There seems to be like, little legacies I’ve found. Like, how there’s a bit of a throughline from Vast Error to Act 8 and Act Omega. Or The Tapestry -> Karkat Goes to a Convention. Or this fanadventure, which I believe is a more convincing argument that there are legacies/spheres of influence on MSPFA, which is the I’m Good I’m Gone -> Old Fiji Water.png -> Kunuki Does Alternia. Perhaps this doesn’t even exist and I’m just jumping at shadows, but that’s what I’m expecting going into this.
Maybe that’s just because there aren’t a lot of explicitly mature webcomics on the site, and thus the people who would be into that kind of stuff kind of…congregate together? I have no idea where I’m going with this, except to note it down and tell you about it.
And hey, look: IT’S STILL UPD8ING TO THIS DAY! Cool. I always love to see that in Fanadventures.
Oh we’ve got Music IN THE ACTUAL PANELS NOW. Interesting. Very interesting. Have we gotten to that Era of CSS? I guess we have, and that’s fantastic. I haven’t talked about it a lot, but I *love* the Music Communities that MSPFAs seem to create. I think it’s a unique essence of MSPFA that there is even a “scene” of musicians collaborating and creating the best songs you have ever heard for a niche webcomic nobody has ever heard of before except for a few devoted fans. I’ve got to say, this is probably one of the best build up sequences I’ve ever seen/heard(?) for an MSPFA.
OH, SHOOT THE SONG SLAPS HOLD UP. OKAY YEAH I’M SOLD THIS IS THE BEST PRE-INTRODUCTION OF ALL TIME ON MSPFA. THIS IS LIKE. WHOA. HANG ON. WAIT. YOU CAN *DO* THIS IN AN MSPFA, IN A WEBCOMIC? And the story’s like, yep. You can totally make this. You can totally do it, and it’s awesome. And honestly? It is. It is awesome.
I love how it just builds up to “Issue 1” (love unique subdivisions in MSPFAs too) and then decides to just drop “oh btw here are the content warnings.” Like, if you don’t want to read forward, you don’t have to, but even if you don’t like what comes afterwards, you *do* get that sick introduction song, and that’s. Just. Wonderful.
Hey little detail that I just noticed: on page 30, there’s like, this poster that’s being examined. And like, there’s this glare on it? Like, that you might see on posters, but that glare isn’t usually rendered in MSPFAs. It’s kind of a cool effect, and shows a level of attention to detail you might not ordinarily find! IDK I just think that’s neat.
The soundtrack on this fanadventure is SOMETHING ELSE. Incorporating it DIRECTLY into the text without any animations is COOL, because it takes what I think is a major aspect in the pacing of MSPFA, that being the ability to linger on panels or go through them very fast. It allows one to have another axis of like, telling a story, I guess? There’s a lot to be said that I don’t think HAS been said about how adding sound to Webcomics VIA MSPFA can change and add a lot of storytelling techniques, but I don’t think I’m properly able to have that discussion yet.
Okay yeah this is cool, this is very seriously very cool. Absolutely check this one out, at *LEAST* check out the beginning up to the content warning, if you peace out after that, that’s okay, just. Check out that opening. Gosh dang. I didn’t even KNOW you could DO that. Wow.
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