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I'm endlessly curious how this comic would read to someone who is unfamiliar with its procession of cameos.
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I hope the witch's black cat is ok
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Surprising coracle-based past-present conflux.
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Scary Go Round (December 16-20, 2005)  
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Conan John A posted:I have a content warning for today’s comic. Contains one “botty”.
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Late post because I am stuffed full of turkey and ham and potatoes and I needed a nap. Scary Go Round (December 21-23, 2005)   oh hey those two look familiar 
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Scary Go Round (January 2-5, 2005)   oooooooooooohhhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiit
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Lmao at Marten and Faye.
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I'm pretty sure by the end of Giant Days both of these things are true for Esther.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm pretty sure by the end of Giant Days both of these things are true for Esther. I can't remember, didn't she leave the bank (or whatever finance adjacent thing it was)in the final issue?
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Gaz-L posted:I can't remember, didn't she leave the bank (or whatever finance adjacent thing it was)in the final issue? I think she got pulled into Shelly's orbit, yeah.
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Gaz-L posted:I can't remember, didn't she leave the bank (or whatever finance adjacent thing it was)in the final issue? At the end of Giant Days Esther ends up working for the company that published Shelley's Tibkins books. According to Allison Esther later gets a job at the Ministry of History, taking over the position Shelley left. Esther was actually going to be the star of Destroy History: NEMS Part 2 before Allison scrapped it.
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Scary Go Round (January 5-9, 2005)  
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Conan John A posted:Now things are going to start happening. Now we’re going to see some of the old steel. I made you wait twenty pages but my insistence on 22 per chapter means there’s time for some punishment.
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I don't recognize those three characters, who were they in SGR/Bad Machinery/Giant Days/Steeple?
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I don't think they were anybody, which may indicate that they're about to go back to being nobody in very short order.
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I believe they're Scotsmen. I can tell by the way one is just casually carrying a giant log, a favorite hobby of the Scottish. I hate scammers as much as anyone, but I feel like "wet kindling" and "bottomless boat" are not 100% the sellers fault.
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StumblyWumbly posted:I believe they're Scotsmen. I can tell by the way one is just casually carrying a giant log, a favorite hobby of the Scottish. Yeah, but it's Des Fishman.
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if you buy something from desmond it is going to be both wet and defective.
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Kazinsal posted:Scary Go Round (January 13-17, 2005) Some more early storytelling weirdness, since this is the first and only time Esther mentions having a sibling and in all other comics she is an only child. Also, from Allison's instagram:   quote:If Solver is to return, I need new stories. In the past I have found that characters write themselves after a while, but I've never proactively tried to use this to drive the creative process. So in a first for comics, I'm just letting them get on with it. Here we see Little Claire's various notions to get the franchise back on the road. All very promising.
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And now for the Hillmen and their time in the spotlight John A posted:Good, good, a decapitation. It’s been a while since we had one of those at badmachinery.com.
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Ah. I vividly remember watching Arnold's second Conan movie as a kid, and my mom expressing visceral disgust as a head went sailing through the air.
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Scary Go Round (January 18-20, 2005) Weirdly off-model The Boy in that second panel.  
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From Allison's Instagram quote:A sleeping giant. SOLVER will return! Also on Allison Patron he posted about some other comic properties he would like to work on; She-Hulk Death's Head II Superman Spitfire and the Troubleshooters Machine Man
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Conan John A posted:Good, good, a double “running-through”, it’s been a while since &c. &c. See you on Monday for the next thrilling chapter of Conan & The Blood Egg!
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Honestly, Allison's whole vibe feels like it would gel strongly with She-Hulk, especially in the same mode as Rowell or Tamaki's runs over the last few years.
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Hill People! Yer bawdys!
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Allison's Instagram: quote:Conan pt 2 is up on my Patreon at midnight tonight. Chief Shailey was a big hit in part 1 but alas you’ll have to wait for part 3 for her star turn.
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Man, I'm definitely sympathetic to him but I feel like random one-offs are the opposite of how you bring in new people, webcomics thrive on consistency. And like, technically a returning reader rather than a "new" reader but I had just started reading again after the end of bad machinery and then WHOOPS, STEEPLE WHICH IS THE THING YOU CAME BACK FOR IS OVER NOW. Dunno if conan is really appealing to me enough to keep me around with no idea whether I'll like what comes next when it's done.
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He's dodging the elephant in the room in that he probably bleeds readers every time he brings a story to a sudden hiatus, a bad crashing end, or just vanishes it from the web altogether.  How many Steeple fans hit the bricks?
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Perhaps he doesn't want the readers he has?
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I feel like stuff like the X-Men thing would've been better served if he'd reached out and pitched it to Marvel themselves. Nothing there was especially out of sorts for the brand in the way that the Giant Days/Batman crossover was. I get that maybe he had tried and no-one there bit, but I agree that the random, scattershot pinballing from project to project probably isn't the best way to webcomic these days.
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Yeah a random X-men tie-in isn't the sort of thing to bring in new readers. Most people don't start out as fans of an artist, they first become fans of a comic. A few adventurous people follow the author to their next venture and then maybe bring readers in via recommendations. John Allison probably has more author-followers than most after all this time, but they're still an exception. And then this Conan thing. It's fun, but like 80% of its lifeblood is fun cameos. If anything Allison does is going to be a solid hit with a growing readership, it will be a project that doesn't feel too tied to his incomprehensible gordian knot of a back catalogue, that starts with a spark of inspiration and then keeps going, and is all available in the same format. Ditocoaf fucked around with this message at 01:55 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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 John A posted:Part 2 starts on the website tomorrow, but my Patreon subscribers ($3 and up) can read the whole chapter right now. If you subscribe to the Patreon, thank you for your continued support. It keeps the old balloon in the air.
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Ditocoaf posted:Yeah a random X-men tie-in isn't the sort of thing to bring in new readers. Most people don't start out as fans of an artist, they first become fans of a comic. A few adventurous people follow the author to their next venture and then maybe bring readers in via recommendations. John Allison probably has more author-followers than most after all this time, but they're still an exception. Hell, that's why Giant Days took off. I had zero context for any of the backstory but 'slightly magical realism slice-of-life about girls at uni in Sheffield' worked as a premise in and of itself.
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