Cute'Thulhu

Comic 20120102

2012-01-02T00:18:00.002-05:00

Descriptive Gifts. Long time since an update. I'm amazed I remembered how to upload and publish. I do not know how well I will keep a schedule or how easily it will be to jump back into the storyline, but I will be making the effort.

Comic 20101223

2010-12-23T08:17:00.003-05:00

Down to Downtown touched on something I've left out; The basic geography of Landing and the county it is in. Landing is lifted directly from my hometown and many of the places you've seen or will see are local to me. I will get into it a bit in the comic but for the this update all you need to know is Roland lives 'uptown' which is a generally flat area at the top of the valley hill. Marla lives at Hines's which is 'downtown'. The main street 'downtown' runs along the river with the old lockwall and a few run down industrial buildings, post office, a bank branch and the high school. The only road connecting upper and lower Landing directly is a narrow two lane about a 1/4 mile long with one side a step hill and the other a heavy retaining wall.

The graffiti on the wall Roland passes are some things I've seen on the real wall before.

Comic 201011222

2010-12-22T12:54:00.001-05:00

One in the Hand breaks an 11 day dry spell for me. I've a lot of things going on that are sapping my time and energy. Trying to move things along. I'm going to pound out a few things over the holiday.

Comic 20101211

2010-12-12T04:40:00.001-05:00

QT Drives very fast. Just a quick update. Need to get a little more Mabel in the world. Based on a true story.

Comic 20101209

2010-12-09T00:07:00.000-05:00

It has been a few days longer than usual since I had an update. Jack and Mary 3 continues with a some past / present teasers. There was more exposition I was going to try and cram in here, but I think I will approach some of it later in another way.

My updates will be much more sporadic until after Christmas at least. I'm trying to spend my time hunting for work and helping to get things together for the holidays.

Comic 20101203

2010-12-03T05:53:00.002-05:00

Jack and Mary 2 I split this for two updates but the second part didn't make much sense on its own.

Comic 20101202

2010-12-02T06:38:00.002-05:00

Jack and Mary introduces an important supporting character, Roland's uncle Jack. As of now in the comic there is a little bit of a mystery about who he might be. We only know he connected to Roland and may know some of the big picture.

Comic 20101130

2010-12-01T04:52:00.000-05:00

Posted a day late Mabel Training 3. I'm going to try and explain a few things about the world through Mabel's training. Itwillalso shed some light on Marla's weight loss experience.

Comic 20101129

2010-11-29T11:38:00.001-05:00

Mabel's Training 2 is coming along.

Comic 20101128

2010-11-28T09:54:00.000-05:00

I think it would be Sticky. It would be a bother to get cleaned up after bathing in blood. It would get on everything.

Comic 20101126

2010-11-26T00:03:00.000-05:00

Thanksgiving Aftermath is a comic that took 10,000 calories to make.

Comic 20101125

2010-11-25T00:21:00.000-05:00

As I type this it is the night before Thanksgiving. So thoughts turn to the Mcfarlene Thanksgiving. I have less than usual to say here. I'll be working on a few arty things over the weekend. Some comic related and some not. I really want to get into the new website and I hope that I can. It will be a blast.

Comic 20101124

2010-11-24T09:46:00.003-05:00

I've been beating the streets looking for some work and there hasn't been much time for comicing. But I woke up thinking about Equality and thought this would be a nice quick page to post.

Comic 20101121

2010-11-21T11:15:00.002-05:00

Roland and Mary are heading to the Blue Shed. It has been a few days and I've been kept busy and worried so I've not been very productive. I did this one quickly. Whatever little creative energy I use to put this comic together is ebbing.

Apology 20101117

2010-11-17T21:02:00.003-05:00

No comic. I was trying to get one out every other day until I got things on a normal schedule, but that doesn't look like it will be the case. I have this sketch that, surprisingly, turned out pretty well. If it fit in the current canon I'd post it as a comic.

Comic 20101116

2010-11-16T05:46:00.002-05:00

Because everybody is looking at her cleavage no person notices Shub's New Hair.

Yeah, this joke could have used a bit of filling out to make it more humorous. It should have been A few panels showing somebody ogling her chest while Shub tried to show off her hair, then she would get angry and eat them. It is always more funny ending in vore.

Comic 20101114

2010-11-14T07:37:00.002-05:00

Same joke different day Pool Party: One Moment. Alternate title 'Suddenly Erection.' Missed updating yesterday, it has been busy.

