Hard Drive Reality

[capturedribbons]

Jeni and I have been rping for a while and we randomly decided (or she said I should do this and then luckily decided she would help or it wouldn't look nearly as nice or be nearly as well done) to make a comic out of it. The first chapter is actually done, amazingly enough, and I'm very happy with it. I think it looks pretty neat- its a blending

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Re: Web-comic Craze Continues; Critics Concordantly Captured

[project_jeni]

Thanks so much for the awesomeness of the review!

Sarah does most of the work. It takes her hours upon hours of coming up with poser images for my badly put together story boards. ^__^ Esspecially when she shows me the roughs and I go: "Well...I dunno, that doesn't look quite right" or "Well...what about this?"

I don't know how she puts up with me being an editor for her art work! Esspecially when I chop it up in my photoshop and mess with filters and put tons of layering into it and draw extra stuff over top of it... >.> Yay! I should list myself on the cover page as the bastardizer of the art work, not so much the editor and layout girl!

There will be a lot of subtlies in this comic that probably will only be meaningful to me and Sarah. For instance, the font I use and the filters I run certain images through and our color schemes are tied to specific places and characters.

Andy's world is in grainy shades of gray. Globtec -- you've only seen the building so far -- is somewhat obscurely bright but out of focus and extremely... Out of place. That's a good phrase.

As Sarah said, the story takes some time to develop. Purposefully. Yes, it's a generally boyVboy -esqu comic. light shounen ai for some time. Hints at more perhaps later.

It's rather refreshing to having a boy's love comic that doesn't jump into sex... It's not something we planned on, but it's working out nicely.

There are some scenes I can't wait to see. In the next chapter -- which is partially story boarded -- you'll see Kit's apartment, find out who that bi-specticaled man is, and best of all, find out about the character that's making Sarah curse me. Oh ho ho.

Poor Kit.

[kaato112487]

Not to sound concieted or obnoxious, but I have conversations with Sarah quite often (she lives a floor below me), so I've actually made it quite far into the story.

I've been following it as closely as I can, that's why I was thrilled when you two began with the comic. As I have no hand in it's writing, my opinion would then be that of a 3rd party. For any who are reading this and looking forward to more installments of the comic, the story continually gets better as new, interesting, and quirky characters are introduced. To support what Jeni has said above, color is a big part of the characters.

From what I've heard about the story thanks to Sarah, I'm looking forward to the rest of the comic myself and I offer any help you may need. While no where nearly as skilled as either of you in art or graphics, I can quite often just give ideas and act as a third party to help keep the story understandable. My services are at your disposal.

P.S. You should give yourself more credit, I've seen the early works and the finish products for certain pages and the amount of work is fairly evenly distributed.

[project_jeni]

^__^ I'd love people to help beta the comic. I keep all of the pages in their photoshop layers so they can be changed at anytime...which is important because I can't spell. :3 If you (guys) can offer suggestions, I think that will be great! I'll try and talk Sarah into posting the pages here before onto the comicgenesis.com page we're setting up.

I've taken two days off working on the comic/writing more of the story thanks to World of Warcraft....

I need to knock off that addiction. :3

And thanks again for the compliments.

Again...any critisism at all would be wonderful.