Well, I kinda disagree, nachte\'s side had some story going on, I felt like dure\'s was kinda random... I dunno I usually goes for more deep things so...

nachte got this from me and made me comment yuuupieee!

while i was expecting a little more from dure\'s side, nachte\'s struck me as sloppy. i couldn\'t make out what was going on at times & when i could it still seemed to be rushed. while dure\'s story was goofy, it was clear. so that\'s what i\'m going with.

-J

This was indeed a tough call!

Dure - I really liked the training montage - but the end...perhaps a bit of an anti-climax. It paid off on the premise, but perhaps it could have been a bigger payoff, storywise. Still, I love your colors and shading, and the Itty Bitty OSbot at the end makes me want to feed him pizza *Aww!*

Nachte - It took me a few pages to get into your rough line style, but I think I got into it by Page 3 or 4 - the scratchiness didn\'t bother me so much for it being rough or unfinished-looking, because it wasn\'t, but sometimes it was a little hard to see the action for the lines. The end was a bit abrupt, but overall it was cool to see this little reunion of Leader\'s kids

I\'m very glad to see the gap between the two battles has been closed in voting, the 10% between the two was very confusing.

Dure-I know you were sick, just moved, and life happens so I understand that this wasn\'t up to par with your other work. I\'m glad to see that you were able to finish and present a passable comic considering the circumstances. The cat part made me sad, but I knew it was coming from what you told me. I would have liked to see you do something a little more story wise and you still need to step away from using super saturated colors. I did find the battle cute for what it was and I look forward to seeing what you do when you\'ve recovered.

Nachte- Story wise I thoroughly enjoyed the battle and the interaction between the characters was very nice. I think it\'s mostly the medium you chose to use that brings on the comparisons between you and Monday, since you guys don\'t actually draw anything the same way. I found the comic fairly easy to read with the exception of the USB/flash drivers getting inserted into OSBot which I didn\'t notice until the second read through. It may have helped to make the battle a page or two longer to make the ending seem less abrupt but you probably also didn\'t have the time to do so, so that\'s fine. I\'m interested in seeing what you do in your next comic!

Dure, I liked the backgrounds.  Especially the buildings.  They looked awesome.  The only background I felt was weak was the chain link fence background (I think that\'s what it was?).  And, yes, the Eye of the Tiger moment was cliche, but that\'s what made it so great.  Overall, this battle was very solid.

Nachte, I\'m disappointed honestly.  The last round your comic looked beautiful and was SCREAMING with style.  This round all I can think is, \"I thought Monday was eliminated last week?\"   I mean, it still looks nice, and the story is alright, but it\'s just really uncreative, and your creativity is usually what holds your comics together.

Tough battle!!

Dure: Yours was really fun, as I\'d expect in an OSBot match, and this one was funnier than the first if you ask me! Art-wise, I think you could\'ve worked better on the lines, since you had to rely on the cellshading instead of painting this time around. Aside from that, it\'s fairly nice!

Natche: I liked the gritty inks you used here, though since the have this super white contrast and digital line erasing it made me remind of monday, as everybody else pointed, BUT that\'s not a bad thing, though I\'d like better if the lines came fro mthe same origins as last battle.
The plot seems to be wheeling, and I\'m really looking forward to where it\'s going, though I thin kthe ending was kind of abrupt!

Good luck you guys!!

Duredhel: The battle looked really smooth and easy on the eyes. You have a great eye for color, too. I got a few chuckles out of it, like the pizza part. I agree with Phill on the background bit; clarity wasn\'t an issue, but everything seemed rush. Same thing goes for the rest of the lineart. The first page shows more depth and structure than the entire rest of the battle, but I know you were rushed. I think the climax could have been longer and the montage shorter so you could get more characterization for Leader, even if it\'s jokey in nature. Either way, fun battle!

Nachte: I liked the contrasts and the little details you throw in, and I\'m liking the more realistic edge your eyes and such are taking. I also enjoyed that you had a bit of a deeper plot and tried to jerk some tears. I thought the pacing felt a tad quick, though, (mainly OSbot\'s introduction) but a large part of that is that drama needs a lot of buildup so it seems quick in most cases. Your panels were a bit claustrophobic with lines, the camera always seemed to tightly in. Likewise, I think it\'d be good if you switched up your angles a bit. The white space was an issue, too. There\'d be good detail on one part of the panel, then the rest would be stark, so the detail exaggerated the white space a bit much. That said, I think you just need to spread the detail and lines over the panel so there\'s more whitespace intermingled to make it seem less cluttered/claustrophobic, and more lines to make the white parts less empty.

I gave Nachte the edge for the more engaging story and a touch on quality. Yeesh, the fight\'s still looking close, though!

This is a hard pick.  Both were great. Though... I did not like seeing a kitten getting crushed. You lost some love from me there. I can\'t even look at the TV or News if its a cat being har- Oh.. off topic. I found your fight very clean and crisp, Dure. Smooth flowing, not so cliche outside the \"EYE OF THE TIGER\" insert. I\'d like to find every fight it was used in. That\'s bout it really. LOL ! Short and Sweet, just like my comment to you. I guess.

Nach, I love, LOVE your style! I think of Monday, cept it\'s more crisp and isn\'t so abstract. Your story was easy flowing, but I find it rushed- though i really enjoyed the ending. I\'m normally a fan of Drama/Action comics- so I loved it either way.

Good work to you both, and Good luck to one of you in the next round.

Pretty decent comics here, but nobody had anything memorable if you ask me.

Dure: Storywise, this is a step up from the last match, but it started off the same as your usual stuff, the baseball montage was nice, but it seems to just die down again towards the end. Also, that is some sloppy background work there Dure... colored or not I cannot give you the quality vote if all of your week long fights are going to look like this. The figures are well drawn, you\'ve got nice colors, but your linework is suffering big time and your buildings are looking like gooey blocks with squares of yellow painted on for depth.

Work on making comics shorter, focus on drawing decent backgrounds, and fix up that perspective ASAP! Just because you have more pages than everybody doesn\'t mean an instant win here people.


Nachte: This is quite the style change you\'ve taken on, reminds me of what monday does, only a lot cleaner. However the quality is still quite messy granted I can see the effort put into these pages, the story is a bit of the same thing I\'ve been seeing throughout honestly... but I did like the twist at the end where Leader couldn\'t hear anybody. I just wish you would of taken some time to just polish this up instead of increasing page count honestly.



I\'m giving this vote to Nachte.

I liked both comics, but I feel like they\'re just way too long for a week-long deadline.. it shows in the quality of linework... If they had been shorter it would have been possible to dedicate more time per page, resulting hopefully in beter quality. I don\'t know, maybe some can pull it off, but around now a lot of people have school and finals and whatever else... then they\'ve got this comic to turn in. Give yourselves a break, you know? I don\'t mean just these two comics.. a lot of people were doing the same thing.

I\'ll give Nachete an edge because I feel that his linework is tighter/more consistent, but both comics were fun to read :3

T_T sorry for the low quality guys, had a shitload of schoolwork, looking for a new place to live, and fell pretty ill last week, so I only managed to work on this for the last three days. But anyhow, I refuse to turn in an incomplete so I finished and ULed.

Yeah! Uploaded with 3 hours to spare!

Interesting pair up, I look forward to this.

Can\'t wait to see this!

Wood vs Iron

This looks like it\'ll be a fancy showing.