http://shepherdgraphicnovel.pbworks.com/w/page/33819192/The%20Choice
Mike Lewis' "The Choice" is a hand drawn comic about destiny, survival, and lycanthropes. It was an interesting that he chose not to make the werewolves savage berserkers but instead gave them a society and monarchical structure. The werewolves were intelligent and varied in shape, not just wolves but tigers as well. In the future I would like to see what other kind of lycanthropes (man-animal hybrids) would present themselves.
One of the main problems was the artwork. Not that the drawings were bad, but there were some clear issues scanning the images. There was a lot of aliasing with the lines and random marks doting the images. There was some attempts at shading for the flashbacks so a basic knowledge of Photoshop was demonstrated. This is just more disappointing since the dots can be cleaned up easily. The only color is in the words, which is a good tool for separating the speakers. The problem is since the characters aren't in color you don't know what speech bubble belongs to what character.
"The Choice" is a good story with some interesting twists that could be improved greatly by correcting some minor techniques.
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http://shepherdgraphicnovel.pbworks.com/w/page/11979555/Eternal%20Life
"Eternal Life", by Elizabeth Farnham is a comic about a girl and her wolf. (Apparently last year people were on a werewolf kick.) There seems to be a rash of comics made of filtered pictures, but I feel "Eternal Life" uses the technique the best. Rather than just taking photographs and running them through the Filter ringer, "Eternal Life"s images are selected a cropped artistically. Some pages had little words but were laid out very well. The photos of the winged wolf were especially inspiring.
The characters' names were really cheesy (Elif vs. Adeth? ugh...) and worse, gave away the ending with its predictability. There is also a problem with pacing. Several pages will talk about her modeling career (unimportant) and in one page they'll skip ahead a few years (why?). A lot of things can come up that shortens your comic or makes you rush the story, so it's important to be able to know what is crucial to the plot and what is not. It's interesting that her father is a rich cosmetics mogul, but if the end result is that he's a cult leader, he could be a potato farmer for all it matters. The back story of the main characters is more important.
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