See, Mits is all talk around me. He claims I’m horrible and that he doesn’t like me and so on, but I know he likes me. I know.
And now he’s even proclaimed it to the woorld! Never again shall he be able to claim otherwise!
So I come home from work, and Aymee says something that amounts to “we need to talk”.
Once I located my heart again, she explains that she has an idea. Wait, hang on, it’s a sketch. No, wait, it’s a finished comic.
At some point in there somewhere, I had the opportunity to say that I really really liked it, thought the idea was funny (well, it is, to us!) and that I love the kick-ass style. I’ve always had a thing for things that remind me of crayons in any way. Still, it’s 95% awesome and 5% humbling. Today, I am reduced to a blogging-addendum-creature.
On topic of the comic itself? I’d probably be a little bit insulted, hurt, or at least miffed if it were the full truth. Today at “work” I listened to three dozen pony trance remixes and surfed all the interwebs. Calling it a job is a stretch. Half the time, I get paid to surf the interwebs.
The party dialogue system in SWTOR was the first thing that actually made my jaw drop. The degree to which companions are a part of your game experience is amazing, sure, but that was something I was eased into. Seeing how the game handled multi-person dialogue, however, was big and it was sudden.
Maybe it’s because I still see this as multiplayer Mass Effect, but there is nothing I look forward to quite as much as having party conversations inside a new flashpoint. Now, you could argue that the roll system is entirely arbitrary and perhaps even “silly”, but as this comic shows, we violently disagree.
Or not. Silly is good. I wish we’d get little fight scenes when I want to say something cool and Ayms tries to be all nice and stuff.
Serious boring note: “Elective democracy.” Apparently this is taken by some to mean something rather specific (a contradiction, even), but google hits were sparse. Perhaps it’s even redundant in that democracies are elective by nature where they aren’t direct? I don’t even know, but it looks better this way. A literalist, I ain’t.
Me boonawa tutetotabah wonga wonga, nakanoyachoisky bushudah-
Er, that is to say, hi. This here is what happens when your artist gets to make a comic with whatever expressions she likes, leaving the writer to fill the gaps.
If I felt superfluous before, at times, I now almost feel like a detractor. Expressions are amazing! I mean, come on. Panel 3, anyone?
Now, this is of course a minor exaggeration – and a half-truth; the strip was planned – but I am tempted to suggest to Aymee that she draws a strip before I script it, once. I have no idea if that would work. I also have no idea whether or not you guys found this here strip today even remotely funny.
Before you ask: Yes, this blog exists solely for me to toy around with semicolons and various dashes. I never get to place a semicolon inside a set of dashes anywhere else. One of these days, I may even try using emdashes and those-other-dashes in the same paragraph just to annoy people.
After a year of comics, and a long break, we’re now in our “second season” – whatever the hay that means – and now we decide to break out the “rogues do it from behind” jokes. Sometimes, I wonder what we’re even doing.
If nothing else, we are certainly keeping our promise of not having a set update schedule! Add to this the fact that I technically have a “job” now (quotation marks mandatory) and practically everything I have ever known is turned on its head. I am not thrilled about the job part, but I’m certain this is only temporary.
Unrelated fact-spam because Aymee’s crude humor is, as ever, unforgivable. In other news: sugar.
Confound these miniature equines, they drive me to write.
on November 12, 2011 at 7:40 pmPosted In: Blog
Howdy y’all! Back in the saddle, yee-haw! Well – sort of. As Ayms is sure to be tellin’ you up there in the big chair, we ain’t about to commit to no fancy-schmancy “schedule” again just yet. It don’t matter none. Compared to our little nap, we’re fit as pair of fiddles at a barn dance!
Well, as for Mits in the strip, y’can draw your conclusions, yeah? What I will say is this: anything that gets me writing is right proper okay in my book. Acourse there’s more to it’n that, but I ain’t about to preach. If you’re in the know and find yourself over in the right places – such as EqD – it might be that the name Cloudy Skies isn’t unfamiliar to me. Just, well. With all due respect, don’t come crying ‘ter me if it ain’t your speed, is all.
I’m not gonna bore you with much more talk, but I just made something wonderful and awesome sound like a dreary and terrible thing, and that just ain’t right.
Fact is, I feel I’ve learned more ’bout writing in the past four months than I have in all the years that came ‘afore. I’ve met some wonderful people, and I like to think I’ve changed for the better as a person. I’m bloody happy, and I am rearing to write again. Rather, let’s make that “again and still”. Writing’s been all I’ve been doing lately, and now? Season 2 of 4th Wall is here!
And no, I’ve no idea why I wrote that in a horribly mangled not-quite-Southern accent.
Well okay, maybe I do.
In other news: The new house-place-area is awesome, and Delta is the cutest dog ever. She continues to try to get me past my hygiene-related OCDs by washing my face every now and then. Yay dog spittle! Thank you, Delta.
