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Dark Reflections: Chaos Page 101 - Dwarfed by Circumstances

Tiffany doesn't really expect them to recognise her, she can be a real troll sometimes!

Art by Studio Katsumi

Back at It

Art by Studio Katsumi

Story and lettering by Scott T. Hicken

The Art of Persuasion

Another piece of work that we're very privileged to have from Brett Neufeld of the webcomic Marble Gate Dungeon. It continues our future glimpses into the Dark Reflections: Chaos universe. Last we saw there, Tiffany and Peonie appeared to have had a falling out of sorts. Have things taken a turn for the better?

This image will be going up shortly where we post the bonus material 2021-10-05 18:45:41 +0000 UTC View Post

Dark Reflections: Zen - Page 104

Hot off the press! (I've only just received the completed page in the last few minutes!)

Art by Ale and Team

Story by Zen

Lettering by Scott T. Hicken

Dark Reflections: Chaos Page 100 - Below the Belt

Hot off the press!

We promise we're not being gratuitously profane just for the sake of it.

This is all building up to something and even the vulgarity is very calculated.

Hopefully you'll enjoy where we're ultimately going with all this.

Art by Studio Katsumi

The Day the Sky Fell

Art by Studio Katsumi

Story and lettering by Scott T. Hicken

Dark Reflections: Chaos Page 99 - Cliff Notes

Art by Studio Katsumi

Crazy Eyes For You

Art by Studio Katsumi

Story and lettering by Scott T. Hicken

More on Patreon rewards - Update!

So, now long now. I've been informed that the special bonus story for all patrons is on track with at least 36/64 pages completed. Estimated time of completion still projected for December 2021.

We're also trying to get as many Neese pages completed in time for December as well, the finish line for this story is finally starting to come into view, we hope! The aim is to drop as many pages as we can soon as well.

Exiern Shorts production also continues apace. Of course, other proje...

At Least No Tentacles This Time

Art by Studio Katsumi

Text and story by Scott T. Hicken

Update on Patreon rewards and tiers!

Not long to go now for all existing patrons to get the bonus 64 or so multipanel comic being made as we speak!

If you're still a patron in December or become a patron between now and then and have a nominal lifetime contribution, you will qualify for a copy to be mailed to you! (It's not being posted on the Patreon in the immediate future).

Now as for the current state of the Patreon tiers.

Following only (no payment) - we'll still try to have bonus artwork ...

Dark Reflections: Chaos Page 98 - The Wild (Industrialised) North

The thing about alternate worlds is that some things can parallel others quite closely and yet diverge quite greatly in others as we've already seen with a previous flash forward ...

This page is available several days early for Patreon thanks to the hard work of our artist!

We're aiming to get back to updates as quickly as possible on Wednesdays for Dark Reflections: Chaos.

Art by Studio Katsumi

Dark Reflections: Chaos Page 97 - Homestar Runner

Hot of the press!

Yes, we'll be fixing the rope tying Tiffany to Peonie in Panel 2 as soon as we can but we didn't want to keep you all waiting!

Art by Studio Katsumi

Good Coverage

Literally hot off the press!

Art by Studio Katsumi

Story and lettering by Scott T. Hicken

Retro Typh

An unexpected surprise I just received about 12 minutes ago from Sean Harrington of Spying With Lana as a thank you for participating in the Fourth Sexy Summer Swapmeet!

Typh from Exiern done Foxi Merlot style!

Sean said we could do (almost) anything we like with this image, so here it is!

You can see more of Foxi (and Lana!) at Sean's Patreon 2021-09-08 08:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Retro Tiff

An unexpected surprise I just received about 10 minutes ago from Sean Harrington of Spying With Lana as a thank you for participating in the Fourth Sexy Summer Swapmeet!

Tiffany from Dark Reflections done Foxi Merlot style! 

Sean said we could do (almost) anything we like with this image, so here it is!

You can see more of Foxi (and Lana!) at Sean's Patreon 2021-09-08 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Update Schedule for Now

Until we're able to get production back on track, we're aiming for updates to be the following:

Exiern - Every Friday

Dark Reflections: Chaos - Every Saturday

Dark Reflections: Zen - No change for now (still Tuesdays)

Dark Reflections: Chaos Page 96 - Though We Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death

... and at least this page is finally here!

