Comic for Monday, March 14th
I really don’t like doing orphaned speech bubbles like we see in panel two. I imagine it’s clear Peter is talking, but blarg. Originally it was a shorter line in panel 1, but the option was “cover up foreground character that I actually drew” (ie: half of panel 1 Tyler) or “cover up… ‘background’… art and have a longer sentence”; obviously choice two was better, even if it orphaned the speech bubble.
Some would say this was an error in the panel planning department. They would absolutely be right. But shush.
I feel that I also had a bit of internal war here between ‘background blob’ characters and foreground actually drawn characters. Originally I’d kept to tighter shots in panels 5 and 6 and was planning to actually draw the characters, but it seemed claustrophobic to not have wider angle shot. I dunno man, I just draw this stuff!
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Next comic will be Thursday.
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it’s Thursday. where’s the next page?
Sorry; it’ll be delayed till tomorrow. Apologies for late notice (putting up a message now). Thought I’d be able to finish it despite a few scheduling complications, but didn’t work out.
it’s ok. I was wondering, that’s all.
Not a problem at all; appreciate reminder to put up a notice or get the comic live. Will put up more info when the comic goes up, but didn’t have great luck this week.
Lost my sketch of today’s page yesterday to dumb mistake (shut down my computer before saving – it stops the shut down, but the program I use likes to crash in that state 😐 )
I am working on trying to get things to a better state, including searching for a supplemental or replacement artist.
I’m sure things will turn out better for you soon.
Dang, what a cliffhanger to catch up onto!
Kally? Kally! KAAALLYYYY!
You have my condolences… 🙁
Welcome to the comic though! 😉
im waiting for when peter learns kally is missing. i mean yeah he has his own plots but i think he cares for her more than he lets on.
The simple, if unaesthetic, solution to any confusion is to draw a speech line going off panel. It’s still an orphaned bubble, but at least it’s clear it’s not the person in the panel talking.
Yeah; ultimately I considered that among other things, but figured it was fairly clear here. Ultimately I think I’d just try not to do it much 😐
We’ll see what seems appropriate if it comes up again, but will try to make sure it doesn’t 😉
Ila seems pretty happy–I’ll bet she won. ^^
I’m wondering what Tyler has to offer Peter other than the political asylum he’s already in the process of providing. Making common cause together would require finding out what PETER wants to do, first.
Color me intrigued about where you’re going with this. 🙂
Tyler seems like he either thinks he knows what Peter is up to or just really doesn’t care. The later seems dangerous and the former seems to require vast speculation on his part.
I am liking this page. But I wanted to point out a small typo: In panel 3, speech bubble 3, there should be a “do” after the “So what I’m going to…”
Thanks, fixed! My old enemy strikes again, words.