Hoooooo boy, I am gonna be limping across the finish line with this one, gang. Due to complications with people’s schedules, we wound up doing a pretty fair chunk of the family Christmas stuff several days early, which was fine[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Heck YEAH that’s the same art in the top panel that I’d already used in page 1. Twenty comics later, I am ABSOLUTELY going to cut a corner or two if it means staying ahead of the upload schedule. Speaking[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chekhov’s disposal chute comes into play at last! And before you ask if it’d just make more sense for an underhanded criminal organization to just KILL a person snooping around… yeah, probably. But this is Far Out There, where all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know it’s serious because everything’s still red. Look, man, it’s Christmas. It’s just be wrong to not have SOME red on display. Also, I’m not sure if the utter failure to mention the police as an option says more[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
DUN DUN DUN!!! What a shocking twist! …there’s actually going to be some color in the comics after all! What can I say, I just can’t resist some good old-fashioned dramatic lighting! Oh, and, um, I guess some plot stuff[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey, remember what I said earlier about a page with more than one panel meaning that material which was supposed to be spread across several panels? Well, that’s only partially true here. By this point in the writing process, I’d[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh, um, Merry Christmas, I guess! We’re… done here? No, of course not. This is just another instance where my struggle to wedge as much content into as few pages as possible resulted in the pacing being a little… wonky. […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the earlier draft of this page… well actually it was “drafts” plural because Astrid finding the mug was going to be the end of one page, and her reading the note was going to be where the full extent[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mean, if you think about it, a person who makes a living busting criminal organizations probably WOULD know a bit more about how to run these things than the people actually running these things. Or, at the very least,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Weird random anecdote, but I got a strong urge to try and word the recruitment letter to sound more like one of the many spam messages I used to get a year or so ago trying to recruit me for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…