Like the person above me, I spent some time coming back every once in a while, seeing if it would turn into anything except a stereotypical anime-animal knock off/hyper-horny 16 year old’s idea of a good time, and so far I’ve been disappointed to the point where I simply stopped checking.

These kinds of comics, as well as the “Hey! We can use filthy, vulgar language for no good reason in a comic because we’re all grown up now!” type seem to be becoming the norm, and makes me thankful I don’t have to read them for a living.

Good to see you’re still around, my friend! Keep up the good work.

The Doctor

Miles, even though it may seem strange, is my favorite character of the lot. Though he doesn’t have the most reasonable attitude some times he seems like a character who actually has room for character development, which is more than I can say for Minos. Miles is shown from the begining to be a perverted young cat, which I believe, is only between twenty or twenty-two. This means that he is still rather young and bound to makes mistakes. As the story developes he is show to have a side to him that is sweeter and a little more deep than is outer appearance demanded. If anything he seems to treat the world as selfishly as he believes it treats him. (I don’t have much time to go deeper into him so I will just continue)

Alejandra in my opinion seems much more realistic than Mora (excluding her bust size which should have given her back problems by now xD). I agree the direct reason that she chose to be Mora’s rival is kind of shallow but from a psychological stand point I could see it happening. I mean besides Mora there aren’t many other people that Alejandra seems to know from her past. Not having the friends, close nit family, or the looks that Mora had, she grew up and took her family’s bussiness to new heights. This was in an attempt to make her own and take the respect and love she didn’t have as a child while defeat her long time rival…. Sound reasonable to me *shrug*.

Most of the other characters seem to be haphazardly tossed into the story and aren’t of any real importance. Which is show through their lack of face time in the actual comic. That and their even worse personalities, which is an incredible feet in my opinion.

With all of this said, with a few character, story, and character design changes this could be a rather good story. Sadly everytime I read a page I wonder why I came back again knowing that its not going to change.

…Looking back at the lovely typos I can’t say I’m proud of that comment either, but I’m happy you did like it.

I imagine, by the way, that if I wrote my reviews in a more Encyclopedia Dramatica style, I’d probably have way more readers.

I’m very neutral about Las Lindas, and as we all know, the word “neutral” is a subliminal synonym to, “I’m torn.”

On one hand – while I don’t feel your opinion of it being nothing but God-awful acid is the case, seeing as they were some averagely decent qualities with the writing compared to true craptastic writing – I feel like there’s a charm in this webcomic that never has and seemingly never will reach its full potential at the rate it’s been going.

A slice of the potential charm in its script and dialogue is buried six feet under the artist’s overall fetish. It is not in anyone’s place to insult another person’s penchant or idée fixe if you don’t want to risk looking ignorant and generally contradictive, but it’s not the artist’s actual “fetish” that’s the problem here. It’s the fact that the fetish and the “story” are designed to be in the same frame of importance to the point where they distract from each other. Basically, it’s how the fetish dilutes other elements of the comic that the writing shoots for or how the writing is distracting the “fetish goods” most want to see simply because T&A and “srs-business story” are like blending oil and water. The comic “wants” to have “srs-characterization” and moralistic facets to pull “readers” in or at least get them to basically *pay_attention to the story; this_is_important*, but then comeso ff as a cock-tease at the same time to keep that same reader from doing this. It’s like putting breasts and politics together – though not for the LULZ like Obama Girl’s “Barely Politicial,” but to actually try and make a statement that the politics part is the srs-business importance you’re supposed to be equally drawn to. You can’t do both and EXPECT both to be paid attention to if the brain and the hand downstairs are occupied. The latter distracts from the former, and ends up making the former more incompetent than it really was. That’s how Las Lindas comes off.

