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| Pixellated |
Posted: Nov 8 2009, 10:58 PM
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By the powers invested in me... Group: Inquisitor Posts: 6,305 Member No.: 1,122 Joined: 3-July 06 |
I can see where Lothar's coming from: to expand on his critique, I'd say that there's no stages of a joke, which leads the reader into not getting what's going on. While your comic does seem to contain elements of a plot development, this is taken away when you compare it to a setup & final delivery standpoint. Your setup, as it goes, is Blasphemy around the house, and the toaster creeping up behind him. However, since the toaster has no actual motive that the user can see, and that Blasphemy has no history of being scared of the toaster, your final panel of him waking scared from a nightmare is majorly disjointed to the story. There's no reasoning behind the plot. A successful joke needs to set up the user to think one thing is happening, then reveal in the final panel that their assumptions were false, and it's actually something completely different. Taking a classic joke: A: "My dog's got no nose!" B: "How does he smell?" A: "Terrible!" I don't have to explain the humour there: the carpet of assumption you stood on was taken away on the third line, which made you find it witty and hence, funny. However, with a waking-up-from-a-dream panel, the joke is re-written. A: "My dog's got no nose!" B: "How does he smell?" A: "Only kidding! He has got a nose really. But wouldn't it be funny if he didn't?" I couldn't manage to re-write your situational plot as a joke format. But keep in mind in the future that a joke needs a structure. Tim over at Ctrl+Alt +Del has started to learn that recently (you can probably google an article comparing his and Penny Arcade's Puzzle Quest comics to see the difference in how a comic's structure should be), and it's a mixture of amazing and scary. Don't be disheartened writing, though. I doubt anyone here would really give you pure hatred as straight criticism rather than useful feedback.
*coughPanthera'sgettingbetteratthat*cough :D |
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| Lothar Hex |
Posted: Nov 8 2009, 11:07 PM
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As you can clearly see, I'm not afraid of anything. Group: Inquisitor Lord Posts: 3,830 Member No.: 3 Joined: 13-October 04 |
To be fair, compared to Virus everyone has that problem.
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| onFyre |
Posted: Nov 8 2009, 11:08 PM
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Your friendly, neighbourhood pyromaniac. Group: Members Posts: 48 Member No.: 2,240 Joined: 3-June 09 |
Honestly, I can't think of anything that would scare blasphemy. I was trying to get at the toaster coming on to him, but like you said, I can't draw very good expressions, and like I said, I don't want to draw them kissing.
I'll see if I can come up with a new idea for a joke, but im just not particularly funny. An it will be in greyscale, because I really can't be bothered anymore. |
| Pixellated |
Posted: Nov 8 2009, 11:16 PM
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By the powers invested in me... Group: Inquisitor Posts: 6,305 Member No.: 1,122 Joined: 3-July 06 |
True. Unless you want to go down the 90's Cartoon Network road and bring up the 'take it too far' approach. Animation like that used to creep me out. Rocko's Modern Life as well. |
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