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new comic 01/07/09: lookouts part 2
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I was initially disappointed in this one, but I figured it was more about wanting to see Gabe and Tycho do it than anything else, so I tried to give it a fair shake, and after a read or two it grew on me. I like the first panel and the design of the basilisk the best. The last two took some looking at to understand what was going on. I don't mind picking up on more details and whatnot on a second or third read through, but I do think it should be clear on the first reading what, in general, is happening.
Overall, I'd say it's a pretty good comic, and that the odds were stacked against it; everyone wanted Gabe's art and Tycho's writing, and the Tiny Kitten Teeth lady's art is so distinct that somebody's bound to not like it.
Words.
I can't think of a scenario in which the leader saying he's sorry like that makes any sense, unless he's in cahoots with the monster, but that doesn't seem right since he gets smacked by it immediately afterward.
So actually, none of them are dead. It's hard to tell in the next to last panel, but two boys are clearly visible. A third is hiding behind the cape of the one on the right — check his blond hair sticking out. The last is hiding behind the statue. Notice the cape and skin behind it?
The leader is getting smacked down in the last panel... and I assume he's apologizing because he's about to get owned... and the boys are next?
And a cockatrice is pretty similar to a basilisk... but it has legs. This one looks pretty serpentine, more like a basilisk.
*shrugs*
I like it, but I think I'll need to let the art grow on me a bit more. It's pretty retro-cool, but it's also pretty busy, so you don't get Mike's usual clarity.
2nd Panel: *Man I look good, does my hair look straight?"
3rd Panel: *Wait a minute....wait a minute!....IS THAT A PIMPLE!?*
4th Pane: *WOULD EVERYONE PLEASE QUIET DOWN! I'm trying to gaze into my dagger!
Face it, the fat kid is a garden ornament.
My argument was that a guest comic, especially an intricate one, would require even more foreplanning. I'm assuming guest artists don't drop everything they're doing to slave over a guest comic, they usually get a solid heads up that their work would be appreciated. At the same time, you might not say, "Yeah, we're either going to use your guest strip next week or 9 months from now. Could you have it done by next week, though?"
Your fans didn't care if they had to wait the months you said originally, but give them what you said you would. You teased us, then took it away. You promised us glistening jewels and baubles, and handed us stone and sand. You told us we would have stories to tell our children about, and gave us only the whispering wind, that which lays us awake at night, longing for the lost unknown that we will now never have! This poor excuse for a language leaves me trapped, unable to express to you the gnawing deep pain within you have caused. I only hope one day, that you can do what you do best, and set me free from this terrible torment, this cage you have wrapped around my soul, clenching ever tighter against the bonds of nothing you so skillfully pulled out of the ether and trapped me with. Till that day when Lookouts is once more complete by Penny-Arcade, I remain lost and broken.
And yeah, that's not a basilisk. It's a, uh, basitrice? Or a Cockalisk. Cockalick?
But yeah it's like some panels are missing or some shit before the cockalick actually attacks. Like you have to study the page to figure out what the hell is happening. Probably will make more sense on Friday.
edit: and it is the 2nd place comic, after all, so it makes sense that they pawn it off on some other artist/writer while they go on vacation.
t joel: that is pretty great
People voted Lookouts because they thought they'd get to see more of Gabe's art. This is tripe compared to it; it does not communicate an image, or a story in images, all that well. Everything is blended in slightly and hard to decipher. Shapes are ridiculous and the characters look more outrageous and goofy.
The artist uses flowing shapes and such to communicate action and emotion, and the result would be appropriate for a painting in a gallery, but not for telling a panel-by-panel story.
My Scout group motto was the opposite of that.
you're an idiot.
EVERYBODY WHO HAS POSTED IN THIS THREAd: YOU ARE ALL IDIOTS
A bit melodramatic don't you think?
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Gabe and Tycho are going to be like "Fuck this, all they do is complain one way or the other" and stop asking for community input.
Next comic is just a middle finger
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Dude, Gabe and Tycho never look in the forums. They could give a flying fuck what anyone says in here.
This is seriously the worst thing I've ever read.
I view Gabe and Tycho as the type that cares what their public thinks.
Just long enough to cry a few minutes, wrap the tiny body in some newspaper, and then dump it in the trash bin behind the Waffle House?
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Surely you're old enough to remember the Great Bungie Fiasco?
We almost got our forums taken away in the wake of that incident.
Gabe and Tycho don't read the forums, but that doesn't stop people they like and work with from reading them.
The leader is apologizing because he realized he is about to get knocked out and won't be there to help the boys deal with the monster.
All 4 of the boys are alive in the second last panel.
And the art style on this one is growing on me. The spacing between panels should probably be a color other then white though.
you cannot be serious.
Guys, I found something written worse than Transformers 2.
I can stop bitching about that movie now.
I usually don't hang out in SE. I try to stay in the MMO/Critical Failures area. Do tell.
The great WHAT fiasco?
Enlighten me.
Oh no, I'm talking full-on cradling it, swaddling it in rags, holding it tight to my bosom to keep it warm, rocking it and shushing it to sleep at night and displaying it proudly to horrified passers-by on the street.
Actually the new comic thread is one of the sole threads they do actually look at, and occasionally post in
so kudos to all the folks bitching and complaining.
I still say it can't be worse than Batman and Robin
Fucking Schumacher
I view Gabe and Tycho as the type that like to support their good fans, but are deeply troubled by and terrified of the majority of their readership. Most of those disturbing individuals hang out in SE++.
Look, you got work to do out back behind the Olive Garden. I ain't got time for you to hold no dead bastard child, and if you want your next hit of smack you'll get out there and earn daddy his cash money.
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Only to realize it's an emaciated possum.
Even you Randall_Fag, but that's just because I love you.
Some crazy shit was going on in a bungie thread and tube says the next person who posts here gets banned
And literally ten seconds later one fo the bungie dudes posts in it