>Calling issues "chapters">Calling solicitations "leaks">Calling licensed comics "indie">Calling artstyle "animation">Calling cartoons storyboarded in the west "anime"
>>153896635>>Calling artstyle "animation"This one always bothered the piss out of me. Not liking an art style doesn't necessarily make the animation of something bad, animation and art styles are two completely different things.
>>153899668at most it's loose shorthand. nobody thinks they're categorically equivalent.
>>153899738It depends how old and how into animation you are. Kids and teens today have gotten everything served in one streaming trough their whole childhoods. So while normies understand anime comes from Japan they also tend to think that’s just what you call the art style.
>>153896635>Calling a comic based on an animated show a "season" of said show
>calling sprite-based graphics (isually dogshit 8-bit or 16-bit) in a videogame "pixel art".
There's something that I'm struggling to understand about indie animation in terms of writing and tone. When I was a kid, I absolutely hated "kiddie shit". Whether that be Disney cartoons, cartoons forcibly sanitized underneath a corporate body or from the complaints of soccer moms and always wanted to see darker or more mature themes in animation. I'm autistic myself and I absolutely do not relate to this particular brand of autism where they are obsessed with things like musicals, keeping everything safe and happy, etc. Instead of wanting darker or more mature themes in animation, everything is the same, self-censored, PG-13, quippy, tumblr/MCU tier tone. Like the creators simply refuse to expand beyond that tiny bubble of possible tones, themes and writing. Nothing is allowed to be controversial, edgy or even out there anymore. Why is this? I don't relate to this shit at all.
>>153899526Not OP but i understand where he's coming from. I don't understand what drives someone running a show for the internet, under much more lax rules for what's acceptable, to ever even considering limiting himself to what was basically already done with adventure time. And the answer is always being mentally stunted/too incompetent to create new things.
>>153899453I was a bit sensitive to and I found it a little sad lol. But I liked other stuff like Sonic, Digimon; stuff like that.
>>153899526It’s not like nothing more bloody than Ben 10 exists, but it is weird that the internet scene has nothing comparable to Invincible even, which itself is still safe corporate edgy (for its target audience, not for kids obv).
>>153899526>>153899558Another thing is, companies like Glitch would absolutely shit their pants at the thought of having anything remotely controversial or edgy on their resume. Imagine if something like Coffin of Andy and Leyley was an animated series. They'd NEVER pick it up. It also comes down to indie companies being functionally the same as any other corporate board.
>>153899462This is starting to infect indie games as well. The Coffin of Andy and Leyley got shat on for similar reasons.
What how big is the trans community in the comic book industry?
>>153899378>trans kidMy god, they're converting them young.
>>153899447I dont know what that means.
>>153899491He's telling you to kill yourself, troon anon.
>>153899723I dont know what that means2
>>153899787There's a 41% chance that you will know eventually.
She's smart enough to use a computer but doesn't know what a stove is?
>can't use goblins as killfodder anymore because everyone assumes they're just horny bimbos now>can't use orcs as killfodder anymore because they had to deny the real reason we used orcs to make leftists look bad>can't use kobolds as killfodder anymore because they're the scaley version of the goblin problem now>don't know any other fodderrace because everyone playing since 3.5e is loath to actually read old Monster Manuals or fantasy books for actual inspiration anymoreNo wonder fa/tg/uys are so irritable nowadays.
>>153897115I felt the same way when the Locust from Gears of War went from being a mysterious, subterranean race of genocidal monsters, to "Le experimented people!". Point is, we need monsters that have nothing humanizing about them. Just like making demons sympathetic or misunderstood. No. Demons are personification of evil and should be shown the business ends of a shotgun every single time
>>153819268drawing actual proportions is hard, so artists draw lazy bulbuos thighs and tits and resort to shortstack ocs because "it's my style!"for some reason, the average gooner just eats it up
>>153898375You don't understand anon, like, no one is like, actually like evil. Everyone is like, a victim of a system of oppression and just like, fighting back in their own way.(Evil people want you to believe this is an acceptable lens for viewing the world)
Wasn’t the Boys meant to be a parody of superhero shit?How is it now called the VCU and has spin-offs unironically?
>>153898518cartel supes
>>153894303I’m pretty sure everyone wants to work with him now.
