>and I wanted to try having huge squid eyes, I'm glad we got to exchange comfort zones for a panel there >Hey guys! I'm going to be away from home and my computer through next week, so the next two updates will be art or something similar I can do on the road, short comics, etc. Thank you guys for your patience! Normal pages will start back up again on Friday the 17th.
>Also also, if you want more comics by me, I just put up my short comic, Loop, for sale! It's ten pages of time travel and sibling rivalry with some fun narrative/form gimmicks, so if that sounds like it's up your alley, please consider buying it and supporting me and my work! You can get it here.
"I have no sense of responsibility, so buy this other comic I made while there are no updates."
John Adams
Nothing happens: the page
Jackson Sanders
>Nothing happens but oh man something might actually be happening ok let's stop any momentum the comic might be building dead on its tracks to switch to some other intensely unlikable and awkwardly written characters: the comic
Jordan Morales
while it's nice to know the MC doesnt' do all that shit from thin air, I'm sure he could have shrank it up to the last horizontal panel. Zack needs an editor so badly.
Kevin Cook
Its so depressing how this comic has 0% of its original charm.
John Thompson
I mean on the one hand we were due an explanation on this since Chapter 1, but on the other hand explaining it here (and especially by taking up the entire page to do so) has made the pace even more glacial.
James Richardson
...
Adam Brown
Remember that urgent thing we had to do? Some kind of puppety brain ghost thing? No? OK.
Christian Lewis
It's not urgent to Max.
Mason Robinson
Mr. Spender said no. Shouldn't stop him though
Christopher Garcia
Max is still new and doesn't seem to really give a shit about tracking spirits down. Now that Jeff is back to normal and no one is about to be hurt, he's content to just chill.
It's been like a week since this all started. All he's REALLY done is hit that weak but fast spirit, survive against the mirror one, ride the train, and play hitball. He's not as deeply invested as the others.
Colton Phillips
Is Chapter 5 the Act 6 of Homestuck?
Lincoln Green
This cover looks extremely lazy for his digital art. Like current arc level of artwork.
Why did he do this anyway? People are following him for Paranatural, why not put the effort into Paranatural?
Kayden Richardson
>tfw Shred Eagle becomes an actual character in the comic and those panels become important.
Jacob Adams
He's realized that he's never going to finish Paranatural, so he's trying to diversify before the comic goes on "hiatus".
Jordan Lopez
Why is Max such a slut? Izzy, Isaac, Suzy, Violet, now Bland Background Girl. He's drowning in bitches who want to ride him.
Nathan Reyes
>comic gets even more choked up with random people. >pace goes from glacial to lifetime-spanning
Zachary Rodriguez
Anyone gonna dump this?
Asher Harris
>not listing "i want to talk to you" Cody also, we need to update this pic
Noah Gutierrez
The description reads >"Loop is a 10-page minicomic I made for SPX last year!"
SPX last year was during September, exactly around the time when pic related was going on.
John Lee
Cody is a fellow slut, it's possible he simply wanted to divvy up the cock between the two of them and exchange slutting tips.
Michael Ward
Oh god that whole part was awful. How many times did Zarei spill the water she was drinking?
Austin Thompson
Holy shit that trash was almost half a year ago?
Ryder Fisher
Why would something like that ever happen
Jayden Wright
Was that really half a year ago? I feel like it was only recently that people were complaining about the lesbian date taking forever.
Camden Richardson
What is Zarei getting so worked up about in that pic? Even if that lake was 10 miles wide (very, very doubtful), that's not even a day's walk, unless that's supposed to be the entirety of California.
Angel Allen
Cause Day is blind.
William Long
So, who is going to share Loop?
Adam Ward
It was August 30th - October 24th
14 pages of it.
It probably just felt even longer as we were already following 4 other groups.
>"forgets" More like neglects. That lazy-ass faggot. And I'm not buying his "wrists ruined by chronic masturbation" excuse neither.
Eli Turner
Come on, user. Don't make us pay 5 bucks for 8 pages of chapter 5 quality art.
Christopher Ross
It's strange when your mind puts you in a time warp.
Bentley Edwards
The quality of a webcomic can be easily gauged by the amount of porn that is produced of it
Brody Gray
So going by that Nickelodeon knock off show Max grew up in the 90s. He's actually an ageless ghost in limbo?
Robert Powell
That or the public access shorunner had outdated sensibilities.
Michael Scott
Why would a background character be talking to Max right now?
Juan Lewis
what's wroong with her AAAAAAARMS
Jeremiah Gray
Homestuck.
Caleb Morris
Incorrect. Unsounded is gorgeous, 20 pics. And then shit like B^U has double the amount. By your theory, CAD is twice better.
Nolan Cook
>Mr. Spender You mean the guy the brain ghost is attached to?
Carson Evans
That's stupid even as a dumb theory. He has Lucifer and what appears to be the Devil inside of him. I doubt there's room for an edgy brain with a vendetta against bullies in there.
Brody Gonzalez
It's kind of different. It's not like he was spirity enough to get smashed by Isabel's hammer when he hijacked Jeff.
Nathaniel Rivera
It's really not. It was possession, he'd have his ass beat if he tried to pull that shit even with an empty Spender who is high tier in strength as far as shamans go.
Ryder Martinez
>his three childhood friends are are a part of the Cousinhood of Man
Calling it
Brayden Morales
>three You mean two right? Or am I mistaken? It's just a brother and his sister.
Bentley Diaz
I could have sworn this girl was tiny and not even close to the main cast's age.
