#hotguy comics zine spoilers

[foggysilverfeathers]

It’s HotGuy Comics Zine live-blogging time!

Spoilers below cut :)

First of all what the heck that is such a good cover???? That’s so pretty??? This colour scheme is so good I think I’m in love

‘Humanity weaves an endless tapestry of heart hope and home’??? This is only page too and it’s already so good I wish I had this skill

ooh cool custom icons

Scar is a B-list actor lmao

is that Lizzie?? Mayhaps??

IT IS

I’M GAL AND I’M GUY XDDDD

ooh

OOH

OH

Something funky is happening…

Love for Jellie 6 🥺

ngl I did spend way too long trying to figure out if AVESL spelt anything

DOODY MARUU COMIC!!!

Love those action frames

Mini HG!!!

AWWW ALL THE WRITER DOODLES

Are those

You didn’t

ARE THOSE POPPIES AND LILACS

Oh??

Oh??

Also don’t think I missed CuteGuy putting the flowers in his hair

PEARL!!!!!!!

MUMBLR OMG

TEETH DOG <3

ALL THE RECREATED MEMES!!

Tek talk???

Maple Prince -> Etho????

Doc mention!!!

Ariana Griande!!!!!

Omg there are so many references here

Season 6 Hippies!!! Permit Office Grian!!!

Please Hold music!!! Mumbo Season 8 Wonderwall reference????

Life Series clock???

Midnight alley!!

Cool action sequence!!!!!

My bet’s on Cleo

OH NO

If I’ve learnt one thing from the sneak peaks it’s that that sculk is not only important but also. probably not great.

WHAT DID I JUST SAY

OH I GET IT IT’S CUB SCULK ERA

SNAIL!!!!

Sculk spreading on Cute Guy???

More Pearl!!!

Bdubs!!!!!!

Well that isn’t ominous at all

OH I GET IT CHATTER IS TWITTER AND IT WAS REBRANDED TO M

TOPSY!!!

Sumagram like Xisuma???

Also we’re only 100 pages into 410 so this is going to be a long post

That drink is so pretty!!

JELLIE!!!!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Ooh that creeper design is SO COOL

It’s those darn poppies and lilacs again…

OH THERE’S SO MUCH DESERT DEO GRAFFITI

And with that we’re into part two

AND ONCE AGAIN THAT IS AN ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS COVER

The characterisation is so good, I can actually hear all of their voices!!

AWWWW

That’s a lot of exclamation warning marks…

OH THAT’S A COOL SHOT

Timmy!

TIMMY?

OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD

WAIT

OH MY GOD

AGDHKSLJDHA

OK

ok

So Gem is here and is fully red life

And I was going to bet that the deer in the title was her and then it was Timmy

BUT NO IT WAS ACTUALLY HER

AND TIMMY IS DEAD

CANARY FEATHERS AND EVERYTHING

HG bow is snapped

CG is injured and is at Cleo’s hospital???

WHAT JUST HAPPENED

Anyway

Moving on

Another cool cover?? And ominous title that just got the lyrics stuck in my head??

Oh is that Pearl????

Pearl again!!

Soup!!!

OH IT’S THE SOUP GROUP

OH THAT'S NOT GOOD

I need to pause (terrible time, I know) but will be liveblogging more later!!

[a-haunting-of-endermen]

"See you there"

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[poppiesinthedesert]

ok time for my hot guy comic zine liveblog for my second read through.

[chrisrin]

all my behind-the-scenes concept work and such for the HGCZ! i had a blast working on it all.

check out my finished piece here, and check out @hotguycomiczine for the full zine!

[isjasz]

MY BEHIND THE SCENES!! DESIGNS SHEETS!! in @hotguycomiczine :D *throwing these over like bricks*

If you haven't read the zine yet, you can download it here! and/or read my comics that used these designs here <3

More messy and silly early designs and process under the cut ↓↓ (I will maybe ramble more abt the thought process and such later in one ask o7 I just. keep procrastinating on answering it ASKDAKJW ANON IF U SEE THIS I DID NOT FORGET U I PROMISE)

So first off, my endless cg design suffering (this guy gave me sm pain i SWEAR TO GOD

Gem and Pearl concepts :D Pearl's design got revamped a bit after I started coloring my comics tho o7

Early bug concepts from me!! (super honored to do the final design for the bug I love this evil little guy)

And just some miscellaneous/scrapped and silly stuff during the comic making LOL

Last but not least hi ppl who kept up with ddd. how do u :3 feel about this :3 ringing any bells :3 /SILLY HASDAHJKLHEAKWEH👍💥

[anneliis18]

Design concepts (with some thought process notes added later) for my part in @hotguycomiczine

[wormtime123]

my cover for birds of prey by @mochiwrites 🪽💥 in which gem is my favorite horrible menace ever (title graphics done by @cocoabats!)

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[calocreek]

OK here it is, a ton of 'production' stuff for the Hot Guy Comic Zine! I've never been part of a project like this. Even though I was working on my comic mostly solo (shout-out to my editor Violet!), the world-building and story arc planning was completely collaborative. For example:

We started out on the world-building by voting on character's superpowers! Plenty of powers were almost unanimously agreed on, but Cuteguy was a HUGE campaign. We were pretty much 50/50 split between can fly/can't fly. Propaganda was exchanged LOL, like this piece where I campaigned for limited flying capabilities 😂 And thats what we ended up settling on!

From there we worked on a ton of brainstorming/world-building that I mostly spectated with an occasional doodle like these haha. I'm new to such elaborate AUs!