Comic 20101112

2010-11-12T00:36:00.000-05:00

Pool Party: QT Asks for Advice. I like how QT is sort of clueless about this sort of thing. Roland tries for a moment to be a good guy about it but fails. I would imagine most would allow themselves to be swayed by a graphically conveyed description of a girl on girl sexual encounter when you have a thing for one of the girls.

I have some errands Friday morning and afternoon and evening. So I don't know about my updates for the weekend.

Comic 20101111

2010-11-11T08:49:00.003-05:00

Sarah Explains some of her side of her possible future relationship with Roland. I think it is fun to try and have a girlish bonding moment between Sarah and Mary. To this point they really haven't interacted and they likely won't again for a while.

I had a lot coming up on my plate the last few days so the comic had to take a bit of a backseat. I may soon have to drop back to once a week updates. I'm job hunting so comic time will be a bit lower. But if my hunt is successful I may formally hire somebody to work on parts of the comic.

Comic 20101110

2010-11-10T00:17:00.000-05:00

Two frames to say Sarah is No Snitch. The pool party continues with two more frames from what was originally a full page update. I'm pretty sure I can get the last part of it posted for the next update.

I'm putting together some Mabel stuff also. Due to some changes in the plot I have to adjust her training arc a little. I am also working my way through a case of Yuengling Porter.

Comic 20101109

2010-11-09T05:07:00.000-05:00

This is part of a bigger page. Pool Party: Sarah Asks will be shown fully as I get it done. I spent a good bit of 'comic time' working on a few things for the new website and when I got down to drawing the comic I ran out of time.

Comic 20101108

2010-11-08T00:19:00.000-05:00

Let's go back to the days before color with Mary Arrives 4 in glorious grays. I see a typo with no time to fix it.

We see Mary has a definite mean streak and she had a plan. What exactly is she going to teach Mabel?

There are some pages out of place in the archive. I'll have to address them soon.

Comic 20101107

2010-11-07T00:05:00.000-04:00

Here is Mary Arrives 3 with a few hints about what is going on in the Wu camp. I'm not happy with this page for a few reasons.

I have a nice idea for the page after this that might make up for this one whenever it gets done.

I installed the comic script I'll be using for the new site on my localhost so I can do some coding. I do not have any idea of a time frame.

Apology 20101106

2010-11-05T21:03:00.004-04:00

There may not be an update 11-06. Here is a pre-no-update apology sketch. This is an alternate design for QT I was thinking about. This alterante look may be something we see way down the road in some form. I think it is cute. I left out the naughty bits, they are cute and tentacle-y too.

I'm semi-sick and mentally and physically washed out. I've been working on a fairly simple dialog heavy page and I just can not concentrate enough to get it done.

If you read more than a few of my comic updates you know I'm not a real stickler for quality, but there is dialog I don't feel I can address right now. It is fairly simple but it also gives out a snippet of new information so I want to get it right.

Comoc 20101105

2010-11-05T00:05:00.000-04:00

At the Pool Party: Pennytree Deflates. Miss Pennytree in growing on me. I'm getting into her non-traditional sexy body and her scary submissive attitude to Professor Riley. She can also has really cool hook hands.

This is my last weekend of relative freedom. I have my work credentials sorted out mostly and will have to start looking for a new work to do so comic time will be short. I am really hoping to get the new host and comic software running before then, but it doesn't look like that will be happening.

Comic 20101104

2010-11-04T03:55:00.002-04:00

Al ready out of order with Pool Party: Mary's Invitation. So Mabel won't be at the pool party. Where could she be?

I honestly do not know about tomorrow's update. If there is one it will be a quick crappy one.

Comic 20101103

2010-11-03T00:05:00.000-04:00

At the Pool Party: Pennytree Reflects. This page doesn't really add much to the overall story or character development except to expand Miss Pennytree's submissive kink a little bit. There is going to be a good bit of this further back in her story so overall this will sort of work as a reminder of her character.

I have a few more Pool Party updates coming. One I'm finishing up one that expalins where Mabel is and sketched out another with some regular pool stuff. I'll be scripting a bit with some of Mabel's stories. I also worked a bit on the new website today. I've around 60/300 of the comics uploaded.

Comic 20101102

2010-11-02T00:30:00.001-04:00

Another Pool Party: Sarah Catches On. We see from the title that Sarah may be onto something.

Spent some time today trying to stay a day ahead of the updates. I played around with the new website CMS for a little bit. I'll have to upload my archives one at a time and that is nearing 300 pages. I haven't found a way past the small navigation problem yet, but I have a plan B figured out.