Oh well, she's kinda cute.
John Barnes
>Those arms on the girl in the last panel
Ryan Jackson
I figured we were long overdue for something like this. It had been a while since Zack decided to skip an update.
Liam Lee
>not liking thick
Camden Brown
Zack 'my wrist hurts so I can't draw backgrounds buy my comic' Morrison
Charles Gomez
- Sorry, man. Chicks are way more important.
Levi Campbell
Hey spread it out like he does, maybe skip an update or two, that's easily 5 weeks of entertainment!
Henry Howard
The thing is, it's inversely proportional. Tumblr likes shit comics, Tumblr makes lots of porn.
Matthew Davis
You mean he needs to scone the local protein.
David Young
Not again. I want off.
Jack Kelly
The ride never ends.
Justin Thomas
user is probably counting Sam, the stringy ginger freak he was texting in chapter 1.
That or their older sister, who is probably Agent Day, and is holding the remote when they're watching PBS.
Lucas Cruz
How would that happen if she goes to the middle school, the destination of the school bus?
Julian Rogers
>we've been waiting ages for the reveal of who knows Max's secret, with several fucking fake-outs
>surely he's not going to do something as anti-climatic as "it was actually about the bus-jumping", something so uninteresting that even in-universe Suzie had to engineer any interest in it, and even then we're having to take her word for it that anyone gives a shit
>not has Zack gone there, but he's thrown-in let another fucking character into this clusterfuck, and is now going into detail about a part of Max's character that didn't really need explaining
I'm actually starting to get impressed at the great lengths Zack is going to fuck the pacing up now. Come on Zack, you can still salvage this, since it's not actually been confirmed that this girl was the one who gave Max the note.
Juan Bennett
Homestuck used to be really good. It became bad, but it also started having less porn.
Ryder Walker
TL note: local protein means bullies.
Cooper Rodriguez
>the stringy ginger freak he was texting in chapter 1 She was retconned into being black.
Aiden Lewis
There's literally no reason to think that, Sam hasn't even appeared, and Doghouse's twin doesn't have a name yet.
Dominic Long
Doghouse used to be non-white, remember?
Asher Watson
>used to be But he's still black.
Ryder Wilson
Fuck, I meant white.
William Sanchez
Explain.
Matthew Gomez
Literally nothing.
Tyler Turner
midnight-television.deviantart disagreed.
Xavier Johnson
Partially spaghetti
Christian Morgan
Remember when Paranatural was good?
Lincoln Myers
>waitress adopts a fencing stance >uses her pen to thrust
I wonder if that's just a weird one-off quirk or if she's going to end up being a somewhat major character?
Matthew Hill
Tbh doghouse sounds like a black name anyway.
Ian Parker
>cute mohawk shota Shame that by the time he's introduced along with Max's other hometown friends, Zack's art skills will have regressed to stick figures.
Jacob Brooks
It just looks like early concept at for Max and fem!Isaac.
Jaxon Stewart
I mean he's in this page.
I guess he grew the mohawk out after his BFF hot half-orphaned.
Caleb Barnes
...
Zachary Ward
>game show elements >goop >slop >ooze >slime >gel >goo >death
Zack was born in like 1992 or something right?
Benjamin Green
...
Colton Kelly
Peak art imo.
Logan Ortiz
>linework on par with current pages >no unnecessary desat or blindingly bright colors >actual fucking backgrounds Why can't we keep good things? Why do they have to turn into this
Andrew Fisher
>Zack is lying on a hospital bed in his old age >His heartbeat flatlines >There's a laptop on the nearby desk >The screen shows the cover page for Chapter 6
Connor Hill
>he actually thinks the girl is only talking about the bus jumping >when it's blindingly obvious that she's a spectral, given that two panels were dedicated to revealing that she could see the doctopi
Jordan Clark
His actual name is Damien.
David Murphy
That's the big thing, the lack of backgrounds wouldn't be as much of a problem if Zack at least used appropriate colors (in panel 3, although the background is just two colors, it makes sense as opposed to just being a random pastel).
Isaiah Butler
How can you possibly be this retarded?
Ian Cooper
>tfw you browse these threads and keep up with the comic not because you like the comic, but because all the criticism and feedback on how abysmal the pacing and art have become are actually incredibly useful for your own comic drawing purposes
Kinda sad, I'm sure I'd like a comic with kids fighting Digimon looking ghosts if it was done better.
William Taylor
>in panel 3, although the background is just two colors It's the wall and the ceiling/opened garage door from Max looking up at his mom, not random colors just put there as a bare minimum effort to avoid leaving it entirely blank. So yeah, I guess you could say it's appropriate colors.
Justin Ross
What would Neo-Pittsburgh look like compared to Old Pittsburgh? (non-American here, only know of it because Fairly Odd Parents mentioned it through Cosmo's flashback of being trained in the Fairy Academy.)
Remember when it used to be "PARANATURAL and other stories"?
Don't jinx it.
Hey, that's kinda well made.
Why not both? Ginger buck-teeth girl could be another character separate of Sam.
...crap, now I'm jinxing for new characters, am I.
Xavier Sanders
Fuck zack for ruining what was going to be a good story for the sake of his politics.
Sebastian Stewart
Ha, jokes on you, I'm not gay.
Everything else applies but damn I love pussy.
Ryder Phillips
That's what I said dawg. Sam has nothing to do with Doghouse's twin.
Christian Kelly
I just like the one user who knows shit about panel layout. Probably an art major or something.
