Radaketor's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Potatoman Begins: Prologue]

Think it needs some cool comic book cover to really get people hyped for his origin story but it's still neat like this anyway, just coming across him all of a sudden in his hide-out, I'm really curious to see what he looked like before he was a potato superhero. Would've figured he'd have some hot potato-on-potato action playing on his computer instead of a hit-list, though.
Your idea of submitting a page every week is kinda cool, makes it feel like a real comic.

ChazDude responds:

I had made some art for a poster or something like that, and this comment reminded me to actually finish it, so here it is:
http://www.newgrounds.com/dump/item/8933b164c413eb2f3a545b597278213c

Nothing too fancy. Maybe when chapter 1 is done I'll draw a proper cover c:

[Age Of Trolltron]

Cock-teasing us with that greatest joke ever written, eh?

Neato 500th edition filled with references and throwbacks to past strips you've made, it's the little things like the lighting emanating from something that's obviously supposed to be glowing, the smudges in the ye ol scrolls, the blur of things in the distance and the textures in backgrounds/characters are always nice to see, a display of how much detail you like putting into all your works. Plus a cool continuation from the 200th and 250th specials.

There are a few slightly useless panels like when the King's telling the story and he just suddenly stops, looked a bit like you were just trying to give another row of panels but who knows, it might've been some joke I totally missed. Also the text used in those scrolls could be a tad hard to read sometimes, had to click the comic and zoom in sometimes just to read it.

Really liked it, both looking forward to whatever next special you make and to see both Dave and Carl in their day to day life. Here's hoping you get to the 1000th eventually!

ChazDude responds:

It's these long reviews of yours that always put a smile on my face. Thanks :)

(btw I've calculated that #1000 comes out on Halloween 2019, so while #600 may not be that special (sorry) keep an eye out in several years)

[Volter's New Weapon Pt.3]

Bit sad that we didn't get to see what the trio hallucinated this time while on their potato powered high but I imagine those were getting kind of annoying and repetitive for you to think of and draw.

The 7th panel looks exactly like it was drawn on MS Paint if it weren't for the light effects on those little blue holes, but the rest of the comic was nice looking, especially the surprisingly animated part, Potatoman's look on that last panel is simply wonderful, just hope Carl won't empty his stomach in the next edition, he seems to be feeling a bit sick already.

Hope this isn't the end of their adventure but I can't really think of what other formats you'll be able to implement (if you're even planning on doing so), maybe one of those that looks like ascii art would be cool.

ChazDude responds:

I agree, panel seven saddens me to some extent -_-

This is the end of this mini-series, but something even bigger is coming (as well as more gifs :D)

[Volter's New Weapon Pt.2]

Cool how you still kept Dave and Carl in their low resolution selves even while in good quality looking locations, I'm a bit curious of how you did that, actually. Did you draw it first then converted it to a jpg with low quality, afterwards made it a png once again with transparent background to add on top of the comic or?

I don't think I ever noticed Potatoman was Irish, thank good for that Irish doorstep and neato for you for referencing a previous comic in this one, gives it a feel of continuity that's often missing in your comics, like when either of the protagonists get maimed/killed.

ChazDude responds:

I copied and pasted Dave and Carl onto a seperate canvas (using paint.net's magic wand tool) and saved it as a .jpeg, then I posted it back into the main file.

And a bit of continuity is nice every now and then.

[Volter's New Weapon Pt.1]

I was planning on making a single review for this 'saga' of the Dave and Carl comics but with the third part of it coming out I felt like making individual ones for every one of them, hopefully they'll give you a bit of a boost on the ratings (assuming of course review scores matter).

Novel idea and actually changing the look of some panels as the weapon takes it's effects was pretty neat, it was a nice touch although it might be a bit hard to notice them if you miss the joke at the start, I see that some of your fans missed it just in the reviews section. The beam looks a tad scummy in the 8th panel but I guess that was on purpose, right? And speaking of the 8th panel, having one part of it in low quality and the bottom in normal was a nice touch.

[Newgrounds Annual Swimsuit Competition 2016 Group Pic]

They're all bunch of whores, except that muse-like virgin Gyarados girl, she's worth at least 100 stars but NG won't let me give it anything higher than 5 so...
Looking forward for next year's and whomever participates in it.

[RoboDave 3.0 v.s Volter XXL]

You should link in the author comments section all the older versions of RoboDave from 2014 and 2015, I looked through your art to find them and it's really a nice evolution since the first version from back in '14.
Really neat illustration with far more details than all the previous ones, only things I can really think of that I think you might've missed was getting rid of Carl running away (you had that be a thing in the two previous ones) but I guess he's be used to this by now, wouldn't he? And the sky background looking kinda empty aside from a few clouds, maybe some moon or a rising sun would've been neat but Potatoman and the chopper did a fine job at filling-up space.
Still, really cool. Have you thought about selling some of these as posters?

ChazDude responds:

I'll go and add those links, brb.

One thing I probably should've done was fill the top-right corner with some more stuff, but thanks for the input!

As for posters, I'll have to look into that.

[Room With A View]

Ya gotta love Dave's psychotic attitude towards life.

The art is really great and i'm liking the lighting effects you're putting on each of your latest comics but maybe work a bit more on the humour? Some are really funny, others not so much and rely more on shock value, it's not bad just very hit and miss.

ChazDude responds:

I can see what you mean, there are times when I'm in a writer's block and one of Dave's psychotic moments is the only thing I can come up with.

[Tooth]

This reminds me so much of a snake eating it's own tail in a never ending cycle.

I'm guessing Carl got all those fans from recording and posting online other stuff Dave's done throughout the years? Could be neat if there was a future comic where Dave would discover he's intenetz famous.

Keep up the good work, your strips are getting more detailed as time goes by.

ChazDude responds:

Lol, how many more ideas do you have up your sleeve? :)