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Parable - 219 - HD
SUDDENLY BARRELS!CommentaryThis MIGHT conclude Parable? It depends on whether there are more questions asked that I want to answer in-comic. I know what storyline I want to do next, but ye gods, I'm still planning it, and there's a lot to plan, so either I'm answering more Parable questions next, or I'm doing assorted standalone nonsense for a bit.Or impromptu mini-Q&A separate from Parable? PLAYING THINGS BY EAR (right up until I'm not).Nuance!The fact that Jay had been assigned a role, and hadn't actually orchestrated ...
Parable - 218 - HD
Experienced dreamer.CommentaryOf course Grace added nuts to the recipe."But there were already peanuts--" PEANUTS ARE LEGUMES!Wait, what is a legume? Hang on a second....PEANUTS ARE SEEDS?!Question Mark...?There will, in fact, be at least one more comic before the end-end! This is because there is at least one thing I want to clarify before we're done here, and I don't want it to be something one has to read commentaries to know.The reason it wasn't included before this is because it would have interrupted the flow of the la...
EGSNP Character Survey
Deciding what to do next in EGSNP, and am curious which characters you'd be interesting in seeing!To be clear, I am not asking for story ideas, or anything really specific about what you want them to be doing.I am only asking which characters you'd be interested in seeing next.Please like comments with character suggestions you agree with to show your interest! :)
Parable - 217 - HD
Less Enchanted DreamsCommentaryI really like the thought of all the shared dreams continuing as normal dreams after Jay woke up, which probably doesn't surprise anyone.I mean, it's in the comic. I probably liked the idea.TensaidedI also wanted to confirm that Tensaided was actually a "real person" within the dream, which was hard to do with him hiding, so here he is. This is also why he was the only "NPC" who was able to help with Susan's plan to prevent a cutscene.Random-LikeI don't think anything in our dreams ...
January Poll #2
Cowgirl Rhoda?! But how did she get that way?(Can vote for more than one)
January Poll #1
Cowgirl Nanase dressed as...(Can vote for more than one)
Parable - 216 - HD
Dream bootCommentaryBAM! NARRATION!I suppose I could have left it a mysterious mystery why Jay said "no" and ended the dream, but honestly, I didn't intend for it to be mysterious. A creepy unicorn was about to get Rhoda's name in the hopes of finding her again outside the dream. Jay did not approve.Granted, there are other things to wonder about, like whether she knows Rhoda outside the dream. I just meant the basic motivation for trying to end things right then and there wasn't meant to be mysterious.SPEAKING OF "MYSTE...
Parable - 215 - HD
Whoa hey now wait a minuteCommentaryWell, of COURSE pinching one's self is how one wakes from a magic dream!"What if they get hurt in other ways during the dream, or someone else pinches them?"THAT is not pinching THEMSELVES, now, is it?"What sense does--"MAGIC! Intent matters with magic! Will must be asserted, an effort made!"That... Sorta sounds legit?"Which is good enough for magic.
Parable - 214 - HD
In a pinch.EDIT - Fixed some shadow nonsenseCommentaryI can think of approximately ten billion ways it could have taken longer to get to this moment, but in my opinion, none of them would have been as significant.Also, "ten billion" might be hyperbole.That's a lot.
Parable - 213 - HD
Unicornin' around.CommentaryJay, stop giving the unicorn helpful tips.Besides, they've already got one!Eh? Eh? Because they're a unicorn? Eh?Eh.
Parable - 212 - HD
It. Is. A. DREAM!CommentaryFor the record, Grace is scratching her nose in the first panel. SCRATCHING!This comic got delayed because I did a bunch of behind the scenes process experimentation that took a lot longer than I thought it would.I ALSO completely forgot about those first three panels. I literally thought I was only going to have two panels to deal with.So, um... Yeah. I DID NOT ALLOCATE MY TIME ACCORDINGLY.On the plus side, the stuff I figured out is great and should make comics better in the future.Still... Time. Management. FAIL. M...
