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👹 A CHEAP IMITATION COMIC CHAPTER 9 UPDATE 👹

At long last, I can finally post the 9th chapter. I've missed these two quite a lot!!!!

Read update on Tapas | First chapter

Spoontasti's original ao3 fic

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the sillies

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ACI comic chapter 10 thumbnails

took me months to clean! can’t wait to start working on it. Can you believe it’s 271 pages long already?

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Hey hey! Just read all of your aci comic chapters(again), and I just REEEEEALY wanted to tell you that your panelling is EXTREMELY FREAKING COOL. Like. SO cool!!!!

The panels are really dynamic, and I really really like how you integrate the page background with environment/scene transitions. Like, the way you transition from black to white background to convey switching 'pov's in some places - very tasty.

And just like, the way you panel chase/fight scenes man! Incredible!! You already convey movement like a pro in your poses, but then you add the paneling to the equation and BOOM it's even MORE DYNAMIC.

And then there's the way you use letting for "sound effects", and make them into entire separate frames in some places. And I mean, in addition to that is your regular use of speech bubbles - they flow very well, and don't overwhelm the reader at all. Like, it's a very easy to read comic, which says a lot about you design/layout skills.

Anyway, point is - if I ever need to make a comic for something I'm doing an ACI case study first xd

HELLO!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!! It means so much thank you so much??

I’m very lucky to have spent the last 6-7 years amongst comic making friends and we’ve had looooong talks about readability. I feel like I learned so much about flow of action, speech bubbles and onomatopoeia, I’m so happy you think my comic is easy to read and dynamic, it means I’m doing a good job 🥺

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Do you have any of your own ACI headcanons?

Not many! But I like that they're both unreliable narrators and that a lot of things are implied, so some of my interpretations could be considered headcanons? See under the cut

I like to think that the moment Izaya realizes he's in love (and he's been in love with Shizuo for a long time) is at the end of chapter 15. When Shizuo saves him and Izaya have a little breakdown because he didn't know he was capable of THIS. Maybe it's my non native english speaking ass, but to me "this" doesn't refer to anything explicit, it's not about the physical sensation. It's a sort of continuation of his thoughts in chapter 7 when goes "my love's always been grand and all encompassing, it was never directed toward One Individual, but now I've broken my principle, I can't love Broadly like that anymore, what else does that mean for me?"

To me it's "he didn't even know he was capable of Having These Feelings" and "oh god of fucjk these feelings are called having a crush" and "wait how long has it been there what the fuck"

In the body pile, Shizuo sees a watch and suddenly feels very sick, and I find it funny that the Only other mention of a watch was when Mura showed them his watch to bargain. I like to think that Shizuo thinks it's Mura in that pile, and even if he didn't like him, knowing he's walking on the corpse of a man he talked to only a few hours prior makes the situation Very Real and horrifying.

Izaya is so very touch starved actually and I think they should hold hands a little more than ONCE in the entire fic. After the 48 hours have passed and they're walking next to each other and Izaya's hand keep brushing against Shizuo's. In the cave when he's sick. When're they're rescuing people and talking about that date at Russia sushi.

Other than that, it's my usual shizaya hc that have traveled to aci. dimpled izaya AND shizuo (izaya has one on each cheek, shizuo only has one close to his mouth). trans izaya (the numerous dick jokes? he's compensating). There are others you'll probably see in the comic bc my hc influence the way I portray things, but there are not so much headcanons as artistic liberties at this point lmao