The Far Side of Utopia

The last two panels take place in the hospital; I realize that we sort of missed a scene where Arkady split off from the rest of the folks in the room to go to the hospital to get patched up.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Well, just when you all were probably suspecting I’d miss the week again… 🙂 Comic! I guess this doesn’t really count as the return of Tyler as he’d already returned a bit earlier. I’d intended to give a rundown of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Uh… Happy 2020 everyone? …I seem to have missed a comic, and I’m not entirely sure what happened. I don’t think I was that drunk on New Years Eve but somehow it’s time for the next comic already, and I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Reuploading. The site was compromised yet again (or maybe still part of the same issue as last time). Nothing that really effects you folks besides the delay – they put up some subdomain to use for their phishing spam bullshit.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

The black robbed chap is the one talking in panel 4. I realize in retrospect that isn’t that clear. When I read text boxes, I read them in different voices, so it’s way more clear to me who’s talking in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So here’s the plan; since this is up so late, I’m going to delay the next comic to Wednesday to space them out, and than back to Monday’s like normal for a bit; the next comic should be up on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Ah, glad to see that autopublish is still clearly not working as Monday is well under way and the comic is not… I mean, it has to be my fault, but on the hand, that’s impossible because I’m a fully[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry this is late. My schedule got sort of crunched. Going to be traveling these next two weeks, and didn’t prepare all the ducks in a row, so it’s been a mad scramble of duck alignment on the way out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Tyler knows better than to try to get useful day-to-day information out of Magnolia, given that she has already said Amy, someone that excels at exposition is coming. Magnolia isn’t part of the MSB, but it seems she does have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

EDIT: Post is now working, and should be posted. No idea what happened, but it was scheduled to go up last night, I realized just now it wasn’t showing, so I’m reposting this. Apologies for the inconvenience. Hectic week for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Been a long time since I typed “comic for Thursday”… Least we have that much back on track, though I wouldn’t count on Thursday comics being that consistent, just while we have the buffer budget, but that buffer is going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So I think there will be a Thursday comic this week, and hopefully a few bonus doodles based on the various costume recommendations we’ve gotten for Halloween (I won’t be able to do all of them this year, appreciate all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

After 3 weeks, I am finally in the general realm of “not sick”. This is one of those pages where the art department and writing department had some disagreement. Writing Department: Okay, so we it’s just a conversation page. Art[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Somehow still sick. This is going on the third week and getting a bit ridiculous. We haven’t run out of buffer, but I realize that I haven’t quite finished the next page that’ll go up (it’s drawn, but needs to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Am sick. 🙁 Got sick. Thought I was getting better. Got more sick instead.

I mean, on the sum total, Peter and Arron have more civil and friendly conversations that Miko and Arron. If you set the bar low enough, you see… Life is almost normal. Work is a pain, as always. Hoping that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Buffer isn’t quite to three, as the new page isn’t up yet, but it’s pretty close to 3 at this point. I know the process hasn’t been fast, but at least the posting times are regular, and generally (despite the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

On time comics… in a manner of speaking. Despite being a little empty looking, the buffer did grow again – I have the next page sitting next me drawn (the full page) I just need to put the talky bits[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Well, so, as some of you might have noticed, this isn’t last Thursday. That’s unfortunate. But we do have a comic. And, as some of you might have noticed if you are patreon folks… we have a full comic page.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I spent the weekend moving furniture, and I think I pulled my everything muscle. I’m dead tired and probably not 100% sober, though I’m pretty sure that the words sort of swimming on the screen is more the tired than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

A comic! I am going to try pretty hard to get another comic up Thursday. I cannot sign that in a blood or anything as this week is still going to be sort of shitty with various hassles, but I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…wait, it’s not Monday? … …oops? Next week will also be a little hit or miss due to housing/moving stuff on-going. I will provide a bit of context for this page, as the clues to what is going on are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

You can tell we are back from the interlude because all the main characters are back-… wait. Uh. I mean, we have seen at least one of these characters before… 🙂 So this was obviously a bit of a stretch to make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

If we are being honest, the second half of the “page” could have had graphics, but I felt this worked well enough, and honestly it would have taken another day to do what I had sort of planned, and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…okay, so yes, this is a bit late. In every sense of the word. I should have gone to bed more hours ago than I can currently count. Anyway, least we have a comic 😀 The digital world is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…okay, so this is pretty late Sunday. Next comic should not be this late, but will probably be end of day monday. This one ended up taking longer to finish than expected. A panel like panel 5 takes me almost[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