Comic 20101101

2010-11-01T00:10:00.000-04:00

The formless pool party continues with Pool Party: Swimsuit Rivalry. When did Mary get there? A monumental confrontation between body types. The loser will have to remove their suit, then everybody wins.

I fooled around with the possible script for the new site. I'll have to hand make some of the things I do where the site is at now. I would have to upload and edit just as much making a comic site the old timey way. This has been the case with all the CMS that I've tried so far. I like ComicCMS the best so far. But I'm still looking.

Comic 20101031

2010-10-31T00:17:00.000-04:00

CheerGirl is one of the few asides I've had left in my notebook from when I was first plotting out the comic. Originally, Sarah was going to have some different costume and Mabel was going to be Cassandra Cain Batgirl and there were a few more pages. We might see those someday and Mabel dressed up too.

I think this picture turned out fairly well. It went quickly at least. I moved some pages around in the archives to fit this in correctly with QT's first Halloween in Landing.

ComicCMS

2010-10-30T14:30:00.002-04:00

I will be slowly working on a new site for Cutethulhu using ComicCMS. I fooled with a few versions of Wordpress plugin/themes for webcomics and they were an outrageous overkill.

ComicCMS is small and lite and looks easy enough to customize. I'm a little excited about tinkering with plugins and code again. Until November3 I should be able to keep up on daily updates. After that i won'y be incharge of my own time too much.

Comic 20101030

2010-10-30T00:18:00.000-04:00

This is what happens at Pool Party, Male Bonding. Later they both discuss how they both like like money. I had to show the sign that Professor Riley made for the pool.

Possible Website Change.

2010-10-29T20:55:00.002-04:00

After the partial outage with the .. whatever is broke at comic genesis .. I went so far as install wordpress with Webcomic plugin on another server.

It works fairly well so far. The plugin's site seems to be down so I'm flailing around without documentation. The downside so far seems that I can not post stories out of order in the way I would wish. One solution is the same that I use currently, keep a little javascript navigation available to override the generated navigation. Another is to hack the plugin and fight with that.

There are a few other comic plugins that I'm going to look at and comic specific CMSes. The only real feature I want that I don't have is threaded comments. I've thought about iframing this blog into the current page. but, that is an ungainly hassle.

Comic 20101029

2010-10-29T00:30:00.003-04:00

Welcome to the Pool Party: Beer Drag. These pool party updates are going to mostly be random snippets; parts of conversations, one page jokes, etc. They won't be in order. There will be a few important things happening if I can get them across.

Of course, Professor Riley is one of those creepy dads.

Cutethulhu.com is not updating. today's comic is Here

Comic 20101028

2010-10-28T00:16:00.000-04:00

Woke up the other morning and had this idea in my head Enforced Diet. This may remove Shub from the pool party. I toyed with dropping it in the past or future somewhere, but decided to leave it in with the current updates.

I'm still torn between staying at Comic Genesis or building my own site. It really gets to be a hassle sometimes updating in several directions at once.

Comic 20101027

2010-10-27T14:07:00.004-04:00

We are finally leaving QTs Bedroom in the Morning 3 after this. These last pages were fun to do. I made an effort not to jump around so much. In the story the pool party is next and there are a few little one offs to do to.

I really need to get to Mable. She has a pretty decent character arc I want to explore.

Comic 20101026

2010-10-26T00:39:00.001-04:00

I always think this sort of thing is interesting QTs Bedroom in the Morning 2.

I'm not sure if Cutethulhu will understand what goes on with other people and sex stuff. Obviously, she has her own desires and it seems so far that they are gender biased. We see now she has no problem being intimate beyond gender.

Comic 20101025

2010-10-25T00:26:00.002-04:00

Sarah wakes up in QTs Bedroom in the Morning. Well, the story has taken a little turn now. We aren't sure where Sarah's underpants have gone. I saw that they weren't there and thought they could have been taken off but that I should just draw them in. I forgot to draw them in several times while editing so, one of the girls must have taken them off.

I'm finishing up some dialog for the next page and I'm still debating on how things will turn out exactly. Honestly much of it depends on how much dialog I can fit into the page. Then it might not be too long before we see people swimming in the garden pool.

Comic 20101024

2010-10-24T00:15:00.002-04:00

Without further incident Sarah makes it to QTs Bedroom at Night. So Sarah is somewhat wasted and wants nothing more to do than crawl into bed.

I will have to note that the last time we'd seen QTs bedroom it was rather bland. We have not seen the redecorating yet, which happens about nine months ago. I have a few funny bits for it, but we will get to that later.

