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Radical Judicial Activism

May03
by General Tekno on May 3, 2022 at 12:36 am
Chapter: Its Own Reward
Characters: Captain Freedom, Judge Fivebee, Sarah

Oh hey, another overly delayed comic.

Turns out that some of the stuff in this strip takes longer to draw than I thought it would. Never mind I keep having a hard time getting into a proper comic drawing zone of late. Which is partly why I’ve not played much Legends Arceus in AGES – it’s very much become the “I’ll play this once I’m done my comic work” game, followed by me not actually getting any comic work done, so I don’t get to play Legends Arceus.

There may be a slowdown in the next couple weeks too given I’m starting to hit convention prep season, and have some other things I need to work on. Will see where I’m at I suppose given this storyarc is just about done.

But hey, moving on to more interesting liner notes that aren’t excuses, this is indeed a specific reference to the entire “wow it went on way longer than I thought it would” trial arc pre-timeskip. And yes, that last panel reveal was 100% my entire intention way back when I originally started that arc (over a decade ago. Geezus). At the time, I had some news story on my mind I’d read about with someone being prosecuted over (unspecified) depictions of children in his manga collection, so my brain then went to “okay, what innocuous manga would technically count if we were liberally applying this standards?” Pretty sure there was another one I had on my mind too, but I can’t for the life of me remember which series that was.

Once I boxed myself into this current narrative box, mind, the fact I do pay attention to US news more or less helped feed the hyperbolic direction stuff would take. (I mean, god, just look at this evening’s news leak re: abortion in the US. WTF.)

To end this post on a lighter note, though – Dragonball’s been a favorite series of mine going back to when I started reading the manga at the public library. The anime never drew me in as a kid, but once I got a little older the manga definitely did – especially the lighter adventure fare of the original volumes. But clearly somebody enjoyed it more – one day, on a reread of Vol 1, I noticed that someone had actually taken scissors to some of the more risque panels. (Which would also technically count as iffy, given they depict a teenaged Bulma.)

Also yeah panel 5 is totally inspired by All Might considering that I keep doing Chris Sabat “AHAHA I AM HERE!” exclamations out loud when writing/drawing Captain Freedom.

└ Tags: absurd justice, all might, courthouse, phoenix wright, trial

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Update delay

Mar18
by General Tekno on March 18, 2022 at 1:21 am
Posted In: Teknobabble

yeah, new comic is delayed on account of “not 100% sure what direction I’m taking yet narratively”

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Next comic status update: still a-drawing it

Feb04
by General Tekno on February 4, 2022 at 1:46 am
Posted In: Teknobabble

Yeah. Still a bunch of work to do on this one. Largely because a) it took me a bit to crack the direction b) longer panel count
If it’s done in the next 24 hours, it’ll be a “technically still Friday” release. If not it’ll go up Tuesday and I’ll scramble to get a Friday strip up too that week. And somehow find time for Legends Arceus too, ideally.

I need to take some time to throw together a “next expected update” widget…

└ Tags: running late
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And we’re already running late

Jan11
by General Tekno on January 11, 2022 at 2:15 am
Posted In: Teknobabble

Turns out that when you go “hmmm; if I clip the original ending for this strip I can probably still time and it’ll still work fine”, sometimes you then finish the art, take another look, and go “well crud, this DOES need another panel or two after all.”

Anyway hopefully I can wrap this tomorrow (today) once I’m done work and meal prep; working with Clip Studio for drawing comics is definitely still in the teething stages of “nailing down my workflow/rebuilding all my reference assets from scratch/figuring out how long it takes to make one of these things.” Some definite pluses though over my old process of drawing it all in Flash; I’m in love with the results so far.

Importantly though I’m making content again and having fun doing so, so there’s that!

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