I think a comic drawn like this would be kinda pretty freakin’ sweet. This story is currently rolled up like a fussy hedgehog, uncooperative and prickly and encouraging me to go work on other things. It still likes to get worried over and doodled, though.
Directly after I last posted, I went and started shooting a liveaction short film on the weekends. We’ve been continuing to shoot for the past month, mostly from 10 pm to 3 am on weekends. It’s pretty neat that I have to draw all day at work, because the only time outside of work that I’ve put pencil to paper in the past month has been to note down what we need to reshoot and to diagram out camera and light setups. Shooting is now done and we’re editing the short together. It’s nothing spectacular, but for something powered completely on enthusiasm and inexperience, it’s remarkably coherent. There’s a production blog here: Meat Love. If you’re curious, the short will be about 7 minutes long and tells the story of a butcher who falls hard for a vegan girl.
Unfortunately, sacrifices must be made. I figured I could massively restructure & redraw my Afterworks comic while making a short and working regular hours, and that was maybe a bit optimistic. The deadline came and went while I was working on this short film. I won’t have a story in Afterworks 3, but many awesome talented guys and girls will. The anthology will be out for Comicon this year.
After the short film I’ll get back to the short comic. James (my comrade in deadline-missing) and I are considering self-publishing our Afterworks shorts as a double feature, titled perhaps Afterworks: The B Team or Overachieving Slackers or something like that.
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Heavy on the gaming posts! My recent obsessive doodling is proof of the game-mastering prowess of Everett and Austin. They throw us into awesome terrifying situations, and we try to survive them.
Most recently, we added a this person to our crew. When we saw him floating in the wreckage of a sailing ship, we figured he was eating the flesh of the drowned sailors, and wondered if he was edible. We were informed by a more experienced sailor that he was a PERSON, not seafood. We hid the crabs we’d been eating and invited him on board. He’s proven to be a very pleasant person so far…
Pleasant or not, Finn can’t get over the fact that he’s a giant crab-person, and is completely revolted.
And this is the ship’s doctor. He’s been responsible for the deaths of any number of creatures - most recently this shark, which he killed with a single shot through the eye - and as far as anyone can tell, he’s only ever SAVED one person’s life.
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Everyone studying for finals last month at a local coffeeshop. There was one girl with great body language - she really really wanted to leave, but kept herself glued to her computer, textbooks on her lap, fidgeting and stretching and staring bleakly out the window before getting back to her homework…
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That’s what I think. Vilo “Grub” is the ship’s cook on a viking longboat, but his luck has been pretty bad since he set foot on dry land. Even though by all rights he’s sound of mind and body, he’s always tripping, spacing out, mishearing orders, and completely overlooking approaching danger. He used to get away with it because he was so damn pretty -
But now… he’s going to have to start getting it together. Beauty’s only skin deep, and his skin got stripped off during a visit to a giant toad’s digestive tract.
I guess this is mildly interesting: my first version of the new Grub, before Austin told me disfigurement was nothing to be afraid of… you can see there’s not a whole lot of difference, but I like seeing slight changes when other people do them, so here it is.
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A scuffle on and around an detoxing laudanum addict, the unfortunate and brilliant Doctor Perry Brighton.
Once their ship put in to shore, the first stop the brothers made was the church on the hill… where Finn suggested something in Gaelic that Sean didn’t take kindly to. Another crewman, Diego, intervened before Sean could completely drown Finn in the basin of holy water, but the priests kicked them out of the church.
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