Item: Revival of a Ruined World
Rating: 2.54
Author: Dekkard

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Revival of a Ruined World

by Dekkard

A man must come to terms with his failures and restore a world he left to rot.

#post apocalypse #blood #guns #gore #violence

Open to any comments or critiques

This comic has been rated adults only by its creator(s)

Uploaded February 05, 2025

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Short and Sweet: Webcomic Pitch

Artist Match

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Comments (7)

Honestly, what a fun idea for an artist battle! Everybody's entries were an absolute treat to see.

SirJellyRaptor: Honestly, your art style is always such a treat for me to look at so I might be a bit biased here, but your entry was stellar! The colors and linework really stood out to me. The tone and hints of worldbuilding were exciting, too - I could totally picture myself reading or watching it regularly if it was a show or a movie!

TRM: A funny and cute little comic! I've always been such a sucker for evil little guys in happy and healthy relationships, lol. I could easily imagine this as a sort of comic strip series, following the couple.

ItizJR: YOOOO this looks incredible! Every page of this is absolutely OOZING with style - the way that you make each panel pop out in my memory is an absolute marvel.

Mixiemon: I'll be honest, your entry was so fun and silly to me that it'll probably be the entry that I'll think the most about over the next few months, lol. The character designs are so crazy and cool and every bit of the comic is dripping with personality that I can't help but love it!

Cab: This was such a silly and campy pitch that I can't help but smile reading it :] My only experience with Duck Tales is via the reboot, but this still perfectly falls in line with its tone. Maybe I'm just a sucker to comics/homages to past versions of the artist, lol.

DoeFr: GOD, what a somber (yet absolutely stellar) comic. This is the one that I honestly want to know more about the most. Something that I've appreciated in your characters for a while now is how you'd occasionally branch out to representing other cultures and different time periods. The paneling in page 3 also stood out to me the most here - overall, phenomenal work!

Raltz: A short and silly little comic! The TOS bit at the last page honestly got a chuckle out of me. Would love to see every detail of their argument, lol.

Dekkard: An interesting little introduction! The first line and the description makes me wonder if the main character himself is the reason why the whole world is in the throes of an apocalypse, or if it caused something else.

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I loved everyone’s comics. No words. PERFECTION🤩🤩🤩🤩

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An apocalypse setting is always a fun time. The message of magic wasn’t too clear, a good way to show it is have that magic be in the background in subtle ways. For example having the following panels surrounded by a green magic border. Also for a pitch the most important thing to highlight is the character and ending on just him doesn’t give the reader much to work with. Also make sure to use lots of references for poses and settings and compositions.

It's a nice concept but I feel we didn't fully explored enough of it for this pitch, perhaps if the first and last pages weren't full pages and more large splash panels with some additional story panels we could flush out the idea better. In the end any comic complete is a good comic in my eyes, and i commend you in finishing another comic, I think you're full of interesting ideas Dekkard, I want to see more stories that your mind has to explore, keep up the good work.

The green lights in the narrator's hand was supposed to be magic. I see now how it could be confused for fireflies or something else. I thought about putting something on the last page to show a source of magic but settled on a full body portrait of the narrator.

I'm not sure how literal the use of the term "magic" is supposed to be here, but you don't really see a lot of magic in post apocalyptic settings. At least now how it's implied here. That in itself catches my interest, but I think you gotta lean into it, because the big thing that might help this setting stand out is relegated to a single line of dialogue and the things that are shown, the sickness and faction wars, already permeate the post apocalyptic genre. If there are some remnants of magic here, I would have liked to see it.

I'm pretty interested I would say! Only critique would be to encourage you to use more references for weapons and the human bones.