Comments on: The Webcomic Overlook #101: Azure

By: Emma

Emma — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:45:36 +0000

“where the polar icecaps have meltied and Earth is under the waves of a globe-spanning ocean”
There is not that much ice in the world, people.

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Strip News 12-4-9 | Strip News | ArtPatient | ArtPatient — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:29:15 +0000

[...] Cool Webcomic List took a pleasing gander at Melody and Webcomic Overlook peered at Azure. Webcomics Critique was torn over Creative Catharsis and mpd57 covered Molly the Amazing Door Tree [...]

By: irrevenoid

irrevenoid — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:32:30 +0000

Y’see how the shark has two rows of vicious-looking teeth? Do you know why it has those? Because sharks chew their prey.

That is all.

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Strip News 12-4-9 | Strip News | ArtPatient.com | ArtPatient.com — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:04:33 +0000

By: Sly Eagle

Sly Eagle — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:55:58 +0000

La-zy-ness.

Although not all of the ocean floor is the same. There are long stretches of nothing but minerals, and much of it is so deep that the light of the sun never reaches the bottom.

By: Brotoflatron

Brotoflatron — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:25:39 +0000

“Second, underwater scenes tend to all look the same. Unless you’re near the sea floor, backgrounds are always a big unchanging wall of blue. And even when you do get a glimpse of the seal floor in all its glorious splendor, everything is still bathed in a murky, depressing blue.”

And it’s such bullshit, isn’t it? Take five seconds to look at some actual under water photos and you’ll quickly see that the bottom of the ocean is host to more bizarre creatures and vibrant colours than any where else on the planet, so why does every under water scene fall victim to this?

By: Bicycle Cop Dave, UFOs, and a science experiment | Paperless Comics

Bicycle Cop Dave, UFOs, and a science experiment | Paperless Comics — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:50:13 +0000

[...] Santo reviews the Zuda comic Azure at The Webcomic [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:53:56 +0000

I’m not in agreement with anyone in particular on this one. Daniel’s strip plays to all his strengths in production design and digital painting. It’s very effects heavy which takes it away from the ‘comix’ ground it desperately needs. It needs a more human, oddly a more fluid, natural approach to counter the static designer-y-ness of the look. He gets very close a lot of times but overall it still looks like a series of production sketches for the movie. The story is there underneath it all, but is stunted by the surface gloss and a very slow update schedule. Comics are not juts about quality of production but about speed too. Still, a lot of great potential, but needs to swim with a few more comics to loosen up. I don’t think he’s really done comix before so as a first attempt it’s really pretty strong.

By: Sly Eagle

Sly Eagle — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:57:51 +0000

God promised that he’d never destroy the earth by water again, remember? Maybe that’s because he knew any watery post-apocolyptic is gonna seem old and boring now.

Yeah, that summed up my response to Azure as well. Wanted to like it based on the art, but it failed to be compelling in all other fields, so…yep. Giant “meh”.

By: Brock

Brock — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:16:07 +0000

I think you pretty much summed up my reaction to Azure as well. I’ve been puzzled by the some of the EXTREMELY positive reviews, but you seem to have a firm grasp on both the strengths and the weaknesses. Very nicely, respectfully done.