#149 “Family”
And so, Chapter 3 comes to a close… and the real story begins!
Here’s a major ‘Thank you!’ to everybody for following along with the little one-man show I’ve been putting on these past 3 years, I can’t imagine I would have ever gotten this far into this project without your support and love along the way! I do it for you guys!
That being said, I have to tell you all that I am going to take a break from the comic for a little while. Now, don’t worry! I’m not going on indefinite hiatus or anything like that, I simply need a bit of a vacation to refresh myself. As you are probably aware, the schedule has been rather tenuous at best lately, and I feel I am creatively fatigued, and lately physically so.
Last week, due to whatever circumstance, my drawing hand/wrist was causing me problems (tiredness, numbness), perhaps due to over-exertion at both my day job (factory work) and working on the comic too. It lasted nearly a week, however, today everything seems to be okay again. *phew* I’ll be monitoring the situation in the meantime, and acting accordingly.
Over the break, I will not be gone away. I’ll be working a bit behind the scenes, planning and scripting, and, yes, even building up a buffer without the pressure of a time constraint. Perhaps I’ll do a bit of work on the site itself, so stay tuned for the next update. If you have any questions, go ahead and ask! I read everything in the comment section.
I expect to be away at least one (1) month or so, though I shall judge how I feel at the time.
See you soon!
Stay tuned!
I have read your comic all the evening along and I have reached one conclusion: I love both Shadow and you, Brandon. For real, this comic really touched my heart and so it will on next posts… Thank you very much for bringing us such piece of art!
and thank YOU for reading it!
Wow… How did this spike up to the top 3 even with no new chapters last week? I’ve never even seen it in the top 20 before.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, so they say!
a new vote incentive might pump the numbers a little too…just sayin’ 😉
When supply drops, demand goes up.
Hey, I’m reading a fanfic that puts up a new chapter maybe once every 6 months. If I can wait for that, I have the patience for a hiatus.
Then of course there’s those of us waiting for the next update on some mangas. Its been years for a couple.
Like the waits for berserk chapters
My sketchbook app just released all futures free time for me to experiment AND A FILL BUCKET!!!! maybe start another fan art
Fok ye mate thats some good stuff send me a pic imma slap my chair with my dog bye
What did I just read?
I believe it’s called “word salad”, but don’t spend any effort trying to puzzle it out.
There’ s no rational content other than an existential plea for (unjustified) recognition.
its a Scottish people
Hmm not going to try a figure this out
There’s another possibility, that it’s a spammer’s ‘bot, stringing random words together from a cutom dictionary that has fake language words randomly interspersed. Trying to phish your URL if you’re tricked into “send me a pic”.
I feel bad for you the site sends you an email every time some posts a comment on the Sita like with this comment. Bye the way people yes that is a part of why he reads every comment.
The alerts mostly get routed into a specific spam folder, so I’m not getting bombarded with notifications. I do check the site at least once a night, usually I check a few times though, periodically.
Wow didn’t know how this sites message system work. I have made a site once myself but it was a texted book site from computer class
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….how do they not notice her ears and tail? did i miss something?
They notice, but body differences (ears, tail, eyes, skin colour) don’t matter.
It’s called acceptance.
Damn. Putting it bluntly are we? Can’t decide if it was half “in your face” or just 100% explanation.
Yes.
That’s good.
Hehehe. Uncertainty is always SO intriguing, innit?
Fun fact today is demon girl appreciation day may 4th😂
May the 4th be with you!
Also fun fact today is starwars day May the 4th be with you…I wanna die after that joke my god
Ssshhh! Be careful. Harrison Ford still has his whip.
i’m fine with that so long as he doesn’t need to use it, i’m not sure i could survive another crystal skull.
Comment gold is right here 😂
You had me worried there. I thought that I had missed Piccolo Day. Turns out it’s today. I’m just on time.
Brandon have you ever watched FLCL? and fo you have any ideas about the sequel coming up?
I’ve watched…. hmm…. a bit of it. I stopped for whatever reason and never picked it up again, even though it seemed interesting. Perhaps the sequel will be the thing that jump starts that.
well its only 6 episodes so if you are interested in watching the new series i would suggest watching the orginal one. Im only suggesting that because it’s a confusing ass show lol.
Why would Brandon want to watch something confusing?
Cuz its a great show.
I was wondering, have you ever thought of trying to make your comic 3D? I’m not complaining or anything like that, just wondering. I really enjoy your comic.
3D why would I do that?
I feel like 3d would take a different skillset and would end up looking much worse than doing it the way it is currently done.
Hey Mr Brandon! Been a month since I commented. Hope your April has been good to you. You must have seen infinity Wars. How’s your hand doing? Can’t wait for you to come back.
I think it’s a little funny that known as figure it out that shadow is not in disguise. She is clearly wearing her Aegis out in the open and camaras take the pictures of the current form. You can clearly see the camera frame. And it’s implied that they’ve been on some Adventures that shadow has chosen to stay with them.
Cant wait for the REAL fun to begin as you put it. It’ been 3 years. Here’s to 3 more.
I think it’s a little funny*
I think it’s a little funny no one has figured out… *
can we expect a new comic next week or the one after that? Also how is your wrist/hand doing?
I notice that, at no time, does Shadow wear makeup. No lipstick, no eyeshadow.
I like that in a bed monster.
Ruth wears both.
No makeup? Then how do you explain her skin color? Plus her hair is pretty obviously dyed, which in my christian neighborhood is even worse than makeup!
Are you suggesting that Shadow’s skin colour is artificially applied?
That every morning she has to coat herself with dark blue mud, rub it in and then apply darker freckles on the shoulders? With a paintbrush?
I suspect that would mean LOTS of laundry of bed sheets, probably every morning.
So no, I see Shadow’s skin colour like yours and mine, the result of a greater or lesser concentration of melanin (or similar) in skin cells, probably photo-sensitive originally, with genetic variations (see “Red”, Gloom or Sunshine as examples). Similarly, her hair colour can be genetically determined.
I see similar striking hair colour variations in dark-skinned humans in remote and isolated communities where hair dye isn’t available at all. What is your evidence for “obviously”?
As far as your misfortune in your neighbourhood, I recommend you relocate before those bigoted and poisonous attitudes become entrenched.
I’m pretty sure the comment you’re replying to was satire. “In my Christian neighborhood” kinda gave it away for me.
I’m viewing the world from OUTSIDE the USA with a different mindset, so the introduction of a “Christian” worldview (neighbourhood) as a justification of (any of) stupidity, bigotry, aggression, situational lack of awareness is unfortunately merely objective reporting and should be countered wherever it apears.
In short, I don’t see any satire, just real life.
Perhaps I need the satire explained to me, but that just means that it’s missed its target, unless of course, that satire was intended to be intelligible only to a USAnian audience, not an international one.