The Far Side of Utopia

For the second time this month we have a comic for October 10th, weird. I admit this Chapter sort of wanders a bit here, as while the plot still marches on, I think the coming chapter we are going to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I feel like I should probably point that Naomi turns around between panels 1 and 3, to face Mium, not that Mium just disappears. This was pointed out to me as confusing, so I figured I’d preemptively mention it. Miko’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

First the 10th, now the 4th… time flows in odd directions sometimes. Make sure to get any suggestion for monthly Halloween costumes in; they may end up being filler for, well, you know, Halloween as we are currently hurdling toward[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Oh… huh, it’s October?? When did that happen… 😐 Well, I guess as is tradition, if anyone has ideas for the yearly character costume ideas, toss them in the comments or shoot me message/email. Historically I get around to drawing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

This one is real dialog heavy… though I imagine the dialog it does have seems a little… odd… hmm. Probably nothing to worry about there. I’m a little behind on the next comic, but it’ll be on Patreon by Friday,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Pages like this are why we can’t have nice things like buffers. I just lacked the heart to split it into two pages as it would mess with my (dubious) sense of aesthetic in having the transition panel. And we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Well, first of all, sorry for missing Monday – this one was mostly done by Monday, but it just wasn’t quite there, and I realized there was no way I would have a Thursday comic if I published it, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Well, I’ve run out of buffer, but I’ve also made it past worst of it for work, so I think I should be on schedule for monday, and able to rebuild the buffer again next week as I have a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I suppose we are calling these double comics now? Don’t worry we will get back to this being regular at some point, but not quite yet. I should be able to build up the buffer in the next couple weeks[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I had originally planned on doing a page or two more between Arkady and Kardus, but that was probably taking a little too much time on that little sidetrip. Skipping that isn’t really fair to Arkady and some people may[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

It is sort of weird updating from a buffer, particularly when I got as far as ahead as I was when I drew this one, because this is now a comic I draw like… weeks ago, so talking about it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Work has been endeavoring to consume my life like a feral beast. Fortunately we still have a buffer, but it is starting to take a hit. I had finally fixed their shit, and they came up with more shit. Hopefully[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Well, unfortunately the wiki is now account-by-request only again. I kept it unlocked last week, but there was pretty much a direct correlation between duration it was unlocked and amount of spam bots botting spam (well, probably penny-per-hour flesh and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

A peterpromise is a unique term not really related to “promise”, in that it does not intend to contain a promise, and if it does seem to, it always worth double checking to see if it actually contains the promise[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So, there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that we are back at half pages for awhile, the good news is that we have a week worth of buffer – 2 whole comics! For the time being[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Okay, we are definitely skipping Thursday come next week… am falling behind again. The SA on my project resigned, so work is problems again. Even if we get a replacement for him, I reckon that’ll take awhile until they are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Ah… okay, this page got away from me a bit, so ran a little over budget on time… Anyway… Thursday will probably* be a half page again, though I can’t make any promises that I’ll be smart about it. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

See, hopefully it makes sense why I decided to combine the two half-pages. Also probably why it ended up taking me a bit longer. Pages that just contain action sequences seem like poor candidates for the half page treatment as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

’tis the half page fare, not sure if Thursday will be half a page or not. I was planning on it, but maybe it doesn’t work as well as a half page, idk. I was hoping to finish it today,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I think some people might be confused why Naomi mentions Arkady here, as most of his appearances have been cut, but he is pretty good friend’s with Naomi – we see that he’s one of the people she recruits for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So the current plan is half-rations for the week, when it comes to comics. Once again, I am not that convinced it saves me that much time, as I tend to just compact things a little bit, but it probably[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Suffice to say it’s been a long week. Nothing too bad, just work managed to come up with a problem I actually couldn’t solve, which might be a first. I suppose that technically I still solved, but it was more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Ah, that’s a lot of words, I know. I’m all worded out, so I guess not too much to say here. Thursday might be a half page again, I’m not sure. I will be fairly busy this week. Guess I’ll[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So… just for booking keeping sake, I should probably make two notes. Yoav is his first name; his name is Yoav Cao; I only note that as its been so long since we’ve seen him that art development may make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

