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Quick reminder, I’m out of town most of next week, so there won’t be pages next week! I’ll try and post something, though. Pages will resume the 27th and 28th…which means I’m sending off the year on page 199. BOGUS. But, I’ll be starting the year on page 200, so maybe that’s better? It’s hard to say.
Well, I guess unless they want to fight a bunch of unconscious people, this fight is pretty much over! Hmmmm, drawn out fight causes injuries, injuries mean extra energy needed to heal and maintain werewolf forms, Connie wasn’t happy that so much energy was going towards healing…IDK, I just have no idea where all this could be going! Also, Vincent is apparently done being awake and Tim is not done being awake, so that’ll turn out well!
That being said, the coloring on this page kicked my ass. I wanted to bring out Ginger’s colors a bit more to give her focus, but that kind of messed with the palette for everything else. I think I fought it into submission though. That third panel has a lot going on, but that’s how things go sometimes. Fun fact, this page and tomorrow’s page were originally one page. Then I looked at my thumbnail for awhile and realized that I was trying to accomplish waaaaay too much in one page. Sometimes, that’s fine. Especially if you’re doing major time jumps (montage!), it’s normal to have a page occasionally that tries to accomplish a lot of story in one go. But for my purposes, it also makes it harder to bring attention to specific story elements when so many things happen at once, and it throws off my pacing. I have to keep evaluating the plans for my pages because I’m almost done with this chapter, and I think my lizard hindbrain is like, get this shit dooooone. And the next chapter is mostly about lesbians, so I’m very excited as you can imagine.
It’s not even noon and Tuesday is kicking my ass. Actually, this whole month has been kicking my ass. My car has been in the shop twice, once for a crack in the radiator, and once because I reeeeally fucked up my tire on a pothole while driving home from Indianapolis. When you’re two hours from home, you’re going to just hope and pray that your tire is going to hold up, see. I wouldn’t mind if I were anywhere near Chicago, but between me and Indianapolis is just…little weird ass towns filled with no one. It was a fun time. Plus, it finally started snowing the other day and I’m already over it. I like snow! My dog likes snow. It’s pretty. But now I’m trapped in a fabric coffin of layers and layers of clothes until…March, probably. Summer is my season! Summer means wearing like, a dress and some sandals and you’re done. Winter means wearing leggings under jeans and two pairs of socks and two pairs of gloves and a hat and a big coat and a scarf plus two shirts. It’s a mess. I wear half my wardrobe every time I leave the house. I do not like being cold! I don’t have a high enough percentage of body fat to go running around without layers. Give me a 100 degree summer day and that’s my happy place. Only six more months til summer!
…I want to boop Elias’s pink-brown nose.
As you should! He’s kind of very pink everywhere on this page.
why is tim the only one not falling asleep?
He just took a couple cracks to the head. Everyone else took a lot more punishment.
Because it’s more interesting 😀
…I’d assume that Tim is not tied to whatever spell drains the life from all the wolves…
But Vincent IS!
We’ll find out tomorrow 😀 😀 😀
… is Tim going to go Super Saiyan on them?
His hair is appropriately stick-uppy!
You should move to Texas where we have mild Summer, followed by hot Summer, followed by cooler Summer…
Call me crazy, but for some reason I love extreme weather, especially cold. Unfortunately I live in California near the beach, sooo not much extremeness going on.. we just kind of have summer, then extra summer, then meh days, with the occasional heat wave mixed in for no apparent reason.
Should come to Idaho. We get it all…sometimes in the same day.
Indiana pulls that off, but more in the spring. Spring is one really bizarre season.
Don’t forget Washington (state. Not Washington, D.C.)
They have four seasons, but instead of “fall, winter, spring, and summer”, it’s “winter, still winter, more winter, and construction”.
I have a friend who is Native American who lives up there. He assures me that they don’t have a rain dance. They have a “stop this damn wind and snow dance”, which doesn’t work too well.
Oh man, if that didn’t involve actually moving to Texas, I’d be super down for summer most of the time. LA was similar, but man, I do not belong there.
Then there’s southern Arizona, aka Australia’s little cousin. We have 2 seasons here mild and hot enough to scare the devil. The top half of the state gets all 4 seasons.
Yeah my parents stopped at a motel there a long time ago and they said the water (even in the toilet bowl) was scalding until early in the morning due to the pipes not being deep enough…
And yet, despite the mild, I have still already worn my parka this year.
