Unfortunately, this is where the comics stop for now. While I still won't be going back to school for another couple weeks, it's at a good stopping point and, really, I'd only get about two or three comics out until then anyway.
Either way, during the semester, I need to prioritize my class assignments and projects over any personal work, and I can't be working on art of some kind constantly--I'm only human, I need chances to have some down time. I don't think only updating between semesters is practical either.
So then what? Well, I don't know how I'm going to do this, but hopefully I can use this blog to further develop the story--concept sketches, outlines, stuff like that--so that ES becomes stronger forit when I finally have the chance to focus my energy on the comic year-round.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Enduring Soul 027
This seems like a good place for the story to stop for a hiatus of an indefinite time, wouldn't you say?
By the way, I'm well aware that the lockers in the background are disproportionately huge, but hey, if you can do better, drop me a line and we'll discuss making you my new background art monkey.
Enduring Soul 023
The guy in panel's one and four is Khristie's dad. There's really no reason he's in here, aside from havng an excuse to not have Raiko upside-down anymore and to add a bit more visual diversity. Same thing with Madelyn and Lucas getting cokes, it just gave me a reason to have something else happen than everyone sitting down again.
Enduring Soul 020
This and the next few comics are me making fun of myself for having trouble coming up for how the story would be structured for a while.
Enduring Soul 013
You can probably guess where the story is going from here, but the it's not meant to be earth-shatteringly original anyway; just something simple that can serve as a vehicle for the humor after my previous comic stagnated into nothingness due to a lack of a story.
Funny thing I found out last week. The dialogue in the first panel is a reference to the SNES game EarthBound (and if you haven't played it before, I highly reccommend it, even if you don't play video games): at the beginning of the game, the player encounters supernatural aid du jour, Buzz Buzz, an insect-like alien from a decade into the future that is initially mistaken for a bee, which he responds with, "A bee I am... not." Anyway, one thing I tried to do with the Eternal Light's dialogue in the comics he's in is give him a kind of "sophisticated as hell"-type of speech pattern, where he seems to slide in and out of a "wise mentor"-type of behavior. I'm not certain how successful I was at doing that, but as it turns out, in Mother 2 (ie, the original Japanese version of EarthBound), Buzz Buzz does the exact same thing.
Enduring Soul 012
Madelyn's line in the last panel is an example of what I like to call "Clevinger's First Law of Comedy"--humor trumps continuity. Yes, Madelyn only knows about those last two, but there'd be less impact if those were the only ones she mentioned and it felt more like a Madelyn line than a Lucas line anyway.
Enduring Soul 010
This is pretty much the exact same joke as the last comic, but it at least demonstrates traits of all five characters.
Enduring Soul 003
The teacher in this comic is named Mr. Weisskopf (it's German) and based off a teacher I had the misfortune of having not only for World History, but also Homeroom. For two consecutive years. He was a douchebag, and even the rest of the faculty knew of said douchebaggery.
Does he deserve getting mauled by a bear? I'm not entirely sure what the honest answer would be, but given the circumstances surrounding the bear, it was going to happen anyway.
Enduring Soul 001
"As you are probably aware, this is our first comic. And as you know, first comics always suck. And of course, our first comic will be no exception."
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