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Take a chance on Taking the Bi-pass

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I'm new to these forums and I thought this seemed like the best place to start.

I create a webcomic called Taking the Bi-pass which I have been working on for almost 5 years now. If you dig through the archives you will see it is a work in progress and I have, at least I think, made improvements in art and writing (I'd love to hear what you think though).

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Taking the Bi-pass has covered all sorts of topics during its run but has slowly been narrowing in on being a slice-of-life comedic strip.

I'm terrible at selling my comic but hopefully it can sell itself a bit if you can read it. If you can give a good description of it that I can use in the future I would love you for it.

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I like how the art has evolved over the course of the strip, there's a definite improvement since it's inception.

I'll have to take some time and delve further into it, but from what I read it's pretty funny so far.
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Thanks for the comment. Improving my art was one of the first reasons I started to do the strip so it is nice to see that it is helping out.

Here is a sample of the jump so far.

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Post by Falconire »

I didn't expect to see such a large archive and honestly expected a comic with jus a few strips so i was quite surprised. Your art has definatly evolved a lot with the newer stuff resembling C.A.D. to a degree.

I'm curious, after four years of posting how many hits do you tend to get a day?

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It varies but I am averaging just above 1000 Unique a day. I haven't done a great deal of marketing of the comic and most of the growth has come in the past year or so.

If anyone has some good ideas of places to promote my comic I'd love to hear them.
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A 'brief' review.

I'm assuming that's the strip is based on your real life, but in a comical "not all is real" sort of way. Which is rather appealing because it isn't quite obvious that it is, only by reading your very extensive comments does it become apparant. As you have stated yourself, your art style has improved, not really through leaps and bounds, I can see the general switch from inks to digital as being a greater leap, but the style has a very gradual refinement which is probably for the better.

None the less, I am not a fan of "negative panals" where you inverse the characters and only show the text, such as here. It may be because I did a rapid-cram, but they're probably better for epic moments, rather than conversation padding. As you have said, some jokes work better than others, and I'm not sure really what the relationship between you and your wife vs Jeh ever is. Are you roomies, co-habiting a shared house...or is he a plot device?

Also, you use the alt text of your artwork as the comic description? Am I the only person who noticed when you didn't do it? The mind boggles.

The writing is solid, you're not aiming for prose and tbh, not for character development besides the whole marriage-pregnancy arc which would be a huge WTF for most roomate comics. Sometimes it does get a bit off-the-wall, like the teleportation arc, although that was deliberate.

Of personal interest are your notes (which are out-of-the-way for the less wordy) and I genuinely am surprised that you need to ask for readers when you have plugged so extensively for sites, music and personalities that you are so passionate about. I think one of the things that I do like about your site is that it's "you" and I am very impressed you have a wigit that remembers the last page I viewed.

I think I'll sign up to your forum.
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I've seen the odd one stuck around here and there and liked 'em. I also mistakenly beleived it to be about bisexuality first of all (in fact i was expecting something similar to the excellent Jake The Rake that acheived mild fame several years ago) and attempted to read the massive archive, but i don't have the free time i used to so gave up. May 'ave a go one day though
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I have gotten the comment about thinking the comic is linked to bisexuality many times now. I have actually thought about changing the name to the proper spelling, 'Taking the Bypass', to avoid confusion.
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It isn't about bisexuality? D:
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It could be. I've never said it isn't.
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