imarabbit wrote:skarab wrote:
May I ask, what makes an excellent BDSM comic so good, the artwork or the story ?
I check porn comics for the porn first. If I do not like the art style of a comic/artist then I will never buy it. All the best comics here have ''shallow" stories. Have a look at Templeton for example, which I'm sure the majority here will say he is one the best at Dofantasy. His comics are great and the plots are not complex at all. That's what make them great as you only have a limited amount of pages to draw each scenes, you can focus on the porn/perversity and show plenty of it with details.
A good example to illustrate the balance porn/story are the series 'Prison Horror Story 'or the recent 'Uprising in West Africa' update from Predondo. They both started with simple plots and great BDSM scenes, and then the artist decided the stretch the scenarios which deserved the quality of the series as the comics spent more and more pages explaining what is happening before and after the BDSM scenes instead of showing it. They both ended with shallow porn I think when you compare the last chapters to the first ones. Predondo's best comics were his first ones when the plot were simple which gave plenty of space for the porn. I know a few readers here will agree.
Honestly, I agree with what you and Leo have pointed out - more emphasis should be on making artworks look as superb as possible regardless of how hogwash the storyline may be. I could remember in my teenage years going to the only available magazine in our area to get comics with the little cash saved up, I check for the comics with the best action drawings and excellent color rendering. So I agree.
However if you care to dig into the comic catalogue of DoFantasy past publications, you will notice that DoFantasy in it early rise also had tons of production with ridiculous artworks just look up the SICK archives, but what’s captivating in them all are the BDSM elements featured in them, the shock value, our mind overlooked the grotesque and amateurish drawings and delved our thoughts into the fantasy of relishing the agony the damsel is been subjected to.
Great respect to Fernando and Cagri but their magnificent artworks today is not the same as it was a decade ago, their drawing and coloring has evolved over the years, can we compare Fernando’s drawings in ‘A Hike To Hell’ with ‘Total Control 3’ ? or Cagri’s ‘Game Over’ with ‘Assylum-X’ ? In fact I admire Cagri so much for been an artist who inspirer in the way his artwork has greatly improved (drawing and coloring). But we loved their old works not because of their artworks which are now so advanced today but because of the gripping stories they present as far as BDSM fantasy is concerned.
Without underplaying the importance of excellent artwork rendition, I still maintain the position that a good story far outscore great arts in BDSM comic world since this isn’t Spiderman or TMNT or Transformer or Betty Page comics where the better the artworks the better the sales.
Geoff Merrick stories are graciously wonderful and powerful, which is why I tend to believe sustains the attraction to have loyal fans, no matter how unrealistic or unprofessional any artist renders his story work.
I am of the opinion that one must strike a balance between superb artworks and profound stories, rather than just focusing on making an artwork as splendid as possible while caring less on how ludicrous the story may be.
As an individual, I dare say.... fantasy asides, BDSM is real, not just in the sense of unconventional sexuality we all understand it to be as consensual thing, but as it manifest in many other forms in life which many people are not cognizant of, the kind of stories I want to bring forth here would be based on many realistic happenings were BDSM also present itself without been identified as one.
For instance, where I come from, there is a local charm (juju science) called àmúdó that makes a lady become submissive in a zombie-like manner (no joke) in an instant just by been touched with the ring where the juju is made into.
Permit me to digress a little bit by explaining somethings in order to make a point. She will be under the command of the amudo ring user who touched her with it, and once the user is done having intercourse with her, a drop of Èpò liquid (palm oil) on the finger is to contact her tongue, then only can the power of the charm be neutralized and she recovers her sense back.
Based on the research I’ve personally conducted carefully and scientifically I figured that our Yoruba ancestors invented this juju to be only used in a situation where a guy has been jilted by female lover who turns out to have just been faking her love for him while she spends his money while continue to refuse/deny him sex, using it as a powerplay or leverage to demand, or what we all understood today as ‘Gold-Diggers’. That’s only when someone can use the ring-based juju charm but all the while I have heard about it usage and have met those who have claimed to have used it, it has always been for the wrong purpose which isn’t related to what it was originally meant for, which is how I got to learn from the juju-makers (mystagogues) during my past investigation on this and many other stuffs that all of those who use it negatively and selfishly are all bound to suffer the repercussion, because what they do is to use the juju on damsels who have turned them down, and or have told them she isn’t interested in them, which to me is pure r@ape in the light of modern law.
Now, for a long time coming, I’ve been developing a BDSM story where I want to weave this amudo juju into, in a way that it will be so interesting, realistic, revealing and at the same time convincing, without shedding off the necessary dosage of BDSM elements that makes every DoFantasy fans embrace DoFantasy.com.
If I can tell a BDSM story with so much profoundness, do you think it matters much if the art is great or not ?
I’m asking in earnest.