It’s also one thing for an artist to simply draw curvy females and like drawin’ em lots and lots; it’s another thing to make an effort to forcibly use every perspective or vantage point possible to focus on “male gaze/male viewpoint” :

http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=531

“There wasn’t enough space in the panel near the top right corner. That’s it.” One of the most obvious results of Male Gaze is the way a (usually male) director/cameraman’s interest in women informs his shots, leading to a focus on breasts, asses and other jiggly bits even when the film isn’t necessarily supposed to be a T&A-fest.

After awhile “where your focus is supposed to be” becomes a type of chore.

The other slice of the comic’s potential is buried under the short-attention-span of the plot. I get the sensation that the comic is overall based on random events happening for random insertion, sort of like a Soap Opera without any real direction, and then attempts to dress this up as a story. That being its foundation, I would have been fine with the mundanity the comic had [nothing too eccentric went on], but then suddenly a vague [or so elaborated that it was still vague] Sci-Fi plot shot out of the sky and I stopped reading right then and there. Going from farms to magical realms lost me. After recovering from that disappointment, I went back to the comic after a year and shoveled through it.

The art has improved greatly. The characters have not.

Minos is supposed to be in love with Mora [who is actually revolving around the Jerk-Sue archetype instead of the Mary-Sue archetype] because she has something in her that “he hasn’t seen in a long time,” yet not once has the comic utilized this or shown this to us [to the point where there's no plausibility in him staying with her. He's waiting for something that will never happen/shape her, seeing as the character development for Mora is taking longer than their fast-paced romance did]. And if this has been utilized, it’s due to a moral lesson that bounces instead of sticks to Mora. Instead of Defrosting Ice Queen or being a Jerk With A Gold Heart, she tends to ice right back up just as aggressively and show more jerk than gold. It matters little if she cries over Digit and confirms a bond with her; by the next arc, she will most certainly lose sight of the lesson behind the moral tale and be excused to act as terribly unlikable as she’s always been towards every character in the story, thus crossing out any character development that could’ve been added into her characterization. The fact that Mora can show some level of gratitude is shot down by the fact that she can be an exaggerative or bipolar “JerkAss” before and after it:

http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=601
http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=603

Somehow all the cussing and insults made the writing in this scene too shallow or overkilled to be seen as “closure.” Though of course, women tend to think that there’s something likable about being a Jerk-Sue.

Miles is the same case, if not possibly worse. The fact that he can not get laid or fulfill “pilot dreams” and thus destroys the relationships around him is inserted to make us feel sympathetic. Instead of connecting with him, we’re left with bouts of confusion. I’m sitting there trying to figure out the worth behind focusing on his arcs or what we are supposed to feel for this character – or when the writers will get to the point of fundamenting it. It seems as though they’re dancing around something. They haven’t utilized the worth/importance behind Mile’s “panel time,” seeing as he’s devoid of depth or growth when put in the spotlight.

Overall, the cast seems troubled by superficial, high-school dilemmas that either make up for or excuse the destruction they burden others with. Minos and the Runaway Sisters [the only characters I like when it comes to personalities, mostly because of their relationship. Sarah being so happy-go-lucky is refreshing in a cast dominated by jerkish characters], are the only ones with an implied backstory that extends past high school drama, but even they harbor less destruction in their personalities compared to Mora, Miles, and etc, so it’s baffling.

Though what I do like about the comic [and read it for alone] is the banter, and sometimes witty dialect that takes place. When not flanderized to the highest of hills, the characters are sometimes charming in their flaws and relationships with others. They have their “times.” I do like the moral values/lines that are sometimes also thrown in; I think they’re nicely articulated instead of artless. I’ve leafed through a lot of “crap” in my days when it’s come down to dialogue of value in stories or whatever it is the character is trying to bestow onto another character, so I have a certain level of respect for those attempts in the story. What simply causes this to fail however, is when the characters end up contradicting all of that in every way possible, and we’re back to square one. How the comic and characters “could go” has never been fully utilized, but instead slipped in and out. To me, this is a webcomic with “good moments/times/elements,” but overall not a “good comic.” The writers need to get a grasp.

But I expect nothing more and nothing less, so I read it casually anyway without any kind of expectation. And that works.