I'd like to have a thread about Unsounded, apart from the usual update thread. The comic's back on schedule after its two-week hiatus, so a weekend discussion thread seems like a good idea.
What do you guys think about the direction the plot's headed? The stuff going down in and around the shrine? Duane's dalliances with Ilganyag? What's happening with Toma, Elka, and Knock?
Also, post your favorite pages. I've always particularly liked this one from Chapter 11. The banter between all the characters is very amusing.
I'm enjoying all of it about as much as ever. I loved the flashback arc and everything around Duane and Ilganyag is brilliant. I'm not as invested in Toma's group, but I still like them all and I feel that Ashley is doing a great job at pacing our exposure to them that we get enough to keep their story going without bogging down everything else.
I do have to admit that I'm finding the Shrine a bit slow going, but I'm still enjoying it and I have a lot of faith that the buildup will pay off.
Owen Sanders
The best part about Unsounded is it always pays off.
Ian Garcia
What do you think each book will be about and how do you think the series will end?
Liam Gonzalez
Absolutely - it's genuinely the only piece of media that I've ever consumed that's made me want to write fanmail to the creator, which is really out of character for me.
The characters, the art, the pacing and plotting, the sheer ludicrous consistency of the whole product and the releases - it's all ludicrously good and it baffles me that it isn't incredibly well known.
I could rant about how much I enjoy Unsounded for a very long time.
Thomas Gray
A great comic, I'm glad to own the trades and support the work.
Thomas Sullivan
And the kicker is that it's all free! If I had to pay for it I'd be more than happy to do so, because it's so good. But I don't.
I should probably be donating to Ashley's Patreon, come to think of it.
James Williams
I worry Ashley will die by hurricane, flood or alligator before she can finish the story.
Samuel Cook
The trade paperbacks are nice. You support her, and get some nice books in exchange.
Jonathan Stewart
I don't understand how unsounded can be as perfect as it is. The paneling in some of the action scenes can be confusing but that's basically it's only weakness. The characters, plot, setting and dialogue are all A+.
Michael Jackson
Great. Been great. Imagine it will remain great No chance of picking out a favorite page, or even a favorite scene. So much is so damn good
Almost impossible to predict. Best we know is that 2 will finally have the gang spend time in Alderode
>tfw I can't convince any of my friends to read it I don't want to be that guy or anything but eeee you HAVE to like the things I like
Jackson Edwards
I genuinely feel guilty about how much enjoyment I get out of this webcomic for free. Might just subscribe to the Patreon now, actually.
This whole thread is making me want to participate in the post threads, honestly. The only downside to Unsounded I've found is that nobody I know reads it, which makes talking about it hard.
Joshua Ramirez
>Also, post your favorite pages. This one. Really the whole scene, but a whole lot swings on the fulcrum of this last panel.
Unsounded is just consistent, quality entertainment. When people bitch about either a lack of diversity in comics or about poorly done diversity I just want to rub their face in Unsounded.
But no one wants good stuff. People have more fun complaining about the bad stuff.
That's my favorite part of it though. Really great black characters, really great female characters. No one is defined by their race or their gender even though issues of bigotry and sexism are still huge in the story. There's a lot of showing instead of lecturing, which I think is how it works so well. Like that character who ripped her tits off. That wasn't accompanied by some kind of feminist bawling rant. You understood the point without having it shat in your mouth.
There aren't any straw men either. Somehow Duane is a racist sexist Bible-beating blowhard, but you love him because you see all the different sides of him. And Sette is an obnoxious fucking pest but you love her because you've seen her different sides. Everyone has a dark side but the villains are also allowed to just be villains. No breath was wasted trying to make Starfish relatable.
Anyway, Unsounded shouldn't even exist, it's like a fucking unicorn.
Carson Diaz
This thread is so saccharine and wholesome by Zig Forums standards, with such specific compliment writing, that it ends up giving me vibes of people paid to compliment this.
I liked Unsounded when I read it. I always figured I should go back and continue it inb4 "You should! It's..." but I just never got around to it.
I haven't read it in AT LEAST 5 years. Please tell me it's at least doubled in length since then.
Xavier Nelson
It's not a comic I can imagine anyone on Zig Forums being into, I have no idea why it gets threads here. Tits and loli feet I guess. I've only been reading it a year but it took me a few days to get through it so it's really long?
Everyone is really happy right now except for Duane so I'm guessing he's about to have a giant fucking attack and sperg out and kill Sette's new friends.
Colton Rodriguez
The author is way too poor to pay people to shill her work, looks like we're just doing for free.
A rough guess puts the page count at 747 5 years ago with the current page count being 1320 so 573 new pages in the last five years. Not quite double, but close to.
Because it's good shit. It's got a lot of shit going on that certainly puts people off but there will always be a small group of people interested in such things no matter where you go.
Kevin Baker
>I haven't read it in AT LEAST 5 years. Please tell me it's at least doubled in length since then.
Five years ago we were in the beginning stages of Chapter 10, as far as I can tell. Shit was starting to go down at The Nevergreen, but...
Suffice to say, you've got quite the backlog to get though.
Connor Rogers
Whoops, meant to tag you with this
Ayden Ramirez
Thinking about it, none of my favorite pages are super impressive in an of themselves. They're a big moment that doesn't have much weight unless you have read what comes before and care about the characters. This page never fails to move me, but if I posted it in a "post one page" thread, I doubt it would attract any new readers. I love it, though. The tension has built to a fever pitch, and then he collapses. I also really like the panel of him at a family dinner.
The whole scene is really great but like you said it relies on knowing about the characters and having just gone through Duane's last day.
Joshua Clark
I cut a deal with my gf. She had to read Unsounded, and I had to watch/read two movies or books of her choice. It's been very worth it so far.
Gabriel Wright
Not gonna' link to every reply.
The last thing I remember about the comic was... there was like, some old magic wood giant that Duane was kinda' reverant about? And then there were a group of conniving thugs trying to scheme while Duane and Sette were about to enter some town with some fuckhuge wall? Or was it a cliff? Something like that.
How far back was that and how far have we come since?
John Cook
You'll need to read from the beginning, you have no idea what's going on.
Jacob Phillips
Holy shit, user, that's like chapter 1, chapter 2 maybe?
Adrian Watson
I love a bunch of different pages but this is one of the more recent ones tthat stands out. I think it's when I realized that Duane's brother is the villain of the piece and Duane has no idea just how insane he is.