Pitch time!! I had pitches for each era and they were all pretty light and banter-y, so my year 1 pitch ended up fitting the vibe the best. My original pitch was 'HG + CG learn some key things about each other and plan to set up a base they can use together.' But when I started my script, I got really caught up in how they were navigating a partnership without knowing each others identities. The more I wrote through that, the more I wanted my story to be ABOUT that! So thats where my script started coming together.

Designs! I'm definitely not a confident costume designer. I was trying to go for low-tech + practical since it was early in their careers, and of course, easy to draw 😂

Process went more or less like this! Full color comics take a LONG TIME but it was a total labor of love. I had the graffiti bgs in mind from the very start since I knew it was dialogue heavy, I wanted to make sure the art was interesting and worth spending time looking at. Oh lord did I get carried away. I'm OBSESSED with the symbolism the fandom has put to the life series and so I tried to sneak in as much meaningful symbolism as possible. AND THE RESULT:

Guess I did pretty well! 😂😂😂

Anyway, I can't overstate how proud I feel to have gotten to work on this project. My whole goal as a hobbyist is to get to work with other artists I look up to and respect so this was a dream come true! Thank you everyone for reading, for 15k downloads (!!!), and for just being an awesomely creative fandom space to make art in! I hope to do more stuff like this again some day 💕

[marantictuna]

Since my first post did so well, here’s some more fanart, this time more recent for @hotguycomiczine! This was an amazing project, and whilst reading I knew I really wanted to draw/ put my own spin on Pearl/Scour. They were really one of my favorite characters throughout the whole story.i don’t really remember what weapon she had though so I gave her a big scythe. Loved evil pearl and the zine so much.

[mochiwrites]

title: birds of prey

warning(s): ptsd, paranoia, stalking, graphic depictions of violence

chapter(s): 1/1

relationship: grian & scar | grian & gem

summary:

Grian groans, frustration settling in his chest. Get your head on straight, he thinks, irritated. Some vigilante he is, letting some random bystander shake him up so fiercely; he can’t afford to be a burden like this. He needs to get it together, before he has to watch someone else die. Hotguy is counting on him to watch his six—if Grian can’t do that, then what is he even good for? A faint shadow moving at the edge of his vision is his only warning before a hand lands on his shoulder. Grian jerks forward, fight or flight overwhelming his senses. Wings flaring, he pivots on his heel, ignoring the ache in his right wing and curling his hand into a fist… only to meet the shaded visor of his partner. “Whoa there, Birdie,” Hotguy says, ripping his hand back from Grian’s shoulder. “Little tense, are we?” All the tension zaps from Grian’s body at once. “Hotguy,” he breathes, the name spilling from him with a weak exhale. He wills his heart rate to slow, dropping his arms and relaxing his fist as his brain catches up to his body.

read on ao3 here! or, download the zine here!

POSTING DAY >:D here's my piece for the @hotguycomiczine !!! I had the joy of writing desert duo divorce arc and it was an absolute blast <3 this was a HUGE labor of love between myself @wormtime123 as the cover artist, @definitelynotshouting for the editing, and @sillyfairygarden as co-writer and help with story in this arc <3

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[foggysilverfeathers]

'I don't like to see my friends sad' LITERALLY SOBBING HOTGUY COMICS ZINE WHEN I GET YOU

[a-haunting-of-endermen]

AAAAAAAAAUGH HWAT WHAT THE FUCK (affectionate to the writers and artists)

uh

uh

how do i say what i mean without it being a spoiler

okay very vague if-you-haven't-read-it-you-won-'t-know-what-i-mean spoiler under the cut

DEER❗️ MASK❗️

[sisyphean-torment]

this is normal behavior for writers for comics, right? scripting dialogue and describing the scenes by drafting all the paneling and dialogue and character positioning and having it in a horrendous single canvas divided into 10 squares since 10 was the page max and your poor artist is going to have a to draw all this so you condense the entire plot like a mastermind and still have time to crack jokes and draw cub’s entire buttcheeks slung over hotguy’s shoulders. sorry what were we talking about

anyway it was so much fun to get to work with @tibby-art for the Hotguy Comics Zinethology!! please go check out the full comic in all its finished glory!

[chrisrin]

Smoke Rising!

My contribution to the @hotguycomiczine, with the collaborative help of @masque-of-plague (writer), and @residenthesitant (editor).

I had an absolute blast working on this one, and if you haven't yet experienced the incredible creation that is the entire zine, check it out here!

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[isjasz]

🌕Total Eclipse🌑

Writer: @zipzapzooooooom Editor: @onawhimsicot

Assistance: @gingermaple @kunehokki @corvidaearts @/mybrotherjoso7

and THE AMAZING COVER by googly88fancy!!

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NO WAY HERE IT IS part 1 of MY TEAM'S COMIC!! FOR @hotguycomiczine !!!!! :D

I pour my blood sweat and tears into this one fr. HGCZ is the most insane project i've been in and I am so so proud of it <3 Big giant shoutout to everyone that ended up in my team, without any of you I couldn't have done it and ty for putting up with my shit HASHDSAEHEGLP. <333

If you haven't yet checked out the entire monster of this amazing zine, def do so here! 🏹

Part 2 will be posted tmr but if u dont want to left on a cliffhanger. pspsppspssps🪤

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[anneliis18]

What Needs to be Done My bit for the @hotguycomiczine (which you should definitely check out the full thing if you havent already) that I had the wonderful time of working on with @boonbeenblade (writer) and @terraglows (editor)

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