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CoolJaw: P.S. I-V

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As the final act begins, we follow the ominous figure the "sculptor", hinted at in the first, & second act, as all the threads in the CoolJaw saga start to come together.


Please watch the first and second act before you start watching this, or else the story will not make any sense whatsoever...


I respond to all reviews unless your an asshole, and if you add me to your favorite authors list I can P.M.
you when another chapter comes out!


Thanks for the support sorry it took so long to get this out there.
Sincerely,
- Celx

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It seems I've fallen behind. :(

But I plan on catching back up starting now. Sorry about the delay, but life keeps people busy. I'm happy that I had time to come back and watch this though because I missed the series and it gives me motivation to start my own comic book type series sometime just like this.

~ Animation/Graphics ~

You know the drill by now right? The drawings were good for the most part and the style really sets the mood. Sometimes though you get a little sloppy and it's hard to tell what's going on. For example, I knew the last slide was of a man that had been cut up, but I had know idea about the details and what he actually looked like/where he had been cut up. So the style helps in some parts, but if you lose focus here and there you tend to make it a little sloppy.

~ Story/Content ~

The story continues and it's a good one. I think that this episode was a little short, but it probably had to do with there not being text or much to read on several of the slides this time.

Like I've mentioned before, please slow down the bubbles. I guess in my old age I don't have the reaction time that I use to and I still have a hard time telling who's suppose to be talking first. If I remember correctly there was only one episode of yours in which you actually slowed them down to a good speed. I still feel they are too fast.

~ Audio ~

The music was good behind this one. I still think if I ever do something like this that little sound effects here and there will make it sound a lot cooler. Perhaps little crashes and things that go on in the submission could make it more entertaining to the viewers.

~ Overall ~

A good story that I still will have to go back and watch all at once just so I really understand what's going on. Keep up the submitting and work on these. It'll be a series someday. ;)

~ Review Request Club ~

Celx-Requin responds:

Yeah I wasn't too pleased with some of the drawings here,
as for it becoming a series, I hope so but it's doubtful considering there are only two left.

Anyway as always thanks for the great feedback!
Sincerely,
- Celx

Dark....Disturbing...

....Delightful. I'm really digging this. The music sets the mood perfectly, I'm glad you have a few tracks to select so it isn't always the same piece playing. The art in it's simplicity is great! The scribbling really adds to the mood of the comic, although sometimes I wish the characters would have a little more unique colors to themselves just so I could recognize them a little easier as the comic plays on. Kudos man, looking forward to the final comics!

Celx-Requin responds:

As a fellow canuk, I can only say thank you!

Sincerely,
- Celx

Good, but the menue needs some work

Others have adressed it, but I too think the menue pages are taking overhand, which is a real pity. You should try to think of a better solution (maybe just one menue page with links on it).

Anyway, the pacing of this chapter is pretty good. I like how you jump straight into the action after the phone call and my favorite picture is the one where the cop kicks in the door. I think this is actually the first picture in the whole series where there is one character seen during an action (other than walking and talking of course). This is really nice and I hope to see more "action packed" pictures in future chapters, as they add a lot of atmosphere and suspense to the story.

{ Review Request Club }

Celx-Requin responds:

There will be a few surprises,
this is the last act after all...

Thanks,
- Celx

Needs some tidying up

-I had some work to do as far as going back to the earlier ones to get back up to speed on the plot for this but I managed to do it after a couple of hours. I did other things in-between each one.

-I liked how you had some of the aesthetic options all in one place at the bottom. It made it really easy to set things up as to how you wanted them according to your preferences. There was also the links to each individual part of the comic. The only problem was it took a while to get through it since it's so tedious to open so many different browser pages for the pop-ups. Try to find a way to clear that up to make it easier to read the earlier comics.

-Once I was able to go through this new installment to the series it was much easier to go through. Like the earler ones you just move from page to page to progress through the comic. You really don't need to change any part of that. You could however adjust where you put the text bubbles to make the picture slides look less cluttered.

-The drawings i've noticed aren't highly detailed but they have that dark feeling to them. The lack of high detail accentuates this feeling. The length of each comic is good too. It's not too long but it always leaves you at a point where you want to read the next one. You do an excellent job with creating cliffhangers.

-So overall the story is great at least to me. Full of suspense and intrigue. You just need to find a better way to link to the old parts of the series. It takes a while to do so the way you have it configured.

-Review Request Club

Celx-Requin responds:

Thanks,
will write a better response later.

- Celx

Perhaps a Menu leading to sub menus?

Building up to another story, you seem to be spawning more contents pages than actual story here and it's starting to drag the piece down, in all honesty.

What you need is some sort of menu page that shows each one of your comic book serialisations on a page, allowing you to click and find the links to the chapters. It will make the start much easier for people like me, who have already seen the originals and much less tedious for those of us that haven't.

You've got some dark, macabre writing and looking at your piece overall, I think that it's nowhere near as good as Snowblind, so you need to work more on the game there.

Again, there needs to be some sort of logical progression of the speech bubbles, as I feel that moving from right to left on a page is somewhat odd, unless I was reading in Arabic, since that's how it works in languages in that region. Perhaps pay attention to these fine details and move on from there.

[Review Request Club]

Celx-Requin responds:

Hello,

I agree, sadly at this point when the series is almost done I'm way too much of a sloth to recreate another menu, that said you can use the scene select to jump past the other "act pages".

Thanks,
- Celx

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