#paradise webcomic

[neonjawbone]

My webcomic PARADISE resumes this friday after a 4 year long hiatus. Wanna know what it's about? Here's a primer! It's got a 260+ page backlog (350 pages on patreon) so its a good time to check it out!! Here’s what’s written in the images for those who need it:

WHY YOU SHOULD READ MY WEBCOMIC PARADISE by NJ “Neonjawbone” Barna

Paradise is a shonen inspired, super-powered/action/rom-com/crime drama webcomic. It follows Pam, a delinquent daughter of a city councilman in a world of superpowers. Through CONSEQUENCES she ends up having to work for the city fighting super-powered crime, and is partnered with her childhood frenemy Evon. Following a rocky start, the pair become friends...and perhaps something more??

In the city’s shadowy underground, the Nebula Cartel holds an iron grip over crime in the city, but there’s dissent among it’s members in how to proceed with it’s long-term plans. The city itself isn’t clean either, lurking just beneath the surface are the machinations of the government officials, and not everyone wants to use their authority for good.

It’s got action!! It’s got jokes!!

It’s got intrigue!! It’s got heart!!

It’s got an ensemble cast!!

And it updates Tuesdays on Patreon and on Fridays at globalcomix.com/c/paradise! The patreon archive is about a year ahead of the GC archive, as a little incentive to join my Patreon, wink.

Thanks for reading!

And as a final note, from my initial “Paradise is back” post: 

I want to thank everyone who stuck around. For anyone who shared this comic, who read it, who’s been here since the hiatus started in 2018. And I especially wanna thank my patrons, for sticking with Paradise while updates were drip-fed for YEARS, often going months at a time inbetween single pages. I really needed this time, to grow as a person, an artist, a storyteller, and to evaluate what this comic means to me and what it should be going forward. I appreciate your support so much more than you could ever know.

To my new readers, welcome! The comic you’re about to read is something I’ve been drawing since 2015, and it’s quality (in the early chapters especially) reflect that. I hope you enjoy it.

PARADISE IS BACK, BABY.

READ PARADISE

ON PATREON

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PARADISE CHAPTER SEVEN // Page 30

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oghhggh winslow were really in it now arent we

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Comic Master Posts

Original Comics

Falling Cards

Escape Goat

Ghost Soulmate

AUs

FNAF Creations AU

Four Swords Returns Pages 1-411

Four Swords Returns Pages 412-

FSR Side comics

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he always does this

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Ángeles fugitivos, o, "Starkiel & Hutchiel".

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webtoon recommendations pt 1

Phantom Paradise by Rurisen

Genre: Fantasy

Desc: A male concubine climbs his way up in the imperial harem of Phantom Paradise, hiding an ulterior motive.

Personal thoughts: I think that this is an amazing webtoon with an excellent storyline, an interesting backstory that is linked to real life history (with a twist ofc!). The webtoon also has really epic fight scenes, detailed and creative character designs. Moreover, the overall graphics are to DIE FOR! Therefore, I definitely recommend you to watch this webtoon series. Link Below!

more recommendations coming next week!

[neonjawbone]

I made Pam TEN FUCKIN YEARS AGO. She's T E N. A DECADE. 

My imperfect first child, the first cool girl I ever made, pointy-nosed pugilist and jerk with a heart of gold. I love you, jesus christ I'm sorry your webcomic isn't done yet.

Read PARADISE

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REGARDING THE FUTURE OF PARADISE... 2023 VERSION

I had to clear this blog in order to re-edit the order of early pages. I will be slowly re-uploading the archive, with new lettering and some slight ret-cons, followed by a return to weekly updates.

In the mean time, You can read the entire archive over on GlobalComix where weekly updates will resume on Friday, 1/27/2023. If you like what’s out on GC, you can read further archives on my Patreon (Chapter 8 starts here)

My patrons will continue to get updates as they happen, on Tuesday nights! This means my patrons will always be ahead of the public archive. Currently, there are 70 pages for my patrons only.

