Man. That took a while!
I’ll ramble more, but I don’t want to delay this page any more. Blog post update in a few.
EDIT:
So the idea here was to do the comic equivalent of those scenes in kung fu movies where you just have two really good fighters and just leave the camera on them for one long shot and watch them go to town. Now, I have the advantage here that I don’t have to train kung fu masters. I have the disadvantage that man, 9 panels is a ton of stuff to draw. Even though it’s only two characters, this one took forever. (Especially for something that takes 10 seconds to read.)
At some point I really need to start drawing less ambitious pages, just a couple of characters sitting around chilling for like 5 panels. That’s not going to happen soon though. I have a feeling it’s all crazy complicated stuff from here until the Lukov fight is over. (My guess for that by the way is another 8 pages maybe?)
As for Oliver, we’ll get back to him on Friday. See you then!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! OLIVER!!!!!!
I second the above and also – great action page!
…relieved to see the hat wasn’t injured
Excellent fight scene; well worth the effort! (He says, not having been the one to have to draw it all.)
Ha!
Thanks.
yah +1 to that,
I love story told in pictures pages in comics, and this one is proper fine!
Perfectly got the kung-fu flick vibe too.
Or maybe not.
(breath) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Wait, can we see his face? What? WHAT?
Where’d he get those knives? Is there some crazy ninja store down the block?
WHAT?
(Bawl)
If he dies, I think my head may explode. Which is worrisome.
WHAT?
No! Oliver!!!! Wah! you’re way too cool to get stabbed in the back! (/Oliver fangirl faints.)
DAMN YOU, SALVARO!!!!!
Wow. My avatar sucks for the intensity I was feeling with that comment.
That is zee problem with happy avatars: They rarely match your actual sentiments.
Comment:”OH MY GODS, TOBY’S ACTUALLY A MUTANT!”
Avatar: Rainbow Dash
Yeah…
Darn my happy avatar! >:C
Heh!
Wait, I just remembered something I thought of earlier.
If Ophelia used her magic to shred McBrickface, and then to heal Eva, does that…does that leave enough to heal Oliver?…
…Oh dear…
She’s running low, but she’s not out just yet.
Phew! Let’s hope no one else gets skewered…or bashed…or burned…or shot…or….
Glad to see you back! Great fight scene…kinda tough on Oliver though.
Man, the cruel author in me is loving all of the Oliver squeals. It is true, all authors (and comic artists) are evil.
Ha! Yes, I can attest to that. I haven’t even finished writing the thing and I feel like a Chessmaster… “take a bunch of well-rounded, likable characters and put them through hell.”
<.< Yeaaaahh…heh, evil.
Someone pass him the band-aids!!! D:<
P.S.- Wonderful page!~ <3
It’s kinda nice seeing the reactions to what’s going on
It was some pretty intense dice rolling!
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Whoa. Okay, clearly I have lost contact with which email goes with which avatar. This is still your Nicole!
Spooooky.
I have like four of them…easy to lose track!
10 seconds? It took me a lot longer than that to savour this page. Though much time was spent trying to understand the first panel: They’re both standing still and aiming guns at each other, but no one is pulling the trigger. Sure, Oliver pulls the trigger in the next panel, but in the first panel it really doesn’t look like the guy with two pistols should be able to move that much before Oliver can pull that trigger. I guess that’s turn based combat for you.
In panel 1 they’re both doing the standoff thing where they both pause for a moment before the bullets fly. If you want to bust out some rules, they’d both be on hold, getting ready to make contested Agility checks to interrupt each other. The idea in Panel 2 was to capture how in Savage Worlds it’s much harder to shoot a well trained, agile opponent up close than it is when you’re not in melee range.
One of the fun things about comics is Panel 1 lasts as long as you, the reader, thinks it does. It could be a split second shot just to frame the action, or it could be a Dragonball Z esque pause that lasts for like a minute and a half, or anywhere in between. The choice is yours.
Did Salvaro get a penalty for losing his glasses? Or were those just for the cool of it?
They gave him a +2 to looking awesome.
Hahaha! Indeed, they did.
Seriously, how do you never miss an opportunity to make a D&D joke? I don’t even
Unnnnhhhhhh how cool is this page.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo