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Heather Goes Off The Trails: Cast of Characters

I received some feedback about folks not remembering characters ten pages apart since that could also be five months apart. Sure, they were referring to comics like Statue Rentals and Little Witch....

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Garden Statues

There's a teaser image for this story here.

The car passed the gatehouse and ...

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RENDER: Garden Statues - A Teaser

I'm on a roll with getting teasers ready. This one is slightly spoilery. But not so much that will matter two days from now when you read the story. How do you feel about the translucent dialog bub...

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Statue Rentals: Cast of Characters

I received some feedback about folks not remembering characters ten pages apart since that could also be five months apart. Fair. It was Reggie, poor Reggie. Forgotten after 2 appearances 5 or so m...

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Statue Rentals #12: Home, Sweet Home

Mom is obviously a loving and thoughtful person, worried sick about her son, now daughter.

It occurs to me in hindsight that Anna should have been turned into a statue a few days ago so she w...

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Trust Machines: Briefs

“Wow, they’re all together?” Phil was tapping his friend’s arm and pointing toward the venn machine.

“What? Who? Oh. How many are already in the machine?”

“Wow, they’re ...

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TEASER - Trust Machines: Briefs

Evan watched as Charles walked away. He was startled from his woolgathering when a pair of teenage girls walking by giggled at the man holding a pair of underwear near the mall exit. View Post

Little Witch #15: Date Night, Part 2

EDIT: I don't know what happened to cause the images to go missing. It was there yesterday when I looked at it. They're here now. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Off by one scheduling: ...

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Little Witch: Cast of Characters

I received some feedback about folks not remembering characters ten pages apart since that could also be five months apart. Fair. That was for Statue Rentals but it spurred me to make Cast pages fo...

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Meet My Ex (Part 2 of 2)

Braedon met Lia for dinner on Sunday. Lia was a little worried. “She didn’t say anything.”

“Not a peep or a flash.”

“That’s better than an outright no, I guess.”

...

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RENDER - Gutter Maids 1 & 2

2025/09/30 - When I originally scheduled this (in early July), there was only the first page and a vague notion of a second page. Now, there's the second page. I have a vague notion about the third...

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Meet My Ex (Part 1 of 2)

A two part story about a man who is happy to introduce his latest girlfriend to last more than a month to his ex-girlfriend.

“That’s the apartment. It’s functional. Oh, and tha...

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Statue Rentals #11: Arrangements

Texting. I hope people just know how texting looks. The other person's name is at the top and their text is on the left side. The phone owner's text is on the right. I don't have to spell it out, r...

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RENDER - Heather Reflects on the Year

And the ivy is dead. Fall begins September 22 in the northern hemisphere.

My Reflections

Heather Goes Off The Trail was just a fun idea I had in October 2024. #1-7 were rendered 2024-...

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Trust Machines - Puzzled

Tom and Susan are back. And Susan is subject to one of Tom's overly cleaver venns, if I can say so myself.

“Hey, you can’t cut the line!” A man called out cutting through the b...

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Little Witch #14: Date Night, Part 1

Daddy's a bit of prick, isn't he? No wonder she likes to spend time ignoring him.

I may have over done the "Hey, Mommy is remembering prior events" visual cue. Likewise, the camera angles for...

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Doll For Rent

Note: This is one of my longer short stories at a little over 6000 words. I would normally split into two parts except there's no good place to split this story in the...

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Statue Rentals #10: A Decent Proposal

The placement of her left hand in panel 1 was entirely by accident. I was amused and vexed by it. Amused that it had happened. And vexed that it hadn't been on purpose. Such is making art.

T...

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Magic Shoppe - For Real Now

As the door opened, a bell bracketed to the wall rang. “Welcome to the Magic Shoppe,” the tall, thin man behind the counter announced. “What can I do for you today?”

The man walked to...

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Little Witch #13: Who's Babysitting?

Mommy and Daddy go out on their date, finally. Who's babysitting? Or, more accurately, who's babysitting whom?

Mommy and Daddy go out on their date, finally. Who's babysitting? Or, more accur...

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Last Mannequin For Storage - Render and Manip

2025/09/02 - Scheduling Note: Today is Tuesday. Little Witch #13 was scheduled to release today. But, the current post is an anniversary post, as explained below. So, LW13 has been...

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I Talk - September Is Here

This is a bit disjoint. Sorry. First order of business: Welcome to any new Patrons. Thanks for your sponsorship. And now... on to my random ramblings

Writing

After several weeks in a ...

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Sold (Part 8 of 8)

NOTE: There are five epilogues below. Some of them overlap each other temporally. As each epilogue starts, any mention of time passing is basically relative to the end...

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Statue Rentals #9: Restoration Surprise

When I first put the dialogue on this comic (and the next one), Stacy's dialogue bubbles were white. I considered making her bubbles slowly become the hot pink they are now. I gave up on the idea b...

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Sold (Part 7 of 8)

“Nora?” her mother said. She sat on the guest bedroom bed next to the sleeping woman.

“Mom?” Nora woke. “What time is it?”

“Just after nine. Elaine got called into work an...

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Little Witch #12: At The Mall

The little fashion show was fun. But, Mommy seems a bit distracted.

LW#8 through #11 take place over the course of a single afternoon. Angela said her parents should go on a date. LW#13 throu...

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Sold (Part 6 of 8)

Three of the dolls wanted to remain permanent dolls rented out using the website. One of the dolls, Mary, wanted to get back to her life. Funds taken from the kidnapper were used to help her get ba...

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Statue Rentals #8: Business Is Booming

Does a statue maker really want to have a lucky break? I'm sure her subjects don't want to be broken. The statue in progress seems "rough" because the figure asset is a low polygon asset. Makes the...

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Sold (Part 5 of 8)

Most of their friends who had gone on the raid to rescue Nora six months earlier were gathered in Jean’s and Dave’s apartment. Dave, Jean, and Eddie filled them in on everything they knew. Two ...

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Little Witch #11: Sally's Gift

Aawwwww... Such a heart warming moment. And some shenanigans.

Transcript

Panel 1 – Daddy in closeup, Angela is facing him, arcana is seen in her hands behind her back. Mom is by...

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