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©2009 *SleepDepJoel
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This piece was inspired by lyrics from Haggard's CD "Tales of Itheria" from the track "On These Endless Fields." Haggard is a symphonic metal band from Germany, and anything after their demo CDs (1997+) has a fantastically spiritual, operatic sound. I highly recommend checking out their studio albums.
Haggard's official site: [link]
You can find the audio track I based this comic on by going to Youtube and typing in its name (DevArt messes up the link with smilies).
I didn't upload the track.

This is another big one, pretty much uncompressed. Click the download link if it's taking too long.

Many textures are manipulations of patterns from CGtextures.com, an excellent resource.

Critiques


:iconkomiks:
I love CGtextures. You did a good job blending in the textures because I didn't pay any attention to them.
Have you ever considered animation? Your art style would make for great Flash movies.

You have achieved something that few can with a comic - timing. The timing is really well done, especially with the hindrance of the empty frame of just snow falling. The lack of narration and just the nature of calm snow works great for the timing. And the characters' expressions seem to match the tempo at any point in the comic. This is what makes me think of an animation, it almost seems like a storyboard.

Technically, I like how you colored the characters. Many would overdo the blood and gore but you kept it at a realistic maximum. Golf clap for that.

A criticism I would give you is your use of color in a broader sense. I can see what you intended with the change of sky color towards the end but you could have made the transition more clean. It goes from a faint red to a grey to a dark blue, it just seems abrupt, severe and unrealistic. And then the sky is again lighter in the next two panels with the hilariously dumbfounded guys. And speaking of these guys, good work with the direction. It's good to make characters look into the inside of the page rather than the outside, and it would have been nice to see you do that with the guy in the second panel.

Your character style is refreshingly funny and caricatural without being ridiculous and overdone. I especially like the second guy towards the end in the purple, his piggy nose makes me laugh.

And good incorporation of lyrics into everything. I know you really based it off of them, but I didn't realize they were lyrics until I read the description. Very good work. War-related art rarely makes me laugh but you worked it.

I didn't really get a particular message or anything, it just seems like a cool, twisted war scene with a clever ending. I like it a lot because I haven't seen anything like it. Most war works just try to be "epic" and "intense" but you toned it down a bit by use of timing and having the climax in the beginning. And it worked well.
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:iconredbaron1234:
The guy in panel 10 looks like solid snake.
Pretty intrestinhg work though.

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:iconbobdolefrigginrocks:
Awesome pic, you did well.
:iconrythmear:
Holy f***

You have some serious talent my lad!

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:iconcharlett:
Amazing work. You can do funny and you can do serious.

I love this piece so much.

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"I... I knew that... I was just testing you!"

-Booster

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"Push the Button, Max!"
-Professor Fate

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"Here lies Scout. He ran fast, and died a virgin."
-Spy
:iconjusttoast:
Great work Joe!

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When you find out, that no one around you has the same ideas as you, you find yourself lost in a sea of mindlessness!
:iconphantasim-fan:
"We are The Globogym Purple Cobras"
:iconix3tv:
bravo, a job well done
:iconzombaholic:
Damn kids, always fighting. One day we'll turn this earth around, I tell ya what

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Zombaholic - (n) One who like the whole idea around zombies so much, he gets drunk just thinking about it

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The world is spinning too fast
I'm buying lead Nike shoes
To keep myself tethered
To the days I try to lose
:iconcellidor:
Wow.

I mean WOW.

I listened to this track while I read this, and holy crap.

My mind has just been 'sploded.

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Don't let your eyes blind you to what your heart wants you to see.
♂ + ♂ = ♥ ♀ + ♀ = ♥ ♀ + ♂ = ♥

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