#is a very underrated comic

[michaeljoncarter]

hot take maybe, but no comic has ever gotten close to the way gotham is portrayed in Gotham by Midnight like. multiple characters straight up saying that the city EATS people... gotham having its own deities... altars on the sidewalks of the narrows to gotham-specific saints... "they folded their crime into the shape of a city" & "i am gotham's caul, torn from the city at the moment of its first breath. betrayed. murdered. cast into the swamps" & "gotham city is a crucible. all of us are tested. those who cannot endure will be devoured"

it is THE most "gotham as its own character and an active participant in the story" comic ever like

nobody gets gotham like fawkes gets gotham. this shit was SO hot

#and on top of all that gave us implications of bi corrigan #AND gave us the spectre almost nuking gotham on the miagani's behalf which i personally relate to very much #the most underrated comic ever actually

[murderbirds]

Random Batman comic idea:

In order to defeat Batman, one of his mad scientist type villains (likely Strange), creates a frankenstein type creature using what he considers to be the best traits of Batman's nemesis (like, the muscles of bane, the scales and teeth of killer croc, Ivy's pheromones, etc.)

The villain gives batman a lot of trouble, until several of the villains who were not selected for not being good enough come together to fight this person and prove their value since they were considered too weak before, essentially saving Batman in the process.

#gotham #batman #dc comics #dc #since i love penguin #and i think he is very underrated in thd comics #i say penguin leads these 'lower' villains #i think it would be also be really funny if riddler thinks he in the mix #but finds out he isn't #instead he gets essentially replaced by one of the 'riddler clones' #and foams at the mouth #something like #“ed: my dear oswald dont you see your attempt is useless?” #“ed: just let this being the job for you and run back to your nest” #“ed: your intelligence could never compare to it anyways!” #os: ... #os: you know they didn't pick you for his brains #os: right #ed:... #ed: what? #os: they picked bookworm instead #ed: HOW COULD DAY?! HOW DARE THEY?! #ed: EVERYONE KNOWS I AM THE SMARTEST MAN IN THIS CITY! NAY #ed: THE WORLD! HOW COULD THEY TURN TO THAT- THAT COPYCAT?! ALL THAT HE DID WAS COPY ME ALL OF HIS CAREER! #os: .... so #os: are you in? #ed: I AM GETTING MY CANE RIGHT NOW!

[sovamurka]

Bubble Comics will release two stickerpacks for their 11th anniversary!!!

#bubble comics #I love them all <3 meteora... realmwalkers... exlibrium... razgrom jojo-posing... #I am especially grateful for shadow thief there!!! it's underrated. #not so happy about the lack of characters from demonslayer BUT very happy to see balor's eyes in the pelmeni bowl #demonslayer #бесобой #exlibrium #экслибриум #realmwalkers #мироходцы #метеора #meteora #major grom #майор гром #plague doctor #чумной доктор #союзники #allies #мир/mir #shadow thief #вор теней

[abuckygirlarchive]

results of the poll are in and we have a winner ! as such, have a compilation of highlights from the winning comic run ' bucky barnes: the winter soldier (2014 - 2015) ' by marco rudy and ales kot.

#with a line line 'bucky this is a very dumb idea' how could it not win ?? #admittedly in my youth (which was 8 years ago) i didn't care much for this comic #but in new found appreciation for storytelling and art-telling i've come to realise #that this run is severely underrated and addresses quite a few bucky-core themes #his seemingly eternal search for purpose #often barking up the wrong tree for it #the delusion that it can't be anything BUT a war or a fight or a sacrifice of himself and/or his future #the glimmer of hope that if old man bucky eventually turned his sights for peace #then our bucky can too #and the MONUMENTAL role love plays in that transition #also daisy mother fucking johnson #bucky barnes: the winter soldier #bb: tws #marco rudy #ales kot #bucky barnes #old man bucky #daisy johnson #sacred reznor

[jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear]

I like that comic where Scarecrow is wheeling his bully into a haunted house in a shopping cart. The carnival is a reference to Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes"! It's one of my favorite books, so it made me smile quite a bit!!

