First off: I’m still crusading for CYS and Adis’ comic running in Zuda. So go and vote for My T-Shirt Fairy Tale. I’d love to see him win, regardless of the rewards he might bestow upon me >_>

I’m being serious, actually, but it’s not like I’ll turn him away.

On a comic note,  I think that I finally found a way of doing the comic that really fits the way I’ve been managing my comic and my time. I was done a few hours early today and I plan on getting an early start on Tuesday’s comic tommorrow night after my weekly session of hanging out with my friends. Basically I’m using a little large paper that’s scaled to fit my current size constraings (10×15).

Then I scan the comic and ink it digitally. Which isn’t too differnt than past techniques, but the last two or three comics have been done totally digitally…Which I’m really not that fond of. But on top of that I’m back to doing something I feel goes a long way to making the comic better…I’m doing two pre-steps before the inking.

See…I used to draw a really crappy ‘script’ then a good ‘blue’ version. But at the start of Book Two I decided to try something: I stopped drawing the ‘blue’ and inked directly off ‘script’. This resulted in me taking more time on the script and less time on actually getting ahead in scripts.

Now I have a real, TEXT, script that’s letting me get ahead. And the blue step can take as much time as I actually need…

It’s working well and I’m hoping to start getting ahead again.

Anyhow, on a cutier note…My Puppy (Eliea) got her first hair cut today! And she looks adorable…

Yes. I have the cutest puppy ever. It’s OK. You can all admit it. Enjoy the pics.

And enjoy the comic.

-Peace

First I should mention that one of the only reasons I opted to handle this story arc the way I have is due to this picture. I suddenly saw Tom riding on Fluffles and I knew that it had to happen. Though originally I saw him riding to every one’s rescue…but he still is in a way.

Aside from that, the reason I thought I would be late today was this:

Today was the day I finally brought my little puppy over to my Grandma’s house (where I’m house sitting for the summer). I had left her over at my mom’s until I got settled, and today I really didn’t want to leave her alone as I worked on the comic, so I tried to use my laptop in the kitchen (where’s she staying for the foreseeable future)…which usually slows down the process a bit. But I still worked it out.

Yes, those are my big, meaty hands holding her. But don’t worry, she’s made of fluff. Fluff and adorable.

She’s eight or something weeks old (I know, vague, sorry, haha) and is from the litter my mom’s newest dog had. We found her and made the mistake of leaving her near the male dog.

Her name is Eliea and she’s half Poodle and Half what-ever-the-hell-kind-of-terrier her mom is.

So I spent most of the day sitting with her and trying to explain to her that you use the outside if you need to piss.

She kind of gets it…She still likes to sniff around. Heh.

Anyhow, enjoy this last picture, then I’m off.

(What choo looking at?!)

heh…

-Peace

I’m also fairly sure that someone, SOMEWHERE will find this offensive (Either the ‘Atheist with a backup plan’ or the ‘On the rag’ comment) but to circumvent any complaints let me just say this:
(Holy crap I have smilies, woah)

Heh Heh…

Seriously though, it’s nice to show Zog and Mog being…well…brothers…It’s funny, everyone knows they’re brothers, but they never really act like it (Other than the odds or end occasion) but this is a good view of their life together. Snarky, but not totally mean to each other.

This is also a good chance to show a little more of the ‘religious’ aspect of the Universe. I’ve kind of talked about it before, but now strikes me as a better time than ever to talk about it…I haven’t really decided how to introduce more of that aspect yet…Maybe a little more on it later in the chapter (after the agents reassemble).

I don’t know.

But basically ‘The book of Guardians’ is a kind of galacitc bible…It takes a lot of different planet’s religious text and uses a few common threads to combine certain aspects of each one into a single religious text. However each planet has several different religious text (just like ours does).

Guardianism (as they call it) is a newer belief system and is much more ‘modernized’ than many others. Zog is actually Gurdianistic (as are their parents) where as Mog is Etheriest, which is a more traditional religion from Zargonian. Technically Ehteriest is polytheistic (many gods) but it focuses on the single Zargonian God, Etherio, who is the God of Free Thought. According to the Book of Guardians Etherio is actually another form of the god Kayooshen.

Though most Etheriests disagree (for obvious reasons).

For everyone who actually reads this little blog and went “Oh @#$%…does he expect us to remember all that?!” my answer is “No, how big of an asshole would that make me?!”. Like a lot of things in this comic it can be summed up by saying ‘There’s a lot of lore out there, and you only need to know a few things”.

Just keep in mind that there’s more than on religion and more than one system of belief in the wide Universe…and also keep in mind that just because two characters pray to the same God (Jenny and Adjana both pray to Ariea) doesn’t mean they’re from the same Religion (Jenny is Arieast and Adjana is Eliast).

See the crap you learn when you read the blog?

Seriously though, just sit back and enjoy. The lore of the PKF is going to come fast, hard, and (hopefully) well explained from here on out.

-Peace