Azurius Pluma
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After hearing a strange howl, young Javi Ramirez sets out to find the animal responsible for the disturbing cry. Equipped with an over-active imagination, Javi finds a dying, mystical bird... could this all be an illusion, or something more?
Later that night, Javi comes to find that the feather left by the dying bird has brought the bird back to life! In a rush, the Azurius Pluma asks Javi to defeat a great evil that appears on the rooftop of his home. Trusting in the feather and its power, Javi disposes of the monster with great ease, and returns to his home.
The Azurius power is now a part of him, and with it the responsibility of defeating any future evils that may appear.
A great evil is preparing to destroy the Azurius Pluma, will Javi be able to defeat whatever Rush Wolfe, master of the Gorkish Tail, throws at him? Or will the Azurius be lost in the secret history books of time?
Imaginative, keep it up!
Love how you portrayed the kid's imagination. Good stuff.
show us some blood!
Love the art very cartoon like
Love it! Please make more.
i like this. its different in a good way. the colors are those u would c in a kid's mind and the look takes u to ur childhood games. Awesome!
'm like Tinkerbell to Peter Pan with this One.
A Moth Happily Bathing in molten Wax.
It makes me all warm and fuzzy, like a kid again.
My Wifes Vista Browser was all Wonky.
At first I had to read it backwards, and forwards;
it is a great little precipice of Alter. My Seven year old is gonna love it!
I was going to gripe about the confusing layout issues, until I realized that you're just supposed to read down and then across instead of visa versa... After that perception realignment, everything clicked. This comic is great! It is total fun and the art has a cool cartoon vibe and the story is interesting. All in all, a damn good comic!
Cool Art Style/Look n Feel. Great Colors! Good mix of read and no read pages.(I like no read pages every once in a while),Action, Violece, Gore, I enjoyed it alot. Liked your lettering by hand, also.
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Galvo? as in THE Galvosaur??!! neko-con 2003 or something, i am old friends of Marley Z. and Steve B. from Maryland. I gotta figure out how to send a private message and do some catching up.
PS: cool to see the Void is still doing well! +nice fantasy storybook style
I love this. As mentioned by previous posts, the colors, textures as well as the unique characters and story makes this really stand out to me. Congrats on a beautiful comic.
I really dig this one. The art style is great, love the color textures, and the panel to panel layout is genius. This also read the best in "minimal mode" than any of the other competitors. Good work!
Oh I don't know I thought the pacing worked just fine on this one. What I think it could have used maybe is just a stronger page 1 to let us know where we are-- like to really kick it off would have helped. But otherwise you've got a solid entry. And come on, seriously, Awesomesauce!
The Webcomic Witchfinder spits feathers on his blog: http://www.mpd57.blogspot.com/
Lovely plumage squire! Is that a Norwegian Blue?
Great concept and great, fun atmosphere. I like the colors and the art a lot. Your page layouts are a bit confusing. You'd do better with stronger layouts and by slowing the pace down... a lot happens in these eight pages, and I feel like more time should have been spent on certain events.
Manta rays can't fly, Gabe.
Learn your ****.
well done, lots of action and nice colors, and a nice job done. im voting for this
P.S (its me from DA stinkytofu lol)
Awesomesauce!
I like the bird Idea.
You used the word awesomesauce. +points.
Welsome back! I dig this one a lot better than Son of the Wind!
That's one big chicken, don't get much of what's going on but I wanted to vote and support your comic!!!
(i get the fact that glowing bird dude has an accent) this gets my vote on account of the flying stingray, makes me hunger for scallops, giant flying scallops, good luck man i would like to see more pages
The coloring is beautiful and it's got a nice energy to the artwork. Although it's kind of charming and in keeping with the child-like theme to the story, perhaps you ought to get someone to check the grammar before you post. Congrats on being selected!
So I completely did this wrong at first. Good news though, I gave you a 5 star rating on something yesterday.
I like it a lot, and I can't wait to see more :D
Yes! This is awesome. I especially like the colors and the soft texture behind everything. Vedy Nize. Good luck this month!
