*gigglies!*

The middle frame isn't bad. I kinda gotta feel that the character's amorphous physique blends too well with the lack of distinction in the backgrounds. It's nice that there's lots of detail there, but I can't figure out what any of it is, and it's distracting. XP I read back through the comic just now and I see where it comes from at least. But for someone just taking a look at it, it would make very little if any sense. You're pretty damn good at doing the backdrops, but they're very large areas, in comparison to what seems to be quite small... blobs. It's like those old "Picture This" puzzles where they took a little section of a large picture, and you had to try to guess what it was. It's hard! Especially without color. The characters are easy to pick out, but with so much in the background, it;s as if they're floating in a sea of crosshatching, dots, scratchy lines and scribbles. This is further compounded by the fact that there's little to no shading or environment reflection on them, and they always have the little 'gloss' bubbles as if there's ample light and they're shining. I've noticed that in comics, when an artists wants to show that someone's in a huge area, they zoom back and draw them quite small, giving a sort of panoramic view of the area. Once per strip, if that's the case, is easily enough to show what's going on. But rapid background transitions with loads of detail and no bigger picture? Confusing. x_x Hope this helps! Keep at it. ^_^ Always great to see new comics around that don't involve sprites! XD

Hmm, I see your concerns, but I'm not too sure at this point how to go about fixing it. I don't want to add a lot of detail to the characters, since then they truly would get lost in the backgrounds, and taking away from the "gloss" bubbles would lose the sense of shape entirely.

As to the backgrounds themselves, you seem to be suggesting that each strip take place in the same area, with only one real "establishing" shot of the environment per strip, is that right? And the others would have little or possibly no background detail. I don't know if I want to go to that extent or not, to be honest.

Nah, the characters are fine as they are. It just seems that their placement loses all substantiation from frame to frame and becomes more of a suggestion than a statement. Perhaps instead of loading the background up with detail, focus on a few descriptive aspects of the environment, which are reaccuring themes for each area and can transition.

At the moment it has more of a Boy on a Stick and Slither kinda feel, except without color or all the slice-of-life and socially analytical wit.

Wow. That last sentence was kinda...the opposite of compliment.

It wasn't an insult. Their subject matter is abstract. The material they use in the comic is what pulls together the backgrounds. Being, usually almost entirely, unrelated to the dialogue leaves the reader to focus on what's being said.

In yours on the other hand, that would have a negative impact, in my opinion. So far you've had an expositional period, and demonstrated that the strip is to have a continuous storyline. Abstraction would kill the validity of your characters' world, and thus the impact of their situation within it. It would make the whole continuity deal a farce.