Parable - 211 - HD
Yeah seriouslyCommentaryWere this adapted into an anime, these four panels would be stretched out into a single episode (minus six minutes of opening credits and recaps). Approximately twenty-five percent of it would be reaction shots of various characters.Panel two wasn't a super duper ultra mega challenge, but it was a challenge. This was mostly because of Jay's pose, as I had a certain angle to her posture in mind relative to the unicorn, and I had trouble getting that and making it look like Jay was on the offensive.Fortunately, she...
Parable - 110 - HD
A during the evening EGSNP?!CommentaryReally, this is a reasonable response to seeing someone magically vanish in a puff of smoke at the will of a floating unicorn.Sure, it's a dream, and she knows it's a dream, but, y'know.Scary unicorn is scary.And that's all that's going on here.Clearly.
Parable - 209 - HD
Scary nosy unicorn!CommentaryIn context, this shouldn't be a spooky thing for the unicorn to do. This clearly just means Arthur and his minions were manifestations of the shared dream, and not representations of people who are sharing in the dream.Still spooky, though.This unicorn is a lot like my cat in that how huge they look is largely dependent on who or what they're being compared to.Like, next to Rhoda, he looks HUGE, but next to a domesticated horse? Not so much.Meanwhile, my cat looks small sometimes, but then he's being hel...
Parable - 208 - HD
Never ending search!CommentarySee, this is why I need to throw in excessive techno... Well, MAGIC-babble.There has to be enough that you can never be 100% sure what's foreshadowing, and what's just me being a rambling nerd.Granted, It wouldn't shock me at all if some people immediately assumed that the "you all look blurry" bit 100% guaranteed "someone suitable" would be present.
Parable - 206 - 207 - HD
The perfect plan! If not for all the flaws.(Attachments are the combined comics as shown above, and them separated.)CommentaryI'm sure none of this will matter in the main story. This long-tailed unicorn of apparent canon who is apparently not acting along is surely of no significance.Double-sized!I think this works well as one comic, which might hide the fact that it was originally supposed to be two separate comics, and that they were combined after a delay. I'd best not mention that's the case in this commentary so as to cleverly...
Next EGSNP will be Saturday
It will be double-sized, which, fortunately, works pretty well for it. The result will be able to be mistaken for something I had brilliantly planned, and not brought about by lack of sleep, if one didn't notice the dates.My apologies for the delay.
Parable - 205 - HD
Of course, of course...EDIT - Minor shadow and date correctionCommentary- They were a UNICORN?!?!?!A unicorn I am declaring as canon, no less, regardless of how this story winds up getting defined canon-wise!Comparatively speaking, however, not a big unicorn.Granted, that might not be fair. I'm comparing this unicorn to actual horses, and let's be clear on this, horses are BIG.Maybe unicorns, in general, are little! Which would, of course, make them ponies! So, perhaps, one could argue that this character is my little--(This commentary ...
Parable - 204 - HD
Battle time?CommentaryOH THANK YOU SKY VOICE I DON'T WANT TO DRAW THIS BATTLEI mean... Um...Anyway, I'm unbelievably happy right now.Well, not really. I'm too tired to be, BUT I WILL BE LATER, because I figured out something technical (by which I mean I was looking up something else entirely and stumbled backwards into useful information), and after a bit of preparation, I can do much more complex linework quickly.I've been very stressed out trying to find a balance between digital inking production time and quality, which has i...
