Paranatural

Remember when this comic had backgrounds

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I know how this will go.

>>87619313
>We're going to another scene next time, one I'm very excited for!

JUST

LEARN HOW TO WRITE A STORY, HACK.

Also, Colin? Gay?

Welp. Colin confirmed for cock worshipping.

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>>87619313

Is it me or is this page VERY Calarts all of a sudden?

Sausage limbs and bean shaped faces.

>>87620519
Faster, easier to draw. Right now it feels Hack thinks only in terms of deadlines.
God damn, I miss those colors and that composition.

>>87620847
>tfw Hack is going Kubo levels of laziness

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Jesus Christ, this chapter is a rambling piece of shit.

2 years in, and we're still not in the second act of Hijack's plan.

Hitball was one thing, but at least there was some tension and Hijack was actually involved; he's been out of focus so long that he's no longer threatening.

This chapter is going on two years now

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>>87619313
>We're going to another scene next time

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Well at least Cody finally dropped the hidden darkness persona.

Colin gained 30 pounds since dodgeball. Look at those ankles.

>>87619313
Way to do the asking around for who wanted to talk after you sold yourself into slavery Max.

So next scene will be what Isabel and Spender? We left them just as they found something important. Though Isaac is alone in the woods stalking someone, and Zack has shown he'll do an arc on less important characters. So who knows anymore.

>>87621370
Darkhorse bet on him going full retard and trying to cross the Zarei and Hijack streams.

My God, imagine what a clusterfuck the inevitable battle is going to be

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>>87621532

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>>87621538

>>87621256
Damn.

>>87619313
>More pages were spent on the fucking lesbian date than this
W H Y

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>>87619313
not this shit again

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>>87619313
>tfw Paranatural was one of my favorite webcomics
>tfw Hack Morrison killed his art style, forgot how to pace a story, and only draws wacky faces
I think it's about time I dropped this comic from my list. Congrats, Hack. You wanted to make your comic unpalatable to /co/ and you succeeded.

Why would you leave this story so fast? Do you hate your readers?

>>87622307
I'll still read to see where it goes.

At least I have Unsounded and It Hurts.

>>87622454
Z/hack reportedly wanted to make his story so 4chan would hate it. Which begs the question: does everybody in the world but 4chan like stories that consist in hopping from one Kamek to another with some flashes of actual plot in between?

>>87622528
He said he wanted 4chan to hate it, but the only board that gave the slightest fuck about his comic was /co/. He heard 4chan and thought /b/. He's a fucking idiot.

>>87619384
Wow entitled much? There's one and a half entire panels full of something resembling background on this page alone!

>>87622557
>He heard 4chan and thought /b/. He's a fucking idiot.
To be fair, 95% of all normies think that way.

The other 5% hear 4chan and think /pol/.

>>87622557
No, he actually went to /co/ and got trolled

>>87619313
90% chance Zack will just use this as a chance to expose how gay Cody really is.

>yfw you realize Cody is going to be Martin from QC when he grows up

>>87619313
Who's the chick that looks like a dude?

>>87621943
>More pages were spent on the fucking lesbian date than this
To be honest what actually happened in "this"? We had the rules of the school store explained to us, we'll probably never come back here. Suzy's investigation went nowhere even though he got bugged way back in January and it being constantly brought up since then. We still don't know if Cody is the real person who sent the note yet, he could just be fishing for Max's dick (which seems unfair to Colin but whatever he has Pac-man eyes).

>>87622961
Collin.

>>87622912
Look at the character Cody's sitting with and adjust that percentage upwards accordingly.

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>>87622883
Nah, he was fine with the trolling. The change in quality is a different matter though.

>>87619313
Haven't been to one of these threads for a long time, does Zack still hate us?

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>Colin is homo too

>>87623055
Zack seems like a nice guy. I can't hate him.

But did he really say that his goal was to make 4chan not like the comic? And was that before or after he browsed the threads?

It just seems kind of weird for him to be aware that there's a lot of people here who enjoyed the comic, and then for him to say that he doesn't want people from 4chan to like it.

>>87622528
I decided to brave /r/paranatural, and to answer your question, no. They seem to be either neutral or mildly annoyed that nothing is happening. Nobody seems to be outright enjoying it except shippers, who as we all know have no standards whatsoever.
I'm not even going to try to find out what the tumblr fanbase thinks because I'd probably end up blowing my fucking brains out.

>>87623218
oh tumblr loves it, no surprises there

>>87622968
That's a good point, the entirety of suzy's plot since she took the picture of him bus jumping has been played for laughs. Zack just deleted part of his story for a dumb joke, and I'm sure he's not even going to do anything significant at the school store.

>>87623209
He came to the thread before he joined his current social group, he didn't even know what 4chan was and now he has been convinced we're the internet bogeyman.

Enjoyed this originally. I lost interest during the ghost train part, was taking far too many pages of words words words to get anywhere.

Might get back into it.

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>>87623312

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I couldn't resist.

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This artstyle is fucking atrocious.

I remember when I started reading back when Max and Isaac were having adventures with Doorman and Isaac first revealed his power and the art was gorgeous. Back when he only updating once a week every Thursday.

This is like a calarts tumblr nightmare. Why the fuck did he think he could handle updating twice a week with that level of quality on his own?

I was perfectly fine with one page a week, Two pages a week ruined the art and the pacing. It's a fucking tragedy.

>>87623385
nice

>>87623395
>This is like a calarts tumblr nightmare
I bet.

>>87619313
>We're going to another scene next time

I pray to god it's not more of the lesbian date, he can't be that much of a hack, right?

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>>87623395
I remember when Cody didn't use to have monkey ears.

