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When my ancestors came to the US from Ireland, they came with a dream. A dream of not being killed in the 1919 war for independence. Today I celebrate that part of my heritage with a comic featuring no Irish people whatsoever.

This is nearly a week late, due to many outside interruptions and the slow dying of my computer (it's nearly six years old, and it's replacement is stacked in boxes downstairs, waiting to be built.) The paper I drew it on originally took the ink very poorly, and I spent much more time cleaning it up and working on it in general; even so I still shortcut the backgrounds as much as possible. Everything was drawn with minimal reference, except the JSF which is actually a photo doctored to look like a drawing, and therefore perfectly accurate. Pg.2 mature'd for almost showing something, but not quite.

It takes a real smarty to thwart the plans of the ninja. Lyta is just such a smarty.

Happy St. Patrick's Day,

~D
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Comments: 4

Bestevaer [2012-08-11 23:47:43 +0000 UTC]

Noticing the date this is a rather old comic, but just out of curiousity do you use a tablet? I've heard it's much easier than pen and paper.

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penguin-commando In reply to Bestevaer [2012-08-13 07:19:22 +0000 UTC]

I imagine it would be. It used to be the really good tablets cost more than I was willing to spend; I have an early generation Wacom around here somewhere, but it was about as pressure sensitive as the signature screens on credit card readers. That's not really true anymore, I guess.

I really just like the sensation of drawing directly onto paper. I'll probably give in eventually, because working on a tablet would eliminate a bunch of cleanup, but it would take some getting used to.

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Chuchulainn [2010-01-19 09:23:14 +0000 UTC]

Mmmmmm... sexy USAF officer...

Reminds me of Stargate. Well, naturally, the USAF ALWAYS reminds me of Stargate.

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Cat-girl-aholic [2008-03-22 14:59:51 +0000 UTC]

LOL...great fun so far. Good job with the composition and panels too.

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