It's purely my gut feeling but it seems like Andava is just starting to get plain lazy. The dump of images with no page numbers and random edits make it feels like he just wanted to get this comic done with and threw everything out there, and again this months Erica picture looks awful to me. . . . And Raptor is right the shape of Cassie's breast became more "banana" for one panel randomly.
To be fair,
none of Andava's comics have had page numbers, and the alternate versions of the images is just something that happens when you try to retcon
your entire body of work, in the middle of
adding to your body of work. Thank Jebus I'd already decided that whatever is canon for Andava doesn't
have to be canon for
me, otherwise I'd be tying myself in knots trying to iron out contradictions. So I'd place the blame more on Andava's professional
choices, not laziness.
Speaking of Erica, did you catch the detail that got covered up when Andava moved the title on Page 1?
As for Cassie's boobs, I thought it was well known that hers are rather less firm & perky than those of most of the other Andavaverse girls her age, so there's bound to be some changes in shape . . . especially when she's bouncing around, or lifting / squeezing them with her hands.
Previously I would say I think Cassie is recording it for herself to watch again because girl is a bit of a freak, maybe even wants to edit the footage to make some sort of home movie. Now however with my feeling Andava is getting lazy I am willing to believe that it's just a Darcy fever dream and this never happened.
I was much the same. I said, "We already know that Cassie makes movies, and she's into Alexis. One of the most common kinks is making one's own porn, so
of course Cassie's going to be recording herself banging someone (and probably without telling them about it), what
took her so long?"
But then I saw the Darcy pages. The
first page was just acknowledging that Alexis called her, and also
repurposes an old image--he's watering down some of the edgier parts of the Andavaverse, and changing "Darcy gets a horrible idea about how to solve her Eva problem" into "Darcy wakes up, feverish but still morally pure" would fall right into that line. And if that had been the
only Darcy image, my reasoning would have stopped there . . . but then he added
two more. He's up to something. Believe this is all a fever dream if you wish, but I don't see Andava burning 48 pages and
over 2 years on events that
didn't happen. It's plausible that the Darcy pages might just be a red herring, but I think it's more likely that she's actually
doing something, however minimal, that affects the story--either how
this comic is interpreted, or something that will be paid off in a
future comic. As for what's happening
currently, here's how I see it: (continue)
Now seeing the full set with the added Darcy pages, i dont really understand them. The first sure, Alexis calles her to ask where she is, just for her to wake up in her ill state. But what does the eye and the phone zoom mean? Having it connected to the camera feels weird beacuse it is 14/5 pages later where we get to see it.
Page 9: Alexis's call wakes Darcy out of a fever dream. She could have been dreaming about anything, she's literally in an altered mental state. Maybe it was about her saving the day, through her power of omniscience, letting her blackmail the bad guys and/or see evidence of a crime.
Page 18: Darcy realizes that she actually
has this power in real life, kind of, ever since they made the Journalism class's digital camera a
shared device that can be operated remotely, and paired it with her phone.
Page 27: She wonders just how
close to the camera she needs to be to control it--does she have to be nearby, or can she be far away? She decides to test it--her phone is right next to her, after all.
Granted, this theory of mine isn't perfect--for instance, why is her phone
ringing on Page 27? Is it just a delayed notification that she missed a call? In which case, she'd be more likely to be distracted and call Alexis back, rather than maintain her train of thought & keep activating the camera. (Unless she just doesn't
feel like talking to him at the moment, that is.) But, again, she's feverish, so who knows how her mind is working at the moment. Either way, the extra pages are positioned well before we see the camera because they
have to be, if Darcy is the one who turned it on.
Ironically, the placement of the Darcy pages isn't
supposed to be perfect--the pages themselves are (most likely) supposed to be a flaw, an unnecessary distraction that interrupts the main action between Cassie & Alexis. They're meant to create a nagging doubt, the sensation that something isn't right. "Why do we keep cutting away to Darcy? She's not even
doing anything!" But maybe her phone ringing is to help us subconsciously associate the TZZ TZZ sound effect with Darcy & her phone, until we see it for the final time--layered directly atop the image of the camera lens in the last frame.