I’ll delete this post when the entirety of the archive is up to date on here. Ideally I’d like to update Paradise on both tumblr and GlobalComix on Fridays and update it on Patreon on Tuesdays.

I want to thank everyone who stuck around. For anyone who shared this comic, who read it, who’s been here since the hiatus started in 2018. And I especially wanna thank my patrons, for sticking with Paradise while updates were drip-fed for YEARS, often going months at a time inbetween single pages. I really needed this time, to grow as a person, an artist, a storyteller, and to evaluate what this comic means to me and what it should be going forward. I appreciate your support so much more than you could ever know.

To my new readers, welcome! The comic you’re about to read is something I’ve been drawing since 2015, and it’s quality (in the early chapters especially) reflect that. I hope you enjoy it.

<3

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What are your favorite pieces of media?

hhhhng Uhhhh

growing up, probably The Pendragon Chronicles- from what I recall it's a series of books about a kid who has to correct cataclysmic events on a bunch of separate worlds caused by a being who intends to end life on all of them.

One world is Modern Earth, where he's the only one able to use the portal to travel to other worlds, one is 1920's Past Earth, one is Future Earth in a sort of cyberpunk setting, one is a desert planet in the midst of war, one is a jungle world in which the dominant species is a race of bipedal cats, one is a water world where all food is farmed on a series of island-sized boats.. and I think that's all of them, unless I'm forgetting?

And on each world there's one guardian, and they meet up and fight and shit, and they can't blow their cover on any world, and each world has a large, distinct world-ending event brewing- The water one may lose their source of food, for example, and in future-earth people are wasting away in a virtual reality game they become addicted to.

It's one of the rare long series of teen books that I feel had a pretty satisfying ending despite the huge buildup, and I'd really recommend it to anyone interested.

I also really like X-Men, and Trigun, and while I haven't seen the new Percy Jackson series it was UNCONTESTED my number one favourite- I still have it on my shelf, absolute A+.

Aaaaand.... I enjoy the Batman Fandom more than most of the comics themselves but I'm in there, too. Was a homestuck cosplayer back in the day, as well. Loved Gravity Falls, loved Steven Universe.

Six Underground ins my favourite "sick at home" comfort movie. Also the only two John Wick movies in existence, shame they never made more sequels. Lord of the Rings. The Princess Diaries. Stardust. Ella Enchanted.

Oh, and the Inkheart books were FABULOUS. Really, they read like nothing else, just such a fantastic and unique flavour in fantasy!

Uhhhhh. Hellboy, too. Hell's Paradise. Bleach. Darker Than Black I vaguely remember enjoying, but I have the DISTINCT MEMORY of despising season two, so fuck that shit, whatever it was.

And I remember... oh, maybe twelve years ago, now? Really liking the spy series Nikita, and the urban fantasy Lost Girl, though I don't think I finished either.

Oh, and Elementary is a must-watch!

Poirot, too, and Perry Mason, and Midsommer Murders.

Also Blown Away, glassmaking reality series, and Forged In Fire, a bladesmith reality series.

Kitchen Nightmares, Hotel Hell, Hell's Kitchen, all good.

Puppet History. Watcher. Game Changer.

And webcomics Dead End and Check Please.

................I may need to spend more time on this

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Falling Cards Paradise within Reach Pages 262-268

Mm mistakes were made.

[samantha-and-her-chaotic-desires]

Hello hello hello! Welcome aboard~

I hope you give this a read. Please share if you enjoy!

This is my Hazbin Hotel x Lackadaisy Sinner!Mordecai AU!

I call it Hellcat!Mordecai AU. Anything to do with this fic I shall tag as #Hellcat!MordecaiAU

Hope you enjoy!~ <3

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2024 Winter Anime Lineup (Master Post?)

First post for a new blog where I'm going to try and record my opinions, break downs, comparisons, and various degrees of squees about anime!

The lineup for this year's Winter isn't as packed as the 2023 Fall season was, but that's always the case. It sure is still causing my To Watch List to keep getting longer... but more importantly because it's so lacking in big name shows one of my most anticipated shows gets to shine...

