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Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope nooooope.
Bad webcomics
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I have developed a hatred for the Out Of Placers after some autist started spamming the comics on 4chan “as a joke”. The comic is a rambling nonsensical soap-opera wander through a magical kingdom partially populated by ‘yinglets’, annoying three foot tall rat/goblin/kobold things with one triangular frontal tooth and a level of intelligence that apparently varies wildly from completely retarded to superhuman.
The art is amateurish, the stories incomprehensible, the character designs yiff-coded.
I hate it.
Random sample below:
The art is amateurish, the stories incomprehensible, the character designs yiff-coded.
I hate it.
Random sample below:
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Suffer. Not. The Furry. To Live.
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Oh and while I’m at it, whomp is a thing again. It’s not ‘bad’ in the sense of some of the abortions featured in this thread, but it definitely has its ups and downs.
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I hate this one and the other one that's similar, I believe its drawn with no lines, strange color palette, and has bizarre looking female creatures that the artist obviously wants to fuck. Can't find it, maybe yall know what I'm talking about.
Just glad Ronnie didn't kill himself.
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Honestly, I feel like it'd be easier to count the Hiveworks affiliates that don't qualify for this thread than the ones that do.
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I know Ronnie is capable of a much smarter Sorpanos joke than this.
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So there's finally been enough pages posted of Megan Rose Gedris (aka Rosalarian)'s new webcomic Magical Women. I last made a post about it here, but figured I would wait until public access had opened up. (I won't be doing a weekly update - if there's interest in me posting, I'll probably do roundups and summaries instead for easier reading.)
As an introduction, the basic premise is this:
To summarize the first issue: our heroine Rose is depicted as a grossly fat, borderline crippled loser who let the world go to shit because she wanted to go to college instead of being a superhero. Fired from her job at Bug Walmart, she is left aimless and hopeless, blaming herself for the way things are until another woman named Jane, also ousted from her own position on a farm, pushes her to action as King Locust's delicate, volatile ego leaves lives in the balance.
The art, of course, is really bad, which is mostly appalling when you realize Rosalarian's been doing comics for 20 years. So to see minimal improvement is quite a shocker, though allegedly Rosalarian has fibromyalgia that makes art difficult. (Press X to Doubt.) She tries to draw inspiration from obvious sources like Sailor Moon and Revolutionary Girl Utena and, with her otherwise Western-inspired art, falls flat on the delivery of the charm or elegance of such works; given her subject matter, it would make sense for her to have a gritter style ala anything with Garth Ennis at the pen, but that would require effort.
Really, the writing is what drew me in, and so far it hasn't disappointed me one bit. The dialog is bad and unrealistic, there hasn't been any attempt to show any depth of character, the worldbuilding is comical (why would a prince be overseeing farm laborers?)... it's truly shaping up to have great bad webcomic potential, so I'm looking forward to more. For those interested in reading along for yourselves, her Comicfury updates every Wednesday.
As an introduction, the basic premise is this:
So let's get into it.
Our protagonist is introduced as the corpulent, whiny crybaby Rose, who was once the leader of a nature-themed superpowered team named The Flower Squad. (Despite the authoress being a supposed transmasc, the only male is named Oak - you couldn't find it in your heart to give him a girly flower name, too? Interesting!)
20 years ago, a group of magical girls did not, actually, fail to save the world - their leader gave up on it to go to fucking college for some kind of journalistic or English degree, as the only work she is qualified for is supposedly retail and copyediting. The rest, apparently incompetent without her, were unable to prevent the downfall of society.
As a result of Rose's selfishness, a villain named King Locust overtook the world and turn it into a ruinous, miserable place. The funny part here, however, is that Rosalarian's idea of a nightmarish world seems to oddly parallel ours - if you are profoundly cynical, stupid and have never had to struggle in your entire life.
Observe how even under a tyranny from wicked insectoid aliens, the worst jobs Rose can get are retail and working in journalism, and how she still has access to electricity, (presumably clean) running water, medical care and the privacy of her own bedroom rather than sleeping in a pod with 30 other migrants. Notice also that Rose acts as if working at a grocery store is equivalent to working in sugar cane fields and yet, in spite of all her suffering, is still capable of being massively overweight.
Now that may sound A-Loggy, but to me it's baffling to write a dystopian story where people still have creature comforts available in the first world when even in our own reality, many live difficult, truly troubled lives. Technically speaking, even the poorest of Americans live better than Medieval kings, so to act as if the world is laid to waste when she has a smartphone and a TV speaks volumes of Rosalarian's own lifestyle. Really? You think this is on par with the lives of kids who mine for cobalt, or sweatshop workers, or sex-trafficked massage parlor women? Hilariously American.
Rose is a pathetic piece of shit, so it takes ex-farm worker and revolutionary Jane to incentivize her into action, especially after Rose is fired for being a time-wasting dipshit who can't even do the work they get tards to do without screwing up.
It is truly not to be understated how much of a simpering mess Rose is as a heroine because she spends most of the readily-accessible comic crying. (Subscribers of Rosalarian are further ahead than free readers on her Comicfury, but her website allows a preview of certain pages which I'm not sure she is aware of.) Despite encroaching 40, she's so weak of spirit even old women feel compelled to stop and comfort her, and she has nightmares about her ex-boyfriend leaving her for a woman who is more stable and a better lover.
But the real icing on the cake is the evil King Locust himself, who is such a shameless Elon Musk-Donald Trump-Jeff Bezos-Mark Zuckerberg parody as to be downright embarrassing. Rosalarian herself has stated that this comic is meant to incentivize people post-2024 election, so calling this liberal propaganda is an honest understatement. This is Captan Planet tier, and to be honest, I'm sort of rooting for King Locust - he has just a tiny bit of bug rizz, at least to me.
