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Final cover art design for Issue One~!
(the thin black line border is Web-only; in actuality, that's where the prints will be cropped off)
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Yup, done! On to the next one / time to turn this one into a cartoon.
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ahhhh! i'm in steampunk comic heaven tee heeΒ Β Β
Discovered you viaΒ Sio64
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Enjoy the quasi-Victorian madness~ (all I ever do is steampunk, if I can help it XD)
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Dude, this looks really good!!! I'll start reading now
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Oh, thanks. 
*working on my newest page at the moment*
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I'm gonna read your comic~
and there's nothing you can do about it neEHEHEHEHEHEEEEEE!!
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Oh yeah? OH YEAH?!?
I CANβ β¦.....eheheh, y-you literally caught me at the tail end of an ill-conceived all-nighter. I gotz nothing. Good night.
That said, enjoy!! <3
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haha aww go get some sleep!
I am so far! am up to chapter 6 already haha
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Oh, sounds like you were moving along nicely.
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yeah ^ ^ where do you get your inspiration from btw?
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Hmm... I suppose from a lot of different sources and no specific place in particular?
I always liked robots since the days of playing old-school Mega Man as a kid. I started catching glimpses of steampunk in films like Back to the Future III and the short-lived series Brisco Country Jr. (both are Wild West settings) and then really got into it with Last Exile in 2004. A lot of the elements with Sally I got from Gunslinger Girl, with obvious changes to the tone. But otherwise it's just been me trying to do my own thing, and not be dictated by prevailing trends. 
I'd also mention my desire to make an original comic like this was influenced by the Flight anthology that was headed by Kazu Kibushi. Something about seeing comics that could far exceed the existing 'look' and feel of the mainstream comic industry was the spark I needed to just keep going and not look back.
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I've not heard many of those films apart from Back to the Future
but they do sound interesting! And I like that you are doing a good
strong sense of non-sexy steam punk as that seems to be about here
and there, yours is nice and traditional to what it is (hoping I've worded
that correctly!)
Oh really? What do you mean by far exceeding the existing "look"?
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Ah, thanks. 
I feel like I'm at least a ~little~ vindicated when professionals tell me they want to introduce their young kids to my comic and the genre in general.
The "look" of comics being flat colors on black lines (either funnies or superheroes), though I personally grew up on Calvin & Hobbes whose creator Bill Watterson was a huge advocate for rich illustrative style and breaking out of the panel-to-panel format.
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Very true, I like to see a normal flavour of both the genre and then "that" XD
Oh really? How can you not fall into that kind of look then? I've not heard of
Calvin and Hobbes before.
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Glad you understand. ^~ (it's especially jarring in games - usually MOBAs - when steampunk characters and elements just get lumped in with Tolkien-style fantasy and futuristic sci-fi)
Oh I think it's easy enough; the idea is to do what you want and not adhering to a process that others tell you to follow.
(Calvin & Hobbes is a comic strip that ran from 1985 to 1995; it's pretty neat to study in how the style started out fairly basic and kept evolving)
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mhh hmm!
Sounds easy enough haha alright then!
Ohh is that uhh the one with the tiger??
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No, god no. Those pages are 5 years old.
I plan to rewrite the first three chapters completely (since that's where the story needed to establish a lot of core principles for later)
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Oh gawd, the corrections vortex.
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*Squee* Oh my goodness, I love this, thank you!
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Thank you. :> This is a labor of love project for me.
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I couldn't help but notice you're a Girl Genius fan ~ ;D
Hope you like my strange little tale, if you should get a chance.
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i saw this at the comic shop next to my house...
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when i came to buy it on free comic day they said they were all out ;_;
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Drat. :<
Well, I will be selling all issues of it at Anime Expo this year (might come with free goodies!)
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OMG YOUR GOING TO ANIME EXPO THIS YEAR
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COMMENCING RE-READING...
As soon as I finish this chapter of Ghost Trick...
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Y-you don't have to... XD;;;
I still have to redraw a lot of the earlier pages to make them more pristine / insert new pages to backfill some of the plot holes.
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I've been reading this over at smackjeeves, but I can't seem to comment over there, so I'll just reread and comment here.
Good job with the cover!
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Really? D: Smackjeeves has been hard for me to use as well; I can't even read the comments I receive there (!)
I don't mean to be so impersonal with folks on that site, but it is a lot less user-friendly than here...
Whee, thanks~
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It's probably the skin you're using, I would change it and see if that allows comments. I'd love to comment there too!
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I think it's fix'd now......
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Awwww man, seriously amazing. The design for this cover is incredible, simplistic to read but a feast for the eyes. And that purple-touched shading, arghhh~ <33333
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Orange and purple. Forever and ever...! 8D
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Awesome. I love the lighting effects, and Sally's serious expression.
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