I didn't know this! What a cool little fact :)

thank you for sharing anon!! <3

#MistressAnswersYourLastWords #it is a good comic #very underrated imo

[thequiver]

“Gods are stubborn. So am I.” - Euripides, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays; translated by Anne Carson

Oliver Queen and Cernunnos, the Horned God in Green Arrow (1988) #26

#oliver queen #ollie queen #green arrow #edits #my edits #if Ollie didn't want me to use typewriter fonts for every edit of him he wouldn't have used one on page #anyway I changed Cernunnos from the purple he is in the comics to the same Green as Ollie's tunic in both panels because I wanted to #highlight the connection between them that their interactions in this issue seeks to establish #not just the connection established by Sherwood Forest and the Robin Hood mythos #but also in the sort of idea of them both as guardians of the forest and of what it means to be wild #of Cernunnos both as a part of Ollie that is released into the forefront of his subconscious when he's drugged but also as someone for whom #Ollie shoots an arrow in thanks #but also Cernunnos as a figure who appears after that thanks wearing a tunic that is very similar to Ollie's own #of Ollie's professions of atheism and his desire to thank a deity #the kindness both he and Cernunnos show to Rowan- the understanding that she is doing her part in their care of the wild #also like very very fun fact- Grell actually used the ancient Irish festival of Samhain as the 'druid' new year in this comic and Samhain #is historically when the LBA Irish would celebrate the new year with the coming of winter #but yeah #really wanted to sort of establish and strengthen that connection this issue places between Ollie and Cernunnos because I think it's a #really underrated part of the Grell run #and like i get it #it's kind of a silly arc where Ollie gets drugged with LSD and goes to Sherwood #but there's some really great character analysis in here and I like it #even if I hate druids- and would physically fight the leaders of pretty much every modern druidic organization #and they'd DESERVE IT

[amee-racle-ofmyown]

I know it was posted literally a year ago, but I just wanted to say that I really loved "things you said when you thought I was asleep." Such good fluff for our overlooked boy 🥹

oh my goodness has it really been that long? it has :0 sure doesn't feel like it lol

thank you so much for letting me know, that's really sweet🥺💖 I'm glad you liked it!!

SE Saeran deserves so much love, happiness and peace, guy's been through it q-q

#he really is overlooked #back in the day he got way mote attention tho #the focus of most of the fandom has just kinda shifted #ge is a lot more popular especially with the release of his ae #and even before that since the release of his route #same goes for suit #and then ray had been a hit since v's route #so our tomato boy got left behind a bit #but yeah around 2017/early 2018 saeyoung was by far the most popular and se saeran was actually very popular too #there's a lot and I mean a LOT of post-se content in the form of comics and dubs if you know where to look #and a lot was just wholesome fluff or silly goofy rfa and choi boi antics #so yeah tbh he did have his turn #the real overlooked boy is vae ray #but it is a shame se is pretty underrated nowadays #I wish cheritz would provide us more se content #if suit gets a title screen se should be in one #but maybe they're trying to keep him properly secret I mean it is the SECRET ending #but cmon everyone knows about him now #pls cheritz just a mere shred of content #a crumb #im begging😭 #mystic messenger #asks #anonymous #miracle thoughts

[kingmaximusboltagon]

i wonder what it was like immediately following triton's terrigenisis. like he's almost definitely not the first inhuman to develop gills, but it definitely doesn't seem to be common. how long did it take anyone to realize he needed water? would he even know himself, or would it just feel like he was suffocating for seemingly no reason? do they even have any pools of water near those chambers? was that just a very scary few minutes?

is this addressed in any of the comics? is it possible triton very much did nearly die, and that was an added factor into his parents not allowing karnak to go through the mists?

