30-something Wolf

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Rating Summary

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Background
This webcomic was brought up by Webkilla in the Forum and I, with what would prove to be a rather bad decision, decided to pop my cherry and review this fucker.

Downfall
This is a gay furry gag-a-day comic that is hosted on both Ko-fi, Reddit, and Telegram. It always sucked.

Story and Plot
The comic is a Gag-A-Day strip centered around a 30 year old self identified autistic lesbian furry. Just look at Episode 8 over here on the top right of the page and you will pretty much understand all you will ever need to know about this comic.

Art review
The art is not that bad, believe it or not. I will give her props for the use of color and shading. Each character is very expressive, although these expressions are comically over exaggerated to the point that it hurts the joke.

Each panel shows the characters in different positions with different body postures and expressions. So we don’t have any of the copy pasta laziness of other webcomics. (I am looking at you, Zombie Roomie.)

In the first few comics, we see a bit of stilted expressions and an unnatural positions for the head and eyes, such as this example from Ep.4. The head is straight forward (pun intended), yet the eyes point downward to the mirror. The mouth is open, but the reflection shows us a closed smile. In later episodes we see a greater improvement in character detail and a more natural positioning of both the head and eyes. This sea wolf unnumbered comic is a good example. You can see that the rabbit is looking down at the paper and the idiot expression works really well with the eyes focused on her finger touching her nose.

The background art is either cheaply done or nonexistent - some type of background color. Very few of them show some form of detail. There are very few instances where the background is important to the joke, but these are few and far between.

Writing review
As I stated previously, this is a gag-a-day comic. Now, those can be difficult to pull off because you do not have a set cast of characters that you can derive humor from how they interact with each other. Situational comedies, such as Archie Comics, have a set group of characters that carry over from each chapter. We already know who Archie, Jughead, and Mr. Weatherbee are without having having to waste time on introduction. This gives the writer more flexibility and space when it comes moving from set-up to comedic pay-off. There is much more room to play around in for the set-up.

Gag-A-Day comics do not have this luxury. Each page must contain the set-up and the joke’s delivery, making them, in my opinion, more difficult to write. All of this has to happen on one page. This places Zephyri Wolf at a disadvantage, but when combined with being a LOL Wacky! Gay Bitch Juice Drinking Lesbian Furry, the results are not good. The humor itself ranges from Dad Joke to [https://twitter.com/ZephyriWolf/status/1664270829167988738 LOL! Wacky Homo]. The author is trying for the classic Straight Man And The Goofball set ups with the result being failure. This does’t work due to the dumb smirk on the straight man, or when the roles are reversed. One comic the MC is the normie reacting to a silly situation, and in the next comic the MC is the silly one. This sets tonal whiplash for the reader. Is she supposed to be the silly one or is she supposed to be the normie where silly stuff happens around her? In a world where everybody is silly, nobody is silly.

Author biography
The author is a 30 year old lesbian deep into the Furry Scenethat lives in Texas. At first I thought author was some kind of trans dude who pretends to be a chick, but apparently she is an honest to goodness clam having taco enthusiast.

Conclusion
This comic sucks. Zephyri Wolf does have artistic talent, but the writing is too terrible to ever really redeem this thing. With the right writer, this comic could go from cringe inducing to all the way up to mildly amusing Ziggy. It might even induce a chuckle, but I doubt that it will.

Links

 * Her Twitter
 * Her Telegram
 * Her Ko-fi
 * Her Instagram (In the biography she says that she likes to do bad jokes. She tells no lie.)
 * Her TikTok
 * (She publish in r/furryirl) Her Reddit user
 * (Here she posts the +18 versions of some comics) Her Telegram archive
 * (Just commissions) Her Trello account
 * Her Nitter account
 * Her Twoucan account
 * Her Buhitter account
 * A photo in Facebook in a furcon where she is tagged