Wow to both styles, so much color and creativity!
I have to say that I’m a fan of more nontraditional looks, however, so my vote goes to Espiral. I just feel like it takes extra balls to throw something out there that differs from the norm and it works pretty well with the flow of the story. Headhunter definitely gets points for the more in depth story, but in the end I guess I was just feelin’ the lightheartedness more this time around. Kudos to both of you and may the best monster win!
King of Monsters Tournament: Finals / Espiral vs. Headhunter
Critiques & Comments
# 43
Posted:
Sep 18 2007, 02:21 PM
# 42
Posted:
Sep 18 2007, 02:10 PM
one more vote to 100, I\'m 99 : D
These two stories were just fantastic. Dure, I\'m sure it\'s only because you had more time this time around that you coloured it, but man, you were really holding out in comparison to your last battles.
Both of these were fantastic, and I was expecting the percentages to be closer than they are, but even so, both of you should continue to draw and improve, and in turn we\'ll continue to read and love the comics you create ;P
These two stories were just fantastic. Dure, I\'m sure it\'s only because you had more time this time around that you coloured it, but man, you were really holding out in comparison to your last battles.
Both of these were fantastic, and I was expecting the percentages to be closer than they are, but even so, both of you should continue to draw and improve, and in turn we\'ll continue to read and love the comics you create ;P
# 41
Posted:
Sep 18 2007, 09:28 AM
C\'mon! I know we can break 100 votes on this!
# 40
Posted:
Sep 14 2007, 04:27 AM
wow...these were both unbelievably amazing...I dunno if I should even vote, because then I would be helping to kill one of these amazing creations... I gotta sleep on this decision...
# 39
Posted:
Sep 13 2007, 05:14 PM
ITS ON NOW
# 38
Posted:
Sep 13 2007, 04:27 PM
PERCA YOU\'RE INSANE AND WONDERFUL your comics make me like HAPPY when i read the which i like, positivity is so bleh these days. Dure you\'s was wonderfully rendered and put together but I felt the story and style was done before and not as unique as Perca\'s was.
GREAT JOB YOU TWO, ROCK THE INK.
GREAT JOB YOU TWO, ROCK THE INK.
# 37
Posted:
Sep 13 2007, 11:58 AM
Well, as mentioned before, it all comes to personal likings, we have a darker story against a light hearted story.
It is very hard to choose one of the two, if i had to choose, I would, without a doubt, go with ice cream.
It is very hard to choose one of the two, if i had to choose, I would, without a doubt, go with ice cream.
# 36
Posted:
Sep 13 2007, 07:51 AM
I LOVED this battle, guys, both of you were amazing =D
@Dure: I loved your pages =3 I think you could have done a better job with the coloring, thou.
The story was interesting, but I agree about the boy being a bit OOC.Please keep it up! I love to se how much you have improved! ^^ Ai Apaec = <3
@Perca: I\'m an absolutely fan of your colors and style <3 The story was pretty funny, but I would have liked more HH story or somehting going on there... it felt a bit too random ^^; And I would have liked more of a closure thing in the end. Anyway I still loved it and my vote went for you ^^
@Dure: I loved your pages =3 I think you could have done a better job with the coloring, thou.
The story was interesting, but I agree about the boy being a bit OOC.Please keep it up! I love to se how much you have improved! ^^ Ai Apaec = <3
@Perca: I\'m an absolutely fan of your colors and style <3 The story was pretty funny, but I would have liked more HH story or somehting going on there... it felt a bit too random ^^; And I would have liked more of a closure thing in the end. Anyway I still loved it and my vote went for you ^^
# 35
Posted:
Sep 12 2007, 10:54 PM
Well, I was not going to say anything, as I do believe that we should have to wait and see what people gets from our stories, Dure, but... Yeah, it seens some people are misunderstanding your ending (and reading your comment, even I did). I won\'t tell what I though or anything. I just think we should wait for the end of this to get stuff clear for the readers (if someone gets lost or something). It\'s kinda part of our jobs to make stuff clear... so.. Let\'s wait and see what happens. (I\'m being completely honest here: I do think explaining stuff outside the pages is not good right now. We can do that later on).