#im very curious over how that all went down #because triton seems to get a lot of flack for his appearance. but considering how much most inhumans dont really look human #that seems a bit strange on its own #i mean i guess it is attilan after all. but still! #i think its the gills that set him apart more than anything. he couldnt really spend time with anybody through his entire childhood #and attilan seems very close knit. the dependency on water made him an outsider to them #or at least thats how im interpretating it #i havent read all too many comics with triton in them tho! could be wrong! #rotating him in my mind today. triton is sooooo underrated and underused. bring him back marvel!!!!! #triton mander azur

[agnerd-bot]

#marvel comics #marvel #hercules #the incredible hulk #vegeta voice: OH MY GOD HE'S SO GOD! DAMN! COOL! #legit #herc is criminally underrated #and while i am excited he is in the MCU now apparently #i am also very afraid because i really hope he's done right #either way #love this man #kicks so much ass

[apolloendymion]

i love straight men in comedy. i love it when theres a guy thats like wtf

#very funny when everyone else is fucked up except that guy #but also v underrated is when everyone is equally fucked up but in different ways and at different times #so they all play straight to each others antics #i do think an assigned Straight Man is still important in those dynamics but they can be used more sparingly #and thus to greater effect #perhaps even subverting later on. reveal he's a little bit fucked up too actually #and in a way the rest of the cast is all straight manning towards #to the point where it's comically hypocritical of them to be baffled by this person's mildly weird thing jdsgksdgd

[mothmothwoth]

underrated moment where they looked at each others faces half covered by the rose ramón put down and giggled,, it was just so sweet truly the distillation of them being stupid

also have extra comic for the image but it’s a sketch bc I’m very hungry

#The image of pac stopping because of a rose in his face and breaking character to laugh about it has been in my mind all day #visceral imagery HAD TO DRAW IT #anyways I hate them #they make me suffer so much #Also I was gonna draw the silly Tazercraft reunion but again busy #Qsmp everybody! #they make me insane #qsmp #qsmp fanart #fanart #art #pactw #qsmp art #qsmp pac #fitpac #qsmp fitmc #fitmc #hideduo #qsmp pactw

[teamatsumu]

gentle. (aone takanobu x reader)

summary: he’s not the same with you as he is with everyone else

word count: 1,399

warnings: swearing, but pretty fluffy otherwise, fem!reader, high school setting

tags: @keiva1000 @kindnessspreads @msbyomimi

this is written for @honeybleed’s Underrated Character event! I had so much fun writing this because it’s the perfect opportunity to give love to our blorbo aone (he deserves the world).

After Date Tech's loss to Seijoh at the Inter High preliminaries, you didn't know what exactly to do with yourself.

You had been managing the team since your first year. The previous manager hadn't really stayed to show you the ropes, and you had to learn everything from scratch. You had often felt lost and disoriented, and it felt like you were drowning as the novice team built themselves slowly but surely.

You truly felt that this time around, Date Tech's Iron Wall would be strong enough to get you all to Nationals. Now, not only did you have to stomach that loss, you had to deal with the fact that your precious third years were leaving.

You felt like you were drowning all over again, like you had back in your very first week with the team. Like you had no clue what to do. As you sat on the steps outside the volleyball gym on campus, you contemplated your next move. How the team would operate with Futakuchi as the new Captain. How you all had to somehow hone the talent in your inexperienced new setter, Koganegawa. It all seemed like too much work. How were you supposed to manage it all?

You nearly jumped out of your skin when something moved in your peripheral vision and you realized it was Aone, sitting on the steps next to you. When had he gotten here?

"You scared me!" You breathed, laughing a bit. It was almost comical how someone as huge and imposing as Aone could somehow make himself so invisible. But considering how quiet he was, it wasn't surprising to you.

Aone didn't react to your words, but his stare was intense on your face, eyeing you closely before he reached a finger out to poke at the skin under your eyes. Oh.

You felt your face heat a little at his touch, but you gave him a reassuring smile. "I'm fine, Aone. Just a little tired."

It seemed like he didn't believe you, the scowl between his eyebrows only deepening. You fidgeted a bit.

From your very first day managing Date Tech's volleyball club, you had had a soft spot for Aone Takanobu. He was, by all means, a scary looking dude. Taller than any boy you knew, and built like a brick wall. Despite his massive size, he was agile too, a very scary combination. Silver hair, a deep scowl that always seemed to twist his face (you later realized that he wasn't scowling, it was just the lack of eyebrows that made it appear so). It was no wonder people tiptoed around him.

