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Chapter 6 Page 25

So it really didn't take Dan too long to get employed. Yay for nepotism? I think Dan getting employed by Lin was my idea (though i often confuse who came up with what, I'll let Io correct me here) - but I definitely wanted more of their interactions in the comic and hopefully this should let us keep an eye on both of them at once. 

And yes, I found an old version of MSPaint to do Lin's diploma:

2019-08-04 21:11:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 6 Page 24

This page took a while but i managed to finish it on the go. I had a ton of fun with it though :D

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Chapter 6 Page 23

THE MOMENT WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR

Or maybe just me. I mean, judging from the comments we've received most people have been waiting for Vitaly to die or at the very least get punched a lot, but Dan isn't really the physical violence kinda guy :v ...he just wants to go back to bed. 

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Chapter 6 Page 22

This one's a little late, but the next 3 pages are already in the works so hopefully I'll have some early sneak peaks for patrons soon! (one of them you can find on the discord already)

I'm super excited for what's about to come 8) 8) 8) Also this last line might be Vitaly's most punchable moment 

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Chapter 6 Page 20-21

This scene got expanded to two pages which is bad news for general public, but good news for patrons as I got them done in one go :v 

Also can I just say Filo's hair is my least favourite thing to draw in D&W? I don't think I ever got a hang of it.

Tatar's rage faces though, that brings me great joy.

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Chapter 6 Page 19

Filo's IN TROUBLE

Those faces were a lot of fun to draw. 

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Chapter 6 Page 18

Poor Troy. Not only she's officially homeless, but her surname also happens to contain one of Russian's finest swearwords. If Io gets to a script commentary of this chapter you'll get to learn a lot more of how the Grand Unyl hotel is supposed to look, but I'm afraid I didn't manage to give it justice. 

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Steel Toes

Currently putting Issue 2 of BPA together and I realised there was some empty space I didn't want to use any of my old art for, so I drew a little spot illustration that double as a tribute to my favourite boots.

Growing up in Riga, Latvia, and back in early-00s teenage goths and metalheads were everywhere (and yes, i was one of them). Like, if you went to one of the central parks or the old town you were guaranteed to see a crowd of them sooner or later. (they eventually started gettin...

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Chapter 6 Page 17

Sure hope I'm not on some weird list after googling capsule makers yesterday.


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Chapter 6 Page 16

Troy and Dan are taking turns getting tortured by Stradanian authorities this chapter. 

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Chapter 6 Page 15

My hand's been giving me troubles so this update too a day longer than it should've.  Really not doing a great job at rebuilding that buffer, huh.

Nice to draw the trio again though. Hopefully next time they show up i'll get to change up their colour scheme - NoKool's shirt is ruined, now everyone has to change :v

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Chapter 6 Page 14

Aaaand we're back on our bullshit.

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Chapter 6 Page 13

New page! I wrapped up my freelance thing this month so our schedule should stabilise for a bit. 

Dan just couldn't catch a break, could he?

This week we finally got to use those licences i designed years ago in action (though the body mod one was used in one of our Wirepedias before)

Full version: ( i really should've redone that signature in cyrillic but OHWELL)

Apparen...

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Chapter 6 Page 12

I wasn't going to finish a page this week, but once I started I felt compelled to keep going. So there we have it.

Dan's torturing people with his unconventional taste in, uh, auditory experiences again. But this is what you get for spying on folks, I guess.

This week's OST as suggested by Io 

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Happy Birthday / Almost Death Day to Dan

That's right! 19th of April is both Dan's birthday and the day he got hit by the worm. HE'D BE 48 IN 2019. Thankfully in the comic we barely went through a month worth of events in all these years, so...guess he'll never hit his 25th birthday at this rate.

I should really come up with birthdays for other members of the cast, too - or at least the most prominent ones.

Also, sorry there hasn't been an update this week. I'm currently working on a page, but it's running late. I'll pro...

