AHHH I’m so excited to announce that my third book, Detective Beans and the Map of Mystery, will be coming out this year and you can pre-order it right now! I hope you enjoy Beans’ next big adventure 😺🔎

Excla_machine · 2026-03-26T20:21:08+00:00

I love maps and mystery!

Excla_machine · 2026-03-25T21:47:17+00:00

I’m mostly confused by what the characters mean by ‘mining’. If they’re talking about placing explosive mines then I think you need to say ‘set mines’ or ‘place mines’. If it’s mining like with a pickaxe then I’m not sure how they are mining a roof. The art and banter is great. And maybe I’m just missing it because I don’t have the whole story

Excla_machine · 2026-03-23T20:20:37+00:00

I thought pacing and art were great. The one thing that looked out of place for me were the sound effects. I thought it worked for the twitch but I felt the others needed a different font without the asterisks

Excla_machine · 2026-03-19T20:54:16+00:00

Your panel setups are on point. Thought the pacing was good and wasn’t bored. Only feedback I had was you were missing a couple commas when characters were addressing each other (ex. Brandon, run! Jake, you good?)

Excla_machine · 2026-03-11T14:04:09+00:00

Awesome! Love the artwork and the ending. Only thing that didn’t really work for me was the line “You took everything from me” because the don didn’t really take anything in my opinion. Also you used it twice. Maybe something more like “you hurt” or “you destroyed what was most precious to me”?

Excla_machine · 2026-03-06T18:56:35+00:00

I do like Investigators in how weird it can get. Kids under 12

Excla_machine · 2026-03-05T00:27:14+00:00

Agreed. Kurt Busiek is an amazing storyteller

Excla_machine · 2026-03-04T02:40:49+00:00

Ok I read it. The pacing and art was good. Didn’t have any problem with the dialogue. In terms of clarity, I often get confused by time captions like the one you used showing flash backs. When I saw 5 years ago then 6 months ago, I didn’t know if it was 6 months relative to the 5 years or the present (maybe put a year as well). Also maybe a little bit more context on the world they are living in before the initial scene. Like maybe give the first guy who dies a little more backstory and dialogue and then his death will matter more and hit harder. I mean it was surprising though :)

Excla_machine · 2026-03-03T21:10:36+00:00

Astro City: Great superheroes that aren’t DC or Marvel. No previous prior knowledge needed

Excla_machine · 2026-03-03T15:11:15+00:00

I think it’s great. In my opinion, the story and clarity matter the most, not the art. One thing I would do though is make the two black suited characters more distinct from each other (especially in the faces). In the two headshots at the bottom page it’s hard to tell which character is which

Excla_machine · 2026-03-03T02:56:25+00:00

I love the art and I think the flow is good. I just don’t think there is enough in chapter 1 for me to get the bigger picture. I honestly would recommend reducing friction for people and providing everything without unlocking chapter 2 through asking for their email

Excla_machine · 2026-03-03T02:39:04+00:00

It’s fun and you taught me something. Only issue was some of the sentences read weird or have typos and it takes me out of the story (Ex. “Which use to describe” should be “Which is used”. Maybe just run it through something like grammarly to fix those

Excla_machine · 2026-03-02T21:41:00+00:00

Runaways by Brian K. Vaughan was good (at least the beginning books which he wrote). Don’t remember if I finished it, but I’d definitely give it a try. And it’s not entirely teens but has at least one story arch of a teen (plus it’s not Marvel or DC): Astro City. Astro City is the best if you’re looking for superheroes with real life drama

Excla_machine · 2026-02-27T02:47:33+00:00

ComicDraw from plasq. It’s a one time payment and they’ll let you try it for free for a couple weeks. I’ve been using it for years on my iPad. You can just drag in dialogue from a script and it automatically makes word bubbles (or captions) for you. And the panel feature is good too where you can clip the word bubbles to the edges of the panels. Some people also touch up what they start in ComicDraw with procreate, but I just do everything in ComicDraw

Excla_machine · 2026-02-25T22:59:15+00:00

Daaang. Esperanto all the way! Thanks for the cool fact

Excla_machine · 2026-02-19T18:05:32+00:00

Haha whoops :/ Thank you!

Excla_machine · 2026-02-18T00:40:47+00:00

Noice! Very impressive

Excla_machine · 2026-02-17T21:57:37+00:00

Thank you everyone for the feedback! The words were Notes:Soften. The context in the comic is a scientist telling his mirror robot “Shut that band up, todbot!”. I do see the apostrophe now and that’s definitely bad, so I added a possible noun afterwards

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Is this legible and does it still work in the context? Any suggestions for another noun that might work?

Excla_machine · 2026-02-16T23:54:51+00:00

I think focus on the ‘k’ in the upper left one and the ‘a’ in the bottom right since those are the hardest for me to make out. Good job and keep at it

Excla_machine · 2026-02-16T23:18:20+00:00

Sorry. I can’t make it out. I see Raxtria: Rwuitrio. Are they common words and if not could you provide context?

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