Ok finally getting around to commenting..... You both did so well.  I voted very very closely.

Puzzle: I'm really envious of the way you can make speech seem so natural, and you always have such epic stories ;_; The only thing that bugs me is the digital speech bubbles, I know your handwriting looks like balls, so I think you should at least tone them down so they don't scream digital. Like, make them Sepia too. I finally started doing it by hand and it's so annoying but I think it pays off in the end.  I think I might have told you this already, I can't remember haha. Also, VOID ALL NUDE NEWS! YEAHHHH!!

Six: I thought the way you "killed" Samandriel was really clever. And I was so pleasantly surprised when I saw my character in there. I didn't catch what she was actually doing the first time I read it, but goddamn when I caught it the second time around I was laughing so hard. And your art is so clean and lovely.

   Thanks so much for the awesome critique Monday, I'm really grateful you'd take the time to really think critically about my stuff, and I'm really sorry it was such a weak piece. I've been ashamed of the quality of my artwork and visual storytelling during SDT; I've been roboticly laying out pages and illustrating without really focusing or thinking about the effectiveness of the shot. My work from conception to executution has been sloppy.

      Thanks again Monday, I'll try and be more present for the next round if I make it.

Six: Your side had a clear direction and art reflected the progression well. In your simplistic approach you tend to go formulaic but your work had little to no mistakes either. Story hinted at greater things and at this point the progression you implemented from previous battles are starting to pay off here. On the down side, Samadriel, while delivered amazingly as an Agent of higher powers fell short with having a flat personality albeit fitting her role in your comic.

Puzzle: I see where you're going with your work and your use of color and ambitious storytelling is coming through the smokescreen. That smokescreen being a lot of anatomical mistakes, a lot of lost shots where I had to sort of invent what was happening. You caught me in a bad month where I'm studying a lot of things from life so these mistakes are bothering me amazingly to the point where I cant enjoy your stories like normal.   For example is that woman masturbating on the first page ? You'd have to sell it, her pose seems unnatural and unassuming if that was the case.
The tackle on that third page looked wonky as shit, you would need to make the angles in the picture line up with that pose . At page 5 I pretty much lost the story . You can guess that Im just gonna be skimming at this point and Im not exactly getting who is saying which line.  You tend to hold back on showing the really important details since most of your panels are timed to show ansiliary aspects of the events depicted. The ending otherwise turned out great so I didn't lose this piece. Sams' struggle otherwise wasn't selling it for me.

Puzzle, your comic was fantastic. I really like the way you portrayed Sam and the colors really worked. Mal's design is pretty snazzy. Looks like this might be a close fight, but, win or lose, I really enjoyed this battle!

AHHHHH THAT WAS AWESOME. If I lose to you dude I totally won't care because that was a great comic. You even worked Red's character in there, she's gonna be ecstatic when I see her.

   It's funny, but both our comics have the same thing happening to Samadiriel; falling from grace. SO WEIRD.

Uploaded. I really gotta find a nice speed for drawing comics somewhere in between "Self Flagellation" and "Lazy Goodfornothing".

I can't wait to see your comic, Puzzlething. Your character and comics are really creative. I think I made Samandiriel a little too jaded and angry in this, but oh well.

I'M CONFUSED ALREADY

UPLOADED. I hope you like the comic sixtem, you have no idea how flattered I am that you like my character. It was really fun drawing Sam.

IMPORTANT: Samandiriel is never referred to as Sam in this comic, so if someone says Sam they're talking to sixtems character.

Both of you are good storytellers. This should be good.

SLAMMIN SAMMMIES

oh mans, this should be close!

Sam^2

This is one of my favorite characters. I hope I can do her justice.

THIS TOWN AIN"T BIG ENOUGH FOR TWO SAMS