But two years on the same team, spending every day together, meant that you knew Aone in ways that his audience did not. His personality was anything but scary. He was as docile as they came, and slowly but surely, you felt yourself drawn to his quiet disposition. In the storm that came with Futakuchi constantly butting heads with your third years, Aone was the silent bubble you found comfort in. He knew you inside out, and he was perceptive. Like right now, pointing out the dark circles under your eyes with an uncharacteristically gentle touch.

No wonder you had an embarrassing crush on him.

He kept an intense stare on you, his way of insisting there was something wrong. You shook your head again, sighing. You knew he wouldn't let this go. So you let yourself vent, letting out every dark and uncertain emotion inside you.

You ranted about everything that was plaguing your mind, body turned towards Aone but curled into yourself. You pulled your knees up to your chest, wrapping your arms around them to curl into yourself as you spoke, looking up at the boy next to you every now and then.

Aone did not interrupt. He never interrupted. He let you go on and on about how you didn't think Futakuchi was mature enough to lead a team, or how Koganegawa was nowhere near ready to stand on a court. All your doubts were spilled out into the air surrounding you, welcomed by Aone as he sat and listened to everything you had to say. His eyes did not leave you once, but he didn’t react in any other way.

"Sometimes I think you are the only thing holding the Iron Wall together." You gave him a little smile. "And I don't know how you do it."

When you finally finished, silence stretched between the two of you, as if everything around you was absorbing your words. You watched Aone, waiting for him to lean towards you and nod encouragingly, like he did whenever you had one of these ranting sessions.

"I do it because of you."

Your eyes widened, not expecting that he would speak. You knew Aone, and you knew he wasn’t a talker. He loathed having to voice anything because he felt like he didn’t have anything to say which wasn’t already understood. His voice was hoarse and deep, making your breath catch.

"Do what?" You asked, not understanding his words.

"You said I hold the Iron Wall together." He continued, and you basked in the sound of his voice. It was so rare for him to say anything. You wanted to savor it while it lasted.

"I do it because of you. I see how hard you work for this team. And it makes me work hard too. For you."

Your heart was beating a mile a minute, trying to catch up to his words and process them. You felt like your entire face was on fire, your breath stuttering. Aone did not look at you, instead staring at the ground before him. Your eyes caught his porcelain pale skin, eyeing how the back of his neck flushed red. The sight made you giddy.

"Aone…." You breathed, feeling truly speechless. Which wasn't like you at all. Between the two of you, you talked and Aone listened. For the first time, the roles were reversed.

Aone shifted a bit, still not looking at you. "Don't worry too much. You will figure it out like you always do. And I'll be here for you."

His sentences were simple. Yet to you, it felt like he was waxing poetic. You couldn't help your wide smile, shuffling closer to Aone and placing your head on his shoulder. You felt infinitely lighter, like all of what you were worried about didn’t matter at all when Aone was right there with you.

"Thank you." You whispered.

You felt Aone nudge at you gently, his way of saying 'you're welcome'. You let yourself bask in his touch, cheek pressed to his bicep, feeling how your heart pounded in your chest.

Multiple steps sounded on the ground, and then a sharp voice broke through the silence.

"You lovebirds done? Come on, let's get pork buns and then head home. I'm hungry!"

You sighed and rolled your eyes, pulling away from Aone to glare at Futakuchi, who was standing a few feet away while the team lingered behind him. They had all changed out of their sweaty practice clothes, bags slung over their shoulders and ready to leave. You saw Koganegawa peek at you from behind him, his mouth open comically wide.

"Eh? I didn't know our manager and Aone-san were dating!"

Before you could protest, Aone was lumbering onto his feet and grabbing your hand, pulling you up with him. His giant hand enveloped yours completely (you were giddy as you observed this fact), and he didn't let go as he walked past Futakuchi, who had an annoyingly smug grin on his face. You knew you wouldn't hear the end of this.

"Yeah, stay away from her, Kogane!" He called, being obnoxiously loud on purpose. He was definitely trying to goad you two, as was his nature. "You don't wanna know how pissy Aone gets when other guys flirt with her."

