Lackadaisy - Comic book turned web series

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I greatly dislike every single character, art looks neat, setting is cool, but it's completely two dimensional.
 
I love the art style but found the story a bit boring. People like it because there are cats wearing clothes. Had they been normal people, nobody would care about it.
 
Wasn't this by penny arcade or vgcats or something originally?
Edit- no wait I think this was some gag strip about bums like 40s stuff?
 
Yeah I remember now, it was "The Lackadaisy Cats"
 
Rocky being voiced somehow made the character even more annoying. Beautiful but yet they also kept in the lines of the figures which was oddly distracting. It was apparently intentional and not an animation flub going by a response on twitter.

I don't know why the hell they would think having weird scribbly marks from the animation would do anything to improve it or make it more distinctive.
 
I remember there being a user on this site who had a profile pic from this webcomic.
 
so are the earlier gag comics still online somewhere? I recall them being sorta Pogo-ish having a vague reoccuring semi-continuity like Simpsons (or Pogo or lots of strips) but nothing like a serious narrative
 
I remember reading this about a decade ago. Don't think much has happened since but I guess for fans that actually stuck around this is a pretty big deal.
 
Weird powerlevel here but, yeah.
Anyways, I’m acquainted with one of the animators. Dear friend of mine, and a talented artist.

Anyways, point is, most indy animation is faggoty and stupid, but I can at least help give context to this show.

Essentially, a speak easy from the 20s is down on its luck and starts a problem with a rival crew. They just happen to be cats. A lot of the dialogue is in old 20s style stanzas and rhymes. Animation is much more art-like than cartoon like if that makes sense.

It’s a good looking product that doesn’t explain a ton, but it sets up a lot for a potential future run.

Anyways, 8-ish out of 10. Not annoying and crass like other shit, more dramatic story telling style, but it doesn’t explain everything that’s going on. Enough to keep you invested, wish there was more. There are these weird lines from the character sketches on the actual faces of the characters, it’s a style choice but a bit confusing. Really fucking good animation, however.
 
I watched the pilot last night and thought the animation and voice acting were excellent. The atmosphere was nice and I like that it didn't fall back on having swears and crass jokes. I could see older kids and teens being really into it.

At the same time I think it was let down by not explaining enough. I haven't read the comic, so even by the end I didn't know the main characters' motivations and it came across like they just did stuff without rhyme or reason. I guess it could recover by putting all the exposition in the next part.

Still, I'm really impressed by it and hope it continues.
 
Just watched it. I like it a lot. I’m a sucker for 20’s-50’s Art Deco stuff tho. I like that the setting is St. Louis and not the same old Chicago or New York City.
Only thing that would have made me like it more is if it was a Western but hey, pretty neat.
At least Micheal Kovach has something to do now that he can’t be Angel Dust anymore.

Also, from what you guys have said and what I’ve seen online, the IP is getting close to 20 years old almost. That would be like of Pleasure Bon Bon (Think Lackadaisy but in the late 1890’s, not just cats, and porn) randomly got a half hour pilot.
 
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