https://gizmodo.com/groundbreaking-web-serial-worm-is-becoming-a-comic-book-exclusive-2000830772https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2026/10/27/worm-is-getting-a-2027-comic-adaptation-with-idw-publishing/What can we expect to see?
>Meghan Fitzmartin
Oh look more capeshit that is ashamed to be capeshit so it goes super grimderp
Do you think Scion will get a redesign?
>>156109878They'll make him black.
We just have this thread.
I can’t wait for Amy to become the most beloved character by fans, while Wildbow seethes in the background.
>>156110065/worm/ general, I suppose.
This board with be Parahuman OWNED when the comic comes outSame with SB, SV, and QQ
>>156110215He doesn't hate Amy she was originally a POV character in early drafts. He hates the fanbase that defends her raping her sister.
>>156109730I didn't think this would ever see the light of day. The original creator has been trying to get the story turned into a movie for years, but has been screwed over at every step of the way.
With however many issues they’re getting, will his curse strike true again?
Should I read this fanfic? I thought /co/ hated capeshit.
>>156110387He can't keep getting away with it...
Will Taylor finally get the BBC she is BVILT for?
>>156110540>Be Grue>Only rational guy among a team of complete mentally insane freaks>Go through mind-wrenching trauma>This little bug girl doesn't care about any of that>She is just being an annoying twat and trying to get your dickWildbow WON by showing how insane women are
>>156110568>Grue’s whole plan was to gain custody of his sister to take care of her>decides best way to do this is crime, instead of getting a nice well paying job with the Protectorate Was he stupid?
>>156110620yes, he was a dumbass teen playing at being an adult
>>156110387I am 100% certain they'll finish it at Leviathan. 100%MAYBE they continue it if it's REALLY popular. But I genuinely doubt it ever gets a tv adaptation. I did doubt it'd ever get a comic at all at this point though so who knows? certainly not me
>>156110697I'm sure a TV adaptation is possible it's probably extremely cheap to secure rights from a guy living on 54k a year.
Total Worm Victory
>>156110697>MAYBE they continue it if it's REALLY popular5k a month is the baseline for most non-Marvel/DC comics to not get canned20k a month is considered an achievement
You would think they would've already made an animated series with how popular Invincible got
>>156110955Kirkman has a multi media company and connections to Hollywood you retard
>>156110955I don't know how much truth there is to this, but I swear I remember Wildbow talking about an anime adaptation falling through because the company behind it wanted to make too many changes.
>>156110224Do you know NOTHING about how bad of hack Fitzmartin is you casual?
>>156111028She's not writing just adapting. Will be fine with an editor who's already a fan.
You guys know nothing about comics as an industry and as a fandom and it shows
>>156111092We only care about the true protagonist of Worm.
>>156110912One billion more alt power Taylor fics that die before Leviathan.
>>156110912Worm fans are gonna pirate this comic instead and then wonder why it got cancelled due to low sales
>>156110968I think that was for Twig, not Worm.
>Camera Shy will probably use ao3 being down as an excuse not to update this weekendFuck
>>156106093Thread died before I could reply but my personal recommendation is The Man Who Needed to Be Needed. Its an FGO (Fate/Grand Over) Crossover but its actually pretty good so far. Basic plot is Eidolon dies to Scion in the final battle and then gets summoned as a servant during the beginning of FGO. Its a very recent fic only having started a few weeks ago but from what’s out so far its legitimately pretty well written. I’d say check it out when you’ve got the time.
>>156108682>>156108864nta but searching the filename isn't getting anything useful and the overt censorship is fucking with image search. so uh... catbox of the full?
>>156111645I've seen it a couple of times but skipped over it because I didn't want to just read the same song and dance of fuyuki prologue -> save olga -> orleans jalter curbstomp.But if you rec it then I'll give it a try.
>>156109730Who?
>>156111963Worm
>>156110395It's not fanfic, it's an original work.
>>156110955I can imagine Amazon will snag it up if the comic is popular.the corner for non-big two capeshit will completely be owned by them.
>>156109849>Oh look more capeshit that is ashamed to be capeshitWhere did you get that impression?
>>156112050>the corner for non-big two capeshit will completely be owned by them.>The only non-big two capeshit is Invincible, The Boys, and WormAnon......
>>156111092This comment is both relevant to this discussion and substantive, with no need for elaboration.
>>156112020I still don't get it
>>156112061i think he's talking about tv series
>>156111702>nta but searching the filename isn't getting anything useful and the overt censorship is fucking with image search. so uh... catbox of the full?or they could just link to booru page or twitter page.shitter/nitter is still aroundhttps://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances
>>156112051We've got our first schizo, it seems. Tell making short stupid statements that invite a response.
>>156112251okay so turns out the filename was the right artist after all, I just missed this particular piece because it was not tagged properly and was also buried under a mountain of gay shota porn on the artist's pixiv page, so I just didn't notice it on the first checkhttps://files.catbox.moe/3gp8y6.png
>>156112242If that was his logic than what the fuck is stopping some other corporation from adapting a different non-Marvel/DC superhero series?
