Week 197! (Patreon)

Ugh, this month's been a nightmare in terms of things happening and coming up in terms of medical, financial, and other sorts of issues. Work flow has really taken a turn for the worst since May started, so I'm forced to give you a messy sketch version of the next page here for now and apologize that the final version'll be late again.

I will say it's kind of nice to realize after years that I can at the very least give you guys an incomplete version of the comic that's still readable rather than just let it languish and linger without any sort of preview or update at all. It's something at least.

Also while this is here in sketch form, I wanted to note that for most of my comic-making career over the years, I would do the corner-cutting method of copy/pasting very similar panels/poses between panels, changing whatever little things needed to be changed like expressions and mouths and eyes and such but leaving most of the lineart intact. I kind of realized at some point though that this doesn't actually save THAT much time in the long run, and I've always kind of thought it was lazy or noticeable or something, so since this arc started I've actually been totally redrawing the characters in "repeat" panels, like the last two panels on page 408 for example. I don't think it's a noticeable change (I barely notice after the fact), but it makes me feel better about myself slightly, even though I still don't redraw the backgrounds and still copy/paste for the sketches (which is what I did here and why I've mentioned all this :B ).