The Warring States of NPF - The Dreadful -- Chapter 3

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Originally Posted by Liz (Post 1170506)

If you want to keep The Dreadful good, Bleach should probably not act as any major source of inspiration. :P I like what you're doing. Keep it up. I think the thing with there not being a lot of talk at the moment is there isn't a whole lot to say. We don't have enough background info to make any meaningful plot guesses, and it's good so we don't really have any complaining to do. For the former, that will change with time as we read more and get more familiar with the world and characters. As such, until then, you're only alternative to make us talk about the comic more is to make it worse so we can get mad about how it was good before you SOLD OUT.

Pretty much all of this.

I'm still reading, though! I'll start wildly speculating and/or shipping (MacGrath's Head x Stake) when we get past the "introduction" phase.

EDIT: Although I kind of want Kit to yell "Bankai" the next time she whips out the Dreadful, just to piss off Liz.

I think the slow/long "introduction" part is because I didn't plan enough in the beginning and have had to do some narrative adjusting. That's not to say everything that's happened will be meaningless, I've worked hard on the script to make sure it all has a purpose. It's just if I could do it over again there would be a lot I would change in order to move things along quicker.

I think I've improved as a writer (I definitely feel that I've improved as an artist), and that should hopefully start becoming evident once I get a few more of these rough edges smoothed over. It isn't gonna be perfect, but so long as it's not horrible I'll be okay with it :)

I plan a lot more now and think scenes through, instead of just doing one page at a time and hoping it works out. The latter is fun, but I think it ends up tying me in a lot of knots.

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Originally Posted by MSperoni (Post 1170715)

(though if The Dreadful ever sees print, I will also ask the publisher if it's okay for me to redo the first 70 pages so the style matches).

YES PLEASE!!!
It's too much of a change to not come as a shock to unsuspecting innocents. Just don't remove the old pages from the web then. I want to have my healthy dose of mouthless Liz every now and then.

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Originally Posted by Mr.Bookworm (Post 1170717)

EDIT: Although I kind of want Kit to yell "Bankai" the next time she whips out the Dreadful, just to piss off Liz.

Perhaps! Or Kit could say "Dreadful, HOOOOOO!" before she fires it.

...it'd fit the setting, at least! <_< >_>

Do kikoi kikoi it! (edit: whaaaaaaaaaat?)

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Originally Posted by Liz (Post 1170506)

So, I'm agreeing with Bookworm agreeing with Liz (and somewhere some fundamental tenet of the universe is broken, dooming us all). Really, I'd be here more, but I just don't have too much to guess about yet. It took me a while to get into 8-Bit on these forums too, even when I joined 'em. Also, being that these are made with, you know, actual art, they take longer to produce, thus the start-up is slower. Added as well is the fact that, unlike FF1, there's no past history/canon to reference/deviate from. All this adds up to simply not having as much to say despite thoroughly enjoying what you're writing. :)

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Originally Posted by Donomni (Post 1170795)

Perhaps! Or Kit could say "Dreadful, HOOOOOO!" before she fires it.

...it'd fit the setting, at least! <_< >_>

Do kikoi kikoi kooky!
EDIT: I have NO idea how or WHY "do Kiki kikoi Kiki it" ...
...
Okay, so apparently auto-correct thinks "do it" with lots of "i"'s is ... whatever that is. I'm leaving it because it's hilariously random. I don't know what it means.

Page 80!

This one might look familiar ;)

There has been some art/dialog changes, but it's in the right order now. And that's a good thing. Pages that are in the right order are a good thing.

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Originally Posted by tacticslion (Post 1171231)

So, I'm agreeing with Bookworm agreeing with Liz....All this adds up to simply not having as much to say despite thoroughly enjoying what you're writing. :)

Cool, thanks! :D

But then again, it wasn't actually Liz that did the abandoning of her friends.

ALSO, we should totally have a Dreadful tag, as we've HIKYM and Warbot In Accounting tags. :)

I'd like to see a Dreadful tag, as well as a picture of Kit up there in the image rotation at the top of the forums. I was supposed to have made the latter but I haven't got around to it yet. If anyone wants to make one though, feel free.

I'd really like to see those things mainly because it would make the comic feel like a part of the site, it's kind of... left out, you know? Even though it's the only comic that's consistently updated in like a year, and has more pages than HIKYM and Warbot. (I actually figured by now someone besides me would have gotten around to it, like they did with HIKYM... I'm a little disappointed but I guess that's just how it goes sometimes).

I don't know what to do about making a thread tag though. I talked with Shiney about doing a banner image, so I think I can make one. Still, it kinda feels like writing up my own Wikipedia bio. I'd like for people in the forums to be fans enough of the comic so they want to do it, not me.

EDIT: Actually I've been working on the comic for almost a year. The comic didn't debut on the site till February, so we've still got a ways to go before it's been a year here.

Page 81!

Part of this page was to give Rado a slight farewell of sorts. I got a friend who liked the character so I figured I might as well have Booz point him out and Kit say something (even though it's not that big of a something -- but the guy was only on like five panels, how much is there to say?).

I felt like being nice, unlike the famous "Now Shut Up" 8-bit comic where Black Belt was 'resurrected' only to die horribly.

We weren't friends, I just liked to ride him. Always a good time. No one could buck like Rado.