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Jess T
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Hey all,

Just been browsing, came across an online comic and thought "Hey, I could get into this..."

Since my internet costs have dropped quite dramatically since the start of the year, I figure that I can spend the money on browsing comics.

But... What's a good one?

Real Life seems alright, but that's about the only 'good' one that I've found so far.

Any suggestions?

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White Ninja Comics
Jimmy introduced me to this one


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A-hahahahaha! That's bloody funny

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Posted: 26th Feb 2006 06:13 Edited at: 26th Feb 2006 06:15
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Kinda scary coincidence - I've recently (As in THIS WEEK) been getting heavly into online comics aswell, and want to start one myself.

A few I found yesterday:



http://chugworth.com/comic.php

http://www.drewweing.com/journalcomic/?date=20020305

http://www.machall.com/

Love the graphical style of reallife.

Though for the latest one (and alot of previous ones) they seem to be re-using the same pose everytime. Kinda easy to make, but does the trick.

Maybe if we get lucky, the master Jonny Ree will drop by and give us some advice on starting up...

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Posted: 26th Feb 2006 06:16 Edited at: 26th Feb 2006 06:17
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I'm going on the assumption by the way that you are already a hardcore reader of penny-arcade.com and there's not need for me to recommend it right?

p.s White Ninja is horrible.

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Isn't there like Ctrl-Alt-Delete?

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php

Something like that?
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Posted: 26th Feb 2006 08:21 Edited at: 26th Feb 2006 08:50
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http://www.penny-arcade.com is absolutely hilarious, which almost everyone seems to love (except maybe the fans of http://www.pvponline.com/)
http://www.loserzcomic.com is alright, although it's mainly adult-based content despite the main characters being teenagers (although you can relate to most of them)

I've never really been a fan of Real-Life, PvP or VGCats, although a lot of people seem to like them.


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[href]Concerned: The Half-Life And Death Of Gordon Frohman[/href] is a good one.
[href]Scribs[/href] is also funny.

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The Noob

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white ninja is good. the only two i frequent is penny-arcade (keep the hyphen) and achewood

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It's not an ongoing one (hasn't been updated for a while) but Spiders is one I liked a lot. Not a cartoony one, mind you - one of those 'thought provoking' ones.
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Posted: 26th Feb 2006 14:08 Edited at: 26th Feb 2006 14:12
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Pah.

Online comics suck. It's all about Powers.

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Having said that, just read the first Spiders and it was awesome. (But thought provoking? The first issue was basically just an regular action comic, no more thought provoking than Spider-man)

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Control alt delete!


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Been reading Spiders for ages.
It really is very, very good. I urge you all to read it.
Make sure you press F11 and use 1024x768.

Seeing as we're talking about comics, are you actually named after the Avenger-turned corpse-turned Avenger, Hawkeye?

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Quote: "Been reading Spiders for ages.
It really is very, very good. I urge you all to read it."


Is it provoking any thoughts yet?
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No, this is me:



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Posted: 26th Feb 2006 19:28 Edited at: 26th Feb 2006 19:28
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The Spiders is a good story but the art isn't that good.
It looks like it was drawn on a computer.

Really nothing on Powers:


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Spiders gets my vote for net comic. I have wanted to make a comic for many years. I even have a story already.

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I like http://www.goaste.cx

They have the most random and hilarious flash and still image comics around. They even do Ricky Gervais movie remakes--- so funny


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Quote: "I like http://www.goaste.cx

They have the most random and hilarious flash and still image comics around. They even do Ricky Gervais movie remakes--- so funny "


Couldn't find Ricky Gervais. The rest was pretty poor quality.

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Posted: 26th Feb 2006 20:42 Edited at: 26th Feb 2006 20:48
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Quote: "I have wanted to make a comic for many years. I even have a story already."


Oooh me too.

I used to do quite a lot of art. I'd draw it by hand and then colour it on the computer, came off pretty cool actually. I'll just try and dig some up.

The thing is, it's so much more fun writing the scripts than slogging out the pictures.

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http://www.megatokyo.com/

Really good, anime style with a storyline, quite lot of humor stuff too. Highly recommend

Nack


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Quote: " The Spiders is a good story but the art isn't that good.
It looks like it was drawn on a computer."


