Placeholder for Blue Skunk. Should be able to get a critique in in...an hour?
Edit:
mcDuffies wrote:No need to hurry, BK, it seems like the system works better when people wait for review above to be posted.
Ah okay.
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Review for Blue Skunk
For the most part, I'll be talking about Chapter Two of Blue Skunk seeing as how with each chapter, you make significant changes and improvements to the comic.
Art-wise, Blue Skunk has very beautiful colouring. There's an almost painterly quality to your work and it's really what attracts me to your comic. I've seen you around at other communities and I've always been a bit curious about it primarily due to your colouring.
However, there are some anatomy issues issues in Blue Skunk. It's not consistent either...if that makes sense. For example, let's take a look at
this page. In the second panel, Lucy has really broad shoulders with breasts that hang a bit low. They almost seem to spill out of her top in fact. Her body seems to be turned at an angle yet her legs seem to face the viewer head on. However, if you look at the third panel, her body structure is different. Head's bigger, shoulders less broad. Her body is also facing the viewer head on now although she could very well have shifted during the time inbetween the two panels.
In general, your characters can be kind of stiff sometimes. Sometimes I get the feeling they're striking poses even. Regardless, sometimes it just doesn't seem very natural.
Another issues that came up while I was reading your comic are the night scenes. I understand that it's very dark, probably very hard to see and that you may be trying to be realistic about the scene itself. So I understand that it's suppose to be that way.
But sometimes, it takes me a while to figure out what's being depicted. And sometimes, I don't even know what's going on. It took me two readings
to figure out that there was a gun pointed at her for example. I know you mentioned it in your comments but during my first reading, I ignored all the comments and focused primarily on the comic itself. It's only during the second round of reading did I read what you wrote below (and really, that's what clued me in about the gun.)
I don't want to give the impression that your comic's art is bad because it isn't. It's a lot richer than some of the other comics out there that I've seen. But I think it can also be greatly improved upon.
In regards to your writing, I think the story is pretty interesting. You have some interesting elements in the plot such as why that terrorist is still alive or who that boy is. But I don't feel I'm getting the full grasp of what the comic's really about (unless it's suppose to be short stories united by one common character and theme.) I'm quite curious about the world of Blue Skunk as it seems very different from the real world.
One of the things however that made it necessary for me to read your comic twice was speech bubble placement. Sometimes I would be reading speech bubbles out of the intended order (or at least I think it's the intended order.) For example, in
this page my first thought was to read it in this order:
Lucy: STOP!
Lucy: We're standing in front of a wall.
Mir: Why?
Which leads me to think that Mir is asking why there's a wall. But if I
go to the next page, I will realize that she's not asking why there's a wall. She's asking why Lucy said stop.
Speaking of that page, you also seem to misspell the word "field" consistently. This page uses that word the most and they were all misspelled. (It's also "Star Trek" not "star treck." Sorry if I'm being a bit anal.)
Here's another example on the speech bubble placement. If you take a look at the second and third panel, my first impression was to read it in this order:
Mir: Yes?
Captain: Pardon me, senora, but we are coming up on the landing.
Mir: We're fine. We don't need a guide.
Captain: You are sure?
Mir: Very. Bye bye now.
Captain: I wanted to offer my brother again. It's a big jungle and...
Most people that I know of generally read all the speech bubbles that are in one panel then move on to the next panel. They don't jump back and forth between panels. The only exception is when the speech bubbles are close enough together that the eye naturally follow the flow of words. But in this case, the captain's (or whoever he may be) part about his brother is all the way on the other side of another panel. The eye would not naturally jump to that then to Mir's comment about being fine, even if the captain's speech bubble is elevated higher than Mir's.
I hope I'm not being too harsh as that's not really my intention. There were times when I sincerely was at loss as to what's happening and would have to stare/read the page again and again to understand. But I don't think it's a bad comic. Rather, it's a comic that looks like it had a lot of hard work and thought put into it. I feel like I'm catching this comic's story at the beginning and that I'm not quite getting the real meat of it yet.
Hope what I've said helps.
. So, here it is again. With the same rules the last one had. Except I want to add that if you just want to make a comment without being reviewed post in parenthesis, (like this). 
. I'll keep your suggestions in mind.)
(BTW Uschi is a Swiss girl, not Russian) I always was lukewarm about that comic. 
nice choice of words.
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