Your eyes widened, looking up at the boy in question. Aone pointedly looked away from you, but his grip on your hand tightened, and you could see the same blush creep up his neck and to his ears.

You grinned all the way to the convenience store, and then all the way home too, basking in the new information Futakuchi had spilled, as well as the tight grip Aone had on your hand.

He didn't let go even once.

#aone takanobu #aone x reader #aone fluff #haikyuu aone #aone takanobu x reader #aone takanobu fluff #haikyuu fanfiction #hq x reader #haikyuu x reader #haikyuu fluff #aone x you #aone x y/n

[allgremlinart]

The Most Underrated Line In All Of ATLA/TLOK And Its Many Worldbuilding Implications - A Ramble

In S2E7 of TLOK we get this dialogue from Wan and The Aye-Aye Spirit: "There are other Lion Turtles?" "Of course there are - dozens of them!" [timestamp 3:38 in this video]

It's such a quick line it's easy to miss, but there's one thing about it that made a LOT of things click into place for me about the Avatar universe's worldbuilding; the fact that there are (or were) dozens of Lion Turtles. NOT four, with one for each element, like you would assume. Dozens.

What does this mean in terms of the Four Nations? What connections might this have with other previously established lore? Well uhm follow me on this journey. I guess.

Pre-Unifications - A Global Warring States Era?

A warring states era on a wouldn't be nearly as compelling if there were only four Lion Turtles. If this were the case, everything would be perfectly balanced; why would there be disarray, violence, cultural disparity and struggles for power within each elemental group if the world was already perfectly divided into four solid groups? Why would a national identity be in question at all?

But the fact that there are more than one Lion Turtle per element... that means different groups of people being isolated from one another for long periods of time. This means different bodies of identity, regardless of element. Different city states, regional Kings, Queens, fiefdoms, dynastic power struggle, etc etc, before any sort of inherent loyalty the ones element as a national and cultural identity was established.

We know the Avatar world was not always divided into Four Nations. In Chapter 21 of The Rise Of Kyoshi we learn that Guru Laghima - a name you'll recognize from TLOK S3 - was from an era when the Four Nations had not yet been formed. We also know from Zaheer that he lived about 4,000 years before the events of TLOK (for context, thats about 6,000 years after Wan became the first Avatar).

There's further confirmation of this in Smoke And Shadow, where we learn about the first Firelord and the Fire Nation's unification wars.

However there's implications of this even in the original series; it's not some sloppy ret-con from the books and comics, it fits. Think Omashu:

In S2E2 of ATLA we get the story of Oma and Shu - and we learn that they come from "warring villages." Now why exactly would their villages be warring if The Earth Kingdom already existed? Why the need for a power struggle? Why is it not presented as a civil insurrection or civil war, but as a conflict between two distinct groups of people? The answer is that the "Earth Kingdom" as we conceptualize it did not exist. I'd go further and say that we can assume that after Omashu was established it became a powerful regional kingdom, and created strong sphere of cultural influence. Think about it - Bumi is King Of Omashu. King. NOT the Earth King, King Of The Earth Kingdom, but still King Of Omashu.

[Now there's some debate about where Omashu's founding sits on the timeline but to me it HAS to be post-Wan, probably very nearly immediately post-Wan. The line that calls them the "first earthbenders" and that they "learned earthbending from the badger moles" has caused some to question if they fit in with the "Lion Turtles bestowed bending" lore, but to me it fits pretty easily. The Lion Turtles may have bestowed the power but the actual technique was learned from the badger moles and dragons and blah blah blah.]

I also find this line from Jianzhu in The Rise Of Kyoshi very illuminating:

VINDICATION !! And Jianzhu's moaning over the cultural diversity within his country brings me to the second part of this post...

FC Yee And Gene Luen Yang Accidentally (?) Make Avatar's Cultural Mish Mash Make More Sense

Avatar's cultural gumbo of visuals has always been a little hard to parse. If you follow @atlaculture then you know it'd be kind of fruitless to try and apply any one single ethnicity/culture to one nation. A common, and very valid, criticism of Avatar is the pan-asian approach it takes to worldbuilding. I'm not here to defend that lol. I think people who dislike Avatar on that basis are well within their rights to do so, and I also think it's important to enjoy things critically.

