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Would you recommend the SSSS comic? I know little of it beside the very beautiful artstyle and premise
to answer the question of if i would recommend SSSS as a comic: yes, yes i would.
a description for those who don't know: Stand Still Stay Silent is a post-apocalyptic horror + adventure webcomic set in the nordics (norway, sweden, denmark, finland, iceland) that have been isolated from the rest of the world and gone back to their old gods. the the world outside of safe zones is full of trolls and beasts - humans and mammals that got infected by a horrible virus and turned into monsters. the story follows a ragtag crew that ventures into the old world (derelict denmark) on an expedition to collect books.
the comic updated every workday until it concluded in 2022, and consists of two Adventures. the creator had plans for many adventures with these characters in this world, but ended it after two when she wanted to take a new direction with her life.
what i love about it:
- the art is GORGEOUS. it's been a huge source of inspiration for me. open any page and it's a masterpiece, and you will ask yourself "how the FUCK did she update this FIVE DAYS A WEEK"
- the characters are wonderful and endearing. i just, i love them so much. i am so thankful lalli hotakainen exists he is one of my #1 blorbos forever
- the world is so cool. the blend of chunky sci-fi and norse mythology fantasy magic slaps. it goes so hard. i fell so hard for this comic when i got to the big ferry ship with a viking style dragon head prow added to it. it's everything
- it really really gets nordic cultures. it's difficult to explain all the dynamics and nuances but it just gets it. it brings me as a scandinavian a lot of joy to read a story that speaks to my heart this way. the attitudes, the language barriers, the cultural differences... it was so refreshing to me in a media landscape dominated by american stories. when the pandemic hit, i decided to reread the comic because i found such an odd comfort in seeing how it depicted the scandinavian countries reacting to, well, a pandemic.
- there's kittycats
what i don't like about it:
- the most glaring and obvious flaw is that everyone in the comic is white. there's not a single character of color anywhere, not even i background shots or the prologue. there's no mention of the saami people (the indigenous people of northern europe), either. i believe this was done in ignorance more than malicious intent, but the implications are Extremely Bad and it's been bothering me (AND MANY OTHERS) since day 1. that is the number one caveat i will give to anyone wanting to check this comic out. i've been in the discourse trenches and i am not going to excuse this. it's just bad!
- you can tell in the middle of adventure 2 that the creator has kind of lost interest in the work, around the time when she found jesus i guess. like, very few people can keep up work on the same creative project for years and years and years and i think it's fine that she wanted to drop it, but it's a bit sad to see the comic dragged to its end like a limp corpse, and feeling like the creator no longer really cares about the characters.
- minna sundberg has said and done some questionable things, presumably gotten somewhat radicalised over time, and has also converted to hardcore christianity which is what her new works are about. there's nothing about this in SSSS - there is a moment of christianity represented in the story in a sort of mythological sense, just like the other religions, but this was written before minna's conversion. her new works... are a Choice. i have much to say about them, and i have, and im not gonna rehash it now.
SO YEAH hopefully this will help you take an Informed Choice! i got into this comic in 2015 and was deep in the fandom and it's for better or for worse part of my soul foundation now.
i also recommend A Redtail's Dream, minna's "practice comic" before SSSS, based on finnish mythology and the kalevala.
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May I have a singular Emil from SSSS pls
There he is. 167 cm of workplace safety violations.
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I have a question as an amateur artist. You primarily do traditional art, how do you make it look so good when you post it online? I do traditional art, too, but i can never take good pictures of it.
First of all, thank you very much! I'm using my phone and a trial-and-error approach which is (hopefully) steadily improving over the years.
Let's demonstrate through this lineart drawing of Leman Russ and his princess hair.
1. Take photo. I have 2 table lamps standing on each side of the drawing to give a somewhat even light distribution.
2. Crop photo.
3. Now I usually want to brighten up the photo. To do that I put on a black-and-white filter, then turn the saturation and temperature down as far as possible. This gives the photo and drawing a sharp, high-contrast look. You can also turn up the contrast.
4. However, this only really works for black and white, and mostly for lineart. Colour and nuances mostly dissappear. To keep that, you have to fiddle around with brightness and contrast amd exposition.
In this case I kinda liked it better with a different filter from my phone's standard selection:
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They shrunk him!
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The Cain instinct...
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I like the way you draw Magnus and Perturabo. I don’t want to say they have “dad bods” but they have slight chub I can appreciate and it makes me go feral. Thank you.
Thank you! They mostly look like strongmen, big muscles and body fat. And here we see them having a pretty great time together, all things considered.
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Based on a comic panel I first saw when I was 15 and which forever lodged itself in my brain:
"Medley" by Lisa Medin.
Of course Leman Russ is committing to the cross-dressing bit, HE'S THOR
Leman has something long and hard under his dress.
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Of course Leman Russ is committing to the cross-dressing bit, HE'S THOR
Leman has something long and hard under his dress.
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You draw Corvus so cute. Big ole eyes
Thank you! This made me want to draw our two sneaky, funky-eyed primarchs side by side for comparison:
Twinnies.
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why is karlarch boobs out and the others but not laezel and shadowheart
Karlach has nonbinary boob privilegie
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Androgynous.
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As part of a long-term psychological intimidation strategy, Corvus performs a Kate Bush impression:
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As part of a long-term psychological intimidation strategy, Corvus performs a Kate Bush impression:
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really underrated phenomenon is when some artist gets incredibly attached to like one character from a thing and you see them go from “here’s my fanart of this character! let me know what you guys think!” to creating like fucked up surrealist shit that doesn’t even have to do with ANYTHING the canon is from anymore. I don’t mean aus I mean like actual absurdist art of some fucking cartoon guy
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I've had this lying around since September 2023.
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