Romantically Apocalyptic Webcomic

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Status

Ongoing

Author

Vitaly S Alexius

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• 1Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  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!
• AzopRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  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.
• BoneMaggotsRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  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 bef
• DrNukinsteinRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  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
• DragonOfRochesterRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This is my first time reading RA as I generally stay away from post apocalyptic stories due to the hopelessness I feel when I read them. But this has been a wonderful story so far. The art is beautiful and the characters bring life the a desolateed landscape.
  The style is a curious mix of text and images, like a mix between a web comic and a web novel. It fits the story well. The author knows what he's doing.
  The story draws you in making you curious and even laugh at certian points. And if the author can make me laugh I'll forgive a lot of mistakes, not that this story has any as far as I can tell.
  I did not notice any grammar mistakes. And the colored texts was fun. It must have been difficult to format and I'm impressed that the author took the time to do that.
  The characters make this story what it is. They are well thought out and described in details that immerses you into the world. Of the two characters you driest meet, one feels solid while the other is delightfully confusing as a foil. Visually, the author's character designs are appealing—being fun and unique.
  This is a review swap. I actually don't write reviews often because of how bad I am at writing them. 🤣 as I'm sure you can tell. But being able to review a story like this that is basically part of internet history and has been around for almost two decades was awesome.
• Faceless BastardRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  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.
• HelgelandRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  i have been following Vitaly's work for the past 10 years it feels like. and i keep comming back either to admire the art or to get reaquainted with the fun characters.
  now with the re release, it is better than it ever has been. more lore, more story and MORE art!
  i cannot understate how much i reccomend this series. do yourself a favor and read it.
• Hunter MythosRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  It was in the late 00's when I first stumbled upon the original version of RA. This was back in the hey day of DeviantArt (and Gaia Online) and all those classic sites where edgy anime nerds congregated and showed off their 9000 year old kitsune vampire original characters. It was a wild time back then. And nobody was really that trope savvy.
  Then RA plowed through the scene with a level of passion I've never seen before. You can tell the team that worked with Vitaly on this humongous craft wanted to do something you'd never seen before. And that doesn't usually work out well. But Vitaly and his team proved that you can be innovative and still appeal to a lot of readers.
  For me, the images pop with such vibrancy and creativity, it's surprising that they were done as photos using green screen. And I appreciate the length they went to take pictures around the world.
  The story is good. Just read it for yourself and you'll be held for a long time.
  Ze Captain and Snippy make for a wonderful duo. And the Grammar and style are smooth, snappy, and easy to read.
  As someone whose read this before. It's treat to see this again with a modern update.
• Koda_016Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I remembered reading this graphic novel a few years ago, and Its been fun reading this.
  The Art :
  First of all, oh boi the arts are great on this one... The amounts of various artworks are basically perfect for my laptop and phone wallpaper (lol)
  The Story :
  Welp, me loves post-apocalyptic setting. So it's a win for me
  The Character :
  The characters on this story are fun and goofy, me like every humours on this...
  So yeah, that's all from me... Keep up the great work Owo)
• Marvolo MarvoloRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  As a writer myself, I first stumbled into the tiny piece of masterpiece while juggling around the internet for a past-time... and it was quite an inspirational punch in the face during those early days. Fell in love with the overall design and apocalyptic environment, as well (and obviously) with the buttfuck crazy assemble of characters.
  STYLE - I remember back in the day when I saw some BTS pictures of RA with the actors wearing the character's clothes and a green screen behind, with the author explaining he had an almost-infinite chest of apocalyptic background screen. I found that was very neat... I also love how the series shifts into artwork, 3d and real life people sometimes. It gives the narrative this natural fluidity and kinda surprises you from time to time. Sometimes it looks like an anime, sometimes it looks like a psychodelic videolog. It's a great part of its charm.
  STORY - Perhaps the aspect I most love about RA it's like sometimes it all seems like a clusterfuck of mental disorder. You start to think nothing makes sense (and sometimes that's the point) - sometimes it doesn't want anything to do with the reader, yet sometimes it sucks you right into its abyss so you can process wtf is really happening. Then it gives bits of informations which you think it's just random bullshit until everything starts to slowly come together into this labyrinth of compreensible mess. All its madness, its lore, its vibrant questions that may seem daft but gets you thinking... I see it as a philosophy class sometimes - strange as it seems.
  GRAMMAR - Well written as fuck. Sometimes it floods you with exposition left and right, sometimes it doesn't adds nothing but a chuckle. It's a fun and unpredictable ride that doesn't take itself serious, until it kick you in the balls with some awesome twists. RA sums up as a contradiction of itself, looking dumb and completely memeable on the surface-level... and I love that.
  CHARACTERS - Man, I remember in the high-school, me and