73oss, Less photoshop. There's a lot of blurs & gradients, & textures that are overlayed without compensating for perspective. I think less reliance on the program & more on your own skills would make for a much more interesting comic. And things like your character being in the plant's mouth goes on for about two pages too long. Optimizing would help too. And work on your typography. The text looks the cleanest with consistent tracking between the lines & margins between the letters & the edges of the balloons or whatever's being used to distinguish it from the art. And things like the 'more importantly' on the last page are kind of gnarly. Break that stuff up in a clearer fashion.

Con, I'm usually not one for cutesier stories, but this was nice work & I could get into it. I have no real qualms, other than maybe adding some toning or something to give the art a little more depth. Keep it up.

73oss- You're cultivating a nice style here, clean characters and quite solid panels with some nice effects for good measure. You seem to decompress maybe ten pages of story into 16, and while you're large panels and simple images are easy on the eyes, I don't know how many panels of struggle to escape from Seymore Piranha plants guts are necessary. Same goes for the repetition of Disden's duality struggle- while its character building- its overwrought at a point.


Con- Morrow is adorable as ever and your setting is equally charming- the mcguffin of the cupcake seeds creates a functional but simplistic plot point that pairs well with the over arching plot continuity in Bhindi's comic- very cool, we need more of that. Dr Cat snatchin up their crops was a bit of a copout and abbreviated ending but I got a chuckle out of the deal so no worries. Although your line weights could do with more variance, your usage of solid heavy blacks breaks up your pages nicely- keep doing that.

73oss > Impressive number of pages, and definitely a good improvement on your previous submission. Cool to see your character being fleshed out here, it's clear there's more to him than just a killing machine.

Con > Oh that Dr. Cat, up to shenanigans! Haha, entertaining submission there, you've definitely got a way with bringing life to the characters.

oh and for those not cool enough to be in the know, Mugsy = 73oss

Damn Mugsy, you stepped it way up from last round.  I had trouble following what was happening in some of your panels last round, but that wasn't an issue for me here at all.  You also managed to characterize the demon a bit more.  Not that there's anything wrong with a classic bloodthirsty demon -- that's what they are, after all -- but I enjoyed seeing an actual character flaw in the demon, as that is very rare.  I'm sure Drisden's brashness will get Geisser in a lot of trouble in Void City.  Keep battlin' so I can watch it happen.

Con, another good shot at what you do.  I'm kind of amused.  You unboxed Void Plot #2 ("Oh man I can't wait to eat this cupcake/sandwich/burger/etc it's gonna be soooo good and there's totally nobody about to steal it or something around the corner"), except instead of being food it was a food-themed MacGuffin.  Something that both characters would actually need.  The bizarre range of things cupcake seeds can treat is pretty convenient, but hey, it works for a comic that's meant to be funny.

Also, today I learned that Geisser, a walking demon being guy, is less evil than Shane Starker.  That's a bit of a disturbing discovery.

73oss-Thanks for including Angie! I think this comic was an improvement from the previous round, it was easier to relate to Geisser as a character, which is important. You might want to rely a little less on Photoshop effects for your backgrounds. You can use them sparingly, but they shouldn't make up the bulk of your backgrounds.

Con-loved the resolution to the conflict in the story, but I love cats so that's a given. You should continue with the use of black, it really helped give your work more depth here.

Dr. Cat. Wow.

OH SNAP!

AH! i really want to see how this is going to turn out.

OH NO, Geisser v Morrow. Do the Skyrim/Fallout rules for kids apply here? ... If so I think Morrow, Bhindi or Rue will be the shoe-ins for champ lol. Seriously these are dead opposites! What can we expect but awesome comics.