Romantically Apocalyptic Webcomic
by Vitaly S Alexius
Charles Snippy finds himself lost and alone at the end of the world. He makes a wish for a friend and meets Zee Captain, an eccentric lunatic luminary, who drags him on an adventure through the eldritch, deadly, questionable and limitless post-apocalyptic world of tomorrow, a place where Goodness makes the rules and everything has purpose and passion.
~A post-apocalyptic, dark comedy webcomic that I've been working on since 2005 by myself at first and then with friends from all around the world.
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I have read the webcomic on the old website and have enjoyed every chapter released with the plethora of art joined along side it and music tracks that acompany some of the chapters. It's a fun story to get into and has a lot of substance to immerse yourself in. Highly recommend it and hope others enjoy it as much as I do. Fantastic work.
This is the most stunning novel I ever saw.
I dont know why its free.
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Now I've been a follower of Romantically Apocalyptic for years now and I can say that I think I preferred it slightly in the webcomic format it had originally, though it's been transitioning to something more novel for a while with the journal entries. If anything my preference is merely from attachment to the one I experienced first.
The new style is probably better in many ways, being able to give more detail to the beautiful imagery like the journals were doing, but in a less intrusive style.
As for the story itself... It's a beautiful blend of madness and humour with surprisingly touching and awesome moments sprinkled in and subtle worldbuilding for a world that is truly unique (In at least as far as I have ever experienced)
The characters are all witty and play well off each other and the world. This story also does something that is not in itself unique, but is extremely impressive. Many things that seem nonsensical are in fact given ample explanations, you simply have to look for them and they might not be clear when they come up initially.
This story is also super quotable although doing so may make you seem insane and may require a lot of explanation and even then sometimes it really doesn't make sense in context... Or at least doesn't seem to make sense initially.
Anyway I give this story all of the stars and recommend it to anyone especially if you're into witty, sardonic humor, beautiful imagery and science fiction.
I have been following this story from its days long gone and im so haply about the new content.
The writing has inproved and the drawing has as well. Absolute banger of a read if youre a fan of post apocalyptic stories and humour. Characters have great dialogue and distinct personalities. Their adventures are always leaving you at the edge of your seat or roaring with laughter. 10/10 world building.
This story is too chaotic for me. I tried to read it twice before but stoped early on. After reading other stories of this universe though, I had so much questions and wild theories I had to get some answers. So I tried harder, until the introduction of Pilot. Then, the story is just so wild and interesting I couldn't stop.
But I must say, I think it's way more interesting to read this story after at least one other (Technomagica is my favourite, and it allows for the most interesting theorising).
Anyway, you should read this most excellent masterpiece and its other constituents.
Wow, this story is beautiful.
I don't just mean in the pretty pictures sense, either, though of course that's a huge part of the appeal. The prose, the subtle stylistic choices, the fonts, they all contribute to such an overarching tone that's frankly amazing to see.
The characters in this story can be summed up as "apocalyptically quirky" in the best way possible, and once you get settled into the feel of the story it's an absolute joy to read. Almost like the pictures themselves, their personalities make them pop out even more in contrast with the world surrounding them.
The only caveat I have is that if you're going to read this story, dark mode makes it 10000% better. I read it in light mode my first time, which, oof. It was only once I went to the author's personal website that I truly saw this story in all its glory. The original site also has some subtle characteristics that RR can't fully transfer over, but if nothing else, please just read it in darkmode.
Alright, that's enough ranting. I'd say check it out if you want something substantially different from RR's average, an absolutely enormous bounty of peak-quality art, or just want to read about something... romantically apocalyptic. Hehehehehe
Guys THIS STORY IS SO GOOD!!! THE STORYLINE, THE ART, THE LORE, THE CHARACTERS!! I LOVE IT I LOVE RA!!! guys i just cant get over how hot the characters are i just cant okay, if you read this entire story you will understand okay, this is by far the BEST WEBCOMIC you will ever goddamn read, if you say otherwise your lying, you are lying and you know it 🤬!!111!! READ RA!!!
I will fully admit to being slightly hesitant to read this story, at first. A re-upload of a graphic novel, posting new chapters at an obscene rate. I've barely read anything like it in the first place, much less on Royal Road, so I put off reading it.
DO NOT DO THIS. DO NOT MAKE THIS TERRIBLE ERROR.
I finally opened the story, once it piqued my curiosity by showing up on Rising Stars. I was immediately struck by the post-apocalyptic imagery, and the chaotic feeling that pervades this work, a breathless anticpation of what is to come. The adventures of Charles Snippy and Zee Captain are bizzare, with occasional glimpses of deeper lore. The setting is grand and mystifying, tattered and beautiful. It took great effort to tear myself away to write this review, and as soon as I post it, I'm picking up right where I left off.
Enjoy the read!
It is a delightfully bizzare tale of very unlikely of friends, navigating the magical wasteland of temporal anomalies, aliens, bus centipedes, and arguing traffic lights. A well illustrated tale of resilience when faced with the destructive consequence of humanity's hubris, sprinkled with witty humor, occasional audio-narration, and plenty of twists and turns of the plot.
The characters are all unique and special, truly unmistakable in both personality and design, making it very easy to enjoy without having to keep conscious tabs on who's who and what everyone's interpersonal relationships are.
The illustrations vary greatly in style, but don't ever lack in the execution. Going from realism, to cartoonish, to chibi, to 9th century manuscripts, to pixel art, without any of it feeling out of place or forced.
The story is very well planned and presented. Hints and nods to the greater story are sprinkled all throughout the story, so when the puzzle pieces finally click you have the most satisfying realization that "Oh! So that's what that thing that was mentioned 10 chapters ago was about!", And letting you speculate on what could have went down to cause all this, without giving you the whole entire backstory in one sitting and then spinning an adventure on top of that.
The grammar is good, and considering that some of the characters are either insane, corrupted AI, or both, they have intentionally misspelled and corrupted speech, making it both more immersive and easy to parse who's who, and what kind of character they are, and how they think. Every character has their own unique speech pattern, and the main charcters are color coded, too, making it very pleasant and easy to grasp who's who and what their deal is.
The characters are all extremely unique and well-developed. They all have profoundly original and different, all with their special ways of thinking, and inner monologues and turmoils. All having lived in very different conditions and socioeconomic groups before the apocalypse, now having to get along, without knowing just how different they are from one another, and what lead them there.
11/10 I'd say "would recommend", but the thing is that I have quite a few times already, and will keep doing so indefinitely
Been following this comic for years, and it's just gotten better, the art is beutiful photo-realistic pieces, the story is well writen and beyond unique, the style is seriously one of a kind, and the characters are magnificent, they feel so real, literally my favorite comic ever, especially after the remake