This part of the story is leading up to a dramatic bit that I have to be careful about. Both Sarah and QT are fairly even keeled and world wise in their own ways, but each has triggers that may set them off. I'm still not sure which way the script is going to steer.

Comic 20101023

2010-10-23T00:26:00.002-04:00

The third frame is a little confusing .. whether Professor Riley sees Sarah from In the Kitchen Garden. I think this is a longer stretch of continuous updates where the pages are in the order of the story. There are two more that are just about ready.

Comic 20101022

2010-10-22T00:17:00.001-04:00

Guy drives of into the night in his party van Sarah at Work 5. Sarah is heading to QT's and it should be obvious now that there is some sort of plot going on and it is going to get stranger and more complicated.

Comic 20101021

2010-10-21T09:33:00.001-04:00

This was part of a full page Sarah at Work 4. I skipped the rest of the wet T contest. I have a good time drawing the headless dancers so I will definitely revisit them later.

Some important long terms story stuff is going on finally.

Comic 20101020

2010-10-20T10:43:00.003-04:00

Exposition can be delivered effectively as long as it isn't heavy handed or like in
Sarah at Work 3, with a blow job.

I didn't think I'd get a comic up today, even a little one like this. Mybe I won't make it tomorrow.

Apology Sketch

2010-10-19T23:12:00.003-04:00

If I had a place in a current story this picture would've been the next update. I may use this for a bit of a donation incentive later on. I've been toying around with a silly idea for one and that is what got me started on this picture today. It is all about finding time right now.

Comic 20101019

2010-10-19T05:20:00.000-04:00

Wet T-Shirts for Life 3 is a very fast picture. Had some minor but time consuming crises today.

Comic 20101014

2010-10-18T20:44:00.002-04:00

This page actually looked a lot like I had visionized it when I woke up this morning Slurpy Awakening. Often I have something sketched or thought out and in the process of putting it together it gets away from me.

I forgot to post this when I uploaded the comic. I don't remember why.

Comic 20101018

2010-10-18T09:03:00.003-04:00

I wanted to spruce this up a bit more. Sarah at Work 2 Looks like Sarah and Guy are going to have a business arrangement of the dick in mouth variety. It is nice to finally get to some of the first arcs I wrote for this big story. I will be jumping around to establish a few things.

My wife is down sick and I'm not feeling well myself. You can expect a smaller, rougher, later update tomorrow.

Comic 20101017

2010-10-17T05:29:00.002-04:00

Sarah at Work. I had a very tight schedule to get this done and it suffered a little for it. I think the next few updates will be just a few panels while I try to get behind other projects.

I hope you can see over the next month some previously disconnected plots and arcs come together. There is a plan.

Comic 20101016

2010-10-16T00:22:00.000-04:00

I'm thinking about telling the arc leading to Wet T-Shirts for Life 2 from Cousin Guy backwards. More backwards than usual. As I finish up some of the wet t-shirt pages I will be thinking about that.

Maybe no update for Sunday, or maybe a lesser update. I have a full day tomorrow and not much time to devote to the comic. I still have some website design things to work on too. I may just take a technical day and do that. I think I've missed one day in the past couple of months.

Comic 20101015

2010-10-15T12:26:00.000-04:00

This took longer than it looks. Party Planning A little hint of a major event and turning point in the big story.

I've been casting about trying to decide which storyline to pursue next. I think Mabel has been left behind. Overall she has the most challenging character development of the whole story.

Comic 20101013

2010-10-13T00:28:00.002-04:00

A little free sketching for Get it Together. I had a fairly shitty day today and I don't have much hope for the rest of the week.

I will be working tomorrow in some capacity away from the computer so my updates are going to suffer.

Comic 20101012

2010-10-12T00:12:00.000-04:00

Getting this done and posted was a near thing. I had some emergency errands to run and time was tight. Pink Blanket

I have something going on most of the day Tuesday so I'm unsure about the next day's comic. I had the best week in terms of traffic to Cutethulhu ever last week. It was nice. I've really been getting into all of this. I just wish I had more time for it.

Comic 20101011

2010-10-11T00:15:00.000-04:00

Sarah laments the Bavarian Pretzel. True story.

I spent a good bit of my comic time writing a little javascript to rotate random comic thumbnails on the front page. I stopped making thumbnails for each comic some time ago so it will take some time until I go back and get them all made. Once they are all done I'll thumbnail the story menu.

