A Polar Nightmare
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Once upon a time, there was a little boy named Willy, who, every year would write to Santa and ask him for that much-desired present he wanted for Christmas.
But something went wrong last December 25th. He sent his letter as usual, but he didn't get his present. So in desperation, he decided to go and ask Santa in person why he didn't deliver his gift.
Jimmy and his best friend Willy, set out on a journey of their lives, venturing into the heart of the North Pole to visit Santa Claus!
Things don’t go as planned, and after visiting Santa's house; they wished they never left their home.
Now, surrounded by trouble, they will have to find out how to survive the Nightmares of the North Pole!
Thanks for checking out the comic guys!
cheers!
Outstanding. All your zuda comics have been phenomenal. It's sad to see you so low in the rankings.
Well done Amancay. Really it's a scary story. WAITING FOR MORE.
weeena Amancay
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había visto uno los dibujos, pero jamás me imaginé que fuera Santa! Saludos
buena amancay!!! aki va mi voto para ti!!! un besito y a ganar!!!!
Listo el voto...
Cuanto virtuosismo maestro!!!!!
EXITO Amancay con el comic!!!!
ya voté y también hice que votaran unas amigas!
Un abrazo de lo tco...
Jessica.
Hahahaha, Why Santa is so Ugly! hahahah, and I am sure he does not smell good. Is there any place called "bathroom" for Santa? Congratulations!!, the way you turn the emotion was awesome.
wn, casi me da miedo cuando veo a esas minas y después a esa especie de Bulbasaur.
abrazos!
Excelente Amancay!saludos, y suerte en la competencia!
this is wild!
To frequentcontributor,
If you're going to make such a big deal about someone else's spelling, you might want to check your own before posting....."about the time to sexy ladies showed up".....I do believe the number 2 is spelled "t" "w" "o" ...... LOL
Annb,
Love the storyline and the way the art transitioned from cute cartoon kids in the beginning to more realistic rendered bugs at the end.
@rkb: thnx for the great review man!
@thefarlande: awesome! xD
@odojohn1104, @rburton, @ sanchezgoswest, @chinadoll, @polka dancer, @dhend, @mrgordon: thanks for your great comments people!!
@mizu-gon jinn: uuups, sorry 'bout that :P
@scott-harris: i'll check it out ;)
@bluemaxx: glad you liked the art :)
@foz: thanks fella!
@pathnine: as soon as i get some free time, i'll email you ;)
My review here:
http://pigs-of-the-industry.blogspot.com/2009/10/zuda-review-polar-nightmare-now-this-is.html
Crossover!
http://thefarlander.deviantart.com/art/Zuda-October-09-Crossover-140759405
This would be a good horror story. Good art, nice worms out of the eyes. I want more!!
It's like if Warren Ellis had sex with the Baron Harkonnen--and Santa was their horrible love child.
This is a cool story. And it has really great art work.
Horribly cute, horribly cute, horribly cool. Love the art. Love the story. Good luck this month... tough competition.
really well done!
Great pacing and that reveal on page 7 is nine kinds of scary.
Hey annb! Love this! It's cool to see you play around with a slightly more cartoony look too.
Thank you Annb... But I'm no "man", actually! :D
Howdy. I recently posted reviews of this month's comics on my website and thought you might be interested. The article can be found here:
http://comicsvault.blogspot.com/2009/10/zuda-week-october-reviews-part-1.html
Good luck and keep creating.
I barely gave it a 3 out of 5, mostly due to the art. But the evil Santa, making naughty kids pay, hasn't been an uncommon theme. Specifically a Santa whose views on what is naughty is very strict. Like Futurama's Santa, with a dash of The Nightmare Before Christmas with the theme as a whole. Not to compare, but you haven't brought really anything new to the table. But again, nice artwork.
Nice Santa. I'd leave out some milk and cookies for him any day...Love your style dude.
Oops, my e-mail is: captioncomix (at) gmail.com. Thanks! -Daniel
Dear Amancay, I just read your comic and I am very impressed by it! My favorite things about it are the art, the coloring, and the concept. Congratulations on making it into this contest! If you don't mind, could you send me an e-mail so that I can talk to you about something important? Thanks! -Daniel
@mfdoomsday: thanks doom! I'm a big fan of Burton!
@nandop: weena! gracias!
@Mizu-Gon Jinn: welcome man!
@TheFarlander, @Davidlevack: yeah, there's a lot to still work on, but i'm glad you enjoyed the art.
@Swight L MacPherson: Glad you enjoyed it!
@frequentcontributor: wow, this is the worst comment ever ;)
@Ombo, @C.Edward Sellner, @Dave Flora, @Neutron, @Crush:thanks man!
@zero-warrior:meh!
I love the art, and believe it or not but what the story can be. This reminds me of Invader Zim mixed with a Tim Burton movie, and i think it should be given a chance.
Weeeena loco! mucha suerte y exito con el comic!
Hi there, this is my first comment ever on Zuda! I hope I'll be able to say something with sense. :)
I think I'll begin with commenting the story.
I always appreciate sudden and disturbing twists in a plot, but I quite expected this one. It didn't arouse my curiosity. And, even though English isn't my native language, I feel that the rhyming is forced, especially as far as the metrics are concerned.
I liked the art more, though. I'm not so fond of what the kids look (a bit too adult to me), but I like the choice of cold, greyish colors. I agree that the overall look of the first pages is very nice, too.