>>87623385
Max doesn't even look like Max in these panels.

>>87623529
Well he's excited for it so it has to include either PoC characters or women. My money is on a new thread somehow involving Dmitri and his cool friends.

>>87619313
>We're going to another scene next time, one I'm very excited for!
>There's a lot to look forward to coming up in this chapter
>Page 159
>Chapter 4 was supposed to be the longest

Zack has brain cancer and is a hack

>>87623312
You know, I kinda thought that Isaac would eventually be shown with that kind of shirt, because symbolism:
>blue spectral colour
>raglan sleeves, to emphasize the arms - the outlet of his weather powers

It's just like that "Max & Isaac" wallpaper where both characters in question wear matching blue-black outfits.

>>87623924
Seeing Dmitri wouldn't be too bad, I guess, but I wish he hadn't spent so much time on that date as compared to this with Max

>>87619384
The main appeal he seems to be going for is the cooky reactions and dialogue, anyway. Any slight increase in art quality might destroy his awful wrists and probably increase the number of hiatuses.

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>>87623385
If any drawfag can read this.. We need pic related, but with Lisa holding the same blackmail plans and Suzy angry in the background

>>87623209
He said it because 4chan was going fucking bonkers over him including a minority character. They accused him of blacking up the webcomic and gaying up the webcomic, and threatened to stop reading and called him a hack the way that 4chan does. Honestly his tantrum is understandable given the totally unnecessary shit he was given. We drove him to be our enemy.

>>87621256
It's amazing how we're still looking at the same character. Old cody and new cody are just too different

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>>87619469

>>87624692
Wrong. He said that back when we were still praising him for being tactful with his inclusionism with actual characters like Isabel and pre-spazz zarei unlike every other back webcomic. Apparently someone then convinced him that we were holding him up as some great white savior of purity then he made those tweets. If I recall this was right before Agent Day was introduced as well.

>>87621046
I told you guys hitball was good. It was *actual* plot and a confrontation with the villain.
But no, you had to claim it was "Namek" somehow. You literally cannot see the forest for the trees.
Now we're in plot inertia. I hope you're happy. I'm not saying it's your fault, but it's "wachy kids antics", isn't it?

>>87621046
Wait, this is STILL the Hijack arc? I had honestly forgot about him.

>>87625239
Hitball was awful, this being just as bad doesn't change that.

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>>87619313
>We're going to another scene next time

>>87620519
No. There's no "calarts" style and this certainly isn't it.

At least it's going to be Isaac following the teacher

>>87619469

>anonanim

neat. he still on pixiv?

>>87622917
A funny comparison but they're really nothing alike.

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>>87624543
My drawing skills are unmatched.

>>87623601
Everybody's always had monkey ears.

>>87624180
It's really just a shirt. I doubt anybody thought about it that much. He may wear one. Who knows.

>>87619469
Why does he have skittles on his chest?

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what do you think his eyes are like?

>>87627757
heterochromia; one blue, one green

>>87624692
That's not even remotely true.

>>87623385
l-lewd

>>87619313
Oh no it's the mary sue dragonball homosexual again, I sure love that character.

>>87619313
>Cody
Where were you when best boy came back?

>>87631127
>>87631162
There's two kinds of people.

>>87631202
codyfags and those who are wrong

>>87631217
Cody died once Hitball started.

>>87631944
This.

>>87631944
I've never read that far desu

>>87623385
>your dick will never be a commodity

>>87627522
Close enough

>>87627522
literally just like Zack

>>87620847
this new style is cleaner too but I know as an artist cutting corners is the best.

>>87621046
Now that it's not two nobodies talking and it's Max and characters who are actually funny I'm amused.

>>87619313
It is only once we have reached great heights that we realise what it is to fall. The lesson I can take from Paranatural is to never be successful at anything, ever, because you will only disappoint everybody from then onwards.

In all seriousness, I still kinda like the comic, but it's really making it hard to do so. Pages and pages spent on side-characters who don't really seem relevant to the current plot and don't do anything particularly interesting to make up for it beside being blatant shipper bait (As though that particular audience even needs bait, right?), constant scene shifting that makes it feel like the perspective has ADD, the art style slowly devolving into whacky faces against blank colour gradient backgrounds.

I still enjoy the dry humour, I guess? And the side-characters are still well written when they aren't trying to be main characters.

I think Zack could be fixed if he started hanging around some cool, talented people. Zack seems very impressionable. You introduce him to a certain anime, suddenly everything starts looking like that anime. He gets buddy-buddy with certain artists, his style of art and writing starts shifting to theirs. He starts making kissy face with one artist in particular and it's almost completely unrecognizable. He's like a weak-willed sponge absorbing the closest thing to him, because it never happens in reverse. So we need to hook Zack up with some cool, talented artists who can write adequately and aren't obsessed with anime.

>>87633169
So you're proposing we introduce him to some loli/shota artist.. but who?

>>87626244
But we've just had four chapters dedicated to a side character. It's about time to shift the focus back to the main plot and return to Zarei's date.

>>87634170
all of them

overload him so he abandons unnecessary things like "plot" and "characterization"

>>87619313
I fucking hate this comic. Every single character acts like a spastic retard.

I thought nothing could be worse than hitball. I was wrong. Boy, I was wrong.

>>87620038
mybe it's johnny

>>87635856
Hitball was fun as long as you didn't try to take it seriously. It was intentionally tongue-in-cheek.

>>87636616
It would have been a fun three page diversion. Instead it was garbage. I mean, there's making fun of shonen pacing by making a [3 hours later] joke but when you try to make fun of it by actually making a barely consequential arc last ages you just end up with the same flaws