Yay! Ophelia’s not a magic fueled undead monstrosity bent on destruction! Whew!
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I’d say I’m sorry for the massive fake out in this page, but I’m not. (I did warn you that I’m a bad person.)
This isn’t quite how Ophelia’s near death played out in the home game, but I wanted to do something that captured that uncertainty, without dragging things out for months on end. Next page, we’ll flash back a bit as Toby fills in Ophelia on what she missed.
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We’re now at the end of the action for the big scene that began almost two years ago. O.o (thanks taking a year off.) You should go all the way back to Chapter 10 and see how it all reads now that you don’t have to wait a week or months between pages.
In other news, I’ve been working on the Savage Worlds setting a lot in the last couple of weeks. I’ve made some major updates to the world map. Take a look:
Our heroes are in Clorencia City, in the heart of the Great Republic of Roumion, in that northeastern continent. Thorton came from Irone, in Orulon, that large southeastern continent. The Mysterious Black Metal Object comes from San Khotal, on the continent of Noriun, and Grandpa found it on the broken remains of Melas, in the center of the map.
And thus ends our geography lesson.
If you haven’t joined the FB group, you should do so asap, as it’s been pretty busy lately.
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Ill be at Archon in Collinsville, IL this weekend. Come say hi! I’ll be running a Clockworks game on Sunday, from 11am to 3pm, and I’m in panels on Friday and Saturday. Because of Archon, next week’s page might be a bit later in the week, but I should be able to finish it between Tuesday and Thursday. I’ll try to get some line art drawn while I’m at the con too.
*happy dance*
She’s alright! Yaaaa!!!
Couldn’t pull the trigger, eh Shawn? GET OUT OF THE WAY, I’LL DO IT MYSELF.
Shouldn’t you be busy killing off your own characters right now?
Who’s got two thumbs and can multi-task? This lady!
Ha!
You’re back! Woop.
…(jaw drop/stare/eye twitch)
This nearly made me fall off my chair.
Did she absorb all the water?
I thought about drawing the water falling down like rain in panel 4, but I kind of like that theory.
AGGH! That really freaked me out! :O And Ophelia sure loves her entrances! :33
Poor Toby – what was going through his mind? “Crap, I’m a gonner!” or “This is gonna be one last ugly fight to save the world!” ?
If there was a thought bubble there, my guess is it would say “Oh crap!”
@ Golux That’s not Toby sitting by Ophelia. He doesn’t look like a hospital orderly either. Yet how could Ophelia’s “body” end up in someone else’s custody?
STAY TUNED cLOCKWORKS FANS FOR THE NEXT EXCITING INSTALLMENT.
Oh yay!!! Yay!
I like the map, but I can’t read it. Could you change the font on it a little bit to make it more legible? If it’s too much trouble, don’t worry about it. Love the comic, btw!
I can mess with it.
So she’s /not/ going to go berserk and kill everyone. Well, that’s good news.
yay!
When Ophelia’s in a ragey mood she looks a little manly or even beastly. Panel 4 looks quite disturbing.
As was intended. Fun experiment: find a friend of yours who’s a very attractive woman, and have her make angry rage faces. She will definitely not look “pretty”.
I probably exaggerated the mouth a bit too much, now that I look at it, but chalk that up to the cartoony nature of the comic.
That’s true but I’m not on the “pretty” issue. It’s just that the forehead is very slant and withdrawn and the mouth (especially the chin) quite exaggerated and that makes her look really beast-like. It’s not that she’s ugly in that panel, it’s just somewhat beastly, dehumanized (and I don’t mean it’s bad. It’s a good reminder that she’s not a normal human. She’s “a mage and therefore insane and evil”
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And that gives me a hint that I would never ever want to upset her (besides the ice blasts and other witchcraft)
No worries. Apologies if I was overly pedantic or defensive or what have you.
But yeah, magic is scary stuff.
No probs
Damn, and now I’m quite sure that there’s only one woman in this comic that isn’t scary (and I mean Brigitte from strip 0110, of course not Eva) ;P
What about Toby’s mom? She’s nice! :33
Eva’s pretty cool too, I’d say.
Mwuahaha….
Nice page!
Also I really like the map, looks spiffy.
Danke! It looks much more like a real place than the earlier versions, but with enough interest and mystery that the map alone I think will spark some ideas for people..
Sorry, offtopic. I just found this comic few weeks ago. I really like it. I’m just currently a bit frustrated because I have no idea how often I should expect updates? Couldn’t find the info from site.
Right now usually once a week, typically on Tuesdays. Your best bet is to subscribe to the RSS feed or become a fan of the comic on FB or follow me on Twitter.