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Obscure Webcomic 2.0 - Round 2-N

The Wide Ocean - Ongoing

The Wide Ocean is a Fantasy Adventure about a princess shipwrecked at sea and the shark-woman who saves her. They learn more about each other, and the history of their world, surviving against enemies both ferocious and morbid. There is more to their meeting than meets the eye, as it seems things are far too coincidental to be written off. Web-comic contains a lot of water, shark people, mer-zombies, angry relatives, looming catastrophic threats and a love-struck prince.

Molly-l'Iris - Ongoing

Stonewall & Associates, spells and herbal remedies. Noticed something strange ? We might be able to help. NO REFUNDS. Tel. : CAS-84-26 --------------------------- Adrienne, a young spellcaster, arrives in the bustling city of Molly-l'Iris in search of a mentor. She finds (a reluctant) one in Jack, the deadbeat owner of an almost bankrupt magic shop.

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I've finished painting my Dystopian Wars Egyptian Ships. It took a while, but here they all are!

#dystopian wars #hovercraft #miniatures wargame #miniatures wargaming #miniatures #miniatures painting

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Obscure Webcomic 2.0 - Round 1-N

The Wide Ocean - Ongoing

The Wide Ocean is a Fantasy Adventure about a princess shipwrecked at sea and the shark-woman who saves her. They learn more about each other, and the history of their world, surviving against enemies both ferocious and morbid. There is more to their meeting than meets the eye, as it seems things are far too coincidental to be written off. Web-comic contains a lot of water, shark people, mer-zombies, angry relatives, looming catastrophic threats and a love-struck prince.

Magical 12th Graders - Finished

Han Yeorum becomes a magical girl when fishy monsters show up at her school, following her sister's suicide. A lovely critique of the education system.

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I made this before Valentine's Day but it essentially is a Valentine's Day picture. Suffer a reblog.

I have never drawn my characters from tWO kissing under the justification that sharkfolk don't kiss, they nose boop. Now that I have ddrawn something similar, this feels like a bit too much power....

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I have never drawn my characters from tWO kissing under the justification that sharkfolk don't kiss, they nose boop. Now that I have ddrawn something similar, this feels like a bit too much power....

#TheWideOcean #Kissing #shark woman #wlw

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The Obscure Webcomic Tournament...2.0!

The time is finally here...feast upon the offerings for the second round, to find the even more most obscure webcomic!

For anyone new: this is a tournament where you vote for the comic you don't know, so that by the end. This does not mean that comics included are obscure - there are some pretty big names in here - but that the winner will be the most obscure.

The complete list of webcomics can be found here, including links, images, details and descriptions as given by the submitter(s). Caveat emptor, I am not and will not be vetting the content of these comics; a lot of the descriptions include content warnings, but don't assume a lack of warnings means there's nothing triggering.

As with round 1.0, these are split into 16 subbrackets (A-P) to be actually legible, and there will be 4 polls coming out daily from [probably 1/15 but subject to change]. I'll update the pinned post with more detailed rules once the polls start going up.

finally... a list of the comics that were cut, are, well, below the cut.

edit: oh yeah tagging @tournament-announcer might be useful

for the record, I didn't do this for 1.0 because only one comic was cut, and that was Hetalia. But since instead we're cutting, like, 20 comics, I wanted to give links + explain reasoning. A lot of these are really good, so, go check them out while waiting for the polls to start up!

DC Webtoons

Look: these were valid submissions, but let's be real: if I'm going to be cutting webcomics, I'm starting with the ones put out by Detective Comics Comics. They can handle it. Also, from a popularity standpoint I'm pretty sure they'd all be out in round 1 anyways, even going up against the other 'too popular' comics.

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures

Red Hood: Outlaws

Zatanna & the Ripper

Not including the descriptions b/c they were just the official ones copypasted. Also, I am throwing shade on the fact Vixen was the only official DC webtoon not submitted.

Deleted Webcomics (no archive)

So, again, these were valid submissions. As with last round, I don't have an issue with deleted comics. However, the best place to trim down was undeniably with the comics you can't actually click through a link to read. Some of these are available, but in print exclusively.

Basin Vale

Blade Bunny (available in print)

Daimonikos a witch accidentally summons a demon who just so happens to be a top athlete when a demon hunter bursts in and stabs them before the three of them all somehow end up dating each other

Epicsplosion

FreakAngels (available in print, also like. by Warren Ellis.) 23 years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. 8 years ago, the world ended. This is the story of what happened next.' - Post apocalyptic modern steampunk. If you liked Umbrella Academy, you'd enjoy FreakAngels.

