Whoops! Sorry, been busy this past week.

Between family in town to visit and just general life stuff, finished this one up a tad late :\

A new chapter! A new look!

I really like trying out new stuff with MitM, and this chapter is gonna be a real doozy! Between new upcoming characters, some all-around new artistic style changes, and a heavy dose of challenging writing; I’m definitely a bit nervous for this one. I think it’ll be fun (at least for me), but it might get a bit messy. Although if you’ve made it this far in the comic, I suppose that’s nothing new 😛

The last thing I should probably briefly touch on is the new lettering. My handwriting is something I’ve never been terribly fond of and the typical lower case sometimes leaves the word bubbles with some unnecessary gaps. So I decided I wanted to give “ALL CAPS” a shot.

Not sure what I think yet. Will report back after a few more pages this way…

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Huzzah! I can’t believe it!! Chapter 6 is finally complete!!!

How about some fun silly stats (partially because I was curious myself):

It stands at a whopping 41 pages total, that’s 2 more pages than Chapter 2 (which used to hold the record for the longest chapter). There are 545 word bubbles (you know, give or take like 10ish in case I miscounted. I ain’t about to do a word count though). It took 6 years to complete (yikes!), and the page-to-year spread looked something like this…

• 2017 – 14 pages (alright! and 34 for the whole year if you include the pages from the previous chapter)
• 2018 – 11 pages (meh, almost once a month, I guess)
• 2019 – 5 pages (oh no)
• 2020 – 2 pages (oh my)
• 2021 – 2 pages (not again)
• 2022 – 2 pages (I’m sensing a pattern)
• 2023 – 5 pages (hey, at least I went back to matching 2019)

So in review, I never want another chapter to take that long >.<;

Setting aside the time it took to finish, I actually think the length wasn’t too bad though. Chapter 2’s length definitely bugs me. Chapter 6 has a large selection of different characters in jumps between, a lot of dialogue that advances plot and motives, and a fair share of action later on. Chapter 2, on the other hand, dragged out to its length largely because I had trouble figuring how to wrap it up :[

I do think the most notable art quality jump mid-chapter happens in 2 though, so I guess there’s that.

Anyways, now! Onward to Chapter 7!!

After all this extra time, I “totally” have the next chapter’s title already figured out…

*cough cough* O_O

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Surprise! A second update! WOW! :O

Really pushing hard to finish this chapter off swiftly since I’ve dawdled for so long. Almost there! Just like Dayton said,”I promise” xD

Had a lot of fun figuring out how to draw the smoke for the middle panel. I actually rather like how this page came out!

…minus…well…that 6th panel. That one was a disaster. There’s so much wrong I can’t even begin to discuss it >.<

Anyways, I also tried to dust off some rusty coding skills and make some small edits to the actual website. It’s probably due for a more competent fixing, but at least changed a few minor details that were bothering me. The server still gives me a PHP error message, BUT everything looks like it’s working, so I don’t want to touch it, haha. Although for some reason my cast page has been buggy recently (but I swear I didn’t touch that one at all!) >:[

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Huzzah! Another update strikes again!

Been thinking pretty seriously about making Saturdays my “official update days” for MitM. I know at some point way back Thursdays were when I updated, but it was never super easy to find where I said that…

So I’ll try to be better about that and place it more promanitely on the actual site and here on the blog. Anyways, this feels like the first page in quite some time with a good chunk of dialogue. I suppose you only really have to go a few pages back and you’ll find a few with a similar amount, but those were actually drawn so long ago for me, haha >.<;

Also definitely decided against the double line panel borders. Those were taking WAY TOO MUCH time to draw and required a bit more planing when it came to wrapping around stuff. I think I like the extra boldness that the big black borders give anyways.

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Hello everyone.

Not really sure if there’s anyone out there actually still reading, but I’m back with some more MitM pages, believe it or not! xD

Today’s date, May 23, 2023, marks the official 10 year anniversary of when I posted my first, finalized page online.

I originally started brainstorming, writing, and coming up with concept sketches way back in 2012 and eventually produced 5 pages in early 2013, that were later reworked into a 4 page spread that I would submit as a project for one of my art classes in college. After the class was finished in May, I posted them online and that’s when it feels like it really started ^^

As of recent, MitM’s been pretty silent (honestly since 2019), but it’s something I still regularly think about and random doodles of the characters populate my numerous sketchbooks all the time.

Remember how I mentioned I was testing the waters with a new inking style? (no? oh…well I suppose that was like 6 months ago…) Anyways, I’m leaning in the direction of something more akin to crosshatching. I like the boldness of the pen brush I used in the past, but there were several occasions that I felt it “muddied” the picture or would obscure too much detail. Want to at least try this approach for a few more pages before I make any hard decisions though…

Originally, I had considered having healing magic look fairly straightforward (and boring!), but I wanted to shake things up and choose something a bit more abstract/surreal. Sure, maybe it doesn’t make a ton of sense, but I felt that was more interesting than just “touch, glow, now you’re healed! it’s a miracle!” 😛

Hope y’all are well, and hopefully it’ll be much, much, much sooner than 6 months before another MitM page comes along xD

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>.<;

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