Comic Site Rant: It’s gonna rain tonight
“no author is stupid enough to talk about their own comic on 4chan, except dan kim”
And indeed, I am not that stupid. Hell, I don’t even post on 4chan. Clearly someone is running around in my skin.
Context would help, I suppose. Rewind to about a week or so ago– I’m bored and decide to google my name, looking to see if people are saying dirty things about me (that’s the one and only reason I blog and make a comic, after all.) I was happy to see that I had hit gold in the form of a 4chan thread. The thread, however, was gone. So, to narrow things down, I only searched for my name within 4chan, and then proceeded to add various other words after my name, trying to get other parts of the thread to appear in the google excerpt. Nothing of much interest showed up, but after that I searched for my name on 4chan daily. Throughout the week I came across more threads, all deleted, and repeated the same process to try and get the general gist of them. I came across remarks such as “stop posting wildarmsheero” and “gtfo wildarmsheero.” Now, in my mind, “wildarmsheero” was shorthand for “wildarms’ stupid horrible comic fuck that stuff” so I assumed they wanted whoever was posting my comics to stop. It wasn’t until I came across the quote posted above did I conclude that someone was impersonating me. So yeah, guys, I don’t post on 4chan. I’m a 2chan/danbooru guy. On the few times that I do post on 4chan, it’s always as anonymous. Back in ’03 when the site first hit, I did post under wildarmsheero and used a tripcode, but that seemed more common back then. I haven’t done that for a good four or so years now, though. Anyway, one good thing came out all of this. In one of the google excerpts, someone mentioned that I had dated the last comic incorrectly. I have since amended the comic, and thanked 4chan accordingly.
But, enough about that. Surprisingly enough, I like how this comic turned out. The background is pretty solid, and the character art is mostly ok. Rets looked pretty weird in some cuts, but I managed to hide the parts I didn’t like with cropping and shading. Still, it’s not perfect, I make my usual mistakes, but I like it. One thing I have to improve on is fabric folds and shading. Unlike anatomy, I can’t quite see the method in the madness that is fabric folds, and to a lesser extent, shading. Guess I have to do more life drawing. Don’t know if the script is funny, since I’ve read it 100 times and wrote it like months ago.
Don’t have much to talk about anime-wise. Winter season is slow, and I haven’t yet picked up any older titles to plow through. Newest Zetsubou Sensei was amazing for a number of reasons, but I don’t wanna spoil it. Other than that, I watched the first four episodes of Dennou Coil at MIT. I decided to give the show another shot since they were showing it. I still find it really boring, but it’s better in large chunks rather than bite-size portions.
Anyway, that’s all for this week. Later.
Love this (specific) comic, even though it generally makes fun of me (I watch Gundam 00, and I’m gay, but I’m not in it for the yaoi. In fact, Gundam 00 guys are too girly for many of us, believe it or not.)
I’ve been reading your comic for a while now, but sadly, I’m not a very long time reader. Only about 7 months. I’m glad to see that your art is steadily improving too, it makes it that much more fun to read.
I have been reading your blog for a while too, so I am pretty sure you’re not going to bite my head off for a little bit of constructive criticism, and I say this kind of cautiously – Tina’s index finger is a little short in frame 2, other than that it’s good. And I couldn’t do any better, so I shouldn’t really be saying anything…
About the lighting and shading, it depends on the exact style you’re looking for, but dodge and burn work quite nicely on blacks. I’m sure you know this already, though. They are mean to colors a lot of the time though, in my experience. They tend to alter them a little bit too much, so in my experience I’ve been criticized for using them on colors rather than just the paint brush. That said, I don’t know if that’s the style of shading you’re going for.
Hopefully I haven’t said anything out of place. I really don’t mean to sound like a suckup, it’s just that is how I normally am, believe it or not. I hope you enjoy Dennou Coil, it seems in the last few weeks you’ve watched stuff at the anime club that I watched as it was released. It does start out pretty boring, but I think that’s true of a lot of stuff.
I think I’m going to give a shot to Zetsubou Sensei since you’ve praised it so much. I’ve enjoyed titles you’ve praised in the past such as Zero no Tsukaima and Gurren Lagann, so I’m sure that you’ve got a good head on your shoulders.
