Here we are; the finished product! So maybe this didn’t get done over the weekend, but I got it up for “optional-updates Tuesdays” (which I never use…)

It’s been a lot of fun writing out the dialogue and transitions for this conversation (including the next few coming pages). Having two conversations going on at the same time is difficult from a writing and artistic perspective.

I’m gonna try to keep the conversations related or mirrored in a way, so that it’s not completely unrelated and jumpy. We’ll just have see how it goes :\

Also more dark inside lighting. Yay. >:(

Cause Dayton is “hungry like the wolf!” XD
The classic rock fan in me couldn’t help myself :3

Also, posting…this……at 3:30…AM…..so……..tired….. *ZZzz*

Yet another new character!! This time we get to meet the father 😀

Fun fact: While Janice is one of the first character designs I did for this comic, Ray’s design wasn’t even tackled before I started this page! lol X3

There were a few tricky things to draw for this page (like hands, as always), but I was really satisfied with the final product.

Poor Dayton, always out of the loop 😛

Mr. Connors doesn’t seem to understand why Dayton is so quick to refer to Janice as his sister when he can’t even consider calling Ray his father, even though neither of them are related.

Also, is that another new character looming on the horizon? :O

Who knows! Tune in next time to find out ;D

Well here is your formal introduction to Janice in case all of you really wanted it. Also apparently Mr. Connors is quite the Ladies’ Man ;3

He’s just trying to be gentlemanly…I think.

It’s kinda funny after the heavily “background-filled” panels from the last couple of pages, this page is almost entirely character based. It was a fun chance to try out some new expressions ^^

Yay!! New character finally!!!

I’ve been itching to show off Janice for some time now. Joel and Janice were the first two characters I ever designed for this comic project (you’re still gonna have to wait to see Joel for a while though >.<) Hope you like her, she'll probably stick around for a while :3

All these backgrounds are killing me…but they are really good practice and I do feel like I’m improving on the backdrops at least a little.

Sorry that this page came out a little funky. I tried to test out some different word bubble locations and panel layout to see if a reader’s eye could easily move throughout the page. What I ended up with kinda works, but I feel it is still a little too confusing :\

We finally get to see the Harlow’s house. Yay! And a poorly drawn horse and buggy. Yay?

Yeah! Another chapter finished 😀

That background was a whole lot of fun to draw. I started off with my one point perspective and guidelines from that point to keep the drawing prospectively accurate. However I wasn’t pleased with how rigid the buildings and street was coming out, so I “messed up” the perspective to make it feel a little wonky and imperfect.

With the chapter done does that mean break time for the comic? Actually no, it normally would though. Since I already took my Costa Rica break recently let’s just say the chapter break was during then. Besides I have a really solid idea of where to take the next chapter anyways.

I hope y’all enjoyed this chapter and that the next one to come will be just as good if not better. Thank y’all for your continued support!!

Sorry for updating a day late again guys ^^; Once I figure out my work schedule for the summer I should hopefully become consistent with my updates.

It would appear that Dayton is still uneasy about the whole “being hunted down by bandits” ordeal. The guards seemed to brush off the incident with no worries though…

Not the best page I ever did. Several lettering errors and the background’s perspective gets a little wonky especially in the last panel. I almost pulled the “lazy card” and wasn’t gonna draw the background for the first panel. I thought about leaving out the border and making it a “border-less” panel like the second last panel. But it felt really empty especially since my rough draft of the page included a background…

Once again not the best page, but oh well, “you win some, you loss some.”