#Mokepon

[h0lyhandgrenade]

Mokepon update!! Last page of the chapter!

#i wouldn't blame anyone for not remembering who the hell this guy is #or know what the hell he's talking about #lol #but it'll all become clear #incidentally it's my boy mordecai #mokepon

[thewebcomicsreview]

I think one of the coolest things about fancomics like Mokepon is them finding new ideas in well-worn franchises. Atty is facing the Celadon City gym, which is all grass types. In the games and anime, the gym leader is Erika, and the gym's gimmick is being all girls. In Mokepon, which takes place some vague time after the games, the Gym leader is a bishounen named Dom, and the gym is full of girls because he's so sexy he attracts legions of female simps who just kind of hang around him. That's a cute way of reframing the Celadon Gym gimmick and making it feel original.

But then the battle starts, and Atty sends out his Charmeleon, and for the first time in the comic he's got the type advantage. So Dom responds by guilting him out of using fire attacks. This is a cool idea in and of itself, and establishes Dom as being a bit of a douchebag (as all Mokepon's gym leaders are). It also makes this fight tenser by getting Atty to give up his most powerful weapon and fight from the bottom.

And it does this while tying this fight into Atty's whole character shtick. He wants to be a good person, but he usually has to do bad things in order to win. Now we've taken that character dynamic and shrunk it down to fit into the fight. Is Atty getting the Rainbow Badge? I mean, yeah, probably. But will he do it without using fire? I don't know. I could see him winning without it, being forced to use it, or realize that he's being played here and rejecting the guilt. We've turned the monster fight into a character drama that plays into the comic's broader themes. It's great, it's accomplishing so much so quickly and seamlessly.

#Mokepon

[emerythos]

There is a monster on the mountain..

I'm a ghost Pokémon lover and when these designs from PLA dropped, I was over the moon! These two are NPCs from a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon campaign that I ran and it was my very first time DMing. I love these two so much and hope I can use them again in the future.

The Typhlosion is Calcifer and the Zoroark is Umi~ they're both non-binary (:

#pokemon #pokemon fanart #zoroark #hisuian zoroark #typhlosion #hisuian typhlosion #pokemon legends arceus #hisui #pokemon mystery dungeon #embersanderos #mokepon

[inkylynx]

Comic shoutout of the week is 🥁 🥁🥁

Mokepon!

Mokepon takes place in the pokemon world where everyone is obsessed with being a trainer. Our main character, an aspiring artist who doesn't like pokemon, gets kicked out of his house to follow his "dreams" of becoming a pokemon trainer. His pokemon journey is anything but standard. (Pg 13)

I think I'm going to keep up these comic shoutouts. There are so many comics and artists that deserve recognition! (For the sake of not running out of material, I'll only be doing one a week, and I won't stick to just underrated ones)

#Mokepon #Pokemon #Comic shoutout #comic recommendations #Comics #Webcomics #H0lyhandgrenade

[danwhobrowses]

So now Ash's journey isn't ending in Galar but a in mini-series with the OGs.

So why was is necessary to make Ash champ in Galar? Surely this mini-series could've had that endgame instead?

Also why in god's name do you think it's a good idea to retire Ash's character? Ash and Pikachu are literally most of the anime's appeal after all, and that also means that Team Rocket are gonna be retired too.

Also the absolute fucking disgrace that they're treating that travesty of a World Coronation Series win as Ash fulfilling his dream when he needed 2 handicaps, a dynamax recharge and an innumerable amount of plot armour and conveniences to win, that disrespectful.

These 11 episodes can be great for sure, but honestly this feels more like a tragic end for the forever 10 year old, we could've had so much more.

