[SR] Web Comic: Bulletproof

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 4:58 pm

I don't like it, but I thought some of you might; Bulletproof.

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:21 pm

Hhmm, not really my kind of thing either. The art is just a little too cartoon-y for my tastes.

Subversive Agent · Post by **Subversive Agent** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:29 pm

That makes three of us.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:31 pm

Four. Quasi-anime with a side of Elf fetish.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:32 pm

Not enough naked hamsters for my tastes.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:35 pm

I dislike web comics, I dislike most anime, especially the faerie-fetish type, but I do like shadowrun. It might not be my thing, but I'm going to support the initiative anyway.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:42 pm

I hate anime with a bloody passion usually reserved for people who talk at the cinema, but this at least has the virtue of being very beautiful. While I would prefer a different style - I mean really, really prefer - I find the artwork very pretty. Excellent use of color and shadow. Honestly, it's the writing that kills it for me, and that's /still/ a cut above most webcomics. I wouldn't have assumed this was amateur if I didn't know.

Daki · Post by **Daki** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:25 pm

Nice art but I don't care for the dialogue at all.

Reika · Post by **Reika** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:34 am

It's not bad, but I think it's overly melodramatic. Going to keep reading it on and off since it's something different, think the art is very good, but then again, I'm into that type of thing.

Anyway, thank you for pointing it out, Deev.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:59 am

I gotta say, I'd kill to team up with the artist. Copious skill and talent aside, anyone who references Radiohead with the title of their webcomic is okay with me.

Daki · Post by **Daki** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:01 am

After reading Chapter 1, I have to say I really like the artist's interpretation of the astral pressence and spirits.

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:04 pm

twitch

Drawing style, its good for a non-professional. Color wise, nice use. But the two together...bleh. That digital colorization is just too smooth for the rough lines of the art. The outlines aren't hard enough to support that sort of gradieated shading. We won't get into my pet peeve of manga/anime wannabes who don't know how to cel shade though :7

We'll see if the story has merit later.

Daki · Post by **Daki** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:15 pm

Other note... why is everyone so damn pretty(*) in this story??? These are runners... not sim-stars!

(*) IC's Jake character is excluded from this generalization since Jake is a high-price whore.

Gunny · Post by **Gunny** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:12 pm

Bulletproof is pretty, but painful to read. I'm guessing Kitsune was surged, otherwise, I'd love to know how she got that look.

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:26 pm

Given the title of the page, the manga style, the fact that Kitsune is the name for a japanese fox spirit, I am assuming author self-insertion either from online persona or other inspiration

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:13 am

Gunny wrote:Bulletproof is pretty, but painful to read. I'm guessing Kitsune was surged, otherwise, I'd love to know how she got that look.

I figured the author was doing an homage to the fox-shapeshifter of the same name in the SNES game.

Jeff Hauze · Post by **Jeff Hauze** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 2:14 am

Yeah, I was with AnHi on this one. It just screamed out in memory of the immortal, unlimited Essence, godlike magic toting, cyberzombie badass....Jake.

Badass here walking around toting an assault cannon and having way too much crap in his body...and they give him the name of Jake? How the hell did I ever think he was that badass?

"I'm in disguise now. Those doctors will never recognize me. I'm wearing sunglasses, dude."

Ah...memories.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:04 am

Armitage rocked.

Jeff Hauze · Post by **Jeff Hauze** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:09 am

Armitage was indeed cool. But I give the ultimate coolness award to Norbert and the word bowb.

A dwarf who yells "Let's set our hair on fire!" while negotiating contracts is just the shit. And the word bowb for bud...that's supercool.

DV8 · Post by **DV8** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 1:05 pm

"Tee hee yo har!"

3278 · Post by **3278** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:24 pm

Kai wrote:Drawing style, its good for a non-professional. Color wise, nice use. But the two together...bleh. That digital colorization is just too smooth for the rough lines of the art. The outlines aren't hard enough to support that sort of gradieated shading. We won't get into my pet peeve of manga/anime wannabes who don't know how to cel shade though :7

Funny. Being an anime-hater, I prefer it to the look of "real" manga/anime.

Kai · Post by **Kai** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:44 pm

Well, duh

Anime/manga is primarily done in a tone shading style, usually hard edges to color/shade differentiation, blending and gradiation isn't the norm. Being someone who likes the manga style, seeing that sort of style with the 'wrong' shading method is irksome. Sort of like seeing a nice designer three piece suit and realizing its made of a plastic tablecloth upon closer look.

Patience · Post by **Patience** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:52 am

Hm. I'm getting 404s at that page and at his/her main domain. Wonder if it was advertised over at dumpshock and if she/he then exceeded his/her bandwidth?

I am poison · Post by **I am poison** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:13 am

It seems to be up again. Rydia is a free service with multiple web comics and artists. And as typical for such services, it suffers occasional hiccups that can last for hours to days.

Bulletproof was mentioned on Dumpshock long ago.

And the artist is a she named Nicole Chartrand located in Quebec Canada, which partially explains the dialog. I love it anyways - despite her casting spells from the astral and other violations of SR rules and regulations. Melodrama suits Shadowrun very well, in my never so humble opinion.

paladin2019 · Post by **paladin2019** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 3:06 pm

Nah, her chars just have really good drain resistance rolls to avoid the physical damage you take casting while astral.