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Comic for Monday, March 8th, 2021
Comic! This is a lot of talky comic, and the kind that I did give some consideration to dropping, but I think Arron’s state of mind is a somewhat important to show, as well as the insight that it gives[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, March 1st, 2021
So we’ll be back to Naomi & Kally in time, but I did want to take a detour here to check in with Central, as there’s quite a lot of moving pieces there that are a collision course with the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Tuesday, February 23rd, 2011
…pretty late. As you may guess, the same thing that usually gets me in trouble got me in trouble. I had two pages, and I was like… but what if I stuffed them both into one page…? And it took[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, February 16th, 2021
It’s been referenced a few times that Ashvalt killed a handful of the Rogue Family mages back in during the fighting prior to them stepping back and letting the Consul rule (the accord). Stopping Ashvalt once was of the reasons[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, February 1st, 2021
Page! Going to be honest here, this page was a little more than computer could deal with. It’s been dying for a bit, and an effects heavy page like proved a wee much for me. It crashed no less than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, January 25, 2021
Sorry about the site going down for a bit. There was some issue with billing, and then when it was paid the webhost seems to have decided that the site needed to be deleted in the hour between them giving[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, January 17th, 2021
So I could offer a bit more of explanation of Saraine’s magic, but I think it will be somewhat more explained next page… As for her activating it with a keyword, I’ve noted before that’s not required, but some mages[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, January 11th, 2011
As a general rule of thumb, magic doesn’t work on creatures that have an eidos key, but as we also know, that’s just a rule of thumb, not a rule. We’ve seen almost this exact thing happen before way back[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, January 4th, 2021
Happy new years! Welcome to 2021. The shield summoned by family mage seems quite sturdy indeed; there’s various factors to it, including what it is (or is a replica of) and how close it was summoned to the mage. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, December 28th, 2020
This is up a little late, oops. Took a bit longer to draw than I thought. I think both because panel creeps upward in these sorts of pages, and I have to do more… storyboarding the usual. My outline isn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, December 21st, 2020
Well, we’ll have one more comic for 2020. Something gives me the feeling violence will ensue in it. I dunno why, just a feeling. Naomi is almost certainly a bad influence on Kally. Or a good influence, depending on your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, December 14th, 2020
Not going to always color the comic bubbles, just needed to use it for the 4th panel, and figured I’d just do it for the whole page this time. The poll seems to be a fierce contest this year.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, December 7th, 2020
Quarantine + No Internet… Do not recommend. Didn’t even have time to like… download new books to read. What? Books made of paper? What are those? Well… maybe I’d have had to resort that far if it went any longer.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, November 30th, 2020
This most important poll of the year should open on Tuesday… Santa Hats are at stake. We’ll see if we get something unusual or the predictable… [EDIT] Poll is up. The cars in this world tend to look a specific[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, November 24th, 2010
…no, neither of them take a traffic cop even the tiniest bit seriously. I feel sort of bad for him. While Naomi primarily knows Mium as Mium rather than Query, she knows a fair bit about history, just because she[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, November 16th, 2020
Peter & Miko’s Part: Obviously you can get between worlds without a gate that’s activated on both sides like the kind that the IDS uses, as someone had to cross over to set up the gate in the first place[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, Nevember 9th, 2020
If it’s not clear what they are talking about in panel one, certain units of Mium are capable communicated with other parts of his system extremely fast. If, for example, the new prototype had an Eidos card installed, it would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, November 2nd, 2020
So, first of all, a bit of an apology. I had intended to do some Halloween sketches, and even solicited ideas from you wonderful folks, but here we are without Halloween sketches, and I feel a little bad about that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, October 27th, 2020
There are some things that readers would know that Arron knows that he’s not saying here: He’s not bringing up the Bridgepoint data, which is likely tangled into this mess somehow. He’s not bringing up that he likely knows that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, October 19th, 2020
I generally try to avoid copy pasting the patreon description for the comic description, but as this one was long and perhaps helpful, I figured I’d do it this time… ____ This is sort of a required B-Plot of Arron[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, October 12th, 2020
Poor Ricci. He didn’t like Karov doing nothing, but now that he’s got the reigns all options seem to be bad. I suppose the difference between him and Karov is willingness to pick between two bad decisions when he has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, October 10th, 2020
In the spirit of October and the coming Halloween let me know if you have any costume ideas for the characters this year. Don’t know how many I’ll draw, but should be at least a few.
