Cyberfrog feels like a real character, and I can see Ethan's passion for this project in the writing and art. It's his best art he's done in his career--and he's done some of the best books DC has ever put out, and he managed to outdo himself.
"feels like a real character" "I can see Ethan's passion for this project"
You actually reinforce Absurdity's point here. It appears your attraction to the CyberFrog character is contingent on your attraction to Ethan. Ethan's passion is most evident in his Youtube work and not in the projects he takes more than a year to do 48 pages on. If you average a week to do a page your passion is elsewhere.
When asked to describe what you like about CF's character you described what you like about EVS's YouTube persona. At no point do you describe what you like about the character unless we're to believe "feels real" is cogent literary analysis.
Embarrassing from a "writer".
At least JDA had the good sense to stay quiet on this one.
As to what I specifically like about it is the art and the excitement that Ethan has about his character.
As Absurdity pointed out this is what people like about Ethan, not the CyberFrog character.
On that note we could talk about Cyberfrog's weaknesses. Is there anything his enemies exploit? Have you seen significant character development over time with him?
What is normally the most relatable of superhero motivations, the love interest, isn't present here either. What is it about Heather and her daughter later on that isn't sexual but would make sense for an alien cybernetic frogman to align himself with? What's the hook there?
The hook is TMNT meets CyberForce. Nothing more.
Calling CYBERFROG a "rehashed" character isn't criticism.
Sure it is.
CF is a rehashed idea with direct lineage to TMNT and books like CyberForce among others.
The original book appeared to be a parody of the anthropomorphized animal craze and the Image Comics trend toward making everything "extreme" and "Cyber".
It's a rip-off just like Captain Marvel and Aquaman that you mentioned were. Captain Marvel/Shazam isn't interesting to readers for his similarities to Superman. It's the magical differences and his relatability as a kid with problems that make him special. Aquaman is still a poor mans rip off of Submariner.
What makes CyberFrog special? His Hulk like disappointment and resentment that humans don't like him? His hulk like attachment to the teenage human he saves? His Hulk like slide rule power level that can adjust as needed?
As far as I can tell these are the character developments you were looking to get across to the reader when you "wrote" BloodHoney but writing is hard. Creating a compelling character is as much a craft as drawing fish eye perspective or horses with riders from imagination.
Like most of the writers from CG you're an amateur. Expecting it to be good while you have a YouTube career and a need to draw every hair on wasername's head wouldn't be realistic if you were Ed Brubaker or Alan Moore.
You should probably set your ego aside and hire a co-writer before you finish the second act (is the first act done?) in this hot mess.
Your readers are giving you the benefit of doubt but that's unlikely to hold until the denouement.
(the fans will stick with you no matter how poor the writing.)
Declaring victory doesn't make you a winner.
I have my own suspicions on why Bloodhoney felt strange to read,
The reasons why Bloodhoney reads weird is the same why the Jawbreaker books or early Image books
Correct.
It's pretty obvious that it's because it was written by an artist who never took writing seriously and had enough ego to think he'd be good at it because of 'who he is'.
Ethan's writing reminds me of the hot mess that was all the writing done by the Image crew. The visual designs are interesting, the concepts aren't terrible but the craft of writing a story competently is non-existent.
For every Mike Mignola or Frank Miller there are a hundred Rob Liefeld's and Marc Silvestri's drawing pretty pictures with no coherent story.
