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Title: The Ring Cycle #18
Post by: Daphne on April 26, 2025, 12:04:49 am
So many women, so little time.

(https://mindcontrolcomics.com/comics/images/ring_cycle/i18/ring_cycle-i18-p00.png) (https://mindcontrolcomics.com/comics/ring_cycle/i18/preview)

Script: Daphne • Art: Rafinha • Lettering: George Zipp


Title: Re: The Ring Cycle #18
Post by: Vidor on April 28, 2025, 09:15:08 pm
Is this a new character?

I'm looking forward to seeing how Mom deals with being her son's sex slave.


Title: Re: The Ring Cycle #18
Post by: Garg22 on April 29, 2025, 03:49:05 pm
"So many women, so little time."  To me the solution is simple, have this published ever two months.


Title: Re: The Ring Cycle #18
Post by: contagious on April 30, 2025, 05:01:33 am
I really miss the previous artist. This one does ok with character models except during sex. Rather than being sexy, they wind up looking like horror scenes and the characters go off of their previous models. Still loving the story although each update goes rather quick for the length of time between updates. I'm sure this isn't their main job, but I wish it could be.


Title: Re: The Ring Cycle #18
Post by: crazydorian on April 30, 2025, 07:54:59 am
Professor Fournier is looking very different from her last appearance:
https://mindcontrolcomics.com/comics/ring_cycle/i15/p06

Was Rafinha maybe not aware she'd appeared before?  Still, everyone's looking great!

Still a very enjoyable issue though. Sounds like we'll be getting some new answers soon :)


Title: Re: The Ring Cycle #18
Post by: KingMind on April 30, 2025, 11:40:09 am
I miss the old artist too but i have to assume they moved on with this new one for a good reason.  I like the art way more than other artists they've had work on this, like Aries Montes, but I do prefer the work done by HSefra.  Maybe MCC needs more subscribers for the art to be better and that is why the issues take as long as they do.  ???


Title: Re: The Ring Cycle #18
Post by: dacube on April 30, 2025, 10:40:25 pm
I completely agree with @contagious. It was my 2nd favourite comic before (after Trigger warning), now it isn't sexy at all. The artwork is 'cool' but is isn't sexy.


Title: Re: The Ring Cycle #18
Post by: Vidor on May 01, 2025, 04:30:17 pm
I really miss the previous artist. This one does ok with character models except during sex. Rather than being sexy, they wind up looking like horror scenes and the characters go off of their previous models. Still loving the story although each update goes rather quick for the length of time between updates. I'm sure this isn't their main job, but I wish it could be.

I'm gonna both agree and disagree with this!  This artist is the same one who did issues 2 and 3 of "A Friend in the Family", one of the best comics on the site, which bizarrely was hidden away in Bonuses.  Those comics were good.  And issue #17 of this comic, by the same artist, was also good.

However I do have to agree that Jeremy is looking particularly satanic on Page 1.

I was hoping that we'd get more with Mom in her waking life coming to terms with being a sex slave, but that was only briefly touched on before she went to work.  I hope we see more of Mom in the next comic and I hope we see more of the girlfriend's mom.  The only thing better than a mother daughter threesome is TWO mother daughter threesomes.

Finally, while some of the art in this issue could have been tweaked, it's pretty terrific to get comic updates only two months apart.  I'd much rather have wonky art than go ten months between issues like we did between #16 and #17.

EDIT: I also want the sister to find out that Jeremy is fucking Mom.  That's going to be fun.


Title: Re: The Ring Cycle #18
Post by: ktc1221 on May 02, 2025, 05:58:11 am
I'm actually the exact opposite reaction... in that I love this artist but this comics story is personally a huge turn off for me generally. I click for the boobs and ignore the plot because incestual relations bother me significantly. The professor once being blonde but now being a dark raven hair bombshell for example I completely didn't even recall until it was mentioned as such. Rafinha made /makes Slime Thief (or at the very least it's an uncanny resemblance to that artists style)which is an old favorite of mine from the expansion/transformation fetish community and it's kinda fun to see the artist spread out a bit so to speak after all these years.


Title: Re: The Ring Cycle #18
Post by: Vidor on May 04, 2025, 12:59:42 am
I'm actually the exact opposite reaction... in that I love this artist but this comics story is personally a huge turn off for me generally. I click for the boobs and ignore the plot because incestual relations bother me significantly. The professor once being blonde but now being a dark raven hair bombshell for example I completely didn't even recall until it was mentioned as such. Rafinha made /makes Slime Thief (or at the very least it's an uncanny resemblance to that artists style)which is an old favorite of mine from the expansion/transformation fetish community and it's kinda fun to see the artist spread out a bit so to speak after all these years.

Fair enough, but this has been the storyline of this comic for 18 issues now.  Not a new development.

Anyway, my quibbling above, I'm looking forward to the next issue which I hope comes as soon as this one did.


Title: Re: The Ring Cycle #18
Post by: ozymandias on May 11, 2025, 09:01:03 am
Rafinha has done some of my favorite issues: Sang Froid, Friend of the Family, Sudo 7. I like what he's doing, but I'm sure schedule pressure and the specifics of the writing change how he approaches the material. He's very good, IMO, and creating characters with a variety of looks and body styles, and he's really good at facial expressions, which I really appreciate. I think schedule pressure and the writing for a given issue really must drive what he does, though, so I'll be interested to see how he progresses with Ring Cycle. The first time you illustrate something, of course, is going to be tough, as you figure out each character's look and body language, and so might take longer to nail than it will later, once these things are more settled.