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Great writer, but the art needs work. In fact, I admit I've looked at this comic before and walked away a bit depressed after a couple pages--I looked at the two pages over the dinner table--because not only was the art not as pretty as the advertising (which is stunning), it simply appeared like 'oh, yay, main character gets to suffer for the amusement of the readers and to make her more "likeable"'. I read the rest of it today. Why? I can't say. I was bored? The archive was short, so it wasn't hard to read through it all, and give it a more complete opinion. A more justified opinion, I think... and a higher opinion than I had before. It makes me sad inside when the advertising art for a story is gorgeous, and the art inside is tacky. I'll cover the art first. The artist says for the next chapter she'll be doing less screentones--excellent choice. The screentones are bad quality, badly done. It doesn't support the pages whatsoever. I would've rathered see plain inked pages. The tones simply aren't working. It's not the worst comic I've ever looked at, but with the western-looking speech bubbles, and the screentones, and the manga art style, it's a tad jarring. Her paintings are gorgeous, simply gorgeous... the pages themselves are a bit dull. There's little depth to accent nicely done manga characters. I hope this experiment with 'more flat tones' will turn out better. No, if you're going to be reading this story, I suspect it'll be for the writing. I definately misjudged on my first look at Starcrossed: the author writes believable and facinating characters. Her father entertains me, as a fellow Star Wars nerd who runs around in a robe, quoting Star Wars inexplicably, waving around my plastic lightsaber... ahhh, the gorgeous irony. It adds a sense of realism to her life, rather than applying 'these are her mean parents NOW LOVE HER BECAUSE SHE'S HATED'... her parents become real people. Her father's a nerd, her mother appears to be the one who's all together. The MSN conversations entertain me due to the level of realism in them, highly realistic in nature. It feels like people interacting on the internet. The author creates a wonderfully believable set of characters and a story. For now. For now, I'm sympathetic to the main character (and believe me when I say, I'm a cynic who generally judges characters to be unbelievable or author-insertation pity-me-Sues) and I like her family and situation. It's enough that I'll ignore the badly done screentones--the art is expressive and deals with this slice-of-life shouju effectively. I can sympathize with the poor lesbian main character, even though I'm straight, and that takes talent on the part of the writer. It can either go straight downhill from here or uphill. I'd like to hope it'll be the latter. The story has potential and as long as the writer keeps juggling the characters with the same measure of realism instead of creating everyone to be adversaries for her main character so we pity her more, it'll be a great webcomic, well worth following. It might be directed to a niche audience, but for that, it looks not that bad, and looks to be improving, it's expressive... and most of all, the writing is interesting. Right now, at page 20 of chapter one, it could either get really interesting, or really bad. Now is where the plot comes in. With the writing so far, I'm sure it'll go towards the good. It surpassed my expectations, especially from the first time I ran into Starcrossed. Here's to a decent, ongoing story. Cheers!
User: thirtyseven
No so much to see yet. But I liked what I could see so far. Especially the main characters' father is really sympathetic (for a StarWars Nerd like me...)!
User: OnyxSparrow
There isn't a alot to go on just yet, but so far this looks like a pretty well made comic. The main character definitely has a personality, and the story'd flow is smooth. This is one to keep track of!
User: AnarchicQ
Wonderful character voice, with very natural dialog. Good, subtle jokes and the art is quite good, especially the facial expressions. Overall, it surpassed my expectations.
Starcrossed - http://starcrossed.automaton-works.com/
DescriptionStarcrossed is a story about a closet lesbian high school student named Quinn Morrigan who prefers to ditch school and play guitar rather than the norm. She aspires to be a musician and may or may not have delusions of grandeur. No one knows for sure because she’s always daydreaming. All in all Quinn was just an average high school student who’s just plain bored, that is, until a meteor shower changes her life Tagsfantay star fantasy lesbian guitar daydream meteor shoujo-ai Related Webcomics |
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User: TianaGreat writer, but the art needs work. In fact, I admit I've looked at this comic before and walked away a bit depressed after a couple pages--I looked at the two pages over the dinner table--because not only was the art not as pretty as the advertising (which is stunning), it simply appeared like 'oh, yay, main character gets to suffer for the amusement of the readers and to make her more "likeable"'. I read the rest of it today. Why? I can't say. I was bored? The archive was short, so it wasn't hard to read through it all, and give it a more complete opinion. A more justified opinion, I think... and a higher opinion than I had before. It makes me sad inside when the advertising art for a story is gorgeous, and the art inside is tacky. I'll cover the art first. The artist says for the next chapter she'll be doing less screentones--excellent choice. The screentones are bad quality, badly done. It doesn't support the pages whatsoever. I would've rathered see plain inked pages. The tones simply aren't working. It's not the worst comic I've ever looked at, but with the western-looking speech bubbles, and the screentones, and the manga art style, it's a tad jarring. Her paintings are gorgeous, simply gorgeous... the pages themselves are a bit dull. There's little depth to accent nicely done manga characters. I hope this experiment with 'more flat tones' will turn out better. No, if you're going to be reading this story, I suspect it'll be for the writing. I definately misjudged on my first look at Starcrossed: the author writes believable and facinating characters. Her father entertains me, as a fellow Star Wars nerd who runs around in a robe, quoting Star Wars inexplicably, waving around my plastic lightsaber... ahhh, the gorgeous irony. It adds a sense of realism to her life, rather than applying 'these are her mean parents NOW LOVE HER BECAUSE SHE'S HATED'... her parents become real people. Her father's a nerd, her mother appears to be the one who's all together. The MSN conversations entertain me due to the level of realism in them, highly realistic in nature. It feels like people interacting on the internet. The author creates a wonderfully believable set of characters and a story. For now. For now, I'm sympathetic to the main character (and believe me when I say, I'm a cynic who generally judges characters to be unbelievable or author-insertation pity-me-Sues) and I like her family and situation. It's enough that I'll ignore the badly done screentones--the art is expressive and deals with this slice-of-life shouju effectively. I can sympathize with the poor lesbian main character, even though I'm straight, and that takes talent on the part of the writer. It can either go straight downhill from here or uphill. I'd like to hope it'll be the latter. The story has potential and as long as the writer keeps juggling the characters with the same measure of realism instead of creating everyone to be adversaries for her main character so we pity her more, it'll be a great webcomic, well worth following. It might be directed to a niche audience, but for that, it looks not that bad, and looks to be improving, it's expressive... and most of all, the writing is interesting. Right now, at page 20 of chapter one, it could either get really interesting, or really bad. Now is where the plot comes in. With the writing so far, I'm sure it'll go towards the good. It surpassed my expectations, especially from the first time I ran into Starcrossed. Here's to a decent, ongoing story. Cheers!
User: thirtyseven
No so much to see yet. But I liked what I could see so far. Especially the main characters' father is really sympathetic (for a StarWars Nerd like me...)!
User: OnyxSparrow
There isn't a alot to go on just yet, but so far this looks like a pretty well made comic. The main character definitely has a personality, and the story'd flow is smooth. This is one to keep track of!
User: AnarchicQ
Wonderful character voice, with very natural dialog. Good, subtle jokes and the art is quite good, especially the facial expressions. Overall, it surpassed my expectations.