This one was definitely a bit rushed, hopefully it’s more or less fine. I don’t like drawing comics in one long session as I tend develop blind spots when working on something for a bunch of hours in a row,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I said I’d get the page today and here I got it done… parts are bit rushed, it’s a bit late… but hey, it’s here. I was planning on telling you guys that next interlude would feature a character that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

And so we reach the end of the 14th chapter, and very likely to the question to why Mari suddenly needed an alibi… but why was Mari involved at all? Perhaps only time shall tell (…or, you know, commenters). Given[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Is parts of this look a bit weird, it is because as noted in the comment yesterday, i lost my drawing pen. I figured I’d just draw the comic on my Surface tablet, but it’s a bit harder to draw[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I know there are a few questions I haven’t answered yet in the comments of the last page. I will go back and answer them tomorrow. Had to pick between going through those and doing the comic, and figured I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

… why even have an imaginary workforce if I cannot imagine them getting work done for me…? Alright, let’s go through these… Will we ever be able to Kor’s world? That depends. If/when I write a sequel, probably in that.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Verbal Ellipses (or the art of letting the other person fill in the blanks) is usually not magical, though can be equally effective on the unwary. Arron is one of the more wary though, particularly while dealing with Peter. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

There are handful of things I want to say about this page, but most of them I probably shouldn’t. Obviously this is running pretty late, and even so, was very rushed, which I suspect shows. There is a few reasons[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

71 comments people? I’m not sure if I should be impressed or feel bad that I clearly kept you waiting too long for a new comic. I really suspect that probably neither Kally or Sophie should have as much power as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Thought I’d have this comic early? Buffered? Haha… Wait? What’s that? You didn’t? You know I’d be late because I always am? Oh… I’m sad now… 🙁 😐 Sorry about that. Same ol’ same old. Thought I’d get ahead, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Next comic will be Friday, not sure if it will be up early on patreon or not currently. Sophie, well, I don’t really think anyone thought she was quite normal by now. In some sense, she is like Arron in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry this is so late. So what happened is I decided to push through and finish the whole page, and that took a lot longer than anticipated. I think I underestimated how much time it takes to draw a full[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Naturally Kally’s story would… probably not line up with Peter’s story. Kally believes that Peter can control the weather, but Peter would believe (to keep Kally’s vaguely awkward metaphor) that it is the actions of people that make the weather,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry this so late. To space things out a bit, I’m going to post the next comic Tuesday, but I hope to get it down a bit before then, I just want to space things out a bit since that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Hmmm… mistakes were made. I have my first meeting of the day in a few hours. But at least there is comic, so… important things are done. Will have to work on stealth napping during meetings, I guess. Unfortunately I’m[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Well, better late than never, eh? I did say we were going to see the monster hunters again. A few of them have had had a severe case of the being-shots, and aren’t present here, including their usual commander. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I’d like to think there is a timeline in which me skipping a comic last week meant that I was all caught up and everything was swimmingly on schedule. Unfortunately that is not quite that timeline we are living in.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I think some people are probably annoyed by my tendency to cut to characters they care about the least, particularly when there are so many characters to be keep tracking of right now, but I tend to think of what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So… there’s actually not much to update here. I sort of thought today would be the day I’d announce I was leaving my day-job, but that’s not going to happen, for the better or the worse. In the end they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Welp, not the best start to the week timing wise but hey could be worse. I debated how hard to make Miko’s text to read. This is something I’ve toyed with a few times. In this case – as the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…yeah this page took longer than I planned. I hadn’t planned on drawing the wide shot of the lab, and even if it’s… well, what it is, that sort of thing takes me a long time as I’m terrible at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…okay, well, that’s basically still Monday. …I should probably note that Miko being “out of focus” in the last panel was an intentional effect, and not intended to represent anything “in world”. I realize that after some of Peter’s shenanigans[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I will note that Peter dropping the <> of the Central is intentionally. He’s talking in Malsan after this first panel, Arron is talking in <Central> the whole time. The governmental structure of Malsa is just one of those things[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Well… sorry chaps. Was a bit later than I reckoned even trying to go quick with the art. As you may have gathered from the mini rant last time, work’s been a problem again. Things may change there early next[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...