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Plague Rat – Chapter 6, Page 8
Posted on May 29, 2025 by Bran

Description

Panel One: Narration: "Next Day" Wide shot of Fern, sitting on the railing on the rooftop. She's smiling and looking into the distance, wearing a pale floral peasant-style top with shorts, and her hair is up. It's a gorgeous day, with fluffy clouds in the sky and birds flocking behind her.

Panel Two: Side view of Fern as she turns to look towards the archway from the tower. "There you are!" she says. DJ is walking into the light, his hands in his pockets and his eyes lowered. Cal is hunched over, with his hands on his knees, panting from the climb. "Sorry we're >cough< late. >gasp!< SFX: >pant< >wheeze< Cal is wearing blue jeans and a white t-shirt with flying geese on it.

Panel Three: Fern's back as she turns to Cal, who's entered into the frame, still hunched over. She looks concerned as she asks him, "You okay?" "I'm fine. Jsut still..." He's smiling weakly as he answers, "Tired from gym class." SFX: >huff< >huff<

Panel Four: Profile shot of DJ, his face mostly hidden by his hair. "What did you find out?" he asks.

Panel Five: Fern is now facing into the walkway, and in the process of getting off the railing. She's annoyed, and says, glaring a bit at DJ, "Wow, okay, all business." Cal's looking back toward DJ and says, "He's been pacing a hole in the floor all night."

Panel Six: Head shot of DJ, whose hair looks limp and he's glaring slightly, with huge dark circles under his eyes. He looks very, very tired. Fern, from off-panel, says, "I can tell."

Author Note

And we're back on the roof!

I love the contrast between happy Fern enjoying the nice day and DJ looking like Death warmed over.

See you soon!
Bran

Chapter 5 Progress Tracker

Posted on September 28, 2023 by Bran

I tried to find way to embed my tracker into the site so that it automatically updates from Google Sheets, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out how to make it work.

All I can offer you is the link, so if you want to follow my progress and see where I am:

Chapter 5 Comic Progress

If you know how to do this, please drop me a line so I can add it as a widget or something! I’d really like for everyone to be able to see it.

Early Comic on Patreon!

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Bran

Yep! I’ve set up a Patreon for the comic, and I’ve decided to keep things dead simple for now.

For $1, you can see next week’s comic early!

That’s it.

No fancy membership tiers with merch, no digital download packs, no interviews or super-special content. I know what my plate can hold right now! I did set up patron goals so that I’ll add a bit more when I get people, but by the time I hit those numbers I know I’ll be in a good place to handle it.

Those are pretty simple, too – When I hit 100 people, I’ll add some extra art each week, when I get to 200, I’ll put everyone two comics ahead of the site, and when I have 300 people, they’ll be 3 pages ahead. It’ll still only be $1, though.

Will I set it up so that I keep putting people ahead as the numbers grow? I dunno. I know three pages ahead isn’t that hard for me to do, but more than that? I guess we’ll see. ^_^

But for now, I have a simple Patreon page where you can see next week’s comic right now for $1.

https://www.patreon.com/Rabbit_Dance_

Thanks for hanging with me for so long! I appreciate it!

-Bran

Off to the Printer!

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Bran

Hey! I’ve got the first issue of Plague Rat DONE and it’s being printed right now!

I was fortunate enough to find a local printer and I can literally just go pick them up when they’re ready. It’s a run of 100, which is a great start. I’ll be putting the reminder up on the website after the con, and adding in a few fun bonus items for people who order physical copies.

I’ll keep you posted on how things are going here, and of course, you can always check out the Discord for more immediate news and to ask questions.

Two Comics This Week!

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Bran

That’s right! I’ve been having technical and health issues, but I managed to finish two pages at once so you’re getting page nine right now and page ten Wednesday. I set it up for noon EST, so unless the time zone went wonky on me it should update as planned.

If you want to watch me work on the next page, come on over to Twitch and hang out in the chat! Obviously you’ll learn the occasional spoiler, but I try not to talk too much about plot elements unless I’m actively drawing it in front of you.

But in good news, we are vaccinated! We both got the first dose of Moderna, which means we’ll be 100% ready by the time Steel City Comic Con rolls around in June. Evie has a table with her books there, and my goal is to have a finished first issue there, too.

I know I’ve been late a lot, but what’s been getting me are the background elements. To remedy that, I’ve been learning Blender, a 3D program, so I can have whole rooms ready to go. Clip Studio Paint has the ability to import 3D models and render them as linework with textures and all, so this should speed things up quite a bit! I actually have a lot of experience in 3D modeling and animation, so all I have to do is learn how to do it in Blender vs 3D Studio Max. It’s a bit of a curve because Blender *thinks* in a way Max doesn’t, but I’m getting the hang of it.

Actually, the cart you see on page nine is a 3D model that I made in Blender! The horses and wagon wheels are 3D models purchased from the Clip Studio Assets library.

Well, I’m off to bed. Enjoy the new page!
– Bran

Late Comic!

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Bran

Last week’s comic took longer than I expected and this moved things out of whack, but don’t worry! I should have this week’s comic up by Friday night. I’ve already got the whole page sketched out and I’m working on the inking.

If you want to watch me work on it and chat with me / listen to me ramble, I stream on Twitch pretty much every night, and some late afternoons. My username is Rabbit_Dance_, or you can click here.

Until the next update – Stay Safe!
– Bran