1/2-cup: To be honest, your style has usually looked really lazy to me, like using experimental-ness as an excuse to draw like a three-year-old.   Not so with this battle!  The splattery evilness really worked this time, the panel where Big Squishy bit RoboSock\'s f---in\' head off is gorgeous!  The storyline didn\'t make a whole lot of sense, but I really enjoyed reading this entry.  

RoboSockPersonGuyDude: Your linework was really clean and your storytelling was really clear.  I liked what you came up with to defeat the immortal Mr. Squishington, I kept wondering how you were going to pull that off.  This was really close for me, but 1/2-cup\'s did a SLIGHTLY better job of grabbing me by the eyeballs and flinging me down the street.  

I really hate to see either of these characters go!  ;_;  

Ahalfacup-While I admire your willingness to experiment and do new things, you can never forget comics are for storytelling. When I\'m not sure what\'s going on all the time it kind of defeats the purpose of the art form. I really enjoyed the first and third panels on the first page, had you put that much work into the entire battle I would have been very happy. It\'s like after the first page you totally forgot that nice little light source you had going on so it starts getting flat and sloppy. You also had waaaay too many panels that were essentially repeats of each other which hurt you. I was totally confused by page 6, believe me, I\'m a fan of expressive work with real media, that\'s how I work when I paint, but when you are doing a comic it\'s important that you are making the story clear. You also need to walk away from using plain flat colors, take advantage of the media and toss some more colors in to give the shadows and colors more depth. Now I think the last page was pretty unnecessary, the \"what have I become\" thing is pretty generic and really didn\'t reflect with Squishington\'s attitude in the entire match. You have a lot of potential and if you lose, please keep on going with a new fighter. Just in the future remember you are working on a comic and be aware the audience needs to know what\'s going on.

Robosock-I liked your inks but it seemed as if you started losing momentum as the fight progressed. There were rarely any backgrounds and the inks started getting sloppy. I did enjoy the story you had going but I wish you would have explained in greater detail the whole taking another form thing. Why was it necessary for them to take other forms? I can only assume it\'s because of Squishington\'s nearly immortal thing. I really enjoyed the ending, you had a fun little twist on the typical anime thing where they\'re all \"we could have been friends if things were different\"

Strong showings from both sides, I hope you both intend on staying regardless of who wins.

First off- WHYYYY OH GOD WHY DID IT HAVE TO COME TO THIS OH SHI-

Squishy- Page 9 rocked my socks. I dunno, I just love that entire panel page thing with the creepy and the spattery and it made me happy. Your story was simple, slightly confusing in one spot, yet still entertaining. I quite enjoyed it.

Robo- Your art quality was great and the story was interesting, only I felt somewhat cheated by the huge time lapse between getting the orb and exactly what happened to make Robo and Squish face-off. Big story gap there, but other than that it was fab.

Good luck to you both!

I sincerely wish that the quality with which Robosockmonkey had presented in the intro page was kept throughout the course of the comic.  It would\'ve been bloody amazing!  Ah well.

Best of luck to you both!

Ahalfacupatea: Excellent art, although in some places it made it a bit hard to follow. Page 9 is just plain awesome!
Robosockmonkey: This fight\'s quality is better than I\'ve seen in your past battles, but the thing that i enjoyed most for yours was the story.

Well done, both of you!

Sorry Jessie, but I just can\'t justify squishington getting a vote in this fight.

Halfacupatea: Props for going all out with the traditional mediums, but even though you did alot of \"experimenting\" this just looked like a sloppy pigstye with both of the characters slapped in. The first page\'s right panel had alot of good, but it still just didn\'t look clean, from that point on everything became a rushed mess of a comic. If you\'re going to \"Experiment\" with anything, use it in a way that you can improve upon; not just slapping down paints and inks with minimum effort. This whole fight Quality wise was just UGLY, granted you got both of the characters spot on.

In the story, half of the time I just couldn\'t make heads or tails of what was going on, first the evil squishington appears, then the other robosock appears, both suddenly dissapear amongst the traditional paints, inks, and chalk. The whole fight was just one sided overall dude, unless you count a somewhat surprized squishington in one panel and him suddenly becoming uber powerful in the next. There was nothing intresting in this comic aside from the sloptastic visuals with the traditional mediums. You really need to get a better story idea aside from \"Oh yeah, he\'s evil now!\" cause trust me, that storyline sucks ass (look at my deathmatch yo).

I\'m sorry dude, but I cannot give you the vote for this fight. I just don\'t see any effort aside from using what could be very expensive art supplies. You\'re a decent artist man, but I think you need to take a big step away from traditionals and focus on the basics, you seriously need to start drawing real backgrounds, different angles, life studies, and focus on keeping your artwork clean and free of that ugly black smudging.


Robosock: Well since I gave AhalfAcup a big critique, lemme give you the same treatment, alright? The first thing I notice is that even though you have more backgrounds than AhalfA, is that you have a ton of negitive white space in your comics. Second page is a good example of this towards the lower half. and the forest shot with robosock #2 sitting ontop of the branches. You really have a neat ability to make your linework really awesome, but you tend to drop the background out of the page and leave your fighter and oppenent in white space.

I suggest that mayhaps instead of leaving those areas white, you add some more hatching or whatever you can add to catch our eyes on the picture. Drawing the viewers eyes to certain areas is very importaint in a comic yo. I found myself skipping some panels because I just couldn\'t stand looking at just white with very little black. Storywise you defenetly had alot more with your half as well, and I did get a chuckle out of page 9. However you really seemed to jump around alot storywise, I honestly think showing the 4 of them transforming into wild beasts would of been an awesome site to see in your half, also the death of squishington wasn\'t all that clear I\'m afraid.

