Welcome to the DD Review Forum. The purpose of this forum is to encourage community reviews to help artists collect honest opinions about their works, and hopefully get some advice on how to improve.

Here's some rules.

To sign your comic up on the list you must have reviewed
at least 3 other comics.

# Always give your honest opinion. No sugar coating or needless bashing. Say what you actually think about the subject of the review.

# You cannot create threads for your own comic. There's a list, and you have to sign up for it.

# Stay on topic. I'm okay with a bit of silly every now and then, but let's stay focused for the most part.

Types of threads in this forum.

1. DD Review Threads. Marked in RED, please review these comics FIRST! Comic review takes place in these threads and in these threads only. Only I can create them, and only if the comic has signed up in the DD Review Thread and waited their turn.

2. Threads discussing the nature of reviewery. As in threads dicussing the actual process and systems of reviewing, as well as threads about how to write better reviews.

Thank you, and enjoy the forum.

the rules sound fair to me. ^^ but I have one minor question, is there a certain length reviews should be? how in depth are we supposed to go when we're reviewing?

Nikki0417
the rules sound fair to me. ^^ but I have one minor question, is there a certain length reviews should be? how in depth are we supposed to go when we're reviewing?

You can check the reviews for "Raising hell:"
http://www.drunkduck.com/community/view_topic.php?tid=45871&cid=235

There you will see a few reviews of different lengths and all of those are good.
The point is otherwise to help the author of the comic by being as detailed as possible.

hi,I'm new to comics, making them that is. I was just looking at some reviews and saw a few locked topics. I was curious as to what made a topic get locked. :) Thanks.

spkdpnch
hi,I'm new to comics, making them that is. I was just looking at some reviews and saw a few locked topics. I was curious as to what made a topic get locked.

Hi,
Those topics are locked mostly because they are reeeeeeally old review topics that got "digged up". The focus is on the latest review topics first and foremost.

Also some of those comics were linking to non-Drunk duck places before the "only Drunk duck comics" rule came to be.

Um...If I review 3 comic,Does it mean that I can Just put one comic for the review or more???

mamaya94
Um...If I review 3 comic,Does it mean that I can Just put one comic for the review or more???

Yup it is one comic and three reviews. Want to add a second comic you need to make three more reviews.

How/where am assigned to review which 3 comics please? Further clarificaion on whether you wade in on posts in red or get specific assignments by signing up on a specific forum thread.

There's no assignments. You just look through this forum and pick 3 you're interested in. :] Just make sure they're not too old- adding a review into a thread that is 6 months old isn't going to be very useful to anyone. Just add your review of that comic as a reply to its thread.

Then, when you've done 3, you can make your own post to sign up in the sign-up thread. for that thread, just follow the pattern of what others have done, and link to your three reviews so people can find them easily.

The threads that are in red are just the most recent ones. As they get older and collect more replies/reviews, they are made black and move down the list to mix with all the others. You don't HAVE to review any red ones, but as they're the most current ones available, reviewing them would be more useful than reviewing one that is several months old. If the 'red' comics don't get enough reviews, they stay red, and it slows the overall list down. Sometimes people who have signed up have to wait a while because it's taking a long time for the current/red ones to get enough reviews.

skoolmunkee is correct! :)

What word count would you like for a review?

k1at
What word count would you like for a review?

You can check this review topic for examples:
http://www.drunkduck.com/community/view_topic.php?tid=48046&cid=235

Something along the line of that works. Of course it can be even longer if you like.

Ok,I reviewed 3 comics.
Now,I can give the direction of my comic for the the review?

chiisa
Ok,I reviewed 3 comics.
Now,I can give the direction of my comic for the the review?

Your reviews are too short. They are more like comments.

Look at the previous reviews and you can see how long they need to be.

Ok,done.
Can´t do it more long.
And hope people don´t kill me because of my opinions,I tried to be sincerely.

Is english your second language? You don't say more longer, you just say longer.
No one's gonna kill you for an honest review. Unless they're as crazy as me.

Thank you.^^
Sorry,I have a few errors with my English.
Thank you so much for correcting me.=3
About the languague,yes,I´m Spanish.

S'okay. Wait. I should have told you this in another place. These are the rules. Um...*says something 'ruley'*

chiisa, i just noticed your comic only has TWO PAGES!?!? The limit is 20 pages.

As for your reviews. The language is a big problem yes, but most of all you really don't give any CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. Just saying "Try to do it more better." isn't all that helpful.

Nope,it has just 5 pages,because on one public house,they said the manga needs 5 pages. u.u
Originally,it had got 14,but I must do it on 5.

chiisa
Nope,it has just 5 pages,because on one public house,they said the manga needs 5 pages. u.u

Well they were wrong...at the...public house (in my country, that means a bar (pub), I'm a little bemused). While there's no problem with making a manga of five pages in length, it does not mean that all manga must be five pages in length.
To get your comic reviewed here, you must have at least 20 pages and have written 3 reviews of a decent length and quality. By which I mean that they need to be reviews which could be used by a potential reader to learn about the overall quality of a comic, or by the artist or writer to hear about the strengths and weaknesses of their comic in detail. They ought to be at least a paragraph long.
To write a couple of sentences vaguely saying that they could do it better and then expect full and detailed reviews in return is kind of disrespectful.

If you want feedback on your comic, but don't have the English skills or page count for this part of the forum, I strongly recommend going to the 'Hey, Look What I Did!' section of the forum and making a thread for your comic with a label.

I´m making now the second comic,because people saw the first and liked it.
This has 20 pages.
I´ll start with the first,when I´ll finish this,because the editor of another pu...(well don´t know how you call that)said me I must do 20 pages.

How long is the waiting period before your comic shows up to be reviewed?

(on average. I realize a lot of stuff goes on behind the scenes)

Loud_G
How long is the waiting period before your comic shows up to be reviewed?

The waiting line isn't that long, but the actual time it takes depends totally on how fast people review the latest comics put up.

Recently things have been going really slow sadly.

Before I review something else I need to know how old is too old? I mean the first page has things that say "last post at nov 2009" but I was afraid that it was not 'safe' to read and review.

xxRabbit_Freakxx
Before I review something else I need to know how old is too old? I mean the first page has things that say "last post at nov 2009" but I was afraid that it was not 'safe' to read and review.

Anything on the first page of the comic review forum is ok to review.

Although i must advise you to take some more time with your reviews. The one you did is not good and way to short and generic. Look at some of the other reviews to get an idea of what your review should contain, and remember, the idea is to help the comic author to improve so being as detailed as possible is the key.

When I did a review of one of the comics here on DD it got deleted.

Did I break some rule putting up the topic or was it the site acting up like it has been, logging people out when they try to upload pages and such?

Either way it has discouraged me from wanting to make any further effort to make any further reviews.

:mad:

meemjar
When I did a review of one of the comics here on DD it got deleted.

You can read more about the rules and guidelines in the top post, but in short there is a list of the comics up for review. Creating your own topics with just any comic isn't the way to go.

How does this work. Based on the rules I understand not writing about one's personal comic. But how are we supposed to review comics we like? Do we suggest them as a comic to be reviewed? I ask because I wrote a review about The Assemblers and it appears to have been deleted.

DesireG
How does this work. Based on the rules I understand not writing about one's personal comic. But how are we supposed to review comics we like? Do we suggest them as a comic to be reviewed? I ask because I wrote a review about The Assemblers and it appears to have been deleted.

No,the comic author must request a review(and only after he reviewed previous 3 comics that were open for reviews).After a waiting period,the moderator opens a new review topic.
You can only review comics already open in forum topics,and only mods can start new topics =)