
[060117]
This comic has been redone. The original comic and rant appear below. Anyway, I redid the comic since I was fed up with the original. This time, it looks much better (I tried inking again for the first time in a while), and the characters are also much more in-character. There is also a punch line of sorts. Futhermore, it also connects with the previous comic much better (and will connect with the next one since J-san in “in-character”). Most importantly, it took less time to draw and thus has a better “quality-output to work-input” ratio. I like this one much, much better.
Oh, I also forgot to talk about the sound effect in the last panel, “SHHHCCKCCCKC!”. This sound arose when I asked D-san over AIM, “What sound effect is used for the sound of a knife being pulled out of someone’s throat?” He replied, “shhhcckcckc”. So I used that exact spelling.

[060116]
This comic’s got quite a few flaws, from my point of view. The major one is that J-san is quite out of character. I know that the Lesser Demon references this fact in the last panel, but it wasn’t planned. In fact, this whole comic wasn’t planned. That’s what I get for deciding to do a story arc without thinking it through.
The next flaw was that the panels themselves weren’t drawn too well. I haven’t drawn J-san from these angles for several weeks now, and so the drawings were a bit off. I also haven’t drawn the Lesser Demon from the front for some time. She doesn’t look quite herself in the last panel (add that to the fact that she’s also a bit out of character, and…yeah…). Anyhow, as you can see, I tried coloring today’s comic using watercolor colored pencils. Yes, you read that correctly. First color with the special pencils, then apply water, and you have a watercolor-ish effect. This was a third flaw because the color screwed up my scans since I couldn’t really use the auto-adjust functions on the computer. Oh well. I take it as an experiment. Next time I’ll do better…I hope.
(Oh the bright side, today I get to laugh at D-san because his update failed due to typos. I should do something to make these updates more reliable…)