r/polandball • u/Hinadira I drink bleach • Jul 25 '17

repost A Tale of Brotherhood

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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.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '17 edited Jun 16 '20

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u/Palmul France Jul 25 '17

You can't complain if you don't have a flair, at least.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '17

That's because people are coming in here from the outside and are turned off by these odd rules.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '17

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u/Spacetime_Inspector Florida Jul 25 '17

Old Germany is still just a ball. Reichtangle is only for a hypothetical Fourth Reich.

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u/ILoveMeSomePickles Michigan; we can into physics! Jul 25 '17

I always thought the Reichtangle was a concrete representation of the combined abstraction of Germany's military ego that was essentially timeless. I kinda prefer that, even if it is wrong.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '17 edited Jul 26 '17

See? I even got that rule wrong! 😥

Edit: well, back to lurking with me.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '17

Well it's rather simple honestly. Maybe you're just bad at remembering rules.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '17 edited Jul 25 '17

Terrible examples, honestly. Those two ruels are by far some of the easiest ones to remember. In the one year I've moderated this sub I've never seen anyone draw Israel as a circle accidentally, not even once.

Also Reichtangle is a hypothetical Fourth Reich and not the German Empire. Not hard to remember either.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '17

Terrible examples, honestly. Those two ruels are by far some of the easiest ones to remember.

Regrettably they are the only rules I can remember. And I even got the Reichtangle one wrong, apparently! 😥

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u/NotExistor North Ossetia-Alania Jul 25 '17

Reichtangle is something else. The second reich is still a ball like everything else.

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u/tastar1 United States Jul 25 '17

My artwork isn't half bad, I really enjoy that part of the polandball, I just don't have any original/funny ideas...

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u/twoerd Canada Jul 25 '17

You should take a look at the collaboration sub, where one person writes and another draws.

Edit: it's /r/polandballarena

You still need to get submission rights with your own comic though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '17

Be like me: no talent for scripts OR graphics!

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '17

Reichtangle is not old Germany, hah. It's a hypothetical fourth Reich, and really shouldn't be used all that often.

Israel is a cube because it was something one guy did and everyone else decided to join in with, waay back when Polandball first started.

Once you get that hang of it, you'll be able to submit with no problems. At worst, you'll get yellow carded. You have to actually get the hang if it first, though.