Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Derideal

I just ran across this comic - Derideal. Its not that far into its story, having only 119 pages so far. Its a "web-graphic-novel", that is, its a webcomic that "acts" more like a graphic novel than a strip-comic. Updates are unknown at this point.

Plot wise, it seems to be set in a dystopian future, where one mega-corporation owns the city that the story takes place in. This corp seems to be doing some genetic research, and created the two protagonists(who are cat/human hybrids) for research purposes. Midway through the story, the two escape, and at the time of this writing are under the care of another group of scientists, though these don't appear to be malicious.

Art wise, its done in a very sketchy, simple anime style, most of the pages in color. The text-boxes are done in character-unique colors - each character's lines all are in one color text-box - which I quite like. The only real thing that bugs me here is that the pages are compressed a bit too much - distortion is quite noticeable on text-boxes.

Overall, I like it. I downloaded, read it all, and added it to my update-script;
It's a keeper.

Technical info(for my scripts):
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Grabber:
$CONFIG['start'] = 1; //starting comic #
$CONFIG['end'] = 120; //ending comic #
$CONFIG['looptype'] = "CNUM"; //type of loop to use
$CONFIG['datetype'] = 1; //padding/date-format
$CONFIG['savedir'] = $CONFIG['startsavedir']."derideal"; //directory to save to
$CONFIG['comicurl'] = "http://www.derideal.net/data/images/comic/der_"; //main comic image url
$CONFIG['comictype'] = "jpg"; //extension to try first
$CONFIG['error'] = ''; //first line of error page

Updatescript:
$CONFIG['comic'] = "Derideal"; //name of comic
$CONFIG['url'] = "http://www.derideal.net/"; //comic page
$CONFIG['find'] = "http://www.derideal.net/data/images/comic//"; //piece of file to get
$CONFIG['comicurl'] = ""; //only used if not absolute path
$CONFIG['savedir'] = "../derideal"; //dir to save to

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