Like What?
I liked the simpler line style and slightly more comic book feel with deep shadows and character blocking - it seemed to go along with her recollections and Jungle Girl day dreams.
I did use a lot of black. I'm not sure why I moved out of that.
many of the characters are smaller busted
I have no problem with the smaller busts and in fact I like the variation as it makes things a bit more realistic and puts Pulse in perspective. Nudity did seem a bit much the first time too. Just how many shower scenes does one have in a day?
With Peeved we wanted variation. Honestly with Pulse I wanted Annie to stand out. I wanted her to be the maximum size I thought I could portray her as a competent superheroine, and then almost everyone else to be fairly normal. If I was making her physical change seem really dramatic in the story, I needed it to seem dramatic. She went from the smallest busted to being much bigger busted than anyone else.
It's actually page 58
Regarding the comic numbering conventions - you will note that the PNG file is number 58, hence the actual ordinal number of that strip is rather obvious to anyone who notices details like that.
I was just mentioning it because it threw me off at first. I was like "page 14, I don't remember her having her suit that early".
The only critique between the previous and current telling of the Pulse story is that I miss the greater sense of "discovery" and revelation from the first. Things occur a bit fast I think this time around and there are a few times that the unfamiliar might be caught saying "Why did that happen or who is that person?"
Really? I've worried that in retrospect I've tried to be too clever a few times and indirectly said things. Certain people who might not have read the first comic seemed confused about Grace. Some people critique that the overarching story is moving slowly (the relevance between the present and the beginning). I wonder if it's the story is moving fast short-term, but slowly long-term.
I kind of look at the first comic as having a lot of plot-points that go nowhere. I originally planned it to be three comics. That Sparrow/Tabitha would turn on them and Annie would have to defeat her. When I decided that Sparrow/Tabitha would stick around and the comic would last longer, I had to start adding in new elements. I added Connor's past, Nigel Robbins, Annie's dreams where she is Jungle Girl, Annie had to be in her suit to avoid growing when she was out of her room, and The Silver Dragon. Then that ended and I for a while started embracing the idea of it being an adult comic. I added in some more adult scenes, ignored Annie always having to wear her suit, Mira and Arim. Then I changed my mind again and started adding in more complex story elements and toning down the adult elements like when I started going into the history. I sort of kept changing my mind about what I wanted it to be. I also because I was rotating between different comics, I kept skipping over planned events to make it seem like time had moved ahead. I later regretted not keeping them as beginners for a longer time.
In the reboot I may have sped through some of the beginning because I was trying to keep old readers interested. Kind of like how different Spider-Man movies focus more or less on the origin. I tried to come up with a streamlined path while wasting as little as possible. My attempt was to review what I saw as flaws of the original and try to solve them, although maybe this one just has different flaws. People seemed to also be confused when Tabitha fought a double of herself. Maybe I didn't pull that off in an ideal way. Maybe I'm making it too complex.
Hopefully it isn't that it's hard for non-older readers to understand things. I have however put in easter eggs for older readers, although one doesn't come to mind right now.
One thing that's true in both is that usually it's one action chapter and then one non-action chapter.
I mentioned that same thing about some of the later PeEVEd installments when those uninitiated into the world of those particular video games might not have the back story and subtle things like inside jokes and allusions would be lost.
Yeah, maybe in retrospect we should have used fake games that we could introduce and then use as examples.