SOLO LEVELING

俺だけレベルアップな件

LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!!

I'M SO EXCITED FOR MY SHADOW BOY TO FINALLY ARRIVE!!!

also, holy CRAP look at all this TRADITIONAL FANTASY!!! There is even a decent selection of non harem Isekai this round too! And a lot of awesome sequels/continuations!

Anyways, here's what's on my to watch list for this season! I'll be posting about them in their own or other threads as I figure out how I want to set this blog up. My reasons for WHY I'm watching what I'm watching

Definitely Will Watch!

Solo Leveling / 俺だけレベルアップな件

Apothecary Diaries /薬屋のひとりごと(Continued)

Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi) / ダンジョン飯

The Villains Day Off / 休日のわるものさん

Undead Unluck / アンデッドアンラック(Continued)

Fire Hunter (Hikari no Ou) 2nd Season / 火狩りの王

High Hopes / Might Drop / Taking My Time

Sasaki and Peeps / 佐々木とぴーちゃん

The Witch and the Beast / 魔女と野獣

Doctor Elise / 外科医エリゼ

Cherry Magic (THIS ENGLISH TITLE LMAO) / 30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい (DEF WATCHING THIS ONE NOW)

Shangri-La Frontier / シャングリラフロンティア　(Continued)

Beyond Journey's End / 葬送のフリーレン (Continued)

Gonna Give Them A Few Episodes

Mashle Season 2

Fluffy Paradise / Isekai de Mofumofu Nadenade Suru Tame ni, Ganbattemasu (I'm doing my best in another world to pet fluffy creatures)

Ishura

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic / 治癒魔法の間違った使い方

Blue Exorcist / Ao no Exorcist (OUT OF LEFT FIELD THIS ONE)

Delusional Monthly Magazine / Gekkan Mousou Kagaku

This is already insanely long, so the second half of this essay about what I think is below ↓↓↓↓

DEFINITE WATCH LIST

SOLO LEVELING - I've been waiting for the solo leveling anime since BEFORE the anime was ever announced, re-reading the webcomic/manhwa multiple times and just HOPING someone would animate these gorgeous shadows. It is a very well done power fantasy with only squints of romance, and while I'm sad it's been localized to Japan (and all the fuckery that comes with of Korean erasure), I got to see the first two episodes at the World Premiere and I. Am. So. Hype.

APOTHECARY DIARIES existed completely outside of my head space, and my initial response at the premise was, Raven of the Inner Palace? I wasn't actually expecting much from it and then the first few episodes BLEW ME OUT OF THE WATER and now I'm obsessed.

DUNGEON MESHI is one of those manga I've heard about, but tried reading and it was too slow paced for me (I say, currently slogging through The Boat Arc (TM) of Hunter x Hunter), but the anime gives it life and I think I'll enjoy this alot. I love cooking anime and fantasy, so this will be fun!

KYUJITSU NO WARUMONOSAN is just straight up Crow Bait. That curly bowl cut, the gap moe of a villain who loves cute things, and voiced by fricken Shintarou Asanuma!!! (I know him as Samatoki from HypMic, other's will know him from the "Fucking Bullshit" song from Carole and Tuesday, and a host of other roles) Also, all the pretty sentei / power ranger boys!!! I'm so hype, in the most relaxed chill way for this.

UNDEAD UNLUCK is so weird in that it involves a lot of random sexualization, but it doesn't make me uncomfortable like Seven Deadly Sin's random gropping did, maybe because there is actual implied consent involved. Fuuko and Andy are Poly and I love them for it. And the world building is TOP NOTCH.

FIRE HUNTER - If you haven't seen season one, you are missing out. A darkly beautiful post-post apocolyptic alternate Japan-esque world, from the POV of a young girl, and a young genius boy having to let himself be manipulated by capitalism to survive, and gods? a magic system? but so soft that it's barely there even while being a full on fantasy story.