This is a pretty sweet little kids fantasy comic. The art is cute and fits the story. I kinda wish there was a little more reality going into it so the whole alice in wonderland aspect was stronger with the juxtaposition between reality and (maybe) fantasy, but I realize that you were limited with the whole eight pages thing. I really have only one thing to point out, and really this is the smallest thing ever. All of your linework is off-black, and your text is solid black. If you make your text the sort of off-black your linework is the whole thing would look more organic.
Great work!
Bueno mijo...ya tu sabes, you've got my support, gabe! I'll roast a phoenix in your honor! And the best part is, it's only gonna come back. mmmm...eternal buffet of FIRE.
Wow. I like this one! The last page definitely makes me want to read more. Especially since the stingray guy sounds like he's one of those delusional bad guys - in that he thinks he's right. Or is he the good guy and the bird is roping this wide-eyed child into something sinister? That would also be a neat angle.
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The art is cool. It has a mix of Nickolodean styling, with Maurice Sendak and European stylings thrown in. I'm not a fan at all of the use of video game elements in comics (like Super destroy+2! ZOMG!) and that kinda rubbish, but the 'super jump activate' fits with the story, as I guess that's what the kids think these days. ie. It's not a story-telling device - it's a manifestation of the child's imagination, so it didn't bother me. It works that way.
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Is it all imagination though? I really like stories where the kids have these grand adventures that the parents don't know about it - and there's always the hint that us readers can choose to believe if it's all make believe, or real. (Neverending Story, Narnia, Labyrinth, etc)
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Favourited! :o)
i'm on the same page as vonblinden... at first i was irked by the bird creature's seemingly erroneous speech but then re-read it with a sense of the bird having a different way of speaking. if that was the intention, well done on a unique approach. if not... well, you can always pretend like you did it on purpose ;) !
what was this? excellent!
Brilliant work Gabe! This is really excellent storytelling!
I have to tell you that, though I like your comic, the two grammatical errors on the last page where you inserted the word "be" in two different sentences, on two different panels where they didn't belong is a fairly major editorial error on your behalf, unless you did it to give the talking bird a character flaw... In which case it didn't really work that well for that either. Sorry to gripe, but I just felt like you should have caught that before submitting it.
Quite a style departure from the last entry. I had a bit of trouble following some of the panel layouts but you get bonus points for awesomesauce!
senor timony - hey man thanks! it feels good to back in the ring!! its so rad that you guys are being editors this month, i hope they do this again!!
jamie roberts- i was hoping to get that reaction from people, wondering if its all still him imagining, as the story progresses i touch on that a bit... thanks for the kind words though amigo!
i agree with neutroncrush, i should have put a lil narrative box in there explaining its the following night, lesson well learned amigo thank you!!
THANKS TO THE REST FOR ALL YOUR KIND WORDS AND CRITIQUE LOVE!!
Nice! The art and color is fantastic, the story an original take on a classic motiff, and nicely done with a dose of humor and imagination!
Its awesicle... frankly its one of the best I've seen and its extremely simple, I love it... I like how its portrays something very much like in Pan's Labyrinth, were kids go to their imagination to solve problems. Ja
P.S. I looooove the colors in the fight sequence.
This comic is awesomesauce!
Finally, everybody gets to see what i already knew about you bro.... keep inspiring!!!!
Yeah, awesome! I love these kinds of story! Great job!
Loved every pixel of it.
Ah, that dark, dark rainbow heart of mine.
you're pretty AND talented!!! wooo!
Well done, Gabe. Good luck this month!!!!!!
GABRIEL I AM PLEASED TO BE YOUR FRIEND
"Awesomesauce!" This would make a cool cartoon short.
Good show son. Great to see a 'digestible' RPG/fantasy comic. I know this will be loaded with fun and laughs, where as most comics of this genre is full of numbing elf tales that sound like flat history lessons.
Your drawings are so simple in this it makes me cry--WITH JOYOUS TEARS.
I had no issues following what went on in this; your paneling worked awesome (as per usual). I love the muted tones and the MYSTICAL GLOW you added in there for contrast. But what really put the icing on the cake, for me, was "AWESOME SAUCE!" and the fact that the kid at the end (is that Rush?? I might have missed a memo) was on a flying sting ray. FANTASTIC.
Good luck!