Tag: Last Watch Before Dawn

Last Watch Before Dawn resumes next week

Managed to get one (1) panel (of seven) done today, so I’ll finish up this page over the weekend and post it on Tuesday. We should be back on our regular Tuesday/Friday schedule after that, possibly with one disruption for May Day solidarity? Thanks so much for your patience.

I know, I really should have more of a backlog, and it’s really not recommended to go into a serialized project like a webcomic without most of it done already. I have already written three books by staying minutes ahead of my posting schedule, so don’t worry, there’s no reason to believe that I’ll leave the comic unfinished.

See you again soon!

Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 43

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 38

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If the thumbnail doesn’t give it away, this page is gruesome. Approach at your own discretion.

Two more pages in this chapter! By this time next week, I will be done torturing Ichiro (for now. Both my husband and a reader have recently pointed out that I put my protagonists through the wringer).

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 37

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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 35

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I ended up taking a panel out, so this page was only six panels.

I’m not super happy with the rendering of the fire. It was too dark without the yellow, but looks a little too technicolor with it. Maybe I should have just stuck with regular orange and yellow?

Fire, dead things, and an unhappy protagonist below. This chapter will continue for five more pages, and then things will be less unhappy.

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Last Watch Before Dawn: Volume 1, Page 34

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Important safety lesson: leave the object of a puncture wound inside the wound until you can get to a surgeon. The object is holding all your blood in.

Eight panels in one page is far too many, but past me (who planned out this page) is a scoundrel and a villain. I cross-hatched as fast as I could.

As expected, there’s some blood in this one. You can find the whole thing below the cut:

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