Artcow Cloud Monet / Carl Miller - A 1.2k page Comic-Writing Old Man

[caffeinated_wench]

Spoiler: Spergery Containment

200 pages in and the only thing I really know is going on is that the love triangle was resolved as soon as it was introduced.

Dialogue is still so stupid it's funny.
You can make a game out of how many times "owned" is said. Also, the only way to know someone's a couple is how much panel time is spent with them holding hands.

ETA: Just realized... main character Molly wears shirts and jeans (well, shorts) that expose her navel, has long hair, and is a "badass." Molly also fights alongside a bumbling and blond sidekick.

Does any of that sound familiar?

 

[Queen Bethari]

ETA: Just realized... main character Molly wears shirts and jeans (well, shorts) that expose her navel, has long hair, and is a "badass." Molly also fights alongside a bumbling and blond sidekick.

Does any of that sound familiar?

No, that would be kimpossible.

 

[pickledance]

Ok so I spent some time reading.

Spoiler: words and words and words

Molly Blue pages 1-65

An old man named William Henry Charles 3rd comes to a village looking for a hero. There's a frogman named Gramps that leads him to a lake with a house on it that Molly (the hero) and a giant lizard Pina Ao, live in. The way the word bubble are set up does no favor to the reader. William is all ready, 6 pages in, depicted as some kind of corrupt business type. He's looking for a hero since he represents Prince Rupert, who is in prison. The king has died and his “-2 other brothers who want him missing, so Parliament will name one of them the new king.”

Molly asks how she can know this prince is the right one to be king and therefore worth helping and the frogman just tells her the others are bad and “I believe the spirits and deities of this world guided this dude to you.” William says the prince is in Hanatoa and is charged with having a demonic sword, which is legal for a prince to own, but people claim he's not really Prince Rupert. He apparently only got caught cause he hit on a chick at a bar and her bf told the bouncer he had a sword and the bouncer called the cops. Cause you know, princes totally hang out at bars to pick up chicks.

Molly doesn't seem to see any issue with any of this and agrees to the quest/job/thing. She packs her bags, including a demon club and spirit tools. Gramps, the frogman, lends her his grandson, Freud to act as her spy, for some reason. William says he has a car outside the village and they should go. Then there's like 5 pages of villagers saying goodbye to Molly. Molly leads them into a jungle with big lizards. Molly smacks a lizard with a club and they all ride it now that it's been tamed.

Riding over a lava flow Molly points out there are demons planning to attack. Molly attacks them first and beats them until they lament, “You're made of win. We're made of lame and fail.” They never give a reason for attacking and Freud seems to hide in the lava flow to spy or something. He catches up with them and tells them “They were after Mr. Charles. They said their bosses picked the wrong side.”

They find the car and let the lizard they beat go. Molly speculates the brothers made a deal with a demon overlord to have control over the imps, but it would be hard to prove the connection. Molly says the only reason she got the demons to talk was by using the demon club on them. If they spill blood the others go into a rage but a beating and wearing red made her appear superior to them.

Molly says she wants to talk to someone before breaking the prince free. William says he's the prince's advisor and no one he's talked to will do anything. Molly still wants to and suggests talking to the mayor of Hanatoa, and apparently knows where he lives. It's night when they get that and Molly takes her lizard and jumps the fence. Guard dogs try to attack but Molly yells at them and they are too scared to. A woman hears the yelling and comes out and recognizes Molly. Her name is Ms. Hudson and she gets the mayor, who looks like a 1980's dad on vacation.

The mayor sends Ms. Hudson away when he knows Molly wants to talk about the prince but Ms. Hudson hides on the stairs to spy on them. The mayor thinks the demon attack is suspicious and tells her not to trust William but he is rooting for Molly to free the prince when she suggests that demon overlords Grickleface or Grimhorn may be behind it since they want the demon sword. Molly leaves and Ms. Hudson returns and we find out the mayor is named Tom and he's on Prince Rupert's side but is keeping it quiet for political reasons. He doesn't want a demon getting the demon sword.