Comic for Monday, September 28th, 2020
Mium’s hair seems to be back to blue. Mium can actually taste things. He just doesn’t inherently care what things taste like. This is an ongoing point of contention between him and Ila. Sounds like Kally ended up getting lucky[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, September 21st, 2020
Naomi found her first snacking opportunity of the day after all I suppose. Kally is notoriously bad a public transit, and still a little paranoid about taxis for some reasons… Flying Dragons about works better but tends to be on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, September 7th, 2020
Can you name all the characters in the second half the page? Only one of them is a character that hasn’t been seen and named yet in comic, though some of you might have seen her in old sketches. Sorry[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, August 31st, 2020
No long description where I ramble and complain today… super late. On the bright side, I think I made my last trip to my old house this weekend, so moving is official done. Done I say (glaring a the boxes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, August 24th, 2020
Sorry this turned out a little late. I will continue to blame moving, though there were several factors. Fortunately we do have a buffer again, so next week we should be set. The speech bubbles are also a little awkwardly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
Yikes, have a buffer and still managed to be late. Ended up moving before internet was working, because apparently packages don’t arrive when they say they will anymore (modem had to be shipped to the new house; the plan was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, August 10th, 2020
We still sort of have a buffer, as this is technically just the first half of the page, and the whole page went up on patreon… we’ll get that second half here next moday. I would like to put out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, August 2nd, 2020
We are back to buffered comics for a bit. Just because it’s sometimes a long time between we see these people, the name of all the characters in this scene as a refresher of who they are, using the top[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, July 27th, 2020
So we are getting back ahead as predicted. The next page will be up on patreon tomorrow! …though I suspect page density is creeping upward. As some have noted there’s not all that much point in doing half a page[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, July 20th, 2020
First week of “retirement”… least we are well on time. Pretty sure sometime this week will we back to buffered updates on patreon. Admittedly last week was not quite as productive as I’d hoped, but it was my first week[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, July 13th, 2020
And we are back. This is a little later in the day than I was expecting, but the good news is I have a bunch of the process steps set back up – a working copy of Photoshop, etc. There’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, June 29th, 2020
…a rather late comic at this point. We are back to Naomi ambition to visit Eliana (to find Ila). As you can probably tell, I have not dealt with the lack-of-photoshop thing yet, so we are still doing it via[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, June 15th, 2020
Comic! It was, admittedly, a bit of a journey to get here. On Friday my computer kicked the bucket, notably my boot drive (one of my harddrives). This is sort of the end of a long journey of it slowly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
I somehow severely miscalculated how much text I could fit into a page, resulting in a bit of re-fiddling of this an a few other pages needed. Nothing major, but had to re-storyboard a bit, which is a small part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, May 25th, 2020
Sorry for the delays on the comic. Hopefully next week will be on time. I’ve gotten a bit of a start on it, so we’ll see but I’m hopeful. The progress of the comic pages and the general consequent progress[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Wednesday, May 13, 2020
I said Tuesday or Wednesday, which, if we are being honest, you all knew meant Wednesday… and here we are! Wednesday! Sort of. Obviously I’m still struggling a bit to keep the schedule. There’s a variety of things going on.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, May 4th, 2020
And we are back! And back to mondays! We’ll see how this goes ? This is the first time we’ve seen Lily, though I think we’ve seen her mentioned before as Kyle’s wife and Peter & Mari’s mother. The dissembled[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
I should probably link back to this page for somewhat more context. I suspect Mir’s right, though Mir is just less introspective about her own at least as extensive issues. It’s going to be a confounding factor in the experiment…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Wednesday, April 15th, 2020
I said I was going to get up by Wednesday, so we are just going to call this Wednesday, deal with it. ? So… this is obviously a bit of odd page. It’s actually a 2/3 page or so, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
Going to be honest, this page probably needed another day in the art department, and if you notice errors in the background or something… don’t think about it too hard, it’s probably just a mistake. The characters should be fine[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Tuesday, March 31st, 2020
Well, least it’s the right month! To be honest, we are lucky we are getting this today. Been hard to get time to work on stuff. I imagine the saying “that gas farted” is sort of like the cruder version[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, March 23rd, 2020
Ah-ha, I bet you were just checking to see what excuse I came up with this time, but it’s a comic! Bet you weren’t expecting that! The grenade was probably significantly more damage to the building structure than the thrower[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Sorry for the delay folks. Page took a little longer to draw than I expected… sort of rusty when it comes to pages that aren’t just people talking I guess. Also, as usual, busy. Unfortunately my work hasn’t been shut[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, March 9th, 2020
Technically speaking Naomi isn’t lying, Mium sent Ila, not Naomi. Mium might have done it for Naomi’s sake. Cutting off the speech bubble in the last panel was an intentional stylistic choice to give the panel more depth, and make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Monday, March 2nd, 2020
At long last I present to you… a comic! Proof that I’m not dead! Yet! I may have forgotten how to draw… took awhile to relearn this much. Not sure I’ll be able to draw action scenes anymore… guess we’ll[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Wednesday, February 12th, 2020
Okay… bit short on the panel count and the art is sketchy, but it’s a page. Unfortunately what started as an effort to trim this page down a little so I’d get to the next one before I left ended[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Friday, Feburary 7th, 2020
And you probably thought I’d gone missing without a page… while, I guess I sort of did as this is technically still late even by my definition. I just decided to forgo sleep to finish after all since I wasn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Comic for Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
It’s a page! I think I’ve perfected the art of posting a page for the week just as ya’ll reckon I’ll miss it and give up on me posting one 😀 I think it was noted back when Arkady was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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