Lukina is torn between her mission and her heart.
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Hello again.
At least the comic updates on time?
I’ve been pretty sick this week. So hey, happy Thanksgiving guys, but like RIGHT AFTER THAT I got sick as a dog. Friday last week, I worked through my shift in a hoodie (at like 76 degrees in Hawaii) and ended up losing it when I got off shift, so I ended up calling out.
And calling out, and calling out.
Eventually on like Tuesday I went to a doctor and got told they really couldn’t do much except mitigate the symtoms. So I spent a lot of time in bed with my phone and sitting around on a computer.
Turns out being forced to do nothing for a long period of time gets you thinking about stuff which leads to weird mid-life criseses. Ever realized you never had goals? Like, whole life, not a single solid goal? Oof. A lot of oof.
Finishing this comic out is a pretty darn good goal to have though, so thanks for joining us! We’re almost at the end of our second issue so I’d say that in terms of “have we done a thing” we are certainly at “doing a thing”. :3
God (insert applicable deity here) bless,
-M.
Hey guys, me again.
So like I think got mentioned earlier, we’ve been doing a page a week for a little while to get a few pages ahead on the comic before we transition into Chapter 3. Chapter 3 has some fun stuff, like fight scenes! (Looking forward to seeing how Nicoy does those). We only got three this month, though.
If nobody realized, Kim’s birthday was a few days ago. Wish her a happy birthday.
I still have to write page 15! (Ehehehe, I am sorry Kim, I have the day off today and it’s on the big list of things I couldn’t do during my normal work schedule). It should be the final page of this chapter of the comic, so I want to do it right and I’m still mulling over just how. We do have the general outline set though, once again due to my writing partner’s foresight and divinity-like planning and discipline.
In other news, lately I’ve dropped 3 dollars on a basic, small sketchbook, which I don’t actually use for sketching. I’ve decided to call it the “car list”. Someone told me once that our memories are somewhat spatially based, and that’s true for me. Every time I sit down in my car, I remember all the stuff I have to do. When I open the door and step out, I forget it all. So now I have a little book in my day bag that’s the car list. I’ve always done well with schedulers but get somewhat figity with them so I figured I’d just make my own from a book of blank paper. Not so much a scheduler as a running to-do list.
Someone else I ran into was talking about using sticky notes, and doing around three important things per day for the small boost of success without draining yourself? Figured I’d try it.
Christmas season’s coming up soon, so the freight’s increased. My day job’s driving a commercial truck, so every time I set foot on the job site, it’s like, an 11-13 hour day now. I’m beginning to doubt my decision to stay in Hawaii. I was getting paid more overall for cross-country, and there was a bed in the truck. And the truck had air conditioning. I have never lived somewhere without air conditioning until now.
Hopefully I’ll survive until next page. See you guys then. – Mike.
Okay so today I learned that I’ve been failing to put our blog posts in the right place and Kim’s been going behind me and putting them in the right place.
Oops. I’m sorry. Thank you.
So I’m looking at going to a book signing by the writer of Monstress, Marjorie Liu. She’s doing this thing over at the local Barnes & Noble in Honolulu, at the Ala Moana center.
I was excited enough about this that I actually sort of forgot what day it was supposed to be and went early? Because apparently I have the attention span of a goldfish.
A lot of comics open with the violence, or with a punch in the face; back in Chapter 1’s beginning, ours didn’t. When I think about it, and some of our decisions back then stylistically, it actually reminds me a little of the Empowered comic, by Adam Warren. It started out as a few sketch commissions of a sexy damsel in distress, became a little popular, and then the story picked up around issue 2 or 3, and became something that I really enjoyed reading. Similarly, all of our issue 1, to me, feels a lot like a love letter to our artist, Nicoy. When we handed the issue to Jason Simpson, one of the voice-cast actors of the Dragon Prince Netflix series at our local Honolulu Comic Con, the first comment he made flipping through was that it was beautiful and when writing that issue I really wanted to give Nicoy the ability to embellish. Some of the pages were even her suggestions, particularly the splash page at the end.
THIS PAGE RIGHT HERE is where stuff starts getting real, for me. Someone I read once wrote something like, “when writing about war, don’t write about the big armies or the battles; write about the discarded child’s doll in the street gutter.” We’ve been hearing a little about this conflict before, but now you get to see it. ~ Mike.
Next update is Oct 9, 2019.
Salient Caligation updates next Wednesday, Oct 2 for Ch 3.
