Isn’t better for you restart “Immortal Desires” and give “Blood Bound” a moment of resting?

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The major issue I’d take with this comic – and one I wish had been covered in the review, because it really stuck out for me when I was reading the linked examples – is quite how clumsy the dialogue is. All of the characters speak in the exact same awkward, stilted manner, with no real attempt made not only to differentiate their voices, but even to make the dialogue sound even partway natural. People just don’t talk like this anywhere outside of bad amateur fiction.

Oh, and it’s ‘you’re’. All I think when I see the phrase ‘your not human’ is ‘your not human what?’.

I don’t think the distasteful reaction is really about religious views. I would imagine that even non-religious people would value human life. Thus everyone would feel uncomfortable reading something where people kill other people, feel no remorse, and get away with it at the end of every story.

Shows like “Dexter,” which feature a serial killer, at least portray a character struggling to overcome his debased nature. (On the show, he reconciles his blood-lust by focusing his rage on murderers and serial killers.) It’s not a perfect system, and it still is loathesome, but the point is that he’s trying to overcome his violent nature which makes following his story more worthwhile. Would the show work if “Dexter” was about a remorseless serial killer who, a la Ted Bundy, killed innocent girls with abandon with no hint that anyone was catching on? I don’t think so. I think the show would’ve been canceled after one season. While we’re naturally drawn to scenes of violence, part of us wants to also see retribution done to bad people. That never happens in Blood Bound. The killers are portrayed as cute, liberated, and in charge. The comic invites the reader to side with them for those reasons alone … but we can’t, because they’re killers. A few times, the vampires and succubi are portrayed as victims, but the retribution is so bleak that you never forget how despicable they are.

Now, from the standpoint of a creator, I do admire Mr. Kennard’s unflappable enthusiam for his webcomic. He forwarded me ideas he had for future plotlines, and they are pretty interesting. Still, it’s very hard to follow a story when the utter depravity of the characters make you feel sick.

Also, the author needs to consider changing font faces since the ones he’s chosen so far are hideous beyond belief. A good place to get more on that would be http://webcomictriage.blogspot.com/ which I found from the former and now defunct Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad.