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MTIO Episode III Revised Edition

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E3R Release Date Jan 28th

I got work tomorrow, crunching tonight is a bit too much. Monday can be hectic, so I set the 28th as security.

And the 28th I'll upload and do spot fixes if necessary. My writing falls off a cliff when I'm tired, so gotta be realistic here. 🙈

Here's some pics from the work schedule, including the page intended to be this week's Sunday GP

Some more random insight

E2 of Berserk Forces had the same problem as E3

Sometimes planning a cool action set piece is so exhilarating the thumbnails end up like storyboards.

I had a hunch I had made the mistake twice or 3 times. Thankfully I grew out of this phase. (Ironically this sequence was planned alongside E3R)

It's like a drug for comic artists. I'm one dude, not a studio. Storyboard/Key frame action works for 6 pages or so but 10 or 15? Disaster haha.

Sunday GP #3

Grinding E3R, and organizing the work detail for the next wave of comics.

Right now with all the new elements being introduced, I’m reactivating ‘cartoons’ to get habitual with the pace and dynamics. And tbh with attrition of E3R, I need a lil outlet for everything passing through my head.

MTIO: General Update

- Grinding the last splash panels of EIIIR
- Completed the minor edits to IV
- Aiming to finish IV's new pages for a quick upload after EIIIR

Up Next:
- Episode VI
- Berserk Forces: Episode Zero
- Crossbones: Stay With Me + Field Guide Entry
- Versus
- UNSC Cahow Field Guide (depending on how Crossbones goes, I might make it a story/field guide with plot pages)

Sunday GP #2

First from E3R

Second from B-Forces

Third from the Field Guides

MTIO: Revision Work Insight

E3R is the only outright 'remake', after release the OG workslot returns to corrections, retcons and sometimes kitbashing.

Example: Admiral Hulk's hand is fine, so I redrew the arm/hand to give to a later panel. Fixing to problems with 1 drawing.

MTIO: General Update V2

My work schedule will kick in on the 17th. And I'll likely be working before then.

Just had to catch up on sleep (logged 23 hours since Friday)

V2: More WIPs, just to showcase how much work E3R is blocking up. Gotta get through this so I can get the stockpiled works through to readers.

MTIO: Cigarette Break 2555 AD

Day job got super busy, will still upload cartoons, updates and art.

MTIO: Full Metal Brat Insight

We’re entering the bulk of the original story. I didn’t expect my halo comics to gain traction like this, so I invested in making the most of the readership while I had it.

The Inheritors (First half of the insurrection arc)

The Ocean’s Great Waves (We are here)

The Crisis of Our Time (The conclusion of Full Metal Brat/the 2nd half of the Insurrection Arc)

(Then the later half of this story became Berserk Forces)

So going forward, what makes this easier is...

MTIO: Cigarette Break 2538

Note: Cigarette Breaks are 'Canonized' dev works. It's low priority Revision work, but they are flagged for redraws/Polish.

MTIO: Captain Jessey, Zim & Singh

Note: Captain Jessey's hair has been changed to avoid confusion with Badger (the red haired pilot readers will meet in later episodes)

Note (2nd Image): This preexisting design was shifted to Jessey, and the one in the cartoon was edited to fit Badger

PE-OG Briefing: The Crossbones (2 Pages)

Just like the Gun-Yak, when I complete the Crossbones episodes, the sketches will be compiled into the Field Guide.

As per V/Z Plan, eventually finished pages will represent upcoming titles rather than WIPs. This makes me feel much better too!

Added a 2nd page, cause helps showcase the rhythm.

V/Z Plan: Enhanced EIIIR PV + insight & Progress Works

3 pages left 😵‍💫

Insight: Ep3R was designed when I had higher ambitions and less experience. So it's a high effort grind;
rather than break myself on it, ive went ahead and got the rest of the story ready.

And I've come back to finally get over this hump. The easy route puts too much pressure on the middle portions of the story, so this 'restoration' + additions, is a good way to not only repair the later story, but set up the later parts, now that they actually exis...

MTIO Archive: Heroes of 1000 Fronts (Merry Christmas!) (3 Pages)

Note: There are more pages from this project that I can finish and add, I've slotted these in as revision work (and if that doesn't meet the deadline, I'll move it to an archive time slot).

The progenitor to MTIO was a retelling of Halo CE, but it would begin on the autumn and follow Johnson until his death. Then I thought about assimilating my Silent Storm drawings as well as photobashing environments and toys… but each experiment, ended up with some a lil too weird to invest in. <...

Berserk Forces Archive [40k]: Winter War

Berserk Forces was originally a 40k story, these illustrations were the furthest I got into developing it as such. Main reason I decided not to, was simply market saturation. There’s lots of official and non-official 40k comics out there, I decided to stay in my lane!