20 years ago, a group of magical girls did not, actually, fail to save the world - their leader gave up on it to go to fucking college for some kind of journalistic or English degree, as the only work she is qualified for is supposedly retail and copyediting. The rest, apparently incompetent without her, were unable to prevent the downfall of society.
Observe how even under a tyranny from wicked insectoid aliens, the worst jobs Rose can get are retail and working in journalism, and how she still has access to electricity, (presumably clean) running water, medical care and the privacy of her own bedroom rather than sleeping in a pod with 30 other migrants. Notice also that Rose acts as if working at a grocery store is equivalent to working in sugar cane fields and yet, in spite of all her suffering, is still capable of being massively overweight.
Now that may sound A-Loggy, but to me it's baffling to write a dystopian story where people still have creature comforts available in the first world when even in our own reality, many live difficult, truly troubled lives. Technically speaking, even the poorest of Americans live better than Medieval kings, so to act as if the world is laid to waste when she has a smartphone and a TV speaks volumes of Rosalarian's own lifestyle. Really? You think this is on par with the lives of kids who mine for cobalt, or sweatshop workers, or sex-trafficked massage parlor women? Hilariously American.
The art, of course, is really bad, which is mostly appalling when you realize Rosalarian's been doing comics for 20 years. So to see minimal improvement is quite a shocker, though allegedly Rosalarian has fibromyalgia that makes art difficult. (Press X to Doubt.) She tries to draw inspiration from obvious sources like Sailor Moon and Revolutionary Girl Utena and, with her otherwise Western-inspired art, falls flat on the delivery of the charm or elegance of such works; given her subject matter, it would make sense for her to have a gritter style ala anything with Garth Ennis at the pen, but that would require effort.
Really, the writing is what drew me in, and so far it hasn't disappointed me one bit. The dialog is bad and unrealistic, there hasn't been any attempt to show any depth of character, the worldbuilding is comical (why would a prince be overseeing farm laborers?)... it's truly shaping up to have great bad webcomic potential, so I'm looking forward to more. For those interested in reading along for yourselves, her Comicfury updates every Wednesday.
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I had to look at this and now you do too
Edit: for another pit sandwich I'll do a few more.
This shit is an endless PFP farm.
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Owls Owls Owls
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I have to assume Rose's endless crying is a reference to Usagi's crybaby ways. But still. Everything feels so gross, and not in the dystopian way the author is going for. These characters are just flat out repulsive to look at. For all the issues I have with the way so many modern Magical Girl shows feel aimed at male otaku, at least they know that just because a story is violent / gory / whatever, it doesn't mean the art shouldn't be good.
Though even if I was a normie, the way this author huffs her own farts would have put me off from reading this. Fearing posting her shitty comic would become illegal, considering it a real tool to fight her definition of fascism -- this woman is the definition of terminally online. Jesus.
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I think Tats' hired @The Tall Man as his writer at this point.
This is how it feels to enter the Sharty thread. When he finna draw Cobson n' shieeeeet?
This is how it feels to enter the Sharty thread. When he finna draw Cobson n' shieeeeet?
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I know all of this is crazy pants on head retarded, but all I can think of is, Why is Dopey on the Popeyes chicken sign, shouldn't it be the black chick from Princess and the Frog. But I'm trying to make sense out of whatever this is. Sinfest is to web comics what Cerebus is to old school comics.
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I know that this comic exists. I am trying to remember the existence of this comic. I have searched my memory for comics like it, and they do not have its art style.
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That’s what those things are. I saw those characters in memes. But I never knew where they came from.
Arthur Morgan
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Twenty years ago, she narrowly lost a pro-publishing gig with a stylized 50s comic. This shit looks worse than Yu+Me: Dream, a comic she started as a fucking teenager. I didn't read the pages @Magical Pickle loaded, just gave them a quick glance and holy shit has she regressed. The excessive negative space, the poor lineart, and the back and forth between color and B/W for some reason.
The sad thing is I've seen her do better. And she was hyping this up on her social media... and this is what she wanted everyone to get excited about? Becoming a tranny has really shat on her standards.
Owls Owls Owls
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I'm not gonna visit this lady's website so all I have to go on are the pages provided here, but the way I understand it the colored bits are to point out happy times in Rose's emotional state. Back when she told the team she was quitting, everyone was in color because she felt happy/confident/sure of herself. The other page has colored backgrounds but people in black and white because she still had some positive feelings but the people were being negative. Now everything sucks so it's black and white for everyone.
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Even in the flashback she looks fucking hideous. I've never watched one of these shows but aren't the main characters supposed to be, y'know, cute?
I could understand making the middle-age version ugly as part of the "bit", but why is the younger version so dumpy?
Why would you make a story about a middle-aged woman who failed to launch whining about her life? It's depressing as Hell and is going to hit way too close to home for a lot of people. When @Magic Pickle first posted about this I made a parallel to The Incredibles. The difference is, the father there desperately wants to help people but his soul-crushing job and obligations prevent him from doing so. Even then, he still can't help but put his career in jeopardy to help an old lady he doesn't even know. It's just in his nature to sacrifice himself to help others. It's this selflessness that makes him likeable.
I get the impression this tramp wouldn't lift a finger to help others unless she could turn it into owning Orange Hitler and posting about it for upvotes.
I haven't seen The Incredibles in about 20 years so I'm sorry if I got some details wrong.
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Jesus, it's almost as bad as Moon Over June.
I had to look at this and now you do too