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Old Harp, New Strings

by Aymee on March 13, 2011 at 5:45 pm
Posted In: Comic

I hate him.

 

Well, not always, but…still. Rghh.

 

 

Edit: Yes, I did in fact mess up the speech-bubbles in panel one. Was alerted via skype/sms/twitter/comments so if nothing else, it shows that our readers care. :)

I guess it’s also an excellent way of proving just how tired I am these days? In either case, I’ve made a new house-rule saying Mitsune is never allowed to be out of the house when I’m about to upload a comic. Clearly I need a proof-reader these days….

 

Edit #2: Yes. Yes I re-uploaded the old, wrong file again. I don’t even know anymore, okay? It’s the real one now. Really. Honest.

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  1. Apple
    Apple
    March 13, 2011 at 5:58 pm | # | Reply

    Evil bastard, my brother. Love him though. I do have to admit, I love that gleeful look he’s got in the last panel. XD

    (and as I said on Twitter… I think you’ve got the speech bubbles in the first panel pointing to the wrong mouths…)

    • Mitsune
      Mitsune
      March 13, 2011 at 11:52 pm | # | Reply

      Pure, unbridled glee that can only be the result of inflicting sweet sweet torment with a few well-chosen words.

      I understand she hired you to proof-read in my place for when I’m away? You do realize that if we work together, our love can never be? :(

  2. Fluffy776
    Fluffy776
    March 13, 2011 at 6:02 pm | # | Reply

    For Mits to still be alive and living with you I’m going to guess he can run really fast :P

    • Apple
      Apple
      March 13, 2011 at 6:11 pm | # | Reply

      He’s like the Road Runner from the Wile E Coyote cartoons. ;)

      • Fluffy776
        Fluffy776
        March 13, 2011 at 6:25 pm | # | Reply

        I figured he’d have to. Hell hath no fury like an angry woman :P
        Which Aymee has show very well with the ax in the 4th panel.

        • Aymee
          Aymee
          March 13, 2011 at 10:28 pm | # | Reply

          I grew up on a kennel, in a forest, far from people. We had a lot of moose, a lot of snow and a lot of firewood to chop. I am quite proficient with said ax.

          I also own two.

          (Yes, true story.)

        • Mitsune
          Mitsune
          March 13, 2011 at 11:55 pm | # | Reply

          In Japan, females traditionally carry mallets or mauls. Well, in the Japan where the average person has eyes the size of teacups and no actual nose (or tummy).

          In Norway, it’s apparently all about axes. Axen. Axii?

          • Fluffy776
            Fluffy776
            March 14, 2011 at 3:32 am | #

            And here I didn’t think you could get any cooler Aymee :P America seems so boring when compared to Europe :\

            Pretty sure it’s just axes. But yeah, axes are more threating and awesome than any other weapon. They take a lot of strength to wield well. I have enough leverage to wield one, but I can’t make it hit what I’m aiming at. Maybe if I put a laser sight on it… :P

  3. Azarizotza
    Azarizotza
    March 13, 2011 at 6:30 pm | # | Reply

    And you still do a comic? Better than me you are….

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      March 13, 2011 at 10:27 pm | # | Reply

      I only work the supertimeconsuming job til the end of may. After that it’ll be better.

      I hope.

  4. Paster of Muppets
    Paster of Muppets
    March 13, 2011 at 9:42 pm | # | Reply

    I’ve told you before. Grinding doesn’t work in real life. You wont level up any faster.

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      March 13, 2011 at 10:26 pm | # | Reply

      Well, I might not level up any faster, but there are achievements to unlock!

      Like, for example, getting a Cintiq! :D

  5. Shelbi
    Shelbi
    March 13, 2011 at 9:43 pm | # | Reply

    OMG that face is the bestest evar! much respect for teh awesome :3

    • Aymee
      Aymee
      March 13, 2011 at 10:26 pm | # | Reply

      Hehehe, thank you! :D

  6. Nemy
    Nemy
    March 14, 2011 at 1:28 pm | # | Reply

    Great comic!
    Loveing panel 4. great art all round.
    thanks for the comic. dont work too hard :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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