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Author Topic: Webcomics that aren't MSPA  (Read 122834 times)

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Zach

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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #260 on: November 14, 2008, 11:54:18 AM »

I've found that the best way to read Gunnerkrigg Court is to forget about it for a week or two. Then when I remember how much I like it, I can return and find that something has happened plotwise as well as character interactionially.

On the other hand, one of the reasons I was initially attracted to it was Antimony's stilted conversation patterns. This friendship with Kat is making her far too normal! 

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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #261 on: November 14, 2008, 12:01:06 PM »

One of the few webcomics I actually stopped reading in spite of it being free and apparently from someone who could draw.

Are you saying Fred Gallagher can draw? I mean, I stopped reading it in 2003 so he might have gotten lessons or something.

Although, to be fair, he probably should have gone for a fiction writing workshop first. From what I recall, he had a lot of time on his hands in between pages, so it wouldn't have made a difference.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #262 on: November 14, 2008, 12:31:32 PM »

I found something called The Phoenix Requiem and I am pretty sure I like it. Although the plot seems a cross between Lovecraft Lite and a romance novel, would you look at that art and she gets about five pages a week of that. Apparently it's not the cartoonist's first comic and she completed her last one, but I haven't bothered checking it out yet.

Also: GUN SHOW
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #263 on: November 14, 2008, 03:25:30 PM »

She's not "passionless", she just doesn't demonstrate her feelings much. If you want OUTPOURINGS OF INNER ANGST I understand Megatokyo still updates occasionally.

I don't want "OUTPOURING OF INNER ANGST", I just want her to react to things like robots, talking wolves, ghosts, demons, dragons, possession, assassination, etc like an actual human being might.  Not in terribly derivative dialogue designed to make her the coolest cucumber on Earth.

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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #264 on: November 14, 2008, 03:57:28 PM »

Extremely reserved main characters are not very common. Just for variety's sake, I like that she is not constantly commenting on how strange and/or surprising everything around her is.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #265 on: November 14, 2008, 04:00:48 PM »

I think the main problem isn't that the girl doesn't comment, but doesn't react.  At all.  To the point where she's less a protagonist and more a walking plot device that mechanically keeps the narrative moving forward, nothing more.

I never read the damned thing, though.  I just get that impression from skimming.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #266 on: November 14, 2008, 04:02:50 PM »

Extremely reserved main characters are not very common.

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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #267 on: November 14, 2008, 07:45:40 PM »

"I forgot to put in a character that says 'Guys, this is a bad idea' at every junction." -- Tom Siddell

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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #268 on: November 14, 2008, 08:28:25 PM »

They live in a boarding school for magical robots.

Do you think they ought to wander down the halls every day being surprised at everything?
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #269 on: November 14, 2008, 10:31:31 PM »

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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #270 on: November 14, 2008, 10:54:37 PM »

:painful: The Splash Woman storyline @ Nerf Now has left me traumatized, spiteful, and turned on.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #271 on: November 14, 2008, 11:01:44 PM »

Extremely reserved main characters are not very common.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmotionlessGirl
I said "reserved," not "gloomy" or "a robot." The better article to disabuse me of this delusion would be The Stoic.

:painful: The Splash Woman storyline @ Nerf Now has left me traumatized, spiteful, and turned on.
How is that different from normal?
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #272 on: November 15, 2008, 03:20:14 AM »

She's not "passionless", she just doesn't demonstrate her feelings much. If you want OUTPOURINGS OF INNER ANGST I understand Megatokyo still updates occasionally.

I don't want "OUTPOURING OF INNER ANGST", I just want her to react to things like robots, talking wolves, ghosts, demons, dragons, possession, assassination, etc like an actual human being might.  Not in terribly derivative dialogue designed to make her the coolest cucumber on Earth.

Why should she be overly reactive to these things?  She practically grew up with incarnations of death.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #273 on: November 15, 2008, 07:45:13 AM »

i go to take a nap and when i get back zara is defending gunnerkrigg court

i will assume i am being trolled
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #274 on: November 15, 2008, 07:49:47 AM »

(actually i just remembered that zara said he reads wapsi square)
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #275 on: November 15, 2008, 08:14:40 AM »

I am sorry that I do not live up to your sophisticated standards of webcomicry norondor

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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #276 on: November 15, 2008, 08:22:00 AM »

You know, i don't ask for much, zara
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #277 on: November 15, 2008, 10:39:37 AM »

I like that she is not constantly commenting on how strange and/or surprising everything around her is.
"I forgot to put in a character that says 'Guys, this is a bad idea' at every junction." -- Tom Siddell
Do you think they ought to wander down the halls every day being surprised at everything?
Why should she be overly reactive to these things?

Not that I particularly care one way or another about a comic I don't read, but I can't take this shit anymore.

All of you.

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Seriously.

Who's asking for constantly-shocked character who spends every waking moment acting confused and scared?  Nobody.  Go find where somebody asked for that.  What Constantine's bitchfest is about is the fact that your honey's reaction to everything - everything - is to stare half-lidded at it.  That's every bit as redundant as constantly gasping, screaming or whining, only it's so cool so some people don't seem to mind.

You can come out and say that you love the fact that she's literally unflappable, that's fine.  But Godsakes stop with this bullshit "oh this is what you're saying" counterargument.  You guys are better than that.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #278 on: November 15, 2008, 11:00:02 AM »

You guys are better than that.
You're saying you haven't been paying attention, Brentai?

I'm not really sure what people are bitching about. The central characters are interesting enough to be a 1 or 2 minute distraction every-other weekday. Or, more likely, a fun, wasted half-hour over after two or three months.

Though I suppose my real criteria are just: Be different; Don't be annoying. Given the fair numbers of webcomics I read.

It may also help that I've (by some black magick?) skipped over basically everything by Neil Gaiman.
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Re: Webcomicry
« Reply #279 on: November 15, 2008, 07:45:19 PM »

words

How is what I said a strawman when I provided direct evidence for why she's more or less unflappable?  Besides which, I like Kat and Zimmy better than Antimony, anyways.
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