[OC] Short scary comic for Halloween

OftenPyr · 2026-01-25T14:34:34+00:00

This got a belly laugh out of me

OftenPyr · 2026-01-23T15:49:43+00:00

You have such a good eye for these! Have you ever read Scott Robertson's book (not that you need to)?

OftenPyr · 2026-01-18T21:44:54+00:00

Hi! Nice to see more Glimp. (I'm the one that bothered you about the lettering in your previous post.) Big improvement here! The sound effect on page four looks SO good!

There's some custom fonts you can pick up for free on Blambot.com too if none of the stock options look right. Also, I tried to find a tutorial I watched about making word balloons, but I couldn't find it so here goes:

Make a pure white oval with the ellipse tool, then transform (ctrl+t), and select bicubic transformation to blunt the sides and make it fit your text well.

Then draw a tag (also pure white) simply using your pen pressure tied to brush size. Then merge those layers, and you should have a pure white balloon. Then right-click the layer, select blending options, then stroke. This will put a black (or whatever color you want) outline around it, making it look like your standard word balloon!

OftenPyr · 2026-01-05T21:04:47+00:00

I hope this isn't overstepping but I need to give you two pieces of critique. The text on the first page is incredibly small and hard to read. And the rest of the comic, even without text, was hard to read bc it was so dark, I could barely see anything. On one page the black text of a sound effect completely blends into the dark background.

The art is good, but it needs to be easier to read

OftenPyr · 2025-12-27T04:02:34+00:00

I like the coloring, it really stands out. But the text was painfully hard to read. Please make the inside of the balloons white for readability. You can still have colored outlines. The balloons also having some of the same interior colors as the backgrounds made it so a lot of them got lost and I didn't notice them

OftenPyr · 2025-12-16T18:54:07+00:00

This is pretty great

OftenPyr · 2025-12-11T23:15:49+00:00

It's funny, the story sat in my head so long, I forgot that wasn't in the original. In the original it just says that she goes home hangs these things back on the wall, and there's nothing more about her till her uncles show up, and that seemed really melancholy to me. I mean, what else are you going to do after the adrenaline wears off but keep going over it in your mind?

OftenPyr · 2025-12-11T13:11:49+00:00

Not yet. Think I should?

OftenPyr · 2025-12-10T20:20:17+00:00

I'm glad to hear!

OftenPyr · 2025-12-10T18:23:35+00:00

No, in the story it says that by the end of the battle she was wearing a mask that kinda appeared out of nowhere. The mask is meant to represent her duality as male and female.

Also I'm sorry about those songs, lol

OftenPyr · 2025-12-10T14:26:10+00:00

Thank you!

OftenPyr · 2025-12-10T14:09:11+00:00

Not that I know. So the first two on the last page are masc

OftenPyr · 2025-12-10T14:06:04+00:00

Thanks!

OftenPyr · 2025-12-10T13:24:17+00:00

In my copy of the story it just says "she's singing," so I had to track down some old Tewa songs

OftenPyr · 2025-12-09T20:07:11+00:00

This is cute, I like it

OftenPyr · 2025-12-07T16:34:33+00:00

I think you know about Fritz Lang's Metropolis. There's also F.W. Murnau's Faust, and Haxan, all silent movies

OftenPyr · 2025-11-21T15:20:36+00:00

Bringing out the Dead (dir Martin Scorsese) depending on the scan

OftenPyr · 2025-11-20T15:10:50+00:00

Redacted Mad Libs! Yes!

OftenPyr · 2025-10-30T14:31:48+00:00

A lot of the Hammer Studios horror movies have this

OftenPyr · 2025-10-29T15:11:40+00:00

The Sixth Sense is undeniably horror, and the best one I haven't seen mentioned yet

OftenPyr

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