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The New Comic Thread for Monday November 1, 2010
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look I'm gonna let you keep this opinion because Vigilante is best friends with Shining Knight
I know they were written for tweenage girls but I don't care because they were actually really good
This is the best possible resolution to this dispute.
You're awesome, Mysst.
Yeah, I think this one is the best but I like all of them. Hopefully they won't do what they did with Jim Darkmagic and put the one that gets the least number of votes back in the closet, I want to see them flesh out all three comic ideas.
New Kid has a pretty simple setup, but this is the second kid-centric option out of the six we've seen. I think Mike and Jerry might be looking for an outlet for the "dad stories" from the old podcasts, and I loved those. If they want to convey their trials and tribulations of parenthood and childhood in a unique setting, I'm all ears.
Queen of Bells fluctuates between yes and no for me. On one hand, the song is amazing and getting Belruel's story would be a great trip with lots of opportunity for high heroism and pathos. On the other hand, I don't think I want to know the words to her nine prestigious oaths or see what the sorcelled barb of Arudair actually looks like. I could see it working if they stick to young-adult backstory, but it's a fine line to tread.
"Immortal cowboy" is good enough for me
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Because I can do without some pretty-looking fanfic based around someone's WoW character - even if that someone is Tycho Brahe.
However, if more Automata were an option, I would pick that.
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But about the comic..
Last panel, she is clearly holding the sword right handed.
The 3rd to last panel, where she is clanging the sword against the shield. She would have to be holding the sword and the shield in opposite hands. Doesn't quite make sense.
What the hell do you mean "you people"?
Pardon me, I am voting for cowboys. Because I am a red-blooded patriotic Amurrican.
I dunno there's some more to it then that
the name "Queen of Bells" implies that her story is going to take her pretty far away from what we're seeing here
and the list in panel one raises some questions. Is it a list of people they've killed, or people they've lost? What's gotten her so worked up that she's going out to fight alone against the old man's and presumably the rest of her camp's wishes?
I think there's an interesting story to be told there and I would like to see it
but it commits the classic flaw of not being about sci-fi cowboys
http://www.audioentropy.com/
It is kind of like when you take a story that people know and turn it on its head. I mean Enslaved and Dragonball share the same story as the Journey to the West, but it is there spin on these stories that make them interesting.
To riff on the Biblical tone of the thread- Ecclesiastes says, "All things have been done under the sun" and all we are doing now is just iterating on them.
this looks so awesome. brb, changing my avatar.
they should totally go back and do the first Paint the Line movie
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I am light brownish.
also, the song Belruel is where I stole my name from, same day he first released it I think.
Also, Belruel is not from WoW, it is more like D&D. stop being so dumb people.
yes yes yes they are awesome.
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Ahaha this made my day
Hey fuck you guess what I've been reading for the past half hour.
Excellent.
Totally voting for this one, by the way.
This is only the beginning.
TV Tropes got me through quite a few boring 6:30-9:30pm classes. Just hittin' that random page button over and over.
I bet sand will beat it because people can't help but froth over cowboys, but I think this one looks awesome, and I hope they do something with it eventually even if it doesn't win.
it has my vote at least!
Western with sci-fi vs medieval? At least make a decent comparison. Wild Wild West doesn't beat Lord of the Rings, but Brisco County Jr. sure as heck does.
I mean shit, at least Xena had broad shoulders.
Sand. I don't need to read a comic based on a pseudo-masturbatory ode to a character sheet.
I'm voting for this one just because this post was so obnoxious
The New Kid is alright, but some other time perhaps...
So my vote is Queen of Bells/Sand; I'll choose when it comes time to click...
space always wins
I don't think there is an option I would not be thoroughly content with
Bel you are now my desktop background!
Plus, I find the hook more engaging. I'm much more interested in the seeing the character arc of this young girl as she tries to break out from her assigned role than either of the other two protagonists.
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New Kid
Also, I guess Alpha is on vacation and we don't get to vote for a while? Shame.
Yeah, I was trying to decided between this one and New Kid (westerns just don't do anything for me). Thankfully, I will quite happily vote out of spite. So Queen of Bells gets my vote.