Partially Indebted

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Partially Indebted

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So I finally finished chapter one, which while short is the milestone I told myself I'd get to before I officially started telling people about my comic.

Firstly the comic is based off of a role playing game, called Fading suns that I have been playing in for the last two years at university. The year is 4999 and the universe has gone back to a new Dark Age, the Church of the Celestial Sun is all powerful and technology is heavily frowned upon, only a select few may use it.

The comic follows the crew and passengers of the ship Partially Indebted, as the current captain attempts to fulfill certain terms in a dead captains will in order to claim the ship as hers. A lawyer is watching her over one shoulder to make sure she fulfills these terms, and a priest is watching her over the other to try and keep her safe and make her see sense. There are giant rat like vermin on the ship and the only game to play on the ships computer is chess, which the computer is suspiciously good at.

While I really do want comments and critique and such there are a couple of things I do already know (but any extra hints would be appreciated :))
1.That chapter 1 is a little jumpy story wise, I need to work more on making pages flow better.
2.Please don't comment to much on the first 10 pages, this whole chapter has been a giant learning curve for me art wise and the first 10 pages aren't anywhere near the standard that I'm drawing at now.

So finally heres the link:
<a href="http://partiallyindebted.comicgenesis.com/"> Partially Indebted</a>

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Post by Rowen »

Erm.. *bump* I really would appricate a comment of some kind...

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Post by Ian Moulding »

There's not a lot to comment on at this point. We haven't quite gotten to the story yet, and all we see are a bunch of characters with vaguely mysterious histories. I'm not complaining about the comic, I'm just pointing out one possible reason you haven't had much feedback in the last few days. There's not much for people to say.

About the only thing I can say is that a little more information about the background would be useful. I play RPGs, but I'm only dimly aware of the Fading Suns setting. Right now new readers have no way of learning who the Reeves are, or any of these other background details, without buying the game. Check out [quote=http://www.schlockmercenary.com/]Schlock Mercenary[/quote] for a good example of how to give your readers a lot of information without interrupting the story.

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Post by Thirdworldvillian »

Just remember (pay attention cause this is a pearl O' wisdom) Comics are a visual medium. The first thing I noticed when I surfed through a couple of pages was all the text and that should certainly not be the first thing I notice..

However I can see a good story there so Just remember to keep it as visual as possible and I'm sure it will turn out :D

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You mean putting extra background/filler stuff in the comments? Thats not a bad idea. There is a background page with some of the stuff in it, which I do need to add stuff to. But I guess it cant hurt to put some stuff in the comments as well.

And yeah I know there isn't much story there yet, I just hoped there was enough for something, but nevermind.

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