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hey could you recommend a good way to get into the dbd comics? im not sure where to start
Great question,
I recommend starting with the series that started in 2013, Dead Boy Detectives #1-12 (vol 1: School Boy Terrors & Vol 2: Ghost Snow) by Toby Litt & Mark Buckingham. It's a good introduction to the boys and how they solve mystery's and their dynamics. IIRC it doesn't explicitly detail their origins but it hints enough to get the gist of what happened to them. It was also the boys first standalone series and can easily found on comxiology, amazon, kindle, abebooks, thirftbooks etc.
From there, they appeared in other series within Sandman and are hard to track down. There is Dead Boy Detective omnibus book that has all of their stories in a collection. That's an easier option to get into the comics because they are all there, but I've heard they are selling out due to popularity of the show.
The series they appeared in are listed below:
The Sandman: Season of Mist -First appearance
Free Country: A Tale of the Children's Crusade
Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3
Sandman Presents: Dead Boy Detectives
Death: At Death's Door - this is manga style graphic novel showing Death's activities during Season of Mist
Dead Boy Detectives: Manga style sequel to Death's Door
Dead Boy Detectives #1-12 (Vol 1 & Vol 2)
There is also a newer ongoing comic series "The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives; its under DC comics Black Label - I haven't caught up on this on yet, but its on my reading list and it looks good.
But in a roundabout way I would start with the DBD #1-12 and from there see what you can find. They do reference stuff that happened previously but you won't be totally lost. I do know that all of the titles are available on DC infinite with either their ultra or premium subscription. Hope I answered your questions & apologies for the ramble. I get excited when I get comic book related ask lol
Thanks for the ask,
#Ask enygma#ask answered#whyistherebreadinmyhouse#Dead boy detectives#DBD#Comic book ask#low key these type of ask I love because its an excuse to dig through my library#Charles row#Edwin Payne#Crystal Palace
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the doodles i doodled while i listened to the nona audio book babay! (plus my favorite pyrrha dve quotes)
#tlt#the locked tomb#nona the ninth#nona the ninth spoilers#camilla hect#pyrrha dve#tlt shitposting#gideon the ninth#lot of people were asking me for a comic with pash in it but tbh i couldnt really think of anything LMAO SORRY#i mean i could probably come up with somethin but i just dont have a good idea of her character#i mean the fandom makes her very funny but in the book she doesnt have much screen time#do you still call it screen time if its a book probably not right#also sorry all my favorite pyrrha quotes are basically just her calling cam a gay ass#also also im working on griddlehark farmer doodles so ill probably get those done next
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Give a prize to this angel for resisting endless temptations every day.
#aziraphale#good omens 2#crowley#we watched Persuasion and it's basically Good Omens season 3 👌😔💯/💯#Jane Austen would ship them#Crowley is probably asking genuinely and not even flirting#but if he ask Aziraphale “how's the book that you are reading” Aziraphale is already hearing wedding bells#Quando i flirt che funzionano sono i corteggiamenti dell'epoca Bridgerton aiutate Aziraphale per favore ha già pronto il suo carnet di ball#good omens#ineffable husbands#aziracrow#persuasion#good omens comic
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THE WILLIAMS ❤️❤️❤️🤤🤤
They look so good on your style OMGG ❤️❤️
I’m glad yall liked the Williams comic!!!
#ask reply#honestly the reaction to that comic was way more than I expected#but I’m so glad it hit well with yall#especially shout out to the DSAF fans#you guys really just keep yalls hype up and high and we’re so nice#very good vibes all around#I’ll hopefully draw some of these Williams again sometime#game William I definitely could do more with#and in general I’d like to make more jokes around the books but we’ll see#AGAIN TYSM FOR ALL THE LOVE on that comic 💜
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everyone read impulse 1995 for The Guy
#bring back giving the most random characters solo books that last more than 70 issues long#impulse#bart allen#the flash#dc comics#max mercury#cissie king jones#arrowette#young justice#the comic not the show#i miss yj98 man come back#in general i just miss bart he’s my little guy dc just doesn’t give out solos like that anymore#mark waid please if you can hear us please mark waid please save me please save me mark waid please i’m asking you#i miss helen tbh where is she
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you are so whimsical i qant to check out this mdzs (..??) because of your whimsical nature thank you sorry im very high and your art moved me emotionally
This is simultaneously the sweetest and funniest thing someone has sent me, thank you.