Apologies for the delay!

Art by Studio Katsumi

Future updates for Dark Reflections: Chaos on Saturday for the website for now.

Updates on Patreon as soon as we get them.

Aiming to get back to Wednesdays as soon as we can!

Sad Mags

The page in finally done and all components fully integrated!

Thank you to Studio Katsumi for the art.

Thank you to Scott T. Hicken for the story and the lettering.

This will go up on the main website soon.

Until we get the update schedule sorted, we will be temporarily updating the Exiern website on Fridays at midnight American East Coat Time (so Thursday 9pm American West Coast Time).

Patreon will get the completed page as soon as possible.

We still hope ...

Dark Reflections: Chaos Page 96 - Though We Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death (draft)

Studio Katsumi is working really hard to get things back on track as fast as possible. We'll try to have the complete page up on the site and here as soon as we can!

Apologies again for the delay and thank you for your patience!

This Week's Exiern Page (art completed - week starting August 29th 2001)

We now have the completed artwork by Studio Katsumi.

It's now just a matter of Scott putting together the final version of the dialogue so we can post it on the site!

I was going to post the dialogue here but I get this alert when I try to do that:

"We have detected language in this post that may be outside of our community guidelines (pXXXXgraphic content). If you believe that this is not the case, you can continue to post it. This post may be reviewed by our Trust & Sa...

Atom Eve from Invincible by Studio Katsumi (open access downloadable version)

As coincidence  would have it, our main artist Studio Katsumi happened to make this for their Patreon at the same time one of our other frequent artists (and artist for Chapter 29) also happened to make an image for one of the $10 patron commissions based on the same character.

For some reason, this is tripping the NSFW automatic filter (unlike this month's Top Webcomics voting incentive ...

Atom Eve from Invincible by Studio Katsumi

As coincidence  would have it, our main artist Studio Katsumi happened to make this for their Patreon at the same time one of our other frequent artists (and artist for Chapter 29) also happened to make an image for one of the $10 patron commissions based on the same character.

For some reason, this is tripping the NSFW automatic filter (unlike this month's Top Webcomics voting incentive ...

This Week's Exiern Page (draft - week starting August 29th 2001)

Apologies for the delay of this week's Exiern page.

As promised, here's the draft of the artwork.

Thank you to Studio Katsumi and Scott for letting me publish this.

Final dialogue might change from this version to the completed artwork version.

Dark Reflections: Chaos is also delayed but will also hopefully be available in its completed form this week.

Blog 6: A Brief History of Exiern: Dark Reflections (Part 3)

It was while I was putting together the other two blog posts that I looked through the sites  where we're hosting various versions of Dark Reflections and realised there's some things that might interest people which I left out. 

So this post is a miscellaneous round up of sorts. It's also a chance to say where it might be going next (but as history has shown, plans are always subject to unexpected change!). I thought it might be easiest to break it up into sections based on t...

Script for the next Exiern page (30th August 2021)

We're running a bit behind with production for this week due to unforeseen circumstances but we hope to have the next page ready for everyone this week. In the interim, we hope you enjoy the next page of the story while we await its completion!

PAGE 186

Panel 1

Spiff has cornered a Seaman who looks turned on but also terrified of her. Spiff is practically pushing the bottle of oil into his hand.

SPIFF: You! Want to get my skin all shiny?

SEAMAN: Uh, we...

Neese 52

Apologies for the delay on the next Neese page.

We also appreciate the potential appeal of having different artists working on different parts of the Exiern universe but especially in the case of Neese, we just want to get this story finished as quickly as possible at this point. 

So whichever artist has a slot available to do a run is the situation at the moment. At this point, this means just about every major Exiern artist has contributed to Neese.

Art by Studio Kats...

Exiern Shorts 1: Upstairs Downstairs (3/3)

In the immortal words of Cordelia Chase from Buffy the Vampire Slayer in relation to puns being the lowest form of humour (paraphrased because I can't remember the exact quote) "Oh wait, here's a lower place."

I'm sure you can all do better! Hopefully this was educational at least.

Always ready for your submissions via the Patreon messaging system to the Exiern Patreon!

Art by Sean Harrington of Spying Wi...