Let's get logical about how long it will take to adapt Worm. What we know is that the Bank Job is currently planned to take place in Issue 6. The Bank Job in the writtenWorm is in Arc 3 and is finished by about the 80k-word mark, meaning that they'd be averaging a little over 13k words per issue. Not all words are written equal, but if they carried roughly that pace on the final issue of the drawnWorm would be around #120 or so. This isn't completely implausible, but we have to admit that unless the comic sells gangbusters, it probably doesn't get that far.Wildbow, even on his current hiatus, gets about $4.5k/month on Patreon. If all of those people instead bought Worm comics, that would only be in the 1-2k a month sales range at best (I haven't bought floppies in a while, so correct me if they jumped post-covid), however, Wildbow used to get a lot more than this from my memory, so if we pretend that the Wildbow fanbase can be reactivated like sleeper agents, then it's possible to hit maybe 3-5k sales a month just from people we know for a fact are already willing to spend money on him.The assumption would be that this is an opportunity to bring new blood in, though, so you'd have to hope that Issue #1 sells significantly more than 5k. IDW's recentish Hello Kitty #1 sold 75k for reference, and I seriously doubt Worm gets that high but if it could sell even in the 50k range for #1 that might be enough to get its legs under it. I guess this will ultimately depend on whether the art and writing holds up.
fuck it, i'll buy 5k of each, y'all can just be bonus sales
>>156112565You have to imagine the people who support his patreon are more likely to collect variant covers too
>>156112565Talking comic plot crunch rather then irl payouts, You can pretty well uncourt some big chunks of interlude chapters to get the margins further down towards the planned 60+ issue. Like, I don't think comic-Worm is going to be raring at the bit to give readers a heads up on what Gregor the Snail is getting up to in parallel to main plot or do the backstory flashbacks for the likes Battery, Miss militia Lung or any Epilogue chapters asides from Taylor. Maybe do the Traveler's backstory over half an issue of reveal.There are in retrospect going to be lots of scenes that can be safely consolidated into somthing else like ,aybe collapse the S9's wiping out the Merchant's interlude introduction to the 9 into also being main crew's first contact and Tay would still get the Shard trigger vision event there? Just off the cuff that probably works fine? Lots of little cuts like that are probably all being considered in a spreadsheet to consolidate the plot into the stuff that matters and not.
>>156113070Canary and Dragons interludes you can't really gloss over because they introduced important plot elements. I wonder how they're going to handle stuff like that. An issue that's just future plot exposition every 10 issues?
>>156111173I am a filthy europoor I can't even buy it if I wanted to
>>156112228*shoves you in a locker*take that, you worm
I can't wait for the wave of new fanfics!
Check out my new fanfic "Armsmaster Wins" where Armsmaster locks in and actually wins against Leviathan. He then goes on to behead Taylor to the cheers of the city.
>>156111645Wait. Eidolon love, in this economy?! I suppose I'll give it a try.
>>156113491>random xovers>Yuri baiting>fics that die when leviathan shows up>Taylor in name only fics>fucking greg fics of all things>slaver harem fics>evil si fics but the si is somehow less evil than slaver mcs>alt power fics >amy gets a deserved happy ending fics>fix fics>bonesaw and vista loli ficsOh yeah and Taylor and all the other cape women are hot 10/10 models on these fics. Yes even bonesaw and vista.There's plenty more but worms is just autism maxing for fanfics because of its "rationality" that places loke SB and SV wank.
>>156113557Recommend your favorite slaver harem fics.
>>156112046I call narous fanfiction because that's what fhey are.
>>156113557>Taylor in name only ficsThese are the funniest to me. If you hate the bitch that much (and you'd be right to), why not pick another character as protagonist or make your own?
>>156113557>fucking greg fics of all thingsDaily reminder that he is owed sex by every female member of the cast
>>156113690Tate no Yuusha
what if there was a sexy villainess whose power was sexy sex and she took me-- I mean Greg Veder as her lover haha
whoa this X character sounds like bad news
>>156113806>make your own?Writing OCs/SI is harder than writing OOC chars. Takes more skill and people hate you more.
>>156114262You have a point. I suppose it's much easier for people to accept you glazing your OOC Taylor than trying to build connection with an OC. Boy, does SB have a fixation with glazing Taylor.
>>156114251I love how you can always blow these people's minds by telling them Wildbow himself confirmed it wasn't rape before flip-flopping to try and recover his woke cred. In a way it sort of makes him the ultimate victim blamer, because the story itself literally blamed the victim until he decided it didn't.
>>156113070Confirmed in the AMA that some interludes will be made into spinoff mini series comics. The Travelers being the main ones
>>156114747Did he ever say it wasn’t rape? All I saw was his comment confirming Victoria’s aura played a part in Amy wanting to fuck her
>>156115088At some point there was a comment, I think in the comment section of the specific chapter no less, where he mentioned that it was just allegorical rape instead of literal rape. He said he did this because he felt rape as drama was overused for cheap, edgy shock.Then, in Ward, he retconned it and said it was actual rape, said in word of god comments he'd always intended for it to be rape, and he deleted the comment where he said it wasn't literal rape.Note that it's been years since I saw the initial comment, so I may be misremembering.
>>156114896But interludes are the fun part of Worm.
>>156110620Yes. While he was the most rational and normal of the Undersiders, he was still so wracked with arrested development due to having to play parent for his sister in a house where he got bashed in the head all the time. Anyone would turn stupid and desperate at that point.The Undersiders as a whole are a group of people where if the Protectorate got to them first, they'd probably have done spectacularly. But they're all fucked up and they sort of fell between the fingers of the system (most likely on purpose thanks to a certain bitch in a fedora) so they ended up becoming their "worst" selves.That being said, Brian still being relatively reasonable for a criminal heister who's closer to one of Flash's Rogues than, say, a Batman villain like the rest of the team is a pretty strong marker of who he is as a person.
>>156115088Direct quote from 2013 Wildbow:> S9 arc resolves. In the wake of it, Carol/Brandish is left wondering where her daughters are. They finally get a lead (thanks to Tattletale, in exchange for New Wave leaving Undersiders alone) and find a distraught Amy. The girl used her power on Glory Girl, and at the end of her rope, suffering a mental breakdown at at least one point, she used her power on Victoria, and forgot how to put the girl back together. Using her power only forces her to face the scale of the changes she's already made, and in panic/desperation she does more damage than she fixes.Direct quote from 2013 Wildbow:>[on the nature of Glory Girl's power mindraping Panacea *first*] I wondered if anyone would pay any attention to that.Direct quote from 2012 Wildbow, mere months before this element of the story was written:>Long of it short, rape is serious enough a topic, and sensitive enough to many readers, that I don’t feel I have the necessary skill as a writer, breadth of knowledge or experience to directly get into the topic or the fallout of it. The obvious implications/end results of Heartbreaker’s powers are as close as I’m going to get to the subject.One other thing that comes up a lot, even from Wildbow himelf, is the concept of 'Jack says he had a deal with Amy, and the deal was to rape Victoria' but a) that wasn't the deal and also b) Wildbow is, hilariously, also on record as saying Jack was trolling anyway.Direct quote from 2017 Wildbow:>It was a tongue in cheek thing on Jack's part.So yes, it definitvely was not rape. You won't find anything from him saying this outright because it so obviously was not rape that nobody even thought to ask the question of whether it was or not.
>>156112330I'd actually found their pixiv page already. https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/15208198You can just use pixivfe or other proxies to view images without logging in.
>>156115906So jack was just messing around and didn't think she's actually do it?
>>156109730>Worm
>>156112409There's plenty to adapt i'm sure between books/web serials but how many are actually well known? Can't say i'd mind a 'Please don't tell my parents i'm a supervillain' show though, YA as it is the MC is just a better Skitter
>>156116039You gotta remember that Jack doesn't actually know his power has a Thinker effect that lets him tell capes the exact thing to get whatever reaction out of him. He just has a 'hunch' that it'll fuck her up.
>>156116713>but how many are actually well knownAnon do you seriously think Invincible and The Boys were THAT well known before being adapted?inb4 they known for comic readersIf we're lowering the bar that much that means a metric shit ton now fit your criteria
>>156116779I mean invincible is just a catch all setting for the IDW super hero stuff isn't it? Even in the comics. The Boys i'll grant you.
55000 SHITTY SI FIX-IT FICS55000 OP ALT-POWER FICS55000 "SANE" BUTCHER FICS100000 TAYLOR'S IN NAME ONLY100000 WORTHLESS CROSSOVERS100000 FLANDERIZED UNDERSIDER FICS100000 AMY DID NOTHING WRONG FICS55000 LESBIAN SHIP FICS55000 GREG FICSAND 155000 FICS THAT DIE AT LEVIATHAN
>>156116874with AO3 what other fanfic sites are there? FF.net is utter dog shit, wattpad is for bad chinese stories, SV makes SB look far right, QQ is for porn only no one reads the SFW stuff, fiction.live is like QQ but for quests.....
>>156116902Royal Road has one of the biggest Worm fics (Greg Veder vs The World) and plenty others. The only catch is Royal Road is full of strivers and functional psychopaths. You'll get your chapters regularly but you'll be seeing insanity that usually isn't interesting.
>>156116874Filter by min 10k words
>>156115906The more I hear the more disappointed I am. Yet he created it originally and created so much. So what, is the author a coward then?
>>156117231Nah, he just has a thing for blondes, so the blonde is the victim to the evil brown haired girl.
Which fanfic site was that one "Zero no Tsukaima but it's Shirou from FSN" fic posted to?
>>156117906Fanfiction net. Fairly certain it was by GabrielBlessing
>>156117987Not Spacebattles?
>>156117996I mean unless the fic you are looking for is “shirou takes louises place” or whatever then yeah FFN.
>>156116801>IDWGoddammit I hate you
>>156118036Do you hate Anon as much as you hate IDW's output?
>>156116801Invincible isn't IDW you retard
>>156117906Since sooner or later the party's gonna be over, which board is the actual one to talk about non-comic related fanfiction. Maybe /lit/? But that feels like a /jp/ splitting from/vt/ situation if it was.
>>156118394Fanfiction is not permitted on /lit/. Webnovels are permitted there due to them taking a very grey area that would've gotten them banned if they existed when the rule was first put in place.4chan boards are, pretty demonstrably, derived from Web 1.0 and 2.0 based cultural developments. Modern fanfic culture (Per AO3, SB, FFnet) is firmly Web 3.0 and countercultural to even the most liberal and laissez-faire 4chan cultures due to 4chan's pro-"true" anonymity stance. The biggest writers from here *leave* here when they're done being anonymous. Older fanfictions are typically grandfathered in or have adjacent material that justifies their presence on certain boards (Like Loud House fanfic having a lot of comics and art).
>>156118394Doesn't seem like the mods care. Look at >>156108030 still staying up.If all else fails, there's /trash/ to make a "Bitch about AO3 being down" general.
>>156118509Oh /lit/ cares>t. got 3 day ban for fanfiction discussionNot sure what board to even use this for?Maybe just /co/
>>156118543/lit/ probably cares, but /co/ seems to be mostly abandoned by God. They only seem to care if you post about Steven Universe.
I can take the bullet, just give me a bit and I can work up a fanfiction thread
>>156118508you have no clue what you are talking about.Fanfic (and web novels) are pre-web 3.0. Fanfic has been around before the www. It was on usenet too.
>>156118509there's an ao3 discussion on lit >>>/lit/25620959There actually are original works on that site.
Suddenly reminded of that "The crack whore - my birth mother" line from Fifty Shades of Twilight Fanfiction.
>>156118607>Older fanfictions are typically grandfathered inRight there in the post, buddy. Most pre-3.0 fanfic is objectively treated differently than post-3.0. The former were usually writing projects by the retarded, schizophrenic, or eccentrically creative. The latter are usually written entirely for the purpose of being noticed.
>>156118752https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_of_Our_Ownao3 was made in 2008. that is pre web 3.0
>>156118782Yes, and as we can see there's a /lit/ thread about it.That does not mean the overwhelming majority of the fanfic on there is relevant to /lit/ or any 4chan culture in particular.
>>156113557>>fucking greg fics of all thingsActing like A Daring Synthesis doesn't fucking mog almost every Taylor fic
>>156119051>A Daring SynthesisOr I, GregActually, that may be in the top 3 of Worm SI fics
>>156119051>GamerThat alone makes it shit.