#ask#non-mdzs#I have a hunch you will not recall sending this to me but I wish to immortalize it.#The progression of me going 'aw' to 'barking with laughter' at the last bit of this message was a delight.#Oh man what to say about getting into MDZS...#I admit I'm probably low on the list of people who should be recommending it.#I enjoy it! But there are also a ton of different adaptations that each do a slightly different thing with the story and characters.#Personally I loved The Untamed (Netflix live action) for how campy the action was. It got emotional but really...It made me laugh.#And I love watching it with people because it also makes them laugh.#(The Untamed changes a lot of plot elements so it isn't looked upon very favourably by many fans. I love it as its own thing)#Don't get me wrong; it *is* a story with interesting things to say and I certainly have written tons of analysis on it.#But it's also a series I spent over a year making parody comics of. It comes from a place of love!#The audio drama is really good and I think it might be the best form of mdzs...however finding episodes is not easy.#The audio drama is also what I'm basing all these comics on!#There is a book (the primary source) An animated series and a comic to check out as well.#Someone probably has a better pitch and recommendation list than I do. I just make the funny comics.
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Redraw of the cape post, because that entire concept deserved better than the illustration I gave it.
#just give 12 a cape it's all I ask#yes I was watching Musketeers again#doctor who fanart#twelfth doctor#clara oswald#whouffaldi#twelveclara#guess who watched Heaven Sent + Hellbent again#I only cried half a tear but I did get Really sweaty#which is an improvement from last time#it took me about 8 years to getting round to watching those 2 episodes because Face the Raven destroyed me so hard#I'm pretty sure I couldnt eat for a whole day after FtR aired#although at that point I had been steadily absorbing Clara's personality into my own for a few years#I don't have a personality I stole it from Clara Oswald#read all of the 12clara books. listened to the audiobooks. Running out of content at a concerning rate#had to buy another comic#one day I'll have consumed all 12+Clara content. Then I'll just have to take matters into my own hands (make it myself)
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wait what picture of their bedroom with both their stuff visible??
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#anon ask#phils family photo and buffy comics and books#dans bear and japan air and colognes and matchsticks and secret box
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THAT'S SO COOL!!! Esra is so cute! That's amazing
HEHE THANK YOU!!! Esra is both a cute AND silly little guy <3 he’s everything to me, I am wiggling him around like a slinky hehehe
Here are some of my favorite panels so far with the sillay :]
#souls in the sand#art escapades#Esra#harlow#Gale#alo#Perinnet#original characters#ask#souls ask#anon#curses#ghost choir#I suppose I’ll tag the larger song-pieces that these are from for organization purposes#graphic novel#comic book
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what would you recommend for a beginner wanting to get into comics?
Don't
#get out while you still can#once you see bruce wayne's canon dingaling there's no turning back#bruce wayne#batman#batfamily#batfam#batman family#dc comics#marvel comics#comics#comic books#comic recs#ask#anonymous
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vista
#art#hello from halo head#devil#halo head#hfhh#landscape#this is a BG i made to use in my comic several times this week#this is the full pan sans comic borders (and chloe's book) since i wanted to appreciate it on its own#for a dumb ass storyboard artist i do ok on some things outside my discipline#despite using solid colors with no blending i always think of these as digital paintings#incidentally i do all my digital paintings in Storyboard Pro#but i think not enough people use that program to understand how fucked up that statement is#whenever people ask me what program i use i tell them but then im like#but you should honestly just use CSP or procreate instead lol#i love SBP but that's because i just get attached to programs i use a lot#it was Flash before this#and i wouldn't recommend painting in flash either
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where can i start reading disc world?
(tl;dr version: Either with Guards!Guards! if you want angry urban fantasy or Wyrd Sisters if you want angry rural fantasy, then follow the list for that sub-series)
Oh anon brace yourself, there are in fact several ways people have big opinions on.
These are mine:
1. My least favorite way is from the start in chronological order
the trouble here is the first few Discworld novels were written as these kinda silly goofy fantasy/dnd parodies that weren't even supposed to be a part of a bigger thing and they honestly aren't that good, especially not compared to later books. That's the way I started and I just dropped the series for a few years cause of it, so I really don't recommend it. The author himself said he wasn't that good of a writer back then which is understandable, cause it was like 40 books ago.
