Sin_Stalker

Originally Posted by Garielle

You are going to be putting your name on this. Speaking for myself, I can safely say I want something to be up to a certain standard when I put my name on it. I believe in quality over quantity myself. If you need to cut corners to save time, perhaps you should look at the number of issues rather than the quality of the issues. Even then, you need to be careful not to cut anything which is crucial to the story or which makes it more difficult to understand why something is occurring in the story.

Originally Posted by FallSe7en

Found this article while stumbling - thought it was pretty relevant to COH and worth sharing.

http://teethandclaws.blogspot.com/20...out-tanks.html

tl;dr version of the article: current mmo's rely too heavily on the 'holy trinity' (tanks-healer-damage)

Originally Posted by goldbricker

When talking about years of time, best not to trivialize the changes that can happen to you as a person and as an artist in that time. What works for you now can easily fall by the wayside over 12 months. As you tackle this project, you should possibly attempt to anticipate how you want your own skill to evolve over this time.

In the comic industry, the most highly prized artists are ones that can deliver high quality on deadlines tighter than Invincibelle's brapieces. If you value artistic workmanship in the same way you should probably be trying to evolve as much simultaneous quality and speed as you can muster, rather than expecting to be satisfied with just one or the other.

In any case, if I were in grasp of your pencils, I might simply evaluate what approach might suit each individual issue. Some issues might be planned to be replete with stock or cliche imagery, and offer little in the way of opportunity for artistically-enhanced impact. Quality might be easily assured and thus a focus on practicing speed for that issue is useful. And then some other issues might be of great interest, having very curious or inspirational environments or plots, or might include some incredible single moments I really want expressed to their fullest. For those issues I might want to set speed aside and labor carefully and at length. It seems to me that if you can make each issue it's own complete object, even if it isn't exactly the same template as all the others, you can avoid chaining your artistic evolution to the limited bounds of your initial plan.

In the end it's hard to advise what to do. Just be the artist you are and stretch out your talents to their limits for as long as you can keep it up. Look at the plan in front of you, and look at yourself honestly, and then get to work.

It'll end up being great.

Originally Posted by LegendaryJMan

I say bust them out. Quality does not have to suffer for quantity.

We are making screenshot comics, you know everything there is to know about CoH, the environment and where you can take a picture.

All you have to do is write the story, which you have.

What you gotta do is switch from "oh goodness I have 3 years worth of comics" to "pie this next issue needs x y and z lets go get it"

Originally Posted by Sin_Stalker

So I finally sorted out everything for the comic I've been working towards. It kind of all fell into place. I was struggling with making this comic and had about 25 to 30 issues planned for it. I cant do that many and have been trying to figure out what to cut. So I cut a few things and the rest kind of fell into place again. So I felt like sharing

Introductions (Completed)
Obey (Pending)
Cyril (still working on a better title)
The Return ( possibly naming it something comic book cheezy like "Attack of the Mermen" )
Nexus (another working title)
Flashback
Rikti Wars (or Rikti War Chronicles )
Enemy Within
Crazy (possibly naming it Crazy Me or Crazy You)

Anyways it will all then come together in...
Injustice

Now that I am more experienced with writting issues, I have caculated all these and how many I'd need to write them. I am looking at about 14 to 20 issues, this does not count Injustice or Introductions. Only Obey to Crazy... and that means I only have 2 and half of the 14 to 20 issues done. Lolz. After Sparky and I are done with this team up comic, I am soooo going to focus on these sooooo strongly.


Anyways, I also had a question for you guys. I know there will be varying opinions on the subject so please give your reasoning behind it so I can take into consideration all points.

Now it takes me about a year to make 6 issues. This means I'll be doing this for about the next 2 or 3 years at least...

Should I sacrifice quality to speed these things out or should I continue how I am going?


Hm, I think I'll ask this in another section of the forums and see what alot of people think...
ugh... I just keep hoping someone will want to help me out with the comics and help me crack these things out quicker. Oh well, one can only dream.


-Sin

Originally Posted by Cende

Well, I'm one of the aforementioned Editors-in-Chief, so I'll pick up the ball on this one.

If you remember what the Scoop used to look like... well, here's a link to the LAST Scoop (on the 21st of July) - you'll notice that what it's supposed to look like and what it does look like doesn't precisely match anymore.

Unfortunately, we're having difficulties fixing the layout issues, and we can't get it to look any better than that. We've got an entire issue proofed and ready to go, but the new forums are defeating us every time we turn around.

HOWEVER! The City Scoop is not dead! We're working on solutions! As soon as we have something in place, we'll be back, and let everyone know where our next issue is!

Anyone who has an interest in assisting the Scoop in any way is welcome to PM me.

Originally Posted by GreenFIame

Since i met Philly Girl and other i been less Anti-Social,but yeah my Social Skill Still need work a tad bit more,So i wanted to find out more about the other players behind there Toons,as well as let people get to no me a bit more.


I am 27 year old,I was born with some Learning Problems(Explain why i can't type well lol) and Psychial Problems,I am a Artist who studie Fine Art/Some Illustration,at DuCret Scool of Art
I love to Cook Chicken and make taco's.I love Watching Sci-Fi Shows also and love creative Shows like Lost and Heroes,I also love strange Shows like Family Guy and Robot Chicken.I became a big Comic Book nerd after Studing Comic Book Art at Fanasty Art Class and Also learn to Draw Dragons and other Fanasty base Creature.
I use to go to alot of Art Events in Down Town Scranton,first Friday of each month Art Galleries Display there work.i can't handle Stress well,but still is kind and Friendy to others,I
I hate Injustice,I Show a helping hand to the Poor,i did some work about the homeless.I worry alot of other well being,I mom was sick a while ago drove me nuts.I need to speak my mind about something,even if it bad in order just to get it off my Shoulder.

Well that it for Now oh i love Cheese's it's and Life Saver's ments Candy,I any way i hope i can find more about you guys as well.

Originally Posted by HotFlash

First, A little about myself. I have been playing since release. It took me 854 hours to make my first lvl 50. I never farmed or power leveled that hero or any other hero. That is until AE. The ticket drops on all boss arcs and the gains made from cashing in those tickets for bronze and silver rolls plus arcane salvage have been incredible. I have over $100 million on most of my heroes. Yes, I could resume playing regular content but the call of the ticket has me going back again and again. Run an arc. Trade in tickets. Post at WW. Rack in the profit. Rinse and repeat over and over. My addiction to tickets has led to my massive farming habit. I cannot stop. I have become a farmer.

Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna

I'm not sure if he's still doing them but Chase Arcanum did two of the comics listed on the main page, the I-12 was a joint work between him and Cinder Flame. I bet he's got some tips and stuff.

I can PM a link to this thread if y'all want.

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