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Post by Kyle on Oct 22, 2013 14:25:37 GMT -5
Right. I guess I'm going to be "that guy" this time around. What's with the foot on the very right, HF? I suspect it belongs to Theodore Mothertruckin' Bruno.
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Post by HF on Oct 23, 2013 8:48:39 GMT -5
Dashe: Will do! Thanks! Kyle: No way. The Bruno's way bigger than that.
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Post by HF on Mar 25, 2014 8:20:55 GMT -5
Restart!It's been a long time. Sorry if I seemed to have dropped off the board like that. My schedule's been calming down lately so I would like to push forward again!
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Post by Kyle on Mar 25, 2014 8:52:06 GMT -5
Kept us waiting, huh? Man, is it me, or did Volnutt react to the police 'raid' in the same vein as someone would when their 'special stash' has been discovered? Leaving his Google Account logged in was probably a baaaaaad idea. Anyways, welcome back, HF. We missed you.
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Post by Dashe on Mar 25, 2014 15:16:57 GMT -5
Oh, good, you're back. Got a decent queue lined up for this chapter?
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Post by HF on Mar 26, 2014 18:27:45 GMT -5
@kyle: Hey, it's been a while (a.k.a. "What took you so long"?). Funny you mention that. Will the cops be mundane-yet-useless in the same vein as the cops from Earthbound? Dashe: It's been a long time, Dashe. Anything of interest that I may have missed? And yeah, though I'm still going to keep the bi-weekly schedule since I have other things I want to complete in between; mostly mechanical profiles of common weapons and perhaps a breakdown of the Drache combat craft.
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Post by Loken on Apr 6, 2014 23:41:44 GMT -5
Glad to see the comic is back up. I've missed you! I really like the art in the latest page but this time I've got a bit of criticism. The words At All,and On Like That are unnecessary and I think would make the sentences flow better. Also All of the sudden at the end sounds a bit weird to me but that may just be me. It's not a big deal though.
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Post by HF on Apr 8, 2014 8:17:29 GMT -5
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Post by Dashe on Apr 8, 2014 13:23:23 GMT -5
*Sitting in the bleachers like it's a sporting event* COME ON, BLUMEBEAR FIGHT! LET'S SEE SOME ACTION!!!
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Post by Mikéy on Apr 8, 2014 13:32:46 GMT -5
Yeah, I personally can't wait to see the colorful Blumebears; sorry for the lack of commentary. I expect Megaman to drink a soda in the middle of the fight.
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Post by MegaTuga on Apr 8, 2014 13:36:20 GMT -5
That EXTREME CLOSE panel on Rock's face is epic.
And so, it is the job for the faceless Police officers to save the day... or not.
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Post by Loken on Apr 9, 2014 13:26:21 GMT -5
Hey those buildings are quite good! They are simple much like they are in the game. Little question here: While you are drawing the comic are you playing that part of the game for inspiration and such?
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Post by HF on Apr 9, 2014 18:34:07 GMT -5
Dashe: Coming to think of it, do you think Terra has their own set of popular sports and their fans? Loken: Well maybe. Though from a distance it looks a bit flatter than I wanted. Oh indeed. I have (re)played the game on my PSP port quite a few times by now to get a better grasp of the original scenes. But thankfully to save time, gameplay videos and the archive of screenshots of MMLS have certainly helped! Unless I really need it of course, which still happens every now and then.
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Post by Dashe on Apr 9, 2014 18:36:14 GMT -5
I think I saw baseball, soccer, and golf on the TVs in the hospital and KTOX station, but I'd have to go back and check.
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Post by fAB on Apr 13, 2014 12:46:28 GMT -5
Hey HF, glad to see you moving forward on this again. I recently went through the entire comic from start to finish the newest page, which not only caught me up on newer pages I hadn't read, but gave me a much better sense for the whole thing over all. Time for some long overdue feedback! I think I'm repeating myself when I say you've done an amazing job in many aspects. The sheer length, almost 100 pages at present, is in itself an amazing feat. The fact that you're not all that far in the story, at least by the game's timeline, highlights how much detail you're putting into this project--no rushing things here, which is great. And of course, you've managed to keep things looking pretty consistent* and maintain quality, which is perhaps the most important aspect of any long-term project. All that said, I do have some criticism which I hope won't come off as too harsh. I've heard other people talking about RMDL say that the art isn't that great, and I've come to the conclusion that they must be talking about the characters, because everything else is spot on. Drawing people is not your strong suit (a problem I can painfully relate to). Your body anatomy leaves a lot to be desired, but in most cases you can get away with it because so many shots focus just on heads. The heads need work as well though. Having just gone through the whole comic, it really stood out to me how inconsistent* they are most of the time. Taking a look at Rock here, since we see him most often... Many of these look drastically different from the next. The pointedness and prominence of the noses, the sharpness of the chins, the width and angle of the eyes, the height and size of the ears, the bulkiness of the hair, and even the shapes of the eyebrows and eyelashes--there's far too much variation to simply dismiss as view and expression changes. Roll's hat also stood out to me as an ever-changing point, ranging from its proper size to imitating a hot air balloon in some panels. I think these inconsistency issues combined with the fact that you didn't really make the characters look like they're supposed to (as in, they look more like unfamiliar people cosplaying as Rock and Roll) are preventing fans from hailing this comic as the epic tribute that it is. Of course that was your stylistic choice with the whole "darker and edgier" concept, but having poured this much work into it I'm sure you'd like it to reach a wider audience, so I felt compelled to point these things out since I think they're hurting the appeal of RMDL. That brings me to my more personal feedback, which relates. I have to be brutally honest here and say that the intro for the Bonnes totally turned me off. Teisel comes off as an evil madman out to ruin lives rather than a lovable air pirate out to steal treasure. Again, I know you're aiming for darker and edgier here, but that's an insanely drastic character shift, and when you combine it with a new design that bears only a slight resemblance to the original, it feels like Teisel's been written out of the story and replaced with a black-cloaked lunatic, IMHO. Sorry to come off as so negative, but I think after my first read through I pretty much just praised everything, so this kind of balances things out, right? XP Hopefully my feedback is useful to you.
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