Sorry for the long rant-ish comment that sways from the topic.
Hilarously funny, but seriously man, there are some awesome chicks in the show. Don’t you want some damaged goods?http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/1517/0015xl9.jpg How about some large boobs?http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/9581/120013022354029b3ju3.jpg Maybe some crazy bitch Gundam pilot? http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8769/008nm4.jpg http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/9966/0020pc3.jpg http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/5892/003yr6.jpg http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/6474/006ya8.jpg The fanservice isn’t all one way thankfully. Ignore the fact that one character complains on how if “That dude was a chick I’d be all over her…”
Rob: Yeah, finger is short. A bunch of other stuff is messed up too :V
My problem with shading is just determining where the shadows fall. That’s all.
>>I’m sure that you’ve got a good head on your shoulders.
Don’t be so sure…
BrendantheJedi: None of the qualities are attractive at all. Also your comment got caught in the spam filter for 10 billion links :V
ZSZS eh? still need to watch first season. accidentally watched episode one of second season, pretty random and funny. Will have to watch eventually.
Winter season wise, I’m loving spice and wolf. A lot. lol. That ed song gets stuck in my head a lot lol.
I liked this comic, moral of the story: “Beware the traps”
Lol. Is it jsut me or has sunrise been chucking a heck lot of Bishis on TV lately. I mean Code Geass S2 in April (though I am gonna watch that, lol), GUndam00 now, and possible 00 again after Geass finishes. >.>
Cute strip. IMHO, Rets’ expressions look better than usual. And I like the idea of Tina attempting to…. shall we say, prettify Rets’ Despair.
I’ve seen many of those threads. It’s pretty obvious it’s not you, but it’s some sort of a minor meme by now.
Yes, I’m one of the stupid enough to post my own work in 4chan.
And you should try the /a/rchive. Saves everything that gets posted.
http://archive(dot)doesntexist(dot)org/cgi-board.pl
>>>possible 00 again after Geass.
More like confirmed 00. Its already confirmed for next October.
BTW, I realize you’re purely for the flat chest Wildarms, a lot of people think being invalid is moe, a lot of people like Breasls (and gezz they like to eccentuate Sumeragi’s chest as much as possible) and who doesn’t like insanity for the lulz (though we might not find that attractive, insane characters do brighten up our day in anime)?
So… the real question, have you fapped to porn of male characters before?
Hey man the 4chan posts arnt bad thats how i found out about your comic.
and now i check the site dayly to find updates, YOu seem to have a taste of anime alot like me and share the same views
IT`S A TRAP
Well, firstly, there ARE things to watch this season such as True Tears, Shigofumi, Spice and Wolf and Aria. These shows worthy of your appreciation.
Secondly, don’t worry, it’s ok 2 b gay.
I’m watching Spicy Wolf and it’s kind of boring.
Don’t care about True Tears or Shigofumi.
Anonymous of /a/ from 4chan, here.
I’ve seen a few threads with your comic. General opinion here is “he’s alright.” Fear nothing, good friend.
True Tears is basically a standard drama (I love that stuff so I watch it) with a way to big of a budget :P
As for the art of this comic: I was kind of amazed XD I’ve only been reading the comic for a month or so (back read everything a while back) and I like how you did Tina in the second panel a lot (I’m not such a pinpoint guy to measure index fingers though).
All in all, I like it :) Keep going :D:D
Wildarms, Gundam 00 has gotten a lot better. Grunt pilots(Graham Aker), have gotten a lot better. (SPOILS) If you watch Episode 18, you will get to see a custom flag take down a gundam….
sorry cant get past the first 4 episodes.
i’ll stick with UC + G thx
Come on, you know you want to…. You can’t fight the gundam fan in you, and no matter what happens you’ll watch it eventually.
Besides if you want you just skip to episode 15. Its a very good episode, then followed by a nice(short)half episode of recap in 16.
That’s what Rets gets for fapping to traps.
TL;dr
And the guys are yet girly enough that a girl does not feel comfortable lusting after them.
Sure, that doesn’t stop them from looking reasonably okay with each other, but it’s still rather creepy how… borderline androgynous they are.
By the way, the joke worked.
The good convenient site is made.