I don't normally like over-explaining myself about the comics, but after the commentary on the previous strip I feel I may need to speak a bit more directly than normal about the current scene. and Selkie's rapid calm-down. Todd, in previous times of crisis with Selkie, has not hesitated to Papa Wolf onto people. He's passionate about doing right by his daughter and defending her from attack. That hasn't changed, and Selkie trusts him when he says he'll take care of things and make everything better because he has generally done that in the past. So, she trusts him to fix everything. Although I don't think Todd and Selkie would agree on methodology.
I wasn’t happy with the dialogue at the time I uploaded it, but went ahead anyway. Reader commentary kind of echoed my thoughts on it, so I tweaked the dialogue in panel 4 after finishing the colors to be a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
"I means, it's nos "sets her ons fires and dance ons the ashes", buts I'll takes its.
She can’t even wear those for a few months yet, honestly. If you’ve been watching the dates on the last two strip’s time progression, you may have come to the realization that I’m doing a Christmas story. In the middle[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sorry to be late again. I was traveling out of state this weekend and got stuck away from home. The comic for today is penciled but not inked; I’ll upload the pencil version as a placeholder as soon as I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
Other than that though, this is the end of the Art Gallery story! Hoe you all enjoyed this important piece of Amanda’s part of the story. The next story arc begins next week. It’s something I’ve been looking forward to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There's a part I decided to trim out to move things to the end of the arc a little more neatly: Lillian escorting a hyper-caffienated Tony, along with Keisha and Sandy , out the door and back home. Partly I decided not to shuttle Keisha off the "stage" before the full reconciliation of The Trio could happen, but also partly I just decided it was... well, trimmable.
Just a reminder, this is the belated Wednesday strip, there will be a regular Friday strip tomorrow.
When I was running late yesterday on this strip, I was tempted for a short time to simply do this one as prose instead of a regular strip. But I couldn't deny myself the opportunity to draw these reactions.
