Wow, look at that. A new comic when I said I was taking a break. Guess a person has to put his or her emotions into something worthwhile after all. Yeah, not much to say. Keeping myself preoccupied with Galaxy Railways (Galaxy Express 999's sort-of continuation) and Tenchi Muyo!: Ryo-ohki (continuation of the OVA series). Galaxy Railways is really Matsumoto at his best. It's restored my faith in his work after the awful Gun Frontier and Cosmo Warrior Zero. Tenchi Muyo!: Ryo-Ohki is also excellent, continuing from where the original OVAs left off with the Jurai royal family visiting Earth. Good animation and storytelling in both cases.Look, it's a second comic in one week, and in record time too. Let me know how you like Ark's character design on the forums. So far response has been good, but I'm always looking for extra commentary, so feel free. Ark, if you're wondering, is from the same division as Rich, and that thing he's standing on is essentially a spider-crab mechanoid, similar to the Fujiikoma from Ghost in the Shell. I have yet to work out the mechanoid's final design, but I assure you it'll be something neat. Oh, and the mechanoid's name will be revealed next comic.
This marks the first comic done in the four-panel, grayscale format. It took me a record 2.5 hours to finish, in total. This is the sort of schedule I can live with. First and foremost, I didn't have to draw any backgrounds. Don't get me wrong, I like drawing backgrounds, but they're often unnecessary and detract from the main focus of the comic. I also used less dialogue in this comic than any before it, another technique I want to focus on. Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, was able to create most of his sunday comics with little, if any dialogue when it came to the last five years or so of the comic's run. It was effective -- far more than dialogue had been. I'd like to try my hand at the same.
I had Tim make a minor edit to this comic's script. I realised that the last two lines sounded especially silly and nonsensical, so this is the revised version. Also, major props to Julie Nguyen for her colours. I thought Tim had done them at first, but it turns out she did, so yeah. Thanks a ton Julie. Mind you, this Julie isn't Pyra, so don't confuse the two. Either way, my gratitude.
The guest comic today was done by Timothy Duong, who writes Lores at RPGFan. While this comic comes late, it does come coloured, and for that I'm grateful. Thanks a lot Tim!