#pokemon #pokémon #pokeani #anipoke #ash ketchum #pokemon anime #yes I can be happy that misty and brock will be with Ash for the end but still why does it need to be the end? #it feels like ever since SuMo someone in charge has been desperate to kill Ash's character enough to replace him #I will not be surprised if the new anime barely gets any watchers too because we do not know these people #I mean are we gonna resolve TR trio's redemption? Giovanni's defeat? Ash's father? Or is this just gonna be a nostalgia trip? #if you were gonna replace Ash in the anime this was the wrong way to do it #the best way rhymed with Mokepon Vadentures #also don't show Pidgeot Primeape Lapras Butterfree Kingler Goodra Greninja Naganadel and Ambipom if you're not gonna commit!

[enbydemirainbowbigfoot]

Dragged out two old BH6 ocs (I remember next to nothing about them except that they’re brothers) and remade them

#Picrew #this is the same person who does that mokepon comic it’s really cool #bh6 #they don’t even have NAMES yet

[flightyalrighty]

i really cant even put thoughts into words bc im tired but i just saw the new update and AUUUUUUUGH I LOVE THIS COMIC SO MUCH! the writing and the art and the story its just so PAIFHOEIHGEWIHOIV HEGHEWGOHGRGV i literally sit there refreshing as if the next update will magically appear. cant wait to see where this goes. really really really cool comic. ur comic is so good it makes me wanna do comics. ur comic is so good it makes me end up loving other comics, before circling back to this one bc its so good. just GRAAAHHHHH UR COMIC IS REALLY AWESOME!!!!!!

I'm gonna EXPLODE HKJDHFGDHKJHDKFJHG???

Thank you thank you thank you for sending this ask, I HOPE you end up making comics, and I'm honored to be an inspiration on that journey of yours!! VERY NICE TO SEE THIS PAST MIDNIGHT AND BE TOO TIRED TO ANSWER IT BUT GOING TO BED SMILING ANYWAY BC IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY TO READ IT!!!!!!!!!

If! I were also to make any recommendations for any other comics! If you'd like to read any more comics! I have a list of some that I personally enjoyed down here:

Webcomics - Ghosts of The Future - Daughter of The Lilies - Power Nap - Paranatural - Mokepon - Pandora AU - Skullkickers - Hark! A Vagrant - Awkward Zombie - Boxer Hockey

Printed Comics - Hellboy by Mike Mignola - Bone by Jeff Smith - Pogo by Walt Kelly - Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson - Spider-Man: Blue by Jeff Loeb and Tim Sale - Junji Ito's various works - Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 160-290 - Archie's Sonic Universe - IDW Sonic (obviously) - American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang - Maus by Art Spiegelman (CW: Holocaust, Suicide) - A Contract With God by Will Eisner - Little Lit Strange Stories For Strange Kids by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly - Asterix & Obelix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo - Prince Valiant by Hal Foster - The various works of Moebius - Mob Psycho 100 by ONE - Inuyasha by Rumiko Takahashi - Love Is War by Aka Akasaka - YuYu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi - Azumanga Daioh by Kiyohiko Azuma - Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto (CW: Suicide, grooming, gore & GRAPHIC violence) - The Various Kingdom Hearts Manga Adaptations by Shiro Amano

I hope any one of these helps your love of comics grow more and more! Happy New Year!

#Anonymous #asks

[goddamnwebcomics]

How long is "too long", anyway?

You know, I previously asked what your limit is (you said it’s “about 1000 pages”). Yet, four of the comics you riffed (Alien Dice, Dominic Deegan, Gene Catlow and Spinerette) go past that limit—in fact, those first three are well over 3000 pages.

But I get it, reviewing long-ass comics that just meander on and on gets tiring after a while. So, I did a little digging, and I found 28 webcomics on your rifflist that go past your threshold, all of them still updating regularly (there might be more, these were just the ones that were listed on Piperka). They are, from shortest to longest:

The Rock Cocks (1004 pages), Exiern (1106), Slightly Damned (1120), Mokepon (1181), TwoKinds (1229), Sequential Art (1234), League of Super Redundant Heroes (1284), Sandra and Woo (1373), Latchkey Kingdom (1596), Megatokyo (1608), Rival Angels (1637), Ennui GO! (1801), Namesake (1927), Bittersweet Candy Bowl (2057), The Lounge (2156), Shortpacked! (2164), Housepets! (2206), Endtown (2523), Ava’s Demon (2712), Faux Pas (2778), Drowtales (2799), Yosh! (2867), Carry On (2884), El Goonish Shive (3190), Girl Genius (3258), Addictive Science (3342), Dumbing of Age (4419) and—far and away the longest—Buddies in Big Places (8029).

