Looks like it was decided that this storyline was over!
This appears to be the first strip I drew with a simple marker, rather than the terrible-to-work-with-why-was-I-using-it Staedtler caligraphy pen I worked with through all of Roomies!, with its metal nib and refillable cartridges. Seriously, that thing was awful, and it was murdering all the curves out of my art because it really only wanted to do straight lines. And so in comes the fine-tipped marker, at long last. I would use it (along with Sharpies for thicker lines and a precision-pen for thinner lines) until the middle of Shortpacked!, when I introduced a brush pen. The digital brush I use now works as a compromise of sorts between the marker and the brush pen, marrying the benefits of both. I get the markery reliability and the right amount of line width variation I crave. Technology has finally caught up to what I actually want my linework to look like.
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I really like that the aliens actually kept all the nachitos safe and had them all locked up somewhere, presumably already in a convenient wagon. So considerate!
that also looks like about three weeks of Walky food
I guess they were going to use them to tempt Walky over to the dark side?
Do they even eat Nachitos? If so, maybe they were saving them for a victory snack.
How do they eat without suffocating in the toxic earth air?
I’m pretty sure this is where I’m supposed to say “Very carefully.”
Of course they did! What do you think they are, monsters?
Primary Mission accomplished! Nachitos secured.
Aliens decimated, HA got away.
Regret the lose of that squad.
You drew all of that with a calligraphy pen? I take back everything I’ve ever said about the early artwork.
The bad AND the good?
Especially the good.
Bonus DLC Alternate Punchline: What “good”?
So have we now established that Sal is in fact an abductee?
That was never in question, at least not in “It’s Walky!”
It seemed to be a secret to the characters until just now….
My hatred of Staedtler products is boundless. Just knowing you can even get ink out of those little fuckers impresses me to no end.
The funny thing about brush pens is they’ve been around a long time. Invented in Japan to help Japanese get used to using ball point pens. I don’t know what year though…
these aliens are so nice rather these guys who kill people but still keep thier promises than to have someone who just defeats you but lies about everything
They’re getting along rather well for two people that haven’t grown up with each other. Typically these things need a period of adjustment.
shouldn’t that wagon full of nachitos count as Oversized Comedy Prop? or not because it’s a pile of nachitos?
Wait, you stated using a brush pen halfway through Shortpacked? When did you go digital? I assumed you’d been inking digitally for years. I never managed to figure out how to make hand drawn linework look good…😔