*stares at Order of the Stick.*
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Bear Ribs
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Laughs in Sluggy Freelance that's been running since 1997.
Nah. I was pointing out how OotS has completely run out of steam. Almost all* of the good jokes and character interactions were had by the end of Blood runs In The Family, and the webcomic's update pace has slowed to a crawl.
*Durkoff's face when the Chaotic Giraffes barged into the throne room will never not make me smile
Bear Ribs
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Fair enough, I realized on thinking it over that I got tired of reading OotS some time around a bit before then so that checks out pretty well.
I've recently run into something new, The Apothecary Will Make This Battered Elf Happy and enjoyed it immensely. You'll have to find a translation as it's a manga webcomic that publishes one page a week. Fair warning, it's hurt/comfort as you might guess from the title and the author does not shy away from showing how horrible abuse is or the scars it leaves.
That said I'm in awe of how dense and concise the writing is. It's maybe the length of a typical single manga issue at this point* and yet despite its only 30 pages of length they've gone through journeys, had adventures, met various people in different situations, and the elf has been notably healed already. She's gone from blind, catatonic, and gangrenous to being able to make out light and darkness and responding to food and speech, as well as actively finally starting to take actual actions now that she's realizing it's possible. At the same time it's clearly wearing down the MC Apothecary who's getting darker bags under his eyes as time passes and he continues to struggle to care for the helpless elf. It feels like the amount of story you'd typically get out of a month's worth of typical manga in each page.
The writing's also surprisingly tight on the storyline, there're some subtle hints that things are very much not what they've seen and the Elf was not just neglected but some sort of active malice was directed at her, while the Apothecary keeps showing surprising hidden depths and is perhaps some kind of retired hero or something given the non-medical skills and showings he keeps doing.
The lineart is extremely good and the author seems to hand-ink everything, there's a ton of precise cross-hatching and woodcut-style lines for shading rather than use of tones the way most manga artists would do it to save time. This makes the world it's set in feel very rough, worn, and lived-in compared to most manga's brighter, cleaner look and it really adds to the theme.
*The translation I'm reading that is, the original Japanese is a bit ahead.
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
Aaaand Weekly Roll is back, with Trevor remaining his pyromanical self
Finally! I was worried the author went for a pack of smokes.
Aldarion
Neoreactionary Monarchist
Found this:
www.blastwave-comic.com
Rather good postapocalyptic comic with dark comedy. Basically, imagine average online shooter player as a soldier in a postapocalyptic / post-nuclear war setting.
Gone with the Blastwave - Because war can be boring too.
Rather good postapocalyptic comic with dark comedy. Basically, imagine average online shooter player as a soldier in a postapocalyptic / post-nuclear war setting.
King Krávoka
An infection of Your universe.
Speaking of quadruple-S, the author also made a Chick Tract with better art (not a complaint, some were objectively good).
Solarpunk works best with furries and mass media metaphors.
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VictortheMonarch
Victor the Crusader
While it's really only a fan comic/manga, Attack on Titan Requiem is by far starting to be my favorite fan-made comic. It's a three part manga based on the final three chapters and is rather good. Then you've got another one in Operation Usurper, another fan comic based on the period of the Rumbling, Start to Finish. I love these two thus far and hope someone else decides to pick them up, as they're well made.
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
So this the last page of Stay Still, Stay Silent
Stand Still. Stay Silent - webcomic, page 560
Apparently the author got lot of heat on social media for her decision to end the comic. Some people really have no life.
Stand Still. Stay Silent - webcomic, page 560
Apparently the author got lot of heat on social media for her decision to end the comic. Some people really have no life.
That comic is downright creepy.
Typhonis
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Blue Milk Special is a comedic take on the Star Wars movies starting with episode 4
Blue Milk Special – Star Wars cartoon parody
Blue Milk Special – Star Wars cartoon parody
It depicts the ideal world of the Left. Of course it's creepy.
Remember Zor from Spacebattles?
bintananth
behind a desk
The subhuman who wants a hivemind to take care of his every need and want?
No, that was some other guy.
Zor was always posting these strange scenarios about big government. No hivemind stuff, but definitely some serious power fantasies.
King Krávoka
An infection of Your universe.
Our freedom and future is put at stake in the second World War, a time when super-human Allies unleash ragnarok against the shackled forces of the Axis. In a heated battle, the concerns of our kind have been inflicted on an intelligence beyond the stars, and Earth is now in The Power of Stardust
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
Or she will find out that Lucrezia, in her hubris, was wrong.