Hello hello! There is good news and bad: you may have noticed the lack of update last Sunday, and as you can see, today I come to you not carrying any pages either. That is the bad news. The good news is: next Sunday I hope to give you three (maybe four, if I can make it) in one go.
The thing is, I discovered last week that the dialogue which I thought was okay (having been rewritten three times) was actually not as okay as I imagined it to be, so I had to rework it once more. This proved ... not easy, and then when I tried to visualise it, I realised that I couldn't do it on a page-by-page basis. Mostly I lay out the story one page at a time, but this time around, that didn't work. Which means I am currently working on three pages at once, and I couldn't finish three pages at once. As I have mentioned before, this passage is a difficult one to write. Both Arthur and Pellinore have to be credible, and though the pace of the story may seem glacial to you who read it one page a week, a lot of things are actually happening quite fast if you were to read this as a book or a 'proper' webcomic where you can just click through the pages. So every word has to be meaningful.
So: next week. I promise to work hard and get this done. Even if the weather is going to be very hot -_- (eurgh).
It is *possible* - I don't know yet - that I may have to take a short break to write out what comes next. Because this conversation between Arthur and Pellinore is finally coming to a close, and next there is a Thing. It's a Big Thing and I have only figured out half of it so far (with nothing actually written, just imagined - but I kind of like what I know and I'm rather excited about it!). And after the Big Thing it's back to Gawain. And I know how 'back to Gawain' starts off, but then a lot of Big Things are going to happen that I need to puzzle together.
...Man. I often joke that I will be writing this until I'm 90, but sometimes when I think of all the bits of story I need to pass on, it seems to me the joke isn't actually a joke. It's dangerously close to the truth.
HOWEVER. Here is a tiny little sweet to tide you over until next week. The top two are preppy sketches for Pellinore on page 175; then there is Morholt because I haven't drawn him for a while and I missed him ( ♥ Morholt); and there is Cai because - well I don't need a reason to draw Cai.
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More next Sunday!
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THE STORY SO FAR:
Part I: The Darkest Hour
1-3 - 4-6 - 7-9 - 10-12 - 13-15 - 16-18 - 19-21 - 22-24 - 25-27 - 28-31 - 32-35 - 36-40 - 41-44 - 45-47 - 48-50 - 51-53 - 54-57 - 58-60 - 61-64 - 65-66 - 67-69 - 70-73 - 74-75 - 76-81 - 82-84 - 85-87 - 88-90 - 91-92 - 93-97 - 98-101 - 102-103 - 104-108 - 109-111 - 112-114 - 115-119
Interlude: The Sword of Kings
Brothers and Sisters
1-3 - 4-6 - 7-9 - 10-12 - 13-15 - 16-18 - 19-21 - 22-24 - 25-27 -28-30 - 31-33 - 34-36 - 37-39 - 40-42 - 43-45 - 46-48 - 49-51 - 52-54 - 55-57 - 58-60 - 61-63 - 64-66 - 67-69 - 70-72- 73-75 - 76-78 - 79-81 - 81 - 82 - 83 - 84 - 85 - 86 - 87 - 88 - 89 - 90 - 91 - 92 - 93 - 94 - 95 - 96 - 97 - 98 - 99 - 100 - 101 - 102 - 103 - 104 - 105 - 106 - 107 - 108 - 109 - 110 - 111 - 112 - 113 - 114 - 115 - 116 - 117 - 118 - 119 - 120 - 121 - 122 - 123 - 124 - 125 - 126 - 127 - 129 - 130 - 131 - 132 - 133 - 134 - 135 - 136 - 137 - 138 - 139 - 140 - 141 - 142 - 143 - 144 - 145 - 146 - 147 - 148 - 149 - 150 - 151 - 152 - 153 - 154 - 155 - 156 - 157 - 158 - 159 - 160 - 161 - 162 - 163 - 164 - 165 - 166 - 167 - 168 - 169 - 170 - 171 - 172
