Has it really been six weeks since last time?
Must have been as I've got a bit of a backlog of web comic comments to think up. Plus a few that somehow got missed out the last couple of times. Only quick comments, unfortunately... I don't really have much in the way of brainpower left at the moment (too much work and all that).
( Cat Legend )
( Cat Legend )
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Glad to see you haven't given up on my story - at least not yet. :) I'm re-writing it, so if you have any more in-depth comments, especially about my dialog, I'd like very much to hear them.
-Vulpes Libertas
libertyfox (@) vulpeslibertas (.) com
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(Ooops... real live web comic artists I don't already know are finding my comments... had better start trying to make more sense then...)
I'm really just passing on my gut feelings about the comics I read... I wouldn't know where to start doing a proper critique of anything. I can't draw at all, and my writing isn't much good either, so anything I write is more "I liked it, and this is why..." rather than "It is good, and this is why...".
I could show examples of the sort of dialogue I do think highly of, but (1) it would probably be a bit rude of me (I'm never sure of the etiquette of dealing with real creative people; I'm doing this mainly to pass the time with friends, rather than annoy writers and artists...) and (2) they probably wouldn't be the sort of atmosphere you're aiming at anyway.
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It's not so much a time thing as a brain thing at the moment... I've just been off with a virus (head virus, not computer virus) for the last couple of days so am not firing on all cylinders just yet.
As for comics I'm particularly enjoying at the moment... specifically action/adventure story types... three I'm definitely enjoying are Digger, Wandering Ones and Paradigm Shift. Of these three, the last is probably the best example of a balance between character and violence in the story. In "Digger" (which currently has a filler comic on its main page, and the previous couple of hundred pages are subscription-only; but the first half of the story is available) most of the violence is implied or recounted second-hand; it also has a sole point-of-view character, and whose thoughts are also told to the reader. "Wandering Ones" is quite a different style entirely... imagine Stan Lee possessed by the ghost of Rudyard Kipling, and being edited by Chris Claremont possessed by the ghost of Robert Heinlein and... well, that's ( ... )
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I'm guessing it's the beginning that is hardest to read?
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Re-writing comics can be tricky. I'm re-writing mine but not so as to interfere with continuing weekly updates. It's basically going to be Webcomic #2. Most comics I've seen that re-work instead of update go to pieces and can't get it back together again.
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