Jailbreak, Part 2
Why wait for a parole hearing?
Why wait for a parole hearing?
Gunwild: "Oh my goopness" kind of breaks the rule about Vanaa language that the words should actually both rhyme, sound "squishy," and have a similar meaning.
Gunwild: Those rules can bend with one exception, but aren't supposed to break with two. But I broke them here for effect.
Someone in the comments mentioned that the guards, who lost their rifles when they got spaced last time, should have had sidearms. I wanted to be like "They have them, one will show up next page, it's been in the script all along, we're not stupid!"
But I couldn't because that would be giving things away. Life on a weekly upda...
2017-08-11 05:17:40 +0000 UTC View PostCheck out this comic now, without complaint, and we'll knock down your sentence to life in the iso-cubes, creep.
We actually considered doing the same thing again where Mercy shows up in an opaque helmet and takes a page or two to show her face. But honestly, after seeing her fail in her only two previous missions, my thinking is that the audience is not going to be impressed with her for just showing up. Will she turn that impression arou...
2017-08-05 02:06:30 +0000 UTC View PostGunwild: I like that first panel, it'd make a good desktop background or something.
Psu: Snoot.
Psu: It's a really pretty page, I think. The colors are all alien and very science fictiony. I don't get to play with light all the time but here with the atmospherics from be...
2017-08-02 21:06:02 +0000 UTC View PostOoo. Trippy.
Psu: Look, I have no idea what the actual properties of that liquid are. It appears to be non neutonian and dense enough that a full metal cybo...
2017-07-31 03:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostGunwild: The ring that holds the ball power source thing turning into wings was not planned from the ship's first appearance.
Psu: Man, I'm just thinking about how cool our comic is sometimes.
Gunwild: This page: first appearance of Theira's mandibles.
Psu<...
2017-07-29 08:53:20 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a distinct possibility that every pinup featuring Motor Minx is going to feature her being cleaned like a particularly attractive car.
Anyway, the full pinup, coming in a few days, is fullbody and color and has a background, but here's this for now. It's actually good she won the poll, because we're planning on bringin...
2017-07-28 10:33:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe main thing I have to say about this page is that I'm sorry I screwed it up.
Not the idea for the rotating shields deflecting incoming kinetic projectiles, that's good. Or the way we got to show Theira nailing the shot without it working, so that she still comes off as capable without the story coming to an end right there....
2017-07-23 00:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostThis phase, where things aren't colored or shaded yet, actually calls attention to a couple of things that I think Psu does really well. The work with both perspective and line weight gives you a really good sense of distance in the first panel, so you can get a picture of where everything is even when, for the moment, it's all ...
2017-07-20 20:38:25 +0000 UTC View PostSo, behind-the-scenes thing here, the comic that got me seriously into reading and collecting comics was Ultimate Spider-Man back in about the year 2001. Eventually that series hit 100 issues (all of them excellent), and the writer, Brian Michael Bendis, decided that a good way to celebrate that milestone would be a sto...
2017-07-16 19:16:07 +0000 UTC View PostGunwild: I call Maddy's wrist communicator her "Cuff-Link."
Psu: Man, we really haven't used the random holographic displays in a while. It's definitely a thing that wearable tech is big in Cassiopeia future. Like so much of it is an after thought but a lot of it provides extra layers of safet...
2017-07-14 02:39:04 +0000 UTC View PostNext update will be the one where we celebrate #200! It's actually a few more than 200 updates, but we didn't want to interrupt the story we were doing. Much as #100 was Maddy's birthday, this one will be Cassiopeia's. It won't be an extra-length one, but it will have this and then a cute little followup, probably a 4koma. Also,...
2017-07-12 06:18:57 +0000 UTC View PostYou can find lots of neat old stuff at summer yard sales. Or in today's Cassiopeia Quinn update!
Gunwild: Black and white!
Psu: Booo black and white! Kill that lazy artist.
Gunwild: Ehh, maybe Theira would prefer to have a "noir" character introduction... we know she's a fan of gangster movies.
Psu: Apart from the black and white, there's a lo...
2017-07-08 04:15:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe characters we cut away to are subject to change, but these kinds of occasions are always good chances to bring back folks we haven't seen in a while. Last time, when Cassiopeia's race was starting, we got in Lefyne and Gleb and the Vraxiopeia colonists. This time we're going for a few more people at once... and is that someb...
2017-07-04 02:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostDon't turn your back on this CASSIOPEIA QUINN update!
Gunwild: Surprising amount of actual science on this page.
Psu: Scoot Scoot Scoot
Gunwild: Well, not that part, obviously...
Psu: I think I remember not being too happy with this page when I first made it. A lot of style stuff started clashing in h...
2017-07-01 01:33:58 +0000 UTC View PostOh my, what’s this? Is that what traditional Regency riding garb looks like?
Anyway, June's pinup is live, and if you're a $5 Patron, you can get it (and all the past pinups) HERE.
Remember to ...
2017-06-30 05:30:54 +0000 UTC View PostIn the future, it will be absurdly easy to make hyper-accurate digital representations of, say, famous sports champions. You know, pose them however you like, wearing whatever you can imagine, to produce your own pictures.
Some of those celebrities, though, I think you should hope will never find out. You mig...
2017-06-30 05:16:41 +0000 UTC View PostThere are a lot of ways a page can come together for a comic when a writer and artists are teaming up. With us, generally, it means that I write a script with a very specific number of panels, very specific dialogue beats, and exact instructions about every last image. Then Psu takes that and mostly draws it as written,...
2017-06-26 19:48:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis Cassiopeia Quinn update is all about being nice. Which is hard. So why bother?
Gunwild: Kettlehead, that's just a Windows 3D Pipes screensaver.
Psu: Oh man you guys had no idea how long I looked forward to this page when I saw it in the early scripts.
Psu: It's so silly and totally unique to our gelatinous aliens and combined sense of humor. Kag (t...
2017-06-22 09:09:43 +0000 UTC View PostOf note: I got to have and pitch the idea of Cupcake crying while clutching Maddy's hand in person instead of over Skype, and it went over great!
We're going to make panel 3 less scary-looking... slightly. But honestly, that bite-preventing facemask design from Silence of the Lambs? It's pretty spooky. Also, the last panel has...
2017-06-22 03:26:59 +0000 UTC View PostExcuse me, can you help this update? It's a spy.
This weekend we've got a guest comic by Brellom all lined up, which as you can see is done art-wise. Even though the whole thing is drawn with where the dialogue will go in mind (you can probably see the empty spaces where it'll mostly go), tweaks may be mad...
2017-06-16 06:37:32 +0000 UTC View PostPsu: BUTT JOKE.
Psu: THE WHOLE REASON GUNWILD WROTE THIS CHAPTER
Gunwild: Okay, inside baseball here: at the time this came out, Hiveworks was still using tumblr for social media pretty regularly. And our tumblr preview image was panel 4 there. They wouldn't reblog it, s...
2017-06-11 05:58:35 +0000 UTC View Post