Comic 20100930

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

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

Comic 20100929

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Comic 20100923

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.