Naawwwh! That’s just adoreable! I know its true, I’m on Ayms side.
Dirty, shaggy, scruffy lies. This is just another layer of lies I use to hurt Ayms.
You might convince people in wow, but you’re not fooling anyone in real life! HA!
Okay, I have to get this cleared up. I’ve been subscribed to this strip for several months now, and I still don’t whether Mitsune is male or female. Aymee’s blog posts say “he”, yet I could swear “he” has breasts in all but a few of the strips.
M’s chin is slightly more angular, I suppose, but still…
1) There was actually a comic early on on this subject – the art is based on Mits’ and Ayms’ toons in WoW, both of which are female. Mits is a boy, but his WoW toon isn’t, and this comic STARTED, anyway, being about mainly their adventures IN WOW.
2) Why does it even matter? Not being hostile, just curious – I have a hard time understanding why people feel like the absolutely must know for certain what a person’s gender is. IMO, it doesn’t matter either way.
i had the same problem though i managed to avoid apple’s look of uther contempt :p.
Well i think the reason(at least in my case) is when your reading a comic you wanna know the gender of the characters(in this case mitsune and amy).Maybe their should be a huge warning sign that points you in the direction of the archive in case of gender confusion.
Oh, you only get the utter contempt if you’re dumb while I’m healing.
Or y’all could READ THE ARCHIVE! Give us moaaar hits, moar! Yess, my plan is totally awesome
Aym’s are we aloud to post THE RL pic of Mits yet? You know the one where he/she’s in his/her pants and wearing rubber gloves. or are we still holding that back for when he/she’s been naughty?
I don’t THINK so! I think you need to ask Mits..
it will be released the minute he misses a raid in cataclysm
Dann seems 2 be hunting for that pic for quite a while now.
I’d say give her the mitsune-boxershort-version.
She earned it
Oh i’m not hunting for it. I HAVE it. It’s ALMOST my wallpaper.
This comic was so cute. And I also noticed Aymee’s hair is slightly more unruly upon coming home. hmmmmm.
I was about to comment on the same thing. Ayms is clearly a minx.
At some point you’ll probably also notice that I drew her top on the wrong way. I mean, you can see the tag! DunndunnDUNN
I’m on to you.
Aww, someone needs a hug =P
Feel free! He’ll pretend not to like it, but we know the truth!
Fantastic comic, I went back and read all of them. I really struggle to understand why Mits has a feminine figure and seems to have breasts. It’s confusing me!
You’re pulling my leg here, right? It’s explained in this strip and in the FAQ.
The comic characters are based on our wow-characters. We both play female characters. Mitsune happens to be a male RL. There.
Actually the comic wasn’t clear to me either. Maybe I’m just dense. It didn’t mention WoW at all.
:3
Well, that the avatar herself originated from wow doesn’t really matter, you know. Point is: ingame we wanted a female avatar. Simple as that!
you are giving aymee high blood pressure.
Ok, someone has to explain one thing… Why isn’t Mits playing WoW?
Going back to that old comic, it’s funny how Mits, the destroyer, saved everyone.
Fact is, boring answer time, that I’m rerolling a L1 worgen for Cata, and as such, I find myself with PLENTY of time on my hands to pretend I have feelings!
Wait a minute, is Mits a transvestite?
I think he is, why don’t you have a nicely drawn portait, by the way?
Gee – I don’t know, guess we aren’t good friends after all
I do love you, it’s true.
So, for all these years I’ve TRIED to hug my big brother (Mits), he really wanted them? He just pushed me away to keep his image?
You do that. Don’t mind the spiked knuckles or the poisoned hairpin, just give me a hug next time I visit home.
Really? -Really?-
I know I mentioned at one point that Mits’ comic character is somewhat androgynous, but it isn’t that had to tell that comic Mits is teh females. Really. That chestle swell isn’t a cancerous growth. (Heh, wouldn’t it be odd if Mits was a Cancer a la Zodiac?)
Amyee does not have to draw comic Mits as “Big Tits Mcgee” for us to get the point. Really.
-Really.-
If we look aside from the chesticle issue for a minute here, i have dire news!
This is all a RUSE! As we all know Mits is the one writing the comics, as we see here, it is an attempt of him showing that he has “feelings” or whatever. When the truth is FAR more insideous! Mits is actually, as has long been suspected, a robot. And this is a ploy to attempt to throw people off his tracks! Notice the post below where he tries to nonchalantly dismiss the strip as outright lie.. CLASSIC double play. DO NOT TRUST MITSUNE! Now i must run before they catch me! PROMISE YOU’LL LISTEN! THIS IS NOT JUST SOME INSA…
He’s a vampire as well!
Killteam dispatched.
OR IS IT.
Sorry, I let my hellhounds out
I obey this little rule about the internet. Nobody has a gender I meet online, everybody is a gray genderless blob.
This is an interesting comic.I will have to watch it more in the future
.Also 4 more days till Cata 