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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Burkion posted:

I honestly thought that was supposed to be, like, Prince, but a Star Captain

I was getting a Josuke vibe.

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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

AriadneThread posted:

apple is dead set on murdering my ability to track rss feeds
how do you guys keep track of stuff? not gonna lie, i probably wouldn't keep up with stuff like dumbing of age without an rss feed just automatically dumping it in front of my eyes for the 30 seconds it takes to read

I use newsblur and it works fine.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Cuazl posted:

Narbonic: A programmer gets a job working for a mad scientist. He is surprisingly good at his job. Finished. Now with wordy commentary you can turn off.

It's also got a kickstarter going right now to print some books:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/250007708/narbonic-the-perfect-collection-reprint

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

Relative size is a handy visual cue that helps viewers tell characters apart without relying overly on the limited pool of consistent signature differences you care to adhere to (this is the Only Red Guy in my show. nobody else can ever wear red or they'll be indistinguishable from the Red Guy), and is absolutely vital to giving a sense of spatial relations in a 2D medium. This may be less of a big deal in a series where everyone is Red Triangle Guy or Blue Oval Girl and they all just sit around in a void talking forever (I've never watched Steven Universe and never will)

SU models change across episodes, not between episodes. Personally I've got no beef with it changing, but I cut my teeth on Loony Tunes reruns and well :

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Mercury Hat posted:

If there's something you like that you want other people to read and pay money for, post about it, make a tweet, whatever, that'll help new stuff more than complaining about someone else's paycheck :shrug:

Call of the Sentinel Chapter 3 just finished: http://www.callofthesentinel.com/comic/ch3-hiatus/

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Wrist Watch posted:

Yeah I never really understood why people we fawning over You Suck so much. People were making it out to be this amazing comic with fantastic art last thread but when I took a look it was just generic cartoon loving.

I wouldn't call Lesnick's art "fantastic" but it's certainly it's own thing and when it works it works. (I read and enjoyed 'Girly' for most of its run (it was a simpler time in webcomics), but 'You Suck' is definitely in the 'why you even got to do a thing' category)

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Tollymain posted:

see, what you're describing is the bad webcomics thread culture here,

I think it's fair to complain that this is supposed to be the good webcomics thread tho.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Mr. Lobe posted:

Print comics were a much more prominent and sustainable medium when entertainment options were much more limited, and therefore the audience and market were much bigger. That's not to say they don't exist now, but if you're an artist who has a particular kind of story you'd like to tell, your options in modern print comics are pretty limited, and they are also threatened by the same type of malicious/idiotic capital interests as being funded by patreon or other similar entities.

Superhero comics killed their own markets.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

FunkyAl posted:

i was thinking mail! it's cheap, comic issues are easy to send out, there's like four nation(world?)wide post offices. Go to a local printer, (find a copier!) maybe you can figure out a good way to save on the project doin that. buy a stapler, get some chips and 2 liter bottles of soda, invite betty and veronica, have a great time!

There's still room for hand-made comics in this world, but it's certainly not cheap or easy, and they're pretty ephemeral. There was a panel at SPX2016 about this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N51p5qAKEb8

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Emrikol posted:

I think they're lamenting that mediocre things make good money, while good things make mediocre money.

When has it ever been otherwise?

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

"hoss" is gender neutral

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Pavlov posted:

Yeah, that's what I mean. Pronouns tend to change through a drawn out process of gradual usage, but not with abrupt changes. So 'Mx' isn't likely to catch on, unless you can get people to use 'Ms." gender neutrally first, and it slowly shifts over like decades.

There was an extreme level of pushback against "Ms" as late as the 80s.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

AriadneThread posted:

oh god
i can't imagine reading any comic on a phone, that sounds miserable

Isn't that some of the intent behind those Korean comics that are extremely tall and narrow?

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Found this recently: http://alchemillacomic.com I liked the 'halfway house' concept and am hoping for more of that and less of the other stuff, but it's a good comic.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Kruxy posted:

How important do you all find an RSS button? I'm not sure if it's important enough to include on my site.

I stopped using RSS feeds when Apple dropped it from Mail in Mountain Lion 6 years ago.

If I can't find an rss feed for an ongoing comic I give up on it. (I will accept an artist's tumblr as long as notification of updates get posted)

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Libluini posted:

Looking up "elver", it seems to be that "dwalling elver" translates to "sleeping eel" or something similar.

Crouching Tiger, Dwalling Elver.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Synthbuttrange posted:

Now post the one where the guy wants to smoke teeth.

I went looking but couldn't remember the details or figure out the search terms.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Fister Roboto posted:

I completely forgot about that comic.

I'm hoping it'll come back once she finishes the Mars comic.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Tuxedo Ted posted:

I'm trying to remember who did this short comic I read like a decade ago. I don't know if you'd call it a webcomic so much as a comic someone once posted on the web.

A woman wheels into town on a mini camper trailer pulled by a team of goats. She sets up camp in a park outside of town, but some guy living nearby warns her that the town has a burning ban because of a drought. They argue about it for a bit, then he leaves and comes back later to apologize, she offers him a drink and invites him to dance with her by her fire, and then she turns him into a goat cuz she's a witch and that's what witches do. Next morning she wheels on out of town with a new goat leading her camper out.

I'm sure the artist is still around and went on to do other great stuff, I'm just trying to remember who it was.

I remember that comic, but haven't been able to find it now with some googling. My recollection is that the cartoonist was someone well known (my brain says it was the Scott Pilgrim guy, but that doesn't appear to be the case, factually).

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Dogwood Fleet posted:

I'd like to see a take on The Water Margin set in the Pacific Northwest. It could work as an anthology.

