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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 62

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If you were a fictional samurai (or a fictional knight or some such), and you’d been only around other fictional samurai your whole life, other people might find you very strange.

Slay the Lake Chicago Pride Book Fest is tomorrow! I am so excited to go out and celebrate and talk about books. Noon to 5 at Soundgrowler Brewing, 8201 183rd St, Tinley Park, IL. All ages, all genres, and free admission, plus a drag show! Brooke and I will be outside!

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 61

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On a journey with a caterpillar egg, a can-do attitude, and the world’s most depressed man. What could go wrong?

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 60

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Page 60!!!

Ichiro’s journey to grow out of his toxic masculinity will be a long one, but he’ll get there.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 59

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Almost two thirds of the way done with this first volume!

Our friends here will be moving along shortly, I promise. (For me, drawing two pages a week, it feels like we’ve been in this tent for a month and a half).

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 58

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Sometimes life gives you lemons. Sometimes, life gives you a mortally wounded man suffering from multiple layers of crushing PTSD, all while you’ve got your own problems.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 57

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A little late, but it’s still Tuesday, so here we are!

I’m having so much fun with expressions and body language. There’s so much to show! I wouldn’t claim to be good at it (I’m not that good at body language in real life, much less drawing. I voluntarily wore a mask longer than I was required to when I was a barista in 2020/2021 because it meant I didn’t have to worry about what customers thought about my thinking face).

Also, I don’t know what the light’s doing, I’ll fix it next draft.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 56

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It’s exposition time!

Pacing is really challenging for me here, because for me, Ichiro has been naked under a blanket for over a month, and it really should be time for him to put some clothes on. For someone reading the comic all the way through, it would take a few minutes to read a month’s worth of work.

This is why I need reader feedback. Comments are open! I promise I don’t bite.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 55

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Nobody panic! We have two protagonists actually having a conversation!

I may have forgotten Ichiro’s scars in the last panel. My policy is that once I hit “export” (to turn the Photoshop document into a JPG), I don’t go back and make changes. All those edits are for when the first draft is done.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 54

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Hi, I’m back.

Sorry for the schedule disruption! I got my antibiotics and feel much better.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 53

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Time for Ichiro to wake up and get the plot moving.

I liked this page up until Panel 4, which utterly defeated me. I know it looks bad. His arms don’t make any sense. His head is simultaneously too big and too small. Unfortunately, what it would take to fix it will take more time than I have, so here it is. Please don’t make fun of me too badly.

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