28 – Subtle Humor || Enemy of the State

[J][041130]

Rant as of late last night — {This was an actual conversation. Over the phone though, not instant messenger…}

Usually, I leave D-san alone, but this time, his rant has really ticked me off. Ongoing experiment? Look here, this is a PROJECT we started. Not just a short term project, this is a COMMITMENT! Don’t downsize the weight it carries. Room for improvement? Sure, but if you don’t see what to improve, QUIT WHINING! Our readers come here for humor and what plot we might have, not to hear us whine about our problems. That’s why I usually keep my rants short.

Not a “showcase for dazzling work”? Okay, I agree “dazzling” is a subjective term, but if we’re not here to showcase our work, WHAT THE FACK ARE WE DOING?! FISHING FOR CRITIQUES!? If you want those, you can go wade about in the mudpool they call the M*gaT*kyo “Forums”. You’ve done that plenty already, anyway.

More: You keep having to relate our thing to M*gaT*kyo, don’t you?! Look, this is nothing like that, except for the way you’re planning it!

Oh, and about helping the 56k-ers: Look, just reduce your filesize. Thus far, my comics have been less than half the size of yours. I agree that my quality could be a bit better, but still!

Erg. I just expended all my energy yelling (yellling?) at my co-author. I have some more issues with him, but I think I’ll take those to him directly. After all, it’s hypocracy if I whine here about them after spending a whole rant trashing him for doing the same thing…

[D][041130]

Well, long time no rant. This isn’t a rant either, but you know, better crappy content than no content, eh? And, you know, this time I have the wonderful knowledge that no matter what, I cannot overflow the rant box.

So NWars is an ongoing experiment, IMO, it isn’t a showcase for dazzling work, nor is it intended to be, this applies to both the galleries and the site itself. NWars is just another short term project (Well, I think it’s short) to work on art, and such, just as Starcrossed and Reflection were. I believe, that as of now, there is still a lot of room for improvement, even though I don’t see what to improve.

Of course, I was looking to do that ranklist signup and stuff for a while now, and it took me about four hours one morning to get what you see on the links page right now. Maybe next weekend, I’ll try to get more, but as of now, at least a few more people can see us than before. Adding on to the links, you’ll notice NWars is on site version three. I tinkered around with it to the point where I eliminated all the stupid graphics files that were holding the site together, and went for a pure html code. Not that it’s necessary right now, but that will conserve bandwith. Oh yes, it also helps the 56k’ers, I know Kooliop is one of them.

And on the lines of improvement, I stopped needing to trace the comics. I figured I was able to draw the guidelines much lighter now than before, so a 25% brightness/contrast adjustment would eliminate those lines from the final comic. This saves about 20% of the time it takes to do each comic, meaing I can work on stuff like backgrounds, and detail, and stuff like that. On the contrary, the comics look even cleaner with that extra 25% brightness/contrast thing.

Then there is that thing of PLOT. It starts on today’s comic. Oh yes, quite exciting, eh? I don’t really think I’ve developed D-san or J-san too much up to this point, but working on the first few strips of the story arc here, it really starts looking like MT – Crazy Genius/Somber, Self-Depreciating Idiot – J-san/D-san. Oh well, at least we will have some originality in other aspects which I will not reveal.

Hits HAVE been going up. We hit a record 45. And the count for the past two days have been near 30. I’m actually surprised. Happy belated Thanksgiving, and thank god for this new rant box.