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I think we've all encountered media that starts off strong but then loses momentum or goes completely off the rails later on, but how about the opposite? Has there ever been a series that you went into with low expectations but ended up being impressed by?
God, this question makes me feel so old! It used to be considered standard that all webcomics sucked ass at the beginning because they were all made by nerds with minimal artistic or writing skills, and part of the appeal of webcomics was seeing that improvement. It wasn't until the 2010s that you started regularly seeing webcomics that started out good. And, y'know, not to be mad at people for making good webcomics, but I think something was lost when "A webcomic will be garbage for the first 100+ pages at least" stopped being the default assumption. I think it made rookies less likely to start making their work themselves, because of the idea that you have to be good to start. Hell, I'm like that myself, where I've been noodling at working to draw for years without making something myself. Hm.
Anyway, to give you an answer, the webcomic with the most dramatic improvement is Narbonic, which is a webcomic I've praised a lot.
The first few arcs in 2000 are almost literally unreadable because of how wordy they are
Just a year later and it's still a little wordy but far more legible.
And by 2003 they're doing "Professor Madblood and the Doppelganger Gambit" which is where Narbonic really starts getting good.
It only goes on for three years after that, but the final arcs in 2006 are the best ending of any webcomic and I've yet to see it be topped.
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so just to add to the recent revalations, I was playing spot-the-reference with old Narbonic extras, and guess who I found:
so this has been narbonic background canon for a while, apparently. i choose to believe that Narbonic Europe has the exact same amount of bullshit going on as Europa does, give or take some gerbils.
#i am *also* delighted by the implication that they know helen narbon well enough to be invited to the evil beach wedding#and the fact that krosp was seated next to mongor the iguana-man#girl genius#narbonic
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These two. Still love drawing them.
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Love when a writer is like "here is a man with a substantial attachment to his car, we are going to destroy it SO MANY TIMES"
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One of the earlier pieces I did this year. I had been reading through the entire run of the Narbonic webcomic by Shaenon K Garrity and felt it only right to draw the mad scientist herself, Helen B Narbon!
#fanart#art#digital illustration#illustration#artists on tumblr#digital art#digitalart#sketches#narbonic#helen narbon#helen b narbon
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It is frankly a crime that I haven't seen this crossover yet. They'd get along so well!
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Ships of The Culture
GOU You Cross This Line You Die
ROU Stark Fist of Removal
GOU Have You Considered a Career Change?
GCV Sativarg
ROU Really Quite Angry
GOU You Need a House to Go With This Doorknob
VFP Disturbing Palindromic Song of the Mutant Gerbils
GCU No Jury in the Universe Would Convict Me
GCU Billions of Blistering Blue Barnacles
ROU Your Kung Fu is Weak
GOU WITH CATLIKE TREAD UPON OUR PREY WE STEAL!
GOU Continuation of Diplomacy by Other Means
ROU Consider an Iceberg, its Every Form and Aspect
GOU My Powers are Weak, my Intellect Feeble
ROU You Just Lost the Game
VFP Centipede's Dilemma
GOU Very Special Blend of Psychology and Extreme Violence
#iain m. banks#the culture#culture ship names#narbonic#daffy duck#the book of the sub-genius#lensman#gilbert and sullivan#tintin#the game#the young ones
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BRACKET 2
Round 1
TW: child neglect, sexual harassment, violence, murder
Feel free to add propaganda in the replies and reposts!!
The Pale Tree propaganda
Helen Narbon Alpha propaganda
#apologies if i used the wrong image for helen narbon alpha#worst fictional mother throwdown#worst mother throwdown#guild wars 2#the pale tree#helen narbon alpha#narbonic#tw child neglect#tw murder#tw violence
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@girlgeniusevents day three- crossovers! narbonic and girl genius are so close together it feels like this barely counts, but...
#artataliaf#girl genius#narbonic#agatha heterodyne#gilgamesh wulfenbach#tarvek sturmvoraus#imagine your own dialogue for this one i tried to make it expressive#agatha as a Dave is kind of concerning actually. what would happen to her long-term...............#sketch
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The fuck school even hired professor lupin madblood
These are question I have
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What are the main influences that you drew upon for your comics?
