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Panel One: Narration: "After Class" DJ, Cal and Fern are walking in the halls outside of their Anatomy class, carrying their test papers. Another student is partially seen in the foreground. DJ is looking down at his test paper, and Cal is talking with Fern. "How did you do, Fern?" he asks. Fern is smiling broadly, and there are cute little flowers around her head as she says excitedly, "I only missed one question! I've never done this well on an anatomy test!"
Panel Two: Cal asks Fern, "So does that mean we held up our end of the bargain?" Fern is smiling in a sly manner at him, and gesturing with her test. ">dramatic sigh< I guess. You're off the hook." "Yes!" Cal says, excitedly.
Panel Three: "How about you, Cal?" Fern asks, from off-panel. The shot is Fern's POV as she looks down at Cal, who's smiling and showing off his test, with a sparkly background. "20 out of 20!" he says.
Panel Four: The three of them from behind as they continue walking. Fern is on the left, Cal is in the middle, and DJ is on the right. Fern is gesturing widely. "Of course, you did!" she says, "You live with the genius." Cal is looking at DJ. "How about you, DJ?" he asks, "How did you do?" DJ is silent and looking down, presumably at his test.
Hey, Cal aced his first test! ^_^ And Fern did a good job, too.
One a side note - Can you believe that this is the second to last page of Chapter 5?! There's only ONE MORE PAGE of this chapter!
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:
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.
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
Enjoy this bit of fun! DJ and Cal and Aziraphale and Crowley
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.
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
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
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