I've decided to hold off on posting further Super Puppy comics for the time being. I only have 3 Patrons at the moment, and while I expect there to be more some day, I don't particularly care for how older posts are achieved or made viewable on Patreon, so I don't want to just go ahead and post all 120 issues (some 400-...
2019-01-21 20:07:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I went through several versions of the dialogue for this one... Hopefully the one I finally settled on is good enough.
Anyway, yay, more practice with backgrounds!
2019-01-21 19:48:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Maybe I drew this part out too long, maybe not. I dunno. Oh well. As much as I love the back and forth between Max and Kiva, the story must move on!
2019-01-14 19:34:26 +0000 UTC View Post
So it turns out Max was going to have a part in the larger conflict all along. It's almost as if I know what I'm doing. Almost.
Max is SUPPOSED to be adorable. However, I'm not yet consistent enough as an artist to draw him that well, so he often skirts the line between adorable and creepy. You r...
2019-01-07 17:40:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh Max... this character is so much fun. Originally I imagined Max as the ultra annoying next door neighbor that Kiva was just using for his own gains, but as I kept writing and as I rewrote the story for the second draft, they became quirky best friends.
He's particularly fun for me to write because his entire pe...
2018-12-31 18:26:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Kiva finds himself in the middle of what I have started calling a "Maxnado."
Merry Christmas everyone, hopefully I'll see you all next year as I continue this crazy, crazy thing I've started!
2018-12-24 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We haven't met this character yet in the comic, but it's one I'm really excited about introducing, so I did a quick sketch of her to warm up today. I liked how it turned out, so I figured I'd share it with y'all!
2018-12-14 19:28:40 +0000 UTC View PostWednesday's comic got posted late on the main site. That was my fault, sorry!
Usually what happens is I send the latest comic to my husband so he can upload it to the site, but I sent it to him extra early this week and then I simply forgot to send him the reminder to post it because I kept thinking yesterday was Thursda...
2018-12-13 19:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 2 kicks off by hinting at some of the major players in the Redtail Gang, Reese and Donno. Who could they be, I wonder?
2018-12-10 18:44:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Kiva eventually goes to bed, but pulls a blanket over Kiera before settling in.
That will conclude Chapter 1! The story will pick up right where it left off next week!
Thank you all again for your support and for reading along with the comic!
2018-12-03 20:13:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It's easy for me to forget you guys haven't actually MET Max in the comic yet, but he will be making his debut very soon in the early part of Chapter 2.
In Kuserra, there's one day a year where the sun never quite comes up all the way above the mountains and buildings, so it's more of a prolonged day of twilight, celebrated as...
2018-12-01 20:06:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Aww, and the story ends with a magical table appearing out of nowhere and some sort of stool.
But yay, Super Puppy saved the day! Kinda. Nevermind that the Dog Catcher still got away with murder and the comic had no actual story or any stakes or tension or even really much of a climax. Nevermind that Super Pu...
2018-11-30 21:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
As I'm wrapping up Chapter 1, I'd like to start collecting your thoughts and feedback on the comic so far! Asking people for open comments isn't always useful, so I created a form with some very specific, more targeted questions to help establish some very specific things I can start working to improve.
Please fill it ou...
2018-11-28 22:26:29 +0000 UTC View Post
The villian finally introduces himself, but even the intrepid SP feels like the introduction was a bit delayed, vanquishing his foe instantly with a super bark! Which is... yet another new power Super Puppy apparently has.
What's really interesting to me going through these old comics again is to see what mistakes I made...
2018-11-28 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh no! I've been forgetting to upload the rest of the highly anticipated conclusion for Super Puppy's debut issue! I never settled on a schedule for it, and there's been the Holidays and travel and such -- it's free, don't sue me.
On this page, we see Caped Kitten has been abducted by the Fingermen, because a sidekick's ...
2018-11-26 19:05:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This page will conclude the story's introduction! We've met Kiva and Kiera, we've been introduced to the city, and we've learned some basic information about the concepts of Vim and gods. And we've only just scratched the surface.
Chapter 2 will start after a short chapter break, and we'll meet Max! I really ...
2018-11-26 18:51:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm just gonna go ahead and post this, there's not much to say about it. It was as lazily done as it looks.
I think I had decided issue 1 needed to be an arbitrary number of pages and that I had to fill them all before I could conclude the story, but I was getting tired of this one not being done.
I remember drawi...
This villian was another of Michael's ideas. The Hand That Feeds You. See, on the previous page, Super Puppy severed it from his owner with his laser vision, then it... grew eyes, and a mouth, and sentience, and an entire army of disembodied fingers with stick legs... all in the space of 4 panels without anyone notic...
2018-11-12 20:59:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Every good hero needs a good origin story, right? Well you better believe Super Puppy is no exception to THAT rule!
Here we see Spot and Fuzzy going about their daily lives as a regular cat and dog. They can't speak, as they are regular pets, but luckily they appear to be telepathic.
Then they are hit by a me...
2018-11-09 22:23:33 +0000 UTC View Post
So, this comic opens with a scene where the nefarious Dog Catcher (It says DC on his hat, get it? That's how you know he's the Dog Catcher. Because it says DC. There's literally no other way to know.) enacts his nefarious plan of... maybe... applying for a job? And then murdering the person who reviewed h...
2018-11-05 19:05:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm still toying with some ideas for HOW I want to share Super Puppy. I thought about scanning full issues and compiling them into a pdf so they could be read like a book, but going through it again, there are times where I'm just rolling on the floor laughing at my old childish self, and I kinda want to give a running com...
2018-11-05 18:11:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Kiera using their native tongue when addressing her brother. For those who are curious, she's just commenting that it's too high.
2018-11-05 18:03:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This page probably took me longer to draw than any other. It was born from the need to really challenge myself. I need more practice with backgrounds and perspectives, but to save time I usually use quick shortcuts to achieve the look I want on most pages. Still, from time to time, I DO want to work on a page l...
2018-10-29 17:47:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I want to tell you a story about little Trick when he was but a wee lad.
This was fifth or perhaps sixth grade. I was 9, 10 or perhaps 11 years old. My best friend (Michael) at the time was heavy into Marvel comics, and despite his best efforts to get me interested in them, I was far, far more interested in Legos, ...
2018-10-24 22:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostSo... working on Chapter 2 this week, I wanted to insert a page in-between page 24 and 25 after already having pre-drawn a bunch of sketches through page 30. This mussed with my number scheme for a bit and my organization structure got all muddy for a moment before I went in and fixed it. In my confusion, I saved the...
2018-10-22 18:41:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Really happy with how the water (slime?) turned out on this page.
2018-10-22 17:01:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe idea of writing a story using a foreign language as a device within that story has intrigued me for a very long time. When I was younger, I majored in English, and I used to be a grammar nazi, mercilessly pointing out the misspellings and misplaced commas of every chat message that ever came my way. As I've grown...
2018-10-15 21:37:22 +0000 UTC View Post