HOWEVER, from a worldbuilding perspective, the mish mash becomes easier to swallow when you think of it in terms of multiple groups of people being unified into different nation states over a very long period of time and slowly intertwining their cultures into a single(ish) identity.

Take the Fire Nation for example: in FC Yee's The Shadow Of Kyoshi we learn that the government was much more decentralized and the country was controlled by different clans, like the Saowon and Keosho, who had individual spheres of influence and strong senses of identity. It makes me think about Mai and Ty Lee

They're both Fire Nation nobles and they both live in the Fire Nation capital - but their styles/clothes are completely different. Now, obviously that can be boiled down to personality-based character design but. There's a wide discrepancy between Mai's Edo Japan inspired hair and Ty Lee's Thai inspired performance outfit, and a little retroactive canon about them being part of different but powerful clans .. ? Yeah. That'd be fun, at the very least.

I could go on about this... was there a Water Lion Turtle at the north AND the south? How did the airbenders transition from relatively sedentary life on a Lion Turtle to nomadism? etc etc etc BUT in conclusion: TLOK and the comics have some very fun worldbuilding implications snuck in there !! Which makes up for a lot in my opinion. Personally I'd KILL for an Avatar series set in the warring states/unification period... I think that could be insanely cool...idk. The End. For Now.

#atla #tlok #shadow of kyoshi #rise of kyoshi #this post may get even more added onto it after I read the Yangchen novels... #worldbuilding #like. I REALLY could go on and on but I'm tired and bound to make less and less sense to longer I type #FC Yee #gene luen yang

[zivazivc]

Trolls fella & marine biology enjoyer who saw your trolls creature reblog, I 100% agree with you. Like SO agree. You probably know this [or not, idfk-] but those are Mudskippers!! They are VERY smart and. Basically just puppies who like to jump & hop around. They can even climb trees!! They are soooo funky and make surprisingly great pets!!

Imagining this freak creature in the trolls world makes me giggle and twirl my hair around. They are sooooo cool and underrated!!!!!!!

your ask spurred me to start drawing a comic about them! they are so SILLEYY!! (and no i was not aware of them but thank you for telling me)

here's a sketch from the comic that i decided to color

the video if anyone is curious

#answered #trolls #dreamworks trolls #my art #ex bandmates #les #liv #mudskippers

[sciderman]

SCI ILL GIVE YOU TWO NICKELS IF YOU TELL ME WHERE THE GOOD SPIDEYPOOL INTERACTIONS ARE IN THE COMICS. I want to read them but i have no idea where to begin!!

GOD! you know they're so rare. they're so rare.

my personal favourite always always is avenging spider-man #12 + #13. the only spideypool comic ever. it's probably the benchmark for how i write their dynamic.

other than that, the spideypool annual is a classic. but peter's like, unconscious through most of it. technically he's unconscious through most of avenging spider-man #12 too. i don't know why peter's usually unconscious in the spideypool books.

deadpool annual #2! the notorious spideypool annual.

wade you are so cute. sooooooooo cute.

this is one of the cutest wades ever. huge contributing factor to wade's general adorable fanboy persona you see so frequently in fanon.

they're so cute. so cute.

this is like the ultimate little fanservice book. if you didn't ship spideypool before, you'll read this book and it'll be all you think about. it's so simple, wholesome, adorable. and wade's just, so good.

god i miss stand-alone issues with simple plotlines that just have silly fun with their concept.

one underrated spideypool interaction i really like but a lot of people haven't read! identity wars (2011) - it's kind of an insane book. spider-man, deadpool and the hulk (weird trio) all wind up in an alternate universe where, get this. uncle ben never died and spider-man is evil.

but not like sexy evil. like evil evil. like collecting other spider-man and draining their powers evil.

and wade is also evil. he's like, dr doom evil.

spider-man and deadpool don't interact a whole lot, they kind of all have their own stories going on, but i just love the little interactions that they do have.