>>153894303Meanwhile Jared Padalecki gets glorified cameo appearance. I am surprised he isn't harboring resentment towards Ackles.
>>153893748>Wasn’t the Boys meant to be a parody of superhero shit?>How is it now called the VCU and has spin-offs unironically?Capitalism subsumes all critiques.
>>153893748Watching The Boys become everything Ennis and his sympathizers hates is oddly satisfying. When does the merch hit?
What do you think of Pac-mans new web show? Both the teaser and 1st episode are up to 1 million views already
>everyone is a spastic gremlin, already outdated references as jokesgood lord, tiktok is such cancer
The pacing gave me a stroke
Hate the Tiktok pacing. Nothing is allowed to breathe.
It's cute and fun. Nothing amazing. The humor is a little bit trying too hard to be hip, and some of the facial expressions remind me of Odd1sOut, but it's not too egregious. I think of all the Pac-Man adaptations this is the one to get the characters' personalities and the general tone the most right. I also appreciate the game references. For years I've wanted them to bring back Miru so it's really nice to see her here. I like Clyde knitting hats for Fygars. I like Pac-Man butt-bouncing. I don't mean to come off like "it's good because reference" like how Nintendo adults are with the Mario movies, but given how much more niche of a franchise Pac-Man is and how for years they refused to acknowledge any game besides the original, I feel I'm justified in appreciating the references.Overall I quite enjoyed it, but I understand why some don't. I'm excited to see more.
>>153891620>>153891651I appreciate you sharing the links
>take a character that most young men of today identify and sympathize with>utterly humiliate him, telling the audience that people like this are better off dead and forgottenHow the fuck did they ok this?
>>153899098brat needs rape correction...
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>>153899201MIGAcel tears
>>153899098>pic Who modelled this? Looks great.
>>153899305Faggot
For me, Marvel ended with Secret Wars, and I view Krakoa as taking place in an AU and staying there, never ending. DC's trickier because for a while they kept pumping Crisis after Crisis, each worse and more forgettable than the last. In the end I realised that, delayed as it was, Doomsday Clock was genuinely the last time DC felt epic and as if an event had weight. It was a mess, and Cereal Lord is a fag, but it serves as a good enough swan song.Seriously, why do both Marvel and DC feel so empty and aimless these days? They've been milking these characters for decades, what's changed in a few years? People harp on the 00s, but even until the 10s it felt as if those characters were going somewhere, as if things were somewhat progressing. But from the mid-10s and onwards literally nothing feels real. I see a panel or an issue and am shocked when I jog my memory and find out it came out 5 years ago, yet it's indistinguishable from a current issue. Nothing changes, it's all just treading ground. They try to raise the stakes in their stories, but it all feels hollow. I don't know how else to express it. Johnns ended his GL run what, nearly 15 years ago. You pick up a GL issue today and it's all just filler. Hal N' Pals joking around, being friendly neighborhood GLs, taking down OC aliens. Hal's a bum wearing only his flight jacket. Repeat. Over and over. Batman's so milked there's at least some illusion of change, if not progress. But most books feel like GL; aimlessly going past a definitive ending. I look at my devalued GL issues, and I wonder what was the point of me buying and reading them, when they'll never do anything better than Cereal Lord. It all just feels like a weight.But yeah, Doomsday Clock was bad, but boy, did we not know how awful it'd get...
>>153899179Because he stood up to both Didio and the current DC leadership.
>>153899391They don't deserve him. Glad he's doing his own thing with Ghost Machine.
>>153899179Most of his modern output had been terrible. His only good comic was the Superboy Prime tie-in to Death Metal.
>>153899053I never really liked the ongoings of either. Each main universe has been weakly held together, mostly by crap stories. I don't get how people read and care about this stuff.
>>153899806OP here. That's because you're boring
Black Adam was a stealth JSA film.
>>153897054>Would you watch a JSA movie? sure why not
Remember America Chavez?
>>153898801There's one page where the lady goes on a textwall speech about how she wishes she was in a lesbian relationship, and it reads like a classic Chris Chan monologue.
>>153899191It also has something about explosions and "you go girls"And apparently one of the characters isn't a lesbian, the writter just pulled the relationshop out of their ass, which is not surprising
>>153899191You mean this one
>>153899520I remember one comment about how much funnier this is if you imagine the monologuing sounding more distant as it goes on.
