Minus Years, Part 1
Thus we start our intermission. I appreciate the kind words, words of advice, and general understanding that you left for me in the comments. I will be actively engaged in the comments during the break, and will be going through to follow up on the last Thursday commments shortly.
A sort of cool thing some of you might appreciate, I found a drawing from 6 years ago. Back when I made it, it was probably the best thing I’d ever drawn – I spent more than a day on it! (and I think used a reference of some sort). I believe it might be the earliest full color drawing I have The Far Side of Utopia… so old that Naomi has brown hair! Anyway, I dug it up after drawing an updated version on a lark that I’ve put up on Patreon free, so check out the modern version as well 🙂
Anyway, I’ll be around during the break from updates, drawing various bonus arts, hopefully getting the buffer updated (I’ll update the counter on the side bar as I do!), and writing long winded commentaries.
I’ve decided to post multiple pages per update rather than doing it daily I think; this means that people won’t have to tab back through the pages to find the right page if they don’t come daily, keeps the comments together, and is just seemed like it might be a better idea in general. Minus Year pages vary in quality somewhat, but I hope you enjoy 🙂
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The Colonel was expecting to see bovines, given the title.
Wooohooo! I just saw the Voting Incentive, and it’s a classic, expert-level glare off. 🙂
Now I want to see these two meet in-comic! ^^
So much fun on that page and I just want to know what the cup says. (^.^)
I could tell you, but maybe it’s best left with the assumption that it is something witty 😛
All I can make out is the word “me”….hard to even read other letters there.
Oh well. I suppose it could make things more interesting, if I can ever figure out a guess as to what it could say.
It’s interesting that Naomi used to have brown hair. For starters, most of the non-designer children we’ve seen have black hair. Additionally, I had always assumed you drew her with purple hair, and the worked backwards to figure out how that made sense (no offense).
This is also an interesting insight into where their personalities came from. Especially seeing Peter without the genteel manipulative front up he almost always has in the main comic.
Actually, that’s Kally. Naomi won’t be along for a few more years.
The Designer Children are born that way, are (mostly, I guess) Malsan, and their eye color matches their hair color, apparently by law. I.D.S. operatives by and large come from Central,a world/city/government in a different reality/plane of existence from Malsa. Their hair and eye colors do not match unless artificial methods (dyes, contact lenses) are used.
I’m convinced that the Designer Children are color-coded as to abilities or function, but @PastUtopia gets downright slippery whenever I bring it up. 🙂
That’s okay, though, I’m the patient type. ^^
Oops, sorry. I was talking about the link the comments of the really old pre comic picture. In the commentary PastUtopia says “so old Naomi has brown hair”.
What I meant was that I had always assumed the characters had been drawn with purple/blue/green hair to make them distinctive, and then PastUtopia invented a reason to make them have that hair color. This suggests that the characters originally had more normal hair colors, and they became exotic due to the plot being more developed, which I found really curious.
I know the idea of Designer Children in canon, and am also curious if it’s purely a stylistic choice or some sort of coded genetics.
I’m pretty sure that “Designer Children”, at least in Malsa, and likely much of its planet, are required by law to have exotic hair/eyes/other visual markers genetically coded into them.
@Ferrus: I jumped the gun, sorry about that. According to @PastUtopia, the sketches predate the comic, so a lot of changes happened to make them fit the comic.
Yup, I’d played earlier on with what the “markers” of designer children were. Even right at the start of the comic there was a lot of changes regarding details and timelines for how to make it into a comic.
wow the meek mage and the mad scientest
Two different approaches to being bad dealing with people… 🙂
Only one of them seems to be interested in making a good first impression.
Peter has not yet realized that other people are not NPCs at this point in the timeline. Some would argue he struggles with that one by the main comic timeline…