High Hopes or Taking My Time

SASAKI AND PEEPS- What a weird little show that has the weirdest combination of isekai, the most "this is fine." salaryman, and a fricken' CHUNIBYO BIRB. I've already watched the first episode and it feels like there are two magic systems going on and its a bit confusing, so we will see how this plays out!

WITCH AND BEAST - I keep wanting to call this Beauty and the Beast, because the beast is a rad bad ass looking lady, and the witch is certainly one of the most beautiful undertakers I've ever seen. I think he carries his boyfriend around in his coffin backpack, so I'm hype to see WTF is up with that >o>

DOCTOR ELISE - Why do manhwa I read keep randomly popping up as anime??? This is a vilainess turned good story, and supposedly the market is full of these, but none of them are the good ones I've read, so I did a double take of happiness when I saw this. THIS ONE IS GOOD. An spoiled princess gets killed, is reborn in Korea and becomes a doctor, only to be killed by Airplane-kun, and winds up back in her old body where she decides to become a doctor again! The prince is even not your typical icy asshole! (although maybe he is a little at the beginning..)

CHERRY MAGIC - THIS FRICKEN ENGLISH TITLE GOOD LORDS ABOVE. I'm dying. I'm also excited to see this one play out and I'll be hiding behind a pillow giggling like a mad lad while I do. It's been a while since there's been a good BL that's not SAD (looking at YOU Given and Banana Fish, but avoids eye contact with Sasaki and Miyano) so hopefully it doesn't dip into that territory. Going into this one mostly blind as to the premise apart from the obvious Gap-Moe with the love interest.

SHANGRI-LA - I started watching this on a whim as the Fall season started to wind down, and found it to be a good potato chip to have on in the background. I'll probably continue watching it, but not weekly.

FRIEREN - This is what I watch when Jujutsu Kaisen hurts too much to keep going. I'm only a few episodes in, so it'll be slow going, but I think it's about to pick up it's pacing a little where I'm at, and it'll be good comfort food to have.

MAYBES

Mashle Season 2 - The pacing was SUPER WEIRD in the first season that despite all of it's shitting on the properties of she-who-shall-not-be-named, the end of the season kind of fell flat. I wanted to like it more, so I'm hoping Season 2 does that for me.

Fluffy Paradise - I love isekais with an adult in a child's body pretending to be just super smart, and this doesn't feel like it's going to do that, but still looks cute none the less. I'll give it a few episodes, but will quickly drop it if my watch list is too long.

Ishura - Is this what life is like for D&D Characters when they hit level 20? I HOPE SO. I LOVED the Legend of Vox Machina, and hope this has the same sort of vibes, but I'm going in blind!

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic - Love me some fucked up healing magic. Please DO NOT let this be ANYTHING like Redo Healer. I refuse to watch that even those FUCKED UP HEALING MAGIC IS FUN. But this. This I want to see. Please let this also not be a harem. I'm fine with ~vibes~ but please no actual harem that's not actually Poly.

Blue Exorcist - THIS IS TOTALLY OUT OF NOWHERE. HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN?????? I remember the last season feeling like a disappointment? But can't remember why? Gonna see if this is worth re-watching the seasons from like... a decade ago.

Delusional Monthly Magazine - I watched the PV and had no fucking clue what was happening. Therefore, I will be watching a few episodes to sate my curiosity about WTF OR possibly just get myself even more confused and rage quit. lmao

I've watched the first few episodes of a couple of these, and will be watching a few more tomorrow, so Next Goal: Post a write up or three about what I think!

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I really wish Lore Olympus would hold any of the characters accountable for how they treated Demeter.

Zeus ate her mother alive, shoved his nymph-flings onto her, basically making her an accomplice in his frequent cheating on Hera and when she finally had enough and told him off, he burned down her home. Nothing comes of this, except for Demeter kinda calling him out once in Persephone’s trial.

Poseidon fathered a child with her, then proceeded to dump her and never once made an attempt to get in contact with his son or provide any sort of child support. Again, the most Demeter gets here is being allowed to roast his ass a bit in one scene during the trial.

