Disguises
Also, I cannot stress this enough: Sloof is a comedy god. All of his comics, especially his round two comic, are masterclasses in comedic timing.
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Archive for October, 2019
40 comics.
The Plan
Now, the team we were up against was the pair of M3thyl, the artist for Kasha (a one-armed martial arts master of the school of the invisible palm) and the incredible SIR (which is not me being hyperbolic, that’s his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Willing Recruits
I cannot stress this enough: Sloof is an absolute powerhouse of a writer, and we worked together incredibly well. Our collaborative document and our discord PMs were overflowing with ideas and additions, and what might be my most ambitious submission[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our partnership did lead to a very different storytelling format, in that we both released individual comics that were designed to be opened at the same time, and the reader would tab back and forth when directed. That’s a little less[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
SNAKE EYES
Artists were paired up with each other, and went against another pair; contestants were encouraged to combine their labor and collaborate, which could take any form they preferred. For example, there were a few teams who did traditional writer/artist pairs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Team Battle
Oh also remember when i said in the last post that the public polls don’t determine the winner? Yeah, turns out I kind of lied. In extreme cases, where Abbadon cannot decide on the results himself, he turned to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Part of my worldbuilding was deciding which actual historical figures would be instrumental in the EASF, as the timeline from our Earth diverges on July 20, 1969. Alexei Leonov was a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to complete[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rayuban Sunrise
This epilogue also began a continuing trend through my other rounds, namely Fei keeping in touch with the people she’s met through the tournament. There’s absolutely no way this will come up later on.
Tranquility
This is the first glimpse you get of Tranquility, Aldrin’s ebon devil companion. As I’ve mentioned previously, devils in Fei’s world take the form of technological constructs rather than the more traditional forms they take in the wheel; Tranquility’s form[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Epilogue 2
This was also the first time I decided to write an epilogue for one of my tournament comics, since I felt like I should put a nice little bow on this story in particular.