Yes, it's called digital art and it looks awsome.

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[href]www.nuklearpower.com[/href]
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[href]www.nuklearpower.com[/href]

It's based on FF1. Really long, but really funny if your into that kind of humor. Black Mage is so funny!
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Haha that's really cool.

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Thank you Lynx, for ctrl+alt+del
Why hadn't anyone told me about it sooner?

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White Ninja has always been my favourite (anyone remember the boy in a jar one? heh...), although ctrl+alt+del is pretty good too.

Rats. All my regular comic links are on my laptop. Lets see if I can remember....

http://www.little-gamers.com/ is always a laugh, although http://yirmumah.net/ normally beats everything but white ninja for me.

One of my favourites that also mixes nicely with film reviews is http://www.digitalpimponline.com/strips.php?title=movie. Not bad that one. Along with http://www.theaterhopper.com/

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http://www.vgcats.com
And its not a comic but http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail.html is always good for a laugh.
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If anybody (Newbs my level) want to team up to make a test comic for fun, give a shout here.

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Ctrl-Alt-Del/Penny Arcade style?

I'd do it.

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That's the style I would like to do. If you draw, I can ink/colour/shade it. Some stuff I done recently...



I like that muscle guy in your last strip. Can do something like that again?

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OK that's pretty cool.
We'd better start thinking of sketches...

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This is one of my favourite Ctrl-Alt-Dels:



and this is my favourite Penny Arcade:



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Haha! Captain Hawkeye Pierce! Lead surgeon of the 4077th MASH . I freaking love that show! Mr.Alda is like a brother to me.

a good comic is www.toothpastefordinner.com

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I did a quick vectorising of your muscle guy to see the type of style we'll have (I'm aiming for a Penny-Arcade style as the CAD style just looks too plain)

I didn't spend alot of time on the gun, so excuse it's wierd shape.



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double post

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You are good at this Megaton Cat!!! Not Noob... You should seriously have a web site.

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hehe ty

I only started recently...Jonny will help me learn.

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I'm not good at cartoon style. My art is usually more like realism, so I appreciate good cartoonists, because I can't do it. You are a good cartoonist.

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Yeah that's pretty sweet.

What program did you use?

And how easily/fast can you do it?

Also, do you mind vectorising this dude?



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I wrote a single strip a while ago... Most people hated the art (I AM NOT AN GOOD ARTIST, How many times do I have to tell people that, haha) but found the "story" (which I didn't think it had either) pretty good.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/EricTomassetti/demo.jpg

Note, in panel 4, that is supposed to be Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs, if your familiar with him, it makes it a bit funnier from what I hear...

Edit - Oh yeah, I forgot, the guy who has the horns, his name is Phil, he's a demon accountant from hell, and the guy dragging him away is his escort on our plane of existence, Father O'Rielly.

http://blog.myspace.com/erict
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Oh yeah, http://www.beaverandsteve.com/ is a good laugh too.

Cheers

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Did anyone here about that guy who insulted Tim Buckley at vericon? Because that was me. I can't stand CAD. But I love 8-Bit Theatre and Penny Arcade.

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Quote: "Did anyone here about that guy who insulted Tim Buckley at vericon? "


Who in the what on the how now? Tell story plzkthnx!!!11`

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Hey Chris

I use Flash 8 for drawing

I do it fairly easy. About 10 minutes per drawing, so roughly 30 minutes per comic strip. I use a mouse, so once I get my tablet speed will increase x2.

Here's the vector:

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I read the following:
Dork Tower - www.dorktower.com
Nodwick - www.nodwick.com
Player Vs. Player - www.pvponline.com
VG Cats - www.vgcats.com

Edit: I've never used links on this forum before, how is it done?
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Pincho: Interested in doing a small test comic about the forums then?

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Quote: "Pincho: Interested in doing a small test comic about the forums then? "



Would be, but what's my part in it? You, and Chris K have everything covered.

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Yes, I seem to be of the impression that perhaps he meant to say Chris K!


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I don't mind drawing them.

Maybe we should leave some of the writing open to the community.

What do you recon, one a week?

The best one of the month could go in the newsletter.

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That guy is le gorgeous!

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