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13/03/06 [007] 01:07 - That's Very Nice

spoonerman

on March 12, 2006

Ok so I updated this page a bit later than expected, the usual update day is sunday but i uploaded it on monday this time, but while I may have been late this time it made me realise that making monday the comic update day would probably help both me and the readers.

You see if i have more time over the weekend then i could put more effort into the comic and since monday is something i like to call 'webcomic day' then it would suit it better.

Just so you know 'webcomic day' is the day that most of my fav webcomics update, (applegeeks, megatokyo, vgcats etc) and also monday is quite a popular update day for other webcomic artists, so for those who read a lot of webcomics making monday the update day could make your lives that little bit easier.

This week not a lot has happened really, getting my xbox 360 replaced, (I now hate microsoft as much as sony now, only halo 3 can help me change my mind) I'm also massively behind in college with coursework, and I've been spending my spare time (what i have at least) drawing concept art, you see i'm not expecting this comic to carry me through life, i actually want to be a concept arist for a game company, yes both pro webcomic artist and game studio concept artist are relativley hard jobs to get a hold of but i have a little trick under my sleeve, (by the way does anyone have a spare crowbar i can borrow). I haven't drawn concept art in a while before this week, a couple of months at the least but anyway i'll post some of it on the forums later, rip it apart i don't care as long as it's constructive.

And also I'd like to discuss a point that Patsy raised, he says that this comic is just a rip-off of Megtokyo, I guess when it has the same sort style of Megatokyo it can cloud your eyes a bit, (by the way I've been experimenting with the style and it should change slightly soon) but that doesn't mean that it's a rip-off. Take 9th Elsewhere, a pencil manga webcomic, one of the few good ones, it may not have the same style persay but I bet some people asked if it was a take off of megatokyo at some point or another, (please correct me if i'm wrong) the whole world is made of take offs, Dragonball (Z/GT) with the Monkey legends, The Matrix trilogy with Ghost in the Shell, Stargate with Halo (you have to admit there is a similarity with the ancients and the forerunners). Some people say that no new ideas are ever created they are just regurgitating other peoples ideas in a different form, then I guess that would make Megatokyo a take off, and VGCats, and Applegeeks and every other good webcomic or basically any kind of story, mine's no different yeah i've based parts of the story on some bits on other anime's or manga, other films etc but this assumption was based after 7 pages of story. I find it hard to believe someone could make an accusation like that after reading 7 pages of a comic, that would be liek watching teh first 2 minutes of I Robot and saying it's SHIT, which in truth, is, but what if it got better near the end or soon after that 2 minutes, you can't make an assumption on anything unless you have a decent ammount of information. So I say this to you Patsy, if you don't like what i'm doing then bugger off, i can take a critisim if it's consrtuctive but i don't find what you said very constructive.

I've even made a post in the forums for all the readers to say whatever they like about my comic. you should find it in the Captains Quaters if you want to have a look.

(B.T.W. the forums can be found to the left of the comic page)