I'm sorry for being the only one with a negative opinion, but I don't believe any of the comics you've posted are entertaining or graphically well-done. To be blunt, I'm reminded of
this pointer of a comic-making guide. To be less blunt, and a little more helpful, I think that the problem with your comics is that graphically, there are no backgrounds in any of the panels where there should be a background (first panel and fourth panels of the second comic). I can accept that there is no background in all the other panels due to you using the convention common to comics of making a background reflect a character's mood, but even then, the background's colors sometimes overlap with the foreground, as in the first comic, where the black in the background is exactly the same black than in Mike Caron's chair, which confuses me a bit, making me wonder if that was intentional.
And now that I've ranted idiotically about the background, I'll rant moronically about the characters in the foreground. My honest opinion is that they're not done very well. Mike Caron's outline changes its thickness at various points of his design, to the point of being absent in his hair, and taking up most of his shoes. The monitor of the computer he's using suffers from the same problem. I think it doesn't get better with Chevalier-Angel, who doesn't have seem to have any feet, and who's black pants have the same color as the table. You seem to be aware of your problems drawing him, since you even had to state outright that he was holding a pen, instead of any other object.
Of course, I could've ignored my misgivings about the art style if I thought the comic had an interesting premise or plot, or if it was funny. I'm willing to wait until you produce more comics to judge what you're making better, but I feel like this "review" wouldn't make sense without giving my opinion on how funny or interesting it is. Unfortunately, I don't think it is funny, since my warped and ignorant perception of the comic fools me into believing it's based on what seem to be injokes among you and the cast members, which I'm simply unaware of. I don't think the plot is very interesting either, since it seems to narrate the genesis of TotC's own forums, using whatever friends and forum members you want to include. In my experience, that kind of plot can't be very interesting for long. Why do I say that? Because I've been part of a comic like that, called
"Main: the comic", by the SSS. To put it simply, it went nowhere, and the premise was "we're awesome, let's tell a story about how awesome we are.
", so I think you'll understand why I'm "reviewing" this comic and not any other comic. What disappoints me the most is that you can draw better than what you've shown in these comics. You have talent, but instead of using that, you used Photoshop.
And that is my opinion on these comics. To anyone that might feel offended by this and wants to defend
Pillow Alex Pillow-chan Alex Flamey-chan Alex Quintessence Yule Ethora Nanoka Purple Alex from what I say, please bear in mind that this is only my opinion on the comics, and not a personal attack. If it reads like one, I apologise for my lack of social graces, and I'll remove any part that looks like it. Alex's free to keep making comics in any way she wants to, and I don't think she has to do anything because anyone says so.
In closing, thanks for taking your time to read this and sorry for writing something so long and negative.