Hades sabotaged her attempt to become Queen of the Mortal Realm, a title she had well earned through her contributions in the Titanomachy, by not only voting against her when everyone else approved but also bribing Zeus into changing his vote into a negative one as well. For literally no reason aside from implied greed on his part. Because the big man-baby wanted to keep his volcanoes for himself. When Demeter is rightfully pissed about this and comes to him to ask what his fucking deal is, he patronizes her and offers no explanation whatsoever, let alone an apology. Then years later he makes a move on her underage daughter and basically grooms her into becoming his girlfriend, all the while keeping it a secret from her. And when Demeter is obviously not pleased about this, she’s framed as a spiteful, overprotective tiger mom who should just lay off and leave the happy couple alone.

Hera and Hestia, her sisters, the ones who should know best how traumatized the events of the war have left her, actively avoid her. Hestia because she’s so flakey that her allegiance apparently changes with the wind and Hera because she’s so self-absorbed she can’t see how much her sister is hurting.

Hera also helps set Demeter’s, again, underaged daughter up with her former boy-toy Hades because Hades is lonely and Hera’s classist ass doesn’t like that he’s dating Minthe, a nymph (Yes, I know Minthe is abusive, doesn’t change the fact that Hera’s main problem with Minthe wasn’t the abusiveness but that Minthe is a river-nymph and not a goddess like herself). She then intentionally keeps this a secret from Demeter, helps hide Persephone’s disappearance from Demeter without a hint of guilt and when Demeter later calls her out on basically shooing her daughter into the hands of a predator, Hera, again, shows zero remorse or guilt. It’s again framed as Demeter just being clingy and overprotective with Persephone and to add insult to injury, Hera is portrayed as in the right for what she did because Persephone didn’t want the exclusive scholarship Demeter acquired for her anyway.

Oh, and let’s talk about Persephone.

Demeter, as she herself points out, literally gave Persephone paradise on Earth in the Mortal Realm. A peaceful green land were Persephone grew up with no fucking worries whatsoever and dozens of friends in the form of the flower nymphs. But because the narrative can’t leave Demeter alone, this is framed as her smothering Persephone and keeping her from developing her powers.The latter is revealed to be because of Persephone being a fertility goddess and Demeter being afraid of others fidning out because fertility goddessess tend to get eaten alive for their powers by other gods. Persephone, like the spoiled brat she is, dismisses everything Demeter does for her and all of Demeter’s trauma in favor of snuggling up to hot blue chunk of man-meat Hades. Persephone never asks about Demeter’s time as a mortal, hell, she fucking forgets about Demeter, her own mother, as soon as Kronos is dead and she gets to snuggle with rich boy Hades again.

In conclusion, this webcomic has way too much fun invalidating and shitting on Demeter and excusing it by villainizing her. Unfortunately this is something a lot of modern interpretations of the abduction of Persephone have in common. Demeter, my girl, I’m so sorry that everyone is doing you so fucking dirty in your own story, you deserved better.

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3, 9, 28, 29, and 30? For the oc ask game thing! :)

3. Biggest self-insert OC?

The Personality Intelligence Networking Emulator, or P.I.N.E.! She's my Portal 2 OC/Self Insert and a character I've had for the longest time. Honestly one who's gone through some of the most iterations.

9. Favourite OC?

My OC's Zion and Artemis! (They're tied) These are my webcomic OC's and some characters I hold really close to my heart, just due to the time they were created and what they've become.

28. Favourite songs at the moment?

Goddess - PVRIS

Trouble in Paradise - The Entropy Centre OST

Bots Build Bots - Portal 2 OST

Timeline (Astral Express) - Honkai Star Rail

29. What was your first fandom you were in? Did you make any art/fanfic for it?

The Legend of Zelda! Made stuff in the beginning and still do! (Fanfiction not as much, though I have had ideas that simmer in the background for fics. These is all recent art I've made for the series!)

30. How are you doing? <3

I've certainly been better, it's been a bumpy year, but in the grand scheme of things, I'm doing okay! Certainly keeping busy with Portal stuff like my comics and shop- which I've never done before! Thank you for asking~