>>156119056Greg Veder vs the World is enjoyable popcorn fiction too.I think Greg fics that unironically follow Wildbow's WoG about him entirely mog Taylor ones when they treat him as an actual fuckin loser whose faults are his own fault at the start. The bad ones typically don't.That said my own fic is dogshit and I want it to be better.
>>156119128>Wildbow's WoG about himwhich is?
>>156119112A Daring Synthesis mogs every gamer fic except for A Bad Name though
>>156119138what about that large "The Games We Play" RWBY fic?>>156119136
>>156119136He's pretty much a shallow human puppy loser
>>156119165>RWBYJust tell me why you read this while I scream into a pillow.
>>156119136https://www.reddit.com/r/WormFanfic/s/FJYn2NGhNPHe's a lonely autist desperate for attention. Using him as a vehicle to lampoon or critique forum users to introspect about themselves has a lot of potential with this in mind. Something akin to Raiden from MGS2. A Daring Synthesis kind of does it and in fact writes him worse than this at the start to make his later development into a mature human being even more pronounced.
>>156119165>what about that large "The Games We Play" RWBY fic?Yeah.
>>156119180I didn't read that one, I went to a random chapter and saw that it had a bunch of non-canon characters in it and wasn't interestedA RWBY fic I did read was I, Jaune: Or, The Context-Insensitive Semblance. That is an example of a good self-insert, probably because unlike other ones, the guy isn't afraid to show himself being an asshole and creep and having people rightfully hate him for it
WE are waiting for Greg Veder to overtake Taylor in her own shitty comic. He is the true PHO Chad the world deserves, and only HE can break the Leviathan curse.
>>156119215No Greg is a joyfulchud and that's why he's a fun protag
>>156119237Isn't that just Armin from Attack on Titan?
>>156115906none of that says she didnt do it youre just an amy apologist
>>156119480nah that's the goat
>>156119496I feel like people haven't actually read Carol's chapter at all. It's extremely obvious what Amy does to Victoria.>“I wanted to see her smile again. To have someone hug me before I left forever. So you wouldn’t have to worry about me anymore. I- I told myself I’d leave after. Victoria wouldn’t remember. It would be a way for me to get closure. Then I’d go and spend the rest of my life healing people. Sacrifice my life. I don’t know. As payment.”Leave after what? Get closure how?>Amy kept talking, her voice strangely monotone after her earlier emotion, as if she were a recording. Maybe she was, after a fashion, all of the excuses and arguments she’d planned spilling from her mouth. “I wanted her to be happy. I could adjust. Tweak, expand, change things to serve more than one purpose. I had the extra material from the cocoon. When I was done, I started undoing everything, all the mental and physical changes. I got so tired, and so scared, so lonely, so I thought we’d take another break, before I was completely finished. I changed more things. More stuff I had to fix. And days passed. I-“We'd take another break to do what?
>>156119607It's so insane and evil that she tries to run away forever without fixing anything. I really don't know how she's not the most hated character of all time.
>>156119674It's because she's a lesbian who has angst that causes everyone to excuse her actions
>>156119693its like playing mgs5 and thinking huey did nothing wrong cause he insists he didnt. or thinking the same thing about mouthwashing. its like watching steven universe and thinking rose was a good person and not a selfish child who killed countless members of her own kind just cause she didnt want to admit she did wrong.
>>156119852I imagine many of the supporters for Amy would protest this comparison, but I agree it is accurate.
>>156119674This is the weirdest thing to just not really get mentioned in all the Amy hating. Sure turning her into a human blob isn't great, but it at least had the extenuating circumstance of her trying to basically rebuild Victoria's melted body out of whatever biomass she could find. Throwing her hands up, abandoning her sister as a blob, and running to the birdcage to woe-is-me for the rest of her life is where she deserves to be hated. But inexplicably even wildbow himself seems to gloss over this, and goes on to write basically a whole new story to conjure up extra reasons to hate Amy (and give bonesaw a redemption arc lmao)
>People can't create new characters so they self insert as Greglol
>>156120393>>People can't create new characters so they self insert as Greg>lolCope
>>156120342Riley is a child victim who was broken by a man with a power specifically designed to break people. She spends the entirety of Ward in the custody of The Wardens and when she is removed from that custody she voluntarily goes back.
>>156120393>He doesn't show respect to the KING of Worm.Kneel.
>>156120468King of Worms is a pretty snazzy epithet
>>156120452>>156120342Riley at least admits she's a monster and even within Worm, the very second she's away from Jack she takes steps to be somewhat better. amy never once even SLIGHTLY admits to having a problem. the reason it's glossed over is because amy never once acknowledges even her slightest shortcomings and Taylor, our pov character, is only aware of her being an annoying bitch, not a monster.
>>156120550>King of Wormsyou mean this muppet?
>>156118394>>156118508All fanfiction should go on /trash/, where it belongs.
>>156120452>>156120624Fair enough, Riley was essentially the hostage of a band of serial killers until puberty and has no illusions about her horrifying actions. She still spent a decade turning people to living modern art for those serial killers, and as far as I can tell she could have BTFO the whole s9 at any time, except for grey boy and maybe crawler. The differences of treatment between Riley and Amy strike me as just cold practicality as opposed to any significant moral difference. Amy is pushover who's biggest failing is being a spineless fag, so she can be shit on for free. Riley is walking doomsday event who keeps her pimp hand strong, so we're just going to not talk about her hobbies.Though after all that bitching, If I was going to be stuck on an island with one of them, I've have to say I'd rather be stuck with Riley. Riley might turn your innards into outards for fun, but at least she'd be in control and could undo it. Amy would do it by accident and be too much of a fuck up to fix it.
getting fanart already
>>156121183Arguably Mannequin more than any other member hard counters her. Greyboy died way before she joined the SH9 (also it should be noted that she already triggered before jack showed up
Genuinely what the FUCK was wildbow thinking when he named a black guy "Brian", like holy shit I was like on page 800 before I read that he had corn rows and lived in basically a KKK neighborhood where wildbow explicitly tells you he is african American. It's nice to see the representation as a black guy myself but what the fuck do you mean his name is BRIAN like nigga thats the dorkiest white guy name in existence, shoved into lockers type shit and getting swerlies in middle school type shit.
