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Axo1ot1
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Aug 30, 2005, 12:38 PM
 
I started a web comic today with my buddy Ben Joseph. You should all go read it! There's going to be a new comic every day for the next two weeks so check it oftenly!

     
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Aug 31, 2005, 02:53 AM
 
Here's to better scripts and more stimulating art. Cheers!

I like the style, but I don't see too much effort put in it. Hopefully yours will not become one of the 1000s blogs-disguised-as-comics that pervade the WWW.
     
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Aug 31, 2005, 03:55 AM
 
mmm... web comics.
     
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Aug 31, 2005, 04:56 AM
 
fantastic! - i've only just stopped laughing
     
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Aug 31, 2005, 04:58 AM
 
Meh
     
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Aug 31, 2005, 08:08 AM
 
Originally Posted by m a d r a
i've only just stopped laughing
prove it.
     
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Aug 31, 2005, 08:11 AM
 
Originally Posted by Cubeoid
prove it.
listen!....

<sound of madra not laughing>


see!
     
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Aug 31, 2005, 08:13 AM
 
You are winner.
     
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Axo1ot1  (op)
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Aug 31, 2005, 11:14 AM
 
Originally Posted by The Godfather
I like the style, but I don't see too much effort put in it. Hopefully yours will not become one of the 1000s blogs-disguised-as-comics that pervade the WWW.
Well I can't kill myself on the drawings because I have school and a job and eleven million other things going on right now, so I try to do it as efficiently as possible without sacrificing character consistency and the like. If you have any suggestions I'm open to them. Especially if you know a good drawing program, because this is all photoshop, and I feel like there must be something better out there...

Also, I'm not particularly good at drawing in the first place
     
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Aug 31, 2005, 01:11 PM
 
Get a scanner.
     
Axo1ot1  (op)
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Aug 31, 2005, 01:15 PM
 
Give Me Money 8)
     
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Aug 31, 2005, 01:58 PM
 
I will hook you up once Cody gives me my money for leaving the states.
     
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Aug 31, 2005, 02:28 PM
 
Originally Posted by demograph68
Get a scanner.
Yeah, that sperm just doesn't look real. Get a good scan of it.

-t
     
Axo1ot1  (op)
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Aug 31, 2005, 07:49 PM
 
Dood That's Gross.
     
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Aug 31, 2005, 07:53 PM
 
hehe blog hidden in comic...

Sounds like AppleGeeks. For every comic you get an average of 2 delays, 3 long stories about something painfully boring, and 1 "omg college is so bad I'm never going to make it" story.
Aloha
     
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Aug 31, 2005, 07:56 PM
 
Yeah I have enough blogs to distract me. There will be no blogging on this one
     
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Sep 5, 2005, 07:43 PM
 
So there's a lot more content on there now. I recommend you start from the beginning if you haven't already read it.
     
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Sep 5, 2005, 07:59 PM
 
Great story But there are no Vietnamese villages in Nicaragua
     
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Sep 5, 2005, 08:03 PM
 
Well we didn't do any research.
     
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Sep 5, 2005, 08:33 PM
 
I like it!! Good job.
     
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Sep 5, 2005, 08:40 PM
 
Originally Posted by Castro
I like it!! Good job.
DITTO

I'm liking it more and more. Keep on perfecting it...it's a process that never ends. Great Job.
     
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Sep 10, 2005, 07:31 PM
 
Help us out if you can:

http://www.webcomicbattle.com/

We put Man and Sperm up on this site to compete with other comics. The one we're up against today (and only today) has got to be cheating. They had 15 votes within 2 hours of midnight (I got home from a party around 2 am), so go there and help us level the playing field by voting for us.

NOTE: Man and Sperm might not be the first battle you see. If it isn't, keep voting or calling a tie until you do see it. It should be quick. Thanks.
     
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Jul 14, 2006, 11:22 PM
 
Well after a six-month outage the comic is back to being updated. I was in Ireland, see. Didn't have time or motivation to do it. I think our two new ones are among our best work to date.
     
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Jul 14, 2006, 11:27 PM
 
I can't believe you didn't start a new thread about this thread about the comic you started back in 2005—instead opting to resurrect this old, crusty monstrosity of relevant information pertaining to the original post in this thread. Tooki's gonna have your ass.

<3 Josh
     
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Jul 15, 2006, 12:08 AM
 
My ass hasn't been had by tooki in quite a while. I expect it will be fun to feel what that feels like again.
     
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Jul 15, 2006, 05:43 PM
 
I have shown this comic to some *real* cartoonists. They are impressed. They also hated your youth.
     
Axo1ot1  (op)
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Jul 15, 2006, 07:08 PM
 
At least they didn't hate my freedom...
     
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Jul 15, 2006, 10:06 PM
 
I don't know. There is something "there" but I just can't place it... maybe it's just the absurdity of it all...Keep going.
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” -- William Hazlitt
     
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Jul 15, 2006, 10:29 PM
 
OK, now that I have read all of them...

LEAP INTO ACTION!

and make more. because I love you and I just can't show it.
“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” -- William Hazlitt
     
Axo1ot1  (op)
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Jul 17, 2006, 12:34 AM
 
Glad you like it
     
Jim Paradise
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Jul 17, 2006, 04:50 AM
 
My problem with this comic is that almost all the jokes in the early strips seem to be clichés of web comic jokes. They rely too heavily upon that style rather than making the characters or the story itself particularly funny. There's a vaguely neat premise and the style is different, but there's a lack of building up the characters and the story before the web comic-style jokes are brought out (talking directly to the audience, etc.). For example, Little Gamers has a fan base where the writers can turn to the audience and throw a joke at what the fan base is generally about - games (well, games, sex, and ninjas). However, (at least from the early comics), there isn't that sort of fan base or well-developed characters, and thus the clichéd style of jokes come off as a bit obnoxious.

Sorry. :/
     
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Jul 17, 2006, 10:25 AM
 
Well what do you think of the more recent strips?

I recall working on the opening series thinking that it was necessary to rough-in some basic attributes for the characters so that they would be well developed for later jokes. I think you might be right and that the humor could have suffered a bit, but I was thinking we were starting to move away from that with the newer material.
     
Jim Paradise
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Jul 17, 2006, 05:42 PM
 
Originally Posted by Axo1ot1
Well what do you think of the more recent strips?

I recall working on the opening series thinking that it was necessary to rough-in some basic attributes for the characters so that they would be well developed for later jokes. I think you might be right and that the humor could have suffered a bit, but I was thinking we were starting to move away from that with the newer material.
Oh, I did get a chuckle from some more of the recent ones. I'm a bit mixed on the comic overall. I think spauldingg mentioned that there's something there, and I agree with that; my beef was more with the earlier strips, and I've only read a few of the more recent ones. In any case, I only wish you the best 'cause I happen to think writings comics is a fanatistic persuasion.
     
   
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