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[Comic] The Five Stages of Love - UPDATES LIKE ONCE A WEEK AT BEST UGGH

Vladimir Putin's LJ

Vladimir Putin's LJ

your blood flows through my veins
Hello everyone, it's Vlad. You may remember me from my art thread somewhere on this forum, or you may not, I don't really want to know. I am here to ask you a favour.

Please read my comic.

It's a coming-out drama set in 2006/2007, London. I won't say much about it because even though I drop spoilers like a paedo drops candy, I like to imagine I can keep some element of surprise.
The script is finished, and I'm pretty certain about the first fifty pages, the 150 others, not so much, but I'm having some close friends review it and nitpick at errors to make it better. I've got the cover and the first page done now, and I hope to post at least one page per week, hopefully more if my schedule allows it.
So, stay and come back from time to time. I hope you enjoy it, at least a little.

Smackjeeves site.

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Re: The Five Stages of Love - the gayest comic

want more

how often will it update
 
Re: The Five Stages of Love - the gayest comic

I love it! <3 Write more, please. I remember your old art thread. It had a lot of gay Republicans, right?
 
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Walker said:
want more

how often will it update
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At least once a week, hopefully.

Catch-22 said:
I love it! <3 Write more, please. I remember your old art thread. It had a lot of gay Republicans, right?
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I STILL HAVE AN ART THREAD and it is gay overall but yeah there are a couple of gay political moments in it.
Thank you!

Also, shit page but I got really fed up with the shading and kind of left it. I had shaded the whole page but it looked so bad I deleted it and just did a light gray.

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Eee, I will be watching this extremely closely. I know you had issues with thinking the cover too boring or whatever, but I think it's lovely <3
 
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Dannichu said:
Eee, I will be watching this extremely closely. I know you had issues with thinking the cover too boring or whatever, but I think it's lovely <3
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Thank you! I ended up taking a liking to the cover as well, weirdly enough :v

Page:
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Check out all my awesome inking skills.
Oh, and they were supposed to go watch Casino Royale in the cinema but i t came out in November so um, pretend they downloaded it, lala.
 
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D'waa, nothing's cuter than taking your boyfriend to see Casino Royale.

The expressions in the final panel are expecially good :3
 
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I like it so far.

It's interesting.

Keep making them, or else *snarl*
 
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Page #2 is pretty.

Very pretty.

It is going to be hard to beat, in fact.
 
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D: Evil French teacher.

Very nice. Please keep going :3
 
Re: The Five Stages of Love - updates Saturday and Sunday

Thank you everyone, I'm glad you like it, and I'm glad you're commenting!

You find one of my pages pretty, opal? Aw, I thought my drawings were everything but! I'll try my best to match it in prettiness, but the rest of the comic is mostly angst and romance and gay ):

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Fav thing here is the headmaster. Who we will never see again.
Okay, infotime! Something I haven't bothered to explain because it's not really relevant to the storyline is that this school is called Blackbird College. It is boys-only, and has some strict, rather conservative rules. Most teachers disregard some of these, the boys were just unlucky enough to get caught by Alain.

Also I didn't make a mistake, Directeur is supposed to be said in French :v
 
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In my ever-so-humble opinion, angst-and-romance-and-gay is more addictive than drugs.
And may be better for your brain, but that's debatable.
 
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Aww, the expressions in the second panel are adorable. And I love the detail on the panel with the wall and bike shed; I'd never have the patience for that.

And the Directeur is scary as hell D:
 
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Thank you for commenting! It warms my heart, it does.

I think I have a angst-romance-gay addiction, but if it's wrong then I don't wanna be right.

Thanks Dannichu, even though I cringe every time I see those background panels, I'm glad I take the time to situate the characters and not just have them float in space.
I tried to make the Directeur FIERCE. His name is Richard Fairfax by the way :v

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Hahaha, panel 3 Alain's supposed to look a bit regretful or embarassed but he ended up with the 'muuuuum i'm a busy man stop asking me if i have a girlfriend' expression. Or he pissed himself.
On the other hand, I don't want to make it overly obvious with a thought bubble going I AM REGRETFUL or something because I hate it when comics do that.

NEXT PAGE WILL CONTAIN ACTUAL CONTENT AND ONE OF THE MOST LIKED CHARACTERS stay tuned, see you next week.
 
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Page is slightly shittier than usual because I'm using Photoshop CS2 and a different scanner since I'm not at home. This PC also doesn't have any of the fonts I was using so erm :v

DONALD he was super popular in the last version of this comic, expect to see a lot more of this guy. He doesn't look fat enough on this page though, arg.
I APOLOGIZE TO ALL SCOTTISH PEOPLE FOR MY SHITTY DEPICTION OF YOUR ACCENT ):
 
Re: The Five Stages of Love - updates Saturday and Sunday

"Y' maw cares 'bout th' rules" I love it XD

Actually, I liked Alain's regretful expression in the above one, and for some reason I really like how he's cradling his mug in the third panel.

I like Donald already :D
 
Re: The Five Stages of Love - updates Saturday and Sunday

Donald is awesome.

I want more Donald.

Give now.
 
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OH EM GEE EL OH EL ECKS DEE
srsly, 'leave the keds alone, s'long as they don' start shaggin' in class.' line killed me. Whoever knew that obese scotsmen could make me laugh that hard?

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I can't work out what he's doing in that second panel, though. Looks like shaving to me. I think.
 
Re: The Five Stages of Love - updates Saturday and Sunday

He's flicking his lighter for his cigarette, R0-S3. At least, I think he is.

Donald is sweet. Arylett likes him. I can see why he's so popular. I love his expression especially in that last panel. It goes so perfectly with: "What's this, robot school?" Also I like how in the second panel you can only see his mouth and his cigarette, makes his first appearance very cool.

And I also like how Alain's cradling the mug in the third panel! It's so... protectively. The look on his face only makes things better, goes very well with the whole thing.
 
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