>>156122016>this black kid was humbled early in life by his dorky first name so he doesn't become a thug nigger>this is a bad thingI fail to see the issue.
>>156122016Probably trying to avoid racism allegations by choosing the least stereotypical name possible. It's funny in Pale he names one of the main characters brother after Booker T. Washington.
>>156122144He didn't have to name him a stereotypical name, he could've just gone for a non dorky name like Darius or Kayn or Sylas or something like that
>>156122323>Darius, Kayn, Sylas>not dorkyCome on man
A random realization I had from this line is that a bunch of #2s in Black Clover had teleportation powers.
>>156122373What's a non-dorky black guy name that doesn't make him sound like a dumb lowlife thug? Let's hear it.
>>156122475Zach?
>>156120342Amy was devastated by what she had unwittingly done to her sister and believed she would never be able to restore Victoria, so she asked Carol what she should do. On top of that, the PRT decided that sending her to the Birdcage for the rest of her life, alongside the worst criminals, was preferable to keeping her in isolation for a week or two. She was also subject to several overlapping forms of mind control, including the influence of her own shard, Jack Slash’s power, and Glory Girl’s aura, so blaming her for anything is absurd.
>>156122713Don't forget that Victoria getting injured as fuck was literally also her Trigger event, honestly she probably should have Second Triggered the moment Victoria went down.
>>156122713>the PRT decided that sending her to the Birdcage for the rest of her life, alongside the worst criminals, was preferable to keeping her in isolation for a week or two.Didn’t Amy threaten to unleash a plague if she wasn’t Birdcage’d? Not sure if that was in Ward or fanon.
>>156122713She sent herself the birdcage. Have you actually read the story or is this all stuff you got from fanon?>The armed escort would be waiting. No court- Amy had volunteered, asked to go to the Birdcage.She has never once felt remorse for raping Victoria.
>>156122768>>156122808The plague threat was a later retcon in Ward. In Worm, it comes across as a PRT excuse. Even if she wanted to go there herself, it shouldn’t look like they’re sending someone there just because they volunteered. On top of that, she had already been a hero for quite some time, so they should have noticed the change in her behavior.As for the rape, Wildbow repeatedly stated that there was no rape and corrected people who said there was, only to suddenly change his position. After that, he started acting as if rape had always been part of the story. Ward changes practically everything, including the power system, events from Worm, character behavior, how organizations operate, and much more.
>>156123131God I really hope IDW tries to make him back down on that retcon. It really just lessens the tragedy and drama of the situation. From the AMA atleast it seems like they're pretty flippant about the Amy situation compared to wildbow, so I'm hopeful (coping)Worst case, by the time it's at that point we can just AI edit the comic to fix it because we are now in the future.
>>156113491Fuck the fanfics, get ready for the inevitable edgy animated series and mediocre fighting game.
>>156123529GOD, I cannot wait for it to go mainstream. It'll suck so bad, but at the same time, can you fucking imagine, actual large quantities of smut art, tiktok edits, LEVIATHAN ANIMATED, ENDLESS AMY DISCOURSE FOREVER, POWERSCALING DISCUSSION, THREADS ON /CO/ FOREVER, AND EVER! DOOM! DOOOOM!!!
>>156109730Is this the web novel with that girl who loved her sister romantically and mind raped her?
>>156122016I mean Brian is a pretty dorky guy so it checks out. >constantly LARPs as an adult>decides to become a super-criminal rather than work for the government or a private business>dresses as an edgelord
>>156119190Kinda funny you mention MGS2 because MGS2 was inspired by NGE (all of MGS was, but especially MGS2) and Wildbow has mentioned being a fan of Evangelion. >Cauldron uses 2001 moonliths like SEELE does>main character has a dead mom, a strained relationship with their father, and who's sexuality can only be described as "not 100% straight as a board">the entire reason the story happens is because of an alien crashing into the planet>destructive kaijus who operate more like learning machines than animals, complete with a vulnerable core
>>156123587yeah and Pancea did nothing wrong
>>156123697in another timeline, Pan-Pan started dating Taylor and convinced her to go blonde and all was well
>>156123697She expressly did many things wrong and constantly had all the tools she needed to fix her life, she just never trusted herself to use them so after all the shit happened she just broke. (And should have second triggered). It is her fault, Jack/Bonesaw's fault, Carol's fault, Vicky's fault(a little), Nilbogs Fault, the rest of New Wave's fault for attacking Marquis in his house at night, Marquis's fault for letting them take her and not fighting out of fear of her getting caught in the crossfire, etc. Which is what makes it a good fucked up situation with no easy answers.
>>156123689MGS2 was more Matrix than NGE. Other than Raiden being used similar to Shinji in how "if you the player was put in the comics and games you enjoy, you'd be this dude and not the badass mercenary Solid Snake."Taylor doesn't really have that, and you can make a but more of that with a Greg that is canon-accurate but lampoons a lot of the fandom as a whole. A Daring Synthesis does this.I want to see an anti-rationalist Greg story in Worm that deconstructs the setting. I have a dogshit toonforce fanfic that I want to get there where it runs off of absurdist rules instead because Worm is incredibly absurd despite larping as rationalist.