2. What I reccomend is in chronological order based on different sub-series
Discworld novels all happen in the same world, but they follow different groups of characters, so you have several sub-series.
I'll post a list here, but it's pretty confusing so I'll also explain two of my favs below.
City Novels (Watch novels and Industrial Revolution novels)
About a huge, terrible metropolis and the people that help it run, stumble and sometimes trip over the years.
People normally split this into watch novels which follow the city watch and are crime procedurals/adventure books with a ton of social commentary and industrial revolution novels which are about the city speedrunning from medieval to industrial era via several inventions and follow different main characters who are mostly all there against their will.
To me, the main character is the city itself and I super recommend reading these from start to finish in order to see how it changes with time.
starting book: Guards! Guards!
Witches Novels
About three witches doing witch things in a small mountain kingdom, unless they're going on a trip somewhere.
Incredible horrid old lady characters, a lot of exploration of fantasy tropes, some deep emotional beats, very warm human phlosophy and personal responsibility themes.
There's a semi-seperate "YA" series about a younger witch (Tiffany Aching novels), but don't let that fool you, because those hit just as hard as the "adult" ones.
starting book: Wyrd Sisters (technically Equal Rites, but that's also in the awkward early books period for me)
As for the others, the death novels are also very very good, Small Gods is an amazing standalone book and I'd literally just avoid the Rincewind novels until you're already hooked on the series, but they probably have their fans too.
3. Just pick up a random book you see in the library
A tried and tested method a lot of people swear by, most of the books are standalone enough for this to work, BUT my personal opinion is at least the city books should be read in order (especially Night Watch) and there's several less than stellar books you could pick up first by mistake this way (Color of Magic, Light Fantastic, Interesting Times and Faust being the worst imo).
#discworld#this is my personal opinion ofc but imagine your first books was interesting times#everytime someone asks me how to get into discworld i transform into that look how hard i can piss comic
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More female Patrick please 💳
You ask, I give. Quotes and scene from the book, but with Ms Bateman instead.
#blood tw#art#artwork#my art#digital art#comic#american psycho book#american psycho#patrick bateman#patricia bateman#this is one of my favorite scenes in the book its very distressing in a lot of ways and has such weight#anon asks
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Aside from the aesthetics and optics making one look good cop and the other bad cop- what do you think of the different approaches of altruism Batman and superman are?
Like what do I think are their different approaches? Or what do I think of their different approaches?
I think, in terms of altruism, they have the same approach haha. A focus on rehabilitation and redemption. On love and forgiveness. Both capture criminals and offer them ways to turn away from the sordid pasts. Neither exacts justice on their own. Both leave their captures to the authorities and due process.
They have no differences in their approaches to altruism. Their approaches to vigilantism on the other hand.
Clark seems to focus more on just stopping the act as it happens, but of course he can do that as a superhero who is fast, strong, and indestructible. Clark can also then rely totally on being this big shining target of goodness that inspires some criminals to lay down their arms peacefully and can easily handle the ones who don’t.
Bruce isn’t so lucky. He’s a human and he needs to rely on his human skills and wits to keep himself alive and bring down crime. How does he do it? He makes himself out to be a monster that preys only on the wicked. You have to seem pretty dark and terrifying to pull that off, but it keeps him safe and keeps the dangerous off the streets when they think someone even more dangerous is prowling them.
So, yeah, the optics make it seem like Bruce and Clark have wildly different approaches, but they really don’t, that’s why they’re best friends haha
#comic books#dc comics#ask me anything!#comics#opinions#thoughts#batman#bruce wayne#superman#clark kent#I’m running out of ways to make these witty#I’m all out of wit#I am witless#I love Bruce and Clark though#and I think they’re both pretty darn cool#and sweetie pies
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DPXDC Prompt #119
Danny had a strange life. He remembered a whole other world where superheroes existed and he remembered being an assassin until about age 7 but he knows this couldn’t be true. He fell through some sort of swirling portal which reminded him of the portal his parents built. He was a Fenton and all of the superheroes he remembered are comic book characters. Of course he was kind of like them now with his powers he’s had for a year now at age 15.
