About time!
It's finally happening! And by that, I obviously mean experimenting a bit with Lucy's hair, because I have so much difficulty with showing her face in the past.
But also, yes, the double date with Rhoda and Catalina.
A...
2024-03-19 03:03:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Nanase and Her Fox Conclusion!
The inevitable consequence of good people working around a magic system that, whether intentionally or not, encourages selfish spells.
Which I wish I could say was the plan way back when I first came up with the magic system, but my main goal then was just to have spells be individualized, and to do character stuff with it. It...
2024-03-05 05:21:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Desired Spells
Of course Ashley has cat ears again. Nanase just got done telling her to indulge.
"Want" as a word is a bit confusing at times, and the simplest example is anything anyone does for their own good that they don't enjoy doing. They "want" to do it, because it's good for them, but they DON'T "want" to do it, because they don't l...
2024-03-02 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Self awareness.
The Freshman fifteen refers to students in their first year of college gaining 15 lbs (6.8 kg) for various reasons. It was joked about enough for even me to be aware of it when I was in college.
I have NO idea if it's remained commonly joked about thing, or what all countries it's joked about in (is it the freshmen 15 kg, or 33 lbs., in Euro...
2024-02-29 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Maybe whoops?
It's probably fine?
That thing about vision going out of focus is based on my own frustrations with textbooks.
I don't want to be too harsh on textbook writers. Textbooks, and modern teaching institutions, are relatively new in the grand scheme of things. Even now, we're still sorting out the best ways to teach people, and how it might n...
2024-02-27 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJay… And GRACE!
Poll ends with the month of February, can vote for more than one (might not work in the app, but should in a browser).
Learning!
Right! Time to convey everything there is to know about motivation, learning, and gamification!
"You have the top two-thirds of one panel to set up catgirl Ashley batting at a fluffy ball."
Time to very briefly touch on the fact that play can be useful to learning!
I wanted to give wizard cat Ashley a wizardly hat, but there was alread...
2024-02-24 06:45:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Selective focus.
Seriously, don't bring a pony to a candy-pizza-video game store.
That's just irresponsible.
"BEHOLD! The super fun corner that contains everything you've ever dreamed of! Don't think about it, though. You need to sit in the opposite corner and focus on responsible, altruistic things. Yes, the super fun corner will be in full view at a...
2024-02-22 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Failing to be a paladin.
Next time: Sense talking!
This time: Holding one's self to way too high a standard!
While I'm probably going to experiment with Nanase's hairstyle in the future, I'm happy with how she looks in the second panel. I'm also happy with her grumpy grump face of grumpiness.
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More comics at 2024-02-20 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Theory! Er, Hypothesis!
- "People are perceived through magic," The Will of Magic
I didn't set out to write a "Tedd is rambling" comic. The "magic seems geared towards selfish spells" was simply a point I couldn't fit in the previous comic, and panel two is close to what natu...
2024-02-17 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
What one truly wants...
I didn't intend to make a magic system that judges you, but I might have made a magic system that judges you.
If a video game were made that was inspired by this magic system, I would imagine it being one of two things.
Option A - A game in which, mostly, you intuitively obtain new skills based on your actions ...
2024-02-15 04:10:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Proper Supervision.
One might assume there's not much instruction needed on how to use the spells for exercise, and that might be true. It's an amount greater than zero, however, and plenty of people who try to use simple exercise machines without instructions in real life make potentially harmful mistakes.
One of the best ways to avoid that is to not only ...
2024-02-13 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Possibilities!
I actually considered this as a joke in the previous comic, but thought "NO! By golly, Tedd is considering actual, serious uses for helping out his friends, and that is not where their head would go in that moment!"
But then I realized it could still go there, so here we are.
"So... What about Tedd imagining Elliot in undersized clothes...
2024-02-10 05:43:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Terrible Magic for Sale!
Tedd is so hyped to learn some intentionally lackluster magic.
If I had infinite time, power, and a skateboard, I would redraw Elliot so the hand holding the drumstick wasn't overlapping with his torso. It makes his torso look weird to me.
That said, I like first panel Tedd and Grace in this comic, and I love Sarah and last pa...
2024-02-08 05:05:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Magic goals.
I feel like panel one has mostly been established already (as in "it's like exercise"), and panel three is something people could safely assume, but I also feel this comic would have been incomplete without those details.
That, and I feel Kevin would have have naturally said "close to," and Nanase would have naturally asked about it. It's IN CH...
2024-02-06 04:02:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Right in the ego.
OW MY PRIDE
I didn't go into this storyline thinking it needed to have any significant character development. I was just thinking "I want to address Nanase's clone form and trading. That could be fun."
Nonetheless, I was thrilled when this development occurred to me.