>>156122713man amy fans are insane. i cant tell if theyre lying on purpose or have never read worm in the first place
>>156123697>one job is healing>fuck up healing your sister and turn her into a monster
>>156123815The horny overtook her, it was an understandable mistake.
if they make all they way to Ward, they should retcon the ending and have amy crushed with a rock
>>156123920>At the end of worm, the true protagonist who had been manipulating everything from the shadows, comes out to play.
Never got into WORM due to how retarded and grimderp it was. Like I remember reading the first arc and the mc kept hyping up this supervillain that most veteran heroes can’t catch or something and she just bullshits her way to victory. Just closed the tab and never looked back.
>>156123529>>156123566You guys are really REALLY overhyping this comic doing well
>All these Wormfags coming out of the woodwork the second it finally had an actual legitimate reason to be hereSo.....what the fuck did you assholes even talk about on this board before the announcement?
>>156123985We are fueled by our own inevitable enjoyment of the dumpsterfire
>>156123985Bro, it's gonna go gangbusters. Be real.
>>156124013>Bro, it's gonna go gangbusters. Be realThis is COMICS we're talking aboutDo you not know ANYTHING about comics?
>>156124049I don't even buy comics, and I'm going to be buying these comics. This shit has *existing fandom* to draw on. All it takes for this to explode is a few bits of viral meme shit on social media and it's going gangbusters.
did we really need an entire chapter AND A HALF of coil bouncing his pecs and flexing? why was his obvious fucking brute power never explained? why the fuck didnt he ever use his apparent fucking super strength for anything other than two finger handstands?
>>156112051It's a miserable grind where things just get worse and worse and the heroes are largely ineffectual
>>156124089>don't even buy comics, and I'm going to be buying these comicsDo you have an LCS?Are you going to start a pull list?>This shit has *existing fandom* to draw onSo do plenty of licensed comics>All it takes for this to explode is a few bits of viral meme shit on social media and it's going gangbusters.Fucking Sonic comics are widely discussed online yet they NEVER top sales charts or are even IDW's best seller period
>>156124095We need at least 2 issues of this to match up to book canonI need a fire Coil pose panel
>>156123930The true protagonist of Worm was Big Dick Randy wearing spandex?
>>156124106NTA I've never bought comics before but I've already enquired with my local shop about this one.I doubt it's going to be some smash hit but I think wildbows existing fanbase will carry it a bit.
>>156111645Okay I read it. Pretty fucking good I must say. Great character work, I really like the constant aura of sadness around Eidolon, with just enough self-loathing to come off as sympathetic without overreaching into bashing territory. Poor guy really has it rough across the fanfic community and I never understood why.
>>156123980How is that grimderp? That’s basically what happened the first time Spider-Man fought the Hulk.
>>156109730The hell is Worm? It looks edgy, so probably grimdark/deconstruction that fails if you think about it too much.
>>156124234You sound gay, so you were probably molested by your father.
>>156124234Cool setting with a main character whose power isn't just "punch better" or "shoot better" or whatever. Cool setting, has some issues and a bad sequel, as well as one of the coolest kaiju fights ever written, Leviathan and the other Endbringers are genuinely great.
>>156124234It's grim in places but I honestly wouldn't consider it a deconstruction. It plays with and subverts some classic superhero tropes but not in a way that makes me think its embarrassed of the genre. It's pretty earnest about its world I feel.
>>156124307culture warrior retards reflexively label everything a deconstruction because they read a xeet or watched a video essay where some grifter said deconstruction is responsible for the downfall of the west
>>156124231>That’s basically what happened the first time Spider-Man fought the Hulk.Ain't no fucking way a girl with no training whatsoever is going to beat a supervillain that not even "veteran" heroes could beat in a 1v1. >How is that grimderp?There's more shit I read, through second-handed means. I just know its dark for darkness sake.
>>156124353Wasn't really a 1v1, Bitches dogs are stroing enough to tango with Leviathan even if they didn't win that fight.
>>156124353Nah that's the sequel. Worm itself is grim but it's not grimderp entirely. And they *do* win in the end and *save the day*. So it ends on a bittersweet note.
>>156124353I guess I forgot that rule where every superhero ever has to train for 6 months in order to win fights
>>156124353Veteran heroes don't beat him because his power is already fully ramped up when they take him on. That's explained later it you had kept reading.She won because she went all out with ultraviolence immediately and had the help of monster dogs at the end.
>>156122808Yes, we should listen to teenagers who just had a psychotic break when they ask to be sent to a gigaprison, and not give them therapy or even just time to cool down.
>>156124474I feel it was more an issue of her being revealed as an extremely powerful S-Class threat of a cape and them just sort of running with getting the unstable biotinker with literally zero restrictions somewhere isolated so she doesn't make Nilbog look like a joke.
>>156122475Jason? Marcus? Jordan? John? Devon? Shaun? Andre? Lamar? Levar? Like nigga I'm white but I grew up around plenty of normal black people with these names. Shit, I grew up around the area Brockton Bay is supposed to be (Just north of Boston). I knew a black guy named Matthew [lastname] Jr. Brian's a black guy in semi-suburban New England. Why the fuck are you giving him these fucking Baltimore-sounding names?
>>156124231>the first time Spider-Man fought the HulkAmazing Spider-Man #14 or Amazing Spider-Man Annual #3? Or was there an earlier point in FF or Hulk?
