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Pulse 385 WIP 1

In the last panel, I think Lucy will say something like "You're taking this well, almost too well".

A Day Off No Matter What page 3

I thought I had more choice in the color of their bathing suits, but had forgotten you could see the colors on previous pages.  I made the choices before.

Pulse 384

We'll see Dr. Mae and Charlotte's apartment next.

Pulse 384 WIP 3

Rolling along.

Pulse 384 WIP 2

Moving forward with this.

Pulse 384 WIP 1

In the lower panels, Dr. Mae drives up in her car.  Annie and Lucy either walk up, or get into the car.  Then Charlotte walks up or gets in to the car in the last panel.

Pulse 383

I thought that Charlotte should be in ways a mix of Annie and Lucy... or that there are parts of each of them in her.  One thing Annie has displayed before is she'll accept science-fiction ideas as being possible.  I'm not sure if clones exist in this world, or if they've ever seen one, but I thought both would jump to a fantastical possibility.

Lucy is always the realist, keeping everyone else grounded.

I was going to have a real explanation here from Lucy about Annie, ...

Pulse 383 WIP 5

Hopefully I can get the rest of this done during Friday?

Pulse 383 WIP 4

Most of what's left is in the lower panels, and the dialog.  I need to really take my time with the dialog because I think it needs to be really funny.  In terms of writing, you always have to be the most careful with jokes, because being funny is more complicated than being sad or dramatic.

Pulse 383 WIP 3

Lower panels still seem pretty unfinished.  I should probably finish the dialog before I start finishing them so I know how much room I have left over, etc.

Annie looks too busty in panel 2, or not busty enough in the other panels.

Pulse 383 WIP 2

More progress, still need to rework and add to the dialog.

Pulse 383 WIP 1

I had originally planned for this to take place on only half of the page and then move on to something else in the other half, but realized that was too much.  I expanded the lower panels, but haven't written the dialog yet.

Annie has a weird way of looking at things, and accepts fictional ideas as possible often.  Like when she was frozen in the pool early in the comic, she wondered if she'd wake up far in the future.  I thought Charlotte might share that trait, to allow...

Pulse 382

I have to be careful with Charlotte, the cast is already so female, I have to try to give her a unique place and personality among the cast.

When Annie and Tabitha both have upgraded suits, they'll be C-class- and instead of two person teams, they have to be on three person teams.  Charlotte here will be their third, but not until after they've competed with the other girls and each of them gets a special power out of it.

I don't know if this is a weird way to introduce Charl...

Pulse 382 WIP 4

After this page, things will get funny.

Pulse 382 WIP 3

I think a new rule is that if a page is late, all Patreons can see the WIPs of that page until it's complete.

Part of me thinks the last panel should have been Charlotte just seeing Annie's chest, but it didn't seem possible because Charlotte is almost a foot taller than Annie.  I'm also considering that Lucy is holding out of hands in the second to last panel as if to indicate Annie's chest, but Charlotte doesn't understand.

In the third panel, that was originally going to c...

Pulse 382 WIP 2

This'll be late, but making progress.

Pulse 382 WIP

I was originally going to have Annie dressed up as a nurse costume, and the hospital was forcing her to leave and change her clothes.  But I thought I needed to focus on her drone being broken.

Checkered Bikini 2020 WIP

Started working on this, not quite sure what it should be like exactly.  Although I thought I should imitate the pose of the first one.  ...Maybe Annie should be smiling more...

Any thoughts welcome.  I'm not sure if I should draw someone else from Pulse behind her, maybe even all three of Lucy, Charlotte and Tabitha?  Or should it be important scenes from Pulse?  Or show Annie as Pulse and Annie and Jungle Girl?

Pulse 381

I wasn't sure what kind of path to take to put Charlotte in with the regular cast, so I thought just having her run into Lucy was the fastest direction.

This originally was going to end with Lucy start crying- but based on the other panels, and the theme of the page, Charlotte asking her for help seemed like a better fit.

I think we'll get a lot of talking on the next page, reminding people of things, where they are, then Charlotte and Annie running into each other, both with surp...

Pulse 381 WIP 4

Just been really busy.  I'll be really upset if this page doesn't make it for this week.

I'm not quite sure about the last panel yet.

I still need to clean up the shadow layer, and fix mistakes in the flat colors.  Then add the extra layers, lettering, etc.

Pulse 381 WIP 3

What I've got so far.  I've changed the last panel, I might change it again.  I'm not sure if Lucy should be shocked, or crying.

Pulse 381 WIP 1 & 2

Way behind.  Couldn't upload this the other day because Patreon wouldn't load.  I have a newer version of the page, but I'll have a little window to work on it, and I'll upload the newest version once I'm done for the day.

What's happening is that she's laying in bed listening to the doctors debating the situation, and sneaks out-- running into Lucy, who was completely unaware of what was going on.

Pulse 380

I don't know if Charlotte is the one everyone expected Connor would pick, but she was the obvious choice story-wise.

She's connected not to a side-character, but to the main character.  Also, when Annie and Tabitha both become C-Class, they'll need to have a third on their team.  Delphi would have been too powerful as a B-Class, but Charlotte is just right.  She also throws the current dynamic out of whack too, as I expect she was sort of in the Tabitha position with Anni...

Pulse 380 WIP 3

Getting closer.

Pulse 380 WIP 1 & 2

I made enough progress I tried to save this at two different points.

Pulse 379

That last panel didn't come out as clear as I originally planned.  I wanted it to be obvious he noticed Charlotte, but it looks like he's looking in a different direction.  Might want to edit it, but don't have time to change it right now.

I'm kinda worried the lower panels need dialog.

Pulse 379 WIP 5

Made progress, but didn't have enough time to knock this out.

Pulse 379 WIP 3 & 4

Couldn't access Patreon yesterday to upload WIP 3, I waited until the clearly busy internet time of 7:00 am.  So I'm uploading this earlier, even if I have more time to work on it today.

Pulse 379 WIP 2

Not much of it is inked yet, but a lot of it is roughly drawn.

This page requires referencing a lot more older pages than you'd think.  We already saw the teleporter in a panel where Thomas was explaining to Annie what had happened to him, and Delphi needs to be in the same pose as before, and I'm not sure if I have Charlotte turned the correct way (I'll have to look back at the first chapter for that).  I also need to look at pages with Delphi and Connor to remind myself of t...

Pulse 379 WIP 1

A pretty early version of the page, but it's as far as I'll be able to get today.  It's mostly visual-driven, so I haven't added the dialog yet.

I don't know if it's hard to follow.  In the upper panels, Zane has given Connor the part from the Silver Dragon's suit that allows him to teleport.  Connor then teleports to the valley with all of the petrified heroes.  Trying to avoid people with flashlights searching, he makes his way to Delphi.  But once there, he n...