Topic: The End is Not Yet: A Blayne Bradley Nation-tan Webcomic *new oct24*
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I started a few months ago dabbling with Inkscape in trying to make an Order of the Stick art style comic series, I have Four in the works.
Quad Erat Faciendom: A blog but in comic form. Senatus Populus Que Tyrannum: A High Fantasy Military series based on a homebrew D&D world very Roman influenced. Project 03: A as of yet unnamed project that is in the same world/setting as the above one but is through different characters going about events on a different continent more Asian focused. Nation-tans: A Nation-tan webcomic based on my gaming sessions on saturdays playing paradox interactive grand strategy games.
And now below "The End is Not Yet" A webcomic that is about the events in a game I play with 10 other people each saturday in Victoria:Revolutions by paradox interactive, tv tropes has a good article about it.
King of Men plays as Norway and is helping me a bit with it with some ghost writing that I edit and funny up.
King of Men helped me in the right direction with the dialgue though the actual idea fo the situation I was thinking of first, he just helped me shorted the time it took to write it.
Basically in our first session last week I used my massive income to buy up and stockpile ALL strategic resources seriously pissing off everyone else.
This is a surprisingly accurate interpretation of the events ingame diplomatically, as the world is too afraid of me and my twice the population of the next two big countries combined to actually DO something about it, they all hope the French will save them as they're the most anti China though Indonesia began the "Death to China" mantra thats infecting the playerbase.
The first link should be to the "roster" of all the countries played.
quote: Blayne - China (China, Manchuria, Mongolia and Tibet)
Danomite - Indonesia Federation (aprox 1/3 of India, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore. The Islands include Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and New Caledonia.)
Jodokus - Georgia/Ottoman Empire (Greece, all of the ottoman empire east of Constantinople & the Suez, as well as the rest Arabian Peninsula, Persia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and northern India)
Johan - France (France, Spain and Portugal as well as the vast majority of Italy)
Edzako- Japan (Japan, Korea, Part of Manchuria, Taiwan and minor part of India)
Falahk - Prussia (Eastern Germany/Poland, Part of Lithuania and Latvia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Most of Romania and Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, as well as a minor part of India)
Falador- Transvaal/Britannia (Africa. Period)
Varyar - Italian State of America (All of South America, the Entire Caribbean, Central America, Florida, Louisiana, and everything west of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, Including the coast of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alaska)
Gollevainen - Imperial Novgorod/Finland (Finland, Russia, Estonia, Most of Ukraine and a third of Kazakhstan)
Carillon - Germany (Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Denmark)
King of Men - Norway (Everything the Italian States of America doesn't own in America, Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom, Norway, Majority of Sweden)
Enjoy! I intend to make 1+ each week with each session, and will continue doing so in hearts of iron 2/3.
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Basically I'm making this comic in particular inspired from the anime "Axis Powers Hetelia" in the sense that the characters ARE their nations, they're anthropomorphized and representative of the personalities as I funnily interpret them of the players themselves who play those nations.
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Possibly-amusing anecdote: I wrote an AAR episode for the same game session that Blayne is referring to, where one of the characters has occasion to remark "We could do with some field testing of our new weapons". This was an accident; we did not coordinate our writing this week. Great minds!
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Although I found it funny, I suspect it's only amusing if you've seen the screenies of the various Battles of Mei Xian.
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Blayne Bradley
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Ild figure the narm/ham and cheesiness of the dialogue would make it lol worthy
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A number 1, this is not a bad idea. But number 2, there is about 5 times more talking in this strip than there needs to be. It's clunky clunky clunky. It's not that a good strip can't have a lot of talk, but have you ever noticed how the visual support for a talky strip is varied and increasingly complex or tension building, while the talking is going on? Look at C&H, for an excellent strip with a lot of talk, that still managed to keep it interesting. What did he do? He had them riding either a wagon or a sled. You've just got 5 guys in a panel without any other major changes for most of the strip.
Here's a pointer you might ignore, but should pay attention to: don't repeat a panel just to add more talking in. If you find yourself having to repeat a panel, as you did in one strip 5 times, to add more talk, then you're doing something wrong. Editing. This is all about editing. Establish your point (even if its a smaller point) in a quarter of the time, and come to the action at least 4 times as fast as you do. Otherwise the reader is lost- and I found myself constantly lost in your strip.
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Blayne Bradley
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Is that actually a result of the talking or because the dialogue is more geared towards those who know about the game being played?
Now I'm a bit confused "A number 1" are you referring to the talkiness as not being a bad idea or something else not being a bad idea?
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The strip is a good concept, and that particular episode could work, is what I was trying to say.
As to the first question, yes, even if I was in on your joke, which I'm not, a repetition of a single panel 5 times to encompass all the dialogue is too much. If you can't say it in one panel, then it isn't really worth saying, in my opinion. There are a lot of in-jokes in other web comics, but the best ones keep in mind: "brevity is the soul of wit." If I'm tooling along at 35 miles an hour trying to spot the funny in your comic, I'm likely to get tired and want to go home before I see it.
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Blayne Bradley
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If the one you linked to is what your referring to theres Im pretty sure movement in each frame though.
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It doesn't matter. Learn how to spell. Barring that, learn how to look words up in the dictionary after you have tried to spell them.
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