I’m always fairly ambivalent towards each comic once I finish it, and sometimes even while I’m making it, but this one actually turned out pretty good. I’ve still got a loooong way to go, but it feels like certain things are coming together. Textures, for one. Yup, those are okay bricks up there.
Anyway, moving on. Did you know that on occasion I blog? Yeah, for real. Just look below the current comic and that’s where they show up. Not that I expect you to get caught up in anything I have to say besides what appears in the sequential format. But, seeing as how I put out a strip only twice a week, I thought it might be nice if I tried to do some sort of update between each comic. It’s good for me to get the writing practice anyway.
Also, I dumped a little twitter feed in the sidebar, and I’ll try and use it to keep you posted on the status of each upcoming comic. Trying to make up for the floating update days. Feel free to follow me if you like, but I can’t promise much in the way of excitement. Mostly I just draw. There is the occasional mercenary lone-wolf type thing in the jungles of the south pacific, overthrowing governments and rescuing the daughters of senators and such. That’s usually only in the summer though. Winter is cartooning season.
And once again, Facebook facebook blah blah blah. To be fair, It is another good way to keep abreast of the update schedule, though. And it feeds my vanity. Seriously, it’s starving. I don’t take very good care of myself.
Yay! All the boring stuff is out of the way. Hey, did you know this is the forty-second strip? So I hid the meaning of life in the third panel. Just for you guys. Does it make anyone else sad that Douglas Adams died so young? I really could have used more of his books. And a decent movie adaptation of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Sigh.
Anyway, the meaning of life is…
J
yes! Anton and Shelly to the rescue! …and Anton with a musket gun still attached to the plaque .. Been in her fighting stance.. love it!
oooo, the bricks, looks great!
I didn’t know you hung out in the jungles, rescuing senators daughters in the warmer months, me too, well mostly cute computer geniuses that have wrote programs for secret government projects or something like that .. we should team up, or do you work alone.
Took me a while to see the smoke, even with Billy pointing at it. Those textures are frickin’ amazing! Also, Billy obviously looses his hat in the mustket blast (would a musket really be able to blow a hole in the wall? Oh, wait…I forgot there’s magic involved here.) but we don’t see the hat flying off or being incinerated. For some reason that little detail bugs me. Otherwise, can’t wait to see how this arc will wrap up, I feel we’re nearing the end.
I agree with Flyky and the musket on the plaque!!! Been’s hard-set mouth in Panel 4—alright!
I also occsionally blog.
You need to draw more displaced hinges. The End.
Why Spritzer? Because Spritzer is better than Sweater-Vested Pile Of Bones, of course.
Do not mess with Been.
And, I swear, daughters of senators spend half their time being kidnapped.
@ Randall: The dunce cap lazily drifting to the ground in the last panel doesn’t do it for you, eh? I tried to work it into panel 2, but it disrupted the flow of the image too much.
@Jen: Just for you, I’ll make draw a whole strip about hinges some day.
Anton has a hat for EVERY occasion, doesn’t he? Makes me wonder if he gave Billy the dunce cap.
Speaking of which, it looks kinda like a bull’s horn there in mid-fall.
Count me in for an all-hinge strip, if you can creak it out…
J.