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Title: Dead Mouse
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 13, 2004, 01:41:55 PM: I just found a new comic (http://www.deadmouse.net/comics.htm) to follow. It's pretty creepy and very strange, but I like it a lot.
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: Tage on December 13, 2004, 04:46:19 PM: So, I figured I'd just read a couple pages, especially after I saw it, but for some reason I couldn't stop reading it. It's really very bizarre, but somehow fascinating.
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 13, 2004, 05:04:46 PM: isn't it though? That's kinda what I did.
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on December 14, 2004, 07:51:48 AM: Definitely TWG Rated

NFO
(Not for Ookla)
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: 42 on December 14, 2004, 08:27:09 AM: I saw way too much art like Dead Mouse's during my tenure at TLE to be intrigued by this webcomic.
I stopped after a couple of pages.
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: Spriggan on December 14, 2004, 09:12:26 AM: meh, got bored with it after about the 4th comic.
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 14, 2004, 09:18:51 AM: i guess there is a slowness to it. THere's no text for something like 50 or more pages. But at the end of the first 120 pages you have a great feel for the setting with no talking head bits. It's an interesting setting with cool characters.
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on December 15, 2004, 04:13:42 AM: NFO?

Actually I read the whole thing. I like a lot of it. The use of panel transitions is very good. Overall it's bizarre, not something I think I would check with any regularity, but it might be interesting to see it again in half a year when there are a good chunk of new things to see.
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on December 15, 2004, 06:14:38 AM: I would have thought the girl cracking the boys skull with every knife in the kitchen would have been " spiritually damaging" so now I am confused.
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: Spriggan on December 15, 2004, 07:27:05 AM: shessh, give it a rest Jeffe. You're not being funny.
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on December 15, 2004, 09:46:04 AM: You dont find this disturbing?
http://www.deadmouse.net/ballad/bdp73.jpg
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 15, 2004, 10:22:14 AM: actually, the best way to handle that is probably just to link to the picture, since, y'know, if it's on a page and you have to scroll to the next comic you're probably going to see it anyway, but you don't HAVE to click a link.
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on December 15, 2004, 10:35:13 AM: good point... sorry
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: Peter Ahlstrom on December 16, 2004, 03:49:44 AM: it's not a boy...doesn't appear to be even human...is that even blood? maybe, but the medium lessens the impact it might have.

Personally I've read many books and had little to no problem with them that I would have had great difficulty with were they acted out live with exactly as much detail. Does my reaction make sense? Maybe not, but I think it's likely not uncommon for different people to be affected different ways by different media.
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on December 16, 2004, 04:08:26 AM: http://www.deadmouse.net/ballad/bdp63.jpg
Title: Re: Dead Mouse
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on December 16, 2004, 09:29:47 AM: well, he's male. But he's not human. Not in the traditional sense. He's a manufactured being. a homonculus. The thing that makes him move and gives him will isn't even remotely human.