Of course, if any of us got these images by
paying for them, like good little boys & girls, we wouldn't
have this problem of having to figure out which pictures go where. Then again, that's kinda half the
fun, at least for me.
marcusdom said:
AffectionOtto said:
it does seem very backward to me that all of the more hardcore perversions are strictly limited to the LilAndy label, the supposedly more "adult" side is squeaky-clean by comparison
As always I give him the benefit of the doubt here and say it's more a payment provider issue. The "adult" side also happens to be the more publicly accepted "morally approved" content by default so he's walking on eggshells with it to avoid pissing off SubscribeStar and such and their Visa/Mastercard tyrant overlords. LilAndy right out of the gate is already crossing a line so hey "we've passed the point of no return so let's just keep going further".
pippipapapopo said:
Thats what i mean. He pretty much keeps the forbidden or "illegal" stuff for Lilandy while the "normal" one stays at Andava. Thats why the theme of Cassie with a dog (wich i could see her definetly do) would fit more to Lilandy than Andava even if it would be a first to have an adult character only there.
You're both right, I actually kind of misspoke: What I meant was how backward it seems that all of the most extreme fetishes are only found on LilAndy
characters,
i.e., underage kids. He treats the distinction as "Andava = plausibly 18+" and "LilAndy = clearly under 18", when it
should be "Andava = fairly vanilla" and "LilAndy = whatever you perverted freaks want, as long as it doesn't squick
me out personally". Segregating the labels almost entirely by
age makes little sense. When Lily is doing nothing but riding her skateboard, fully dressed (well, with all her naughty bits covered, at least), that should fall under the Andava label. And when Claudia chomps into a guy's neck & draws a frankly
concerning amount of blood, that should be a LilAndy image. But
instead, what apparently happens is things like "My fans want to see some bestiality, which obviously must go under my more depraved label. So instead of drawing an
experienced, adult woman taking an insertion as large as a horse's penis, I'd better have a rather petite, 12-year-old girl do it." I'm not saying that it
should be someone like Dylan in Rurik's stall, I'm just saying that it would make more logical sense. Both because of (in this case) pure physical constraints, and mainly because people tend to get
more kinky as they age, not
less.
Cassie already
has appeared in LilAndy images several times (in fact, she's the
only character to have a significant presence under
both labels) but, again, she gets sorted less for
what she does, but rather more for the
age of the person she's doing it
with.
. . . for all the bestiality Skylar (and Valentina) have done when exactly was the last time they did any of that? . . . And Skylars weird shit now is just incest.
I haven't been keeping track of
when who does what, but looking back over the last few pages of the thread, I can tell you there hasn't been any
incest for a while, either. Which isn't surprising, what with SubscribeStar
specifically calling it out as content that can get one banned.
This thread is for discussion of Andava's
images only, and he hasn't drawn Cassie with anything alien yet, so I'll post my remarks about
hypothetical images to the wiki thread.
I don't think we've ever seen Andava do "xray/internal cumshot" either, the most we've gotten is one presumably joke image of "egg being fertilized" with Darcy way back.
Andava has drawn x-ray penetrations of Alexis & Pelo--although those were oral only--as well as Ceci, Darcy, Na-Na, and Skylar. And we've seen fertilization shots of Darcy, Erica, Ester, Eva, and Pelo (as well as a few non-Andavaverse girls) . . . none of which resulted in
pregnancy, of course, because of porn logic.
I think this [Ester "stealing" Brandon from Darcy] wasnt cheating. They had a one evening stand just Darcy thought this becomes a regular thing and she got disspointed but nothing was offical.
Correct. They collaborated on a project for a class, she seduced him, they fucked, and then they . . . apparently went no-contact for a few days. That's not a boyfriend/girfriend relationship. If you're dating someone, you
have the confidence to walk right up to them the instant you see them, and say "I assume we're going to the dance on Friday, right?" You don't just
stare at their back through a whole lecture class and only
hours later work up the guts to actually approach them. While Darcy was definitely traumatized by what happened, it was more because of the HUGE contrast between her Expectations and Reality (especially when there's a good chance that Ester was Darcy's
bully), rather than any actual infidelity.