Comic 20101010

2010-10-10T00:24:00.000-04:00

Night fishing, at night in Bait. It is a bit tough to see what is going on but that is how it works at night. This lone fisherman was never seen again. This one is part of the River God cycle; we have not it seen in the comic yet.

I had a couple ideas in this sort of theme. I posted one here here which will be developed into something interesting.

Vote Incentive Old and New

2010-10-09T06:00:00.003-04:00

I'd been fooling with this particular picture for a long time and I had to make a break with it if I ever wanted to post it. You can consider it a 'Bad End' or a 'Good End' to the comic story depending on your point of view.

This is the old incentive that is still a preview image of the the wet T-shirt story.

Comic 20101009

2010-10-09T00:16:00.000-04:00

I didn't have the time I wanted to get End of Class looking right. I put it up anyways. Just a little transition into the next round of things. Roland's visit to Marla's will have to wait while I get some other things caught up.

On deck are
The wet T-shirt contest, QT and Sarah at the mall, A few bits with cousin Guy, newer story with Sarah and a crapload of other stuff. There is a great deal of stuff with Mabel that I've skipped around with and I have to absolutely catch up on.

Comic 20101008

2010-10-08T00:44:00.001-04:00

Kind of woke up this morning with how this was going to look in my mind. Dictation is my favorite secretary play on words joke .. 'dick' tation .. get it?

I need to strengthen my scripts a bit. I feel I'm being overly vague in some instances, but I'm afraid to clog the pages up with too many words. I often start sketching things before I have a strong script and have to squeeze or stretch what needs to be in words.

I'm going to a large job fair in the morning. If I'm lucky I'll find something decent and you will be seeing a lot less of me here.

Comic 20101007

2010-10-07T00:30:00.000-04:00

I was poking around in the archives fixing a few typos here and there and I did this up Big Date VIa which is just an expanded frame from Big Date VI I was going to squeeze a breast 'headlights' joke in there someplace.

Warm-up-20101006

2010-10-06T07:59:00.003-04:00

Just a very quick sketch this morning. I don't know if i will get anything more done today. I've been putting off a few things and I need to get back on track.

Comic 20101006

2010-10-06T00:18:00.000-04:00

I put up two comics today I back posted one for Monday Mary Wonders in a Tree ..

and today's regular update Sarah Visits 3. Sarah and Q get ready to have a girls night out at the big city shopping mall in Union. I'm not sure what sort of trouble they will get into, but I will be thinking hard on it.

Comic 20101004

2010-10-06T00:12:00.001-04:00

A double update today. Mary Wonders in a Tree is the seed of a potentially naughty adventure. How far will Mary go to test Marla's unnatural allegiance to Roland? I think we will see some interesting turns from all three of these people before it is all over.

Comic 20101005

2010-10-05T00:20:00.000-04:00

Two updates following each other that are also in chronological order in the story. It feels like it has been a while since that has happened Sarah Visits 2.

Not sure what is up for the next few updates or when. I have to do some job hunting this week. You may just be seeing more sketchy stuff from me. I had to give my furnace a stern look this afternoon to get it to run right. It is getting chilly.

Comic 20101003

2010-10-03T15:31:00.002-04:00

A late update today with Sarah Visits. Shub is not a very gracious or clothed hostess.

As I've said a few times I'm having chaos at home so updates are going to be sporadic and the subject matter may be a bit mean-spirited to reflect some of the frustrations I'm muddling through.

No Update Apology Sketch

2010-10-02T05:36:00.004-04:00

The doctor character in this picture is originally from my old CoC game. I don't think he really had a name there and had just come onto the scene when we stopped playing. Whether he will be brought into the comic or not remains to be seen. I feel that in the current story he has no place but we may see him in a flashback sometime.

Not sure what is going on in my life right now let alone when I will be able to work on QT. It looks like I will be done with my current training one way or another today. I'm on my final tests and I have an equal chance at passing or failing.

Comic 20101001

2010-10-01T00:39:00.000-04:00

Hello October .. with your Halloween and beer fests and quality comics like Caught Up. Roland has 3 different heads in this, but I ran out of time.

I have some serious things going on again this next few day and I'm not promising any updates for a few days.

Comic 20100930

2010-09-30T00:15:00.001-04:00

Out to the woods again. Al Steps out. Al has gone from the wickedest snowman in the world to the wickedest zombie-golem thing.

In the county there are a lot of valleys with lost acreage, places just off the road or beyond a steep hill, where nobody goes on purpose. Miller's Woods holds many of these places.

