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I really liked Bryan Fukushima's strip - mainly because I got all, or at least some of the jokes and appreciated things like the guest appearence of magicboy. It is a 'comics journal style' jenny in a comics journal style comic strip.
As Aaron Brassea's strip was fun and showed how a strong idea can lead a strip in an unexpected direction - unfortunately I didn't think his Ms Pacman Jenny looked quite jenny enough - the goggles reminded me more of Princess Leia style buns and where was the scarf?
Tony Walsh's Jenny I'd already seen and enjoyed and this prequal to his ratboy crossover just made me want to see another perequal to this page - the ol' star wars problem i guess...
EX's one is very interesting - like the lobsterclaw strip it made me want to see more to see if the Will Eisner esque paneless approach would continue or not. Its also good to see someone apart from Dave Sim to play around with lettering
I am jamie's contribution definitely seemed bereft of ideas, and that does indeed happen when trying to turn around a weekly strip. But the Pope buggering struck me as a bit dull, like someone trying desperately to do something interesting even though they had no idea quite what it should be. It was one of the more technically accoumplished strips.
Mike Steven's strip left me feeling kind of cold - but that's probably because that is exactly the same effect the jenny he is drawing from has on me. She comes across as a dull 1 dimensional cliche, something of an anathema for a multidimensional character...
I have almost nothing to say about Stephen Burrel's strip outside of the comment that Jonny nowhere is a name that demands to be fleshed-out into a character...
I had trouble following Devin Mac Neil's strip. I got the impression that it was all about conception, but the narrative didn't quite hold together for me, the panel to panel transitions were a bit unclear...
As for Alex Bullet's strip - the idea for this was very similar to the world stare out championship final while the form was closer to south park - I could see all the influences, but for me they just didn't quite gell together on a on page strip basis. Look forward to seeing more pages though...
As for who i voted for, as my old man says - that's between me and the ballot box... |
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