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027: Weapon Get (Part 10)

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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.

026: Weapon Get (Part 9)

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I felt like the staple gun was a little underwhelming and uninteresting to look at so I added a few more details to it. Good enough!

025: Weapon Get (Part 8)

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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!

Confused Memories

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My filler plan involves showing the first piece of Stapler artwork I ever made… just about 10 years ago! It all came from me playing with a real life stapler, opening the hinge so I could swing it around, and thinking I’d jokingly draw a hero that used that as a weapon. It all grew from there.

I thought that first piece of artwork showed The Stapler using a weapon similar to “Comic 022: Weapon Get (Part 5)”, but I seem to have confused my memories and now I see that he’s not wielding any such weapon. Weird! Oh well, enjoy!

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Other than the general idea of the thrusters that go around his ankles, he’s pretty different looking. And those thrusters haven’t even really been used in the comic!

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As you can see, the accent in his last name used to be over the E so it would be pronounced “Stay-play”, but I thought that sounded dumb and moved the accent to the A. Now it’s pronounced “Stah-pull”.

021: Weapon Get (Part 4)

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There’s too much dark color in the last panel and it’s blending together. I may increase my grayscale palette to 4 shades to avoid that problem in the future… Or just choose better colors for things and not trap myself into situations like this.

020: Weapon Get (Part 3)

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(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.)