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Word Puzzle! + ramblings

Hey, so this morning I received an email from my printer saying how issue 1 & 2 reprints are going to be more expensive with the new printing process unless I add 4 extra pages for a more efficien...

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Early Update: Fear_and_Loading

It's been a while since we checked up on Unylsk's most infamous mindtripper 'zine, but it looks like the new management is working out just fine

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Drugs & Wires Patron Discount

Good news, everyone - I'm launching pre-orders for issue 3 to help me with the costs and all our patrons are getting a 20% discount!

Just use the code DWPATRON20 at...

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Issue 4: Dan gets rehabilitated

Many of you want Dan to be happy and healthy in the comments, and here at D&W HQ we're all about reader's feedback. That's why starting next chapter Dan's life is gonna get a whole lot more wholes...

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Blue Pill Arcade Thumbs III

Ok, so these thumbs are so terrible even I can't make out what's going on in half of them. But I'm still working on the story so here's proof at the very leas...

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Issue 3 Cover

Some of you might remember that I had two drafts  for the cover of chapter 3. Originally we had a bit of a miscommunication ...

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Chapter 3 - Pages 30-31 (chapter finale)

Link to the last page in case it gets resized. 

So yeah, this is it. End ...

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Chapter 3 Page 29

..Nothing good's gonna come out of this. At some point Io wrote out the return of the flyer out of the script, but I basically kept bugging him until he put it back. I just thought it's a great use of...

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Eve: 2012 vs 2017

Greetings, patrons who stayed with us ;) Thanks for supporting us in February and I hope we'll keep delivering content that's worth your while! :D

So I was looking through some random documents fold...

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Chapter 3 Page 28

Time spent pencilling: 10%

Time spent colouring:10%

Time spent tweaking stubble transparency sliders to start Dan off on his Sad Addict Beard journey: 80%

So far I haven't been happy wit...

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I'm going to hell

You know how a couple years back I posted a D&W shoujo parody cover and everyone was like "Yeaah do more of that!"

Well. I'm drawing these things unironically now. Unless Io comes over to my hou...

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Blue Pill Arcade - Thumbs II

So, uh, yes, somehow i'm 18 pages in on this thing. It's currently a mixture of Io's existing script and me writing stuff in right into thumbnails and I barely know what I'm doing here. This is probab...

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Chapter 3 Page 27 + commentary

Taking a break from Dan's drug antics this week to this guy making an appearance. Since this character is one of the most spoilerific things in the comic, there isn't much I can tell you about him. So...

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Someone You Might Or Might Not See In Chapter 4

That's right, I'm gonna spoil you a bit. Real, non-Ghostly Eve's coming back and, well, she's gone through a bit of a makeover. I don't even know what inspired that look other than she reminds me of m...

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Chapter 3 Page 26

Our heroin adventure ends here. Took a bit of an artistic licence when portraying the trip, so hopefully we won't have people coming in saying "ummm actualy it's not heroin", like we do with all the t...

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Chapter 3 Page 26 - Lineart Only

Well, my plan to post updates early is repeatedly failing. So here's the progress of tonight's stream! 

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Blue Pill Arcade - Thumbs I

FULL SIZE IMAGE HERE 

So you know how we've been wanting to revamp the original prequel for ages? Well, after having this ...

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Chapter 3 Page 25 (+ page 26 layout)

Welp, not much to say here, but Dan seems to have gotten what he came there for. I was contemplating adding some animation, but it was a bit too late in the game.  Might still do some for the nex...

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Chapter 3 Page 24

And it's done. I don't have many warm colour schemes in this comic so i kind of went full orange with this. ...the final panel came out mildly suggestive which led to people cracking terrible jokes th...

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Ch3Page25 Pencils + Layout Passes

Hey, here's the page I'm gonna be wrapping up tonight!

I guess now's a good time to show how this scene came together, because to this day this is probably the most iterations we've gone through. I'...

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Chapter 3 Page 23 +scribbles

So I can't put up our preliminary drafts for this week just yet because spoilers, but there was quite a few. Like we actually didn't know what the next scene was gonna be  until 2 days before pos...

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Chapter 3 Page 22

Ah yes, the montage page. Due to our pacing and tons of things happening in the comic we didn't get to get Dan hooked on the stuff properly. Hard to believe it, but since the start of the comic, the s...

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Chapter 3 Page 21

Back from the break with an actual update, at last :) Dan having a bit of a meltdown after 5 pages spent in Fixer's chair. Can't blame him too much.

This was fun to do. I was worried about panel 3 a...

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More prequel arts?

when you want to test some Clip Studio brushes and accidentally stay up till 5am

...someone find me a fandom so I can stop ruining our comic


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New Year Gifts II part 2

Seeing how we seem to have lost 3 or 4 patrons after posting the last strip, I should have probably learned my lesson, but hey, I promised part 2 so here it is. 

I'm not entirely sure why I kee...

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New Year Gifts II

Kind of a sequel to last year's NYE extra . Dan clearly hasn't learned his lesson. I've got another strip...

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Chapter 3 Page 20

Managed to finish this up before going away for Christmas, which means patrons actually get a page early for once \o/

This one seemed to have gone fairly smoothly considering I've done it over work ...

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Couple of layouts. (spoilers?)

Layouts remain to be the trickiest part of the process. Here's the current page and two upcoming ones.  I'm leaving to see my family for Christmas/New Year, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to fin...

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Chapter 3 Page 19

Our longest, most decompressed scene to this day continues. Next update is the last one we spend in Fixer's shop and I can't wait to get the hell out of there. Seems like Dan shares my feelings on thi...

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Side comic character concepts

So seeing how I'll be freelancing next year and might actually try harder to make this comic work (if I'm not buried under work for hire stuff), I decided to dig up a side comic me and Io started and ...

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