Speaking of the original serial and the wider Parahumans saga: are they any good? This is going to be my next long-form read if it's good, but I couldn't find much out about the author and the syntax of the first chapter has me ill at ease about his level of intelligence.
>>153169129no, it fucking sucks actually
>>153169129Its okay. What do mean about the author? Its the first thing he piblished online. What do you mean about the syntax?
>>153169129The fanart and /co/ discussion I've come across make it seem pretty lame. Like if Death Battle AIDS was a narrative.
>>153169129Comic adaptation when?
>>153169129I was a very big fan once upon a time, but that was only because it was being written during a time period where the concept was at its absolute peak. Marvel was it its height, fanfiction was experiencing a huge boom, etc.I know Worm isn't 'literally' fanfiction but its something I would say is written in that vein, it's very fanfiction-like.I would compare it to Invincible if Invincible actually had SOME interesting/unique concepts, but its still flawed and low-brow. Still a lot of stilted characters and faggy therapy-speak, because that's a leftist hallmark. The author is a bitter, resentful, leftist Canadian, who has major sexual insecurities. The entire plot can basically be summarized as "Persecution Complex: the Neverending Whining."Giving it some credit, if you're resentful and could have been described as troubled and pissed off when you were a teenager, this series encapsulates that vibe very well. I think that has some artistic merit, I just don't think its worth 3 million words of fluff just fucking dwelling on it. The vast majority of chapters are skippable.I could go on, but I see liking Worm as an embarassing phase I'd rather leave in the 20-teens. I recommend it, but with a neutral PoV wherein I consider it more of a historical artifact.
>>153173125To continue because I thought of more, the overwhelming theme of Worm and literally everything by the author is social alienation. That's the reason it appeals strongly to trannies, Tumblr drama queens, and 4chan edgelords in equal measure.It's a very angst, "I'm 14 and this is deep" kind of story if it was executed somewhat well, but ruined by its weirdly rapid pacing that somehow also spins its wheels never letting characters complete their arcs. Lots of ahit happens but nobody grows. Millions of words of frenetic stasis.
>>153169129On paper it's decent, however there are plenty of holes that make it fall into a pitfallWorm has a really idiotic world building and The Boys/Invincible tier characters and dramaIf it got an tv adaption it would be lumped among those two
>>153169129How hasn't this series gotten a animated/comic series yet I've seen it for the last decade or so on and off fanart and post across social media and /co/ but no one seems to be interested enough to actually do anything with these books
>>153173789I know Wildbow has gotten offers by companies who want to option it, but he's turned them down. I think he was supposed to rework it in order to get it published in print, but as far as I know nothing ever came of that.
Anti-Worm schizo in 3... 2... 1...
>>153169129Worm is okay. You either like or hate the protagonist. To the point most readers stop reading the story because of her decisions. I don't blame them to be honest.It peaked at the end of 1/3 of the book. Other than that, it falls off.It's take on super powers are pretty unique, you get street level shitters to world ending powers. It's entertaining if you turn off your thinking hat.
>>153169129I was a fan when I was just getting out of high school; that feels like around the age to have been a fan. Even a few years into college I didn’t like it anymore. For a serial that keeps changing the POV character, it’s remarkable how I mostly remember so many characters monologuing in the exact same manner and overexplaining their perspectives to complete strangers who they’re probably fighting.
>>153169129The whole "Can't use lethal weapons against opponents who will kill you" thing is massively retarded
>>153174495Yeah that's what basically happened to me, I got like halfway in the story but Taylor just started being pretty unlikeable.I guess that's why majority of Worm fanfics involve changing her personality a lot.
>>153169129Not /co/Fuck off
>>153174404>Comics & Cartoons>Worm is neither of those thingsThere is literally zero valid argument for why Worm should be considered /co/ The only people who vouch for Worm are mentally stunted capeshitters who don't get why comics being treated as solely capeshit is a bad thing
>>153169129I read it when I was 14 and liked it at the time but have never gone back to it.In that I recall the overall structure of the work, the charatcers and their arcs, and most of the individual happenings quite well because they left a mark on me. But unlike other anons I cannot speak to the prose since none of the writing itself stuck with me.
