>tfw TF2 webcomics are objectively better than anything Marvel and DC have made in decades
>tfw TF2 webcomics are objectively better than anything Marvel and DC have made in decades
>tfw TF2 webcomics are objectively better than anything Marvel and DC have made in decades
>TF2 Comics
>TF2 Sfms, by fact and logic is a cartoon
>Indie Comic brands
We are better than the shitty two brands
Dude the TF2 comics are dead in the water
They're never ever gonna be finished
Let me guess, you don't read that many comics to begin with
Point out how he’s wrong
No.
Concession accepted.
Point out how he's right
>never ending status quo for both giant brands
>characters cease to be less good, stories just don't go anywhere
>any other brand making themselves something go legimately nowhere.
>etc etc etc
I say this as a cautious and tired and literal depressed fellow with a view on life that's broken, with something from indie folks that's been established before at least enlightening me.
Still beats current shit.
Its NOT the status quo and it's NOT the crossovers
It's the fact Marvel and DC mostly hire mediocre Z-list writers that don't even like superheroes, so the vast majority of their comics will never be good, it's their business model to never produce good shit because that would be expensive, that would lead to writers demanding copyrights.
And what? Do you want me to read the tenth issue of a rebooted comic from a spin-off series that started from an entirely other brand?
Marvel and DC have good stories but they're deemed absolutely irrelevant on the next issue where the conflicts that were resolved just sprout outta fricking nowhere. Spiderman revealing his face to the public won't fricking matter because another comic will roll out as if it has never happened.
I thought Mark Russell's Flintstones was funnier
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This is bad as anything recent I've read from Marvel and DC.
>@#$%
I hate this fricking shit so much. If you're not allowed to have actual curses in your comic then just write your dialogue without them.
>I hate this fricking shit so much.
It can be done well for comic effect (and exactly which curse they stand in for doesn't typically matter) or it can be done badly by a bowdlerizing shit-for-brains frickwad.
I've never seen it pulled off well in a comic.
look outside of US comics and you'll see examples that are more emphatic and expressive than bold lettered profanity, though nowadays this could arguably be considered more of a tradition originating from censorship than censorship proper
Examples?
see
I'm surprised search engines don't pull up actual examples easily even though it's more in the french/belgian comedic style, in a less generic example you could have a pictographic beheading of the targeted character among other symbols, that sort of thing
I find it far less egregious when it's used only occasionally. I haven't read the TF2 comics in a good while, but I think the OP example is alright because IIRC the comic doesn't use them too much, and it's done for the joke that the sweet old mum is an Aussie so of course she says (what's pretty obviously) "c**ts"
When it's used like how Tom King uses it, i.e. horribly overused in lieu of actual creative dialogue and clearly, painfully, only done because the author wants to be seen as mature despite the censorship, that's when I fricking hate it.
Censorship can be used effectively
That's fricking horrible.
[Unsolicited opinions on Israel???]
god I hope israel burns to the ground
Keep seething homosexual
Frick off back to Cinemaphile.
You mean
>Keep seething @!$%#
Where can we find the script for the unmade issue?
cool
where's issue #7
The storys finished but I would fricking love tf2 what if's
Like do a comic based off the vs saxton hale map
I SCREAMED WHEN I SWW THIS LIKE A FRICKING JUMPSCARE I LOVE THE TF2 COMICS SO MUCH I BECOME A DROOLING RAVING AUTIST YOU DONT EVEN UNDERSTAND MY ADORATION HOLY SHIT
Ok I'm normal now and honestly these criticisms are valid but what they fail to account for is nostalgia and silly tf2 lore and god can we please just have issue 7
>completely changed the Soldier's character into a moron with lead poisoning for no reason
No
He always was though. Have you seen the Meet The Soldier introduction by chance?
>completely changed the Soldier's character into a moron with lead poisoning for no reason
This was how we was characterized since Meet the Soldier and Expiration Date?
He was insane but not lolsowacky insane during meet the soldier. It was calcified as his new personality during expiration date but was started earlier than that. Post CLASS WAR, where he was still a gritty lunatic instead of a randumb oen, but earlier than expiration date.
the decline in soldiers cognition began in the update logs, lead poisoning was a explanation that came later, played well with other jokes.
Please Valve, let the creative team finish the damn comic. It was so close to an end.