Mahou Josei Chimaka (available in print)

The Mows

Pictures for Sad Children

Todd Allison and the Petunia Violet (the *archive* is now also broken. which may be temporary but...) Todd Allison & the Petunia Violet combines "explosions, bombs, plant biology, chemical engineering, parties, pretty shoes and people swearing" into a beautiful comic. Was hosted on smackjeeves, but already abandoned by the time smackjeeves closed. I also read that there were a few more comics posted that was not picked up by the archive site, that are lost now.

Also, these are webtoons canvas comics where the link is dead, idk if this is temporary or permanent, or something about not having the app, but I can't see them so here they lie.

Strawberry Dream Boy (BL) A young man named Clover gets his first job next to an all-boys university. The tips are good, but everything good in life comes with a price

The Queen and the Woodborn Far away behind seven hills and seven forests, seven fields and seven rivers, there lived a Queen... welcome to the queen and the woodborn. a fairy tale romance for the mature readers about the unseen Queen and the Goddess in the woods. a tale of the two forgotten by the world around them who will make the world remember their names. expect gods and monsters and a romance for the ages.

Town of Thieves In the kingdom of Jewelia, people are seperated by class. The rich take advantage of the poor while the poor steal from the rich. A kingdom rife with poverty and instability. What could go wrong?

Too Popular + No Description

So, I wanted to cut out some of the comics without a description (since it's a smaller number and I felt better about it for "low effort" submissions) and I ended with the same number for those that were deleted but available on the Internet Archive...and those that I classified as 'too popular'. And I ended up choosing to include the archived, and cut out the too popular.

Achewood

Dinosaur Comics

Girls with Slingshots

Lackadaisy

One Punch Man

Sandra and Woo

The Perry Bible Fellowship

Popularity is pretty nebulous; I don't know how many followers on here recognize even veritable giants like Girls with Slingshots, but I feel pretty comfortable these are all definitely out in round 1's. There are definitely some more popular webcomics that made it in...but those all came with descriptions.

Miscellaneous

MinecraftPride - from what i can tell, this is a single page from 2015. sorry, not sorry, it won't make the cut.

The Three Bare Bears - I guess this kind of falls under "too popular" but while there is a description...this is 10 strips, and is now a mainstream cartoon. so....yeah

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I've only been on this website for less than a year, I think, but right now, at the end of the year, I do a picture of these two OCs, Shella and Lily. They're pirates of a stranger nature, neither human though mortal in appearance. Normally, I draw these two in the same picture together, but I had a brilliant idea while driving to the Grocery Store. I think this was worth the effort.

#original character #pirate lady #pirates #pirate OC #pirate #ocean #oceanic #age of sail #Horizon of Eternity #Lighthouse of the Abyss #Shella #Lilly #treasure #navigation #sea life #ancient sea creatures #statuettes #strange statues #sea creatures

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Picture dump time! These are fan-sketches I made of Dystopian Wars, my latest miniatures wargaming obsession. Turns out, I like boats and I cannot lie. Dystopian Wars (DW) is a steampunk/dieselpunk/atompunk alternate history wargame taking place in the year 187X, where great powers have great technology and lack great responsibility. The pictures are not in chronological order; I started with the Korean crafts, did the Polynesian ships and then the Union Atomic ship, then the Greek page, then the Persian Airships. Koreans and Greeks are going to be in the game, so they're baseless speculation on my part. Polynesians were a fan-thing for the Enlightened faction, and I wanted to include a bit of Solarpunk in the designs. Verdict is still out on that. Persian Airships are ludicrous fantasy on my part, based out of the idea of using an archetypical oil lamp as the hull for an airship. In addition, DW has a strong modularity component to it. Each plastic kit can build one thing out of several options, leading to great flexibility in the kits. The Prussians are the best example; if you don't glue down the bridge and primary weapons, you can just have any ship you could build with that kit. I tried duplicating that effect in sketch form, but with the Persians I got fed up and assembled full images of each variation.

