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Boy with Nails for Eyes

June 12, 2010 –
November 30, 2020
This entry was deleted.

Here is its eulogy, a collection of the kind words written about it while still among the living. They shall live on forever in its place.

Author Comments

***VIEWING IN FULLSCREEN STRONGLY RECOMMENDED***


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The Boy with Nails for Eyes is an independent motion comic, set in a grimy, grey little seaside town trapped by a brick-and-iron wall of factories. The story follows a young boy as he undertakes a quest that will draw him to the town's knotted heart, and into the domain of the shadowy hunger that stalks its streets.


The prologue tells of the days, unknown years ago, when a murder of crows swarmed upon the town. Haunted by their cries from daybreak to dark, the townsfolk experience strange visions...


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The story is best viewed in FULLSCREEN MODE, so that the text is clearly legibile without having to use the zoom function. Full instructions on viewing the story are given in the loading screen.


A lofi version of the comic, featuring the images and text only, is available on my website (www.basement-garden.co.uk), which is linked from my profile. Also available are wallpapers and music downloads, plus the next chapter of the story itself (I'll be posting a Newgrounds version of this fairly soon, but my focus at the moment is on a comic commission, and on getting the art for the third chapter finished!)


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Really pleased with the response so far - thanks to everyone for the encouragement and feedback. [In fact, I'm now quite overwhelmed by the level of response - thanks again to everyone who reviewed, whether you liked it or not. And cheers to Newgrounds for featuring this! I'll try to reply to everyone but I can't promise I will - if you really want to get an answer, the best idea is to email me through my website.]


I always intended the comic to be viewed fullscreen (I even considered making it obligatory, or automatically going to fullscreen when the comic starts, but I don't like that idea any more than, probably, anyone else does), but I do hear everyone on the text.


Later stages of the story will be a little heavier on the text (which is why I had to go for a small font size from the get-go) so in all honesty I think the text may well stay as it is, for the sake of consistency (and at the risk of pissing off a few people). Again, I *strongly* suggest *fullscreen viewing*, if the text is too small for you; unfortunately the highest file dimensions allowed by Newgrounds is even smaller than the original file dimensions(1060px/745px), so for this reason fullscreen is an even better idea from my point of view.


Cheers


S

Reviews

Extremely nice

I enjoyed the art and the feel of the whole thing. I just found it a little bit confusing and strange at first. Overall though it was great.

<deleted> responds:

Cheers cap!

Fuckin' Sweet.

Best shit I've seen in a long time. You best go pro, son.

<deleted> responds:

Cheers bob!

My word mate.

The reason why I'm giving this such a low rating is your text is PATHETICALLY small (insert phallic reference). It is aggravating to have to zoom in on each individual text blurb. Either, voice narrate the text - or make it fucking legible! Cripes mate, it's enraging to have such beautiful illustrations go to waste over something so trivial and amateur..

<deleted> responds:

That's fair enough crimson, but I did suggest going fullscreen in the intro screen - the text is/should be perfectly legible at that size. There's also a zoom function available, but hell, glad you liked the art anyway...

[edit - you already know about the zoom, so no need there, then. Ah well - did you give the fullscreen a try?]

My issue with this...

I mean, don't get me wrong, the art was fantastic and I enjoyed the slow, poetic feel to it, but c'mon now; Nobody clicked on this flash expecting some deep, sociological, war-themed short comic strip did they? We all just wanted to have a bit of an old laugh at a freak with nails for eyes.

Extremely creative

This is very creative and unlike many of Newgrounds' other animations. You should consider yourself lucky that you are such a great artist and poet. Keep up the good work and we hope to see more.

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4.32 / 5.00