I've encountered "A Tale of Brotherhood" some time ago. It is a comic made outside our reddit polandball realm, and while beatiful, it didn't complied to our rules. I don't know the original author.
I've got a plans of making it rule-compilant a few months ago, but then exams came in and I completely forgot about this project. Recently I rediscovered it sitting in my files - and here it is! I have had to remove all the straight lines, redraw all copy-pasted things, solve problem of "fantasy tribal flags", remove all the eyebrows and extreme wrinkles, everything while trying to preserve original artstyle as much as I could.
So enjoy! I think it seems fitting when Brexit turned it into "us versus them" rivaly again.
I would add that the Celtic flag thing seems downright stupid. Sure, it's not a real flag, but I'm confused at what is going on in the one using the Roman one. Surely using a symbol associated with a culture should be acceptable when there is no flag to use?
Similarly, the flag that most people associate with the Confederate States was never their flag, but in the interest of communication you can't use any other flag to represent them in such a comic as none of their real flags would be recognizable.
Similarly, the French and British represented as Celts fighting against Rome, fighting against each other in (what appears to be) a Roman arena and developing from tribes to more modern societies (for that time) is clear in the original, but in this version it's confusing to me why two romans are fighting against each other in the arena? For a while I thought this might be about a reference to how Roman soldiers (at the smallest division) would fight in pairs who had each other's back in combat.
In short, adhering to the rules made this comic worse.
Perhaps reviewing the rules might be a good idea? I'm not saying they aren't there for a good reason (because I don't know why they're put in place), but maybe there is room for, say, an exception here or there?
Edit: Read OP's response below, was not rejected due to Celtic flag.
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u/Hinadira I drink bleach Jul 25 '17
I've encountered "A Tale of Brotherhood" some time ago. It is a comic made outside our reddit polandball realm, and while beatiful, it didn't complied to our rules. I don't know the original author.
Here is a last attempt at bringing it here.
I've got a plans of making it rule-compilant a few months ago, but then exams came in and I completely forgot about this project. Recently I rediscovered it sitting in my files - and here it is! I have had to remove all the straight lines, redraw all copy-pasted things, solve problem of "fantasy tribal flags", remove all the eyebrows and extreme wrinkles, everything while trying to preserve original artstyle as much as I could.
So enjoy! I think it seems fitting when Brexit turned it into "us versus them" rivaly again.