Additionally, there are two more comics that pass your limit but have officially concluded: Penny and Aggie (1160) and Misfile (4106).

Now, I’m not saying that you should torch all of these from the rifflist; some comics like Slightly Damned, TwoKinds, Sandra and Woo and Bittersweet Candy Bowl would provide an interesting riff, since they either toe the line of quality or have a lot of shit to talk about. Additionally, I know some of these were reader requests, so I don’t want to step on anyone’s toes too much. However, I do think it’d be best to consider when something is just not worth making a commitment for, which comics are boring on top of being insufferably long.

....wait, why the fuck did I do a full brainfart? Obviously the comics I’ve riffed are more than 1000 pages! How stupid could I have been?

Thank you for informing me about these lengths, I am surprised many of these comics are so long, especially Buddies in Big Places, hurgh.

New limit is 10,000. No more, no less.

#bad webcomic #submission #antisubmission

[rttnpnkpmpkn]

Got any fav fanfic you like to share with us?

I haven’t gotten time to read any fan fiction lately, I'm sorry anon ;w;, but if you count comics from long ago, I recommend Mokepon! I admire the grittiness of the art and story in contrast to the overall air of its source material <3

https://h0lyhandgrenade.co.uk/mokepon/

#ask a pumpkin 🎃 #pumpkin thoughts #I really missed smackjeeves ;w; #not art

[peacerisendove]

Reading Mokepon and I NEED detailed image of Kahn’s face now after the timeskip(?).

#mokepon #i just really like kahn and his character

[h0lyhandgrenade]

Mokepon update!

#mokepon

[thewebcomicsreview]

Three years and over 1,000 pages later, Feraligatr comes back. In a comic with as many powerful assholes as Mokepon, it’s impressive that we immediately know this is the mask guy from way back in Chapter three, whereas if the attacking Pokemon had been Onix or Starmie or Raichu we wouldn’t know if it were one of the gym leaders or a new character with the same pokemon as an old character. But there’s only one Feraligatr user in the story.

The reason this guy’s special is that Mokepon takes place in the Kanto region, home of the original 151 pokemon, whereas Feraligatr is from the 2nd generation, so it stands out as unusual. And, 15 chapters into a Pokemon parody webcomic, every Pokemon except Feraligatr we’ve seen has been Gen One, it it stands out as memorable.

Which isn’t super hard to do when your comic takes place in the original Pokemon game’s area, which is where all the Gen One Pokemon live, but it’s still a great example of the power of contrast. It’s a great reason to be  consistent with your choices, but things that break that consistency, chosen carefully, become super memorable. And this applies to a choice of pokemon, but it also applies to, say, the robot character not using contractions and then doing it at a pivotal character moment, or even something as subtle as a character sleeping through their alarm at the start of the first 12 chapters and then waking up early when shit gets real in Chapter 13 and it’s time to do the plan. If you do something consistently, you get a free big moment whenever you do something else.

#Mokepon

[emerythos]

💛 Happy Valentine's Day!! 🩷

#hatsune miku #miku hatsune #vocaloid #vocaloid miku #vocaloid fanart #pokemon #pikachu #valentines day #embersanderos #mokepon #illustration

[kihaku-gato]

Random Webcomic Reccomendations

This post is dedicated to bringing to the spotlight several webcomics

(some would be considered webmanga but I’m counting them too since they are primarily presented on webcomic websites) which I’ve been enjoying that I hope can get more traction/fandom with this post. Due to my personal tastes I can say many/most have a sci fi or fantasy theming as well as some (definitely not all) have wlw as well.

