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Post by tangent on Jan 21, 2010 15:43:57 GMT
Considering Cherry's going to continue updating (so long as people are willing to donate at least), I figure it should have its own forum topic. ^^
I must admit some surprise. I would have thought that the government people would have arrived and then have Steve sent over via the Exchange. Instead, we have Flibbage here about to offer Steve a place in the Dojo. ^^
She's looking good, Em. You do good with colors. =^-^=
Alas, it's a week (hopefully) until the next update. Oh well. ^^;;
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Post by wanderer on Jan 21, 2010 18:19:24 GMT
Is the Cherry comic actually a prequel? For some reason I had the idea that it was an alternate continuity just to show off a character people liked.
The problem if it is a prequel is that we're going to end up seeing Steve wuss out before Sparkle's vicious and conniving ways, and essentially turn into her slave. I liked seeing him snapped OUT of that state (thanks to a little werewolf persuasion), but I don't think I'd enjoy seeing him go into it.
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Post by tangent on Jan 21, 2010 18:39:02 GMT
I'm fairly certain this is a prequel comic. And according to Ally and Emily, the next chapter does deal with Steve at the Dojo. Considering that even at his "worse" Steve was fairly snarky to Sparkle (and I'm fairly certain a couple of the other magical girls weren't exactly "slaves" to her either - she seems to have been "head magical girl" but outside of dating (and revenge), the girls were fairly independent).
What will be interesting is seeing Steve's reactions to the others at the Dojo. Even early on he didn't seem to be a "slave" but rather a classmate. He just didn't want to make waves. Especially if it eliminated his chance of bathing with the female class. ^^
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Post by Ally on Jan 21, 2010 21:41:40 GMT
Yup, it is a prequel - hence the "Origins of a Magical Boy" in the title ;D
As for the dynamics of the Marketable Magic class, there's going to be a lot of that in the next chapter. And it's going to be fun ^_^
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Post by wanderer on Jan 21, 2010 21:49:12 GMT
So his origins involved walking into a room where a whole bunch of girls were viciously murdered? I'd think that might leave a few psychological scars...
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Post by tangent on Jan 22, 2010 0:03:29 GMT
And also avenging them (with a little bit of ghostly help) and sending another "mortal enemy" fleeing in fear, don't forget. =^-^=
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Post by Ally on Jan 22, 2010 8:21:58 GMT
So his origins involved walking into a room where a whole bunch of girls were viciously murdered? I'd think that might leave a few psychological scars... Well, what's an origins story without twisted drama?
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Post by tangent on Jan 22, 2010 11:51:07 GMT
Boring. =^-^=
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Post by Emily on Jan 22, 2010 13:42:45 GMT
its our chance to explore a version of the dojo which isn't being sucked into some girl's primary protagonist syndrome drama- thus we get todevelop a lot of secodary characters in their own right.
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Post by tangent on Jan 22, 2010 13:53:13 GMT
Emily? Ally? I love you two. *big hug*
I just wish I could afford to donate 20 pounds a week... ^^;;
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Post by Emily on Jan 22, 2010 17:10:21 GMT
I'm thinking £15 is gonna be more likely- we'll reduce the ad budget.
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Post by tangent on Jan 22, 2010 17:14:27 GMT
That reminds me. I still have to look into advertising for Tangents. Though I probably should finish loading the archives before I do something like that. ^^;;
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Post by Lu on Jan 22, 2010 19:11:33 GMT
So his origins involved walking into a room where a whole bunch of girls were viciously murdered? I'd think that might leave a few psychological scars... But think of Wolverine-Xmen origins (yes i know the film is nothing like the comic blah blah travesty blah blah hollywood profit overidding story, i heard enough of it from the ex). He's got lots of killing and horrific past but only marginal emotional scarring (Narkiness is not scarring, its simply arehole-ism). Steve ould turn out alright (and attractive) yet.............
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Post by tangent on Jan 22, 2010 19:23:13 GMT
Not to mention he didn't know any of the girls who died. They're almost abstract concepts. He's had a spiritual connect with the previous Cherry... but that could be considered an uplifting experience (especially as it strongly suggests toward an afterlife). He'd probably suffered more emotional scarring from his family's reaction to his crossdressing than stepping into a room and finding a bunch of bodies which he avenged... and saved his own life in the doing.
He'll probably have a few nightmares, but I doubt it's going to create actual scarring.
Though that would be an interesting thing to see in future comics... the fact he might feel survivor's guilt and also wish he'd been a little bit earlier so maybe, just maybe, he could have saved them.
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Post by stuart alman on Jan 23, 2010 11:58:13 GMT
i think he is busy with other things like what the hells going on first lol
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Post by tangent on Jan 23, 2010 14:11:41 GMT
I suspect if Flibbage hadn't shown up, he'd probably have re-noticed the dead girls and probably gotten rather sick. ^^;; (Still might.)
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Post by Emily on Jan 23, 2010 14:35:15 GMT
they're in the other room- so i don't have to draw any more corpses.
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Post by tangent on Jan 23, 2010 16:19:08 GMT
*ruffles Em's hair* Poor Emily. Forced to draw gory scenes for her art. ^^
I think I've realized why forums are both a good and bad thing for cartoonists. You can have a scene all plotted out and think everything is fine and then someone points out something like bodies and giving the protagonist nightmares and next thing you know the cartoonist is mulling it over and starting to add changes into the plot to incorporate that intelligently-revealed aspect and next thing you know the story is going in a different direction than the cartoonist originally intended, and plot inconsistencies sneak in when you're not looking. ^^;;
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Post by stuart alman on Jan 23, 2010 17:59:01 GMT
lol nah em and ally listen to your plot holes then subtley ignore you this is me guessing not speaking for them lol
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Post by tangent on Jan 23, 2010 18:17:38 GMT
I did not mean to imply that this was the case with Ally and Emily. Just that it was a potential problem with comics and a possible reason for continuity errors.
With Footloose I suspect Ally wrote up the basic plot, sat down with Emily, and they hammered out the flaws, errors, and questions. Then Ally filled in the details, and Emily chipped in to help condense dialogue (as she's the one who has to put it on the screen - when I was comicking I found I'd end up cutting my dialogue significantly when trying to fit it on the screen; I wasn't "smart" enough to reduce my art so that the dialogue would fit (no talking heads for me!)) and help flesh out other aspects.
But then, I get the feeling Ally and Em have a true partnership here that is borne partly from friendship, while other creative teams sometimes lack that closeness (both with friendship and as in the two parties could live hundreds of miles apart or more).
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