
I’ve enjoyed having someone else do the base artwork for this comic for a while now. But I realized I’m doing so much by myself, I’m really only a couple steps from doing the whole thing myself. So I tried to do so this week. For the first time since “004: Introduction (Part 4)”, this was done start to finish solely by myself.
I also decided to try a couple new things. First off, I slightly modified my normal palette to better fit the night time outdoors location of this comic. Second, I sacrificed a little horizontal area in each panel so I could have the panels separated. I don’t know if I’ll stick with the first change, but the second one will probably be permanent.

I’m still not 100% sure what audience I’m going for here. I try not to use curse words, but when it came to talking about someone dying… I wasn’t sure if I should. Obviously the only real course of action is to not only go for it, but make The Stapler look rather heartless in the process!

(Just in case you don’t want to click on the comic and read that upside-down text on the book that The Stapler is holding, it says it’s a sketchbook.)

Those middle couple panels are a bit busy. I probably should’ve edited it so The Stapler & Calculator were farther away from the screen they’re watching. Oh well, I’m still learning.

The joke here is a little too easy, but this is more of a set up to the next mini-arc anyway.

I should really put more effort into these backgrounds…

I’m a little worried that last panel isn’t totally obvious. Seth/Staple-Man/The Copier did a strong two handed downward attack but The Stapler quickly dodged to the side and chopped the back of Seth’s neck to end the fight in one hit.