Motion Book- Milk for the Ugly

Huh. That was really interesting. I loved the art, personally, and the small bits of animation were really cool. And the minimalistic sound/music accompaniment was really good I thought. I personally didn’t mind the swearing, but then, I’m kind of vulgar when I speak sometimes, and I think that the *context* of the swearing gives it a rightful place.

It would be really interesting to know how the woman got to having that job in the first place, or what comes next. Does she actually find a successor? What was it in particular that suddenly made him capable of seeing the things? I have so many unanswered questions!

Thanks for the unique share.

I didn’t even notice the swearing when I read it earlier; but the only swear word I personally consider to actually be vulgar is the F-word. (Buuut that’s just me, that’s different for everybody of course.) Depending on the situation or context in a story, no matter my personal feelings, I feel even that any swearword can work providing that it is used tastefully – for example, consider a story set in war time such as Vietnam; from having read many first hand accounts, I have found that real life soldiers often have extremely filthy mouths, making it rather unnatural for the characters in a war story not to swear sometimes. As for why a character might swear, if one’s life is in danger and one is highly stressed, one typically doesn’t care how one delivers their narration; this is where swearing becomes natural to the dialogue. (Also if the character is just plain cursy!) I don’t know about you guys, but the times that I have been shocked or unexpectedly hurt, I have sworn and there are studies which say that swearing can actually be beneficial to the body in these instances. For my own writing, despite circumstances which might demand swearing, I try to keep to milder words. I really don’t like the F-word much, so I don’t ever use it but I don’t mind if I read it used in tastefully thought out context.

Still, no matter the context, it’s not good to swear in front of kids – ‘Milk for the Ugly’ was obviously not meant for children though. DeviantART is geared for people 13 and up, so kids are not supposed to even go on the website.

Motion books are a new thing which were recently released on deviantART only a few weeks ago so I’m not surprised that people have not heard of them! It’s basically a platform for sharing semi-animated comics, which is what ‘Milk for the Ugly’ is. For some, depending on the artist(s), you will have to pay money (or deviantART points) to view them. These royalties will help the artist(s) survive.

Also, if you guys like ‘Milk for the Ugly,’ you should definitely check out ‘Off-White’ which is Akreon and Vesner’s (the authors/illustrators of ‘Milk for the Ugly’) main venture. It is not a motion book, but it is awesome (it’s a graphic novel) and there’s lots of gorgeous eye candy amongst the many panels. (Beware of blood, some violence and some swearing.) You can find ‘Off-White’ at http://off-white.eu/

Pretty much agreed all around. Thank you for the context about the motion books. That’s pretty cool. I hope that it turns out to be a successful platform for artists that use it; gosh knows that generally speaking most artists are not paid their worth, so every bit helps. I think my only experience with anything similar to a “motion book” like this before is Ava’s Demon, which is mostly a still comic book intersperced with snippets of animated sequences at pivotal points. If you’ve never read it/seen it, you should really check it out. ( http://www.avasdemon.com/ )

@Falcolf, this comic looks amazing already and I’m only two pages in. I have a feeling I’ll be sharing it with a few people I know as well since… wolves. 8| And gorgeous art.