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Choose Your Own Pipventure II Round 2

The voting for round 1 was pretty much unanimous so Pip has been shipped off to succubus army camp and Lust is set to rescue him... eventually.

So now that Pip is trying to not shame his species, it's time for more options on where the story goes from here:

1: What should Pip's succubus discipline be? 

Is Pip to be trained as an enchantress,  dream walker,  or fashionista? Or do you have your own suggestion?

2: What kind of demon should Pip's ...

Summer Art Trade Part 2

It's time for batch two of the summer art trades! Half of the trades are now in!

DaFuze- The Victorian era may have given us the fanciest of fashions and dresses, but their swimwear wasn't the greatest. Although, slap that on a robotic space cat with a fake mustache and you have something going on.

Visit Fuze's comic at:

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Mercs With The Finest Of Pixels

A reader suggested I post the full-sized versions of the Mercs pages before I shrink them to do the text and posting. Since it's typically a good idea to cave to peer pressure, I have now done so. If this is something people are interested in, I can start uploading these alongside the typical month's pages. Let me know your take on it!

I was mulling over titling the post with something about full-sized Mercs/extra curvy/full figured but they all sounded more creepy than cheeky.

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Sleep is going into boss mode with minions, phases to the fight, and there’s probably a quick time event in there somewhere!

We also posted a new Mercynaries page ( http://topwebcomics.com/vote/4549 ) , and a review of Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris !

Quick Critique: Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris

I was a big fan of Guardian of Light when it first came out, but going back to it for our end of PS3 retrospective, it lost a lot of its shine on a second playthrough. Because of that, I held off on getting Temple of Osiris when it first came out but now it's on sale and there's some time between me and the first game, so I jumped back in. And from the very first impression, this is the Tomb Raider I like. Classic, fun Lara, mystical macguffins and cursed artifacts, and nobody even blinks an eye...

Choose Your Own Pipventure Round 2

I'm finishing up a new Mercs story, so I thought it would be fun to start up the next project. The last CYOP was good times for all with its videomancers and squid cheerleaders, so let's do another one!

As mentioned last time, Lust is really good at contract negotiations. Our new tale begins as Pip is taken away by a demonic social worker...

Same event rules as last time! Patreon members will get to pick the options for how the story progresses and then we'll take those options to th...

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Nothing says punching like head on fire punching!

We also posted a new Mercynaries page ( http://topwebcomics.com/vote/4549/default.aspx ) , the summer art trade, and a review of Prototype!

Quick Critique: Prototype (PS4)

I had fond memories of Prototype being a fun pseudo-super hero game where you had a bunch of fun powers and maneuverability options, but after playing the HD version, it either doesn't even remotely hold up or I was incredibly wrong the first time I played it. The gameplay is broken on many levels. Missions are boring, the camera is horrid, the only way the game can be difficult is to give enemies tons of health or constantly spawn dozens of them in, you're constantly being knocked to the ground...

Last Month On Sins May 2016

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The Sins have their Maydays behind them and it’s smooth sailing into summer. Hidden villages, secret gods, and hidden secret heads are all mixed in with the other things up on the site last month!

June 2016 Mercynaries

Thanks again to our Patreon members for helping support the site and keep the extra projects going! We'll hopefully be able to finish up the summer art trades this month and there's a new illustrated story to post! Stay tuned!

And in this month's Mercs, we put the focus back on Mercy and Ruth themselves. They've made plenty of contacts among some questionable types across their missions, and now Mercy may be losing her way!

Summer Art Trade Part 1

It's time for the first part of the summer art trades! I wanted to post them in larger batches but so far only two people have followed through. It didn't seem fair to make them wait any longer, so here we go! 

PainfulElegy- Having golem hands with hard interlocking parts would probably make doing braids a bit difficult. And lead to several clumps of hair caught between some rocks. Hoffi will just need ANOTHER makeover to set things right.

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The Sins fight the natural urge to punch random strangers! And we discover Lust’s not-caring is the most powerful force in the world. Take THAT, friendship!

We also posted a new Mercynaries page ( http://topwebcomics.com/vote/4549/default.aspx ) , a review of Runbow, and a Mercynaries game, Materiel Girl!

Materiel Girl

It's game time in the Mercyverse once again! Guide the path of a daring thief that gets more than he bargained for but probably what you're expecting after breaking into what should have been an abandoned laboratory in a new choose your own adventure style tale in the world of Mercynaries. There are three endings, dependent on how many labs you get through, the choices you make, and how well you do in the final confrontation.

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Quick Critique: Runbow

We finish off the Nintendo Humble Bundle reviews on a low note!

Quick Critique: Runbow

Runbow is fundamentally not fun from the ground up. The sole nice thing I can say about is that the villain has a really neat look. That's kind of all she has because there's no story, but hey, she has cool hair. Runbow is set up like a fast-paced platformer, but there's a delay from when you push a button to when you act, you don't hit the ground smoothly when landing (there's a short stutter ...

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The Sins discover that puppets are creepy even when they’re not ventriloquist dummies and that people speaking in unison are creepy even when they’re not a barbershop quartet!

We also posted a new Mercynaries page ( http://topwebcomics.com/vote/4549/default.aspx ) , a review of Shadow Complex, a bonus What I...

