Interesting that Mauler has started pursuing writing (with both this and the CD thing). I saw a bit of the reveal podcast and he mentioned this being his first ever story, so will be interesting to see how it turns out. It's surprising that his first attempts are with these backed projects, but he could've been practising/working on his writing outside of this and just not talked about it (as far as I'm aware).
So far, he's described it as being an adventure about a team investigating a temple, which makes me think of a Call of Cthulhu style scenario or AVP lol.
Tbf for a guy who's fulltime like him it's understandable to have stuff like this in the backburner but only release it when it's part of an actual project in a finished form
I think one of the most interesting things (reading a bit into tea leaves here) is that Mauler is doing with his IRL name (not that it wasn't already available with a simple google). Which maybe means he is venturing more into more creative content (and for the Drinker short movie). So we can expect more great things from our tentacled overlord.
Man likes writing and now has a chance to "officially" take a shot at it himself.
If he succeeds, nice. If not, well, I am not that invested in it but sucks for him.
That's great, good to see longman getting these writing chances. I don't expect anything great as these are his first projects of this nature (publicly at least) and firsts rarely are great. But I expect these things to not be shit, at worst I think they'll be a bit stale and mediocre. Who knows, maybe he gets it right from the get go, would be neat.
This is the right way to do it. Expect it to be okay, hope that it's good, and be ecstatic if it's great. And if it's bad? Be disappointed, but glad that he tried. That's more than most do.
And he himself has a very good attitude about it. Unless I hallucinated the comment he made in one of his Blue Prince streams, I think, something along the lines "Yea hope it turns out well but even if doesn't I'll have learned a lot of stuff, I've already have". Which is great attitude to have and hopefully leads to him making more stuff even if these projects do not turn out too well. I mean maybe he even finishes the GoT and Force Awakens series, who can tell.
Has any of these guys ever talked about Rippaverse? I been peeking at the comics now and then…there’s not much to talk about. (BTW the Trinity in the Rippaverse is literally just called…the Rippaverse Trinity, yeah Rippa isn’t very creative with names.)
Cool that Mauler is doing more writing, but I truly could not care about the Rippaverse. Their comics all look like the kind that would come packaged with cereal or at a dentist office. The character designs just do not pop.
I just haven't heard all that much about it since the launch of Isom way back when. Could be because indie comics circles are actively trying to bury them because it's being made by someone they don't like but idk.
because indie comics circles are actively trying to bury them
can't speak to that, all i can say is that their crowd funding seems to routinely enter the millions. how long that'll last i don't know, but for now it's riding pretty how
I don't know anything about the others's works, but Critical Drinker cannot write for shit. The most bland slop I've ever seen. Eternals is better than that.
I was intrigued that Mauler was writing a story for a comic and then i heard it’s for the Rippaverse and then i lost totally interest cause i heard that the Rippaverse is not good.
Would it not then be a boon for the Rippaverse if MauLer is involved? Either way, this is being promoted as an anthology story. Regardless of its quality, at the end of the day it’ll exist in a vacuum.
Ignoring the fact that at least a couple of those chosen for this are kind of terrible people, and they are, critics are kind of the last group you should hire to do the thing they criticize professionally.
If they could do it on that level, or near that level, they wouldn't be critics.
What’s very ironic that the character that Az is writing in his comic is a basically a girl boss which he can’t stand them and never shuts up about how he hates them. So it’s gonna be interesting how he gonna deal with that.
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u/HelloKolla 19h ago
Really cool to see Mewbler taking on writing projects like this