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Work on part 3 has begun!! Once I get a page count figured out I can work on things proper, but in the meantime I've been setting up a new progress bar for a new chapter chunk... mostly because I like clicking checkboxes on a to-do list haha. You can find that here!
2025-11-10 12:25:55 +0000 UTC
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Just a quick update to keep things transparent for folks!
If you've taken a gander at this Patreon page's "about" section, you may have noticed a segment where I list out stretch goals for monthly income. Basically, whenever we hit a threshold for a certain goal, it would be fulfilled via (usually) more comic updates per week. Which is why OBT is able to post on a M/W/F schedule in the first place! That said, eagle-eyed patrons may have noticed one goal in particular,
2025-10-31 07:59:32 +0000 UTC
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Aaaaaall of Malachi's trauma, in one neat package!
2025-10-15 14:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Not sure why I didn't post this sooner, unless for some reason or another I thought about bundling all of Chapter 10 in all 3 parts in a single post. Part 2's full set will come out tomorrow for Silver Rank+!
2025-10-14 14:00:09 +0000 UTC
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... And that's the end of this chapter! So what's next? I've got a few things on my to-do list still, including plugging through OBT's ask blog backlog, revising the part 3 script one more time for my beta readers, and getting back to working on Nothing Gold! For now I'll just let my whims decide what I work on, but I definitely plan on beginning posting part 3 on Patreon before the end of the year. And if I don't, I'll eat my jorts.
As always, thanks all for your support, and I'll see ...
2025-10-13 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the accidental all-tier posting of a few pages today! I guess y'all can consider it like a "trailer" for what's to come haha. Already edited the post in question, but this notice is so y'all don't think you just imagined it- and the comment section here doubles as the Official "Wait What The Fuck Happened To Malachi" support group
2025-10-12 16:03:53 +0000 UTC
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Edit: Whoops, sorry about the accidental leak to all tiers! Should be fixed now.
And with that, the content warning has passed! A very quick summary for those who may have opted to skip those pages,
Sable grabs a hold of Malachi, drawing blood as she tosses him into the evolution spring. She pounces on top of him, as he and Maelstrom call out to her in an attempt to get her to come to her senses. Enveloped in the light of evolution, he scratches her to get away, briefly stunni...
2025-10-12 14:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Link to Content Warning (p. 138-144)
the natural enemy of all dogs: a very high shelf they can't reach
In other news, if you've been keeping an eye on the hiatus bar on OBT's CF site, you may notice that this chapter has finally reached 100% completion! Yayyy! Undecided on the public return date still as I still have to upload and write a transcript for the full chapter, but it should be late Octo...
2025-10-11 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Link to Content Warning (p. 138-144)
from the pokedex on mega manectric,
Mega Evolution fills its body with a tremendous amount of electricity, but it's too much for Manectric to fully control.
Too much electricity has built up in its body, irritating Manectric. Its explosive speed is equal to that of a lightning bolt.
2025-10-10 14:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Link to Content Warning (p. 138-144)
what the dawg doin
2025-10-08 14:00:17 +0000 UTC
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yayyy things are heating up :) and with that said, upcoming in the next page batch is a first for the comic,
CONTENT WARNING AHEAD (p. 10.138 - 10.144). Please refer to the shiny new Content Warnings page on OBT's site for more details. The Content Warnings page works with my New Patented (tm) "spoiler stoplight" system, so folks can choose how in-depth they want their CW to be...
2025-10-07 14:00:14 +0000 UTC
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The beginning of the end.
2025-10-06 14:00:19 +0000 UTC
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Get ready, get set... Go!
The cameo train continues!
For page 127,
- Giogeth's Girafarig (Skull subspecies)
- Rubombee's Mareep (Wooly subspecies)
- AnothrYuki's shiny Shinx (White spotting morph)
Page 128,
- Giogeth's Shinx (Scorching subspecies)
- Tigerdragony's Minun
- King Pika's Stratus the Raging Bolt (Progenitor subspecies)
- Jayrry's Garth the shiny Shinx
Page 129,
- Fishwhiskerz's Dee the Elekid
2025-10-05 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Mooooore cameos! This time for page 126,
- Harrie's Thistle the Luxio (Grinning subspecies)
2025-10-04 14:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Got our first cameo for this part of the chapter on page 123 here!
