Illustrated comic strip: Words By Dashface

Ascalonian Squire

iMud

Mo/

Joined Jun 2006

Oct 13, 2007 at 4:52 AM • #1

Since around the time of the founding of the Official Wiki, c-dy and I have been making a series of Guild Wars comic strips. We're not the fastest out there—we only have six strips at the moment—but hopefully the pretty colours make up for it. Despite the advantage of colours, it's no Healbot Blues. Still, I would love to hear what you think of it.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:Dashface/WBD
Comments welcome, especially if you like them!

Mistical miss

Desert Nomad

[RR]

Joined Jan 2006

Oct 13, 2007 at 6:35 AM • #2

Some are a bit hard to understand for me, I do really like the texttype, drawstyle and "Interface" though.

Smilin' Assassin

Krytan Explorer

Pixies O Wickid Nawtyness [pixy]

A/Me

Joined Apr 2007

Oct 13, 2007 at 7:47 AM • #3

amusing concepts + perfectly matching graphics, a winning combo :}

Nian

Wilds Pathfinder

Joined Mar 2007

Oct 13, 2007 at 12:06 PM • #4

Wow! Nice artworks. Love the way you can make the characters come alive with strong expressions.

BUT aren't you at all worried to put your images on the wiki? Since wiki is a format where all content becomes free for anyone to take and use. You should probably at least slap some kind of copyright texts onto every image page and state that they are NOT released under the CreativeCommons licence imho. Especially images on wiki tend to be troublesome like that. Currently it says at the bottom of the page that the content is released under CC licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Just a bit worried here.

But great artworks! Love your style. I'll have to spend some time to read all those comics. :]

Dashface

Ascalonian Squire

iMud

Mo/

Joined Jun 2006

Oct 13, 2007 at 1:45 PM • #5

Quote: Originally Posted by Nian

BUT aren't you at all worried to put your images on the wiki? Since wiki is a format where all content becomes free for anyone to take and use. The only difference the current licensing introduces is that there is technically a legal avenue for others to do other things with the strips. If somebody was going to take them and remove the attribution from the image, I doubt that they'd have the scruples to restrain themselves from doing the same thing if the image had a different license.

Besides, this is fanart. I would much rather read feedback than be credited. And it is for entertainment only, not for profit. I'm not going to set up a CafePress shop with "Xunlai, the Great Destroyer" t-shirts.

Senrath

Krytan Explorer

Advanced Technology [CCCP]

Joined May 2006

Oct 13, 2007 at 4:51 PM • #6

I really like the comics. Keep up the good work.

*snickers at what Gwen's been doing*

Cherng Butter

Desert Nomad

The Mirror Of Reason [SNOW]

E/Mo

Joined Jan 2006

Oct 13, 2007 at 4:52 PM • #7

I don't get some of them, but they sure are very nicely drawn!

Nkah Sennyt

Awaken from hiatus.

No Fun Allowed [Vdya]

Joined Apr 2006

Oct 13, 2007 at 6:34 PM • #8

Awesome stuff, and fabulous art.

hlc617

Academy Page

Joined Mar 2007

Oct 14, 2007 at 4:33 AM • #9

Ohh fantastic comics!!

Love your style

Lili Frog

Frost Gate Guardian

Happy Froggies

Mo/Rt

Joined Mar 2006

Oct 17, 2007 at 10:12 AM • #10

Very very nice ^^
I didn't understand all of them, but they're great.

notLurker

Ascalonian Squire

R/Me

Joined May 2006

Oct 17, 2007 at 9:59 PM • #11

so that's what caused Shiro to go mad

Luv it!

Yakuza Yuki

Academy Page

[剣因剣] a.k.a. Asia

Joined Jun 2007

Oct 17, 2007 at 10:49 PM • #12

I love the GWEN one, awesome job!

Sectus

Krytan Explorer

Miss Meow Meow's Guild

Joined Dec 2005

Oct 18, 2007 at 12:26 AM • #13

Nice comics, and the artwork looks great too. I really like the Gwen one, I've always been wondering why she wants so many red iris flowers :P

Dashface

Ascalonian Squire

iMud

Mo/

Joined Jun 2006

Oct 19, 2007 at 1:07 PM • #14

Quote: Originally Posted by Mistical miss Some are a bit hard to understand for me, I do really like the texttype, drawstyle and "Interface" though. Quote: Originally Posted by Cherng Butter I don't get some of them, but they sure are very nicely drawn!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lili Frog

Very very nice ^^
I didn't understand all of them, but they're great. There seems to be a theme here!

I wonder if I should have a page with explanations, but I worry that that would spoil the jokes. It also doesn't help that the first one is so opaque—that first strip might be making people resign themselves to not understanding. (The first strip is an allegory for the migrating from Guildwiki to GWW, by the way.)

Dashface

Ascalonian Squire

iMud

Mo/

Joined Jun 2006

Jan 11, 2008 at 11:44 AM • #15

There is now a seventh strip.