This is the first BE comic uploaded to The Overflowing Bra, drawn by GammaRai. A office manager finds out that the coffee isn't quite what she thought! More can be found at her site http://www.gammarai.us/
If you get past page 10 then you have a strong will or maybe you're not turned on at all by BE things and shouldn't be here. I think the artwork is wholesome. I like it. Sure, there're lots of things that could be better. The environments are almost nonexistent. The coloring helps immensely, but it's not impressive. There're far better drawn comics out there. The dialog is sometimes hard to read and even to follow. So, ya, things could be better. But, overall, the style is very sexy and the expanding curves and mood do it for me.
I liked this story a lot, moreso than Wishful Thinking. It probably has to do with the fact that nothing in this story creeped me out. It also seemed on the whole better drawn and told. It got a little confusing later, but it was still easier to follow.
this version in the zip file is missing 30% of the illustrations as sidebars to the main story. Fora complete and total version please visit my site and look for the "DVD extras" that fill it out.
Raichel
Well? What is there to say? This is easily one of the best BE comics made. Wonderful, amazing in the same league as Lightfoot and all the other great BE artists. We're all eternally greatful for artists of this calibre freely giving their work - awesome :D
As always, interesting illustrations with plots that have less continuity than a 3 Stooges Short.
It seemed a little cliched, but otherwise it was very well done.
GrOod Job
Is the artist really a woman!? Amazing; it is so cool to find women interested in this sort of thing. What delicious fun!
I have a bit of a hard time critiquing this. Obviously we can't hold a comic to the same standards as a story. I will say that the amount of growth is awesome and many of the illustrations are great.
This artist has clearly worked hard on her art. If you go to her website and look at some of her earlier work, like the Hot Tub BE alien strips, you can see that the faces of her women (particularly the enhanced ones) look extremely alike, sometimes too much so. You can see that in this work too but it has been significantly downplayed. Still, there is not much difference in how the women are drawn, particularly post-enhancement. The male figures in the work are also not as well detailed or drawn.
If I had to suggest to this artist one way to improve, I would suggest that she intentionally set out to draw very different-looking women. Maybe do some 'realistic' studies of photographs of different women, then bring in what you learn from those figures and faces to your BE comics. This is the only reason for the low score in the character area.
Some of the images even look a little bare in terms of background. Although I agree with the decision to not draw backgrounds in some of these cases, I think there are a few that could be improved.
All in all, this is a great contribution. I loved it.
She's one of the best BE artists out there, this story just proves that.
I like the premise, the jumbledness was painful to understand, also the characters have weird faces and just remind me childlike drawings, or an artist just starting out. I give you an A for effort, cause you put alot of it into it, double that effort on the art/character design and a decent storyboard for ideas/scenes and you get 5's from me.
I found it (on her site though. :P ) to be a well thought out story (even with all the branched off scenes). Detailed in description as well as visualization. (For those who may think the artwork is lacking - I'll ask this.. do you think you can draw better?) but I agree with XXXecil, I was surprised at this as well. :)
In regards to the characters themselves; many skilled artists use stylized features for human characters; some will choose to draw in ways that reflect aesthetic preference rather than rigid realism. Each boob is very well done. Did I mention how cool it was that girl would draw all this?
A bit difficult to comment on this one since I am more interested in the story than the actual drawings (this is why I visit a stories website, rather than an art one!) But this isn't to say that I'm ignoring the art, it is definitely an important part of the whole package. I agree with "nobody" about the faces though, I had some difficulty trying to differentiate some of the characters.
Does anyone have a link to the missing pictures? The website is currently throwing up an "Access Denied" page.
F'kn Hot... love the site too.
This is difficult to assess at face value. All comics are stories but all stories are not comics. First, I found the experince totally enjoyable, and have gone back several times, particularly after going to her site and taking the time to copy and past the urls from the comments sections below each individual page. The additional pictures are not required to get a full sense of the story, but help to fill out areas of question or amusing sidelines to the general story itself.
The BE (and PE) seemed in rather short supply quantity wise but the initial sequence was well executed and excruciatinly intense. Following scenes were abrupt but the focus on Ms B as the main character seemed to justify the lack of detail to the other characters.
I found all the characters likeable, Ms B as the sucessful business woman faced with a challenge unlike anything she was prepared to deal with ( booze and reclusion) Toni the steadfast secretary with a fast sharp eye for making lemonade out of lemons (and a hot bod in her BE-kini {how original}) and poor Peter doomed to be uselessly oversized until another accident (?) gives him another chance. Someone wrote cliche'd. Yes. But refreshingly twisted to be still enjoyable. Artistically I see her work as rather unique and can't find an artist with a similar style. Agreement that the faces tend to resemble each other, but the stylistic use of hair stlyes/colors clothing etc visually kept most of it distinct. From what I can see on her website, it looks as if the singular drawings on various pages have a definitive character look whereas the strips/stories/comics fall into the less distict catagory, my guess being the time spent on singular efforts vs longer repetitve continuations. I'm far from being any kind of artist, but I found personally the effort as well planned and consistent. 3 Stooge short? Unintentionally that's a compliment. As any educated Stooge fan will attest, Larry Moe and Curly were comedic geniuses of slapstick and situational buffoonery.
GammaRai's dialog was witty and helped pull a lot of the imagery visual frames together which seemd to be at times almost of cutscene jumps leaving the veiwer to asume where the story had jumped to. A little less and a few more frames to gently pull the reader to another scene would have helped prevent the sometimes choppy feel. The lack of Thought Clouds was odd since most comic art I am familiar with uses both verbal dialog and internal dialogs to tell the story. I don't know if it was intentional, but it seemed to have worked without them.
All in all I saw a fresh clean enjoyable romp through BE from a pesrpective and format I had not previously seen, and look forward to more of her efforts in the future. Well Done Raichel!
A terrific new entry in the BE cartoon field. The story line is a little disjointed but enjoyable. Good work, and I look forward to a sequel!
Having colorized a few of her pictures myself (one of which I beleive can be found in her sites Misc area) I know the proccess can take time to do well, and Im very impressed with her work on this story. Great work GammaRai!
At last someone who has decided to illistrate their BE story.
I have always thought of doing it, but am a lousy drawer and it took too long, so did not.Just a little peeved that you only submitted half the story in the Overflowing bra, but I guess it got us motivated to see your site. Not bad, I must say.
Story is interesting and illistrated quite faithfully.
Thankyou and carry on with the fine illistrations
DD_Redshoes
SPOILERS. I've already told GammaRai what I think, but I was invited to add them here. I think it is one of the better sequential art tales out there. For one thing, it isn't quite as shallow as your usual "let's find a way to inflate some tits" simply by the reaction of Ms. B to her plight. She's unhappy with her hugeness for quite some time until she meets a man at the same level of despair. You add in a B-story of sorts with the opportunistic assistant, and you have enough story to fit your standard Friends episode. There's enough non-consensual eroticism with the initial growth (valve stems...HA!), and enough romance in the end to satisfy me. And anyone who didn't check out the DVD Extras is missing out, especially if you're into more than just big tits.
(Of course, story aside, I LOVE GammaRai's artwork! There is something about the longish faces and the rough curves that really gets to me! Her "reluctant orgasm" expressions are SO good. The bathtub scene is laid out so well, and the professional purple blouse number is excellent use of color. And the honeymoon suite panel is steamy beyond her usual brilliance!)
Horrible Artwork, and storyline is very hard to follow...
*shudder*
Bloody brilliant.
Slightly cliche but it worked in a good way.