Smokin’ Aces
The corollary to how fun it was to juggle all these characters and motivations was that it was almost certainly the absolute most effort I expended in this entire tournament. That’s the tradeoff, I guess.
The corollary to how fun it was to juggle all these characters and motivations was that it was almost certainly the absolute most effort I expended in this entire tournament. That’s the tradeoff, I guess.
Here’s my half of the anchor comic mentioned previously. Coordinating these pages was tricky but it was also an absolute blast.
Start getting used to a massive pileup of characters for what will become a very obvious reason when you get to the end of the comic. Skull was the weapon/apprentice/successor of Sexy Flat Earther’s contestant the Chain Witch, who was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is quite possibly my favorite page of literally anything I’ve ever done, but it definitely came at a high price: I spent pretty much an entire day front-to-back drawing this, and it is still tied with another page from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fun trivia: pretty much every single round I switched my workflow up in some way or another. One of the big changes for round three was that I elected to not actually solidify any real dialogue beyond the parts where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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.
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…
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…
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…