Misfile

www.misfile.com

It's a very innocent comic, yet midly erotic. It's about a boy who gets transformed into a girl, and another girl who gets to be born a few years later, whereby they're know at the same age. These are however the only two humans on Earth who knows. How it happened, how they're going to fix this "misfile", and how their relationship between eachother evolves? Well find out by reading.

The comic in itself is very innocent, the "hottest" part is kissing and otherwise it's mostly about driving cars, freeing souls, and being uncomfortable in the wrong gender.

Misfile is quite referenced on the wiki.

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

Five new pages a week and the plot still manages to almost not move at all. Amazing.

Now if you excuse me, Starfleet is about to award the Christopher Pike Medal to my dick. — SF Debris

Meh, Megatokyo is much worse in that regard, and I'm still reading it.

The Philosopher-King Paradox

Due to the Entry Pimpage of this comic on the wiki I took a look at it, but due to the glacial pace and overuse of cliche Manga Effects, I gave up on it. Which is odd, since I have a high tolerance for webcomic problems.

It's an interesting story, but I just wish it wasn't so slow...

Yeah, I was reading it for a while but stopped a month or two ago because nothing whatsoever was happening. At least in Megatokyo there's some interesting character growth and fun dialogue. Misfile is just sitting around.

Bitch Emily is back.

i never really realized how much "eyes visible through hair" bothered me until i read this.

and now i see it everywhere. dammit.

this thing still here?

Just started this one, and so far its been good. Plot doesn't feel like its dragging or anything, but maybe I'm not far enough into the story to notice. What I like about it so far is that it manages to combine three genres (road racing ala Initial D, supernatural romance with the angels and their occasional demon-slaying, and a gender-bender dramady) well into a single story, and pulls off balancing the comedy with the drama. The series also does highschool angst well, and the dialogue has some winning moments. I honestly feel its a better story overall than Megatokyo which is so far what everyone has compared it to (but that may be because the guy who writes Megatokyo is a tremendous ass in person...haven't liked his work since seeing him at a convention).

Fear is our ally. The gasoline will be ours. A Honey Badger does not kill you to eat you. It tears off your testicles.

Misfile is really good for a while, and then slowly peters out.

Well it's not exactly dragging yet. At least not on the same field you see with some series. (\*Cough* Dragonball Z *cough*)

Yes there seems to be some minor Arc Fatigue in the vein of Myth Stall. No however it is not at the point to where The Chris Carter Effect is in play.

It does beg the question however. Are we the readers going to see some form of plot advancement and/or resolution in the next 1000-1200 strips? Or is this going to drag out and catch The Chris Carter Effect?

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

^Good point. I can see this whole "missing angel" story to go on and on with nothing happening (mostly because it just isn't all that interesting compared to the main romance plot)...but at least the highschool romance portion of the strip seems to be moving at a good pace - you usually don't want those sort of things to be over with fast. Having read the series up to its present day, I can say that it does suffer from They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot - that whole Cape Cod segment could have gotten a lot darker only to have the useless angels come in to be Big Damn Heroes and save Emily from getting molested by that guy, which was what they seemed to be foreshadowing, what with the references to mace and that whole line about how a mistake is going to happen but you can't stop it and it isn't what you think it is. Instead the plot just kind of falls flat on its face in that arc. Oh well.

edited 16th Feb '10 8:57:55 AM by Bioelectricclam

Fear is our ally. The gasoline will be ours. A Honey Badger does not kill you to eat you. It tears off your testicles.

There are a lot of They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot moments. A lot of storylines until about a year ago resolved way before their time. Cassiel disguised as a lesbian, for one - that was a story that was going somewhere and had the fans intrigued. A dominant lesbian partner opened up a lot of possibilities for Ash. But no, it ends in less than two weeks just to say, "Ha ha, the new villain is completely incompetent and poses no threat whatsoever!" Keep in mind that that was about a year before Missi showed up, so there was a lot of mileage there.

Then there was the Aiden arc. Holy CRAP that sucked.

Lately, yeah, it has stalled big time. The Emily race perked it up a bit, at least. The angel subplot needs to move forward because at this point it's just random things being mentioned so far apart from one another that it's tough to say interested.

I think the series has pretty good art; I appreciate the plentiful Fanservice as much as the next guy. The dialogue writing is good, and I think that the plot is an interesting mix of Slice of Life, Gender Bender, and Supernatural Soap Opera, but with five updates a week, but, as of today, Misfile has been on the same day for over forty pages... and it's a day where almost nothing of significance happens. Ash learns about a new racer threat on the scene (and plays it off as unimportant) and Missi gets drunk and shows off her tramp stamp a lot... but again, it doesn't seem like it's going to lead to anything except more fanservice and Les Yay teasing.

edited 24th Feb '10 7:08:07 AM by Dracomicron

"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules." - E. Gary Gygax

Bit of a thread necro but I've got to say something that I never thought that I would before. Yay Missi!

Welcome to the Sea of Chaos

Kinda sucks how some plot arcs seem to literally go nowhere as if the writer just outirght forgot about them. Such as the subplot about the murdered angel, where a lot of the igher ups freak out, and now, months later, nothing has come from that, and not even a hint as to its resolution. Just as if the writer forgot about it. And he brought back racing, which was always my least favorite part of the comic. Racing just doesn't work in a medium where nothing moves, and comes off as the guy just stalling the plot even more than he already does.

Overall though, I like the comic, and have followed for a while now. It's got interesting and well rounded characters, and Rumsiel playing that tape was definitely his Crowning Moment Of Awesome.

Any work with lots of storylines moves back and forth between them.

Was I the only one who thought Missi did what she did for bragging rights?

edited 24th Jun '10 2:10:21 AM by Michael

OWWWWW!!! Groin Attack!

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

After turning his friends on him by spitting his own words back in his face, simply kicking him in the balls seems exceptionally lacking in class.

...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.

That will be why it was Missi that did it. Her sense of humour is very ... earthy.

Humiliation Conga. He deserved it.

You'll need to zoom out, for some reason this update is zoomed right in (probably to the size the artist works at) but I just wanted to say: Nerd Power!

Seriously, imagine if Apple got their hands on those things.

I think they already have.

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

Actually, I wonder what Chekhov would do with that?