Hey /co/ let's read Giant Days!

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>>78984286
How is everyone doing today?

>>78984360
This class is boring so I'll read this instead.

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>>78984387
As long as you don't risk your future anon. I don't want to be the reason you fail a class.

>>78984413
The only thing that can make me fail a class is crippling depression.

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>>78984461
Well if that ever starts creeping up you can talk to me about anything anon, I'm here for you.

>>78984565
>m'lady
Fuckin white knights man

>>78984370
I'm still pissed at Allison for how he broke up The Boy and Esther.

If he wanted to show high school relationships not lasting into college, that's fine. But he should have found a better way than having Esther randomly cheating with an enormous asshole in her first week.

>>78984565
>m'lady

fuckin poonce

My god this is just awful. Its like reading daytime programming on Lifetime. Fucking no content dribble.

>>78984970
fuck you this is great stop being racist, god!

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>>78984970
It's billed as a slice of life so that makes sense really. I can see you being disappointed if you came in with different expectations.

>>78984801
>that broken polish
adorable

>>78984768
is that something told later, or is this an ongoing, from something else?
esther reminds me of that short story about the dude with the roommate that is so mysterious, all women get mystified by him, and his female friend has a best friend who is also too perfect.

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>>78984565

I can't tell if this is a reference to fedoras or if the writer actually used it unironically.

Help.

I love this comic, I storytimed the Winter Ball issue in the Christmas threads. Be sure to check out Murder She Writes by Allison too , it's great.

>>78985056
Is slice-of-life inherently vapid bullshit like real life?

>>78984970
>dribble
Isn't it "drivel"?

>>78984978
thats racist.

>>78985132
It's a comic book continuation of a webcomic that was itself a spinoff of another webcomic.

>>78985164
other guy is admiring an stick as a "nice peice of oak"
>>78984997

Nah, think he and artist are just that hipster.

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>>78985205
I don't really think the goal of this comic was to provide anything particularly stimulating or challenging. I could be wrong though and maybe I am not aware of what slice of life books should accomplish. I just don't think it's a big deal that this book is the way it is.

>>78985244
ah. amusingly, when you put it that way, I recognize it now as Bad Machinery/Scarygoround. Although not actually familiar with the characters.

>>78985005
he's right tho. i'm reading it just because i like that guy's cartoon moustache

I'm enjoying the ride, but the pacing is really clunky.

>>78984477
>Esther and The Boy never got back together
>The Boy died for nothing and was turned into a hellhorse
it ain't fair

>>78984768
Agreed, ruined Esther for me. Fuck that whore.

>>78985569
>>78985615
Erin best girl anyway.

>>78985348
Esther/The Boy were characters in scarygoround, as blithe spirit goth girl and crazy-yet-sane inventor straightman, respectively. They got together at the expense of a third girl, who subsequently became an amazon and was erased from existence. It was a happier-than-realistic high school relationship. Then Esther got her own spin off, Giant Days (the webcomic, not the print comic), in which The Boy visited her once, then left, then she cheated on him all in the span of about a week.

At first I assumed it was because Allison wanted to break all ties to the previous stuff and open up possibilities for romantic storylines (which, again, could've been done in a less cheating bitchy kinda way), but given all the shit he has put The Boy through since then in Bad Machinery, it might just be that he has a hate boner for that character and wanted to punish him as much as possible.

>>78984970
you read John Allison for the smalltown British colloquialisms and cute, not depth

>>78985649
>Erin
>not Charlotte

>>78986029
>Amazonian Demon Queen
>middle schooler

>>78986098
excuse you she is a high schooler now

>>78986168
Well, that changes everything.
It means that Mildred is best girl.

>>78986029
Ginger minge, m8.

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>>78986572
Loving that outfit

Where is the girl that was trown to hell in here?
I though she appeared in the original webcomic of giant days on the graveyard chapter?

>>78986464
Nooooooo.....

>>78986654
Erin? Don't think she's been in giant days at all. She popped up in Bad Machinery (or whatever the comics during the weekend are called, not sure).

>>78986790
She was in the original Giant Days.
And looked like she was going to be stable if the webcomic was going to continue.

>noodle drawings
>female centered
>Boom Comics

Let me guess, it's a "I am a strong, independent Woman that needs no man!" comic? Showing that men are monsters and females should just be dykes for the rest of their lives?

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>>78987283
Not really actually

>>78986464

Shiiiiiit, is this after the Boy died?

>>78986131
I know the whore knows.

>>78984286
two pages in and already I don't like the stoner who's eyes are always half closed.

>>78987283
Tackleford is sooooooo comfy

>>78987384
No, that's a long time in the future. This is just after she cheated and broke up with him, and he fell into a cycle of depression and overeating. He might be avoiding her calls.

>>78984970
im actualyl really enjoying it

>>78987572
I feel this hard whenever I'm in New York

>>78984370

wow the comic already lost me I don't know why, it reeks of tumblr.

>>78987876
absolutely savage

>>78985319
>I don't really think the goal of this comic was to provide anything particularly stimulating or challenging


that's the problem with tumblr books, literally

>>78986758
>garnet amethyst and pearl are in line for the club

>>78986801
>Shaggy?

>>78986758

how come that most girl comics always include:

Scenes in clubs
People drinking
Dating
People talking about music
A character is on a band

Do woman stuff has to be always trendy shit?

>>78988112
How is this a tumblr book tho?

>>78988290

its about people with fake problems, everybody is a quirky special snowflake, sassy characters with witty comebacks and wacky dialogue everwhere, cellphones, lesbians.

I don't need to explain the last two, right?

>>78987955
it gets better then worse, then better, then worse..

