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32 - You Have One New
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27/08/07
Artless. It is a pun, do you see? |
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Regular readers, if I have any, might recall that
Queen Hippolyte's preferred massage
technique is not to be applied without due
caution...
I'm quite pleased with Berikoko's expressions in this
comic, although she really does look genuinely
distressed when she's being led off by Deinomache. It's
either genuinely harrowing, or comedy. Perhaps they are
the same thing. Wait, no, that's clearly nonsense. They
are obviously very different concepts.
Deinomache is, you might not be surprised to know, the
character I struggle with drawing the most. She's
incredibly difficult to draw consistently. Manga-style
art, which my comic could be very loosely described as,
doesn't feature a lot of old people, so I didn't have a
lot of references to draw upon when I was trying to
design her character. Even after I got the face roughly
right, the hair was proving to be impossible. So I came
up with the hood, in tribute to one of the very few
great old ladies of anime - Captain Magno Vivan from
Vandread. Incidentally, Vandread is a
series I'd highly recommend, if you're able to look past
the fanservice. Beyond the improbable female figures and
the occasional dive into "oops, I seem to have
accidentally embedded my face between your boobs"-style
farce, there's a charming and intelligent story about
racism and tolerance. And despite the prominence of the
aforementioned improbable female figures, there are a
few women who you wouldn't find in your typical harem
anime series: as well as the arse-kicking old lady,
Magno, we have Parfet Balblair, the epitome of nerdiness
(who rather pleasingly gets romantically involved with
the show's only genuine bishounen) and the indescribably
wonderful Gascogne Rheingau, who is quite possibly one
of the butchest women in the history of anime. To be
honest, the presence of a butch girl alone is usually
enough to get me watching a series...
My last post and its attempts to encourage people to
join the forums led to a flood of quite literally no new
members at all. How embarrassing. Fortunately, I really
enjoy humiliating myself in public. What other
motivation is there for starting a webcomic?
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So I go to the toilet in
your wicker chair. It's a faux pas... |
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