>>156109730It’s very hard to accept a story has stakes when it becomes clear so early on that the main character will never lose a fight. In a lot of stories, losses are moments of self-reflection, or twists in the narrative, or moments where the character’s story permanently changes. Taylor never experiences any of that, so the ‘darkness’ of Worm falls flat. You may say, well nearly all stories have some plot armour, you don’t expect the protagonist to die – and that is true, but most stores don’t advertise themselves are super-realistic, or that their protagonist is somehow the ultimate underdog... when not a single other character gets on her level? I understand, logically, how she wins all those fights with her ‘weak’ power – but the fights themselves lose their bite so quickly because of it. I’m not saying she has ‘plot armour’ in the sense that she is given victories by Deus Ex Machina (though I can think of a few...) rather that she has ‘plot armour’ in the sense that she is just too smart.It’s made worse because Worm, the universe and world, is supposed to be a grimdark, cosmic horror place. It's supposed to be a place where the systems in place to keep the apocalypse at bay are (a) barely working and actually break down by the middle (b) actively oppressing the human rights of the people living under them. It's a place where, theoretically, there are no purely good choices, no way to just brute-force your way to the top without either sharing space with or constantly fighting people who equal you in strength. It's supposed to be a place where you have to politic with monsters to get what you want (even if what you want is the welfare of others). And then there’s this sixteen year old who can just beat everyone else up!Pretty sure the creator would have written a way that showed his pet winning against Superman, and lambast him for being a good guy as well.
>>156124487Place her in a normal isolation room for observation/help, then. Like damn, you didn't even try.
>>156123624he also calls himself grue.
>>156113521>Tin_Mother has entered the chat
>>156123980dumb capeslop consumer can't imagine how a weaker hero might be able to beat a stronger opponent through stealth, tactics and smart usage of powers instead of just punching them in the face, melts down in confusion
>>156124106you are the most annoying faggot in these threads Istg
>>156113521Nah man, gimme a fic where Chevalier locks in and shows up during the Leviathan fight and kills the big fish through sheer skill (And leet throwing a trump power booster at him by accident or some shit)
>>156125450>weaker hero might be able to beat a stronger opponent through stealth, tactics and smart usage of powersDidn't she have like a week or two of self-training before going full retard and started patrolling the streets?
>>156125457>No argument
>>156125492She triggers in January and does her first street patrol in April.
>>156125492you don't need to be an experienced pro hero or a genius mastermind to pump a motherfucker full of venom while hiding in a (relatively) safe spot when your entire power revolves around bug control
>>156125521nobody cares about arguing with you nigga
>>156125567>Choosing ignorance and staying cocky is goodWord of advice, if it sells well for its first issue don't celebrate just yetFirst issues are an outlier due to speculators.
>>156124324Nah, that trend is way older. Deconstruction was overused for decades prior at least because the edgelords liked to pretend a dark interpretation of a genre was inherently a deep and insightful take on it.
>>156110620He was molested and had trouble with authority pls understand
>>156123980imagine opening with "I don't know what I'm talking about"
announcement is bringing the fanartists back
>>156124095>>156124117So legit question: Was Coil black? I always pictured him as black when I read Worm but I don't know if that's canon or fanon.
>>156126016Not on page its word of god.
>>156124007Everything everyone else did. I think it was more popular than you imagined.
>>156126016He's like a seven foot tall lanky black man yeah. (Never directly stated in text?). Makes it hilarious that he found a body double.
>>156126172i actually dont know what to do if piggot doesnt just look like waller
>Coil is a creepy black guy who keeps underage girls in his basementfuckin superpowered Diddy over here.
>>156126288>all those tattletale and dinah rapefics on qq and ao3
>>156126288Man, I really hope this series doesn’t attract the broccoli-haired normgroids.
>>156124234sounds like you know a little more about worm than you pretend to do
>>156125941his body language looks like Aisha just told him a really dumb joke
I'm gay and like men. How many dicks does this fanfic suck?
i know its a long shot but i really wanna see comic Bohu. none of the fan art actually accounts for how stretched out shes supposed to look
>>156126247We could have had waller but instead we are getting fucking Umbridge. The one time we want a race swap and they probably won't give it.
Never knew there were so many people who imagined Piggot like Waller. I always imagined the principal from TFOP.
>>156126247She's a fat middle aged white woman with short blonde hair from what I remember. For whatever reason I always pictured Kyle's mom from South Park
Taylor gets the N word pass
Which of the female cast has the biggest breasts?
>>156131556Narwhal I think? She's also an exhibitionist so maybe she's the biggest who gets a clear look at.
>>156132052>Leader of the canadian heros is a 7ft tall woman with huge tits and is mostly nakedwhat did wildbow mean by this?
>>156132052>>156132117If I was Siberian I would definitely try to eat Narwhal, I bet those scales are deliciously crunchy
>>156131556Alexandria deserves big latina tits
>>156131556One of Nilbog's creations maybe
When does Worm get good?
>>156132399Bank robbery is when I got fully invested but for most if you don't enjoy it by the end of arc 8 you're not ever going to like it.
>>156132605Thank you very much for giving me a straightforward answer despite being on 4chan.
>>156132399It gets really got at the end bro. Trust me, the end is worth reading 1.6 million words of a book you don't like.
>>156132673I honestly can't enjoy anything anymore. I want nothing more than to just go outside and scream until my throat gives out so everyone has no choice but to pay attention to me.
>>156131556A tie between Rune and Vista
Uh oh, someone's getting #cancelled.
>>156133031Yeah. Taylor for being a catty bitch.
>>156133031I wish they kept that in. Not for any reason but what it's removal represents.
https://youtu.be/tKJHB288_nwGonna miss spikeless Skitter.
Camera Shy actually updated with 16k words nice.
>>156110968It's a bit more then that, had a sketchy contract if I remember right.
I've heard some people say that Twig was Wildbow's best work, how true is that? I haven't read anything of his besides Worm and Ward
>>156135980Pale is his best work imo. Twig is good though.
>>156132851Bed breaking sex with Rune (era de Empire 88)
>>156136002i agree with this
>>156124307I hear people call it a reconstruction.
>>156136220Both those terms mean nothing and I wish I could delete all the TVTropes pages that say they're permutations of the terms.
Seriously, try and define "deconstruction". You can't, and you'll only show your ignorance towards wider media.
I bet characters like Browbeat will be completely cut for brevity.
>>156136376I wonder how they'll handle Wards characterisation. A large part of why they're so memorable is because the leviathan survivors had their own mini arc.
