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Right?! I read this thread just because I was so confused by the question.
A young woman, forbidden to ever marry, is kidnapped by pirates who believe her magical cooking will help them find dry land.
In a world ravaged by nuclear war, humanity's best hope for a future lies in the pristine mountains of Guadalcanal. But when the Empire of Japan invades, intent on establishing their own mega-city there, it's up to one Judge to bring them the law and humanity hope. "I don't know why nature vies with…
@elixiadragmire I just started reading Silversong. Love the colors! That's one of the hardest things to get right and you nail it. My comic, Furies, is about a woman who first dons a mask to get revenge on her stalker. The first draft of the character was actually a guy, but when I met Yeom Moon K…
I'm doing a masked-avenger comic, Furies. It's more about snappy one-liners than punching, but there is punching. [image]
What I'm getting is that it depends entirely on how relevant the art is to the writing. Personally, I think it'd be a great way to skip over paragraphs and paragraphs of physical description.
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Love the colors! It's great how evocative they are. I feel a solid sense of what the comic is about.
@ScampiCub and @VermillionWorks make good points. Any emotion being unrelenting is bound to get irritating. Kaylee from 'Firefly' is incredibly well-handled, despite Mal saying nothing could stop her from being cheerful. Yes, cheerful is her default, but we see her mood shift when conflicts arise. …
If there are words in the music, it needs to be the kind that just blend into the instruments. A lot of trance and house is good for that. But instrumental is definitely the safest bet. Indispensable when writing dialogue.
As exciting as regular updates and cliffhangers and all are, the binge read has its own joys to offer. I just finished reading all of No End in like two days (mind, I have a full time job). What have been your favorite comics to binge read?
Glad my literature degree was finally useful for something!
That's actually a misconception about Victorian Britain. People still boned like mad, back then, it just wasn't spoken of, openly. There were also much higher stakes to sex (read: pregnancy), so sex-for-fun was less common among the kind of women that couldn't dispose of an unwanted pregnancy withou…
The thing I thought of was Rescue Rangers. I'm not sure if he was directly involved with that show, but he definitely influenced it.
You should watch the movies with the Rifftrax. It's the boys from MST3k just having a field day with how much sense those stories don't make.
Yeah, I think the popularity of 'Twilight' was more a sign that vampires had been ruined than the thing that ruined them. As Anne Rice put it, vampires are a symbol of exclusion. When vampires are part of an inclusive story, they've lost what makes them them.
I used to listen to a lot of soundtracks, or rather selections from soundtracks, but I gave up on making playlists a long time ago. Somewhere around my late-20s, that process lost its appeal for me. There are a few albums I listen to, mostly electronic. Recently, it's been BT's 'If the Stars are Ete…
Talking "big company" published comics... It depends heavily on the country. Marvel goes through these occasional renaissances where they cycle out some of the old guard that can't pull their weight anymore. Because western comics tend to be more team effort than auteur vision, like Asian comics t…
I have an oxytocin deficiency which presents as Schizotypal Personality Disorder, so anxiety and depression come up quite a bit. Also, thanks to my High School self being getting way too into 'Fight Club', I have degenerative prosopagnosia (face-blindness). If you're not familiar with any of that, i…
I grew up on X-men, primarily. The short-lived "X-treme X-men" was the first comic book I got obsessive about. Before that, it was 'Star Wars' day and night, but the prequels broke my heart and I sought other grounds to geek in. I've read some manga. My introduction was actually 'Ghost in the Shel…
I've been writing prose literally since I was 4 and whenever I took courses or went to conferences, I'd always hear that a well-crafted story directs itself. As in, characters will often start making decisions for themselves, against even your wishes, and everyone always says it's best to let them d…
From what I've seen, it seems most of the creators on Tapastic do both their scripts and their art. In my experience, people who wear two hats like that tend to have a primary discipline. As in, they're either artists who needed a story or writers who needed art. There are some people who are natura…
Oh really? I live in Korea (though, I'm not Asian, either) and that's a common misuse of the word condition among the locals.
Haha..."condition". Someone's from Korea! I have a day job, that keeps me mobile and prevents blood clots. My neighborhood is right on the side of a steep-ass hill, so going literally anywhere is a decent work out. Other than that, I'm a believer in good artists being self-destructive. That's how …
Voice acting is a whole discipline unto itself; apart from live acting. That's why people tend to do one or the other. Some people, like Paget Brewster, do both incredibly well, but it's rare. Look at Mark Hamill; he's not all that impressive on screen, but his voice work is the stuff of legend. On …
I was looking for content guidelines, but couldn't find a link.
So, because I'm a noob looking for a place to publish, I want to get clear on something. A) There's nudity in my comic. B) I make sure it's labelled NSFW. C) It stays on the site. Yes?