Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 46

Our heroine is in Peril again.

I managed to cut two entire panels out of this page, mostly because my outline has the bandit leader drawing his sword like three or four times? He doesn’t even have a scabbard. I don’t know what I was thinking. (Probably not much, because I’m pretty sure I was working on this bit either shortly before or after giving birth.)

Also, don’t forget about the Kenosha Book Festival this weekend! 10-3 at 5031 7th Ave, Kenosha, WI. See you there!

Warning for said peril, though it is short-lived, and some more blood.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 45

Ya boy is back, and he’s doing…not great, but he’s still kicking.

Thanks for your patience during the brief hiatus. I should be back on time on Friday as well.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 44

Hi. I realize it’s Wednesday, and this page is a full day late. I was perfectly well set up to get it done yesterday when I got an email that it was time to reapply for my baby’s health insurance. I figured I’d do it and not have to think about it later. Turns out, the application doesn’t save if you log out partway through! It took three attempts, plus another two attempts to upload FOURTEEN proof documents, and two entire hours I was planning on using for drawing and formatting text.

Then the storms hit and my husband almost got stranded at a very important meeting for very important people who did not take the tornado and flood warnings seriously.

We are all okay, the application is done, and here is the page. Now that I’m behind, I’m going to try to get the next page out on Friday, but I may have to cut my losses and bump it to the following Tuesday. I’ll let you know tomorrow.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 43

Lots of long pages coming up, so here’s one. We’re out of the mistlands!

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 42

We’re still in the mistlands for a bit, so have some uncanny flora and fauna!

Because all my readers are unusually smart and perceptive, I’m taking the approach of not using text to explain pretty much any of the worldbuilding. I think the journey of discovery will be a fun challenge for all of us.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 41

This was going to be just one of six or seven panels, but I decided it needed some room. Enjoy a weird landscape as we start this new chapter.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 40

LAST PAGE OF THIS CHAPTER!

This page had seven panels in my outline, and I decided to pare them down–partly to make less work for me, and partly to make the page less busy and have more room for text. There’s actually text on this page!

Bonus art next Tuesday, and then we’ll start the new chapter on Friday.

Warnings for blood, a severed head, and what I would describe as setting-appropriate passive suicidal ideation. Things will improve in the next chapter, I promise.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 39

Listen, we need the man to be miserable so that it will have more weight when things get better.

This four-panel page was a nice gift from my past self to my present self. I have a bunch of pages with seven or so panels coming up.

This is the penultimate page of this chapter. The last one will be up on Friday. On a related note, I’ve now noted the chapters in the Table of Contents on the Stories tab above (under the Menu if you’re on mobile).

Warnings for blood, general misery, and a severed head.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 37

Silhouettes are so dramatic and so much fun. They also save me a ton of time.

Also, did I not put Page 36 where it was supposed to be? I was just going to update the links and it didn’t have an image. You know you’re allowed to tell me if I screw up, right? I promise I won’t be mad.

I researched what blood loss does to a person, and among other things, it’s (obviously) very dehydrating. So that’s what’s going on here. We have three more pages of this chapter, so bear with me.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 36

I’m prepping ramen today (the softboiled eggs need to marinate overnight), so here’s this page really quick. It’s got some blood in it, and is largely depressing, but nothing too bad.

Also I forGOT HIS QUIVER AGAIN LAST PAGE, ARGH

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