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\\ ancient crust seeks comic crits //

earthwormadamearthwormadam ancient crust Registered User regular
Hey! I haven't made art post in quite some time, but I still like to pop in every now and then to see what's up. I'm about to xerox a low bugdet zine/comic thing of all the cartoons I've made over the past 2 years. These aren't all of them, but these are the ones that I think would benefit from another set of eyes before I actually print and staple up these bad boys. If you follow my Insta you may have seen some of these. I know the forum isn't super active for crits like it used to be, but I thought I'd give it a shot anyway. I'll also post over in the writing forum and see if I can pull anyone over to take a look at the writing, spelling, punctuation ect. Also I think I made these images kinda small, so... sorry.

This first one I don't think is particularly great, as it breaks the cardinal (lol) rule of not using violence as the punchline but O well. It originally was just the first 3 panels, and I added the next three panels after thinking maybe I could salvage it. Now I'm not sure all the panels are necessary. For example you could loose panels 2, 4, 5 and it still might work? I don't know, I'm not sure if the flow would still work but I was considering dropping panels 2 and 5. Thoughts?

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This one I was thinking could prob loose the text in the 3rd panel all together and still work. But I thought the text was kinda funny, so pretty torn on this one.

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This page is two unrelated food jokes on one page

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This one, I'm convinced is not very funny but it's just about me and my spider buds minding each others respective beeswaxes.

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This one has a lot of text in the last panel and I'm not sure if it could be worded better.

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I'd prob have my mom word proof all of these, because she's good at that, but I dont want her to know that I want to die and be buried in a Jubilee Roll.

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These are two separate comics stuck side by side because they both were video gamey...

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This one, I'm not sure the 3rd panel with the "ya" reply is totally necessary, but I'm not sure it hits the same beats without it...

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This one uses a bunch of internet shorthand, so proofreading prob unnecessary.

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I don't feel like I made any mistakes with this text because it's so basic, but just in case.

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This one is prob only funny to me, but also prob nobody watches old Clint Eastwood movies and thinks, BUT WHAT IF THEY WERE WHALES

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And then this one has a bunch of text so, any thoughts about if something could be worded better would be helpful!

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Thanks!! : )

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  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    The Outlaw Josey Whales is amazing.

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  • CristovalCristoval Registered User regular
    Quite a few of these made me chuckle, and some didn't but that's all subjective. I like where your head is at! The "Ready to work" one hits too close to home really.

  • earthwormadamearthwormadam ancient crust Registered User regular
    Doodmann wrote: »
    The Outlaw Josey Whales is amazing.

    Aw thanks. PPL seem to like this one which amuses me because I assumed that it was the most esoteric one that would be lost to most.
    Cristoval wrote: »
    Quite a few of these made me chuckle, and some didn't but that's all subjective. I like where your head is at! The "Ready to work" one hits too close to home really.

    Hey thank! I guess some of em are supposed to be funny and some of them are more life journalISH in comic form. For the "ready 2 work" one, when I want to be productive and depression hits it feels like a tidal wave/earthquake/rainstorm/mudslide/all the disasters at once scenario, so I was kinda going for that effect. : )

  • DoodmannDoodmann Registered User regular
    Animal puns are the lifeblood of the internet.

    Whippy wrote: »
    nope nope nope nope abort abort talk about anime
    Sometimes I sell my stuff on Ebay
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