Bluethulhu 1976

2010-09-29T10:02:00.003-04:00

Doing a little goofing around. Still trying to figure out an update for tomorrow.

Comic 20100929

2010-09-29T00:34:00.000-04:00

Macfarlene Homestead is the last of this set. We've seen the inside of Sarah's non-mobile mobile home Here, but not yet.

I did a few thumbnails for Marla and Roland that I hope to have for the next update.

Character Quiz

2010-09-28T17:41:00.004-04:00

I also did a little work on the Character Quiz with a lot more work left to go. The result picture for Marla and Professor Riley have been worked on a little and some questions and the results have been tweaked a bit also. I plan on reformatting the questions and answers, pick a final set of questions and answers, then go from there.

Comic 20100928

2010-09-28T00:36:00.001-04:00

This update and yesterdays were a bit too choppy feeling Behind This Door. I've a bigger update tomorrow. Still working on a few incentives. Some appointments and other things nearly everyday this week.

Comic 20100927

2010-09-27T00:20:00.000-04:00

A little stiff dialog if taken out of context. Old Murders. These several pages are fairly simple and went quickly. I've worked ahead a bit so there should be updates into the middle of the week.

Comic 20100926

2010-09-26T08:40:00.002-04:00

I colored this a little differently Sarah Gets a Ride. A bit of a shorter page. The full page had two beats in it so I thought I would split it up. Going to throw in some house history if I can remember it correctly.

I'm interested in showing Sarah's character some more. I feel she has a duality that I hope I can portray. I'm pretty sure this will be the first time a person has entered the Riley household with being killed or maimed or the first time without being killed and maimed.

Comic 20100925

2010-09-25T00:15:00.000-04:00

Here it is. It hinted around that Sarah is a bit 'loose' sexually and Half Off is sort of the proof we've been waiting for. Sarah has no qualms about turning letting sex be a for profit activity.

The little arc starting with Mother the Pimp sort of skirted around the subject and ultimately showed Sarah in a less whorish light.

I may be able to maintain a more vibrant update schedule if I can break away from the full page writing format and updates down into 4 or less panels. Regardless of what I do there will be less from me from here on out as I get my finances in order.

Comic 20100924

2010-09-24T00:30:00.001-04:00

Marla does a little work here in Marla Cleans Up. I spent two days this summer doing this very same chore. Thought I would share.

Tomorrow starts am emotionally taxing weekend which I will likely get no comic work done. I have errands in the morning Friday, class that evening and a very important test Saturday evening. Sunday I will either be happily relieved or upset and pissy.

Comic 20100924 - wip

2010-09-23T19:23:00.002-04:00

Three progress images for the comic tomorrow. If I had more time I'd clean a few more things up.

Comic 20100923

2010-09-23T06:33:00.002-04:00

This one I did fairly quickly, which is obvious. Intelligent design. I wanted to do something a little more for the last panel, something less cliche, but the few things I thought about wouldn't fit in one panel. There are plenty of victims out there, so maybe next time.

I hope to start on a Marla page today, picking up from Marla Walks Roland. I dunno, I finished a composition book of sketches and page ideas, I may try to glean something from it.

Comic 20100922

2010-09-22T13:32:00.002-04:00

Haha Thought Woman In Red was forgotten? Or the Wickedest Snowman in the World? Well they have a role to play later in the big picture. I'm not entirely happy with the wormy things in the body on the table. Yes that is Gary's body dug out and screwed at his shallow grave at Big Date IX.

I was hoping to make up a day but fell a day behind. Went apple picking for a few hours yesterday along with some other errands and lost some time.

Comic 20100920

2010-09-20T16:17:00.003-04:00

We are plodding along with Marla Walks Roland. On the upside we may get to see Marla in her underwears in a few pages. Looking at the archives less than a 24 hour period has 21 updates spanning 4 years. I have more to cram in here too.

Usually, I'd wait and have this update tomorrow and skip today but there is a chance I can get caught up.

Comic 20100919

2010-09-19T00:27:00.000-04:00

Did we see this joke yesterday? Drag Racing 2. When looking at the 'drag racing' joke I really wasn't sure which way to go with it. So, I did both.

I do not know what Shub is doing in the front hallway naked. Being a good wife is my best guess.

Likely not going to be an update Monday as I've a busy weekend. I will try to post something though. I did just finish laying a page out, so it may depend on my time and how detailed I want it to look. It is more of that silly drama stuff though.

Comic 20100918

2010-09-18T00:15:00.001-04:00

Not the most original joke in the world but I submit it humbly and with feeling. Drag Racing.