Cretivity wise I really liked where you were going with this fight man, only thing that hurt you was the clarity of the story in general if you ask me. Just a few more pages to flesh things out would of been better.


I hope that regardless of who wins, whoever looses comes back with a new fighter and some new kickass skills

Both of the battles were so good, I don\'t want either character to be killed off or either continuity to be uncanon. ;___; I guess I should be glad I can\'t actually vote yet as a newly registered member.

While I think the style of Halfacupoftea is absolutely amazing, I actually think that, while a bit confusing, Robosockmonkey\'s battle had more depth to it, since it contained more of an actual battle sequence. The ending note about being friends was also quite humorous. XD

Im gonna have nightmares for now on whenever I see teddy bears..

Teacup, you totally deserve to win this. The stuff you did with pastels and rough paper completely amazed me, especially that first panel of Robosockmonkey, where he\'s all in silhouette. I was gawking at the splash page where monster Squishington bites him in half; the way you combined the media was both extremely stylized and highly recognizable. All of the art in this battle had amazing dynamism. Please, even if you lose, please continue to do battles this way. I\'m amazed and I wish people would do crazy stuff like this with their comics more often.

Monkey, I liked what you did with this battle, but the bit with all the characters transforming was totally glossed over and made only a little sense. Remember: show, don\'t tell. You could do with improving your continuity overall, though that\'s a small gripe. You have a great sense of style and attitude, and I don\'t feel like you used it to the fullest in this fight. I\'d like to see you play more to that strength in the future.

oh and ronin thanks for the comments! i\'m glad you appreciated it! but yeah i know i need to work on the sequentials more and especially dialogue stuff but I was never really able to express things that well with the way i had squishington thats why i changed his design for this fight so that IF he lives i\'ll be able to do more with that. i have to fix this weakness.

robosockmonkey, that was awesome. i wasn\'t sure how you would kill him because, you know the whole he doesn\'t die bit, but that was aweswome! i never would have thought of something like that! and keeping his character while he was still a bear!!! your comic had awesome story telling, really clean art, and it had robosockmonkey telling squishington that he doesn\'t really like him. i\'ll be glad to die to this! thanks for the fight!

....I... I\'m stunned... both of you really pushed yourselves...

I dunno who to vote for!  ;_;  

AhalfAcupAtea:  Possibly the most unique style I\'ve seen in VOID in a long time-- wild, spontaneous, gritty, and sometimes downright beautiful.  First page with the SockMonkey silouhette had powerful lighting, fourth page had an amazing sense of movement, and the use of ink spatter on the last couple of pages was awe-inspiring.

However, I have to say that the \'sequential\' bits looked really slapdash compared to the \'pin-up\' bits, which comprised most of what I mentioned above.  In the conversations, you just have static figures just standing there talking, no body language or otherwise really contributing to your storytelling, nothing happening besides the words.  Those pages were wholly uninteresting to look at.

That said, I think you have amazing potential as an artist-- you just have to figure out how to express this power in sequentials.


Robosockmonkey:  Beautiful, clean lineart all around in the first couple of pages.  After that it changes and the line widths become kind of messy from time to time, but I still found it quite enjoyably expressive.  And you got a nice, coherent story here, definitely an improvement over the first battles I saw from you.


I\'m not yet sure how I\'m going to vote on this one, but they were both wonderfully surreal battles; may the best live to die another day!

This is my favorite battle from you AhalfAcupAtea, That page 9 is great.

Whoever wins it was a fun fight.  

AWESOME!! i can\'t wait to see it! but yeah even with a month to do stuff you get a month of life that gets in the way.

Yeah, I finished, I\'m trying to upload now...

My timing for battles has been so weird lately.  They always end during, or right before finals (or midterms)  I did it though, hope you enjoy.

DID YOU FINISH ROBO??

uploaded. i had to miss some work to turn this in but they just think i forgot to set my clock back. haha. well i hope you guys enjoy my side of the fight especially you robo!! i hope your half makes me happy to die!!

NOOOO!! I\'m going to be SAD either way!! Good luck to you both!!!

No, Not Mr. Squishington!! Void City needs a cute little teddy bear! Go
Squishington!

SQUISHY FTW D:

GO SQUISH!!!

Oh Snap!!

yes i can only see this leading to war against there 2 gangs

It\'d be a shame is that bear was gone forever...


GO ROBO!

WHEN WILL THE KILLING STOP???  ;_;  

*hangs self*

yeah know... if you come out of this one alive, mr. monkey... i\'m half tempted to take you on myself... but then i\'m not that crazy about putting my character on the line yet... *shrugs*

so, since your aiming to go down in a blaze of glory, then i root for your awe inspiring downfall... i guess.
go team? *shrugs*

; 0;!!! Zomg, WRYYYYYYYYY!?

Oh man...

RO-BO-SOCK-MONKEY!

RO-BO-SOCK-MONKEY!

Part of the fun will be seeing how robosockmonkey kills him!! i\'m so pumped for this match!!!

Did I read that right? A Death Match?! o.o Ah man, I wish both of ya luck...hey wait,doesn\'t Mr. Squishington comes back constantly after dying?

zomg this\'ll be crazy dude

WHAHEHTAWRHA WHATWHAT

;____;!

Rematch!

Teddy bear vs. Sock monkey.