>>156126172The reason he is black was as a fuck you to someone who said all the black characters in worm were shit, and to be fair they kind of are, and they canonized him as black guy after they said he was his favorite character that didn't have an explicit race.At this point Worm has a whole folklore like Coil being as tall as Yao Ming because of Brian's description.
>>156136376The browbeat shitpost must continue at all costs.
>>156134212I just want to see how they make this bitch's costume look less ass.
>>156125941>He was molestedwait he was? i forgot
>>156126288>>156127006Sorry, but if the comic gets popular he's gonna get constant diddy and r. kelly jokes
>>156126610i dont remember seeing any of those.
>>156138711I don't know who those people are.
>>156133031>>156133062>>156134211
>>156138750Black pedophiles
>>156138759Oh right, one of those guys is the dude satirized in Boondocks season 1 for doing watersports with a teenage girl. What's the other guy yelled at for?
>>156138683He was physically abused by his mother's boyfriend but I don't think he was sexually abused. Sophia may have been sexually abused since she's a breaker/stranger with a mover component.
>>156138785Pretty sure he helped host parties with underaged children (well, coerced them into illicit hangouts with his powerful friends)
I wonder if they'll make Amy brown or whiten her up
>>156138834You guys love Jeffrey Epstein's guests, though.
>>156139195And why would I?Do you just get off assuming things for people or something, mate?
>>156138683He got beaten by his stepdad in front of his sister so bad he got super powers to hide his shame.Then a blond girl literally rearranged his guts into a Christmas declaration before shoving him into a freezer where all his friends saw him as another fuckuo resulting in another set of super powers he did FUCK ALL with.If anyone brings burnscar, I will remind people she did next to nothing beside getting killed to make a point he achieved anything with his second trigger.If bonesaw did kill the fucker nothing would change unless you wank him to the max.
>>156139019Amy will end up as a Pakistani to play with Miss marvel.
>>156139019why do you wonder that. she literally is white
>>156139386Feel like his second trigger didn't get much use cause they broke the narrative stakes. One of the most powerful trump powers we see on page and with the way his readers munchkin literally every scenario I bet the comments get obnoxious. Glaistig Uaine even nerfs his trump power for no apparent reason.
>>156110264Personally, I dislike the impulse to always try and get an adaptation. You can tell the creator fundamentally doesn't respect their own work in the original state they created it in.It was a relatively popular web serial, it had a relatively active fanbase, and it still maintains the favor of some highly dedicated autists. That should be good enough, but it's like the fans and the creator both have self-esteem issues about it, because they're so obsessive about having it legitimized with an adaptation.Beyond even that, it's basically impossible to adapt. At best, someone with better artistic skills than Wildbow is going to have to totally reforge the story into something else entirely because the prose is to bloviating and mediocre.
>>156139970It's almost as if the entire fucking story is about taking as much as you can from your powers because they took as much as they could from you.Maybe the point of his arch is to point out the flaws with that reasoning and similar ones but I'm not sure it was conveyed well enough. Realistically he should have been taken by Cauldron because his power is THAT fucking broken but that is another inevitable discussion of Worm.Anyway there's a lot of good reasons he is sidelined by the fanbase even when you set aside the racism allegations. At least his sister is entertaining enough to not become a charisma void.
>>156125450>stealth, tactics and smart usage of powersSo Batman's asspulls?
>>156140092>Beyond even that, it's basically impossible to adapt. At best, someone with better artistic skills than Wildbow is going to have to totally reforge the story into something else entirely because the prose is to bloviating and mediocre.Maybe if we were talking about animation or live action but a comic can handle all the weird shit you would need to sell the setting of worm.That and it is the only way we are getting visuals for 90% of the characters and scenes since a fucking art book and AMVs would be a pipe dream.In other words I just want to SEE some of the characters and fight scenes.
>>156140092People want an adaptation because a million word novel on a wordpress site is a tough sell when recommending it to friends. Even a published series of novels would be easier to recommend than what it is currently.Also when the most popular novel in the zeitgeist right now is some litrpg shit I don't think mediocre prose would hold Worm back.
>>156112330>>156116029 theyre also on https://baraag.net/@SL_TheSatanist/113085660354541697
>>156131556Vicky after Amy is done with her.
>>156140156Pretty much, the MC gets a lot of wank because after using her own power to punch up she ends up using other people's powers better than they did.Like at one point he tricks the guy who can make immovable objects into creating a guillotine to bisect a monster in half making him look like a moron for not doing that earlier or to a similar degree of effectiveness when he iterates on that trick while having the support of 2 of the best support characters he could have asked for.In that same battle the MC uses a similar trick to cut down a monster's leg giving them enough time for their reinforcement to kill it after 16 years of trying.Mind you, the cape with Super ChatGPT couldn't be bothered to come up with a similar solution despite trying.
>>156140156really eager to prove that "dumb capeslop consumer without imagination" part right, are we?
>>156131556piggot are you dumb
>>156140260Most of the "lame powers used smartly" aren't that smart, like with Batman, who only wins because his stronger opponents carefully wait for him to use his plot device to defeat them.
>>156140227They didn't hold it off it achieved its goal practically unimpeded.>their reinforcement to kill it after 16 years of trying.He was never trying to kill it before. He would have killed the others if he was told to.
>>156140315I'm not talking about Scion, I'm talking about the rest of the capes not being able to hold Behemoth long enough for that to happen before despite having better prices available on paper.
>>156109730worm will finally be /co/ content
the mask is growing on me
>>156141120that's usually a sign of Amy infestation, are you by chance a blonde model
>>156141120The only issue with the costume is the spikes. Also the black lipstick for civilian look really throws things off.
>>156141262I wonder if its actually black lipstick and not just a way of showing her pallid appearance and drawing attention to her too wide mouth.