# 34
Posted:
Sep 12 2007, 10:10 PM
Kay ^_^\' I\'m usually don\'t try to debate critiques but there\'s one small thing that bugs me because its the only critique I consider unfounded, and since two people have pointed it out, which is the Hot Chick battle comparison (Voted for Ji Kei). Let\'s start with the basics, Per\'s fighter was Spiral, not the kid, he\'s an important part of Spiral\'s story, but when you get down to it, the kid was not my opponent. Second, makes it seem as if the ending was something I just threw together, in spite of the fact I had the minions drawing up the symbols for the transfer ever since the battoru fight. And finally Aip hasn\'t really taken over the kid, notice only one of his eyes has changed, the blue eye he got hurt in the accident where he got Spiral and which, to me, represented their link. Aip is doing exactly what he promised he\'d do, of course he\'s much more influential than Spiral on the kid\'s psyche. Just wanted to clear the air on that one -_-\' sorry if it seemed conceited or childish of me to anyone that I tried to explain part of my battle. Probably means I did a poor job conveying that particular idea at the end, something else to work on for any upcoming battles I may have.
# 33
Posted:
Sep 12 2007, 12:11 PM
As expected, it\'s a OMFG battle.
Perca: I think you\'ve been conquering a style your own each passing battle, and that\'s very nice, as Monday said, because it\'s a very courageous atitude. This time colouring and textures seem to fit very properly, and sometimes they blend so nice you can see it as color rather than a digital collage. I liked the pacing overall, except in some abrupt pieces, as when Spiral get rid of all the mob, and in the next panel it leads to a somehow dramactic maxican showdown. I loved the Elio face thing, ahaha. The comic kept me smiling all through, and had a neat fight. Unfortunately HH doesn\'t offer much of a variation in killing ways, so I won\'t blame you for the \"Shoot, rinse, repeat\" method.
Dure: I liked yours a very lot as well. At fisrt I thought the timing was a bit strange, as since, there were lots of text in the top of the page, and then some quick fighting scenes, I thought it was bad, but then you told about not being able to split them like fight/story/fight/story and so on, it\'s okay.. but YET, you could have solved that by inverting the order, having fight scenes in the top, and texts below, so that your fight sequences wouldn\'t go kind of unnoticed. And when I say unnoticed, I say that you might get curious to see the dialogue of the god and boy, and simply unvolutarially skip the fight itself, as I did in my first read. Second stuff, you could have planned your color choices better, since you have very strong reds in the end of the comic, while you use very light colors in the rest (and even on the characters in the end sequence). The penciling style while is the same as the other fights you had, were a bit boring, having to compete with perca\'s strong ones (and I say that because the hatching you used always give a sketch aspect to the whole drawing, with few exceptions). Also, I\'m with Phill, about the Hot Chick thing.
Overall, I give it to perca, but this one is quite a well deserved final!
Perca: I think you\'ve been conquering a style your own each passing battle, and that\'s very nice, as Monday said, because it\'s a very courageous atitude. This time colouring and textures seem to fit very properly, and sometimes they blend so nice you can see it as color rather than a digital collage. I liked the pacing overall, except in some abrupt pieces, as when Spiral get rid of all the mob, and in the next panel it leads to a somehow dramactic maxican showdown. I loved the Elio face thing, ahaha. The comic kept me smiling all through, and had a neat fight. Unfortunately HH doesn\'t offer much of a variation in killing ways, so I won\'t blame you for the \"Shoot, rinse, repeat\" method.
Dure: I liked yours a very lot as well. At fisrt I thought the timing was a bit strange, as since, there were lots of text in the top of the page, and then some quick fighting scenes, I thought it was bad, but then you told about not being able to split them like fight/story/fight/story and so on, it\'s okay.. but YET, you could have solved that by inverting the order, having fight scenes in the top, and texts below, so that your fight sequences wouldn\'t go kind of unnoticed. And when I say unnoticed, I say that you might get curious to see the dialogue of the god and boy, and simply unvolutarially skip the fight itself, as I did in my first read. Second stuff, you could have planned your color choices better, since you have very strong reds in the end of the comic, while you use very light colors in the rest (and even on the characters in the end sequence). The penciling style while is the same as the other fights you had, were a bit boring, having to compete with perca\'s strong ones (and I say that because the hatching you used always give a sketch aspect to the whole drawing, with few exceptions). Also, I\'m with Phill, about the Hot Chick thing.
Overall, I give it to perca, but this one is quite a well deserved final!