My free time is sketchy this weekend. I do have updates ready but I'm not sure how things will look for Monday. I'm going to get back to some incentive work and my Character Quiz.

Comic 20100917

2010-09-17T00:01:00.000-04:00

Mary Reflects on the love talk from marla in Marla Gets Company 5. We see Mary have a bit of a breakdown. Again, it is fun to play around the edges of a story.

Your ideas of what Mary is about is likely better than what I will eventually present.

I almost didn't get this updated. I had this page done a day ahead of schedule but after a brief t-storm and a 30 second power outage my internet was down. It is all better now.

Comic 20100916

2010-09-16T00:01:00.000-04:00

I was going to get into something different today but this popped into my head as something fun to do. C.F.F.F.R. This took up most of my comic work time and it /was/ fun to do. I adore poor Mrs. Pennytree so I'm sure we will be seeing more of her also.

*The frame was made in commemoration of McLean Stevenson'd Henry Blake.

I'm going to be cleaning up my work files and scans and all that crap this evening so I may be making some scrap / and preview posts.

Comic 20100915

2010-09-15T00:05:00.000-04:00

Very sleepy with Marla Gets Company 5 I fought a bit with Marla's dialog here. this is sort of a big moment for her and I wanted it to be right. I might have a little more happen with her this night.

I'll be moving on into some new things in the next few updates. I've a wet t-shirt contest and an end of summer block party sort of thing. I have been dutifully spending my free time on incentive pieces and the Character Quiz. Today I added a new question, restructured an old one and updated one of the result images a little.

Comic 20100914

2010-09-14T06:55:00.001-04:00

A little bit of a late update today. I was going to skip but I threw this together Marla Gets Company 4. I'm not really happy with Marla's face here. She doesn't look as jolly as I intended .. but considering the circumstances I didn't really want her to look maniacal either.

I did a little tweaking to the Character Quiz. It is still in rough shape though.

Character Quiz Gamma

2010-09-13T11:25:00.002-04:00

I made one of these years ago for Dungeons and Dragons characters and thought it would be fun to do the some for the QT regulars. Character Quiz asks some questions, does some math, and tells you which character best fits. You can answer the questions about yourself to see which QT character your most like or try to 'unlock' the different character picks by answering as that character.

This is in a very early stage. You can see there are questions missing, questions under-explained, and the tallying side has sections missing also. The results images are very quick sketches that I will improve on as I work on the quiz.

What I will be working on is criteria of the characters, simplifying questions, and the presentation. Once I get it to a more attractive and accurate stage I'll link up to it in the menus.

Comic 20100913

2010-09-13T00:01:00.001-04:00

Jajajaj one more or of these ones to go Marla Gets Company 3. A stalled out day today. Didn't get very much done except for this comic page.

Comic 20100912

2010-09-12T00:11:00.001-04:00

Another last minute update. I got a few minutes further along with the foreground but skimped on the background. Mother's Nose.

I placed this way back towards the beginning because the 'cold' is a winter ailment and I hadn't really gotten into the second winter in the comic. I also should mention that the last frame Roland is supposed to have two noses .. on purpose. With the haphazard way I draw things I was thinking that some might believe is was a overlooked mistake.

My side project is in a gamma/beta stage of development. Once I figure out where I'm putting it I'll have it up tomorrow. Having to figure out where I'm going to upload a php script is one of the reasons I keep coming back to maybe hosting my comic someplace else.

Comic 20100911

2010-09-11T00:36:00.001-04:00

A 15 minute page is gracing the comic today at Marla Gets Company 2. It seems that since Mary and Marla last met in Marla and Mary Again 3 Marla has a few new moves. In the timeline it has only been 10 days but it is about quality not quantity.

This is typically how a comic page starts out for me. I have a rough idea and a thumbnail in a comp book with some dialog. Then, I rough sketch, then rough in the layers. Here we have layers from top to bottom. Letters, Frames, Lines, Color, Bglines, background. This is where I stopped today.

I would clean and sketch and color and for this one add a shade layer and word balloons. Another hour or more of work, but I will be sleeping by then.

Spent a good bit of time beating my head against a side project and will be spending a most of the weekend working on different home projects.

Old Vote Incentive - New News

2010-09-10T04:15:00.003-04:00

Doesn't look like there will be a regular update today so here is another another old vote incentive. I'm not sure exactly when I ran this one or on which voting site. This is a little updated with some shading thrown on top.

I have errands and other time consuming chores for a few days. I will be working on a few projects related to Cutethulhu, but I'm unclear when the next real update will be.

