The Shrine

Sounds like something Replay will be interested in. I didn't read it all though.

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that's not making comics. that's taking screenshots and adding fucking words to them

Hmmm, so whats more important? The drawings or the words?

both. and the amount of work and care and thought that goes into it. a bunch of screenshots is not a fucking comic

Chris wrote:both. and the amount of work and care and thought that goes into it. a bunch of screenshots is not a fucking comic

I concur.

Sure it's a comic. It's just not a good one.

Kupek wrote:Sure it's a comic. It's just not a good one.

no. it's not a comic. there is nothing comic like it. It's fucking screenshots with words on them

"Nu-uh" is not an argument. I think there's a low bar for something to qualify as a comic: pictures in sequence with words in them. I see no reason why screenshots can't be used as the pictures.

Don't misinterpret this as an insult to your profession. I think the bar for something to qualify as a book is even lower: words on a page bound together. You don't get to exclude something from a classification just because it's bad.

"A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a funny book, comic paper or comic magazine) is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog (usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book artform) and often including brief descriptive prose."

It's not a fucking comic book. It's a bunch of screenshots with words. Calling it a comic book grants it a level of legitimacy that it does not deserve. Kupek, you don't seem to understand the power that would give.

And if you can construct a narrative with those "screenshots and words," then it's a comic.

If I bolt a bunch of soggy pieces of driftwood in such a way that I can sit on it and have some back support, it's a chair. It's a crappy chair, but it's still a chair.

I was under the impression stuff like 8-bit theatre is nothing but 'screenshots with words'. And you at least have better graphics to work with.

In Japanese manga they apparently have a lot of generic scenes that you can just copy & paste and put your character into it.

Cyanide and Happiness you can construct with 4 or 5 basic shapes but its a funny 'comic' at times.

Chris wrote:that's not making comics. that's taking screenshots and adding fucking words to them

They need a model or character poser separate from the game for this to work. I agree with Chris. Screenshots alone would do next to nothing for me.