'Not A Villain' Webcomic - Mina's family are happy to see Kleya has logged back in.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 210

And we're back to L.i.Fe. where everything is bright and happy and perfect.

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D*** it its taken 2 days but I caught up and now I want to kno what happened

Until Kleya can recode the movements that don’t require Mae to move?
If she’s forgotten, I assume that means that she’s had her avatar modified, and when they reset it, it also reset the mods.

I admit I’ll at least slightly miss Reality, the art was awesome, but I still like LiFe, and The Game. :]
*cheers on*

Seems suss

Well, comparatively. I can see why everyone wants to stay there.

WOW this comic is so funny and has a lot of suspense. I love it!

Oooh! Can anyone say awkward? Reminds me of some moments logging into a MUD in the early 90’s. I was an immortal, so we didn’t auto announce when we joined, could log in not in the user list and our spawn point was settable. So I popped into an area well off the beaten track with a couple of people discussing privite thoughts. I was expanding that area as part of an upcoming quest. They couldn’t see me arrive in the room, but the discussion stopped when when I left and came back in. At that point I suggested the explore the help about priv messaging or use this then new thing called IRC and set a private channel.

leprosy, she is losing her harm to leprosy. No cure for that. it’s ben describe to be very painfull due to having your limbs root doe to corrosive bacteria. Poor girl.

There is in fact a cure. The question is if she can get it. If she can’t she could still transmit it. I know there are plenty of people in 3rd world countries who lived through it and got a cure. They just need a care taker as it leaves them crippled after in all sorts of ways.

How do you know it’s leprosy?

S***, I can barely remember who she is. She’s the mom of the friend of the random chick or something, right?

I would say it was just a educated guess. but then we don’t really know what is actually is going on. she could have scurvy for all we know. or small pox made a come back. or a thousand other dieses most people don’t even know exist. perhaps she has gangrene and is gonna die of the resulting blood poisoning while stuff rots off her.

point is, we don’t know. and its always worse when you don’t know. especially when you do know unless something changes the kiddo’s experation date will be real soon. let us say a lil prayer for the spunky lil sis of Mina.

Mae Lilly is the one with the broken avatar: http://notavillain.wikia.com/wiki/Mae_Lilly

Mina Lilly is the sister who likes to sing and is Kleya’s “Manager” http://notavillain.wikia.com/wiki/Mina_Lilly.

We don’t have much information about the mom and dad. We just learned the dad’s name a few pages ago. That still needs to get added to the wiki.

See, things like this are why I follow webcomics. I don’t need college or paid classes to learn how to write my ideas out in that certain way to capture the imagination and attention of the reader, as a self-taught artist I’m sure you can appreciate that. Yet my writing still remains something less than what is in my head, missing a spark of originality. So, on top of various daily writing practices and peer reviewing, I go out and see if I cannot FIND such sparks, and see what they do right.

You have captured my attention as a reader. Quite easily, with the main character. I’ve always held a fascination of stories that make the villain understandable, or even better technically right! She’s not right, here, but she’s admitted to the opposite and is trying to reform in a world that is utterly opposed to having anything to do with her.

I was first drawn in by how your art seemed to be amateur, yet the storyline didn’t waver a bit from what it was trying to impart, and the tone stayed firm from the beginning unlike some webcomics with comparable art. I’ll tell you the truth, I thought “This looks like how I would draw a webcomic if I ever decided to draw one.” Drawing is passable and writing is in depth. The premise is clearly developed and the focus of the entire effort. The art is not made to look pretty it is to look as-par the universe “normal” and to impart upon the reader the story. I like that, and no matter how pretty something is if it’s intellectually a waste of data and time than that’s what it’s worth to me.

And the character, she imparts a feeling of distance, aloofness and steadiness, that I can point at and say “That’s what they (what pronouns? Male/Female?) did right.” Making her distant creates a wider range of things one must deduce about her during the course of the comic, and it titillates the urge to understand, in my case, perfectly.

And when I reached your page 202, the first Reality page, oh man my jaw hit the floor. I was like… what!? It took me a full minute before I even noticed how her hair and the chair in the shot were not floating thus it was neither zero-gravity nor breathable liquid, and I was like… WHAT?! I’m ashamed to admit I had to look in the comments section before I even thought magnetism. That was a complete blindside I’ve got to say. Amazing webcomic, and suddenly the author is like “hey I can draw too!” And to the latter I can only say bravo.

I read several webcomics a week and I put them in either of two folders. They are named “Example+” and “Example-“, and I frequent the former quite a bit, following the latest of pages and going back into the archives into certain chapters to look closer at a certain part “as a writer”, and the latter I rarely if ever go into and if so it’s to go back and reread particularly painful to read portions of it and attempt to understand what exactly what was fatally wrong with it.

No surprise, I wouldn’t have commented if you weren’t I’m no art critic. You’re going into Example+

In short, keep doing what you’e doing. I want to see what comes next, and how you do it.

Sorry if this is too long or something, or if you’d prefer this in an e-mail.

Thanks for posting it here, or else I would have missed a fun read.
On the topic of (evolving) quality of webcomics, have you read TwoKinds by Tom Fishbach? Starts cliche and predictable, later he even (sort of) changes the protagonists since there is a better story to tell.

PS Obervation #345, we could really use a forum

^imma word ninja that’s why everybody likes me ;P

I have, yes. I had heard about it from my friends, and it was one of my first webcomics alongside Bittersweet Candy Bowl and Girl Genius. Tom Fishbach is kind of entertaining, he has a sense of humor and he uses it, and yet of all the sexualization of the comic there are elements that would suggest that he’s somewhat sexually suppressed. The elements lessen dramatically after a certain point, but they remain. As if he was told, and tried to not do it anymore, yet just couldn’t completely quit because he’d made it an integral part of the story already.

I’ve seen other reviewers who just lambaste Tim Fishbach for how he tells his story, but I honestly disagree with them. Twokinds is told somewhat childishly, and that is it’s point. If it weren’t lighthearted sometimes then it wouldn’t be fun to read, and since the characters (and readers mostly) are adults then why not be lighthearted about sex and sexuality? It’s not like it’s the 60’s and sex is generally accepted to be evil unless it’s married straight same-race sex.

I’ve been working on my paragraphs lately, I don’t know why they’ve been clumping up on me it wasn’t always like that. Maybe I just like to talk too much now.

There is a forum on the wiki page. (http://notavillain.wikia.com/wiki/Not_A_Villain_Wiki) It’s just that pretty much nobody has posted there.

Haha. It may be long, but it was enjoyable to read all the same. Thanks! 😀

^as stated above I am a word ninja you are drawn to my natural charm don’t panic I won’t abuse it I’m a good word ninja ;p

You’re welcome. You run a fantastic comic.

…Does Mae not have a left arm?

no idea. we don’t even know what is wrong with her. only that she is very not well.
even if she has it, her condition may not let her use it.

annnnnnd this page makes me feel ill. not because its bad but because you can see the cracks in thier facade. they put on a brave face, but how wretched their lives are is fast becoming obvious. kinda makes you realize why Kleya lets Mina use her in the ways she does. Mina is a decent friend, if somewhat opertunistic, and -reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaally- needs to get into a city. for both her own sake and for the sakes of her family.

I liked your webcomic a lot! I can’t wait for the next pages :D!

panel 2:
So I assume the whole time she was logged out here character just sat there looking like it was passing gas?

I know its just her digital eyes adjusting to the game (which actually makes sense given here controller set up), but I am sticking with my original verison.

I have the feeling Mea is gonna have to wake up to the nightmare

The funny farm?/where everythings WONDERFUL ALL THE TIME

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 210