they're so cute. so cute.

other than that, uh. cable and deadpool #24? that's required reading - spider-man and deadpool's first canonical meeting.

other team-ups that exist but, you know, they're just okay. or they're very brief. deadpool (2008) #19-#21 amazing spider-man #611 (hate you, joe kelly) spider-man/deadpool (2016) (STILL hate you, joe kelly) avengers vs x-men: axis #7

deadpool (2013) #7

oh OH. there's also absolute carnage vs deadpool. god. what a weird book. i kind of hate wade's characterisation in it (he is really, really insufferable), but the jokes are funny sometimes.

i love when spider-man calls deadpool "buddy". inexplicably. i just think it's funny.

also we get peter in a cute little pink apron so. what more do you need really.

i love u pink apron peter. i love you.

#sci talks comics #yeah. #spideypool

[directdogman]

Hello Hound!! Since it's Dialtown's 2nd anniversary, I've been planning up a few "general" related questions about your series that I've been meaning to ask, but I decided to save them up for the big day because why not? Anyways, here's what I've got, these were meant to be fun to answer so don't sweat it :]

1: How do you feel about Dialtown's success? Are you proud of how far you've come? 

2: Which character was the MOST fun for you to write, and which was the most PAINFUL?

3: What is something you wish more people would talk about or just know about related to Dialtown in general?

4: If you had the opportunity to write a FULL complete, detailed life story of any of your characters, who would that be?

5: What's a character you wish you could have given more screen-time or just in general content? (Considering iirc you were trying to make sure Dialtown wasn't TOO long, so I was wondering if this ever came to mind)

6: From what I know, you've been doing the job of cosplaying several characters in the game and acting out their sprites, which one was the most fun to act out?

7: Speaking of sprites, do you have a sprite you could consider your favorite, out of ALL your characters?

8: Do you have a specific line of dialogue you could consider your favorite throughout the entire game?

9: Could you ever see Dialtown expanding into perhaps sequels or maybe even prequels? More DLCs mayhaps? Heck, maybe even a Dialtown 2 or a Chapter 4??

10: If you could make any fan-made interpretation (such as headcanons, designs, or ships) canon if given the opportunity, what do you think would be your pick?

11: What was the MOST fun part about developing Dialtown? Coming up with new characters? Writing them? Adding all the bizarre dialogue options?

12: And last but not least — on a scale of 1-10, how fun was developing Dialtown just in general?

That's all I have for now, and I'm really excited to see your answers!!

I normally don't answer this many questions, but... alright, sure, tis the season!

1: How do you feel about Dialtown's success? Are you proud of how far you've come? 

Yeah, of course! I'm a lil proud, admittedly, but I'm aware of how comically little I really have to do with it all, even if I did make the game. Luck does play a LOT into it, of course. Granted, I made my share of predictions that wound up being useful, but it always comes down to lady luck at the end of the day. I've seen good projects fail and bad ones go viral. It's really all just a hodgepodge of probability and whimsy. That being said, I am very pleased with DT's success, and the community that's formed around the game! It caught me by surprise!

2: Which character was the MOST fun for you to write, and which was the most PAINFUL?

Gingi's always fun to write. And Mingus. Most painful is tough to say. Maybe Crown. I got a little weird when I wrote his full backstory, kinda caught up in the emotion Norm talks about. Never been a fan of stories getting cut short. You gotta wonder what would've happened if he'd made different choices, y'know?

3: What is something you wish more people would talk about or just know about related to Dialtown in general?

Honestly? Karen, probably. She's super underrated for sure. The fandom still loves her, but she doesn't get the same kind of attention as Oliver, Gingi, Randy, Norm. She's worth it.

4: If you had the opportunity to write a FULL complete, detailed life story of any of your characters, who would that be?

Oh, I already have. I have this monstruous 30-40 page document detailing Crown's life and entire career. It's quite a read. and quite a mind-fuck if you don't know Dialtown's universe too well.

