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arrowstorm2012-08-17 03:54:52

Over the past month or so, I have engaged in the Project Wonderful equivalent of a wiki walk. For those unfamiliar with Project Wonderful, it is an advertising service which is used by quite a lot of webcomics. At a guess, I think I may have gone through four or five archive binges and partially completed quite a few others. I also have a list of comics that I am (or were) up-to-date with that I read on a regular basis and thanks to the aforementioned magic of Project Wonderful, that list is growing exponentially, as is the number of tabs I seem to have open at any one time. My point? I’m reading a lot of webcomics. Why is this important? ‘Cos I’ve decided to write up what I think of them here.

Make no mistake, this will not be a “detailed walkthrough of a work”; it will be a randomly sequenced collection of my thoughts and opinions on a variety of webcomics I have either read, or am currently reading. This means me ranting and raving over things I hate, gushing over things I love and generally trying to put to paper (figuratively, of course) the hundreds of random thoughts and ideas that come to me while I read these comics. I will try to stay on topic, really I will, but I'm under no illusions as to my ability to do that.

As to content, I’ll probably write overall statements about webcomics in general, gushing and/or ranting pieces on a specific page of a specific webcomic and everything in between. I have no plan for this after “write what I think”. I’d like to know what any of you think about this as well. That’s half the point of doing this.

Now, I’m fairly certain that this is obvious to everyone out there, but I’ll say it to be clear: THIS LIVEBLOG WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS. I normally bend over backwards to avoid writing spoilers, but not here. Here I will gleefully spoil every twist, turn and plot device in as much or as little detail as I feel like doing. I apologise if this is a problem, but if it is, then the simple solution is to not read it.

Now that that’s all out of the way, we can start the ball rolling. Enjoy.

Comments

cha0sTropes Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 24th 2012 at 8:05:47 AM

Hey, might find this strange, but I'm the author of The Other World. In terms of not knowing what's going on, it's partly on purpose, partly due to an "evolving" art style. The comic will be continued soon (September/October), and certain things will be resolved.

As for the last page, Nemeosa decided to jump on the door in a previous comic. Nedriosa wanted the door to open, so that they wouldn't have to go back to the dark area. Athena insisting on her going back caused an emotional response from Nedriosa, activating "Hallucination". She then hallucinated the door opening, which altered the reality of the world that they're in, and Nemeosa fell through as she was jumping on it. The door she fell through was the same door that the others were at. The two groups had a different frame of gravity, so she appeared to fall upwards, and the guy caught her out of instinct. Or something like that.

arrowstorm Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 24th 2012 at 10:19:10 PM

:O I can honestly say that when I wrote this, I never expected it to be read by the author of any of the webcomcis that I talk about!

Thanks a lot for clearing that scene up. That was more or less what I thought happened but it's good to know for sure and to know that you do plan on continuing it at some point. Keep up the good work,I'm loving Life (no pun intended) at the moment, it's well written and the art style really has 'evolved' over time. Thanks for taking the time to read the post!

BTW, do you know if there are trope pages for any of the Cha0s Den comics? I havben't been able to find any :(

cha0sTropes Since: Dec, 1969

Aug 25th 2012 at 11:43:44 AM

No tvtropes pages exist as far as I know. And no problem, it's fun reading reviews about my stuff.