# 32
Posted:
Sep 12 2007, 09:23 AM
Well, I read everyone\'s - and I read them again. Honestly at this point I\'m grading it on a matter of personal preferece.
Perca- Your style is amazing, and your colour work is at a level where you can manipulate it to your style. The story was engaging and light hearted,and I fucking fell in love with Mr. Stick.
However- it was always a tad off kilter from what I expected from King of Monsters, a prolonged suspension of disbelief? Perhaps because the emotional range was predominately whimsical lightheartedness. But hands down you went and made it work. Consider improving flow and text placing next time around. I find that a lot of details escaped me on my first read simply because my eyes didn\'t go its way.
Dure- At this point , you should just stop listening to Phil;someone is always gonna come off hating your work even if you rebuilt a microcosm of your art/story style. I find your story easier to get into and I liked how this one explained and resolved itself. Your art was clean albeit sacrificing detail and a level of style Perca\'s had. And the kid\'s character was a little off but the story as a whole makes up for it by being a \"Monster\" monster battle that followed the theme of this contest from the beginning. Which is why I go back to saying that I\'m voting on a personal preference.
Perca takes it on visuals and courageous experimentation; however Dure gets it on an easy to digest storyline- which takes the point for me.
I believe that about simplifies it. The kid becomes king and I believe I shall get to work on Bagram to serve/challenge its first ruler <3
Good luck to whomever comes out of this alive; they truly deserve it.
Perca- Your style is amazing, and your colour work is at a level where you can manipulate it to your style. The story was engaging and light hearted,and I fucking fell in love with Mr. Stick.
However- it was always a tad off kilter from what I expected from King of Monsters, a prolonged suspension of disbelief? Perhaps because the emotional range was predominately whimsical lightheartedness. But hands down you went and made it work. Consider improving flow and text placing next time around. I find that a lot of details escaped me on my first read simply because my eyes didn\'t go its way.
Dure- At this point , you should just stop listening to Phil;someone is always gonna come off hating your work even if you rebuilt a microcosm of your art/story style. I find your story easier to get into and I liked how this one explained and resolved itself. Your art was clean albeit sacrificing detail and a level of style Perca\'s had. And the kid\'s character was a little off but the story as a whole makes up for it by being a \"Monster\" monster battle that followed the theme of this contest from the beginning. Which is why I go back to saying that I\'m voting on a personal preference.
Perca takes it on visuals and courageous experimentation; however Dure gets it on an easy to digest storyline- which takes the point for me.
I believe that about simplifies it. The kid becomes king and I believe I shall get to work on Bagram to serve/challenge its first ruler <3
Good luck to whomever comes out of this alive; they truly deserve it.
# 31
Posted:
Sep 12 2007, 07:19 AM
Wow! What a final battle, and what a final ending! We basically have an ending where the kid becomes what seems like a good king, or an ending where the kid becomes an evil king, and it\'s up for us to dicide! This is so great! I\'ll leave better comments when I get back later tonight! I am very proud!
# 30
Posted:
Sep 11 2007, 07:43 PM
I\'m glad you two did such an awesome job on this battle, but there can be ONLY ONE!!
perca: Awesome work here, I got a lot of chuckles from this comic, but you should seriously cut out the MMO speak you\'ve got in there. Also I think I saw you losing some steam towards the end, no surprise since you\'ve put your all into this tournament, and I believe it really shows. I would like to see more backgrounds like in the bedroom panels you had there, it was surprisingly detailed and I would of loved to see that detail put into the buildings surrounding your characters. Other than that, I really loved your story and enjoyed the dialogue. Overall my vote was for you.
Dure: This is definitely a step up from your last fight, but your file sizes made it really hard to read this. Not to mention the fact that this was just plain boring and the kid seemed way out of character throughout your fight. You did have a good story I\'ll admit, but it was really hard for me to care about what was going on with headhunter.
One thing that really bugged me about this story however was your ending, fan of M.E. Charm\'s last SRT fight much? You seriously had a good story going on, but that was just a major buzzkill right there dude. This is a death match, not a \"Steal another person\'s fighter\" match. Overall, this was a decent comic dude, no real wow factor however.
