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Published: 2004-08-14 01:47:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 8034; Favourites: 106; Downloads: 1281
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Hah, Joss only WISHES she looked this cool.
Anyway, I figured I may as well just do a short Zombies comic, as I've wanted to do one since I saw 28 Days Later. It's not serious or anything, and hopefully I'll be able to keep it under 10 pages. Originally I was just going to make it a 2 page gag comic, but I CAN'T STAND comics that are only talking heads. I mean, really, where's the artistic expression in something like Penny Arcade or Foxtrot? C'mon. I worked my butt of to make sure D101 was never one of those comics, and I refuse to regress. Eh, whatever.
So I guess this'll be a gag comic in the guise of a graphic novel or something.
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love the zoms expressions! the one above captain eyeball is lookin kinda shiftay!
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They need some more blood though...4.9/5 (needs blood, and a more decent background)
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I think Penny Arcade is fine as a "talking heads" piece - it has a lot more of a graphic design influence than your work and is suitably commercial. I like to keep in mind that it has a different goal than work like yours.
From what I've seen of yours, you like working within frames of continuity, story arcs, the like. Penny Arcade, however, can be picked up and read from any point, as it usually depends on day-to-day gags. Neither is a negative approach to the medium, just different ways to reach very different goals.
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That is a brilliant poster!! bravo bravo! Great lines you have there...
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your comic is funny a hell but i love you side comic with the shoe.
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You rock! i've read d101 since it started and I've always loved it. I'm so happy you're doing another free comic, tho it maybe short lived as you say. I really wish you'd keep it long going like you did d101. You're art is so amazing. I also think you should have d101 done in print... buuuut that's just my opinion as a fan. I'm sending you lots and lots of fan art soon too. I just read Zombies today and fell in love with the characters. Did a cute group shot in a mix of your style and my own, I think joss and sonnet came out well, since i suck at drawing men. I love sonnet's attitude in the pic i drew so I call it a personal success! Anyway, congrats on the new comic! Keep up the amazing art!
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OH LORD YES! I feel as if my entire life has just been building up to this moment. Zombies. ZOMBIES!!
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And you're going to release this how? *thumbs up* Great goofy zombies, though.
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On my webpage. The first page is up in the D101 LJ: [link]
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Really good, I saw it in your journal and was like "K3WL!!!ONEONE" I love the mid-jump snapshop-like scene, and the zombies look really funny. Regarding your impressions on talking heads, I agree with you, but consider it a minro problem for those comics since the objetive is to make you laugh, (Of course, whne you encounter things like C& H or Zits, you jump in an aura of joy, but I assume that's not the norm) but you should take cae when talking about PA, as their fanboys are pretty hotblooded and would register in DA only to bash the opposition. (I enjoy the comic, and read it from time to time, but like to think I have some brain) To tell the truth, this image could be Faith Erin aganist the PA Zombies
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Well, I don't really care enough to fight with them, so hopefully they'll let me be.
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Yeah. I mean, I have no prob with the comic itself, but their rabid fanboys can get pretty nasty...
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wow, really love the color on this! it looks all glowy XD when I saw the title, I instantly thought of the book I Am Legend and it's about this guy who's the only person on earth who hasn't turned into a vampire and all his neighbors who're vampires are always outside his house screaming at him.
"Come out Neville!" XD
Nice work ^^ I can't wait to see the comic!
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Gotta love zombies...
Gotta love 28 Days Later...
Gotta love this drawing...
Gotta love that shirt! 
Quality.
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Very cool! Zombies are the best. Do you read the comic 'Remains'? If memory serves me correctly, you don't much like American comics, but it's Steve Niles fdalkjdf!!!
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PA kicks ass O.o but then again, so does D101 ^^ i understand what you mean though.
Urk, there are so many zombie films/books etc, they get a bit annoying, but i do like them. Especially resident evil
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Yay! Faith zombies! The one on the far right in the yellow shirt rocks hard. Hahaha. The chick's jumping pose is incredible! Props.
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Awww what cute lil Zombies XD Can't wait for the comic
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O_o
Comparing Foxtrot and Penny Arcade is a bit of a stretch. PA might take on a "talking head" look at times, but the artwork doesn't appear to be recycled and is, if anything, steadily improving over time. Also, the occasional stab at Real Sequential Art with things like the cardboard tube samurai....
