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TW- This comic will tackle some dark topics, readers discretion is heavily advised for this is one big vent piece and also doing J some justice

Before I start I want to make one thing clear, DO NOT use this post as a reason to harass the Oni Press artists , I'm sure they tried their best with what resources they had. Tracing is generally frowned upon in the artist community, for published pieces at least, however the only traced thing appears to be the actual Glitch episode which it's adapting and that is very different from say tracing an other artist that is unrelated.

With all that being said lets see how many panels are actually traced.

Lol literally the first proper drawn panel and it's traced. So from what I can tell from the tracing it seem to just be for the sketch layer and they do actually alter a few things to actually make it there own but the red lines I add show where the shots line up exactly.

Ended up just combining these panels into one comparison for the sake of keeping the image count down. The backgrounds seem the most traced so far but the front drone head was traced, the rest of the body seem to be drawn themself. I did need to move the guys body to the left a bit to line it up.

The shelves and bottles are traced and honestly I can't blame them those shelves are evil, I know cause I've drawn them too.

This one might be a bit of a stretch but they do line up oddly well.

Again only the head is traced.

the background is traced and so is Tessa. The fact Tessa is traced makes it so this is actually a panel were Tessa looks good, the humans look very odd in this comic.

So only the horse is traced but I wanted to point out they took J's whale plushie away which is a crime. /j

If your gonna trace you could at least trace the doll house too, why's my girl in the brown void.

The reason Uzi's hair is sticking up is straight up because they used a frame where her hair is still moving I can't. Had to rotate a few things to fit better, this is also a great example why tracing can be bad, V looks very off because she's just traced and the artist didn't use their knowledge of how to pose a character in 3d. Not strictly related to the tracing but it's impressive that even when it's trace the designs are still off, Uzi's triangle chest screen is white, her under shirt is missing, so are her sweater logos, she's gained a belt? and N has black pants and shoes.

Almost didn't add this one as it's such a small thing but I realized I was counting all the tracing.

I'm just gonna add a ... if I have nothing more to say on the shot

This was the first drawing I noticed that was traced while reading as the head was actually pretty 3d which, frankly, the other drawn heads aren't, their pretty flat looking. I also want to point out a mistake they seem to have thought where the teeth meet one another was where the lip is when it's actually pulled all the way up to the screen in an unnatural wide smile. It resulted in V having this weird lip fang?

Her bangs are wrong, their cut straight.

Had to do some editing to get it to fit but this one was pretty clear.

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Small nitpick but I hate how they removed all the blood

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Both N and the backgrounds are traced

This is a mash up of a lot of shots so I tried my best. It's not a great mash up as Winged V part has the ground up way higher then the left side of the image so the prospective is all weird.

Only the cage is traced, the TV was not added, which is sad I always thought it was a fun design.

It being traced makes the fact all the caution stripes are gone stand out way more.

This one isn't even TRACED it's straight up using a screen shot and applying the binarizatioon filter and using that as your line work. Not even well look at the guy in the middle that you can see the ground through. You can also see the artifact of the filter on the table as the food trays caused black lines to appear but there are no actual food trays in the comic.

Omg this bricked my computer and had to reset it.

Didn't line them up great but you get the idea.

There are a few changes but it's clear that the sketch at least started by tracing, the door also line up.

I have to share that right as I started looking at this panel, SolarSparky said that this was one thing the comic did that he did like, I had to be the bearer of bad news.

Pretty sure the stuff on the tray is traced too but likely from a library of stock items, which is what those things are meant to be used for so not a big deal but I thought it was worth mentioning.

The shelves were traced.

Despite tracing they still missed the giant eye patch.

Don't think I got the exact frame it's trace from but you get it, I'm not checking every frame of that scene.

I either didn't get the right frame or Cyn isn't traced, also V is missing her socks

didn't get the exact frame but you get it, also this one was mirrored, they corrected the hand to the right side but forgot to fix her hair too.

The Bookshelves are also traced. I actually for got to keep track of that so I might have missed a few background traces but I don't care about them as much.

The white board somehow became a cork board, also it seems that the CRT became a laptop.

HOW ARE THERE ONLY 2 NON TRACED PANELS?!?! and one is just a bullet flying by!?!? also how do you trace and miss the crop top.

And the last panel has tracing too...

Anyway that means I got them all I think but if you find more you can add it in the reblogs. I didn't add the once that weren't obviously traced as there were a few 1 to 1 recreations that I didn't add as they were just different enough. I feel I need to remind people that the artist probably tried there best and it's more likely upper management rushing them so try to remain civil, I get you guys are mad but in the end this is just a comic about a silly show about robots.

Now to the trace count:

41 panels with tracing

40 characters were traced

20 backgrounds were traced

Anyway here are the crusty ass images

Life imitates Art