We’re here again, the end of one thing and the start of something new! Thank you guys for being here with me. I’ve said it many times before, but now of all times, it’s best to reiterate. This story would simply not exist if not for your patronage. I am deeply appreciative that you’ve opted to invest in both me as a creator and Oren’s Forge as the outcome!
What’s next?
Immediately next will be an epilogue. It’ll sh...
2024-05-13 21:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Quick work-in-progress post before the end of the month!
2024-04-30 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Ah, I’m sorry— I know last time I said there’d be a page this week but I realized over the weekend, with five Mondays in April, this was the best place to take a week off. There’s a scene break leading into the finale on the next page so it works out well.
In the meanwhile! I’m starting to ramp up preparations for a KickStarter to fund printing of Volume Two. With that in mind, I’ve been working on the cover. I had a couple variation sketches I ruminated on for a few months ...
2024-04-08 21:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Happy April Fool's Day! ;]
Real page out tomorrow.
[Click Here to Start Volume Two: Incursion from the beginning!]
2024-04-01 20:59:43 +0000 UTC
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Something different!
In the course of writing what will become Volume Three, it’s clear to me Ramble will play a role.
His design is super plain from the back and I’d like to differentiate him a bit for the future. (I’ll also go back and change his markings in prior pages, at least those in Vol 2 since Vol 1 is already in print and he doesn’t feature much.)
I figured this was a no-brainer to involve everyone here, though if you actually pick #1, I'm gonna roll a D4 f...
2024-03-19 21:59:59 +0000 UTC
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One of the story beats I knew would be in Volume Two (even while I was still finishing the first) was that Hemlock would be the one to kill Seral. The scene was really clear in my mind and didn't need substantive or difficult (to write) dialogue, so I left it largely untouched in my script. For years, it just read:
(I find it obliquely funny, maybe you will too.)
Anyhow, ...
2024-02-17 21:00:05 +0000 UTC
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New page out next Monday!
[Click Here to Start Volume Two: Incursion from the beginning!]
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I didn’t expect to feel quite the way I did drawing Seral’s death. While I was working on this page, I kept thinking of the spring in 2015 when I was house-sitting for my mom. I was intent to use that time to revive an idea I’d 2024-02-05 22:00:04 +0000 UTC
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I had a hard time trying to lay out plans for the upcoming year/months. I’ve been feeling a bit of decision paralysis about a few things, so I’m going to keep it broad strokes for now.
While not the ultimate end of the comic as a whole, we’re nearing the finale of this chapter, which will wrap up early spring. I’d love to see this one get a hard cover run, so once it’s finished, I’ll start a KickStarter to see if we can make it happen!
Until then, for the next few mont...
2024-01-30 18:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Quick breakdown of a panel from PG 302!
I think sometimes (especially in the inks) you can really tell Don Bluth's work was my first major style/art inspiration. (That and game manuals-- This will definitely date me, but as a kid I traced the Jaguar boss from the Sega Pitfall manual a million times.)
2024-01-19 20:00:06 +0000 UTC
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300 pages— wow. Thank you to everyone for being here and making that possible! The later half of this year had its challenges for me but I am forever grateful for the opportunity and the time to work on this story and share it with you guys.
No page next week— with five Monday’s in January, the first seemed like a good one to take off. I will post a road map for next year, though, and touch on my plans for printing this next volume.
I hope you all have a fanta...
2023-12-25 22:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Some work-in-progress shots of the third panel on page 297. I was pretty happy how the panel turned out over all and I wanted to share it without the text!
[You may wonder— why bother with a full background when I know text bubbles are going to cover it? It’s pretty straightforward, really— if I wanted to change text (or if it was localized into another language) the bubble siz...
2023-12-08 20:00:06 +0000 UTC
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New page out next Monday!
[Click Here to Start Volume Two: Incursion from the beginning!]
Small note about the layout:
I made a deliberate decision to ‘jump the line’ here from the previous page/last panel— I wanted to embody the idea of a snap cut to Swift whipping her head to look at Scree. It also serves to reframe the scene, pivoting from “okay, we dealt with one probl...
2023-12-04 22:00:04 +0000 UTC
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