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Defeat MY comic, and the old list will hath breathed its last breath!

CHARGE!

http://www.nightgig.com/eggbert/

Man I haven't updated this comic properly in a while...

It's the final boss, guys! Get ready!

Anyways...

ART- Very very colourful. That's basically the first response you'll get to this. It's also very loose. Things like the law of perspective are followed to an extent, but not strictly. It's very in the style of old squash and squish cartoons. The early art doesn't pull this off that well, mainly because you've got a lot of photoshop-holes in your coloring. Probably weren't working on a lot of separate layers in that case I'm guessing. These days the coloring doesn't have any of those problems, although sometimes the shadows are so dark it seems unnatural. But they seem to follow the curves and everything. Sometimes the somewhat MS-Paint quality of the colors can just overload the senses though. But I guess subtlety isn't what this comic is about.

Story- Very crazy. Eggbert (the character) steals the show with his antics. He's kind of like Napoleon. Short, but at the same time an evil genius. At the same time the other characters just seem to happen into these situations because of Eggbert's actions. It would make a good weekly cartoon.
Anyway I'm not a huge fan of the story, because it's just not my kind of thing. I like more realistic stuff more concentrated on slightly less fantastic characters. However I think the story is well executed and will appeal to people who like those squash and squish type of action cartoons.

And that's my review.

All right! Time for a chain Super Combo!

I think it'll be spiffy if we keep the video game references going.

ART: The artwork is very cartoony, very playful, very fun. Kent is a very talented artist, as one might be able to tell by looking at the other work he has posted on his site. It's also easy to tell that he has improved immensely (I'm his very first fan, I should know!) His robots/machines look totally bad ass, each bubbly or round, fraught with Kent's style all over it. Fight scenes are done very well too, especially the corkscrew laser beam effect (I can't find the comic I'm referring to, but he's destroying the chicken capture machines as he dashes for the door, if I remember correctly). But it's not completely perfect. Usually, every comic has a big anatomical mistake that sticks out like a sore thumb. One leg is longer than the other, perspective is screwed up, or the shading is all out of whack in one panel. While I admit Kent is a much better artist than I, these things get to me from time to time. Like in the latest one, panel 7 gets to me because the girl's leg looks like a wet noodle and her foot looks like a lump of kneaded pizza dough.

WRITING: This comic has some very good parts. Kent's sense of humor is nearly unparalleled. Space Bakery: Now with Space Bread: FROM SPACE! Was on his most recent update, and it had me in stitches. Pretty much every time Roswell an Pumkin show up, it's an all-out laugh-fest. The story lines are really cool, as Eggbert, the Universe's most notorious evil genius, hatches one brilliant scheme after another.

Unfortunately, it's needlessly dramatic in some places. There are some people that are great humorists but terrible dramatic writers, I know this because I am one of them.

Kent, I love ya buddy, but the drama in your comic reminds me of bad anime.

Sometimes, two characters meet up to discuss matters, eyes flash, faces darken, all to set the mood. But, I don't know about any of you guys, but when I'm reading those parts, I just want it to be over with so I can get right to the exciting bits. Maybe it is just me...

All in all, I like this comic. I've been reading it since comic #9, and I don't plan on stopping. I think with time Kent could be a legendary cartoonist. Ah hell, he already is.

And I won't give you a spoon rating, because you asked so nicely. ;-)

Here goes...!

Art: Improves as it goes. The backgrounds get very stylized. I really liked the inner bank scene's backgrounds the depth of the hole/hallway really looked cool.

The action art is wonderful. Probably the best aspect of the comic. The effects get better as they go too. Sometimes I can imagine animation unfolding as I look through the panels.

Some things don't feel right. The characters can be in this all out action scene... like the spaceship getting hit and then the last panel the characters within the crashing ship will be in a white background totally upright and calm as if the ground beneath them on the just-been-hit-ship is perfectly stable telling a joke. Maybe have more of a background for some of the dialogue jokes and have the characters more integrated into what just happened. For color comics white backgrounds really feel out of place. Most of the colors in Eggbert are darker too. So completely white background panels feel even more out of place.

Story: In a sentence: It's fast paced and full of action. It starts off reminding me of Tenchi Muyo for some reason with Eggbert as Ryoko with the cop chasing him. Then it goes into kinda an Invader Zim like story with Eggbert trying to wreck havoc across the universe.
As I said before the story is nicely paced. Tons of action and it keeps coming. When there isn't action there's plenty of mechs and gags in between.

The characters are interesting. Eggbert will never stop amazing me with his antics. He's a genius ,but not too perfect. He still fails and has a ton of character flaws(huge ego, wants to zap anything that annoys him) which makes him really funny. The funniest scenes always seem to involve Eggbert.
The supporting cast can be a bit annoying.
Roswell is supposed to be the straight man taking things from the audience's perspective ,but he can really be over obvious at times. And so much inner dialogue..he seems to think of the same stuff over and over again, why am I with this guy?, oh this is happening to me right now, I want to be strong for Luna.. on and on... He has gotten better as the story progressed.
Pumkin is a real love or hate character. It's nice to have a happy-go-lucky character in the main group. The random words get annoying sometimes. He's like a Grrr rip off.


All in all. Good stuff. Eggbert is a good comic to jump right into. Plenty of things happening and it will not bore in the slightest.

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