Oh Brother whatawhat?

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there is definatly some inuyasha influences showing up in the comic, but its not a copy. I personaly find the art more appealing. some pages can be cluttered, but this is common in fully computer colored comics. The characters are a little flat, but you still seem to be getting the plot underway, so there's time to flesh them out a bit. All in all, a nice comic that's been on my fav's for a while. Don't get discouraged, you've got a lot of potential and I look forward to reading more.

Wow....I'm at a loss of words. This comic is flat-out awesome. The artwork is amazing, the story is interesting (I see what you were saying about the Inuyasha thing, daidaishar). After the first couple of comics I was hooked and immediately added this comic to my favorites. There's not much else to say. This comic rocks.

As there are 92 pages to this comic I'm not going to even pretend I've taken the time to go through them all - but I have viewed enough of them to be able to form an "at a glance" opinion, hopefully.

First off, the art is very impressive. The execution of the story element seems to be very good. These are the two most important elements of a serious comic. Personally I prefer comedy, but I can certainly see why fans of serious comics would go for this series.

My only gripe is that sometimes it can be a little bit hard to tell which panels follow on from which. This is particularly evident when there are lots of tiny panels bundled together (do I read left to right, then down, or up to down then right?).

I like this comic a lot. I find it has many passing resemblences to my own comic as i'd like it to be (as in my comic minus a lot of the limitations) and with characters who are set in a world that seems a bit more...rich? Interesting? Anyway enough degrading of my own stuff. The comic's plot is fun to follow. Some random stuff happens. The plot is very much one that acomplishes a lot and is enjoyable while still being only 92 pages (and that's not all that long considering the amount of plot covered). This is mostly because the comic functions outside the constraints of a normal comic page. Also it has some tiny little pannels with text that's sometimes hard to read. That forewards the plot. (Although large amounts of small text isn't necessarily a good thing).

I think that's mainly what the weakness of this comic is. It relies way too much on text to tell the story. Like there was something about vampires in there squeezed into a small space....it was very hard to read and I skipped over a lot of it. Proper balance between story and art is good.

But there's a lot of nice art in this comic overall. It's really attractive with some really great coloring combined with a very distictive anime-inspired style. And the artist seems to know what she's doing.

So anyway I've been a fan of this comic for a while. I'll continue reading it. But it doesn't update enough...

I don't normally read manga, but this one has been much more interesting than most internet manga webcomics. Plus, I'm such a spazz for any intelligent dog-like creatures who are characters, and this one is super cute. I also love that Nomen refers to himself in 3rd person. There's a lot of little neat things like that.

The first 30 pages start out a little slow, but there's enough humor in there to keep people reading. When it gets to the casino scene after Nomen meets the little purple guy, it really slows down though. I think the bad guys could have been introduced much less...obviously. All of the info-dumping in that scene is also a big no-no.

As the story progresses past chapter 1, I'm still trying to find a solid connecting theme between events, but it's a stretch. I would suggest making things a little more obvious. What the creator might consider waaaaay in your face can be considered only mildly suspicious to the reader. This is especially important when you don't update too often. Ideas get too fragmented otherwise.

The big words thrown there in the middle of some pages really jarrs with the rest of the vernacular.

The vampire interlude, while interesting, was a little ineffective, especially with all the info thrown at the reader. I too know the hardships of weekly updating, and how you just want to throw it all in the page, but resist! Resist I say! Spread it out! Also, please choose colors and styles for the word balloons. When you keep changing them, it confuses people who is talking.

Ahh, page 79 is where it all starts to come together! A little late, but grandiose nonetheless. The next pages up to the present are teh awesomeness, especially the flashbacks to the wedding. All in all, good read.

Nice! Okay. Combed through the entire archive; the story's quite addictive. Most of the important points have already been noted (Inuyasha and Nomed, large blocks of text, etc.), so I'll just go over briefly what I thought.

The first and second chapter pulled this reader along nicely. Interactions were great between the existing characters, and you did a nice job of differentiating Ruethin from Nomed from their client Anitka, and so on. The premise was easy to understand and there was a lot of humour as well. I did feel that the first client was a bit of an awkward detour and didn't serve any general purpose in the long run, but maybe the significance will come up later?

The third chapter seemed to be more problematic. A lot of characters were introduced in a very short block of time, particularly towards the beginning, and there was a lot of info to digest (particularly with regards to the history of vampires - I would say that cutting out most of the info on page 74 wouldn't harm the story none).

Moreover, new characters and settings seemed to be thrown at the reader in rapid fire mode: here is a lady sitting in her bed, here is Nomed and Ruethin, here is a backstory, here is a new pair of characters, here is Labard, here is Labard foreshadowing in a cryptic manner, here is a street punk...it's an extremely brave progression and it shows coherence, but compared to the pacing in previous chapters, it seemed just a little speedy. At the same time, I was wondering about our main characters - what are they doing? Where are they going? When will we see them again?

There's also a dramatic and really noticeable mood change with the introduction of Labard, which makes me thankful for Tanker for keeping thngs light. :)

The main thing I notice is that the story would be totally excellent if it were only stretched out slightly. The comic is at its most awkward when I feel as though you are trying to hasten the narrative so that we can get the backstory to appreciate the best parts.

Pros? There are a lot, let me just sum them up. The chapter two part 2 title page rocks. Seriously. :-D The best thing about this comic is its art. It's got a really excellent sense of atmosphere and the colours definitely bring it to life. All of the characters are distinctive; there's really no way to confuse them. I love the range of settings you play around with, and the environments the characters go through - all of them have the feel of being extensions of the same world, which unifies the journey. The story? Very suspenseful - it's got a nice variety but also plenty of recurring characters to love. There's a definite knack for action scenes on display, something quite rare in webcomics.

Sorry for rambling, and thank you for introducing me to a great webcomic! Will definitely continue to read. :D

WHOA, they really caught up on that Review list didn't they?

Aaah! Thank you all so very much for your input! There are many things I need to decide on for the pacing of this comic... *I really think the pacing has a lot to do with it's folly...*

DDDXXX *aughe, inu-yasha* Before the Duck site went down, I had a parody comic with Nomed vs Inu-Yasha... T'was quite amusing.

So, the panals do confuse people after all.... I'd actually been trying to avoid that.... Because I get annoyed when I can't follow panals as well.... I will keep that in mind... I've been trying to establish a formula, but I think I need to look into how most comics usually work the order of their panals... Maybe there's some unwritten law I haven't discovered about that, yet...

The "info-dump" during the first chapter is a "no-no"... hm... At that point, Tanker was sort of picking at the Alban dude. He was doing it to purposefully to annoy the boss guy, while faking to be naive about it the whole time, though in sync with everything else, that probably came off as another info-dump. TT TT;; *Curses*

The vampire history was a failed experiment, too. *gah* but I DO want to incorporate information like that into the comic... not just about vampires, but information about demonic origins should appear in there too.... *some...day... Dx* Except it's no fun if it's like reading a textbook. *grumblemutterhowdoIfixthis...*

What's really interesting is the "flat characters" thing... I at least know they are not flat, but I also know that we're still in very early stages of storyline... But that might account for certain expectations people have had about them, that are somewhat off...


Aye! I really appreciate this input! Thank you very much for the insight! I think I needed to know those things.