I love love love this! And like everybody else, I'm on the edge of my seat to find out what kind of plan Louise has brewing :D It's really great that we finally get to see the more feral side of the Arakhs.
I think the only things I would crit are general things: Keep working on your anatomy - specifically hands (Like, we all need to work on hands, am I right?) A lot of the close-ups of hands in this are really nice, but when we get to the more cartoony characters, like the spider girls, the fingers get a little too wiggly. Also the characters' neck and shoulder areas could be better defined. I've gotta say, you do a good job of making your backgrounds look right even though they don't follow strict perspective grids, but it'd be interesting to see what would happen if you drew your backgrounds and characters on a proper perspective grid. I think it would open up some more dynamic camera angle options for you.
But now back to gushing over this comic - That is some really nicely done gore at the end there. I also really like the splotchy texture you've got over the colors. It's not too overpowering, but it gives a really great, kind of dirty, gritty feel to the whole comic. I especially liked how it affects the mood in the bar scene.
Cant wait for Side A! <3
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This was chilling. I'm actually afraid of what's coming next. Void City may be in bigger trouble than I thought!
I LOVED the colors and techniques you ended up using to represent the mindscape of the Arakhs' telepathic network! It was just the right mix of psychedelic colors and technological artifacting to represent that intersection between Vektran mind reading and Arakh power. And seeing our beloved spiderbabies in their natural habitat was horrifying! I need to hide my kids hide my wifes and hide my husdbands too because they're coming for you (sorry got lost in a meme there for a second).
I want to offer advice on how you can improve, but I honestly can't think of anything that stood out to me other than a few minor grammatical issues (which are just inevitable if English is your second language and you don't have an English editor check over your work all the time). The shift in color palette on page 5 really added a lot to the feeling of a break in the middle of the action to represent something happening far away. I was going to say you needed to vary your color palette more, but then you threw in that page and it just made that a non-issue again. I guess at this point I would just challenge you to try playing with mood lighting and using specific color schemes to enhance the atmosphere rather than, for example, using the same shade of red for Arakh eyes every time they appear. Even if they glow that color, there could be slight variations based on surrounding colors, or you could just adjust the color a little just for effect. Other than that, there's nothing I can think of to recommend to you! This was awesome, and I'm on the edge of my seat to find out what's next.
The idea of Louise's SISTERS (presumably each with their own hundreds or thousands or who knows how many of spiderbabies) terrifies me. If the arakhs desire the extinction of the human race... we're in trouble.
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Hot damn dude! You really rocked the shit outta this one!
Honestly, no crit even needed this time. Just keep crankin out more of this quality and I'll be all over it!
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