5: What's a character you wish you could have given more screen-time or just in general content? (Considering iirc you were trying to make sure Dialtown wasn't TOO long, so I was wondering if this ever came to mind)

Oh yeah, a few characters had scenes that were cut. Stabby, Shooty, Mingus, Bunny, even Bigfoot! There's also the game's cut 6th datable, who was an interesting character with ties to other characters in the cast who I wanted to do more with. Ah, maybe one day.

6: From what I know, you've been doing the job of cosplaying several characters in the game and acting out their sprites, which one was the most fun to act out?

Bigfoot. I made the ape noises in the suit. Had to. It felt right.

7: Speaking of sprites, do you have a sprite you could consider your favorite, out of ALL your characters?

I quite like Norm's set, Mingus' too. Karen's poses too are quite good.

8: Do you have a specific line of dialogue you could consider your favorite throughout the entire game?

That answer probably changes every day. I like pretty much any scene where Mingus loses her temper.

9: Could you ever see Dialtown expanding into perhaps sequels or maybe even prequels? More DLCs mayhaps? Heck, maybe even a Dialtown 2 or a Chapter 4??

I'd love to make sequels one day! I've got a lot of ideas for where the characters/story would end up. By the time DT1 wrapped up, I'd conceptualized way too much stuff to put in one game (without it taking another few years to finish), so if I ever wanted to make sequels, I'd 100% know where to start! But, that's a later down the road conversation.

For now, I'm gonna keep working on the Roger DLC and if there's demand for more, I can go from there :)

10: If you could make any fan-made interpretation (such as headcanons, designs, or ships) canon if given the opportunity, what do you think would be your pick?

I guess I COULD do that with, like, anything. Nothing immediately springs to mind, since, y'know, I'm in control of the canon anyway. I will say, I've seen headcanons and theories that ARE scarily accurate to canon, to the point where I've feared people would just think I'm lifting stuff from the fanbase! It's a good thing I talk about these things with collaborators, huh? I've got a PAPER-TRAIL!!!

11: What was the MOST fun part about developing Dialtown? Coming up with new characters? Writing them? Adding all the bizarre dialogue options?

Finishing a new scene and realizing how stupidly long it was (without me realizing it) was always a treat. But yeah, writing the characters had to be it. Specifically any scene where a character the audience knows meets someone the audience doesn't know well (or at all), with the dynamic changing. Those are fun to write.

12: And last but not least — on a scale of 1-10, how fun was developing Dialtown just in general?

Hard question to answer. I do really wanna give a high number, but truthfully, a lot of game dev actually isn't super 'fun'. Some tasks are, granted, but many parts are a slog. Sitting and formatting dialogue, and then adding text pauses and pose changes isn't exactly a super thrilling activity. The engine itself also has some issues which I have to work around that adds to the workplace. Play-testing a scene for the 4th time isn't super fun either, or trying to figure out why the game crashes on some PCs and ONLY very rarely... Those tasks are Sisyphean to some degree.

...But, while most of those parts aren't fun, it's all still rewarding. There's a sense of accomplishment when you finish a scene. You get to look back at your hard work, remember the hours you spent typing dialogue into a text box and formatting mass amounts of pngs, painstakingly + manually getting the game's awful pre-loader to deal with the sprites right, etc... and suddenly, at the end, you've got this lil experience that people can play and enjoy. Somehow, the sum of all of those not so fun activities has created something that's going to make people laugh, feel happy. That's special. and even if some parts of development weren't super fun on their own, that's always what I remember. That in the end, all of those not so fun days mattered.

The route I agonized the most over was Oliver's. I went through a few weeks of writer's block, and now, it's one of the most popular routes in the game! Crazy how that happens. I was SURE for about a week that people would rank the route at the bottom! That's what I mean, all of the stress I went through trying to figure it out amounted to something people connected with! To think I almost CUT the route entirely!!!

And y'know, God knows Dialtown gave me something to throw myself at during a time where I REALLY needed the outlet. I'm very grateful to the project for that. So, I'll give DT an honorary 8 out of 10, even if it wasn't a consistently 8/10 experience making it heh heh! Sure glad I did, though and I'm very glad if any of you reading this had a really good time playing it! :)

Thanks for the questions!