MTIO: Sunday GP #1

these comics give you a spoiler free progress update while I can practice writing too.

Ie I’m working on the Crossbones Field Guide and how it ties into the plot today.

Next:

3 more pages of Episode III revised need to be completed, and then it’s Episode VI and your first taste of B-Forces with Episode Zero in the main work slot.

V/Z Plan, is to give cohesive ‘tour' of the project as I hit the bigger episodes, it’s the Season 1, but you get a glance into t...

MTIO Versus: General Update & Notes

- Project stemmed from trying to learn anatomy for Berserk Forces fight scenes and character dev sketches.
- They're mini comics that depict canonical events from POVs not seen in the main comic.
- Only 3 thus far. I'm open to making more should the feedback be good.
- They get alarming violent, might catch some users off guard so I will preface them with a content warning.

I have an episode slotted to release in the V/ZPlan of MTIO.

- I might put Dani V Hestia in B...

MTIO General Update

At a point where WIPs will spoil happenings I intended for the reading experience. Ie the later pages of Episode III Revised.

- Dev work for Versus & Berserk Forces is wrapping up, and I'm preparing for the switch from doing Revision work on Full Metal Brat, to launching Episode Zero and hopefully alternating Berserk Forces and Full Metal Brat.

This is another attempt at a multi comic release (to see if it's possible and how long a backlog lasts). XCOM and Hyper War were t...

Killer Elite: Special Warfare Schools of 26th Century ‘Headhunters’ (Assembly WIP)

Taking my dev notes, and creating lore/narrative scenes with them. This took a bit longer than my time budget allowed so I have to move on.

Killer Elite will have a proper polished release with new art after episode zero, in this there is a one pager from Versus too - I had to screen for spoilers, but give a real glimpse into MTIO with better context than simple WIPs

Update: 2 extra Pages of relevant art
Update 2: Character Design Sheet

MTIO Berserk Forces News

- Episode Zero, and some surprise updates will move forward when the revision work is completed (mostly Episode III Revised, the rest is minor background work)

- Kind of like the upcoming Crossbones comics and versus there's a fun mix of new formats I can try out leading up to the main story, which will run after Full Metal Brat.

- there are 'crossovers' but it's the same universe and cast so the continuity will be easy to keep track of

MTIO Archive: Airframes, SpacePlanes & VTOLs (12 Pages)

The narrative driven ‘updates’ are still being written, alongside the general progress of the episodes. Yet there are still brand new drawings I can show you as well as a more detailed a pleasant way to get insight into this project.

These I can update with new pages and sketches once they accumulate.

Progress Update Change V5

Rather than upload WIPs, I got a fun experiment I'm gonna try. If it goes fubar, then more WIPs till I'm done.

Update: A lil peek into the screentesting I'm doing to make the armor systems easier to draw

Update V3: more sketches
Update V5: More sketches

MTIO V/Z Plan Progress V5

(Images did not upload in order like I had hoped, will rearrange them later on)

- Episode III Revised nearing completion

- Field Guide entry "The Crossbones", will have plot centric comic pages, so it's not strictly worldbuilding anymore.

- Episode V has new color corrected pages, new art and Lineart

- Episode VI will continue the main plot.

- Berserk Forces Episode Zero, is undergoing some rewrites

- no changes to Versus, still on track to be wi...

MTIO Progress Update V3

Various glimpses into each MTIO comic project.
-Updated again with more images
(Spoilers have been omitted from these)

The Shadow of the Hyper War: General Update V2

- Longer Episodes
- Original Story
- It's being Polished

If there was any evidence for me being clinically insane, it would be having constructed two comics at the same time. (3 if you count XCOM)

Update V2: Interior Page Draft added, Mecha designs and power armor designs

1 Year of MTIO

Thanks for being here and helping me realize this project!

MTIO: Cigarette Break 2555 AD (Panel Test)

Included the textless version too
Enjoy your week!

MTIO: Berserk Forces General Update

Episode Zero will introduce a lot of concepts that will be new for both veteran and new fans.

Headhunter Clans, Section IV and the deep lore I have yet to see any Halo content revisit or discuss in depth.

Lots of fun, real insane and surprisingly pensive.

MTIO Archive: Operation Silent Storm (Comic Page Tests)

This was my first attempt at a Halo fan comic circa 2018. This project was where I originally envisioned the expanded aesthetic that evolved into the 88th and B111. 'Proto-MTIO' I suppose, there's even an early version of Krease in these works.

The events of Operation Silent Storm will reappear in Full Metal Brat: the tragedy of the Black Daggers is a defining piece of history for several characters... (Nudge nudge, wink, wink)

It's been a blast to revisit this initial attempt...