>>153170654>>153170709>>153172465>>153173125>>153173463>>153174495>>153174688>>153175757No comic and no cartoon means it's not /co/The End
>>153175786that sure didn't stop analog horror motherfuckers from setting shop around /co/ sometimes
>>153175968Analog Horror died and the morons who kept posting it on /co/ got bullied out
>>153175985But was the bullying actually effective or was it just that it died./co/ only ever really liked the old guard UrbanSpook and Angel Hare which itself is a big technicality.
>>153176031Kinda like Analog Horror in general dipped in quality to the point it is just the 2020s equivalent of creepypastas
>>153176811Yeah, the nature of the medium really took off with a certain age cohort over lockdowns who had nothing else to do with their time and now all the successful ones are either done, gradually moving back to live action affairs, or moving to more fleshed out CGI that takes a lot more time do produce.Marble Hornets still remains the mark for independent online horror.
>>153176811>>153176919Analog Horror is still not /co/ and neither is Worm
>>153177160I like how twice now you bumpted this thread and your over in the digimon thread.Thanks for doping your part in not letting this drop to page 10
>>153177525I tried calling that bastard bull because there's a fucking Facebook faggot who posts a NSFW meme with Celestia from Horse Show as the plush and Barneyfag raided the thread./CO/ IS NOW MODERATED BY A BUNCH OF LOSERS THAT ALLOWS BULLS, DINOSAURS, SHARKS, PIXIES, AND BLUE BEAR WORSHIPPERS, BUT WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT HORSES, DIGITAL MONSTERS, POCKET MONSTERS, AND ANALOG HORROR HERE!!!!
>>153177525>>153177614Not that guy but you know sage exists right?
>>153173463The worldbuilding is the best part of the series fym
>>153169129I fucking love it.
>>153170709>Death battle What are You talking about fag?
>>153178162Powerscaling being used as an actual world building element
>>153172465only fanmade ones, wildbow doesn't seem to like the fandom after they lost their shoit with the rapist lesbian character in the sequel https://cazzy.neocities.org/comic/arc-1/1-1
>>153178238When? the power rating that's really bad at telling you strong some one is? Super hero fans in universe discussing who is the strongest?These are not really prominent parts of the world building at all
>>153178238>collecting information about the superhuman threats you might one day face to know how dangerous they are and what is the optimal way to confront them is stupid, actually
>>153178108>>153179013>>153178348>>153178285Not /co/Fuck off
>>153179074Alright il storytime the fan comic
>>153179172Ew. Why did they make her look like a retarded spree killer kid?
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>>153179347Sounds like Taylor to me
>>153169129>worm thread>hey, that’s not /co/>looks inside>comments: hey, that’s not /co/>yeah
>>153179172Any subsequent threads should start with this comic, so these retards stop wasting their time.
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>>153179172>>153179354>>153179466this doesn't count
>>153179458>these retards>This web serial totally is /co/ despite not being a comic or cartoon are the actual retards and not the people who think capeshit automatically means its /co/Just admit that you're a petulant parasite you dishonest inbred waste of oxygen
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>>153179475We've had fan comic threads before It's when people use it justify the ENTIRETY of a non-/co/ subject is when it gets really stupid really fastYou wouldn't use doujinshi of Batman to make Arkham threads on /a/
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While not strictly /co/, worm has enough crossover with general capeshit that it sort of fits.Twig > Pale = Seek > Worm > Pact > Ward
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>>153179601>While not strictly /co/, worm has enough crossover with general capeshit that it sort of fits.How the flying fuck does that make any sense?It's not a comicIt's not a cartoonThat's itThat's literally fucking itThe association that superheroes inherently equals comics is a fucking disease onto comics
>>153179601>>153179606is seek even updating anymore?poke < pale < worm < claw < pact < ward
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>>153179624There, it's a comic now so it's /co/
>>153179727That's not how it works jackass If it was that simple, EVERYTHING is now /co/
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Worm is Reddit (take that has a positive or negative, depending on how you feel about Reddit.) Archetype is clearly 4chan inspired.