We aquire our winter road hazards by importing thousands of out of state drivers every year.
Lol, it’s 18 degrees right now where I live. I’ll take Arizona weather any day!
I went to a parade in 18 degree weather once. No jackets were enough. It did give me a wonderfully strong appreciation of pho though.
@Ayrie: I know what you mean. I was in marching band when I was in high school. The outfits were black wool (with orange stripes and white cross-belts, because we were the Texas High Tigers).
They were not warm in winter and they were not cool in summer. The hats came in two sizes: Too large and too small. And I’m still convinced that cross-belts were invented as a torture device for freshmen.
On the plus side, they DID do a good job of keeping the rain off you, as long as it wasn’t raining too hard. Then they got saturated with water and felt like they got about 20 pounds heavier.
Okay, just worked my way through the archive, and I am IN LOVE. Excited to see how this continues!
Woohoo! I’m glad you liked it :D. And you picked such a good day to start because there’s another page tomorrow!
All I can say is…
Oh crap
You never know!
Looks like Ginger snapped
I approve of this pun.
werewolf booty booty booty rockin errwhere
Bigger muscles equals bigger booty :).
Volkswiggle
Das Bootas.
Whoa… I get the feeling a mutual time-out’s gonna get called. Thiiiiiis doesn’t look like it’s gonna be pretty.
Well, one side is passing out, so that’s at least a time out on their part :).
So many questions!
why is Tim still up?
why did only Ginger fly into the air?
I assume this has to do with the creepy old lady, but what exactly just went down?
meh. stop being so darn engaging.
I don’t think Ginger even left the ground. Those weren’r SPEED lines bur FOCUS lines.
Ginger has done the least amount of healing, ergo she has the most energy left that’s not going towards anything else :).
Everyone but Tim went full human! Transforming probably takes a lot of energy. Has Connie been using Ginger as a backup battery to keep her from transforming? Is Tim free because of his equilibrium between wolf and human? Is the spell’s constant drain why none of the captives go full fluff? Is Ginger the favorite because she’s the most controllable? So many questions from today’s page!
And you’re barking up the right tree with so many of them 😀
They should be worried. Very worried.
I personally never stop worrying.
Hmmm. This does seem a bit odd. All of them EXCEPT Tim are going down so it can’t be directly tied to injury or the amount of injuries sustained (Tim’s head is probably ringing) and Vincent’s is probably shock wearing off and a good bit of blood loss, and now I’m hoping Elias takes this opportunity to get him out of there whether Mal is behind him or not. Also it seems slightly odd Mal isn’t fainting either since she is tied in guess control and being the only one to go into “beast mode” probably has something to do with that.
Tomorrow’s page will clear up Tim’s deal at least :D.
I wonder if some of the others are just unconscious from the fight, or has the witch drained all the ones she is tied to…
Now what does an angry, powerful witch do when you start breaking her gingerbread house?…
To be fair, she lives in a world of her own construction, so you could break apart her little castle and she’d just pretend it was fine. Yay!
Ginger’s skirt looks amazing 😮 the ruffles are drawn so well! (as you always draw them! but i imagine that in the positions she’s in in the two panels made the skirt more difficult to draw)
Thank you! I really enjoy drawing fabric :). It took me awhile on the panel where she’s falling because I wanted it to have a feeling of motion while retaining some of the stiffness of the skirt in previous panels.
I’ll be honest, I drove myself crazy looking for a song today but all I could remember was the lyric falling and couldn’t remember the artist so I went through a bunch of people and bands I thought it might be and all I found was nothing. Except it did lead me to a song that I feel fits the mood here a bit:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UQlFOX0YKlQ
A+ song choice, I love Clapton 😀 😀 😀
Here’s the thing no one is talking about. Connie just sapped them all into unconsciousness. Why? She’s not just letting them go so the only reason to take your pawns out of the fight is to clear the way for the queen. Connie’s about to show them that a witch can be quick enough to catch a werewolf.
I scrolled down to read your post and my eyes just auto-focused on the middle paragraph and the first words I honed in on were “lizard” and “lesbians” and I’m quite proud of myself
Lesbian lizards?
I agree with all of this.
Let’s all take a moment to appreciate Harvey’s fantastic falling-down-hair-cascade here.
15.2 out of 10.
Thank you! I was quite proud of that :D.
I wouldn’t, Tim.
Connie pulled the energy out of her, out of all of them, didn’t she? Either that or the energy just ran out? I’m more inclined toward the former, though.