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Looks like Mal has a new purpose in life! The bureaucrat bot is STANDING in that 1st panel. Is he? Another thing to fix. This sat for days until I finished the previous two strips and I must have forgotten that detail. I just imagine him being very manic and jittery in his office. He […]
Rolling along with the 2nd strip of the week. Another thing I forgot was having the bureaucrat bot in a motion to sit, as opposed to already being seated, implying from my end that he did not see Mal moving the paper. But maybe it’s not something he cares about, Mal moving a paper on […]
Happy Monday, happy August. A few things about this week’s strips: I thought drawing them was a breeze. I wrote the dialog backwards, so I had the punchline for the page and worked from there. Except, I had writers block. Generally I know what I want to happen, I know there has to be cues […]
And, there you go. The trainyard boss meant “from the safety manual.” Whoops, a little overzealous there, Patch. I think I said it on Monday, while working on this page, I realized that I needed to pace it out a couple more pages so that page 46 is the last page of the comic instead […]
WARNING: This strip contains robot on robot punching, kicking, and more. Robot violence. Apologies in advance. Okay, when i got to the two panels on the bottom left, I felt bad. Please let me know if this went too far, with Patch swinging Mal around into a wall and trying to twist his legs like […]
Happy Monday! And look, it’s…OFFICER PATCH! Uh oh, how will Mal explain what happened to Dextor? Well, two more strips this week! Tune in tomorrow and Wednesday! Meanwhile, I’ll be working on the next two pages, and then I’ll be taking a week or so break. Maybe I’ll draw during the break, I just won’t […]
What did you watch? The 1950 crime noir cautionary tale Shakedown. And I’m going to skip the intro joke and just get into it, because Shakedown didn’t waste time either getting its protagonist in over his head and on a way way path into the noir abyss. Jack is introduced getting beat up by a […]
Uh oh! Another ‘blackout’ end to a week’s worth of strips (or page)! There’s a LOT of this in issue two, you’ll notice! …when issue 2 is finished. Which, not to give too much away, but I’m trying to figure out what page to end the issue on, which will affect how many more strips […]
So for the first panel I drew a line for a horizon and then gave Mal & Dextor’s body some ground lines so as to give everything some spatial designations. Mal asks the ghost of Dextor if he’s OKAY. No Mal, your friend is DEAD. Geez. Anyway, this page concludes tomorrow!
We’re back! This week’s strips were fun to do…but I am TIRED of drawing the stark black background, like with page 37. I kept it REAL simple, for REASONS…no train train silhouette. But I didn’t DRAW a black background, I just used brush pens through most of it. Which probably stinks up the place. But […]