Mercs What If... BE Fighter

Our bonus art for the week looks further into the good that the Mercs bring unto the world. Where would the hapless fighter from There Can BE Only One be without the help of the Mercynaries? His villain would have succeeded and he'd be stuck in an endless contest to serve her. The world would probably be under the thumb of Amazonian super ladies! And I'm sure everybody would totally hate that. Go back and read the story on Sins if you missed it the first time!

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Quick Critique: Shadow Complex

Action-exploration games are most definitely my scene, so with Shadow Complex going multiplatform, it was time to check it out. It definitely skews more towards the Metroid than then -vania side of the spectrum and that's not my preferred weighting. Using guns instead of melee gets boring more quickly and the way SC handles long rooms means that you get hit by enemies that you can't see because they're three screens away. Guns also prevent me from giving into the magical realism as deeply so it ...

Art Trades

Depending on how things go this week, I might have some free time to do some art trades. If you want to do a trade and draw some Sinsy things, shoot me a message here or an email and we can set something up! aschloss@gmail

Site Survey

After a batch of crunch time at work and burning through some of my backlog, I've been thinking about changing things up on the site and wanted to get feedback from the Patreon squad. The way it currently works is that Mercs goes up on TWC on Monday for non-contributing members, then Sins on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and bonuses projects are few and far between. I was thinking about changing it to Sins on Monday and Wednesday with Mercs on TWC on Friday and doing more side projects. Patreon...

Quick Critiques: Affordable Space Adventures and Citizens of Earth

We continue our looks at another batch of games in the Nintendo Humble Bundle! Cheap and disappointing!

Affordable Space Adventures

ASA was definitely not what I expected. It looked like a kind of Metroidvania game built around exploring an alien world, but it's really just a rudimentary puzzle game build around fiddling with menus and touch/motion gimmicks. A "puzzle" is that you encounter a trap that detects heat, sound, or electricity so you micromanage your menus until you di...

May 2016 Commission

We have a brand new commission this month thanks to the support of all our Patreon members! Thank you for your support!

This month's absolutely gorgeous picture comes to us thanks to Kevin Raganit. I highly, highly recommend checking out the higher resolution version for the fantastic coloring in the picture. You can visit Kevin's gallery at:

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The Sins face off against their toughest enemy yet: some disembodied wisps of souls long faded. But they’re pretty sassy!

We also posted a new Mercynaries page ( http://topwebcomics.com/vote/4549/default.aspx ) , concept art for a lost Gamics world, a monthly wrap, a review of Darksiders 2, and declared I am ...

Gamics MC

Our bonus art for the week is some art for the SinGamics world. If there had been more interest in the games, the idea was that Gamics would be its own world with characters' stories told through games and a way to have crossovers from Sins, DDG, and Mercs without hurting those stories' normal flow. The Gamics world was run by the MC and his aides were minions he called the Script Doctors. Lust would have been a big fan of customizing the little guys.

I know I wanted to go with either a comica...

Quick Critique: Darksiders 2

I didn't spend a lot of time with Darksiders 2, primarily because that is a game that just doesn't work right. It hard locked the system five seconds after starting it for the very first time. I hadn't even gotten into the game; it was just the THQ splash screen and that's where it locked up. Then it locked up on me AGAIN not an hour later while I was in the first dungeon and I called it quits. It took me longer to download the game than the time I actually spent playing. And because it crashed ...

May 2016 Mercynaries

Welcome fine Patrons to Mercs May! Which is just like regular May only slightly more alliterative. Boom! It was a secret two-parter! It's a harsh world when you can't even trust a demon hunting king. And maybe the world would be a better place if we just left the succubi in charge of us.

Thanks for your kind support of the site and keeping us going! Next month will be a bit more Mercy and Ruth plot-heavy, so stay tuned! And there's a commission request out thanks to the money raised by the...

April 2016 On Sins

Just as the Sins have come to conquer this island, they have conquered the month of April. Still so... so bitter about a lack of Cadbury Mini Eggs. But we still managed to do all this for the month!

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The Sins do some good in this world! Depending on whether you consider delivering booze good or not! And they run into some old friends... or enemies... or fans?

We also posted a new Mercynaries page ( http://topwebcomics.com/vote/4549/default.aspx ) , Mercynaries What If art, and a critique of Shadow Hearts Cov...

Mercs What If... Glamera

A little more Mercs What If bonus art today! Mystical gems and super powers don't really get the concept of enough is enough. But think of the defense she has now! No goon is ever going to sneak up behind her and that hair probably protects her from all kinds of hits! Sure she can't run anymore, but defense!

Look Back: Shadow Hearts Covenant

I've been replaying some PS2 games, and you know what, Shadow Hearts is still pretty neat. It's a game that revels in being weird. It focuses on being disturbing rather than scary or threatening and the creatures are more into looking bizarre than going for being gross. I'd want to call the designs Lovecraftian but that's selling it short. One of the first bosses you fight is a spider whose legs and mandibles are made out of fingers and its head is a distorted human face. That's messed up in a w...

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The Sins are quite clearly complete masters of disguise and apparently also good negotiators able to talk down a guy with a knife. Evil has many uses!

We also posted a new Mercynaries page ( http://topwebcomics.com/vote/4549/default.aspx ) , Lust swap commission art, and a critique of Ratchet and Clank!