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[History of an Animation]

Enjoyable High Concept

Aside from the terrible music, this is one of the most feel-good, clever, and enjoyable animations about the process I have ever seen. It's just a little shy of "Animator Vs. Animation."

[Charlie the Unicorn 2]

Only Episode 2, and Already There's Already...

... there's a stale formula.

Remember the first one? Okay, imagine it twice as long and with Charlie more of a spazz, and plot point for plot point you have envisioned this.

Oh how I wish Jason Steele had gone in SOME other direction. Anything but a remake of the original.

Oh well, the art's pretty good, and the song was nice.

[Outlaw pt.1]

Dear Fucking Satan, I Enjoyed This!

I can't help but rant with glee like a little school girl on meth.

The sparse but perfect writing (The demon's reason for why he likes Brooks is one of the most sig-worthy I've ever seen in flash) the little touches (like the appearance of the demon's eye from behind the cracks in... the purgatory, I'll call it) the big twists (Two men in competition to stay out of hell) Shit, if you can maintain that level of originality and quality for the entire thing, I would send you a cash donation through paypal. Hell, I would help pay to get this published on dvd.

By the way, I was having a day of pure misery up to the point I watched this. Thank you for making a flash that could make up for so much of that.

[Reiko - S'no Fair]

Why did THIS one get front paged?

C'mon, there's none of the cleverness that Grisanti was able to put in a few other ones (Like the one about the cat or the hopskotch one) There's just a lame setup and one-liner that I've heard before.

[SRM Transformers 2!]

Just my suggestions: Take them or leave 'em

I think you've done all the "break the fourth wall" jokes you can get out of this series. I feel you should start exploring new territory.

Also, while you might consider the new voices an integral part of the new designs and characters, I think it might be a little cooler if they sounded like the original characters. To that end, it might be a long shot, but perhaps you should contact DRSMOOV on youtube.com. The dubbing on his mashups is very raunchy, but he does have a bit of popularity and his characters do sound a bit like the original Gen 1 guys. Maybe if you collaborated, you could come up with a great third episode.

Battosai810 responds:

Your suggestions have been duly noted - the thing is, my characters in this little series are actually dressed up versions of my regular characters. SRM is SRM Prime, Cousin Mel is Melatron, etc. and I want to keep at least some ties to my regular cartoons (SRM Transformers, as popular as it is, isn't my only series) and I generally like to keep my humor pretty clean, at least on NG. As for breaking the fourth wall, I do that when it fits; most of the ones in this were references to the first toon.
But thanks a lot for your suggestions, I just might have to contact that guy.

[Madness Inundation]

I'll Ask It

Even though Krinkels will never read this:

Why bother with all the bits where the protagonist is up against regular guys? Those bits aren't the least bit suspenseful or interesting, because we know the main character is barely even going to be slowed down by them. And now that you put Jesus into the equation and he doesn't even have to touch or get near the guys he is offing through the use of "God Power" or whatever, those bits seem doubly gratuitous.

Man, you could have cut the amount of time you spent on this probably down by at least a third if you didn't bother with all the "Here comes henchman #202928, with an axe" bits and just showed the bits where he was fighting the heavies.

I'm going on and on about this because it is the only complaint that I have.

[Bambee]

Well, It's Pretty, and the Owl's Funny

There were large chunks I didn't think were very funny, and personally I thought this would have worked a bit better if you had gotten some other voice actors through the various forums available. So I'll add you to my favorite artists, but I'm afraid I won't add this flash.

[SRM Transformers]

They needed to transform into stuff!

I enjoyed it over all. It had some bits that made me laugh. But it really lost a lot of potential for humor by not including that idea. Like maybe Megatron becomes a gun, and just sits on the ground. Or maybe Prime becomes a truck and we show Megatron or Starscream saying "Huh, now where is Prime? Maybe that truck that came out of nowhere that is the same colors as him saw him!"

Yeah, I know, not that good, but I did just come up with them off the top of my head, and I think they're an integral part of any TF parody.

[A New Bunny]

Dear Christ, That Got Old Fast

I guess your point is valid enough, but this is much too long for a one-off joke. If it had stopped at the "anime" point, I think that would have been enough.

But who gives a shit what I think: my flash is still in development, and it probably won't get 1.2 million views in only about three years.

[Reiko - The Cat]

First one to make me laugh at loud.

I think it got stretched out a bit too long and the scream at the end was not needed, but I like this one overall. Great punchline.