Since this post will be quite extensive, I’ll first start with a “table of contents” for those who don’t want synopsises or ramblings, but instead just want titles and want to just check them out themselves.

Bybloemen

My Dragon Girlfriend

Sanguine

Straylight Tiger

Cariciphona

Amongst Us

Kiss It Goodbye

Mokepon

Seven Miles Down

UnDivine

Bybloemen

Hosted on its own website under hiveworkscomics

This is a historical semi-fantasy set during the infamous Tulip Mania period of Dutch/European history when people would pay an arm and a leg for even a single potentially valuable tulip bulb.

In this setting we follow two devils Basil and Ludwig and their avian familiars strut into the action, pretending to be foreign investors getting in on the tulip hype, probably to ensnare some desperate souls, all the while keeping man and beast alike from catching sus that they are not as human as they claim to be.

As of writing this the story is just starting up but is already making quite the unique statement. The distinct black and white artstyle is clearly holding homage to the historical “Woodcut” printmaking style in how it’s drawn, lined, and textured, which is a refreshing way to artistically state that the comic is “set in the past” w/o doing just grayscale or sepia tone that one is used to seeing for media set in historical times.

The interactions between the devils as well as the animals they can communicate with so far have been quite amusing.

If you don’t directly use hiveworkscomics for your usual webcomic browsing (so don’t get notified by it) they do have both a tumblr and twitter which frequently announce/link its updates. Bonus following their twitter/tumblr being you get to see occasionally “sketches” (I say that term very loosely) of the characters outside of the webcomic series if you’re into that.

 My Dragon Girlfriend

Available on Webtoons and Twitter

Fantasy alongside modern era setting. It is primarily a wlw webcomic series about a human girl named Christy who is swept off her feet by a dragon girl named Dani, semi-magical/mythical wlw hijinks ensue. It’s hard for me to pin its identity entirely, cause while I wanna say it’s a “Slice of Life” the webcomic is at the point where Dani is fighting a werewolf tooth and nail so it’s hard to pin. It’s clearly romance genre, as even if Dani and Chirsty end up together lickity split (a blink of the eye compared to the slow-burn of most romance stories) there are other wlw subplots going on with secondary primary characters which you’ll be routing for.

It has its steamy moments and implies sex but not so far as to show full-on nudity of the main characters characters. Though there is some nudity of some of the monstergirls such as the fawn girls on the other hand it does not beat around the bush with, but luckily takes the nudity in a natural non-sexual way Correction as of writing this; only the Twitter version shows nudity, they had to censor with bras on Webtoons cause it got flagged.

If you want it hotter/steamier, sign up to the artist’s patreon. It’s definitely a nice softish wlw webomic if you’re craving a lil monstergirl flavour.

 Sanguine

Available on Tapas and Webtoons

Full-on adventure fantasy setting set in a world where magic and mages have been persecuted to the point of going into secrecy.

It stars a cute red-riding-hood-like implied secret-royal (that was too much a mouthful) lady named Red, and a tall gorgeous beefy secretly mage lady named Morgan which Red has dragged into her shenanigans with.

It’s early to call this a wlw gem as of the current updates, but it is tagged as lgbt+ so take that with potential further wisdom.

This webcomic uses colour a fair bit to set its tone/mood, but otherwise has a very comfy/warm feeling about it somehow, like some of those old comics/webcomics/novels you would welcome to read while snuggled under blankets. Also the outfits are REALLY nicely designed, and I could definitely see some peeps having fun cosplaying many of these characters.

As the story slowly progresses I am holding with baited breath to how Red and Morgan’s interactions/relationship may or may not evolve, as I am totally an absolute sucker for “friendly/bubbly naïveish character dragging along the cool/grumpy don’t-get-involved character that has a hidden soft heart” trope.

  Straylight Tiger

Available on Webtoons and Tapas

WARNING- while infrequent this one has some blood/gore that will shake you up, though it puts it where it would be most sensible to. Lucky for you most blood in this series is not the usual human-red blood which tones the edge down.

