art school sleep deprivation.
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Okay, I just want to confirm that probably no one is more surprised than me that Oglaf and my own comic both updated with really specific Chick Tract parodies today.
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Say what you will about Simpson's embarrassing past missteps, that unicorn comic strip she's been doing for the past couple of years has been cute, at least.
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Parts Kit posted:
Well reading this post went from "stressful" to zero pretty quickly
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Feb 29, 2016 23:15
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SuperHappy posted:Eyy folks, my own li'l comic featuring a demon had a massive website revamp. The latest comic is kinda April Foolsy although that wasn't really the intent. Most importantly, though, I got a new collaborator and she is just so good at things, so we're expecting to do a lot of good this year. I just saw this and I cannot loving believe we made the exact same joke based on the exact same scene for April Fools That is eerie.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Dresden Codak has really come to it's own now that it finally includes lesbianism. It really is a webcomic Oh geez, I completely forgot that Diaz was trying to suggest a thing between Kim and that other girl whose name I cannot remember for the life of me. Probably because it's been an entire year since that last came up. I know it's extremely hypocritical of me to roll my eyes at "webcomic lesbians" considering I write what can literally be called a gay furry webcomic but GODDDDD
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Apr 6, 2016 21:01
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Renaissance Robot posted:I was going to say "what's gay about Poppy" before I remembered the answer is "at least one B-list and maybe one C-list character".  I do not think I have been very subtle.
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Apr 6, 2016 22:09
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Cat Mattress posted:Honestly it has so far looked like "Petunia completely misinterprets the relationship between Kit and Poppy", so if your intent was "Petunia is completely right about the relationship between Kit and Poppy" then yes you have been a bit too subtle. Well, on one hand, you're right about Petunia jumping to conclusions. On the other hand   
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AriadneThread posted:i liked dresden codak when it was just a series of one-off comics Yeah, I miss when DC was just a comic about abstract one-shot science/philosophy gags, because I will easily admit that Diaz can write some interesting concepts when he's not trying to spin a big dumb story out of it. Gratuitous boob shots aside, I think my favorite one was the page where Kim wakes up in a strange world full of symbiotic creatures and it just turns out to be an alt-prehistory fanfic so she could ship herself with her physics T.A.
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Apr 7, 2016 05:44
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Megazver posted:I am of a mind that if you enjoy drawing pretty naked people, that's perfectly fine. Well personally, I think that drawing sexy naked people is always inherently exploitative and disrespectful, and anyone who- wait gently caress *knocks a folder off the table* OH NO *sends my extensive portfolio of highly fetishistic monster girl porn all over the floor* OH MY GOD NO
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Apr 7, 2016 19:26
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Also, I feel like it should be pointed out that I don't think I've ever seen any actual evidence of Diaz directly basing Kim on/e-stalking Ashly Burch outside of various rounds of hearsay. So I mean, I'm hardly an authority on the matter, but as much as I dislike the guy, that should probably be taken with a big grain of salt?
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Renaissance Robot posted:The more I dig through your blogs and such the more convinced I become that rather than a SFW artist who also draws smut on the side, you're a dyed in the wool smut peddler who happens to run a surprisingly wholesome fantasy comic. I used to be really worried about this phenomenon before I realized that nobody in the mainstream art/entertainment world actually gives a poo poo what kind of weird inappropriate bullshit you've created as long as you're okay at it. I mean, look at Johnny Ryan and Dave Cooper. Those guys have both published the raunchiest, filthiest, most offensive smut and yet they're also long-time contributors to Nickelodeon and currently have their own TV-Y7 cartoon running. I could put out a bunch of totally innocuous children's books and my saucy demon comics would just be some surprising trivia fact.
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Everyone in the industry is pretty hosed up, honestly. You guys should try listening to cartoon voice actors talking off the record sometimes. Rob Paulsen of Yakko/Pinky fame has a podcast where he interviews other actors at home and boy, those are unsurprisingly some of the filthiest-mouthed people in the business. I keep thinking about Bill Farmer talking about how Mickey and Minnie Mouse's last set of voice actors were actually married and deeply in love in real life and how he "would give anything to hear the kind of talk that goes on in that bedroom." Morbi fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Apr 7, 2016 |
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Apr 7, 2016 21:32
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Acebuckeye13 posted:It's been years and I still occasionally crack up at that exchange. Seeing that exchange out of context was literally what got me to start reading Paranat. It's the best.
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Apr 9, 2016 19:51
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Renaissance Robot posted:Chapter 4 (the monastery) was originally chapter 3. Morbi got like three quarters of the way through it and then went OH gently caress because he'd forgotten that the ending wouldn't make any sense if we the audience hadn't seen what is now chapter 3. The full disclosure of what happened was that most of the major events of "Poppy Incites A Gang War" (introducing Charlie+Harley, Fazzi, Poppy meeting Chicadino and the debt being properly wiped away) were originally planned to chronologically happen after the dragon story. As time went on, though, it occurred to me that it made a lot more sense for those things to happen during the period where Poppy's arms were messed up. Working on the dragon story had also really been stressing me out at the time and I needed a break to do something light-hearted, which a big dumb comedy-heavy story fit just the bill for. It was certainly my biggest misstep as a creator, but Gang War ended up being my favorite story to work on, so I don't regret it too much.
