Jawc 1.0 : Of Mice and Malls - Less than 9 Pages left! It's disturbing when you get a flat mate that has something that could cause you harm if you were to catch it from him... seriously, it's sickening and disgusting when you think that people would have more sense than to be so sexually promiscuous that they could catch that which is so crippling to a persons' life and routine... what's worse is when you learn it by accident and then have to change things around in order to prevent it from harming you. By the time I upload this I'll have moved to a different apartment within the same complex... this time around it'll cost a shitload more, but at least my internal physiology will be safe from disease and harm. I don't need that shit happening to me, I mean geez! I'm still a virgin dammit... I don't need an STD when I haven't been fucking around cause my flat mate might not clean up properly after himself... in no way I want that... Anyway, it was on my vacation I was asked why I was still a virgin... answer was pretty simple... I haven't found that person I'd feel comfortable enough to have sex with... now yeah, I know that people prolly think I'm some wussy boy for that answer... but eh, I don't really care... I've come to the conclusion that it's better to be with someone you love than to just go around fucking... Maybe it's 'cause I read way too many shoujo manga that I find myself looking for love instead of just wanting a quick bang... I dunno really... maybe I'm more chick than I want to be... Regardless... less than 9 pages to go and the arc is finished... I'm gonna take this opportunity today to recount the origin of why and what my goals became... yeah, it sounds lame but eh, I digress... Originally this comic started out as a fundraising idea, brought upon in an AIM conversation with Mab... she helped me design Angelina, sorta weird too how it happened... it was all, "what kind of character should I make?" and she said, "draw a dalmation."... I remember my first draft of A.E and geez... looking back it wasn't that great.. I look back at the start of the comic and say to myself, "what was I thinking!?" but eh, it was sorta fun to try it out, unfortunately the fundraising idea tanked and the comic started to take a different route. it was after that that I started to just draw the comic for fun, trying to make deadlines and gettiing it into Illustrator to text and tone... then I started to ink by hand on Page 19... and started to tone with Photoshop and text using Illustrator... it made things easier and oddly enough that's still how I draw the comic today... only now I use red pencil lead instead of blue... why?.. cause red is more fun! ^^;;; Anyhow, it's been about two years now since the comic originally started and over a year that it's been up on Xepher.net... which was an odd story as it was auditioning to get the hosting... thinking back on it, if left to my own designs, the comic would never have gone anywhere, the fact that I'm on Xepher.net and actually continuing this comic is because of Mab pushing me to try something new and helping me every time I needed her... I owe her a lot. Thank you Amber. Still, the comic is going foward, the end it almost here, and I find that the comic itself has been great practice in storyboarding and storytelling, I know the arc lasted longer than I wanted it too, I know the storyline is convoluted and the characters odd, but overall as my first attempt at a webcomic, I'm proud of it, and am glad I tried and kept going when so many times I wanted to just give up... so I'll keep going until the end of the arc, and hopefully all four or five of you guys reading it out there will care enough to drop me a line asking what's going to happen next... sadly, only time will tell and guide my pencil to a conclusion. See ya next time... Welcome to it. - Tiki Man