I've advertised here before, but I couldn't edit the title of my last post - let's stir things up a little and let you guys tear this here thing apart. Go'won. You know you want to.

The comic is here:
http://www.drunkduck.com/Starcrossed/

If you don't know what Ravenloft is, no worries, no one else does either. All you need to know is that it's kind of a macabre fantasy, part adventure, part Gothic horror - chapter one is kinda slow (read: sucks) but since a good chunk of chapter two is now up, I think it should be easy enough to gauge if you'll like the rest of it.

Despite the supposed horror part there's nothing all that scary/stomach-turning in there if you are concerned about that kind of thing.

We have reached 100 pages! Chances are you haven't read any of them! Any comments would be appreciated.

So I just went through your archives and I have just a few comments.

First off, this is an excellent comic. Your art is fantastic, very stand-out and also very different... which, given the number of fantasy comics out there, is a good thing. It's nice to see something besides anime or airbrushed Marvel-style art... and nice to see some non-airbrushed females, too. I love Petite's angular look. The characters are also very good -- pleasantly insane, easy to keep distinct from one another, and nicely witty. Marie is a favorite of mine; I laughed my way straight through the "Petite in a tree" sequence.

If I could pinpoint a problem with this comic, it'd be the plot. Not lack thereof -- no, you've got plenty going on, and it's real action, not make-work. But there is a certain muddiness of theme and sequence. In the beginning, especially, I had trouble telling whether you were doing flashbacks, compressing time, or... well, what was going on at all, really. The whole question of who Petite is and what happened to bring her into someone's black magic also seems to have been completely dropped without so much as a hint of whether you mean to pick it up again. Some of this is, I think, new comic trouble -- chapter 2 is bumping along nicely without nearly such a sense of confusion -- but it's a tendency you may want to watch.

It is, however, different from the "50 pages of exposition and flashback" startup that plagues most new comics, so congratulations! You have discovered a new and different set of problems. :D

Overall, superb job. The art, as mentioned, really drew me in; you do clean and concise dialogue, which as an English major I appreciate; and I like your characters, your setting, and your story. I shall be following Starcrossed in the future.

Read all of it in one night. You STOLE MY ENTIRE NIGHT. I want a receipt for that, please.

Anyways. I am curious if you are going to bring the classic lords of Ravenloft into the fore, perhaps at a later date? I doubt they would survive even a chance encounter with Strahd, or Vecna. Perhaps one of the lesser lords, or ones you have made up yourself?

And... will you be using the "Lords keep their domains CLOSED" thing? Each lord keeps their population within a certain territory with their powerful magic, that is.

As for the mists; you seem to have a holy god of the mists? But the mists are malevolent, an aspect of the demiplane of dread, and often steal people from other planes.