Comic 20100909

2010-09-09T00:08:00.000-04:00

I just got a call, looks like Hiatus Man is coming around again, but for now we have Gunplay.

Will be working on an incentive piece later on. It got a bit involved so it will take time to finish. I also have another little art project I'm trying to get to also .. who knows what will get done? I sure don't.

Comic 20100908

2010-09-08T00:02:00.000-04:00

Not a song by Aerosmith Granny's Got a Gun. (does that joke date me? it sure dates them ) So this is a small subplot that I was going to skip but I think I mentioned something about it in Saved Seat 3. So, I thought I better at least steer something in that direction. I needed a quick comic to put together too.

heh, I've also mentioned Roland's uncle Jack many times but none of you have seen him yet. I'm not sure why. I have a neat story involving him and the River God brewing.

Vote Incentive 20091200

2010-09-07T20:50:00.002-04:00

Old vote incentive December 2009. I may have posted this elsewhere.

Comic 20100907

2010-09-07T00:00:00.000-04:00

woo callback in Division of Labor to Tools of Industry Which was first put up 4 years ago .. but in terms of the story as it stand it is only 10 or so pages back.

I am working a bit on an incentive piece and I think I'm going to put up a small past incentive gallery someplace. I spend a bit more time doing an incentive p[iece than I do on regular updates and I would like to show them off a bit more.
... I am really aching to put a more versatile site together, but I'll have to wait.

Likewise, I looked at a few free forums and I don't think I am going that route.

Comic 20100906

2010-09-06T00:15:00.001-04:00

Division of Labor jumps way back to the end of the Garden of Serenity Story. I also finally moved Deadline into a more proper place in the flow of events.

Also did some updates to the links page and fixed a few small errors that had creeped into the comic site.

I've been seriously thinking about having a forums with the site, or switching to wordpress, or doing a dozen other things.

I have not worked on my extra stuff for a vote incentive or anything like that, I did finish the page for the seventh. So, I will have a bit more time this evening and tomorrow to knock something out.

Comic 20100905

2010-09-05T00:02:00.001-04:00

Poor ole Marla ,Marla Gets Company. Going to be making some good/evil/naughty/nice decisions about a few things coming up.

I've been trying to get some extra work/vote incentives worked on. I just did a sketch I hope to work on this evening and i have a few other stand-alone pieces in various stages. I'm looking for a art site to post a gallery. I've looked at a few but nothing seems to suit my level of skill, style type and subject matter.

Comic 20100904

2010-09-04T00:07:00.001-04:00

Marla's new hobby Marla Works One Out. This whole part of the story is getting a little ahead of itself. I may have to rearrange things a little bit or think to move events around a little differently than I originally planned.

So here is Marla, obviously hooked on Roland. Mary knows it, Roland suspects. How will it all resolve? I have a few suspicions but I can't say for sure. SOme sides of some of the main characters are going to start showing that may be a little uncomfortable.

Comic 20100903

2010-09-03T00:11:00.000-04:00

Not sure exactly if there is going to be one more page in this little series or not. I think I have another page of Roland and Mary scripted for this, but it is something that may be handled a little bit differently elsewhere. I may jump to something else while I think on it. Suprise Bedroom Guest 3

Comic 20100902

2010-09-02T00:07:00.001-04:00

Here is the next Suprise Bedroom Guest. Telling a story from two different directions is interesting to me. Some who have read through my comic may have a guess as to the nature of Mary's abilities, but not likely to their exact extent. It seems from the current point of view a somewhat preserved grandmother and a young Roland Link are having pan generational affair.

The truth is a little more bizarre than that and somewhat less disturbing. As we go back in the story and tell some more of Mary's relationship with Mable's parents and a few other people around town how this relationship sits in the grand story will be noticeably different.

So, I've mentioned before. As the story grows in both directions it will change in both directions.

Comic 20100901

2010-09-01T00:55:00.002-04:00

This is half of the page I've been working on today. I will work on posting the full page. Suprise Bedroom Guest. Yes Roland is the victim of the booty call.

Comic 20100831

2010-08-31T00:13:00.001-04:00

Todays quick Comic is not about a supper in a whorehouse. Whorehouse Supper is talking about a whorehouse during supper.

A bit of trivial background information about the town. It is one of those things you think about when doing background stuff that sometimes never sees the light of day. In this instance I needed a little supper conversation piece and Stan seemed like the sort of fellow that would know that sort of half gossipy information. The boarding house is a setting for things in the past.