Oculama

Feaurie - your comic is straightforward but it works! I love how your economy in using lines still perfectly illustrates the characters and makes them recognizable. I do wish you used spot blacks and/or tones to give your comic a more finished look. Overall, I enjoyed it!

Myeth - Really nice use of shading here. The roughness in textures really reinforces the grittiness of the environment. Your choice of angles really brings up the tension. So great job! I am not quite sure what happened in the end though. Quite the literal cliffhanger! I want to see more!

FEAURIE- Ploop as a sound effect got me good, I'm not gonna lie XD
I'm here for short and sweet comics with an amusing gimmick. Your opponent Bumrush really just made this a treat as the character is so freaky, it really lends itself to ridiculous moments like these. Granted, I'm aware comic deadlines in tournaments can be tough, but considering your consolidated page count, I'd recommend dedicating some time and research on how to adding some personality and featuring to your backgrounds and environments. This very tournament has some great examples from your fellow chasm chasers of making a hole in the ground really fantastical. Whose to say CEAMOT doesnt find the mechanical layer of the chasm? Or something even more ridiculous than minecraft lava? It's a deep dank hole, feel free to put anything down there :D

MYETH- Love love the grit and texture of your choice of brushes for your comics. It really lends itself to digging in the earth and getting dirty. There is some intensity in this round that nixes the funny for a flurry of unsteady emotions that, of all things, a robot has to process. Bumrush comes off as such a goofy character, so its neat to see that it only takes a few pages for him to shift to something unsettling. I'm uncertain if this end is due to time constraints or by design, but I find myself tickled that the reader is left just as bewildered as CEAMOT lol

@FEAURIE - Both of these pages made me hoarse-laugh pretty load this morning. Such a simple set-up and execution, but you've pulled a few artistic strings here to make a relatively straightforward gag hit like two punches.

I like the relatively stark linework here a lot; it keeps the focus on the action (or observance of action for CEAMOT) of the comic, and works wonders with punctuating the funniness of Bumrush's expression on page 1.

CEAMOT feels like such a perfect straight-man character in this round. The absolute non-plussment (probably not a word) at Bumrush's appearance and follies does a lot to sharpen the humour of the comic. It helps that they feel like such a great contrast of personalities naturally, but the posing of each (to say nothing of Bumrush's poses as he falls to the lava) takes it a step further.

This is a smaller thing, but you also heighten the humour tremendously with a liberal use of sound effects, both from the characters' mouths and their actions. ("ploop" is my favorite onomatopoeia in this tournament hands-down)

REALLY funny two-pager, and one of my favorite entries for this round.

@MYETH - This comic hits it out of the park for me on a few different fronts. The mood here is a sort of indescribable mix of confusion, dread, and fascination that I am utterly transfixed by. The touches of red are a beautiful flourish throughout - parsley sprigs on a delicious entree, and well-placed.

You've made Bumrush something much more than a gag character with this round, and with hardly a word exchanged between the OCs in play. We really only get glimpses of both characters throughout, and the panting, sweating, intensity of Bumrush, who seems to hardly even register CEAMOT, so focused he is, genuinely unnerved me.

CEAMOT's reaction thereto, the staring confusion and engrossment that turns to imitation, was equally memorable.

There's something so horribly, wonderfully...UNSETTLING about this comic, and I think I've clicked through it more than any other comic in this round so far. The phenomenon of seeing something beyond your comprehension and being bewildered by it, but also so captivated that you begin to imitate it? I'm loathe to carelessly compare fellow comic-makers to other artists (it feels a bit reductive), but there's a real tang of Junji Ito in this, IMO (and it's not just cause of that HAUNTING spiral in Bumrush's eye on that last page).

That the comic ends so abruptly I think is ultimately a strength here. Not knowing exactly what happens as CEAMOT begins to dig let my imagination go all kinds of places that kept me thinking about this all through my work day today.

Incredible rounds you two!
Both entries have such a nice little taste of comedy that perfectely showcase imo, the strongest aspect of your two characters! The stoicism of CEAMOT and the insanity of Bumrush.

Both of your entries both i think have my favorite panels this round as your ending panels too; dying in lava in FEAURIE's entry and the beauty of purpose in MYETH's!

Excellent work you two!! <3