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Postby Mista_B » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:57 am

Derrik, I gotta say there have been times in your strip I've wanted to see more detail in a particular panel - zooming in with Photoshop doesn't quite cut it sometimes, heh.

Same with O&M, there's a bunch of webcomics where scrolling works, eg Megatokyo, ErrantStory, sometimes Achewood...

Here's a perfect example of a great strip that is just so eye-strainingly tiny it detracts and distracts from the strip itself: http://www.ozfoxes.com/fauxpas.htm

Really, if that doubled in size even, it would benefit hugely from the audience being more easily able to appreciate the text and art. As it is, a lot of the time it feels like I'm reading a "Trial Version" of the strip, a shrunken sort of thing that maybe if I pay them a certain amount of money I'll have access to the "full-size version for paying customers only" kinda thing. They don't do that, of course, but that small, I almost wish they did.
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Postby osprey » Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:59 am

I agree, I prefer it as well...I think it adds more to each strip.

I'd also like to point out that the image size of the strip is only 500x681...which should fit in pretty much every resolution's screen if you maximize the window (unless of course you have a monitor smaller than 17").
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Postby klimt » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:12 am

i like it. dont know how i'd feel about seeing it every day though. i kind of like comic strips being well, strips.
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Postby Rooster » Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:22 pm

DCS, can I ask if your desision to change the style has anything to do with the fact that you now live with Thomas K Dye and his new style for Newshouds?

I'm just wonderin is all :wag:
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Postby dcsimpson » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:09 am

DCS, can I ask if your desision to change the style has anything to do with the fact that you now live with Thomas K Dye and his new style for Newshouds?

I'm just wonderin is all :wag:
Yes, but not exactly like you think. :)

I recently drew some guest strips for Thomas, which will run in a couple of weeks. And I just found I was able to do much more in a vertical format, so I thought I'd try it with O&M as well. And so far, I like the results.
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Postby Rooster » Wed Sep 26, 2007 5:34 pm

DCS, can I ask if your desision to change the style has anything to do with the fact that you now live with Thomas K Dye and his new style for Newshouds?

I'm just wonderin is all :wag:
Yes, but not exactly like you think. :)

I recently drew some guest strips for Thomas, which will run in a couple of weeks. And I just found I was able to do much more in a vertical format, so I thought I'd try it with O&M as well. And so far, I like the results.
Yeah, same here. I thought that Newshounds might have something to do with it :wag:
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Postby loray » Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:29 am

Newbie here (though kinda-sorta-almost-long time reader.) In any case, I love the new layout. I think Ozzy and Millie pulls it off very well. I love the little things, like Millie's tails touching between the panels...

And really, I have to scroll right or down for basically every web comic, and that makes little difference to me.

I just think that one could do a lot of fun things with the portrait layout. So my vote is for giving it a good go to see if it works well. No one likes change, so when I actually support it, I gotta make sure I say so.
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Postby Steve the Pocket » Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:45 pm

Ozzy and Millie
You make babby Millie cry.
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Postby loray » Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:44 am

Ozzy and Millie
You make babby Millie cry.
Meh. I'm sorry.. :sad:
Mistype. Sorry to offend.
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Postby gforce422 » Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:34 am

Ozzy and Millie
You make babby Millie cry.
Meh. I'm sorry.. :sad:
Mistype. Sorry to offend.

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Postby Introspection » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:15 am

I much prefer the new format rather than the old one. Not only the strip looks better in this format, it also helps me deal with my urge of looking at the strip's last panel before finishing reading it. It's really annoying sometimes.
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Postby CameronCN » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:22 am

I much prefer the new format rather than the old one. Not only the strip looks better in this format, it also helps me deal with my urge of looking at the strip's last panel before finishing reading it. It's really annoying sometimes.
Huh. I do that too sometimes. I wonder why.
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Postby Bocaj Claw » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:32 am

Irresistable curiosity? An urge to be nonconformist and read last before its turn? Anticipation gone out of control?
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Postby CameronCN » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:36 am

Irresistable curiosity? An urge to be nonconformist and read last before its turn? Anticipation gone out of control?
Well, it's just a casual glance, so I think it's just a way of checking to make sure I haven't read the strip already grown into a semiconcious habit. I never read the punchline.
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Postby Introspection » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:46 am

Irresistable curiosity? An urge to be nonconformist and read last before its turn? Anticipation gone out of control?
I believe i'd go with the last one, but I'm not really sure. It's an urge I have, but it's something I don't like doing, because I hate knowing and/or seeing things before the right time. Sometimes I think it's my mind trying to correct my horrible aversion to spoilers via shock therapy :shock:
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