I think this was a very well fought battle, but my vote goes to perca this time. Good job you two.
perca: Awesome work here, I got a lot of chuckles from this comic, but you should seriously cut out the MMO speak you\'ve got in there. Also I think I saw you losing some steam towards the end, no surprise since you\'ve put your all into this tournament, and I believe it really shows. I would like to see more backgrounds like in the bedroom panels you had there, it was surprisingly detailed and I would of loved to see that detail put into the buildings surrounding your characters. Other than that, I really loved your story and enjoyed the dialogue. Overall my vote was for you.
Dure: This is definitely a step up from your last fight, but your file sizes made it really hard to read this. Not to mention the fact that this was just plain boring and the kid seemed way out of character throughout your fight. You did have a good story I\'ll admit, but it was really hard for me to care about what was going on with headhunter.
One thing that really bugged me about this story however was your ending, fan of M.E. Charm\'s last SRT fight much? You seriously had a good story going on, but that was just a major buzzkill right there dude. This is a death match, not a \"Steal another person\'s fighter\" match. Overall, this was a decent comic dude, no real wow factor however.
I think this was a very well fought battle, but my vote goes to perca this time. Good job you two.
# 29
Posted:
Sep 11 2007, 07:26 PM
My pleasure, Dure, my pleasure. HH is not even close to the stuff I\'m used to draw, it was a great practice and also an opportunity to use all the stuff I was ready to study on the last vote week, before this battle. Still, lots of things could be better and such, but I\'m feeling accomplished with this round. We both pushed ourselves hard and the results can be seen above. I also would like to thank you for this opportunity, and whatever who wins, I sure would like to fight you again. Best of luck for you, for me and and … AWESOME!
And for all the readers: thank you so much for the support and all, I won’t say much, you guys know how glad I feel for getting in the finals. I hope you guys enjoy my trial, and it would be good to have some critics too. As Dure said, Void is about learning. We both want to know our good and bad points so we can improve more and more (and maybe one day being able to give you guys the AWESOMENESSSSSS-EVURRR!!!!). Again: thank you all <3
And for all the readers: thank you so much for the support and all, I won’t say much, you guys know how glad I feel for getting in the finals. I hope you guys enjoy my trial, and it would be good to have some critics too. As Dure said, Void is about learning. We both want to know our good and bad points so we can improve more and more (and maybe one day being able to give you guys the AWESOMENESSSSSS-EVURRR!!!!). Again: thank you all <3
# 28
Posted:
Sep 11 2007, 04:51 PM
Per O,o
That was beautiful ^___^
Regardless of who wins it was such an honor fighting you. I think its interesting how we kinda switched narrative styles for this battle ^^. I did little humor and made it dialogue heavy whereas yours was hilarious and a lot of sfx action scenes :3 the opposite of what each of us usually does. In any case I loved your half :3.
And well to everyone else, greatly appreciate all the votes but some constructive criticsm here and there would be great too :3 we all came to void to get better rite?
That was beautiful ^___^
Regardless of who wins it was such an honor fighting you. I think its interesting how we kinda switched narrative styles for this battle ^^. I did little humor and made it dialogue heavy whereas yours was hilarious and a lot of sfx action scenes :3 the opposite of what each of us usually does. In any case I loved your half :3.
And well to everyone else, greatly appreciate all the votes but some constructive criticsm here and there would be great too :3 we all came to void to get better rite?
# 27
Posted:
Sep 10 2007, 12:50 AM
PS. and do not notice the \"caeruleus - 08\" \"ghost\" on page 8, that is just a frolic from your imagination, and the main reason why you should stop drinking.
In case you do not drink, that\'s the main reason why you should start doing so;
so you have something other than insanity to blame.
In case you do not drink, that\'s the main reason why you should start doing so;
so you have something other than insanity to blame.
# 26
Posted:
Sep 10 2007, 12:03 AM
Lasssst minuteeeee damn! Those damn huge pages!!!!!!! Well, it says I uploaded in time, dunno, hope it was right uu I could not manage to send the pages for you (Wei and Toast) so I tried my best to get em in a smaller file size. Aw, sent you the thumbs for this fight, Wei. hope you got em.
# 25
Posted:
Sep 9 2007, 09:36 AM
Well pages sent ^^
hope Wei got\'em ok D:
hope Wei got\'em ok D:
# 24
Posted:
Sep 9 2007, 07:30 AM
almost time!! =D
# 23
Posted:
Sep 9 2007, 07:06 AM
OMGOMGOMG
It\'s commingggggg!