Let's be honest for a moment, anon. If you have a game (and a comic that expands its lore) that pretty much prints money for itself with little effort possible thanks to gamblers and little kids overspending their parents' credit cards. Would you release the final comic or would you put it in manteinence mode like Valve to get more money?.
That makes no since, the player base wasn't gonna stop playing when the comic was finished.
If Valve completes the comic, that means the mercenaries' story its over; and that implies no more updates because their story it was already told. And that means eveyone will leave TF2 because there is no more updates that keep tha game alive.
On the other hand, if TF2 is in manteinence mode, they can keep updating the game while retconning the mercenaries story for as long as Valve deems necessary. For example, let's say Valve wants to finish TF2 in 2033 and makes the final issue, the time span between 2033 and 2017 (When "The Naked and the Dead" was released) is inmense. Then, Valve easily can say that all the updates between this time span happened before the final issue.
>And that means eveyone will leave TF2 because there is no more updates that keep tha game alive.
>after people kept playing for several years of nothing but hat updates
lol
I -I don't think you ever played tf2, if anything the comics were inconsequential to the game. The most recent update is a zombie mode
Or they could finish the main story and keep having update comics like they do whenever the game updates.
I have done everything in my power to not give Valve a single fricking cent of my money and I think I've been clean for over 2 years.
I am completely serious when I say that this comic not finishing is my go-to reason for why I don't spend any money on Valve or just games in general. It's not my only reason for not giving Valve any money, there are better reasons, but I'd have to say the actual most emotionally felt reason is the fact this comic isn't done.
I'm not blaming the artist, I understand her priorities working at Valve. But in the years since I made this decision to give Valve no money I've only been more and more validated that any money I would've given them wouldn't have yielded anything I wanted. I would straight up pay more money getting what I want from elsewhere. That doesn't mean I'll support some shithole like Epic but no fricking way Gabe gets more of my cash.
Release the final comic. I'm terrified of the idea of my own creation being left unfinished.
Plus, with TF2 as some anons here said, the comics don't really have any significant bearing on the actual game itself. If it's finished, Valve can still frick around and do whatever they want with it.
I think you should probably play the game you're talking about before talking about it like this, anon
>He saw his adoptive parents and not the biological ones who didn't care about hik
Frick Im still mad this never became a show
I'm so glad it never became a show.
And whys that, provided you have a non moronic reason
Less cartoon "discussion" is better for the board. Comics are healthier for some reason.
Adult swim kills what it touches.
Not him but Valvetime would have killed the show even if they managed to get the pilot through the door on time.
Valve just does not care to work expediently because they have "frick you" money.
Its been what, 5 years since the last comic
God Tf2 fans are starving for content, most fan bases would pack up and leave but I guess there isn't anywere to go
Of course they are, it says so right there on the page!
This is so bad. As bad as anything Marvel and DC shit out these days.
>Cinemaphile doesn't like the TF2 comics
This is why we all think you're one of the worst boards, homosexuals.
I speak for ALL of Cinemaphile and I love the comics, maybe a bit too much
They aren't good. If they were good, I'd totally be on board.
>This is why we all think you're one of the worst boards, homosexuals.
This board is shit for several reasons, one of them being people like you.
>Secreto base, heaven
ALWAYS Gets me
*Secret.
Wtf
Pendejo.
Whatever happened to the the writing and art team behind the comics anyhow?
Gone separate ways, but to where?
Pinkerton and Wolpaw left Valve in 2017, then came back just a couple years later for Alyx
makani (artist) moved to making Dota 2 comics
They basically just switched chairs out there in Seattle, maybe moved some tables and plants around for easier access of the coffee machine and jelly bean dispenser
I've only really read that one where they crossover with Atomic Robo.
Thread prompted me to read the comic. All of them.
Forgot the Announcer (Administrator?) turned into a hottie in the end.
gruntilda's good ending whenever you quit the game
valve pls fix
I always wonder why Valve goes out of their way to censor “frick” in their games and comics. It’s always bleeped out or cut off before a character can say it so it’s definitely an intentional thing. They don’t really shy away from other cursing so it stands out.
>inb4 Barney says it in Half-Life 2
His line does say it, but in game it’s censored by falling debris.
If you overuse 'frick' like Borderlands, it lacks of a certain impact, both of the badass and comedic variety.
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