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More comics at 2024-02-03 04:27:44 +0000 UTC View Post
"Girl, do you even lift?"
- At egscomics
That moment when the storyboard artist goes rogue and adds physical comedy nonsense.
I was tempted to just casually establish that Kevin can shrink people by bonking them on the head, but that felt like overcomplicating things.
Not that I'm saying he definitely can't do that. Maybe he can? It just would've derailed this comi...
2024-02-01 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Goals!
Firstly, thank you very much for your patience, and words of support, while I wasn't feeling well.
It means a lot to me that I can take time off when needed while receiving encouragement, and without facing torches and pitchforks.
KEVIN!
"It is strange that Kevin, proud teacher of magic, would boop a student's nose."
<... 2024-01-30 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFelix and Kitty! (image included for reference because 2017)
Kitty is in the hoodie, Felix is the maid. (Incidentally, Kitty's "tail" visible in panel three is part of the hoodie, and that hood totally has cat ears.)
Can vote for more than one (though might not work in the app). Poll ends midday February 1st.
2024-01-29 17:53:30 +0000 UTC View PostAny particular characters / forms people are interested in?
Specifically those two things. I’ll come up with a scenrio / options.
2024-01-27 18:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostI'm taking sick leave until further notice, and won't be posting new comics.
Naturally, I don't know for how long, but ALSO naturally, I hope to get well soon.
Unless I'm feeling better tomorrow morning, soonest new comic is likely Tuesday.
2024-01-25 20:36:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Suddenly RPG?!
And yes.
The text going off-panel in panel two is intentional.
As mentioned in the main comic section around this time, I resolved an issue I've been having with my drawing tablet that effectively made it so randomly interfered with my inking to the point that it was affecting my entire inking style. The seeming randomness of it made it...
2024-01-25 09:56:21 +0000 UTC View Post
PHILOSOPHY!
This comic was a late thought I had, and I think it's an interesting question, so now this comic exists.
By the logic of how trades are supposed to work in the comic's canon, I think the answer would be "Age" (Nanase gets younger) were it possible. I ALSO think, however, that it wouldn't be a valid trade in the first place.
Of course, this...
2024-01-23 07:01:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Nanase doesn't get twice the salary by summoning Fox, but the tips are quite generous!
Which may or may not have something to do with why Nanase chose to make this specific trade when summoning Fox? It's a mystery.
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I hadn't planned for Nanase and Fox to be working at a café. I had originally just planned for them to be wearing an outfit I'd sketched, and for Nanase to find the situation a bit awkward while possibly posing for Ellen?
But then it came time to ...
2024-01-21 06:39:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Bartering!
Because OF COURSE Ashley's mind also goes there.
Now, one might assume Fox is only smiling because she's being imagined, and that REAL Fox would be mimicking Nanase's mood. HOWEVER! It's been established that Fox smiles if she's doing a task she was assigned as part of her summoning!
What exactly that task would be in this situation, I'm no...
2024-01-20 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Can't let anyone be off-panel, can you.
This is important to the plot because I wanted Ashley to do this.
And now she has.
HOORAY!
I considered whether Ashley would JUST be taller, and decided "mostly yes." Her hair is longer because reasons (those reasons being that I thought it would suit the taller height).
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More comics at <...
2024-01-18 04:41:34 +0000 UTC View PostThis would mean Amanda and Lisa answering your questions.
Part of why I'm considering this is that it seemed like I was getting a lot of technical questions about magic and such.
There's things I might want to address in-comic, and establish, without dragging down canon stories with exposition, and being free to make whatever jokes come to mind.
Basically, if there are enough questions I can actually answer (meaning no story spoilers), then I will do the Q&A.
If yo...
2024-01-16 18:18:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Results may vary.
I like how muscular Tedd turned out in this comic, but I'm less keen on extra bulky Elliot. Elliot with a LITTLE extra muscle can look pretty natural and good, but in this comic, I wanted enough extra muscle for him to look big even without a normal-sized Elliot for comparison. I consider the result a bit much.
I'm not saying I messed up, ...
2024-01-16 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
They're doing WHAT
I mostly wanted Kevin to say "gadzooks," but the more I considered my magic system... Yeah.
People being able to mimic others wouldn't necessarily be some rare thing.
Some people would be able to do it better than others, and it's not really an argument that renders the dangers of having clone forms lying around a moot point, but it...
2024-01-13 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Chocolate and peanut butter
She likes the form.
Worth noting is that Nanase is shorter than Tedd right now, so in that last panel, she's either floating, or standing on her toes. Take your pick.
Elaborate details!
I received questions about the narration at the end of the previous comic. My reply:
To me, elaborate in-comic...
2024-01-11 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post