The Far Side of Utopia

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...

Kally’s weakness may be close quarters combat, but that is not really a weakness dragons are known for. I sometimes wonder how much to explain, particularly in these more action oriented scenes. For example, the dragon didn’t miss so much[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Work has developed a ravenous hunger for my free time once… hopefully this sort of a short term thing this time. Sort of like how a cat will drop a dead bird in your house, work decided to drop a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry people… no April Fools comics and what not… I can barely keep up with normal comics right now. But we do (technically) have a buffer again, as I posted the full page on patreon, and will do the half[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…okay, so this one wasn’t quite buffered. But! I have tomorrow off, so I think things will improve. The spelling errors in Ila’s quoted text are in intentional. Ila is paraphrasing a bit, but I imagine that’s more or less[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

First of all; apologies for all the malware spam. If you didn’t see my comment previously, the site was hacked. Best I can tell the only thing the did was make spam posts in Korean will malware links. It should[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

The Far Side of Utopia site was hacked (it seems my WordPress version was out of date) and the PastUtopia account was co-opted for what looks like Korean langauge malware (though I haven’t had time to run it through Google[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So, I have a bit of bad news; not only is this comic a tad light on content, I think I am going to skip Thursday to reestablish a buffer. To be clear, this doesn’t mean I’m just going to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry it’s a bit late. Hopefully will be back on track for Monday. Where did Ila get the sniper rifle? Well, you see, there was plenty of sniper rifles just laying that were not being used particularly effectively, so she[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Yeah… sorry this is a tad late. We are buffer zero again, unfortunately. Was hoping I’d get time this weekend to get ahead of schedules, but schedules got ahead of me. Should be fine for Thursday, but we may need[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Still sort of busy with stuff and the like. Buffer is suffering a bit, but should be done tomorrow(ish). The situation at work has gone full untreated sewage, to the point where I can’t even really complain about it here,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Miko bubbles with cheer, as always.

Short blah blah. Life’s a little hectic right now. If you will excuse a moment of #lifeblogranting… Being switched projects at work, not because my project had any problems or finished, mind you, but because someone fucked the farm animal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry if I’ve been a tad behind on some stuff… everyone I know is sick, and while I don’t think I’m sick per se, I’m barely above that threshold… just really tired this last week in a way that no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So we still have a buffer of 2, haven’t quite had a chance to push it to 3 yet, but at least we aren’t losing it. I also have the next check of Tyler’s story… soon. Which isn’t really great[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I mean, Ila gave it a good shot, but as Nathan pointed out and Naomi discovered, part of the problem with stable ethereal constructs is destroying them with brute force is quite challenging. While they can be obliterated by enough[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

We are still in good shape with the buffer; though as I’m drawing them as full pages the patreon page might not go up till late today or tomorrow, when it comes up we’ll have a buffer of two, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…and so we meet Eliana, tactical mage of Malsa. So I am for once a bit ahead of the sisyphean stone, and we actually have a buffer of one again! Hopefully that will grow, and we can get further and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

To be honest, I’m not really sure how it became Wednesday. All day I thought it was Tuesday, and that I was ahead of schedule. But then somehow it turned into Wednesday suddenly. I probably shouldn’t say this, as being[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry this is a bit late, and I’m a bit scatter brained right now, and there’s a lot of words, so… well, we’ll see. Probably some errors in there. I am not going to be able to get the buffer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

It should probably go without saying that it is not literally as switch that reboots Mium. It just activates a lower level protocol that causes Mium to discard his current priority stack and rebuild it, so to speak. While Mium[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Well, I know we are a bit behind the ball here in January, which isn’t per se how I wanted to start the year, but at least we aren’t missing any comics yet. Hopefully now that I’m back from travel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry about the tardy schedule. I had planned to publish this comic from the Patreon version of the comic, as I don’t travel with my drawing computer, but it turned out that I did not schedule the Patreon post, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry, things are a tad hectic as I am bad at traveling places, so this’ll be a brief commentary. Wait… is that something I need to apologize for? Err… you’re welcome? There, now they’ll think it’s a good thing instead[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Just as an FYI, I’m not going to unlock the Wiki yet as I’ll be traveling for work, and occurs to me those are two events that should not overlap (I know I said I was going to, but than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

To be honest, I’m not really sure if this was supposed to be part of the Interlude or the start of Chapter 14, now that I think about it. Let’s go with start of Chapter 14, which makes the Interlude[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I did say that it would be another intermission character. Really, I suppose both of them are intermission characters, though I think we’ve seen Kyle in non-intermission comics, ultimately the difference between the two at this point (and, for that matter,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I think in general Nathan & Tom will probably show mostly during intermissions, perhaps at some point I’ll expand on what their are doing. For now they sort have collided with plot at the Atter-point, so checking in with them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I’d planned to make a longer post, but I’ve decided to move it to a blog post. I’ll link to that when it goes up, but it probably won’t be till next week or so. You know, general blather. Anyway,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

It really would have been more well timed if this was the end of Chapter 13 instead of the start of the Interlude with it being a new year and all. Anyway, first a today’s comic related thing: I have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Hope ya’ll got what you wanted for Santa Hat day. Well, this is the end of Chapter 13… we’ll be going into another Interlude 5 on Monday. Of course, Chapter 14 picks up in basically the spot the Chapter 13[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Santa Hat Day Approaches! And thus… Santa Hat Poll concludes! 3rd Place…Miko! 2nd Place…Ila! 1st Place… Naomi! I’ll hold off on End of Year Retrospectives for now (probably something I’ll do in January… Looking Forward is always better than Looking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Ila… 😐 So we should have buffer across the holidays, so everything should update as normal. There will be the Santa Hat Winner, but that’ll put up as free drawing on patreon or vote incentive or both. There will be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Arkady’s wounds are getting worse as drawing detail gets better… 😐 This magic is actually one of the first things we saw Ila use, she used it against it Rovak. It is actually one of the more common offense[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

It seems the pointed finger is scarier than the gun? Ila has spent more time around Naomi than we have really seen, which I reckon is obvious, but as that I think about it we mostly see Naomi with Mium[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Well, things are pretty much back on schedule. Comics are buffered, but we’ll keep working on half pages for a bit more till buffer. Still working on Tyler’s story, not sure what the cadence of that will be, maybe 2-3[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Not Ila’s fault humans have weird priorities and problems. Realistically speaking in her defense “talking to the police” probably would not really have gone well for anyone involved. Technically it was Bureau agents, as regular cops wouldn’t get within being[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Am still sick. 🙁 There is part II of Tyler’s story for patrons here. There is the traditional very important December poll below. Still working on getting buffer. We are about half a comic buffered right now, which is pretty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Bet you thought you’d load the page to find another excuse of why there was no page… 😉 It was a bit of a stretch, but I did want to get this page up. I ultimately did condense it to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Just a reminder, there will be no page on Monday – I’m sorry about that, but that’s what it is… I’m a long ways away from my drawing tablet right now and it’s not finished. Obviously I could have/should have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...