#ffak aeschylus

[trashmouthjr]

wormy wormy wrom

[snackforaking]

Day 14

woohoo! two whole weeks ! ! !

decided to celebrate with Aeschylus, as a treat 💛

[kosmicdream]

[sootyships]

I'ma do this without anyone sending me a fandom bc ik nobody would send me FFAK. and I wanted to do it for FFAK.

The first character I first fell in love with: Aeschylus!

This was the first panel of FFAK that I saw. I was understandably intrigued... The toothy critter is Aeschylus, he's a cutie.

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Galore and a few others, but Galore was the first 180°.

This pair of legs becomes a beloved character.

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Spoon? No fr I assume everyone has about as complicated feelings about him as I do!

The character I love that everyone else hates: ??? Uhh... I don't think there's one!

The character I used to love but don’t any longer: It doesn't really happen in this direction for this comic. Maybe my opinion on Spoon has experienced the most fluctuations but I don't think I ever loved him, so. Maybe Good Leadman, in some way, but it's... also complicated.

The character I would totally smooch: Locket.

Aggressively tried to find a ~cool~ panel of him to put here that doesn't show his face cuz he's not fond.

The character I’d want to be like: They're all fucking disasters. Maybe Crimson, but that's, like. *waves hand vaguely*

Mood. They're a MASSIVE disaster. But they're kinda cool and genderweird, so, y'know. I think I'd make a pretty decent worm...

The character I’d slap: Spoon? Um. No, wait, ANTONY. 100%.

A pairing that I love: Rome/King makes me cackle evilly. The potential for drama makes it entertaining. Also Knife/Spoon? I just want them to be happy, somehow, weehhh. Which has its own massive amount of complications, hahahaha.....

A pairing that I despise: 🤔 I guess... Crimson/Celadon? Look, things are very complicated, okay. Even that's not so straightforward... I don't really do NOTPs, anyway.

+Other fave characters: Nail and Dylan and Fork and Cash and...

[ecto-paint-archives]

kosmic why do you hurt him like this.

aDD ONTO THIS, WE NEED TO SPOIL HIM

[quadrilioquy]

aeschylus…

[uraalice]

binge read all of feast for a king in two days and I’m going crazy

[thisismyideaofhumor]

just got all caught up with @kosmicdream‘s comic Feast For a King and I still havent gotten over chapter one

[asumiverde]

i love ffak and have been reading since 2016,,,,my proof-these old ass doodles i was too chicken to post

[strawberryitzi]

the big fav with his newest Look

please dont mind the single wonky eye kjfghfkdjhf

[craniumculverin]

was that weed-controlled dead worm rome and canary came across in the weed infested part of level k really aeschylus? they only had 4 eyes on their face - 2 of which had goat-like pupils ash never had - and they never showed if they had 2 more heads... plus it would mean the weed in aeschylus was following the two of them the whole time rome was flying, only to go all the way back to level h to “blossom” aeschylus 2.0... unless weeds can change their hosts appearance in the later stages of absorbing is info...

i don’t think that was aeschylus. it’s a different worm, not the one rome killed in the level h tunnel.

[trashmouthjr]

my brain is litrlly rotting to mush

[snackforaking]

Day 40

[kosmicdream]

Feast for a King is now over 7,000 pages long and this month it will be 8 years old. :D 

[thewebcomicsreview]

Feast For a King" Live Blog Chapter 1

(This was originally posted to my Patreon, but I’m slowly making this series public. I currently have a live blog out to FFAK Chapter 5, so check it out if you want to read more)

One of our several new patrons today (hello!) asked that I review the webcomic Feast For A King. I said no, because it's 6,500 pages and it would take me weeks, but we compromised and I'm going to live blog it instead.

We start off with a content warning that's fairly extensive. I think it's way better to have a big content page at the start of a a comic than have one in the middle of a chapter imminently before the content. It lets people know what they're in for right at the start and doesn't disrupt pacing. In that spirit, let be start by saying I'm not going to be sharing any upsetting imagery here. That'd be a shitty way to beta test a new Patreon idea. Also no NSFW things, since I don't want to get in trouble with the Patreon Police. This is a blind Let's Read, so I don't know how big a deal that'll be. I also don't intend to read all 6,500 pages, but we'll see how it goes as it goes.

We start with a sleeping woman waking up on a platform to find that she's tied up and being threatened by an Evangelion angel looking-thing that's eating a dude. That's definitely a gripping opening.

Our heroine attempts to escape the monster but her attempt does nothing...except indicate that this is perhaps going to be a horní comic with the way certain things are emphasized there. Is this woman wearing pants? I think so, but I honestly don't know and it's not outside the realm of possibility that she's not.

I do think there's an intentional artistic reason for the art quality becoming rapidly incomprehensible as the scene gets more chaotic. I'd go so far as to call it avant-garde and I can see myself coming around to defending this as genius. But I'm 20 pages in, and mostly I'm just having trouble following what's going on.

Our heroine - who is wearing pants, cool - is let go by the monsters. She's confused and so am I. Her neck started bleeding, and then her leg bindings turned into leg bracelets while her arms spawn normal bracelets. I'm starting to wonder if this is a dream sequence, but I think it's still just in medias res.

Our protagonist, who I hope gets a name soon, wanders into a mysterious labyrinth. She's thinking about how weird this is and how weird it is that she's not freaking out about it. Some of her thoughts are thought balloons, while some of her thoughts are square narration boxes. Something about this comic is giving off enough of an air of competence that I choose to believe this is galaxy brain genius foreshadowing and not an idiot creator being inconsistent for no reason. Anyway our protagonist is as annoyed as I am that she doesn't have a name, and throws up, not noticing that she vomited up a human finger. So...she's one of the monsters, then? Foreshadowed that a little hard, if so, but again I think this comic is going to be good so perhaps a double twist. She means a worm monster named Aeschylus. I suspect that's a reference and google it. Aeschylus was the ancient Greek dude who invented Tragedy. Cool.

Aeschylus pledges himself to the protagonist, claiming she is his savior, and then....gets shot? I think? This art is hard to follow. I'm told it gets better. Yeah, he's shot and killed by a man who "rescues" the protagonist. Pretty tragic. Maybe that's the joke that he's the father of tragedy by being friendly and immediately dying. I suspect he'll be back, though. End chapter one.

You know what? That was a pretty good first chapter. I'm hooked into the mystery. Let's see if the comic can keep that energy as it slows down and starts explaining things.

[ecto-paint-archives]

i took a long as nap after the march and had an... odd dream.

I was just kinda... laying on aeschylus. we were in a cave, nothing was being said. We just kinda stared at each other for awhile, but it wasn't hostile at all. if anything it was comfortable... 

It was super weird.