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Baseline Interrupt

by Aymee on February 6, 2011 at 3:16 am
Posted In: Comic

So hey, d’ya know what’s REAL fun?

That’s Painter crashing just as you’re about to finish the lineart. It’s important to note that it’s the sketching and lineart that actually takes time. Colour and text? Piece of cake.

Know what’s even MORE fun?

Having been up since forever, been at work an entire day, and thus being really tired. Being only colour-and-text away from getting to go to bed.  And then realize, when Painter crashes, that it hasn’t saved a backup-file like it usually does.

Know what makes you seriously consider giving up on everything artsy, and devoting yourself to a boring 9-5 job for the rest of your life?

Realizing that the normal save got corrupted.

Hi. This strip was drawn twice. D:

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  1. cheetaboy7
    cheetaboy7
    February 6, 2011 at 6:58 am | # | Reply

    If I understand this right, real life Mits is a guy and the person you see in the comic is his female wow avatar. Right?

    • Apple
      Apple
      February 6, 2011 at 5:16 pm | # | Reply

      This is correct. :)

    • Mitsune
      Mitsune
      February 6, 2011 at 8:15 pm | # | Reply

      When you put it like that, it almost sounds boring!

  2. Azarizotza
    Azarizotza
    February 6, 2011 at 8:41 am | # | Reply

    …
    …

    Not my fault…

    …

  3. Fluffy776
    Fluffy776
    February 6, 2011 at 10:01 am | # | Reply

    Thanks for putting in the extra effort and getting the comic up now rather than in the morning. I wouldn’t have blamed you for doing that, but I’m not going to lie and say I don’t like seeing the comic now rather than later :P

    I’m pretty n00bish when it comes to WoW, but I don’t see a melee interrupt being useful too often. I don’t see it being a bad thing either so I won’t be bitching about another skill being added. :P

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 6, 2011 at 6:35 pm | # | Reply

      Haha, thank you – I’m glad to hear it’s appreciated because RGHHH the rage you feel when something like that happens? Yeah, drawing panel 3 was EASY. :P

      • Fluffy776
        Fluffy776
        February 8, 2011 at 4:16 am | # | Reply

        That would explain why you got the anger in her eyes so perfect :P
        I had the power fail at work once when I was working on a a part in SolidWorks. I hadn’t even saved it once. So I kinda feel your pain. Although it was a Friday and so I just went home, so I can’t completely feel your pain.

  4. Simsarmy
    Simsarmy
    February 6, 2011 at 12:51 pm | # | Reply

    I don’t see what was wrong with asking if you’re a giraffe or not. That’s just censorship.

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 6, 2011 at 6:34 pm | # | Reply

      Mits is touchy about his heritage. I keep trying to tell him to be proud of it – he got those freakishly long legs from SOMEWHERE and he should be grateful for it – but it doesn’t seem to work. :(

  5. Lumindaarus
    Lumindaarus
    February 6, 2011 at 5:10 pm | # | Reply

    I get a kick out of the little hidden shovel in Aymee’s hand. Still looking for that doll? :( Hope it turns up sooner than later!

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 6, 2011 at 6:36 pm | # | Reply

      Looking for dolls, burying pepsi…a shovel has many uses!

      And yes, I occasionally log on wow to check, but as I’ve quit raiding for now – no time, boo – I don’t play quite as much anymore. :(

  6. Apple
    Apple
    February 6, 2011 at 5:18 pm | # | Reply

    Oh. My. God. How cute is Mits-inna-turtleneck? I love it. Draw this more.

    Also, Painter sucks for making your life harder. *cuddle*

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 6, 2011 at 6:34 pm | # | Reply

      Why does Mits get compliments, and I don’t? You just don’t WANT me to draw you anymore. I SEE HOW IT IS! D:

  7. Zy
    Zy
    February 6, 2011 at 8:59 pm | # | Reply

    You have my sympathies. Computers really are of the devil!

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 7, 2011 at 6:19 pm | # | Reply

      I’m quite there’s a tiny evil demon inside my computer, making it his business to cause me anguish.

  8. Kittaw
    Kittaw
    February 7, 2011 at 4:13 am | # | Reply

    This comic made me laugh hard. Mit’s expression in panel three and Aym’s abject fear are priceless.

    Sorry to hear about teh computer troubles, but glad to see a comic up! :D *pats Amyee*

    • Kittaw
      Kittaw
      February 7, 2011 at 4:14 am | # | Reply

      *fixes*
      Aymee.

      Captain Typo to the rescue!

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 7, 2011 at 6:18 pm | # | Reply

      Hehe, thank you! Glad to hear you like it, that kind of stuff makes it all worth it.

      Even having to redo the comic gets less horribad with these kind of reactions :)

  9. Nemy
    Nemy
    February 7, 2011 at 9:51 am | # | Reply

    ouch. doing things the second time is Painful. very very very painful :(

    but it’s proably not worth just going for the 9-5 job though… cannot think of anything more dull.

    also, loved the comic :)

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 7, 2011 at 6:17 pm | # | Reply

      Heheh, but it pays better! Also, I don’t get the urge to throw my monitor out of my window at work :P

  10. Totten
    Totten
    February 7, 2011 at 12:30 pm | # | Reply

    I’ll compliment you Ayms;) You’re absolutely awesomel to draw mits with an angry face \o/ Love it!

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 7, 2011 at 6:17 pm | # | Reply

      Yaay! Thank you <3

  11. Dreyja
    Dreyja
    February 14, 2011 at 3:57 am | # | Reply

    Awh man, I totally missed that about Mits actually being a guy. Derp. X-p And here I thought I’d just met a couple of other gamer gals like myself.

    LOL, I love this comic.

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      February 14, 2011 at 8:36 am | # | Reply

      Well, -I- am still very much a girl! And considering Mits’ avatar IS female, I’d say he count as 0,5 girl? Meaning you weren’t too much off in your calculations! :D

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Cheating

by Mitsune on March 8, 2012 at 11:15 pm
Posted In: Blog

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.

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Conversation Interruptus

by Mitsune on January 18, 2012 at 2:34 am
Posted In: Blog

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.

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Ee-wooly-wompah.

by Mitsune on January 10, 2012 at 10:30 pm
Posted In: Blog

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.

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On Crude Jokes

by Mitsune on January 2, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Posted In: Blog

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.

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Confound these miniature equines, they drive me to write.

by Mitsune on November 12, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Posted 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.

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