More Editing: Only 3 more hours left to bid in the auction, guys! (Sorry, but no pages today, had to take care of other things. 
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EDIT: I forgot to mention! I’m going to be on Webcomic Reviews & Interviews WEDNESDAY at 7 PM CST (8 EST)! Be there if you’d like to hear me blab about both my comics, and webcomics in general!
Short notice as I’m making this edit on Tuesday, but hey! Time flies. We planned this last week!
Hey! It’s been a busyish weekend. I’m always glad when I have more things to do than my comics (not that I don’t like working on them – working on them continuously post-college just feels weird, lol). One of those things this weekend has been contributing to the LBGT Webcomic Charity Art Auction!
My pic is here. That’s right – you could be the owner of an original pic of Chains bein’ hot while Eustace sits behind him. Yay! Also contributing to this are some pretty great comics, including but not limited to The Apple of Discord, YU+ME, Khaos Komix, and Myseries of the Arcana! But wait, there’s more! Go check it out!
Bonus!! For every $10 raised on my picture, I’ll do an extra page for next Tuesday’s update! So $50 would = 5 pages…all in a single day! Impossible, you say? Not when my heart is warmed. :D (Note that this number may actually be divvied up between my two comics. It’s only reasonable, and still nice for all of us.) I totally ganked this idea. Let’s go!!
For your convenience, here’s the list of everything being sold on Ebay. Bidding ends first thing Friday! Don’t miss out! It’s for a great cause.
Anyhow, speaking of Mysteries of the Arcana, I’m going to plug it today!
Some of the Devil inside her…
MotA (written by J Gray, who also organized the charity above, and drawn by Keith W) takes one of my favorite themes (Tarot, if you couldn’t already tell) and turns it into the concept behind a potentially expansive set of worlds. It’s the basis for a very “foolhardy adventure” in one of the most entertaining webcomics I’ve read in a while.
The first pages may be confusing if you’re half-asleep. But if you’re not, you’ll find an ideal and just-confusing-enough but engaging beginning. Action! Interest! A new reason for living! Lesbian elf kisses!
Yeah! Beyond that, the explanation that Theresa, the main character thrust in the middle of all this, receives is actually pretty natural and not info-dumpish like a lot of webcomics tend to get. (The dialogue is well-done, too – something I tend to pay close attention to in any writing. I have a weird natural bias against female main characters, too, because they’re usually all way too similar, so it’s good when I’ve actually taken a liking to the main characters of this story and what makes them each unique. :D) There are 78 universes – one for each arcana of the Tarot. Theresa happened to stumble into another one while interloping on the struggle between an elfish girl and a robot. Said elfish girl, Chrystalline, is seeking to search the arcana to recover her kidnapped mother. Of course, Theresa will help her. I mean, she’s got nothing else to do, right?
When you get right down to it, the plot is just simple and strange enough for it to be taken very far. The comic’s pretty short so far at just around 60 pages, with the adventure into different worlds just beginning. Already there’s been action, hints at romance, and anthropomorphic people (a closet favorite of mine). I anticipate a lot more. :D If you like manga or anime at all, you’ll definitely like MotA. It’s better than most manga already. (And like I said, it’s short so far. You’d be silly not to read it right now.)
Oh yeah, and the art is nice. It’s really nice. It’s full-color, and I’m glad. It’s consistent, too. Characters have distinct and visually expressive faces (something else I look for in good art/webcomics). I think the style of shading figures could be more congruous with the lineart, but it’s still bold and works. I think as the comic continues there will be a very natural improvement in the execution of action sequences. (Everyone has clingy shirt syndrome, which actually really bugs me, but I think it works out in the readers’ favor anyway. ;))
Also: One of my favorite smaller appearances so far is a small fairy girl who speaks in visual pictorial speech bubbles. It’s just…adorable.
I also wrote a brief gushy “review” of The Abominable Charles Christopher at Millennium today. Regardless of whether or not you read my gushing, you should simply take my word for it when I say “read these comics.” If you don’t read CC and MotA, you don’t know of what you’re depriving yourself.
Damn, I completely missed the deadline for the GLBT auction…Rats! I would’ve liked some Lovefeast art…If my paychecks start coming back with commas in them, like my manager promised, maybe I’ll be able to commission something. No promises though, my parents are paying significantly less of college than they promised due to the economy.
Jeez, is your interview part of the thirty hour long episode they have on there? I hope it allows fastforwarding.
lol, my parents have to pay all my loan payments right now due to the economy…still haven’t gotten a job yet. I seek fiercely!
Also, my interview isn’t back up yet but it probably will be within a day or two.
I only got a job because I got a letter in the mail asking me to come to an interview. Now I sell knives! Sounds sketchy, huh?
Good, I’m glad I don’t have to sift through that whole episode. My head would have exploded.
Whoa, the same thing happened to me like 4 years ago. XD I sold knives. Kinda sucked at it too, but I can’t talk for extended periods of time. S’why I guess I didn’t get a phone support job I applied to a few weeks ago, too… (my voice + phone = blah)
So, if you’re working the job I think you are, don’t expect to make a lot unless you meet with a couple of well-to-do people with well-to-do friends. Or just meet with a sheer volume of people. I guess some of the people I worked with at the time worked the richer areas ’cause one of them did manage to pull down a couple thousand dollar paycheck. c__c!
Also, I don’t think any of WCRI’s interviews are longer than about an hour, at most an hour and a half. Mine is an hour.