His friends came across a fan webcomic of one of the comic book characters, Batman if he remembered correctly, which detailed his childhood in the league eerily similar to what he remembered. Contacting the artist they find out not only was everything he remembered actually happened but his brother put out that comic in several worlds to find him after he learned from Talia who lied about him dying during a mission.
#dp x dc prompt#dp x dc#dc x dp#danny fenton#danny phantom#writing prompt#poor danny#danny and damian are twins#Danny’s world has comic book versions of DC#Damian world hops to find his brother#Clockwork definitely did a thing#my asks are open#all my prompts are free to use
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if i may ask, is it difficult at all to re-edit/organize the comic pages from the webtoon format to fit the graphic novel format?
on another note, I'm so happy that your kickstarter was funded!!! I love time and time again, im so excited to see this all happen <3
I'll just turn this ask into something of a guide for the process! Because yes, it is difficult, but there are also many ways I have been preparing from the beginning for this very situation to make things easier for me!
I've worked in both print and scroll in the past, and have done this transition once before for a short story, so I already had familiarity both with my goals for print, and struggles with the transition!
How I prepared from the beginning for this transition:
1: My panels are 2500 pixels wide, so they can span my page (which is 8.3x5.8 inches) at 350 DPI (which is print quality)
2: My layers are organized: Text, FX, Foreground, Characters, Background
3: I draw one very large (twice as big as any panel would be, minimum) background for my major locations, as well as drawing furniture assets in isolation. This not only saves me time when making my actual episodes, but it also offers me INCREDIBLE flexibility when making this transition to print.
These 3 things let me pull the character art to the page by itself, scale it up or down to fit my panel, and then fill in the background behind the character.
So, I read the scroll version, decide how many and which panels I want on the page for the pacing (I also keep page spreads and page turns in mind while I am doing this), and then I pull those panels over from the scroll version to the page.
Then, I make the panel borders/page layout that I want, fit the character art into it, paste in the backgrounds, do any art editing that I need, add FX, and then re-do the text!
Sometimes I do need to draw parts that are missing (shoulders or elbows getting cut off is an extremely common one) and sometimes I need to adjust facial expressions, cut panels, or rearrange panels to make things read more clearly. Since it's my comic already, I know how to do these things while maintaining the original intent, but if I were working with someone else's comic I would need to work closely with them to know what can and can't be cut.
(original panel vs an expanded version)
Another common issue is that VERY tall panels will inevitably lose a lot of information when they’re turned to pages. Identify the purpose of the panel (pacing, showing a lot of detail, etc) and then replicate that with your page layout.
examples (in order) are: scene transition, being overwhelmed, suspense, and establishing shot. All of these were a single panel in the scroll version!
Another issue when converting pages is that panel order is a lot less straightforward than when starting from print format. Conversational back and forth that's fine in scroll often messes up the flow of reading in a page (characters facing out, not looking at eachother from panel to panel, etc) and so some creative solutions are necessary to keeping the reading order.
For the first page I had to delete and rearrange some panels, and in the second the dialogue bubbles guide us to read this page in a circle. (dialogue guides through a lot of my pages lol)
And the last really common issue that pops up is that height differences can be really difficult. Usually in print this is solved with clever angles, but I’ve already drawn everything. So, I’ll either resort to vertical shaped panels, panel pop-outs, or editing a character up or down to fit into the panel.
(examples in order)
So, yes, it is difficult! But I have a lot of experience with both formats, and having prepared for this from the beginning I've been able to make the transition a LOT more smoothly than I otherwise could have.
I hope this helps!
And, thank you about the kickstarter! I'm extremely excited I'll be able to print these, the proofs I've received so far look just absolutely stunning and I'm so so so excited to get to send them to people!!!
Obligatory self promo, if you want to see the kickstarter page and get these four books for yourself, then you can check it out here ^^ It's been funded, so at this point we're just reaching stretch goals and placing orders!
#asks#anon#art tips#comic tips#web comics#comic books#comic advice#also this is just my own experience obviously everyone works differently and I cant promise this will work for you too#but doing things this way I've been able to finish about an episode (15 pages or so) every day#so it's been extremely swift (though also of course a ton of work)#thank you past me for making this so easy!!!#it'd easily take 5x as long without the prep I did!!!
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