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[21 Pains]

Subtitles would be nice

Well, the female voice is pretty hard to understand at times, so it would be nice to have subtitles here for a better understanding.

Most of the jokes are pretty funny, though a little more animation would do the flash pretty good. The characters are just standing there motionless, even when the guy is hit in the back he doesn't even blink, heh.

Also a few more details in the background would be nice. The flash gets pretty boring to look at after about 30 seconds, because you've already seen it all in that time. ^^

And I think a few sound effects would be nice. Gunfire for example. I didn't even know what was happening there until one of the characters mentioned something about shots.

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MonoFlauta responds:

Ok thanks for the reviews
Yeah it looks like the animation was a problem, the sound effects and the guns :P but well thanks for reviewing.

[shroogy the alien prequil]

Too short

The animation is simple but effective. The landing part looks quite good and the swallowing of the bird as well. The "fart out the feather"-part is a bit unclear and I didn't realize what was supposed to go on if I hadn't read the script.

However, the animation was too short and I think it would've been better if you showed a bit more. Maybe like how Shroogy gets familiar with the environment and with the bird before he eats him.

The extra-section was a nice addition. It was interesting to read the script because it cleared some things up for me, but I think the text could have been bigger.

Also the buttons need some work. Right now only the text is clickable, but not the space in between the characters. It's quite hard to click the buttons because the font you used has very thin lines. There are tutorials for buttons on NG and I suggest that you read them to create buttons that are more easy to click in the future. ;)

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lgnxhll responds:

thank you

["EXTINCT"]

Good flash with a sad ending

A very cute flash. The movements of the cat look very good and I also like the butterfly, even though the flapping of it's wings seem to be a little too slow.

The graphics look very good here and the mixture of 2D and 3D elements looks quite interesting. I also liked the backgrounds very much, they look very good and emphazise this "ideal world" atmosphere that is created in the first part of the flash.

The ending is quite sad, the cat is captured and sold in a pet shop. And in the end (1,000 years later) cats are extinct (hence the title, I guess).

Overall it's a good flash that makes you thinking about life and the environment we live in.

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manuelberja responds:

many many thanks!

[CoolJaw: T.T. I-V]

Weird

This one was the weirdest one of your comics so far. But in a good way. Very sick and twisted plot this time.

Still, the art could be a tad bit cleaner. In the second image the TV looks a bit weird, and it's almost a bit hard to even realize it's supposed to be a TV.

I like that you chose differen't musical tracks this time. And again both of them fit very well to the comic, even though both of them create different atmospheres ("Acid Horse" is a bit surreal, while "Don't abuse" creates a more creepy atmosphere).

Well, at the end of this act there are more questions left to be answered than questions that actually have been answered. So I can't wait until you submit the next comic. ^^

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Celx-Requin responds:

It's gets even more fucked up, and bizarre as the story progresses, although it happens in a way where if you look back you can piece together the reasoning behind each action.

Thanks for the review Haggard!
Sincerely,
- Celx

[Sandwiches Meets a Hindu]

Simple... but funny

A pretty funny flash, even though it's pretty simple. The backgrounds are repeating themselvs over and over again and the drawings in this flash are pretty simple as well (as in, there's not too much detail here, but the drawings are very clear).

The voice acting was pretty good, even though sandwiches main line was "Is that your final answer?" over and over again.

The punchline was pretty good, but I think it would have worked even better if the flash ended with the bus driver just saying "Yes!"
Like this:
Driver: "Time to leave the bus now"
Sandwiches: "Is that your final answer?"
Driver: "YES!"

Anyway, the flash is pretty funny as it is right now as well.

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BillyNapalm responds:

Thank you for the review, kind sir!

[Cunt Burgers]

It's a start

Well, while this piece wasn't the best flash I have ever seen it's also far from being the worst I have ever seen.

The graphics are a bit sloppy, but I think with some more work you could easily improve them.
What impressed me the most was the choice of colours you had for this piece. Everything fit really well together (except maybe the green of that one creature) and you even cared about the backgrounds, which is always a plus.

Some more sounds would be nice to have, though. Maybe a screaming sound when the little red creature fell down that cliff, or some sounds when they are walking... and some background music would also be a very good thing to have.