It\'s commingggggg!
# 22
Posted:
Sep 7 2007, 10:06 AM
If either comic isn\'t exactly three flavors of awesome then the respective artist can expect a firm kick to their respective gentials
# 21
Posted:
Sep 6 2007, 10:57 AM
Damn my friend was logged on and I did not notice! ha ha ha awesome! (just in case, last comment was mine. my bad XD)
# 20
Posted:
Sep 6 2007, 05:52 AM
Gahhhhh re-thumbing missing pagesssss noooooooo *dies in agony* Hope you\'re not having the same problem Dure XD... Damn 4 days uu
# 19
Posted:
Aug 30 2007, 05:50 PM
HOOOOLLLLY JUUUUNNNK! this is going to be shweet. If i could request a mouse somewhere in either of yours comic that would just make my day... but seriously this will be fun
# 18
Posted:
Aug 23 2007, 10:00 PM
Char sheet and bio updated, just in case you need something about the new form, Dure <3
# 17
Posted:
Aug 23 2007, 09:49 AM
HOLD ON TO THAT FEEEEEEELING
# 16
Posted:
Aug 22 2007, 02:59 PM
DON\'T STOP BELIEVIN!
# 15
Posted:
Aug 22 2007, 09:29 AM
This is it! I am very excited!
# 14
Posted:
Aug 21 2007, 01:23 PM
PERCA\'S MY HERO
okay so is dure
GO GO GOGOGOGOGOGOGO
okay so is dure
GO GO GOGOGOGOGOGOGO
# 13
Posted:
Aug 21 2007, 05:48 AM
fixed the dates
# 12
Posted:
Aug 21 2007, 04:43 AM
PER-CA PER-CA PER-CA!
# 11
Posted:
Aug 20 2007, 11:31 PM
I just peed a little from excitement.
# 10
Posted:
Aug 20 2007, 10:34 PM
30 days = my way of saying it was supossed to have a longer deadline. I can\'t remember the right number of days, but I\'m pretteh sure it was a bit longer than 14 days... Anyway, time to scrap the longer plot and stick with plan B *run, cries & prays*
# 9
Posted:
Aug 20 2007, 09:27 PM
Yah I remember it being 3 weeks in the schedule Elio posted back in the KoM thread, but since I couldn\'t find it anymore I just assumed I had misread :/
# 8
Posted:
Aug 20 2007, 09:21 PM
30 days? Wow, thats not right. The final round was supposed to be 3weeks long...let me go and clarify this.
# 7
Posted:
Aug 20 2007, 07:55 PM
Ladies and gentlemen.......
.......rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrret\'s get ready to DEATHBOWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!
.......rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrret\'s get ready to DEATHBOWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!
# 6
Posted:
Aug 20 2007, 07:27 PM
yaaay another battle from perca 8D
can\'t wait to see what you BOTH come up with =]
can\'t wait to see what you BOTH come up with =]
# 5
Posted:
Aug 20 2007, 06:31 PM
O,o... I thought the final was longer too D:
Damn... imma have to rethumb XD
Damn... imma have to rethumb XD
# 4
Posted:
Aug 20 2007, 06:19 PM
wait.. last round was not suposed to be a 30 days deadline?? SHIT! Must hurry now >_<
# 3
Posted:
Aug 20 2007, 05:54 PM
Perca - I\'ve been following your comics out for the last two fights, and your talent and witty plot makes me beg for more.
Dure - Headhunter scares the mother lovin bejesus out of me, but in the most complimentary way possible. Your previous comics have proved that well enough.
I had a feeling that it would come down between you two, so please do your very best! and good luck...
Dure - Headhunter scares the mother lovin bejesus out of me, but in the most complimentary way possible. Your previous comics have proved that well enough.
I had a feeling that it would come down between you two, so please do your very best! and good luck...
# 2
Posted:
Aug 20 2007, 05:52 PM
Are you rea-twoooo-rumbleeeeeeee?
# 1
Posted:
Aug 20 2007, 03:41 PM
So... it\'s come to thissssssss....
*Smithers cackle*
*Smithers cackle*
Death Match
Drawing Time:
3 weeks
Ended:
Sep 18th, 2007
Votes Cast:
91
Page Views:
2403
Winner:
IWIHASCOE
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