- Kyrie-Ray's Sorin the Shiny Luxio (Loyalty subspecies) and Clover the Pichu (Needlepoint subspecies)
and also YAYYYY MALACHI'S SIBLINGS FINALLY GET TO BE REAL, I've been soooo excited for them lol
2025-10-03 14:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Is a delectable cooked crow dinner too much to ask for in this economy?
2025-10-02 14:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Aaaand we're back! In the home stretch now with the finishing touches on this page batch, hoping to wrap up within the next two weeks or so!
2025-10-01 10:24:23 +0000 UTC
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HIATUS COMPLETION METER GO UP....... I polished off a few more pages as a special little treat to myself. I still prefer doing batch format, but it's nice to have some finished pages to look at once in a while teehee
2025-08-11 11:58:49 +0000 UTC
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EDIT: Now available for Normal Rank+!
whadda heck..... an OBT patreon update, in this economy?
While things have been quiet on this end, I've been working nearly every day on the comic! Mostly just doing things in batch format, so most of the work being done right now is just lining. But it's been a little too quiet over here, so I thought I'd polish off a few pages so it's less dead!
2025-06-28 12:14:38 +0000 UTC
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phoebe's mega evolution wore off.......
2025-04-13 11:12:27 +0000 UTC
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EDIT: Now available for Normal Rank+!
ouuaaaahhh this mans is so got damn tall. but it makes for silly framing so I can't be mad at him :)
2025-04-06 14:00:09 +0000 UTC
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the origin of malachi's wealth :)
... And this is where Normal Rank and Bronze Rank part from higher tiers, in terms of posted content! Finally at the point where I have enough buffer (5 weeks worth) that I can separate the tier releases again. Yippee! It's hard to believe the chapter is nearly halfway completed, but that's what my spreadsheet is saying, so I'll take that as a win!
2025-04-06 06:21:36 +0000 UTC
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CLONK
2025-04-03 11:24:47 +0000 UTC
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SURPRISE, she's back!
In other exciting news, I'm just a few assets away from slapping pages out left and right. Overall progress for the chapter now hangs at a tasty 42% as of writing, so we're almost halfway through! (Most of that progress being from currently incomplete pages, haha)
2025-03-27 12:35:34 +0000 UTC
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Phew! Almost missed the quicktime event, there.
2025-03-25 13:08:41 +0000 UTC
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click! that one's going in the cringe compilation
sooo if gamefreak reveals a mega luxray design for legends Z-A, I'll eat my jorts. and then probably come back and edit these pages. but in the meantime, here's my take on mega luxray! I even came up with a little mainline dex entry for it.
The energy provided by Mega Evolution is so potent that its bones can be seen shining through its skin. Trainers who spend too long around this pokemon have reported feeling ill.
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2025-03-10 11:40:24 +0000 UTC
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many "dachshund running" videos in my search history to get this page put together
2025-03-10 10:38:51 +0000 UTC
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Finally, after spending hours in front of a spreadsheet to track benefits, battling my printer for dominance, wiping out all ink on local store shelves, crunching the numbers and realizing it would take me weeks to print these postcards at a healthy capacity for my machine, taking the L and outsourcing the prints, running out of stamps, cleaning out the local grocery store of their stamps, not being able to get any international stamps at the post office and having to buy them online... I've ...
2025-02-17 07:11:35 +0000 UTC
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On this edition of Backstage Pass, I'll be talking about...
The thumbnails for Chapter 8! Like with other thumbnail showcases, this one doesn't have much commentary. This one does have the first instance of mockup chapter covers though, so that's kinda neat!
Oh, how I miss th...
2025-02-13 15:00:02 +0000 UTC
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a bit of a thorny situation, eh?
2025-02-10 12:42:48 +0000 UTC
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