Molly returns to the car and takes out her fire crystal and says it will glow brighter the closer it is to the demon sword. She gives it to Freud and tells him to find the sword. Molly, her lizard and Freud leave the car at the jail, she makes an off handed comment about how the white moon is setting and that gives them an hour until the red moon rises. She puts the frog in a jail window to get the sword and slashes the tires on all the cop cars. The frog finds Prince Rupert who tells hi the demon sword is in the evidence locker but he doesn't think it's really demonic (even though it makes the crystal glow). Meanwhile Molly gets her lizard to lure the cops out then beats the shit out of them with her demon club.

The frog finds the evidence locker and is pretty sure it's a real demon sword. Molly, who came in after beating the cops, breaks into the security locker and takes the sword. “How does it turn on?” The pommel eye is stuck or something and the frog tells her to be careful. The sword goes off and shoots a laser. The frog tells her to look the sword in the eye and tell it what she wants and she uses it to cut the door to the cells. The frog warns Molly the crystal glowed around Prince Rupert so to be careful.

Molly seems to know another guy who's being held in the jail named Kohimu. He wants her to break him out cause he got really drunk and crashed a boat and they are holding him. He's Molly's ex.

She finds the Prince and says Charles sent her to break him out. The prince didn't know the sword could cut through steel bars. The prince seems ok with Molly breaking out his ex too. Molly tells them to get their stuff from the lockers so they can go.

Molly accidentally watches the prince change and goddamn he looks like a shitty Bob Ross and is now wearing a purple outfit. Molly says they have to hurry before more demons come for them and then spends a page trying to build shit romantic tension with the prince by telling him to take off his tie and unbuttoning the top of his shit so he's cool. That's not a joke, it happened.

She tells the prince his brothers may be conspiring with demons. She tells him someone names Prince Ralph pressured the mayor and police chief to keep him locked up. They leave the jail.

tl;dr it's a mess.

 

[DykesDykesChina]

http://cloudmonet.deviantart.com/
http://www.carlmillerpoems.com/index.html

TS Chat has been talking about Cloud Monet, or Carl Miller for a couple of weeks. He's a hippy child of the 60s/70s and has been working on a comic for several years with over 1,200 pages and loves Kim Possible, or at least draws a lot of it.

Molly Blue is his magnum opus, spanning more than a thousand pages. It is a story about girl and her lizard saving the prince, their hi-jinks, talking frogs, fucking and other weird shit. We haven't found anyone with the constitution to read through it.

Spoiler: Some Of His Works

Accidental Goddess

As a child, I had an accidental goddess,
a personification of evolution.
The books I had about natural history
said that Nature created or designed,
capitalized like a person’s name.

The boys next door and across the street,
all Catholics, tried to tell me
God created the heavens and the earth.

I told them Mother Nature did all this.
I didn’t understand their unfriendly Father
obsessed with sins and souls, but I was scared
and asked my mother about Nature and God.
I don’t remember her answer.

Seems like your regular friendly next-door aging hippie dude... though he does look somewhat similar to Billy Meier, an UFO lolcow from Switzerland.

BTW, for a hippie, his artwork is really bland. You'd expect something more psychedelic, with vibrant colors and trippy shit. Carl's comics look quite uninspired, very basic drawings with a minimal color palette.

 

[fcgh vgcf]

i'd like him to check out our place, another jenffer-style thread would be pretty refreshing tbh

 

[Redeemer and Destroyer]

Weird fetishes in the comic aside, it's actually very interesting. It's not engaging, but the way he writes is more tolerable than most poorly developed comics. If he wrote Molly Blue solely in book form, I'd be inclined to read it. As for the comic, it lacks pacing, but it's just enough to keep me interested in tandem with the visuals. With a little bit of elbow grease he could make the comic appealing, a Kim Possible-inspired work, but I digress. His surreal art is stunning, too.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Yeah, this guy is Shakespeare compared to most of the "persons of interest" on this site. The comic may be an extended exercise in Mary Sue fiction, but it at least has an original setting, plot, and cast of characters. Unless it turns out that "Molly" is based on a Megan Schroeder figure in the author's life, I'm not seeing much lolcow potential here.

 

[Picklechu]

Not all lolcows chimp out. Some just churn out a ridiculous amount of weird stuff to gawk at.