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The Lone Badger posted:Several people have said that Poppy is unskilled (including Poppy herself) but she was absolutely clowning on the tournament contestants and intercepted Fantomet's slap no problems. Is she really fast as well as really strong? Or perhaps she her own technique developed purely from experience, which formally trained fighters like Friedrich disdain. If even one genuinely competent fighter had fought Poppy at the arena, she likely would have been shut down, but most of those types had been driven away by Boris' bullshit power-set long ago. She's got decent reflexes and tough skin, but her movements are otherwise easy to predict and full of holes that can be taken advantage of, and she tires out very fast. When she can't just end a fight with brute strength, she runs out of options quickly. Poppy's a very effective fighter compared to amateurs and wild beasts, but when she hits the skill ceiling, she hits it hard.
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wiegieman posted:Everybody please keep in mind that Chris Hastings is writing Vote Loki. I misread that as "Vore Loki" and got really concerned for a second.
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Wittgen posted:That kabe don is just the best. Looking back on it, I'm genuinely really proud of that panel as a composition. I don't really play around with layouts like that as much as I probably should.
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No comment other than "there is not an opossum child in there."
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Apr 24, 2016 02:44
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Captain Oblivious posted:Wwll Poppy just went to a pretty grim place. I assure you, the contents of Monday's page are going to more than compensate for how dark the undertones of the comic have been recently. It was literally the first page I wrote for this chapter, and I've been vibrating in anticipation for months about it.
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May 7, 2016 03:07
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Wittgen posted:I like how this page kinda works as a summary of Kit's entire arc so far. Messed up due to the unreal pressure on her, refused to accept kindly offered help, got punished repeatedly. Kit's entire subplot is actually an elaborate metaphor for the process of being a longform webcomic author. (That is a joke, I am joking)
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May 10, 2016 20:12
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Captain Oblivious posted:
I spent like an entire week just googling trashy vintage romance novels to get the exact look I wanted for that cover. It was the best.
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May 18, 2016 00:24
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Truly, is there even such a thing as a good thread
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Captain Oblivious posted:Oh I know exactly what it's representative of. It's an abstraction of her shifting expression as she begins to see Poppy/Kit but drat if taking it at face value isn't utterly hilarious It's actually totally a literal thing she's doing. Petunia's expressions are absurd and wonderful.
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Jun 1, 2016 06:41
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I think it's worth pointing out that Poppy assumes a very real possibility of just up and dying at any point within the next six years, so finding someone who is personally invested in looking after Lily "just in case" is an understandable priority for her.
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Jun 6, 2016 03:58
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Captain Oblivious posted:Out of idle curiosity, how much of that is the heart condition and how much is "being a possum"? Her life expectancy, I mean. It's the heart condition. Being an opossum caps her out at 30 or so, her further heart issues are what potentially drops it below that.
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Jun 6, 2016 04:09
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Anything is super gay if you squint hard enough
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Jun 6, 2016 11:14
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That first April Fools page actually does have at least one particularly nasty trick left that I imagine is going to make everyone lose their goddamn minds when we finally get to it.
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Captain Oblivious posted:Morbi I like the juxtaposition of the King Dolphense balloon with the horrible loving cthulhoid nightmare dragon in the anniversary image. I, too, feel that they are equivalent threats. That was basically the first thing I decided about the layout of this nightmare clusterfuck of an image. That and "Ms. Rufus was clearly the most important character to come out of the gang war so she'll be on top of that section"
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I will confirm up front that Flora is not Earth in the future, past, or otherwise. It is its own distinct planet.
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Jun 25, 2016 18:25
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No, I get it, I'm not a fan of the "humans are inherently special and important" cliche in fantasy animal settings either.
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Mr. Lobe posted:I love that Krillin, the eternal chump, is the best that mankind has to offer. And even Krillin is some kind of weird canonically noseless freakazoid.
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Jun 25, 2016 22:45
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Captain Oblivious posted:Today's Poppy features variants of adorable at complete opposite ends of the spectrum. Maintaining a balance between being fast-paced enough not to drag for the active update readers, but not so fast-paced that scenes seem to whizz by for the archival readers is one of those unique hurdles nobody tells you about before you start making a webcomic. Sometimes I wish I was a one-person writing/drawing machine so I could update ten pages a week and decompress the plot a bit, but you have to know where your limits lie.
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The Lone Badger posted:It's still bleeding. That needle has a different purpose that will become immediately clear. It appears on the cover as well. If it had been for applying the suture, I would have drawn a 3/8 circle needle instead.
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I suddenly no longer feel that insecure about how long it's taking me to get Poppy through Act 1 of 4
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