Yeah, I know, the obvious thing would be for elves to be running this place, but the very fact that it’s the obvious thing is why I couldn’t do it. Instead, it’s the glorious return of Squishyfupplebutter! …or maybe this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another page that inherited a LOT of text it wasn’t originally going to have. I mean, Astrid was always going to do a BIT of narration to carry us through the transition from the police station scene to this one,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Again, there’s at LEAST two pages worth of speech bubbles jammed into the final version of this page. Originally, I’d hoped to have every single page be a single big panel, so any time you see multiple panels like this,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Under normal circumstances, this would be the part where I’d make some meta-jokes about what exactly Astrid did to get on the Naughty List in the first place, but I’m actually distracted by something else. See, as originally written, this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Originally the dialog between the two other cops was supposed to set up who Astrid was on her way to see, but then we had to go buy some new strings of tree lights because the ones we’d bought JUST[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The joke here was supposed to be that, unlike every schlocky cop show/movie ever where the chief is constantly shouting at the main character, here it’s Astrid constantly shouting a totally reserved and level-headed superior… but then it occurred to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
AND SO IT BEGINS! …with lots of dots! Yeah, as I mentioned before, I’ve wound up using this year’s batch of Christmas comics to experiment with some stuff. Specifically, I want to try and get better at the whole screentone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
WHOO HOO! I got the Thanksgiving page finished and queued up a couple days in advance! It turns out I really AM still capable of getting ahead of the game on holiday content! Let’s hope I can make this work[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy Spooky, everyone! Have fun buying big bags of candy at clearance prices tomorrow! I’m writing this a week in the past, and hopefully by the time you read it I’ll be back from Anime Weekend Atlanta in one piece[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So, would this be considered better or worse than the substitute fireworks we saw Trigger with last year? More importantly, I just need to come right out and confess that I totally forgot that America’s Independence Day was happening this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…