It may have lots of fantasy elements but this one definitely holds its identity as Sci Fi. Set in a futuristic cyberesque city full of both good and bad superhumans (one group being animal shapeshifters and the other being elemental casters), there is an extremist cult out to wreck havoc in the city, so a company responds by recruiting a handful of individuals from all 3 races to make a secret task force to eliminate the threat.

The main character in this story is a secretly-a-tiger shapeshifter named Angeline.

This is probably the most visually colourful of the webcomics in my list and is really using it to charge up its stylistic sci fi setting. Best way I could compare it to; you know those glow-in-the-dark cyber avatars you occasionally see in VRchat? Straylight Tiger matches that visual energy. Of listed so far this is also the most action-packed webcomic on the list. I could almost call it a Trigger-like comic but luckily unlike Studio Trigger it’s not into going nuts on fanservice.

If you’re craving your superhuman sci fi action, this one should at least be checked out. I want to say there’ll be wlw at some point, but it’s too early to call, and if it does I would not expect it to be a major arc when it has larger fish for plot points to deal with.

If you’re craving wlw of at least mc and her weapons-savvy human friend, I highly recommend you checking out the artist Flying Frappe’s twitter to get some sating for you wlw cravings for the two.

 Caricophona

Available on webtoons as well as its own webcomic site

Tragic fantasy setting starring a supermagical woman named Veloice as she is hunted by an Assassin. I tag it as there is an undertone of death in some of the arcs, which give this colourfully magical world a more sombre tone. Among the webcomics on the list this one may be steepest when it comes to catching to speed of the world’s setting/rules/hierarchies but once you do you’ll hunger for this more.

I can’t entirely make a perfect comparison for it (Full Metal Alchemist is as close as I could compare and they are still as different to each other as apples and oranges) but it really has that rich nostalgic old manga style/world/tone to it, and its most welcome to as well.

The world building is rich, and Veloice is a mental/magical powerhouse even if at times she has a fragility about her. The fact she’s a Caricophona; magical beings which tend to either get persecuted or expire early at age from their own condition, definitely helps with giving her a almost “glass canon” energy about her.

While those points have definitely helped hook me in, the thing that tends to excite me the most in this webcomic is Veloice’s interactions with the assassin who’s been send to kill her, named Blackbird. The tension between them, the fact Blackbird both wants to toy with her, Blackbird’s somewhat flirtatious nature towards Veloice OMFG I EAT IT UP!!!! They have such a enemies to lovers feeling to them (though no, they are not lovers- we can dream though) which just gets you so excited.

I should also mention there are two other “primary characters” in the group. Two rich naïve kids ready to help Veloice however they can. You grow to like them (even if they hit tropes that may strike a nerve if you’re tired to their character type), but the mvp of this webcomic for character and interaction has to be Veloice and Blackbird.

 Amongst Us

Available on webtoons and its own website

Say you like Veloice and Blackbird from the previous webcomic, but find the hefty fantasy setting a bit too much, and you’re more for the romance? What if I told you the artist was galaxy brained enough to make a chiller AU? That is what Amongst Us is; a music college-set slice of life with a slow burn romance between Veloice and Blackbird. They’re dorky, their cute, and seeing some of the characters you’re familiar with in Caricophona in a different setting is nice to see.

In some ways Veloice is less proactive in Amongst Us but still feels very in-character of her. The webcomic would end pretty quick if Veloice were to get-to-the-point with Blackbird after all (granted with how we see them in the future together at the start of the webcomic it’s not like they have to be in a hurry anyways).

Seeing a wlw / slice of life set in a college setting rather than a high school setting is extremely welcome. Please, more of this.

 Kiss it Goodbye

Available on Webtoons

Slice of Life high-school beginnings of wlw romance. The artstyle is good, the characters are lovely. We know canonically that they end up together (as the webcomic starts with them in the future where they are a couple, as they begin to weave the story to their curious friends wanting to know how their romance came to be).

It’s not an unwelcome Slice of Life.

