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by PastUtopia on (#5J6BT)
I think Mium has settled on a new favorite phrase, “in a manner of speaking”. Been busy again, trying to get things wrapped up for the D&D Kickstarter book, or at least into the final phase.
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by PastUtopia on (#5HXE3)
Mium only occasionally calls people by their actual name. This not one of those cases. Just because Mium may or may not already know all that doesn’t mean he’d turn down a good testimonial. It’s useful for when people want[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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by PastUtopia on (#5HN7C)
It might not be entirely clear from the comic, but Mium isn’t directly answering her last spoke comment, but rather commenting on her gathering mana to use magic. I’ve noted before that Mium does not actually catch bullets, he just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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by PastUtopia on (#5HC3A)
You haven’t missed anything with Mium, Eliana, and Ila, the comic didn’t show how they got where they are. Last time we saw Mium and Ila they were on their way to visit Eliana. Hope you folks are all doing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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by PastUtopia on (#5H3RK)
I think the Families have something of a fondness for alliterative names (Artem Ardunni being the latest example). If one gets the feeling that… Artem is not excessively fond of Camilla. Naomi is riling Camilla up in the 3rd panel.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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by PastUtopia on (#5GT45)
Sorry this ran a little late. I’m having some computer difficulty. I think I’ve talked about this before. I really need to replace my computer, but it’s sort of hard right now to buy up-to-date computer things, and I’ve been[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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by PastUtopia on (#5GFNW)
So, as it’s a ridiculously late a perfectly reasonable time of day, I’ll keep this short. Miko’s comment on the hair. Given that was apparently back in 2018, I won’t expect people to remember that Miko had intended to get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
by PastUtopia on (#5G66G)
I think one of my regrets of the comic is that I never really properly shoe-horned in a more detailed explanation of how magic works. It’s in things like that probably better planning out story structure and being a more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
by PastUtopia on (#5FX83)
Comic! I’ve seen some comments about tags for characters; I’m looking into if there’s a way to do user generated tags, but I haven’t seen one yet. I’ve included them here, I don’t know if I will always do that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
by PastUtopia on (#5FMGT)
Still on Central. Moving forward, I’m going to use the full black borders for when we are Central, and the white borders for when we are Palindra. Until I forget anyway. I imagine people can probably guess how Mari might[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
by PastUtopia on (#5FB9X)
I think most people would describe Arron as the Director of the Criminal Investigations department as competent, but I think it is telling that when he decided that shit was fucked, he reverted to being Major Arron Kepler more or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...
by PastUtopia on (#5F2ZM)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5ES2Q)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5EHGV)
…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...
by PastUtopia on (#5E6JZ)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5DMC0)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5D9SW)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5CZDC)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5CNAY)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5CCEM)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5C507)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5BXBJ)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5BM3Z)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5BBS4)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5B0R2)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5AR0F)
…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...
by PastUtopia on (#5AE4R)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5A4KQ)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#59V0F)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#59J2J)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#59A6E)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5938K)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#58ZMR)
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.
by PastUtopia on (#58M9X)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#58CVD)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#57W8Q)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#57HXV)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#57B95)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#572RB)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#56SE8)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#56FB6)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#5671V)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#55XY4)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#55NY8)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#554MT)
…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...
by PastUtopia on (#54N4T)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#549T9)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#53XCF)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#53EN7)
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...
by PastUtopia on (#531K4)
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...