That'll Leave A Mark

Hello internets.  Today I give you page four of "The New Adventures of The Freak in the Cape".  It goes a little something like this:

Dear readers:  this is a work of fiction and no Freaks were harmed during the making of this comic.

Could this be the end of The Freak in the Cape?  Assuredly not!  It is, however, likely to be a while until we see the aftermath since, in addition to my normal disclaimer that future pages will be drawn as time and inspiration allows, I suspect that there's going to be a long-ish flashback before returning to the matter at hand.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Foliage

Taking a break from posting sketches this week to show some pictures of my balcony garden experiment in progress (not seen since it's first mention way back when).

The tomato plant in my hanging planter is doing quite well and is laden with several developing tomatoes.  I'm crossing my fingers and hoping they ripen so I can have some fresh balcony tomatoes at some point.

My jalapenos are also doing fairly well with lots of proto-peppers in development.  I hope they all ripen too and that they turn out nice and spicy.

Finally, this is my box of basil.  It's growing quite well - much more basil than I'm going to manage to use up myself, I expect.  One plant would have been plenty and I planted three.

Not pictured are my green onions (I've harvested about 2/3 of them so far) and my potted tomato plants.  Overall, things are certainly growing, now I just have to hope the tomatoes and jalapenos ripen at which point I will consider the experiment a success.  I started everything from seeds, so if I do this again next year I'll either start with seedlings or start things indoors about a month or so sooner than I did this year to hopefully be able to start harvesting sooner.  Crossing my fingers right now in the hopes of being able to harvest at least some tomatoes and jalapenos this year.

Until next time,
Freak Out
-TFitC

Hooray for Science!

Busy(ish) working on episode 3 of The Word Smith (amongst other things) which is progressing slowly though somewhat steady-ish.  Today is a couple of sketches related to episode 3, though for stuff which is mostly in the background.

It's sort of a "manga-within-the-comic", specifically it's the (fictional) manga that The Pen is holding in the second last panel on page 6 of episode 2 (though not named at the time).

And a related sketch with another character from the same "manga-within-the-comic".  Incidentally, the character sketch from my previous post is the villain for the series.  It seems likely that these characters will show up again in at least one later episode of The Word Smith, though they may not be too prominent beyond that.

And that's all for today.  Next time, I might show some pictures of green things.

Freak Out,
-TFitC