Oculama

Continuing the obliviousness is a fun choice and you're handling the escalation of the story very well. The dancing scene with Wave, which was a great interaction and nice chance to show off Music's specialties. I also liked the threat that her blissful unawareness may be crashing down soon - it makes for a great tension and I can't wait to see what you end up doing in the next round!
Full story and comic enough to continue on is very appreciated. Even with the tight time economy you have, the inks that you do give us are looking nice. Your posing was on point and while I wish we could have been finished totally, its understandable that you lost motivation there - going through with defaults is a bummer. However, you're doing good and I appreciate you working on this, even with real life eating up your time and attention! Good work!

Leave it to Music to get bored at the death game! It's a classic sort of gag, the character utterly and impossibly unaware of the danger all around them, but you're doing a genuinely great job spinning it into multiple entertaining rounds!

You did a great job executing (eheh) the suddeness of Wave's death - the panel composition, the pre-shot one-liner, and the absolutely gutting look of realization on his face make for a really powerful panel. The whole final page, in fact, packs in a tremendous amount of good stuff. The death, this new and mysterious gunman who seems to be targeting Music, the otherwise quite funny gag of Music waiting for a date in a COMPLETELY EMPTY dining room - now injected with a genuine layer of tragedy. Not just tragedy in the expected Death Game sense, but a sort of tragedy with how much pain and death is happening around Music, how unaware of it she is, and how she's also being systematically denied friends, company, and potential allies in this hostile space.

Her line at the end is also, like...so sad. It's a funny line, and it shows her ability to move past a disappointment, but the fact she's so good at moving past that disappointment is kind of sad inof itself.

Wave is something of an engima here, but a well-written one. His face journey on page 6 speaks volumes, and the limited time we get with him in this round leaves a wonderful ambiguity as to whether his invite to Music was meant to be harmless, or a set-up to kill her later. His kindness in not telling her about the death game feels genuine, which is impressive when the comic sets it up such that it could be entirely self motivated for all we know. The dance was also, in addition to being super-cute, a nice include. It's hard to tell if it should read as him trying to disarm her for a kill, or him trying to find his own escape from the Death Game, which he seems more aware of, and the ambiguity works.

That's all to say, great job saying a lot while not overly showing anything, re: your opponent OC.

AWESOME work here - your writing is really shining!

It is a shame that you couldnt have gotten this one more finished! But i do like the tortured little moments Music gets to experience trying to blissfully Mr.Magoo her way through the tournament, trying to go on cute little dates during a death game. I do wish there was a tad different of a death other than just, someone else getting the job done, you could have really ramped up the drama between the two!! Especially with having them shared one of the only nice, human moments in the tourney together. Look forward to seeing mo' MUSIC !!!!

I'm really glad you were able to submit something, Shen, even if it’s unfinished. The inked pages look fantastic, by the way. And having the speech bubbles in place for every page really helped keep me immersed in the story.

Wave and Music actually looked super cute together, which made Wave’s abrupt end hit that much harder. Tragic, but expected for a story like this. Still, I’m glad Music lives on… though I can’t help but wonder: will she be forced to kill to survive next time?

I can’t wait to see where you take this.

Another extremely strong showing. The finished art here is really nice and I don't fault you for the unfinished stuff given the outside circumstances. There's some lovely posing with the dance scenes and the chemistry between Music and Wave is simple and sweet. The running plot of Music not knowing she's even in a death game hasn't gone stale on me yet, and you might be able to ride it out to the conclusion, but I suppose it will depend on how round 3 goes. It might be seen as a bit presumptuous to so explicitly set up Sturka as Music's next challenge, but I can't deny that of all of the contestants he makes the best villain to pit an OC against so who's to say I would have done things any differently. All in all great job!

It's rough to have two rounds in a row solo, but I'm glad you submitted what you have. There's not too much to say about the art with things understandably unfinished, though I think your text and speech bubbles may be a bit too big. They crowd the page a bit and the text feels a bit crammed in the bubbles.

Music's ignorance of the competition continues to be a great gag, especially when it's directly addressed by characters like Wave. The tension of her misunderstanding the encounter and Wave's hesitation is really good. Given that the entire premise is that Music isn't really killing people herself, having him clipped by another works just fine.

I'm eager to see your next round!

That was a fun comic. I thought it was a smart move to utilize the bracket nature of this tournament by setting up your next round, even if it is a bit of a gamble. I'm starting to feel a slight tension on waiting to see if or when Music finds out this whole thing is not exactly a free vacation. The only crit I have is I'm surprised Music has been in the hotel for possible days without encountering a single contestant, just how big is this place? I'm hoping you use your setting a bit more in round three it's a fun place to brainstorm murdering people after all. Hotels can have anything from massive indoor pools to...bowling alleys...I think that's enough from me ahaha.

Even though you didn't finish I like that you were selective with really putting some elbow grease on the pages you completed ,which seemed pertinent and relevant to your story. Also I don't know if this was intentional, but your murder hotel is giving such 'The Shining' vibes. There was this sense of growing dread with each turn of the page that really paid off with the unknown gunman capping off a tragic little tale. Though I'll admit, with the spooky vibes I got, I half expected poor wave to already have been dead when Music first encounters his ghost for one last K-pop boogie.