This is, admittedly a pretty weird page for me. I don’t really know where this idea came from really, and its not something I would expect to see a lot of. All these fragments are something at one or another[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Well, well, well, what have we here. We have seen President Kokato before, he’s the President of Arpon for those that don’t remember the details of the last time, since it’s been awhile since he was the guest of Mium,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Rovak actually suspected back during his briefly confrontation with Mium that something was wrong.It made him think, and he didn’t like it. Guess he’s in a more pondering mood now. Or at least bored. For those that don’t recognize the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Uh-oh, people are starting to suspect all the characters are insane, better put in a sane one- oh… Ah, you know what, nevermind… With Rovak, he has frequently not been an interlude character, but at least he was originally supposed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Already pretty late, so I’ll keep it pretty short. Will be by tomorrow to fix things if things need fixing… still busy, but I see lights at the end of the tunnel. Or, you know, the train. We’ll see. If[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Eh… so this is maybe a page that shouldn’t exist. Lot of issues… end up trying to do part of it my old Surface tablet for reasons… yeah, was a mess. So if some of the art looks…. meeeeh, well,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…running super late… and inexplicably on my third try to actually publish this… so… will be brief… I am not sick anymore! I have passed my constitution saving throw… but I was sick most of last week, so behind on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Am sick.

…and we are back with the final page of Chapter 12. We’ll be launching into… the third? Fourth? Intermission after this? But intermission in this case doesn’t mean break or even flash back, but, well, we’ll see. Chance to see[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Just as a reminder, my failure will continue into this week, and there will be no update on Thursday. Next week we should be back to our regularly scheduled Monday/Thursday entertainment. If its any consolation, I basically just tacked two[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Alright, so here’s what we are going to do. There is a comic today! Rejoice, and what not! But there will not be a comic here Thursday… there will probably be a comic on Patreon Thursday, though, that will make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Still sort of running on dregs here to keep things going. Work is being a pain in the arse, the problem is that I hadn’t really planned on it being a pain in the arse as we passed our major[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry this is a little late, especially sorry for those on Early Access, as I wasn’t able to get it up on Patreon in time there. I’ll also sweep through and make the fixes a few of you so patiently[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

On the downside, I’ve run out of my buffer again… on the plus side, I am pretty sure I have monday off. I just realized that today though, so now the race begins to if I actually have an extra[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

We are still just sort-of buffered. Was supposed to catch more up today, but I opted to take a nap instead after around the third time I just zoned out starring at my tablet. Did not help. Somehow taking a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Back to buffered updates. Sort of. …it’s pretty late to be in the office, but Kally’d be damned if she was going to let Peter out of her sight. You see what happens? Give him a few moments and next[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Comic! A little later than I hoped, but ain’t it always. For the time being I’m going to scrap the Google ad. That’s not a forever guarentee, but based on the feedback so far, and the fact that Google keeps[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Okay… so, I’m going to try really hard this weekend to get back ahead of schedule, but I can’t make any promises. If I don’t get back ahead this weekend, we will probably have to take the week after next[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I assure it does not take Ila long to climb up the railing, she is just muttering to herself very quickly. I considered removing the spaces from it, but I figured that would be annoying to read. Yes, she was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I did debate a bit on how to draw panel 9… magic effects are really where I still bemoan my drawing skills. Like, I guess I do when I have to draw something I clearly can’t draw like a car…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Ila is still working out some of the finer details when it comes to this whole business of acquiring snacks. All I’ll say is that is one lucky vending machine that someone intervened. I mean, given where she learns things[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

First, an admin note, sorry if you’ve seen your comment get stuck in a moderation queue. Currently all comments with a link are getting flagged, and I have to manually approve them; we had some stuff get through the spam[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Well, certainly not the first time we’ve seen the consul. Her hair is different than previous times, that’s it is intentional. It’s a long day, and she’s not really dressed up for speech giving at this point. I reckon we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

There’s a face we haven’t seen in awhile. Well. I guess not that long, all things considered? We haven’t seen much of her, really. Though inexplicably she’s Amaranth’s avatar. You people and your avatars are weird sometimes. Sorry this will[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Peter’s had a long day. Which isn’t to imply talking to him at the start of his day will really have better results, just a point of fact. I think that people that have paid a lot of attention to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

If Peter seems like he’s had a long day, well, I think I had a long day today, and my day was still a day… it’s been a little over a month since we’ve seen him, and he’s just now[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...