>>153899837kek
should I watch this?
>>153897662Right, quick setup:The Moon Nexus pool can magic a portal to the space between life and death.So Rayla dives in to look for her parents, Runaan and Viren.She finds only a bunch of ghosts and Viren.The ghosts try to kill her.Callum dives in and rescues her.Then Pic related 1/3
>>153897662Right, quick setup:The Moon Nexus pool can magic a portal to the space between life and death.So Rayla dives in to look for her parents, Runaan and Viren.She finds only a bunch of ghosts and Viren.The ghosts try to kill her.Callum dives in and rescues her.>>153898372Then Pic related 2/3
>>153897662Right, quick setup:The Moon Nexus pool can magic a portal to the space between life and death.So Rayla dives in to look for her parents, Runaan and Viren.She finds only a bunch of ghosts and Viren.The ghosts try to kill her.Callum dives in and rescues her.>>153898372>>153898382Then Pic related 3/3So yeah, Rayla ditches Callum in the worst way possible.
Finished watching the first episode of Troll Hunters after 8 or so hours.No I am not watching this show. It feels like several kids movies and YA fantasy books mashed together without any effort given to editing them.
>>153895347Dead thread for a dead show. Seems appropriate actually.
What puppetry does /co/ like?I miss Jim Henson's work.
For me it's this Cosgrove studios mastetpiece
And this one
>11 films were submitted for Best Animated Feature award in 2004, meaning that the academy had to choose 3 films as nominees>they chose The Incredibles, Shark Tale, and Shrek 2Did they get it right?
seriouslly tho, oscars snubbing anime or japanese movies in general can't really be a bad thing for japan, but it can be a bad thing for themselves and hollywood because it can make them look even more hypocritical
>>153898432Sharktale autist delivering the finest bait for the fishies.
Academy didn't nominate The Simpsons Movie. Why would a Spongebob movie have better luck?
I miss the times when I thought that "Now That We're Men" was an original melody created for the moviehttps://youtu.be/XDG9NaicqZU?si=-ULwFwtyAQA97ZWY
Can't argue with that
>>153899586no one was talking about sodomy until you brought it up, homosexual
Begging your pardon sirs, but... is this an ass rape thread or an obama thread?
>>153899688There's a difference?
>>153896917You think they would've made this cover if McCain won?
>>153899735No, Old Man McCain didn't read comics. Obama said he loved Conan and Spider-Man.
>KIT, LISTEN! I know you're dealing with a lot, but I'm here. We're here! Together! There's still so much we can do. You're too hard on yourself, Kit. None of this is your fault. None of anything you ever did is your fault. All you ever wanted to do was save people. Well, there's still time! We can still do something!Riveting stuff. We could learn from him
>>153898530He’s a Learnosaurus. He learns. That’s literally his whole thing.
>>153894910>drooling retard for most of the episode>comforting someone who has been doing missions exactly like this for a long time>presumably watched the same shit happen to Gobble's world when she recused him >OH NO I'M HAVING A REALISTIC PANIC ATTACK BECAUSE THE THING THAT HAPPENED IN THE FLASH BACK IS HAPPENING AGAIN>suddenly spews a bunch of indistinct platitudes about doing something and working together even though he hasn't once been helpful>WOW YOU'RE SO MATURE AND HELPFUL NOW, RETARD >it's because this is now my one character trait to imply that I will eventually become reliable and useful by "learning" things, which involves me standing around being confused and incompetent the entire time
>>153894910This speech doesn't belong here, it undercuts the ending and robs Kit of agency. It's the one piece of genuinely bad writing in an otherwise great pilot
>>153899749>>153899698>>153898530It really would have worked better if he had to grow a spine and get Kit back on track instead of looking for Kiboodle rather than providing forgiveness for no raisin
>>153899792Having the pilot take place an indeterminate amount of time after Kit's world was erased was a retarded call. The open with a flashback, followed by a very awkward exposition dump conversation to imply that she's been doing this Farcade agent stuff a lot and rescuing as many characters as possible, like the dinosaur. It just makes it way more confusing that she's still acting like this is her first time seeing another game world risking erasure and having spastic freak outs about it.
