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I posted these on a private forum a while ago but I figured you lot would get a kick out of them. They're done with a computer mouse rather than my cintiq so they are a bit below par in terms of art but the jokes are the same.









Hope you like them.

The art's nice (though the bottom left hand panel of the first leaves much to be desired, and the bottom middle panel of the second makes no sense - what's up with the Tau's eyes?). The writing leaves something to be desired. For example:

"I'm not in love with the IG. It's not that that insofar the major difference between an IG grunt and my and a WWII re-enactor is a working laser gun."

Spell-check, or at least edit your work.

Likewise the tired old joke that lasguns are just like flash-lights. Excuse me?! They have a frickin' laser gun! A working laser gun! Not only a working laser gun, but a laser gun so easy to manufacture they hand it out to the basic infantry (admittedly the creme of the crop of planetary defense forces), and so durable that they can hand it out to basic infantry.

A spot of joy on a cold and rainy evening. Thanks.

I quite liked these.

The typo nurglitch pointed out was eating at me too during the first panel, but the rest of it was very enjoyable.

Keep on making comics, I say!

I don't think its bad, and the joke of flash lights doesn't really get old to me because you tell people when you are shooting your lasguns no matter how many and they just give you that look, that look of why the hell are you even bothering shooting me, the look just stays with you, even if you kill a model or two they just stare at you as if you just made the worst mistake in picking up a lasgun.

Go go Tau! Bajillion range "why bother to measure it" strength "$*^% you" weapons backed up by "screw your cover save" lights shoved onto about a billion giant bipedal flying robots capable of deepstriking in and turning entire squads of Space Marines into molten piles of slag and ichor.

Whoops never caught that spelling error.

Always nice to see some new art.

Great fun, I liked the gretchin taking the Tau's money

Show, don't tell. One of the biggest mistakes that webcomic artists make is to make their comics too wordy. There was a good paragraph or two of text in those comics, with a lot of useless exposition and time spent to set up a joke. All in all, I'm not a fan of the writing, but there's a decent joke or two in there. Right now it's just a matter of editing your text down by a lot.

The art, on the other hand, is really nice overall. It's simple and expressive. Having everyone stand around in a white void is kind of distracting though, so some backgrounds would be a good idea.

All in all not a bad effort. Keep practicing and working on your execution.

@ Brother SRM: I feel like it was approached from the other direction - illustrating the story he was telling, rather than narrating the comic he was drawing. If that makes sense. It worked for me, since I assumed the focus was on the words, but I can see how it wouldn't work for you.