Sometimes I wonder why Cyril doesn't just take the Pig's ear by force, haha

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Lol oh that Cyril XD

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Im am shocked...
I always assumed the Pigs Ear was the only place in the comic....
like it was the world or something.

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Nice job Cyril, I like the second pannel nice bg

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Good times, good times.

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Ahh, Good times, good times, God knows i would drink at that bar Even though My medical bills would be through the roof.

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I'm guessing he didn't pay for the damages.

ah gooood times

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Well, I’m going to give critique here, since I don’t like DA’s critique system—I don’t believe you can assign a quantitative “starred” value to aspects of art. Hope that’s okay.

First, artistically: I love the backgrounds in this, especially the outer design of the bar. You’ve really gotten better with background work as I’ve watched you, and it’s the little things—the use of textures, tiny details like the barrels and wheelbarrow outside—that do that. I particularly loved the tiny bits of shine on the green glass (doing all those individually—that’s dedication), the peeling paint over the brickwork, and the wagon ruts in the road—all these things really help the scene feel authentic. I can tell you put a lot of effort into your backgrounds and into researching your buildings (and if you didn’t, don’t tell me otherwise! XD). The Pig’s Ear looks like a proper pub indeed.

There are a few small things you could work on if you really wanted to up the authenticity of the scene. For instance—I was a little thrown initially by the letters used in the “Help Wanted” sign, mostly because they’re red and very neat. For those reasons, they’re the kind of letters I would have expected to be written by a marker before anything else—and markers would be a definite anachronism. For medieval (?) times, I would have expected something more like black charcoal, or, if the pigment did have to be read, paint or liquid ink applied with a stick or quill—which would have looked less neat.

It may sound picky, but that honestly did come into my head. XD Maybe I’m just weird?

…In fact, in medieval times, lots of people couldn’t read, so I doubt anyone wanting help would have posted a sign in the window. However, communicating “Help Wanted” in pictorial form is a task over my head and would have made the comic way less accessible to the audience, so for the sake of the story it’s definitely best that you didn’t adhere to proper history, I think. XD

I think the sign should be a liiiittle further down, or more angled, in the later panels. Speaking of angles, the angles on either side of the main chimney of the Pig’s Ear caught my eye. Since they’re slightly different, it makes that corner of the bar look a bit wonky (oh, yes, great vocabulary choice there). Your comic style is such that you can get away with that and even use it for a purposeful effect, though, so I’m only mentioning it for your sake—in case you do want to go for realistic perspective. Nice two-point, by the way, and I love that your figures are to scale.

One thing that does bug me bout that panel is the lack of detail as we recede into the background on the left. Although the detail of the wagon tracks continues all the way into the background, the flat line of the “horizon” as it meets the flat color of the buildings in the back makes the space seem empty. A few darker lines added to the buildings to give the suggestion, at least, of detail would really go far in clearing this up, since it doesn’t seem that the buildings are quite far enough away in relation to your others to merit having no detail at all. Easy fix.

The characters themselves are well drawn—I can always recognize your style. I’ve always been envious of your ability to convey Cyril’s emotions through just his body language—he looks so proud in that last panel. Something about the top part of Cyril’s hat seems…..smaller than it used to be, though. 8\ It didn’t undergo shrinkage while in various worlds, I hope?

IT’S TOO GOOD A HAT FOR THAT.

As far as the storyline and the jokes itself, well, they made me laugh, and it does open up a lot of questions and plot possibilities. (What sort of hired help are we going to see? How will Cyril deal with them on his turf? Just what happened when Cyril was watching the bar? Where could our barkeep have gone such that he decided it would be a good idea to let Cyril keep the bar in his absence? XD)

Thanks for a new strip, sir, and congrats on getting that website off the ground—I look forward to continuing work from you. Good luck!

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