@Spontaneous-Combustion: Okay, first off: mad props for not neglecting your backgrounds! They do a ton to raise the overall quality and general feel of your comic. I was kind of distracted by the rough quality of the comic overall; it might help to do some work in Photoshop or some other editing program to clean up your work after scanning it in. There are also a few places where the speech bubbles kind of crowd into the rest of the panel; work on planning out your panels ahead of time to take the length of text into consideration. It's something every comics creator runs into at some point, so it's good to learn to deal with it as soon as you can.

@Tirie: Oh man, your coloring was gorgeous! I'm so sad it couldn't be there through the rest of the comic! Next time, try cutting your story down so you can have a consistent amount of quality throughout the comic. I think you could have cut some bits out of this story and still kept it just as interesting, so see if you can practice editing down in the future. BUT PLEASE, MOAR OF THAT COLORING BC I LUV IT!!!

I love traditional vs traditional comics!!
Spontaneous: all your pages look stretched.. squashed more or less. Youll definitely want to work on your anatomy and poses because page 2s last panel witht the chase looks like it gave you trouble.some figure art would really do the trick. Little 30 second quick sketches of poses would give you a great internal sense of how bodys move run climb etc.

Tirie: Ah i love watercolor. Fun plot great conflict hero not understanding the full picture haha i love how she resolved it. I really liked your page 5 bottom panel because of the detail, hatching, and foreground. Lots of information in one panel and communicated everything we needed to know. Your  linework is very neat but i would have loved to have some more interesting background pieces. Try using references for buildings and rooms, it can add life to a dull bg. Great comic!

@Spontaneous-Combustion - Wellp, nothing that hasn't been said before, except a nitpick: in page 2, I'd make panel 3 a bit bigger or more centered to make it stand out, since it is one of the turning points of the story and it is important! That said, Caith is such a gentleman! Also kudos on drawing so many backgrounds on such a tight deadline. Great pacing too. Can't wait to see your future work!

@Tirie - Sweet Moses those watercolors look real neato! I really love how you portrayed both characters and their powers, and I see so much storytelling potential in Kepi's interdimensional travel! Also so many Void references, so cool! I think tho, the story would have benefited from more dynamic camera angles and a biiit more work on the perspective, specially panel 1 of page 5, but with such a short deadline I understand that that'd be a huge headache. Anyway, great work!

Spontaneous - I was gonna mention panel border thickness and gutters, but I see that's already been said. I will say next comic try and plan out your word bubbles to make sure they don't butt up against characters, panel borders, and objects in the background. While the bubble being against her face in page two is kind of amusing, good bubble placement changes how a panel is read and can help the viewers eye read across a page smoothly.

Tirie - Love how you draw the teleportation effect. This is a lot of work for one week! as a crit, I'd say try and focus on weight and movement next. Most of the panels characters are static, but even when they are moving it feels a bit too "posed for a camera" than caught in the action.

SPONTANEOUS-COMBUSTION- Right off the bat, I'm wondering if your pages were just drawn squashed or your save file was squished? Your pages seem a bit off, which is a shame since what you've depicted is looking pretty good. I especially dig the establishing shot of the urban city scape line. Even the little details like the line of laundry was a nice touch. Your paneling gets a bit congested on page 2, but I get the need for speed and brevity- especially with a deadline looming. Still, a pretty great effort.

TIRIE- So delighted to see some traditionally made comics in this tournament! While I expected some inks to be had, you do a great job simply incorporating graphite. It adds to that steampunky look a and vibe I think you were trying to go for. Shame the deadline had you pressed for time that you couldn't show that off more in your subsequent pages. You went ambitious with such an impressive page count, but it seems you bit off more than you could chew. Still, ambition is admirable!

@Spontaneous-combustion: nothing really I can say that hasn't been said. I think you did a great job fitting all of that into three pages. really fantastic.

@Tirie: I love that you got both characters personalities. I love that reaction at the end of page eight. the subtle use of colours in the later pages probably could have be used throughout the entire comic, even though those first few pages are AWESOME, the loss of colour at the end of page 4 is somewhat jarring.

Haha, finally, the traditional matchup! Props to both of you for choosing to go traditional on such a tight schedule, that's ballsy and you both pulled it off great!

@Spontaneous-combustion:
Wow dude, between the initial environments and a busy marketplace you certainly didn't make things easy for yourself! You managed to pull it off very well though, I think, and there's a lot going on here in only a few pages; the story doesn't feel abrupt or anything, so nice job getting a plotline in there and managing things nicely for yourself. I like how well your stuff reads without shading or even hatching, it's so easy for lines-only to feel chaotic but it works pretty well here! I agree with Inksword on gutters though, just because you DO have so much going on. Some gutter space or even heavier lines for the borders of panels would help make it clearer.
Art comments aside, it's really great to see Caith in action at last! I like that he's got a very 'ah crap well I guess we're doing this' sorta feel in both comics, resigned-good seems like it'll be a fun alignment to have in Void City. I like that he ended up befriending his enemy too, haha. I look forward to seeing more of him, this was a great start and well done!

@Tirie:
Jesus dude, the fact that you went watercolor for ANY of this is terrifying as all hell, props for that! It was fun seeing some cameos and the use of limited color an different fonts for different people made for some very visually interesting panels. I think it would have been interesting to have some more zoomed out shots in a few places aside from the very start and end of the comic though-- I know things were pretty conversation-heavy and you had a hell of a lot to draw considering the number of pages you put out, but some variety in that sense would help make things a little less repetitive.
One thing I would have liked is to see a bit more of your opponent in the battle-- I know that this is your establishing comic so there's a strong focus on your character, but squid-dude felt like he was as much your opponent as Caith. Caith did get his feature time, for sure, but maybe a little more involvement in the future? Overall VERY nice work though, very strong start and it'll be cool to see more!

Great job to you both, and I hope you're proud of what you've accomplished!

I liked both these comics! It's funny to see Caith be the hero in both, but in one it's helpful and in the other it's confrontational.

@Spontaneous-combustion: It's always nice to see a friendship angle rather than a fighting angle aha. The one thing I think could really improve your comic is GUTTER SPACE! With only a thin black line seperating the panels from eachother, they get kind of visually cluttered on the pages. I also found myself going to the wrong panel on occasion and on the first page I think you had a word bubble tail pointing towards Kepi that was supposed to be pointing towards her customer? The "I can't pay" bubble? I did like how you drew Kepi though!

@Tirie: wow, 11 pages is a LOT of work for a single week. The watercolored pages are super pretty, so I'm sad you didn't finish the whole thing in them but I totally understand why aha. I enjoyed the story and man, referencing HEIMIEUM, you did your homework! You probably could've told your story in less pages and saved yourself some headache, but it didn't feel bloated so I'm not complaining. It seems like your scan-quality fluctuated a little bit, so find your settings and what works and stick to it.

Thanks! Yours is really good too! love the "well shit" at the end, very caith.

Wow Spontaneous Combustion!  Your comic was cute! I love how they ended up friends in the end, and Kepi's "Oh" at Caith XD It was Great

Same! I'm excited for the traditional vs traditional Matchup

Your styles really remind me of each-others' so I'm really interested to see where this matchup goes!