Happy Belated Pride Month

I wanted to do something like this for pride month, but I really only have three officially confirmed LGBT+ characters.

Yet More Krang

My Mom gave me some new markers. Yay! Updates on the next draft are going slowly, due to losing about five pages of edits on account of Windows' shenanigans. Did you know you can undo fodler creation AFTER having saved files to that folder? Infuriating. Fortunately I was able to retrieve most of my work from Illustrator backup. Rare win for Adobe, I guess.

More Krang

Not doing a 560 page story about NInja thinking he's Krang. Promise.

Box Art Preview

I've been hard at work on revisions this weekend, so instead of a comic, let me post a preview, in the form of SNES box art.

Head Injury

This is the first non storyline comic I've drawn in nearly a decade of working on these "Cos-Play Hero" pages. Wow. Inspired by a conversation I had at work, where one of my coworkers is incredibly amused at my Krang impression. I'm also kind of playing off a similar theme from a Lauren Ipsum comic Charles Brubaker put out earlier this week.

p564: Last Page

Woo! My first draft of the story is done! I am EXHAUSTED! As you can guess, I have a lot more storylines planned for the future, but I'm working on some revisions for this one first. I already have the first 100+ pages ready for review, and I'm ready to get the rest of them in a state where hopefully someone will want to sit down and read this mess. I'll be here with any updates, of course. Stay tuned.

p563: Human Contact

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p561: Foreboding

This might be the ugliest drawing in this story. WIll have to redo it later.

p560: Peace

p559: Cookies and Movie Night

p558: Infrastructure Improvements

p557: Recovery?

The Great Pokémon Migration of 2024

Can't do another story comic right now. Working on getting all my Pokémon from 2002 and on migrated to Pokémon Home.

p556: Back to Frankensteining

p555: Magnum's Plan

p544: Safe at Home

p553: Car Ride

Chapter 1 first draft is done

No new page this week. I've been focusing on getting the story ready to print. Added some new pages to the first chapter.

p552: Choose a Car

p551: Happy Valentines, I guess?

Does this count as a Valentine's comic? Whatever.

p550: Reassurances

549: Smiles and Tears

Also, I have been going back through the earlier pages and revising the artwork. The first chapter should be ready for peer review in a couple weeks, then I can see if there's a publisher crazy enough to print this mess. Here are some previews of the revised artwork.

p548: Tailgate

Story is almost done. Already working on editing.

p 547: Raccoon's Condition

Note: I have a version of this with some alternate dialog that will be in the final version once I finish editing the rest of the story. Didn't want to spoil a major thing before the book is out. Look forward to it.

p546: Need a Ride Home

p555 Sappy Ending

Last comic of 2023. Woo. Also, I accidentally reposted p543 instead of p544 last week. I'll correct this, so feel free to go back and read these in the correct order. Sorry, it's been a beast of a month.

p544: Secret Documents

Back From My Trip

It turns out Penguins shouldn't fly. The story continues next week.

Taking a Trip

No new page this week.

p543: All safe?

Christmas Main Street

Brief break from the story. I wanted to draw something in isometric view. I think this turned out reasonably well.

p542: Cocoa Clown

p541: Solace

p540: It's Over?

Unrelated bonus drawing.

p539: Nets

p538: Sure FEELS like doomsday.

p536,537: Doomsday?

p535: Going Up

p534: RETURN THE SLAB

p533: A Missing Piece

p532: Rabbit's Bravery

p531: Maskstaschen's Cannon

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p529: Raccoon the Heart Breaker

p528: Never let up

I should have had some words on those pop-up screens, but this page is too busy as it is. What a mess.

p527: Sunglasses' Handmade Pizza Cutter of Doom

p526 Olivia's Saw Frenzy