Annotated 32-13
Okay, guys, I’ll level with you: I am completely blocked on commentary for these next eleven pages. Anything I could say about them, I feel like either I’ve already said it in the chapter intro or I’d just be repeating words out of the characters’ mouths or going “Ha ha, Frigg funny.” I could do some analysis of the strategies they form here, but it’d be much better to do that later, when the results of those strategies become clear.
So instead of just stumbling forth and vamping to my minimum word-count (“I… really like how the panels are all rectangles here! Is that anything? (sob)“), I’m going to do something different for the next ten installments: comic pitches! I still don’t really yearn to start a new comics project. But all the looking back this project involves does make me wonder about other stuff I could’ve done, and I have some outline notes I just never got to actualize.
Just to make it a little more interesting, I’ll pitch to a different genre each day: romcom, superhero, gamer… and if you have any genre requests, leave them in the comments!
Supernatural musical thriller?
(I was thinking the other day about how Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” seems to have simultaneously invented the genre, and perfected it so well, that no one else seems to have even tried it, at least in the radio music medium.)
…which, in the context of web comics, immediately made me think of this (see bottom of page):
https://archives.erfworld.com/Book+1/140
Well, of course!
I miss Erfworld.
I miss Xin, and the really good writing. Somewhere around the moment Hamstard does “Breaking Back” the whole thing seems to have gone way off the rails. I wanted to like the later stuff, and to a degree I really did, but I could not shake the feeling that the thread of the plot was lost, the art team was getting confused, the web team was getting swamped with shinies, and the whole thing collapsed in on itself in a “Spectacle! Epicness!” supercritical gravity field.
I know, I know, cancer. I really do feel bad for Balder and what they went through. Not sour grapes here at all. Trying to make an observation on the art without any comment on the artist, and that is so hard to do these days.
I wouldn’t go that far. I was enjoying the writing all the way to the end (sure, the pacing got really slow, but that’s par for the course for such comics). In the end, it just seems like another webcomic that got derailed by its own ambition and perfectionism (as well as the private matters).
I’d like to see what you’d do with a horror. Supernatural type – ghost story, vampires, zombies, whichever.
A workplace comedy – but it’s in an unconventional workplace (sci-fi/fantasy/strange profession… whatever)
I’d read this.
My favorite genre is literally anything that will get T back into writing webcomics again.
More squirrels or other anthro! With emerging powers coming of age academy!
Not enough sci-fi right now. There are a few great tv shows but next to no webcomics compared to the multiple D&D inspired stuff.
I don’t know if you’re already reading it, but might I recommend Drive?
http://www.drivecomic.com/
Drive is great! May I also suggest Christopher Baldwin’s Spacetrawler. It’s on its third series, but I’d start at the first one, as each series will reference the previous ones – and the first series still is the best one to me.
https://www.baldwinpage.com/spacetrawler/
Outsider is also top notch: https://well-of-souls.com/outsider/
Mare Interum is excellent, imaginative, and complete. But, fair warning, it deals with some really heavy subject matter.
Mare Internum*, that is.
I’d love more science-fiction / space opera and/or something to do with time travel.
I’m glad to hear you are considering writing another comic.
-Okay, you’ve already done geek culture/sci-fi, you’ve done girl romance, fantasy/MMOs, so how about a noir or neo-noir story? Maybe it’s the usual “small crime reveals larger scheme” Maybe you can get your freak on and do the “sleppy town with a really messed up underbelly” thing.
-How do you picture the afterlife? You could either write an epic story about someone’s soul journing into the underworld with a purpose, or a farcical comedy a la Beetlejuice
-A period piece. If your characters are immortals/vampires/time travelers, then you can have several periods in your story
Very excited for your pitches — let loose!
Very excited to read your pitches — let loose!
I’d love to hear a superhero comic pitch. I’ve got plenty of pitches I’d make for such a thing myself (viewing such a world from the lens of a beat cop rather than a superhero, for instance), but I want to hear yours.
I’m serious about that beat cop angle though. Imagine having to be a normal cop, firefighter, or other first responder in a world where superheroes and supervillains exist. Running a comic about a superhero adjacent character that gets caught in the crossfire all too often would be awesome.
You know, in Philippine English, a comfort room is a restroom.
Maybe you can do that too? Also, ngl I have taken an ale with me into the comfort room myself. You know, if you’re going to be there a while…