I am pretty sure the author is a living, "Hi, I hate SJWS, but don't you think anti-sjws are just as bad. Ever notice how sjws are always complaining about stuff? well anti-sjws are always complaining about sjws.." meme.
not linking pic in storytime.

how much is parody is hard to say. seems like he and his friends are giant hipsters, and he is poking fun at them. which arguably, is how you make good parody. you can't mock something well, if you don't know it intimately.

>>78986464
>The boy
He's dead isn't he? Now a horse named scientist

>>78985916
this entire pamphlet arc is so stupid
>print 'zines being made in the year of our lord 2016
>circulating beyond the first generation hipster incest that spawned it
>anyone reading it, let alone paying for it
>ruins two characters at once just to establish a flimsy excuse for John to lecture the audience on feminism

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>>78987955

>tumblr boogeyman

>>78988370

>I am pretty sure the author is a living, "Hi, I hate SJWS, but don't you think anti-sjws are just as bad. Ever notice how sjws are always complaining about stuff? well anti-sjws are always complaining about sjws.." meme.
Nah man, I can confirm John Allison isn't that. He used to live in my city before he moved down south with his girlfriend, and he used to go to a lot of the Manchester drink and draws or pop into my local comic shop. He's sound as fuck.

>>78988525

''from the people that brought you Power Up, Lumberjanes and Teen Dog!''

no wonder this was such a tumblr book since page one! good god!


its just that everything feels just too painful, like is pandering to the reader in the worse way.

Friends but in comic book form and instead of a coffee shop is a bar.

>>78984970

Then don't real slice-of-life series, read action series and stop complaining. Just don't read what you don't like, it's literally that simple.

>>78988658

not the same guy, but is just shocking the amount of hipster bullshit that this book keeps throwing at you.

its just baffling how clearly everycharacter is mean to be like a self insert for either the author or the audience or both

>>78988732
anon I think you are seeing things that are not there

>>78988732

I don't know any people that act like this, so I guess I don't know what you mean. Maybe my part of Florida isn't right for finding that audience.

Even if I did, I'm not sure how it's shocking. Why does it offend you so much? If I don't like something, I just ignore it.

I like this. It's cute.
Thanks, OP.

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I like this comic.

>>78984286
What's the summary of this? Three friends just having a good time; a sequel to a series? And how many volumes are there?

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>>78988628
Boom as a company has published plenty of great books that don't fit what people call 'tumblr' so saying that just because a publisher published other books that you do call "tumblr" doesn't mean anything about this book and the creator of the book doesn't exactly dictate what is put in the back of the book. Most importantly though it's outlandish to judge a book based on things not even remotely tied to it like Lumberjanes, Teen Dog and Power Up.
I hate Lumberjanes with a passion and I don't think Giant Days is perfect but that was a serious piece of reaching. Why not talk about the serious art shift from the first 6 issues to the 7th and on or about the odd moment where Esther is pouting because of Susan using her "drama field" as if that's never happened, Or the odd fact that a drama field seems to be a real thing in a fairly grounded universe.

There are flaws with any book, being "tumblr" or related to other "tumblr" books is not a flaw in and of itself.

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>>78987169
>images in storytime

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>>78988917
I think it's related to a buncha different webcomics but to be frank I looked into them when this book dropped and then forgot all about them. There are 10 issues so far iirc.

>>78988920
>fairly grounded universe
Dan

have you never read Scary Go Round/Bad Machinery

>>78988808
>>78988757


because is astonishing to read something sooooo vapid being published.

Like no shit you can't relate to those hipsters with fake problems and trendy personalities.

it pisses me off when a comic tries to tell a slice of life story about some ''really really really cool people!'' always drinking, going on parties, being successful on creative fields, dating people that are just as cool, everybody is special unique quirky witty snowflake, etc.

What's the point on telling a slice of life story if everything feels forced and fake?

Its just that the level of amateurish writing is like at full power with this one!

>>78988920
>drama field

Is that a term used on the comic? because if it is I don't have to tell you why it sucks, because that right is what I mean.

they have to turn everything into a quirky, witty joke

>>78988732
self insert? not following you there anon.

Caricatures. yes.

>>78988988
>he thinks main characters need to be relatable
babby's first criticism

>>78988920

how about: Every character feels like a millenial or a first world problems tumblr user?


lets talk about feelings and how no one gets it!

>>78988920
>fairly grounded universe
pffffhahahaha

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>>78988970
I haven't and maybe that would inform that better but nothing in Giant Days was really that crazy up to that point which made it seem odd and out of place, I'd probably rescind that criticism if I had read the other comics, it's not even that big of a criticism anyway, just an example of the real issues that someone could bring up about this book.

>>78989059
I don't see how that proves everything is a quirky witty joke also in a character driven comedy comic wit isn't exactly a bad thing.

is story time over? I was enjoying reading this in bed with my cat on my shoulder

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>>78989126
There is nothing wrong with characters being like that when it is clearly what the comic is about. Do you read Habits and complain about all the characters seeming like slackers?

>>78989135
Yeah apparently my assessment on the universe is wrong when the other comics are read.

>>78984360
Great. Love your storytime and this storytime look enthralling, so you've made my day yet again.

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>>78989189
We still have 13 pages love!

>>78989059
well yes. that is the writing style. everything is a reference or joke. quipmeister.

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>>78989218
Glad I could help anon. I've got the day off so I'm gonna do a bit more while writing so keep an eye out!

>>78988968
>a buncha different webcomics
That kind of complicated huh. So is the goth girl or the short girl the main character?

>>78989182

because it reeks of those tumblr cop out elements that they use.

for some reason something that is basically magic happens, is described in a not clever at all meta way and is never really explained.

Like Shortpacked with the drama tag, did they copy from Willis of all people??

>>78988920
>>78988970
haha. yeah. this series seems pretty contained, although constant references to supernatural events off panel.