 BONUS / HONORABLE MENTIONS

 Mokepon

Available on h0lyhandgrenade’s website

I have honestly not read this one in a while and dropped it like, several years ago, but it was interesting and is still ongoing, so I had to mention it. Set in the Pokemon universe, it stars the main character who has been thrown into the pokemon trainer career while absolutely wanting nothing to do with it. Ends up becoming a rocket grunt which is an interesting change of perspective from many pokemon fancomics. It has old-nuzelocke energy though it is not a Nuzelocke. Be prepared for the brutality as you cry for the pokemon (especially his pikachu). The undying loyalty of his Charmander as he himself struggles with his position as a trainer/grunt is interesting. He is definitely not the usual pokemon trainer protag you’re used to.

 Seven Miles Down

Available on Webtoons

A completed oneshot psychological horror where a girl takes her submarine to the deepest unventured oceanic trench in the world. Tragic end, but horrors can be like that. The psychological nature of the horror is an interesting angle. The rounded cute style may throw you off but it works.

 UnDivine

Availabe on its own website via hiveworkscomics

This comic has since been cancelled from continuation, but is the webcomic to set me off in making this list, so it will still be mentioned in memory/tribute, and is the grand example of why you should interact with the webcomics you read as well as share them; there is a good chance they will not hold on their own without fan interaction and traction. Excuse me as I just use two full-on pages cause I’m wearing out on this list and browsing through tons and tons of pages for highlights wears a peep out.

Modern-set religious fantasy on an island where local their religion may be more than it seems. Stars a boy named Daniel, and Esther the Demon girl. From what can be gleaned the Demongirl knew the “god” of the island’s religion and was double crossed, so has a bone to pick with them and their “angelic” entourage now that she’s free when she got accidentally summoned by Daniel.

This webcomic loves its use of blood, but your grow used to it after a point. The setting is interesting, and its also cool to see how the “angels” are far from the usual “pretty human-like” in their true form and are instead more monstrous than you could say even the Demon Esther is.

A lot of what makes this comic interesting, outside of the “revenge against a god” main plot going on, is how messy the characters can be.

Daniel, Esther, and the one angel named Manual are all pretty interesting in how they interact with their roles that they’ve been put in and how they react to others, and are all very morally grey complex characters.

Daniel is an angst machine who tends to really wear himself out (though how he’s positioned/pressured by the world doesn’t help) and shoot himself in the foot a lot, and that’s even before Esther “turns” him into her lil monstrous pawn, not something you commonly see in main characters from the get-go.

Esther (the tall blondie) while being a Demon ready to get her vengeance on is in many ways naïve/childlike despite her powerful nature, and despite using Daniel as her pawn is shown to grow to have feelings/care for Daniel which is very interesting for “The Contracted Devil” position.

Manual…. We haven’t gotten to see a lot but it’s clear he’s meant to be the angelic hero position but its clear he does not like the position, and he also has a thing for a human woman named Rosamaria but we have not gotten to see why that’s the case.

This webcomic didn’t get the traction it needed to keep going, so was recently cancelled by the artist.

#webcomics #reccomendations #long post #wall of text #comics #manga #Bybloemen #Undivine #Straylight tiger #Cacicophona #Amongst Us #Mokepon #My Dragon girlfriend #Kiss It Goodbye #Sanguine #I probably missed a webcomic on the list to tag but I am very very tired atm

[jeinu]

The masked man from the webcomics Rumplestiltskin and Mokepon! Belongs to @h0lyhandgrenade, commissioned by Asura.​

#character art #webcomics #mokepon #rumplestiltskin #masked man #commissions 2018 #full render #my art

[mimikyufriend]

baby's first champion team :')

their names in order are dragonthing (named after the charizard in mokepon bc ig I couldn't think of anything else), sheldon, just xerneas??, supersonic, firefox, and just lucario -_- I think I had a talonflame named hawkeye on my team before I replaced him with xerneas

and this was my champion team in moon (had to get ninetails from trade so no nickname 😔)

#seasonal speak