December Poll #2
Rhoda and lucy swap relative heights, but what does this mean, exactly?In each option, Rhoda and Lucy’s own proportions don’t change. Put another way, they will grow or shrink equally in all three dimensions.Can vote for more than one
December Poll #1
Diane and Ashley are welcomed to the group! By which I mean they are transformed in front of everyone as a sort of initiation.Can vote for more than one
Parable - 203 - HD
Ragnar is not into it.Commentary- She was in trouuuuble...I liked the idea of Susan hiding her TRUE POWER LEVEL!But I DIDN'T like the idea of aggressive-Grace retroactively not having been a threat.Grace should always be too powerful to be taken lightly, darn it.Anyway, speaking of things that are a bit much, I've gone back and forth on whether I like "Jack's" expression in panel one. Ultimately, the part of me that wanted to go big and have a parallel with Ragnar won the argument, but the debate nonetheless rages.Meanwhile,...
Parable - 202 - HD
Cut Cutscene.Commentary- The island!I hadn't really planned on actually showing maxed out Susan, but then I thought of all the readers who would be sad if I never did.Poor, sad, and disappointed readers.Readers with pitchforks.Also, the outfit changed because ye GODS would the Susan McDuck outfit be too busy on top of that build with absurdly long hair and a hammer.Anyway, the islandI considered covering the DLC Island in some sort of sequence, but it primarily would have consisted of Susan getting frustrated with hitting floating orbs with...
Parable - 201 - HD
The ultimate counter.CommentaryMy original plan was for Susan to successfully recruit a whole ton of generic NPCs, but the more I thought about it, the less sense it made that it would actually work.Fortunately, I like this better.Panel four didn't start out as an intentional My Hero Academia reference ("I am here" is the catchphrase of a main character, and appending a description to it a recurring joke), but then I realized what I had written, considered who was saying it, and it became an INTENTIONAL My Hero Academia reference, d...
Parable - 200 - HD
Obligatory twist.Commentary- Loss of devil hornsForeshadowing?!In MY EGS?!Okay, in all seriousness, I don't know how well Susan's plan holds up to scrutiny. How exactly you can or can't prevent a cutsceneis sorta vague.However, I feel protected from any and all criticism regarding this for the following reasons:1 - I've prevented cutscenes from triggering properly in open world RPGs without even trying. It's doable. I've done it twice recently.Okay, the first time I actually was sort of trying because I wanted to see wha...
Parable - 199 - HD
The Final Cutscene.CommentaryIT'S THE FINAL CUTSCENE!Da-da dun-dun, da-da dun dun... Dun?Wait a minute. Cutscenes don't fwoosh.CUTSCENES DON'T FWOOSH!
Parable - 198 - HD
The seer's wish.CommentaryOh snap?Yes.Yes snap.Also, just look at that sincerity in panel three! I am in awe.
Parable - 197 - HD
WhatCommentaryOne MIGHT rudely accuse me of not properly foreshadowing this character, whoever they are, in some way prior to this.They might also assume, QUITE RUDELY, that it's because my plans for this storyline have shifted so much that, by the time I knew they'd be showing up, I hadn't left myself a way to organically foreshadow them in any subtle way, and had to choose between abruptness and outright spoiling their presence early.This would be correct, BUT VERY RUDE.I say. Harumph.
Parable - 196 - HD
I FEEL SO BAD ABOUT THISCommentaryI feel so bad about that last panel.Which is really silly, because the proper "we're commenting onFable 2" move would 100% be for Not-Arthur to have done something matching the menace shown in panel two, and I do think it's funny.Nonetheless, her expecting people to be there, and them not being there to eat the sandwiches with her MASSIVELY triggers my empathy receptors or something, and I genuinely feel like I have to make it up to her somehow later.See, this is why I mostly write comedy. I'...
Parable - 195 - HD
Angry Jack.CommentaryI had fun illustrating this one. I should try to make that a goal, rather than just a possibility, more often. I'm not actually sure whether it takes more or less time to make a comic when I indulge myself art-wise given how my mind wanders when I don't.Sincerely, a visually simple scene with dialogue I love can be more intimidating than someone visually demanding by virtue of creation process tedium. I think it's one reason why there are so many fantasy panels in EGS.Well, that, and early seasons of The Simpson...
