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I've posted this before, but realized I never really put it anywhere static other than here, so I thought why not for next week! This was made back in 2023 off the heels of a very long graphic novel freelance gig, where I realized I wanted to try my hand at writing my own comic. I always had issues with abandoning projects because I ended up making the scope too big, so I forced myself to do something no dialogue and constrain it to 8 pages. This ended up helping me with figuring out my process, as well as explore some concepts I've been sitting on (as you can see, I ended up using bits of this comic in Dust n' Dread proper).

This was made before Dust n' Dread even had a name or premise, but this definitely was what got the ball rolling to building enough confidence to start actually sitting down and writing Dust n' Dread into the comic it is now.

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Cúán Ó Meachair

interesting that you showed a lot more initially of his hallucinations than we see early on in the proper comic. when you have a cool idea for a visual, it can be tempting to show it all straight away I suppose

Zetta

I adore all of this. Especially the body at the end. ❤️

Kieu

Yeah this was more of an experiment since I didn't even think about making a true webcomic at this time (if you notice I didn't even have dialogue since I wasn't confident enough at that time). I wanted to circle back to the ideas I had in this comic since I finally felt I had the skill set to do the ideas justice. Also doing this right away without establishing the characters just didn't feel right to me lol

Cúán Ó Meachair

True, but at the end of the day this scene is better without dialogue. Maybe just a little to pepper it...

Kieu

Oh yeah for sure, this works a lot better as a wordless piece! Holt definitely was not a real character at this point though haha