>>153179883>>153179938what's this ai shit?
Another one, this series has a lot of followers.
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I dropped reading Worm after the Slaughterhouse 9000 arc and Scion going crazy because I was so bored by everything after Coil died, did I make the right call?It's always weird to me too how persistent the very niche subculture around Worm is when there's not much actual presence in the form of art or other media for it it feels like.
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>>153180141>It's always weird to me too how persistent the very niche subculture around Worm isThat's what happens when writers AND only writers are the ones driving the show. Sure, there are artists here and there, like the comic that is being posted right now itt but the main bulk of Worm fans are fanfic writers and nerd forum users that use sites like Spacebattles to discuss their niche.
>>153180141>>153180170You dropped it in one of the biggest low points so it makes sense, i do think the ending is a really good payoff
>>153180197>nerd forum users that use sites like SpacebattlesMan, how the hell is that site still standing
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>>153180637Worm is garbageWorm is not /co/2+2=4Grass is green
>>153180637Very bloated, so it's a faithful adaptation.
>>153174404Kek, Worm sucks but its genuinely hilarious that there's a dedicated autist who goes out of their way to constantly screech about it not being /co/. It's also very easy to know how which anon is the autist.Why isn't there a dedicated anti-DBG autist who does this? /dbg/ is not /co/.
>>153180701>Why isn't there a dedicated anti-DBG autist who does this?It's an ocean of piss, you can't make it any worse It's also there 24/7
>>153180701>about it not being /co/.It isn't and every time someone argues against it they legitimately can'tEvery argument you can make in favor of Worm being here is flawed at best and mind boggling stupid at worst
Any day nowAny day now there will be a Worm adaptionAny day now
>>153180738Not /co/Never /co/Eat shitFuck off
How come there are only 9 pages on the catalog?
>>153169129>are they any good?Its too long and the author has too much trauma that he's working through during the original Worm story. I can't speak for Ward or whatever other stories he's written but Worm had a major issue with the MC being a self righteous cunt who's bad habits are constantly enabled by the increasingly ridiculous events she goes through. When the slaughthouse Nine show up its genuinely impossible to react to their massacres seriously because it's so over the top with its attempts to shock you and they are only ever beaten by six teenagers with attitude(one of whom is a rapist which is never acknowledged by his friends). I'm happy the author was able to work through his issues but it really would've been better if he did that privately and then this story had actual planning and explored a theme
Worm is absolute fucking trash, its fanboys are some of the most obnoxious people online. As in as bad as ponyfuckers but worse because they have to keep jerking off about it whenever capeshit is mentioned.
>>153182107Eh, I'd say it's good by accident as the overall message was that peasants should know their place but the author was so incompetent that it gives the opposite impression.Ward sucks hairy balls bascuse he was so salty about this he made his repulsive elitism more overt and he was supremely bootyblasted about the audience reception of these two minor characters in Worm for reasons that aren't clear.
>>153169129Worm is great. The sequel is meh
>>153182107>Slaughterhouse NineI’m sorry. There’s a faction in this story called The Slaughterhouse X and they’re not a five-piece outfit called The Slaughterhouse Five?
>>153182488>There’s a faction in this story called The Slaughterhouse X and they’re not a five-piece outfit called The Slaughterhouse Five?Nope, the Nine in this are a group of serial killers who travel the US massacring hundreds wherever they go and are unstoppable until they encounter our plucky teenage criminals. Their motivation also starts and ends with "murder is fun" and their leader is a shockingly lame Heath Ledger Joker rip off. The only reason they're remember is because they have some fun and inventive powers. Come to think of it most people seem to remember the powers rather than the actual story and character of Worm>>153182326>Ward sucks hairy balls bascuse he was so salty about this he made his repulsive elitism more overt and he was supremely bootyblasted about the audience reception of these two minor characters in Worm for reasons that aren't clear.Which characters are they?
Vista is the only good character in the entire series, Dragon was decent in Worm but got ruined in Ward.
>>153182604>Nope, the Nine in this are a group of serial killers who travel the US massacring hundreds wherever they go and are unstoppable until they encounter our plucky teenage criminals>Their motivation also starts and ends with "murder is fun" and their leader is a shockingly lame Heath Ledger Joker rip offThe creator of this needs to kill themselves for being such a pathetically edgy faggot
>>153169129Why was her name Worm?
>>153183846For her loose skin and pallor.
>>153182812Being fair it's mostly Jack who is just there to kill people because he thinks it's all a joke >CrawlerMasochist who has adaptive biology so he has to do more and more extreme things to feel pain, so he fights heroes to see if anyone can kill him>ShitterbirdReally horny for Jack>Mannequinn Mind fucked by an angry bird that killed his family>BonesawChild who is really good at surgery that they found and tortured her family till she couldn't keep them alive anymore>SybianScientist who got salty when his daughter died so he took a cup of power juice to get a power and now he larps as a naked female cannibal>BurnscarLiteral retard they broke out of an insane asylum, she just thinks fire is pretty tbf>CherishE-thot whose power is to screw with people emotions from a distance>9th memberThey were in BB to find one.
>>153181511There were so many bad threads on page 10 hours ago, and they're still around right now. Yet some of the good threads archived. You guys fucking suck.
>>153184716>bad threadsThis is one of them
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>>153184799Not among the worst, no.
>>153184832Anything off-topic is inherently a bad thread
>>153179727kek
>>153184837There are way worse threads than this, you fucking lesbian.
>>153182326>the overall message was that peasants should know their placehow the hell did you come to the conclusion this was the intended message
>>153169129it's really fun as long as you don't mind bad prose or fights that go on a bit too long. if capeshit is ever to have its hunter x hunter it would probably be this. i need to nut inside imp. don't read the sequel
>>153184966>hunter x hunterHxH is fucking awful.
>>153184974daring today, aren't we
>>153184697I see your point but none of this is compelling motivation either
>>153179601Is Twig as good as it's hyped up to be? I've heard many people say it's wildbow's best work
>>153184935And yet it's still a bad thread because it's off-topic you tard
>>153184974It's way better than your favorite /co/ media.
>>153184992>People say something I like is awful>This hurts my feelings thus I am being trolledDon't use meme phrases as your kneejerk response to life.
>>153185086being terminally contrarian is not a good substitute to having a personality
>>153185027T. didn’t read Twig, but the little I read of Ward suggested that Wildbow’s prose never improved, so there’s almost certainly more worthwhile writing out there.
Worm is terrible in the same way that RWBY is terrible in that it's a really good idea (personally i'd drop Scion as the end of the world threat and just leave Endbringers as the top of the pecking order) with terrible execution because the writing is so mid.
>>153185789At least RWBY is actually /co/
>>153185808Shouldn't be. This should be the Comics, Superheroes, and Pulp board.
>>153185823But if that's the case then Worm is /co/
>>153185823You know that would mean MHA, the original Henry Danger series, etc would be /co/ right? >>153185861But it's notThis isn't the capeshit boardThis is a comics and cartoons board which Worm is neitherTherefore Worm is NOT /co/
>>153180271>black teenage girl without a father is the most psychotically evil character outside the dedicated villainsThis was always the funniest thing to me considering wildbows politics>>153180259
Worm is okay, but the best part is the many fanfictions it's spawned.Anyone here read Russian Caravan? What did you think of the sourcebook?
>>153185957There are only a handful of characters that we know the race of. There are 2 non-villain, non-drug addict black people (I think). Grue and Imp's dad is an ex-marine and the guy in charge of the Boston PRT branch is black (least i think he's black)Coil, Grue, Imp and Skidmark and Shadow Stalker are all black and all arguably villainous.
>>153185873>MHAOf Western origin, of course.