I'd be happy with a decent take on The Water Margin.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

avshalemon posted:

i guess i'd just like to see some slices of life / fantasy that focus on something other than young love and rebellion and the bildungsroman. those stories are good but they're not the only stories. i'd like more struggling single parents, long-term married couples having difficulties, middle-aged masters of their craft whose personal lives are a mess, directionless 40-somethings desperately in need of a mission, or the point of view of the merciless unseen powers persecuting the sassy teen mages for the common good, rather than the teen mages themselves (although they can still have a voice). there is definitely a "webcomic generation", but we're not actually kids anymore and some amazing things could happen if people started writing what they knew instead of trying to tailor their work to a market that may or may not exist (or creating questionably legal jerk-off material about bright young things, which is its own problem)
How about Alchemilla: http://alchemillacomic.com ?

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

this broken hill posted:

actually they will both be killed, roasted and served up as a banquet to the other characters, who will all find over the course of a few horrifying weeks that everything around them is transforming into flesh and normal people can't see it unless they've tasted of their fellow human

Tantalowned

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Yvonmukluk posted:

I meant to post this yesterday:
https://twitter.com/badmachinery/status/1042483087622504453

Happy (belated) Birthday, Bobbinsverse!

At 24 pages per "issue" he hasn't caught up to Dave Sim but he's in sight at about 220.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Tollymain posted:

where are you getting this idea from lmao

author just needed to take a break because when you make webcomics on any kind of consistent multiweekly schedule you are living and breathing making that webcomic

sometimes you need a vacation after working daily for four years

She also just put out the new book.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

FunkyAl posted:

I think andrew hussie should give josh lesnick like one or ten thousand dollars for paying for all that adspace for all those years. can someone calculate exactly how much slipshine adspace paid for mspa? thirty thousand dollars.

I think Lesnick has been out of Slipshine for a while now for unclear reasons.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Tollymain posted:

a ghost story, never satisfied, gunnerkrigg, monster pulse, uh,

e: right ksbd is like biweekly innit

'godslave', 'never satisfied', 'peritale', 'sleepless domain', and 'vainglorious' are all biweekly, 'verse' has been updating pretty reliably recently

looking thru my rss feed to remind myself of biweeklies and jeez its a freaking graveyard in there

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Cat Mattress posted:

Meanwhile, in Widdershins



Going with the antipodean hypothesis, the counterpart to an anchor in the Himalaya would be off the coast of Chile, with no major island in that area, so I'm gonna call it the R'lyeh Anchor; making the globe incident foreshadowing of world destruction if it is ever found.

Closest land I can find is : Salas y Gómez / Motu Motiro Hiva : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_Salas_y_G%F3mez (also http://bigoceanmanagers.org/portfolio/mmhmp/ )

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Colleen Frakes put up a vampire comic a couple weeks ago : http://www.tragicrelief.com/post/181788269839/i-finished-this-comic-in-2017-then-put-it-away (I'd say it's good but it's Colleen Frakes, of course it's good)

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Cat Mattress posted:

Oh poor ol' Freckles, thought of girls and died.

Ate some horseradish, and cried.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

habeasdorkus posted:

The sanctioned action is to Cut... pasta noodles.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/b3mizc/this_noodle_process/

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Jonathan Dalton is doing a take on BC, 3 eps so far
http://www.jonathondalton.com/?p=2662
http://www.jonathondalton.com/?p=2664
http://www.jonathondalton.com/?p=2665

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Rand Brittain posted:

These website has hella malware redirects going on.

I'm not seeing anything? Tried in a couple browsers.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Joe Slowboat posted:

Who in the hell has been poo poo talking Pierce?

I don't know but I bet it's younger dudes getting mad about media not targeted at them.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

"Erfworld" just apparently shut down without notice and is being purged off the internet. See forex : http://fleen.com/2019/10/14/new-arrivals-and-an-unexpected-departure/

(Nobody seems to want to talk about the details, but some googling turned them up, and : they were right).

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Rotten Red Rod posted:

God, I'm looking back at the last few pages of that storyline now and it's even more stupid then I remember. Alison's solution to Patrick's mental health issues is to offer herself up as a cuddle buddy and literally punch his nightmares on a regular basis, when she already has a billion commitments and an actual, real-life boyfriend (maybe? We still don't know if Clevin had just peaced out for the night or ran away forever) that would make that totally unrealistic to actually devote time to

But no, she has infinite time and is totally fine with devoting her life to this, for some reason

Not to be confused with Alison's solution to Salami Dave's tournament issues which is to literally punch the universe on a regular basis.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Julius CSAR posted:

The whole idea of "Sailor Moon Is A Child Soldier" is super interesting.

There's at least a few things out there that are thinking along similar lines, the one that immediately comes to mind is : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Girl_Spec-Ops_Asuka which I dropped after one volume because the artist was way the gently caress too horned up.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

IronSaber posted:

I would settle for Cassidy getting some kind of fatal injury from her own weapon with Undine making a "you shouldn't run with scissors" quip ex post facto.

Sleepless Domain is a good comic with some weird-rear end fans.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

nine-gear crow posted:

Yeah, Magnolia Porter, now Magnolia Porter-Siddell. She also contributed a bunch of monster designs to Undertale and Deltarune for Toby Fox.

Also did bobwhite which I need to reread:
https://www.bobwhitecomics.com

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

rannum posted:

I took the Odd part being that she hurt her.

That was my take as well, maybe with a side of some remnant of Cassidy is now influencing Goopi

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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

rannum posted:

Not saying this comic needs a[n offscreen] magical girl massacre,

They already had one.

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