What you need to work the most on are the animations. Right now you mostly used tweens, which doesn't look too realistic.

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TheReturnOfTomsPulp responds:

Youre a faggot

[Snow Wars]

It's finally here

I remember watching a trailer for Snow Wars some time ago and I'm glad I finally got to watch the whole movie.

It's nice to see a bigger cast in the movie than just Corey and Nick (yes I know there was also a bigger cast in Hay Wars as well, but if my memory doesn't fail me most of your movies feature only Corey and Nick ^^).

The lightening is a hughe problem in this movie, as sometimes the sun shines directly into the camera making it hard to see the characters or their faces as everything just becomes too bright to make out any shapes. But maybe those problems are there due to the compression of the movie.

Also Nick shouldn't have worn a white sweater. While it is realistic to wear something white when you are fighting a war in the snow it made it pretty hard to see him some times during the movie, because his sweater had the same colour as the background.

The action gets a bit hectic sometimes and it's hard to follow who's shooting in which direction, but most of the time it's easy to follow the storyline.

The menu was done in a nice way, I like that we can see some scene from the actual movie in the menu. Gives the impression of a DVD menu, which is pretty nice. The added character bio is a big plus and adds some more depth to the movie.
Also the scene selection is a very good addition, that way it's more easy to watch the favorite scenes again. ^^

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Fro responds:

Thanks. :)

[Animation Kills]

Simple but effective

Graphics are very simple in this one and yet they are very detailed at the same time. You only used very few colours, maybe that's why I thought the graphics look simple, but the guy that walks in looks very detailed, especially the clothes. At first it looks a bit weird how he moves, but maybe that was part of the story as well.

The ending was kinda random, but in a good way. I expected the main character would kill himself with the sword, but you still managed to get something unexpected into the excecution of the punch line.

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Soupcat responds:

Well...I don't know if you refer to him weirdly moving as in badly animated, or as a puppet.

Because there are some "bugs" in there. And otherwise....Yeh the intention was to have get to know his body and his movements. So yeh...There you have it.

Thanks for the nice review and all that jazz ^^ You guys rock.

[CoolJaw: O.S. V-V]

Raises more questions that it answers...

Now we know who Malik is. Or do we? We haven't seen him yet and can only rely on what Mr. Jaw tells us for the time being. This final episode raises more question that it answers. Which is a good thing! This way you can keep the readers interested. ;)

You introduced three more characters in the last chapter, two of those seem to be main characters. So it will be interesting to see when they will meet with Mr. Jaw. It will also be interesting when we first get to see the mysterious Malik.

So, now that this act is over I have to say your way of telling the story is really good. While the single acts aren't that long (at least it doesn't take too long to read them) they all continue to tell the story and every time I read another act I'm more and more interested in the rest of the story.

Anyway, I hope you continue soon. And I also hope you pick some other music. I don't have anything against the musical selection now, both songs are very nice and fit to the story, but it would still be nice to hear something different. :)

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Celx-Requin responds:

I might pick an alternative track for the next series, I just need to find something "appropriate".

I try to end each chapter with a good cliffhanger, so they lead in nicely to the next one, I hopefully will have the first tooth for a tooth story out before the month is done!

Thanks,
- Celx

[CoolJaw: O.S. IIII-V]

Good again

It's a bit hard to review a series of flashes and always come up with something new.
Anyway, I like this episode very much. Even though I want to see how the story continues with the main character it's always nice to see some other characters acting in the plot. This gives the story more depth and also develops the world you created for the characters to act in further.

The ending is quite touching. "I agreed that killing someone can be okay, this is the saddest day of my life."
I think we all can think of situations where killing someone is more humane than letting the person live (for example if the person is seriously wounded and would die anyway, but only after hours and hours of pain). But admitting that killing a person can be the best choice is still shocking.

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Celx-Requin responds:

Yeah this one turned out pretty good, and is the best score of the bunch.
So I'm pretty happy, I want to get into those kind of grey area issues with the series a bit more, I just don't want to come off as pretentious either...

Thanks for the review!
- Celx