So the biggest influence would have to be ASequentialArt. The guy who makes it is the artist of Saffron and Sage and thus his influence is rather more direct; any kind of meta-fuckery in Legend of the Hare or Saffron and Sage is either Carlos' idea or something I thought he'd like. The big parallax finale of Legend of the Hare was his idea, and one of the low-key reasons I'm dragging my feat uploading that comic is that I don't want to have to figure out how to set it up again!
Kill 6 Billion Demons inspired the idea of having "Lore" under the Legend of the Hare pages, though that idea crashed because no one cares about my lore.
Gunnerkrigg Court inspired the idea of making Saffron and Sage episodic, an idea I actually regret a little, which is an essay I've been meaning to write.
It's a small thing, but Homestuck inspired my character writing just a little by making me think of "rules", like how every sentence out of Liri's mouth ought to deserve an exclamation mark or how Saffron often talks in sentence fragments because she's a busy woman and doesn't have time for superfluous words.
Prequel Adventure, Narbonic, and Latchkey Kingdom are all comics I like that have similar vibes to mine in one way or another, but the comic whose writing feels closest to my own might actually be Cassiopeia Quinn. If you take Cassiopeia Quinn and you mix in a bit of Katia Managan you get something not entirely dissimilar to Liri Bloom.
Final Fantasy XIV (specifically Shadowbringers and Endwalker) isn't really an influence, but it is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. Those expansions are very thematically dense in a way that both inspires me to try better and makes me want to give up and quit. That's sort of tied in to why I regret the way I wrote Saffron and Sage episodically, and perhaps one day I'll write that essay. I'm pretty consistently on the precipice of quitting Saffron to try to start a new comic; I'm a notorious dilletante.
But if you look at how horny the characters in my comics tend to be when the comic itself dares never show a boob, you can probably see the deepest influence of all, the one I dare not speak even to myself, which is all the trashy quasihorny shounen manga I read in high school, and the early webcomics like The Wotch or Misfile that had a bit of that energy that stuck to me indelibly no matter how much I try to pretend otherwise.
#ASequentialArt#kill 6 billion demons#Gunnerkrigg Court#prequel adventure#Narbonic#Latchkey Kingdom#cassiopeia quinn#Final Fantasy XIV#The Wotch#Misfile#Homestuck
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#narbonic#cucumber quest#sakura ogami#ddlc#nomad of nowhere#helen b narbon#almond cq#danganronpa#monika#skout#the point is that maybe youll find other characters you like
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This month's Patreon wallpaper is inspired by Leonora Carrington, one of my favorite Surrealists. I got to see some of her work this month in Mexico and I plotzed.
https://skin-horse.com/extras/
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every single day i think about the world trigger/narbonic crossover fic that i have 500 words of in my drafts that i really want to write and i sigh and write down a few more plot ideas. I can't figure out how to get from point a to point b but by god the version of it that exists in my head is massively entertaining.
#world trigger#narbonic#the gist is basically that rinji amatori went mad during the first invasion#surpressed the hell out of that (i.e only ran social experiments that we mostly not going to end in massive destruction) for several years#and then ran off to the neighborhood because he figured it would be funny.#osamu and chika meanwhile kind of got that there was *something* going on#but either brushed it off as normal weirdness (osamu) or guilted over it so much they never thought to ask what was going on (chika)#anyways things go mostly normal until the away mission.... at which point strange and sinister things begin to happen.#actually this dovetails nicely with my other longfic that i haven't really started yet which is more of an island of dr moreau thing#hmm. ideas
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Okay I literally allude to Mell in a She Ra post. That is kind of amazing. It's so nice to meet another Shaenon Garrity fan!
You did? That's awesome!! I agree, it's great to meet another Shaenon K Garrity fan!!
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Sketch dump part 2: Narbonic Boogalo!
#in the upper left corner of the second page is dana the super intelligent mutant gerbil as a sonic character btw#narbonic#helen narbon#mell kelly#dave davenport#artie#arthur narbon#sketches
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