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I'm still a little shocked at the title Wendy gave me. 🤣I never thought of myself that way, but it's interesting. And I love words. They have an impressive power. I think I could be a pretty good wordsmith in my native tongue, but here it's a little difficult. But who knows what will happen next.....
*Michael Jackson's look at the end of the thriller.
 
zinniabooklover said:
I've looked at this a few times.
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@mjfanatic777 said:
opps sorry it sounded well in my head
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No, I meant I've looked at Lackadaisy! Not properly. I looked at a few pages here and there. I was just browsing, this was a year or so ago. This whole 'comics online' thing intrigued me bc I used to be into comics and then dumped them bc they take up way too much space. I had about 3, 000, maybe slightly more, and I loved them but, omg, the space they needed. I just got fed-up so I flogged the whole lot. I should have kept my Frank Miller DareDevils. That was a mistake. But I'm fine with having got rid of the rest. Too many comics, too many books!

Mixed feelings about comics online. I can see the immediate benefit but also I'm really old-school and like stuff to be tangible. I don't do music digitally, for example. Anyway, Lackadaisy is good, the little bits I looked at. I'm not mad keen on computer art and this does look like it's been done digitally, not with real pencils and stuff. But, on-screen, it works so I don't mind so much.

There's a lot of characters in it and I didn't come across all of them. Looks like a good piece of work, though. If that was a real comic (i.e. made of paper) and I was still doing the comics thing I can tell this is one I'd be buying. I like the Smooth Criminal vibe.
 
hope said:
I'm still a little shocked at the title Wendy gave me. 🤣I never thought of myself that way, but it's interesting. And I love words. They have an impressive power. I think I could be a pretty good wordsmith in my native tongue, but here it's a little difficult. But who knows what will happen next.....
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oh no, I'm not keeping up! I don't check every post in this thread. For one, it often goes too fast for me, but mostly the guys and wendi are not speaking my language so I leave them to it, lol. Generally I just post stuff randomly, I'm not usually trying to follow the madness, iyswim! :D

What title did wendi give you? I'm intrigued.

EDIT - I think I just found it.
 
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@mjfanatic777 said:
I will name you all of them (ofc if you only want me too)
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No, that's fine. I remember seeing the page where they were all listed. I hadn't picked up that there were so many bc I only looked at a few pages so I only saw a little bit of the story. I think I was trying to pick one character to identify with, iirc. :D

I do remember I really liked the layout of that particular page.
 
zinniabooklover said:
No, that's fine. I remember seeing the page where they were all listed. I hadn't picked up that there were so many bc I only looked at a few pages so I only saw a little bit of the story. I think I was trying to pick one character to identify with, iirc. :D

I do remember I really liked the layout of that particular page.
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Can I tell you my fav character?
 
@mjfanatic777 said:
I like it online because 1) you can get it for free (sometimes) 2) you know you won’t rip the pages and 3) it’s a bit more convenient (well for me, at least))
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These are all good points. Looking after paper comics was a headache, ngl. Special plastic bags - acid free. Special boxes - those boxes got on my nerves. They took up SO much space. And they were awkward to move around. Gah!

Plus the expense. I didn't mind bc I loved my comics but it was a LOT of money. I was only buying 12 - 15 per month. It wasn't loads. But it did add up!

I'm intrigued by some comics being available for free. Yay! I need to go and have another look at all of this. I'm easily distracted plus I do really dislike reading stuff online. I mean, I REALLY dislike it. But, y'know, comics! I do love 'em. My only question is how the page layouts work. The Lackadaisy pages I looked at all had a very conventional layout which is perfectly fine, of course. But in a paper comic they were doing much more creative page layouts and I can't see how that would work if you're having to scroll down a screen. Also, artwork that takes up a whole page - not sure I understand how that would work. 🤔

Definitely need to go back and look at all of this. Properly this time!
 
"Butler creates the comic by pencil sketching original images, then scanning and adjusting them with software such as Photoshop, where the panels are then assembled ... Some of the feline characters are based on Butler's own pets, Ivy and Calvin."

This makes me so happy, that she starts the creative work in pencil. I could tell. I could see that the artwork was computer art but it also had proper depth to it plus a kind of visual 'feel' that computer art just never has, imo. This is so cool. :)
 
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