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Chapter 6 Page 11

Sorry for the late update! I really need to catch up and build up the page buffer so we can have early access again, but i'm just so slow, especially now that i'm trying to draw part 2 of Blue Pill Arcade in the background. 

The newspaper title is pretty much an exact translation of a protest that occured in Russia where a small group of mostly religious people protested against having digital IDs as well as a bunch of other stuff. We don't even have to make this stuff up anymore.<...

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Chapter 6 Page 10

I'm so tired, i can't even come up with a commentary for this. But i kind of hope some of the comments we get this week won't be about luggage. 

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Chapter 6 Page 9

So sorry for delaying this update. I really hope I can build up a patreon-only buffer again in the coming weeks!

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Chapter 6 Page 8

Sorry, this one took me a while! Between doing first con of the year and drawing more BPA time kind of got away from me. Speaking of BPA, there is an update in the making and you can find works in progress on our patreon-only discord channel! 

But yes, I love drawing dogs as much as I hate drawing all those damn screens. It's a trade-off, I guess.

Also I think this is the most patrons we've had possibly ever? I'd have to check, but yeah..128 is a nice number :D Thank you, eve...

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Chapter 6 Page 7

Our buffer has run out over the past couple of weeks with my freelance stuff, but hopefully we can get back on track this week! Here's a new page where Sandman decided to drag Shitparade all the way underground just to show him all of his dogs 

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Chapter 6 Page...3.5?

Yes, we did actually go back to make an extra page for this scene. People seemed pretty convinced Dan's implant is gonna get weird so i figured, you know what, they're right. Why skip this perfect excuse to draw some weirdness, especially since I don't get to draw that very often? I kind of mused about the sequence not being complete and Io suggested actually doing an in-between page, so...here it is...

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Chapter 6 Page 5

..I don't know why this page took me so long, but i've been trying to get it done for a solid week. Must be the opening shot!

I had some issues squeezing in lettering but I think I just about managed.

Hopefully we'll eventually have Lin's campaign posters available as print, but as of now we're still figuring out what to put on them.

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Lin's Day - Full Version (Hourly Comic)


2019-02-03 19:15:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 6 Page 4

Man, this page took me so long and i don't even know why, though having more than 1 panel of involved backgrounds usually doesn't help. At least i'm more or less happy with it! 

And yes, i believe this is the first time in the main comic that SIM got a proper speaking line. ABOUT TIME.

Certificate detail 

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Livestream

Sorry, this is much later than scheduled originally. But i figured i should still do it - even if im in very early stages of work on this next page!

UPD: just realised ive been streaming and this post never actually went through. DAMN

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Chapter 6 Page 3

Lin: definitely not someone you want to mess with in D&W

You might be wondering where the gold tooth came from - well, this was kind of a last minute stretch goal for our Kickstarter campaign that I made almost for  a joke. Well, the joke is now canon :p Though don't ask me for continuity issues with the last chapter. SOMETIMES GOLD TEETH JUST HAPPEN

I know Dan wasn't looking, uh, electrocute...

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Livestream

Going live now - sorry for the delay, had some household stuff to deal with :)

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Livestream!

Hey, my streaming app decided to install some updates but hopefully it wont take too long!

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Digital Serenity Elite

Honestly it always bummed me out that I never had the time to draw these three outside of the main comic even though they're super fun to draw (EXCEPT FOR THIS THIRD GUY I HATE HSI HAIR). So i took a couple of evenings to just do some slow sketching where I don't have to rush anything and can just enjoy making marks. That's...another thing I never do anymore. 

Anyway, at some point i figured that Dreamspaece and NoKool are PROBABLY sorta hooking up even if they annoy each other, be...

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Chapter 6 Page 2

That awkward moment when you hijack the wrong car, or any car that has Lin in it.

I think we figured out a pretty good way to have more Lin in the comic - hopefully it pans out. People love Lin. I love Lin. It's gotta be a win/win 8)

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