Hope to have said something intelligent. It's not easy to begin commenting with a critique. :)
All can agree the rhyming t'is a bit much,
but the drawing and inking are both quite top notch.
The subject matter is perverse and twisted,
and it's strengths and weaknesses are thoroughly listed.
All in all this comic is a very amusing diversion,
to find our dear Santa, covered in bugs and perversion.
But, I don't think this comic will do as well as it could have,
as if it had been a bit more standard like the rest here at Zuda.
oh and by editor, I don't just mean grammatically.
Your art is fantastic, but I find myself giving low marks because OVERALL it suffers from the writing. That is after all what we're going for, a complete piece of work. I think it'd benefit you to have a writing partner, or at the least an editor. Good luck.
A great, totally warped concept with very nice art. The only downside is the rhyming throughout. I found it to be erratic and amateurish. Good luck in the competition, though. If you win you can fix it up. :)
Wow, this is the worst comic ever. I was actually enjoying the art and layout design on the first few pages, but those atrocious rhymes and hilariously bad spelling/grammar ("kidney are"? "red suite"?)mistakes really stopped up the reading flow for me. Then the art stopped looking so pretty right about the time to "sexy" ladies showed up. Slightly original concept, but nobody wants to keep reading a X-Mas comic past December, which your next pages probably wouldn't drop until after, if you won. And that rhyming... that horrible, horrible rhyming.
Welcome back annb. This is crazy stuff! Great work and good luck!
Now...THAT's a Santa I haven't seen before. Shiver! Good work there!
Nice work - it's an original idea and you have drawn it nicely with quite a simple style that is good to support your story. You seem to have gone for upsetting people - not just "Santa doesn't exist", but he does exist and he's Nasty! There are lots of interesting ways you could take this, and I hope to get to see what you do. I'm hoping that the badly rhyming dialogue is deliberate and that it stops soon though - it is horrid to read - but that might just be part of the nightmare . . .
WT?...Twisted! ... LOVED IT!...Great, great art! ( & color choices). Plus...Alright, you go from elves...!?!!!...Next Page...WT!?!!... great delivery! What an emotional rollercoaster in just 8 screens! Those Poor Kids!... yet, are they the greedy, nasty kids gettin the oldschool bad peoples' come-uppance moral,(which I always liked), taken to a new Extreme!?! Fun! Brilliant! Kudos to you, sir!
Annb just keeps coming with the hits huh? Love the originality of this, very bold move. The rhyming...I could do without, its a little too loose and a little too forced. The art style is creepy and I think fits the mood of the story well. As for Santa? Well, let's just say I'm now glad I don't have a fireplace in my house. :)
I wasn't moved at all... the art is great, the composition and flow of the story is great, but its just the story itself is not appealing, by the time I reached the last page I wasnt interested in finding more.
also this contains some obvious comic cliches; sexualized women and using obesity and bugs to convey "creepy"... meh
Looks like there's no space for gray here, or it's black or white, you really like it, or you really hate it hahahaha
@zerocalcare, @Gunslinger1983, @sidazri, @PowFlip, @ReddAvie, @PhillC, @talkinaboutcomics, @MONSTAR555, @wolvesfan, @tomstan, @ptimony and @Dr.Toe Jam, Thanks for checking out the story and posting. A few thoughts after reading the posts, Yes, i left a lot of white space on purpose. If you've been following my previous entries you'll notice variations between all of them, starting form b&w, to experimenting with crazy colors, and now going totally opposite in style and color, and who knows what will come next. Also, the white in these pages helped me to create this kind of deserted feeling of the north pole, i was looking for something really "minimal". Thanks again to all of those who have enjoyed these pages.
cheers!
Clandestino was good but this is AWESOME! Fav for sure, maybe vote!
Wow, this is uber-creepy... And that is in no way a complaint!
The art looks great, lots of detail, good inking.
The color looks good, you have kind of a faded out color scheme going here.
The dialogue, well...nothing stylistic here, just by the numbers running through the plot.
The story, I'll have to agree with some of the other commentors here, I wasn't exactly sure on what the tone was supposed to be. You have two kids exploring the artic looking for santa, so this could either be a kids story, or maybe you were looking at a "Barry Ween, Kid Genius" type angle.
Then when we got to Santa's workshop it was pin up helper elves, and scary santa claus. So I guess we could still be going for the: "kids are smart and can handle themselves in adult situations" type story, just in a horror vein and with scantily clad women. Either way, it's hard to tell what you were going for.
Nice art, want to see more, what happen in the last page, makes you thinking a degusting santa there...
I don't have a problem with the negative space. What I don't get it how I'm supposed to take this comic. Is it supposed to be funny? Is it supposed to be scary? The kids are so cartoony and stupid looking I want it to be funny, but nothing funny actually happens. But although Santa is gross looking, he's not really scary either - so I just don't know what I'm supposed to be thinking here, other than maybe your style is clashing with your intentions.
I also think the last page is a waste. Not because it's a single panel, but the panel/text combo is kind of boring. It would have been better (IMHO) to have pulled back and shown the whole scene (we never actually see the kids WITH santa, so this would have been a good place for it) - or at least showed his whole face so we could see his expression and maybe tell if he looks pissed or devious, or? The eye is just a little too ambiguous.
On the contrary I think the negative space goes with your story line and frames your artwork perfectly. It doesn't leave a lot to take away from your wonderful work. The story line is building, and i can't wait to see more. You have my vote for what it counts.