The Far Side of Utopia

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...

Despite Arron and Mium’s objections, I think Arron is a diplomat. Just not perhaps the best, and sort of a reluctant one. He’s a diplomatic not by proficiency but by necessity, as the person that wants to keep the world[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Buffer still under control. Status normal. Etc. Next page will be uploaded to Patreon as soon as I’m down uploading this page to here. ‘Tis a special page, that next page, I must admit, though for a bit of a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Testing…1…2…3… is this live? Ah, here we go… Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome back to regularly scheduled regular update schedule of regular updates. So I spent the week in a haze of sleeping more and playing video games and got nothing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…I bet you were just checked to see what excuse I put up for the comic be late, but BAM THERE IT IS. A COMIC! 😉 …that said, it does sound like the common consensus is that I should take[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So… this is back on time, but I think it’s fair to say after the schedule issues of the past week, the majority of people would prefer that the updates a buffered and scheduled, even if it means missing update[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…okay, so, admittedly, this one is a little late even by my standards. Monday’s comic should* be on time. *Currently it is not drawn, but I have a big slice of tomorrow where I either don’t have things to do,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry its late. For various reasons, the schedule got a little away from me over the weekend. At this point I’m suspecting the Thursday one will be end of day Thursday, but, well, frankly that’s just about normal schedule at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…and it’s up! We return to more TV news anchors talking. I think I’ve taken the “talking heads” webcomic trope to a new level here, as I bring you literally pictures of pictures of people talking! 😉 The women on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

In Naomi’s defense, arms don’t usually just rip off like that. Normally if you apply that much force to an arm, the person would just be flung in that direction, but this is part of the danger of using something[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry about website down-age… it’s back up! … obviously. If you didn’t catch it from the comments and you’re interested in it, I put a Q&A thing! It’s… really… long… If you have any more questions, too bad! … okay,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

As usual, I’ve paraphrased some of the questions slightly. If you think I’ve mangled your question, let me know and rephrase, and I’ll tackle it again in the comments below. Some of the questions are going to be a little[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

So, I’ve not forgotten about the Q&A, it’ll go up today (for you reading this, i.e. Monday), just not quite yet, probably closer to the end of the day Monday at this point. I ended up slacking too much during[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Warmages tend to be pretty good at fighting, though their abilities are not uniform, there are some things pretty much all of them can do. The reasons for this will likely become apparent in time. Some are a lot better[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

While we’ve seen that Naomi can be shot, it’s pretty hard to shoot her if she knows where you are. This is has less to do with that she moves far more quickly than a human should, and more to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Tyler has some issues. I mean, beyond the whole he’s been shot twice. Given that he’s pretty clever, charismatic, and powerful mage, he has more than little self-doubt to go around. We have seen Tyler has the power to ‘repair’[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Page, page, at long last we have a page sighting! I think the last 1/3 of the page is probably best described as “the scribbling of a caffeinated racoon that got into a meth dealers trashbins” but it’s not really[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

It’s one of those days where there is this empty box right here, but I can’t think of anything to type into it… Well, I guess the usual! I’m going to try to get some more sketches up this month,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sorry, going to be level here was a bit of trouble getting this out. Was a little behind on drawing as it’s been pretty hard to concentrate on drawing with the stupid tooth problem. It doesn’t actually hurt that much,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Man, my art style must have changed a lot since we last saw Nick Otte. He looks like an entirely different person. So I’ve been really remiss on getting the next goal up on Patreon, and amazingly we are getting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

More or less on time. I mean… totally on time besides that it supposed to go up early on Patreon, and didn’t, so… 😐 ; anyway, sorry. Been not feeling too great again. I dunno if I’m sick or didn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Originally I just had Amy changing “Go bug Amy” to “Go talk to Amy”, but when I noticed that I’d spelled it “If its a secret” rather than “if it’s a secret” on the whiteboard I couldn’t resist the meta[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Okay, that was a bit later than I expected, but hey, it’s up 😉 Will try to get things closer to schedule, but been busy.

Poor Ryn. The flying yacht was probably pretty nice too. He’s not used to the things he says mattering for long periods of time after he says them. He does marketing, he’s not in the business of actually following through[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Yes… January… I know what month it is… totally… 😉 Yes, we’ve just skipped ahead a week. It’ll make sense in due time. I sort of wanted to do that between the chapters just because that seems like… it makes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Still sick. Feeling somewhat better though, between sick and busy its been meh. So many words and tired… 🙁 I think I will have some regrets about my scene choice when people find all the mistakes I probably made. Should[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Well, it’s up. Am sick. 🙁

It’s the start of 2018 and Chapter 12! I was sort of planning on drawing a picture for New Years, but here we are and I ran out of time cause New Years stuff to do, least this comic’s on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…well, still December 28th SOME places… 😉 Sorry. Been a busy week and stuff. Well, this is the closing page for 2017 and for Chapter 11… I would like to say it’s the 400th page as well, but actually… it’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Posting a little earlier as I’ll be preoccupied with Holiday stuff. And of course, poll winner for the Very Important Santa Hat Poll (click for full size). It’s just a bit of a quick doodle as the Holidays sort of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

The dragon can probably fly a little faster than you’d expect from a winged creature. Notably it does not really seem to use wings when going at high speed. Red constructs play better with physics than other kinds, but that doesn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Sometimes not making a decision in time is making a decision, poor indecisive Karov. Hopefully I will get my new tablet tomorrow. I wouldn’t expect too much. Mostly it’s just bigger and going to be a little easier to work[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I should probably clarify, Biana’s name is Biana Bayer, and Amy’s name is Amy Selah. I think we’ve seen both of their last names before, though they come up less often than Peter’s. As for if Mium cheated on the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

…aaaannd we’re back. If you’re confused, I do recommend nipping back over to here to check out the last page before the “break” as this was not necessarily a clean a cut (this page continues directly after the other one,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

And thus the 3rd Intermission, and second part of Minus Years, comes to an end (for now). I may put a few more bonus comics on Patreon at some point for it before I put up the vote for the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Proves your credentials of what, I’m not sure. So this week I’ll wrap up the last 2 pages of Minus Years, by end of day tomorrow the next story page will be up Patreon, so we’ll have something a buffer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

I think today we see a bit of what we will know as Kally in the future as the Kally in the of the past. She is necessarily overcoming being shy and awkward, but she is grumpy and has already[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Going to be honest, I find it pretty distracting the the text is offset in some of the speech bubbles. This is the sort of thing I try to fix before I post something officially, but currently… yeah, still no[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

There is an obvious typo. So obvious that I found it. Unfortunately, I do not currently have the ability to fix it. I will fix it on the 30th, when I’m back home. Yes, that haunts even me to a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

Okay so that’s sort of title gore. Posting from airport as I forgot last night, so work with me here 🙂 sort of forgot it was Monday, not just “the day I have to get on a plane and fly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...