#FFAK

[kosmicdream]

I love manga and comics, but I gotta say. So many of the series i have found most influential to my work either won’t finish, have not finished, or finished in a sort of unsatisfying way. Even if they’re fine, its usually not like.. IT. This is a pretty common experience. I have had a lot more luck watching movies that have endings that felt worth the experience and I’ve started to try to read in hopes to get more exposure to “good endings”.. But i do wish it was more common in my favorite medium to like, have that experience! Even when the endings are pretty good (and there are some, i personally think “paradise kiss” had a great ending that makes me return to the series multiple times over the decades) - I also am like.. I dunno. Its never the highlight of the story, you know. Its not the main reason why you’d read it, is the ending. I would assume most stories across all mediums, the ending isn’t going to be the “best part” anyway. However, after finally finishing watching UTENA earlier this year, I can say that at least for that series (no movie spoilers pls, i still havent seen it ;n;) the ending was in fact, the best part to me and made the entire experience even more memorable and worthwhile to watch. Months later, I’m still kinda amazed that happened! Wish it was not so rare, but also what a treat to get to see something like that felt like what i think an ending to a story should be. Still not a manga/comic ofc, but y’kno. Still good.

Other strong endings for me were: Paradise Kiss (as I said above), There will be blood, Monster, NGE (specifically end of evangelion) … umm!  I don’t know.. Is that really it for me? I like the 98’ Trigun end, but i also hated it as a teenager. So its more of a “nostalgic” one to me, same with Princess Mononoke. I’ll include those just for the sake of having more to think of. There’s plenty more i am fine with and enjoy fine enough.. but i guess its a lot harder for me to find ones that last in my head as what i find to be a satisfying & impressive end.. Of course, endings are all based on taste. Maybe i just haven’t seen enough endings. I think this contributes, along with a plethora of other elements, why writing endings are so hard! There’s just a lot you want to say and it is such a long journey to get there anyway. You are filled with doubt with your executions of ideas, or maybe find the ending you thought of less satisfying than you used to think it was. The longer you spend with something, the more you might find issues. Plus, it really is so hard just to get there. You’re usually falling over with exhaustion just to get to the finish line, let alone do the ending of your dreams. I know when i get to the ends of my chapters, i’m usually so desperate just to get there, i end up feeling like they come out poorly vrs my vision for them. 

Yes.. i have been thinking about endings a lot. Its just something that’s always on my mind, with NRD nearing its close. It still is going to take time of course, but as I revise the last chapters I’m still like left with a lot of feelings with wondering how it’ll come out, if i can even do it, ect. I know i will, its inevitable. But after that, well, my big struggle with FFAK will continue. I know that NRD has given me more tools to handle a series as long as FFAK, but its still getting older and it can be harder to understand all the things I wanted to say with it, what I still can say with it and what is the most valuable to say with it. I can’t do everything! And i certainly have more ideas for it than I could draw, I’m excited to have the story close too. Before it used to make me too upset to even think it i’d cry.. But now i’m like yeah! I wanna know too. I want to share what I thought of, even if its not what readers might have thought it was going to be like. Honestly, with every choice i make in the story, i always have had at least 1 or 2 other options, and I get attached to the other versions of the story that i dont get to make. They all end up very different ends, but still more or less the same story regardless. 

Anyway, just some thoughts on writing and comics today…

[thefatking0]

heard yall liked fat (;

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82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil introduction

Knife introduction

Quarterfinals bracket

[wienners]

feast for a king is awesome the start of it feels like I am being ushered into a theater by kosmic who sits us down and goes "hello everyone! come into the theatre! take a seat! welcome to my web comic!!! ok so heres a character introduction :) they are not the main character :) and heres my different alien species and how they work! some are worms and some are bombs :)) arent they cute and cool and silly!! ok heres a 400 page long sex scene where a girl gets fucked through a stab wound in her chest while giving a genderless worm alien a tit job, then the worm alien (who uses all pronouns, is called a queen, and has a massive cock) has to perform surgery on her while her dick is still in her chest because if she pulls out the girl will die. the whole time she's still so horny she's trying to bounce on her dick while her stab wounds getting operated on. then they keep on fucking. ..............ok are the normies gone? all of them? ok awesome. now let's do a flashback scene! Get ready for a lot of those :)

[kageki-kokoro]

HEY IT'S UUUUUHHH A LITTLE GUY

King Aldebaran from Feast For A King by @kosmicdream. Go read it why haven't you read it.

[lintwizardlyart]

i may be late on this but i still had to give tribute to the webcomic of all time.

[bobthegoblin]

I have never made a better meme

[epicawesomewin-art2]

page 7373

[nerves-nebula]

this interaction interrupted two aliens fighting about if incest is gross and nasty or not. feast for a king is my favorite comic. where else would i get something like this. god i love this. please read feast for a king i need everyone to be as obsessed with it as i am.

[eddie-draws]

AGENT KNIFE. one of the guys of all time 🔪 (read FEAST FOR A KING!!!)

[kosmicdream]

[thefatking0]

heyyo guys! I'm so sorry that I haven't uploaded here in awhile!!! I've been a total airhead and forgot I had a tumbler 😭😅

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Eddie Kaspbrak introduction

Knife introduction

Championship bracket

[trashmouthjr]

wormy wormy wrom

[king-for-a-weekend]

Fit For a King - Falling Through The Sky