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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

I donnt know what to say

Im absolutly speachless
cant wait for the actual thing keep it up:P

One word

Amazing.

At first I didn't know what to expect, and with the nature of most people I expected something silly when I saw the title. After going through the prologue I was simply amazed. The detail was incredible, the artwork stunning and the symbolism interesting. I can't wait to see the following chapters.

<deleted> responds:

Glad you enjoyed it, Twilight - thanks very much!

When i saw the title i when wtf?

Watching it it's pretty good. and when i saw the robots i went they're dead.

<deleted> responds:

Ha! Cheers Waffle

Breathtaking.

Wow. My breath is still a bit haggard.
This is..
I don't think I can find enough words to describe it fully.
But wow.

<deleted> responds:

Thanks infected. I appreciate it! Stick around for the next part

Amazing

honestly, i thought this was gonna be bad, but it totally caught me off guard. this was nothing i expected. great job. there is not much to improve on, but if you were to improve, i would bring the words in at the same time as the panel. this will benefit you by not wearing the patience of some viewers

<deleted> responds:

Fair point AppleMasacre - I did build in a skip function - clicking anywhere on the page during the load sequences skip ahead to the finished state of the page, in case viewers get impatient. There's also a lofi version on my website - check it out, if you like.

And thanks for the good words!

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