Queer Fantasy and Weird Tales for the People
It’s late, I know, but I managed to get this page done.
First of all: the Book Gymboree is tomorrow! 10-4 at the RecPlex fieldhouse, 9900 Terwell Terrace, Pleasant Prairie, WI. I’m very excited to be there, and I hope you will be too!
Ten more pages after this one! That means only five more weeks until the draft is finished. Thanks for sticking with me.
We’re bringing some plot threads together for the ending!
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In the full version of this panel, which you will find below, there are EIGHTEEN people. That is why this page is being posted so late.
We have arrived at the teahouse! The stage is set for our last scene.
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Another page, another thing I forgot to draw (hint: how are Ichiro’s bow and quiver attached to his back on the outside of the blanket?). I have my editing work cut out for me.
I’m trying to do something with the last panel here. After the encounter with the samurai, Ichiro’s attention is drawn to the castle, where the daimyo lives. Technically, his duty is to report in and accept the daimyo’s judgment (either taking him on as a retainer, or executing him for his family’s crime of attacking their neighbors without permission). In either case, his status (such as it is) is restored, and he is no longer a ronin–but that means giving up Resunotek, the only person who has been nice to him in recent memory. This is his last chance to choose the daimyo, and he doesn’t.
I want to use as little text as possible to convey meaning. Let me know in the comments if it worked.
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Chapter five is starting! Nobody panic!
I tried to use the Clone Stamp to make the crowd of people, and it didn’t really work, but I did not have time to go back and draw them all individually. I’ll work on that another time.
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Last page of Chapter Four! In which Ichiro isn’t cured of his depression because someone was nice to him for a while (though it certainly doesn’t hurt). We’re working on it.
Bonus art on Friday, and then we’re off to Chapter Five, which will be quite short. I’m counting twelve pages right now, but I may end up splitting some of them up.
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There’s another trope at work here, in addition to the Only One Bed, but I’m not sure what it’s called. Awkward Domesticity?
Also, I love edge lighting.
Next page will conclude this chapter, then we’re on to our last bonus art and the last chapter!
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Two more pages in this chapter. I have enjoyed the comparatively lesser amount of work that four-panel pages represent as compared to eight-panel ones.
Also, someday I will get the sword on the shoulder to look right, but not today.
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More fun with shadows!
These next couple of pages will be pretty low-key, as we’re winding down this chapter and getting ready for the last one, in which we’ll meet the other two members of the squad and have a big fight scene.
On another note: it would be very easy, I think, for the relationship between Resunotek and Ichiro to remain very one-sided, because of how they met and who Resunotek is as a person. Ichiro also doesn’t really know how to take care of people outside of sort of survival basics, but I wanted to show at this juncture that he has the impulse to return some of the care he’s been receiving, even if he can’t do much about it now.
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Here is a pattern that repeats.
Resunotek: Do you need medical attention?
Ichiro: I am able to continue physical exertion.
Resunotek: That’s not what I asked.
I might need to cut one or more iterations of this if it gets too repetitive.
In the meantime, onward and forward!
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Find someone who looks at you the way Resunotek looks at weird bugs.
There’s a little voice in Ichiro’s head that says, “Wouldn’t it be nice not to have to look strong all the time? To enjoy looking at weird bugs? To let someone take care of you?”
He’s doing his best not to listen to it.
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