Comments on: Delicious Doomsday

Delicious Doomsday

Rhaomi — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:30:39 -0800

Romantically Apocalyptic is a morbidly funny webcomic from Russo-Canadian digital artist Vitaly Alexius (interview, gallery). Set in the starkly diaphanous wreckage of post-nuclear Manhattan, it follows an eccentric contingent of Soviet soldiers as they poke through the detritus of the past and contend with the mutants, cultists, aliens, and other horrors that inhabit the ruins. The comic's striking art style is the result of an arduous process, using "Photoshop, live actors, dead actors, sexy assistants, greenscreen, a camera, and a Wacom tablet" to composite "6 years worth of textures: 1 terabyte of stock footage, shot in real abandoned, forgotten places of our world." This multimedia ambition has burgeoned into plans for a community-powered animated/live-action web series (teaser video, animatic, fanart). While waiting for that to come together, be sure to spend some time on Kimmo Lemetti's excellent Gone With the Blastwave (previously), a very similar webcomic project with a more subdued palette that turned out nearly fifty pages of richly-illustrated post-apocalyptic humor before going on indefinite hiatus.

By: justkevin

justkevin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:39:38 -0800

This is an excellent series that I always forget to check on.

By: _Lasar

_Lasar — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:57:00 -0800

Thank you, excellent stuff! Reminded me of Blastwave immediately.

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:57:02 -0800

Ok well my immediate thought was 'less time with the gadgets, more time writing compelling/funny dialogue'. But my Mom told me if I don't have anything nice to say, don't say it. So I'm not going to say it. It looks pretty though!

By: nasreddin

nasreddin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:08:21 -0800

I don't care what you think about the writing, this is genius.

By: tumid dahlia

tumid dahlia — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:15:02 -0800

Bookmarked for lulz.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:16:24 -0800

Most awesome! Cheers!

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:22:05 -0800

I don't care what you think about the writing, this is genius. Really?? You didn't see that coming the second you saw the Titanic disc in the first frame?

By: nasreddin

nasreddin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:37:36 -0800

Dude, it's a sight gag, and it's hilarious. We're not talking Mahabharata here.

By: Popular Ethics

Popular Ethics — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:45:01 -0800

What happened to the sidekick between episode 5 and 6? It's like when a sitcom replaces an actor and pretends no one will notice. Still, gorgeous layout.

By: thsmchnekllsfascists

thsmchnekllsfascists — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:58:23 -0800

Oh man you just reminded me of blastwave! I totally forgot about it! Let me check. Nope, still no new ones. Damn.

By: Alex404

Alex404 — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:44:12 -0800

Tres funny. Also, there's a canadian french translation, which kind of blew my mind. Too bad it's incomplete.

By: His thoughts were red thoughts

His thoughts were red thoughts — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:49:18 -0800

Wow, the art is astonishing.

By: rebent

rebent — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:14:44 -0800

is this based on Blastwave? If not, it's suspiciously similar....

By: deliquescent

deliquescent — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:31:39 -0800

Haven't read Blastwave, but this seems like an obvious reference to it.

By: rebent

rebent — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:16:04 -0800

man..... these are drawings, not photos, of people. R-right?

By: kkokkodalk

kkokkodalk — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:04:02 -0800

I remember writing into say I would love to help with translation projects...and never got an answer back. I never felt more rejected. *Deep breath* It was like the arty, kind of gloomy guy who spent most of homeroom drawing wickedly funny comics in the margins of textbooks (who also took a vow of silence at the end of the first semester and had been vegan since junior year, all of which I know because I've been secretly stalking his LJ since sophomore year) took the note I gave during lunch asking him to the prom and after regarding me silently for a second or two stuffed it in his pocket and walked off to his usual lunch/smoking spot behind the school. Only later I find that very note, unopened and still folded in that meticulous geometric way I fold notes, discarded among the butts and ash and other scraps of detritous when I go looking for him before afternoon classes started. ;_;

By: porpoise

porpoise — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:42:33 -0800

"Hello computer. .. I'd like one free internet please." Wow, thanks! Gorgeous, and funny. I really wish I could classify ~~$60~~ $55 as 'disposable' income.

By: acb

acb — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:41:33 -0800

He also did the cover artwork for Lavie Tidhar's "An Occupation of Angels" (which is not a bad sci-fi/thriller).