#Dystopian Wars #dystopian #science fiction #steampunk #dieselpunk #atompunk #solarpunk #alternate history #miniatures wargaming #wargames #wargaming #Warcradle Studios #Fanwork #airship #dirigible #balloon #catamaran #Sketch #aircraft #turtle ship #aircraft carrier #submarine #submersible #the wide ocean #mechanical fish #atlantis #Sultanate #Empire #Enlightened #Union

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The results of a few paint nights at my friendly local game store. Privateer Press' game Monsterpocalypse, all of them. Entire Ancient Ones faction, plus some Empire of the Apes models.

#monsterpocalypse #privateer press #empire of the apes #king kong #planet of the apes #ancient ones #camazotz #mictlantecuhtli #tlaltecuhtli #miniatures painting #miniatures wargame #kaiju #giant monsters #daikaiju

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She Made Hungry

Ghoul Kou (Koul) from @eightfish 's webcomic, 'She Makes Hungry' . One version has no background, because background-less is cool.

#shemakeshungry #ghoul #webcomic #webcomicfanart #chomp chomp

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Don't worry, I'm still updating The Wide Ocean. Just have been terrible at posting when the webcomic updates on social media.

#webcomic #the wide ocean #shark #shark girl #arabian nights #princess #magical princess

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Brand new The Wide Ocean page! Witness the language barrier being broken by a magical plot device!

#The Wide Ocean #Webcomic #webtoon #arabian nights #fantasy story #shark person #shark woman #shark girl

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ARCH-DAEMON: Floating Fortresses of terror and torture, Arch-Daemons lead the fleets of the Abyss as flagships and capital ships. Thousands of lost souls row the oars of these crude vessels, pushing forward a bulk made of unnatural wood and stone. Abyssal Dwarven cannons belch sooty cannonballs into enemy ships. Those that survive a broadside will be boarded, their crew captured for the twisted entertainment of the Abyssals aboard. Even with its unrefined construction, an Arch-Daemon is a hardy vessel, taking brutal punishment before dealing greater in return. Among its armaments is a thunderous mortar, just like that of the Volcan's. Unlike its smaller cousin, however, the Arch-Daemon is stable enough though size to use such a cannon effectively. Each Arch-Daemon is so colossal, it is considered a mobile base for coastal raids by the leadership of the Abyss. Indeed, among its structures is a gladiatorial arena. Either unfortunate victims are tossed in for demons' amusement, or the elite soldiers of the Abyss train within, honing their skills for the next gory combat. The saving graces, in the Forces of Good's eyes, is that the Arch-Daemon is neither quick, nor subtle. Indeed, sailors maintain that you can hear cries of the damned on the wind flowing from an Arch-Daemon.

UNDERWORLD: There is no ship afloat that is more feared than the Underworld. This damned vessel has only a few short months to her name, but the power contained within her is so horrific that tales of her slaughters quickly spread from port to port. What distinguishes her from a common Arch-Daemon is not enhanced firepower, nor speed nor durability. Instead, it is her gaping maw, a glowing portal that leads to the Abyss itself. Swarms of winged fiends can easily flutter through, clouding skies with their wings. Hordes of lesser Abyssals can pour through, leaping into combat directly. But the prospective of endless demons isn't what chills sailors the most. It is that whomever is slain by the Underworld's near-endless crew have their souls stolen, sucked away to join the Lost Souls rowing the abomination. With this combination of endless warriors and endless workforce, the Underworld scarcely needs to take to port, moving from one target to the next, preying, smiting, obliterating. A coalition of goodly-aligned admirals have come together to track the monster and slay it, an endeavor unparalleled.

#Kings of War #Mantic Games #Fantasy Ship #Demonic Vessel #Demon #High Fantasy #Concept Art #Fanwork #Evil Boat #Underworld

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Thanks to automatic #webcomic updating, I forgot about my own The Wide Ocean update. This page always gives me the chuckles simply based on its silliness.

#webcomic #arabian nights #shark person #princesss #fantasy #wizard tossing #yeet #Begone Warlock

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In today's The Wide Ocean update, experience finally beats raw talent.

#webcomic #arabian nights #fantasy #fantasy story #when wizards attack #wizard #water magic #rain

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Shella and Lily

Last art piece of 2022. These are the pirate OCs that I never know what to do with. Strictly speaking, I know their stories and what their deal is. Shella may have all the obvious muscle, but she's nice and it's Lily that you need to be more wary of. They're both supernatural beings. Shella believes she's human, or at least was human (gills, you know). Lily... does not speak. At all. They're infatuated with each other.

#last art of 2022 #pirates #fantasy #supernatural #pirate oc #pirate lady #treasure chest #gills #ghost lady