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'Kay, first off, I've already pitched this comic before, but I've come out of a long hiatus, and I think the art is improving and such, and I'm dead beat to get some readership...

You can find the strip here: http://sowhat.comicgenesis.com/

So what? is a gag strip with an ongoing story which focuses on the love-life of the main character, a college student prone to romantic outbursts, but with no luck with ladies. It also probably involves platypusses or robots... The archives have got 100+ strips on them and some fillers, black and white cartoon-like art, and the humor tries to be generic without being bland.

(By the way, I would love to get an artist to draw them for me, but that's just a personal pledge)

So what?

Dutch! wrote:So what?

Well, I was kind of hoping for a review or, you know, at least some useful commentary...

Heh...to be honest, I was expecting a rush on and I wanted to get the comment in before everybody else...I would have thought there would have been more replies by now.

Okay, never mind, I'm sorry if my last comment sounded a bit harsh, anyway... I'm really enjoying SS, by the way...

ahaha. comment steal >.<

anyway. I like the art. its simple, but cute + clear. solid updates schedule. story's nothing special, but its still funny ^^.

and i just think the bilingual thing is really admirable.

Here's a real comment for you then...

I like the way the panels are (usually) nice and clear and easy to see. The linework is bold and generally precise. It's nice, looks quick and easy, yet careful. One thing that had me a little thoughtful...the characters' heads are very horizontally oval shaped when viewed from the front (which I think looks fine), yet their more normally proportioned from side on. Is that intentional? Just took me a little while to get used to it.

Didn't get too much of the humour throughout it, but there were some amusing bits and pieces. I just don't think I'm attuned to the situations, perhaps.

I like the idea of the bi-lingual stuff. At first I was reading it and thought...hang on...each strip alternates between spanish and english...and repeats itself...oh...right. It's in two languages for the same strip. Cool.

I perhaps would have made the strips traditionally horizontal in this case, so that they're on top of each other, not side to side. Just might have made things easier to read one language version instead of the other. I regularly finished one English panel, then went to the next spanish one and swore to myself quietly.

Commendable approach though.

Oh...and your first comment wasn't harsh at all! And appreciate the comments on my own piece of work...thanks.

Cheers.

Ok, thanks for the comments...

Doukasou wrote:solid updates schedule.

From now on I plan it to be so, I've had a couple of hiatus along the way, though...

Doukasou wrote:and i just think the bilingual thing is really admirable.

It's no big deal, considering I'm bilingual myself... Just makes for an extra five minutes of my time...

Dutch! wrote:the characters' heads are very horizontally oval shaped when viewed from the front (which I think looks fine), yet their more normally proportioned from side on. Is that intentional? Just took me a little while to get used to it.

Well, when I started developing the art style for the strip I just had front faces, and the first profile I draw came more normal shaped and it just sort of stuck...

Dutch! wrote:I perhaps would have made the strips traditionally horizontal in this case, so that they're on top of each other, not side to side. Just might have made things easier to read one language version instead of the other. I regularly finished one English panel, then went to the next spanish one and swore to myself quietly.

Well, One day I'll get on on doing two separate webpages, I swear... T_T

Nit picky comment -- feel free to ignore

The colours on your calendar make the links "invisible" I have NO idea why



Susan