Pickle962's sprite comics

[pickle962]

I've decided that I need another skill/hobby to keep myself from getting bored and I've become confident with my photo editing skills, so I decided on making a series of sprite comics. Most of them will be videogame related, but for the most part...they will be completely random, so be prepared....My comics will be updated every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday...Got that memorized?

Comic 1
http://pickle962.deviantart.com/#/d31kgme
Comic 2
http://www.deviantart.com/#/d31q8kv
Comic 3
http://pickle962.deviantart.com/#/d31tjlv
Comic 4
http://pickle962.deviantart.com/#/d31wdf9

 

[Geist]

Cool beans

Im gonna need more to comment though.
Since DA is slow as bawls could you mayhap put them in img tags to save poor me the frustration of killing battery life? :]

 

[pickle962]

Ever wondered what would happen if say... Kratos tried to pull his shenanigans in real life? Well now you know...

 

[Wretched]

Bro...
I'm sorry, but the editing really needs works.
The jokes are obvious, dry, and never have punchlines.
You have a lot to work on.

 

[pickle962]

Bro...
I'm sorry, but the editing really needs works.
The jokes are obvious, dry, and never have punchlines.
You have a lot to work on.

You obviously don't get the humor then...

 

[Wretched]

What's the humor?
Mario steps on goombas?
thats supr funni dood
Link's sword is wooden? he gets a steel one instead and says a silly old tv quote that was never funny?
MAN HOLY **** WHERE DO U GET DIS'
RANDOM CHARACTERS FROM GAMES INVOLVING HEAVY AMOUNTS OF VIOLENCE ARE IGNORANT TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE IN JAIL FOR VIOLENCE?
my **** hurts from the humor

 

[Neon Ness]

Wretched, even if you don't find it particularly funny, maybe (s)he just does these because (s)he enjoys them.

Humor's a really subjective thing anyhow, so... yeah.

 

[Wretched]

Thats fine if he enjoys them, but clearly when he is posting them for other people he wants other people to laugh at them.
That isn't going to happen, just look at them.
He doesn't have to stop but he really has things to work on.

 

[Lorenzo The Comic]

Ok... I kept a straight face throughout the first three pages. It couldn't line up with my sense of humor. I mean... Link trying to be He-Man?

Oh, and the fourth one's where Megaman and the "Blue" mage from Final Fantasy take on some robot that yields 8000 EXP, and I don't know where it came from. To make the explosion transparent so it doesn't have the white "border" on it, you could use PAINT.NET or GIMP.

 

[Geist]

Comedy is an art of subtlety and the unexpected.
Unfortunately there is an absence of both here.

You need to take more risks, otherwise your audience will walk away with nothing they haven't seen before.

 

[pickle962]

Ok... I kept a straight face throughout the first three pages. It couldn't line up with my sense of humor. I mean... Link trying to be He-Man?

Oh, and the fourth one's where Megaman and the "Blue" mage from Final Fantasy take on some robot that yields 8000 EXP, and I don't know where it came from. To make the explosion transparent so it doesn't have the white "border" on it, you could use PAINT.NET or GIMP.

That "robot" is the Warmech from Final Fantasy 1 mind you...

 

[global-wolf]

It would help if your comics looked a bit more professional. Even if people don't think it's funny having a clean layout and good art will leave a better impression.

 

[Lorenzo The Comic]

The fourth episode was my favorite.

 

[Grandeza]

Yeah basically the editing needs some serious work. Keep trying cause right now it looks pretty sloppy. The jokes themselves are, unfortunately not funny. i still think the editing is the biggest problem though. Keep it up though! Try to improve.

 

[E123Omega]

I laughed cause it was soooooo bad.....

 

[global-wolf]

Will you be updating this anymore Pickle? Most people don't make something good on their first try.

 

[pickle962]

Yeah.. I've been busy. That's all.

 

[Kei_Takaro]

Here's some advice lad,
#1 SAVE IN PNG. NEVER JPEG
#2 Don't draw your comic frames... Seriously...
#3 Make a banner
#4 Lessen the usage of exclamations, I see trips and it doesn't look nice. I'd only make exception to the "?!" rule.
#5 Remove that ugly extra white borders you have.
#6 Learn to create a zoom-in effect in paint. Sigh*
>Select a BG Image, right click and select [Resize/Skew]
>Enter 200% into the Horizontal and Vertical modifiers.
>Repeat the process for your sprites.
#7 Try to make a sprite comic that has a PLOT. Random any-topic comics are never good.
#8 Try putting more thought into your sense of "Humor", imagine yourself as the reader and see if it actually
#9 Read classics like "Bob and George" and "8-Bit Theatre" one of the first and earliest grand sprite comics ever.
#10 Your textboxes, they're crap. First-off, it would have been at least a little better if you made it fit properly without the excess white space next to it. You can make a decent one with either the Box or Rounded Box tool, then editing the tail should be easy by using a line tool, creating triangles with the tail pointed and filling it with "white" to the character.
#11 It's better to host your "comic" in smackjeeves.com or at drunkduck.com either one shall suffice.
#12 Use a better font, there are better fonts out there which were MADE for making comics. Ref: dafont.com

Actually, screw all of those^ if you just intend to troll me and make me rage as much as Chrischan.