Foxtrot, on the other hand.... shit on it all you like, I'm behind you a hundred percent!
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PA must've changed alot since I last read it, which has been a while. Far as I saw, it relied heavily on photocopyism, so you'd have three panels with waist-up drawings, only the mouths and arms changing. That said, it's what it is: a gag comic, and I've only seen a few (Calvin and Hobbes, Zits and Sherman's Lagoon) that actually strive to go beyond talking heads. Oh, and Non Sequiter, but that seems more a political cartoon.
Anyway, whichever. I don't read PA anymore, so I guess I shouldn't judge it ... currently. In the past, it's been 99% talking heads.
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In the early days, there was quite a bit of that, but things have changed over time. More of a waist-up now, and a good amount of couch shots.
Calvin and Hobbes was more of an exercise in sequential art than a "comic strip" per se. As good as it was, C&H got into a "seasonal loop"- the same thing that's eaten Sluggy Freelance alive. Each year had the babysitter bit, the bully but, the christmas bit, the spaceman spiff bit. They were all different, but the pattern was still there and in my opinion, Waterson realized this, which may have contributed to why he ended the strip when he did.
Bloom County, if memory serves, rarely delved into the talking heads.
Political cartoons, at least in US newspapers, are typically one-panel affairs and as such rarely suffer the Talking Head syndrome- you know as well as I that if you have, say, eight hours to do three panels or one panel, the one-panel page is going to be much slicker.
Regardless, there's a lot that can be done with Talking Heads.... but I really don't see any of the newspaper strips actually doing anything with the style- that is, using it for emotion and facial detail.
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A lot of waist up shots? Um, that is talking heads. Talking heads is when the art is always kept on the horizontal plane, with the characters, usually from the waist or chest up, being the only focus of the panel. And it stays that way 99% of the time.
But that's just the kind of comic PA is. I mean, I don't particularly care, because it is a gag comic, not a graphic novel and the art suits it, but I really don't find myself being inspired by the artist's artistic prowess.
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Heh. I'll grant that PA fits "talking heads" as you've defined it. The visual style suits the writing nicely, and ultimately, like most comics, you're either into that sort of thing or you're not. The one tactical upside to this style of production is that it's a known target, meaning it's much easier to hit regular updates (page a day, three days a week, etc.). The more interesting stuff (comic-shop formatted webcomics, as opposed to newspaper-formatted strips) always takes more time to produce.
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Too cool. I really like the saturated colors. Is this the cover or just a poster? It looks more like a poster with the tagline at the top.
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well this looks set ro be kick-ass, and for the record: 28 Days Later =
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Hehheh, mr. overalls-zombie is funny. Hm I feel like listening to british punk now!
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Oh, Zombies! SUBURBAN Zombies!! wicked
And I totaly laugh my a$$ off when I read the header at the top of it.
I also hear what your saying about the talking heads in comics. I still like Penny Arcade because of the wit and the occational Cardboard Tube Samurai pages. But there's Megatokyo and Errant story that still try for artistic road, so the idea of art in comics isn't dead yet. And we all appreciate what you did when you brought us D101, *thanks*!
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Love her pose, very matrix-y....the zombies look wicked as well
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RAGH BRAAAAAAAAAAINS.
Yuh, can't wait for this comic. Awesome pose, too!
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That was a fun movie. Looking really good, I can't wait to see more of it.
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Woo, I can't wait! I love all the zombies, they're so amusing.
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Great! More Faith's comics to read! Lets go celebrate!! 
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eee...those zombies are great. can't wait to see the comic.
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i LOVE zombies! you continue to amaze me and make me smile with glee, faith! i love the main character's design alot.
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oh my god. Your zombies are the BEST EVER.
Can't wait to see this zombietastic comic. You+zombies MUST equal the win.
I love the girl (Joss? heeeeee.)'s hair. And the jump-y pose.
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Oh! Being a big long time fan of D101 I ahve to read this!
The whole 'run out of punch lines' is priceless! I laughed my ass off.
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...>D! This is fantastic! I love her expression. Am very much looking forward to this comic of yours.
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