Unfaq Vol 3

Well, it's a bit later than I had intended, but it's time for the next volume of "questions you never had in the first place."  Nothing much to ramble on about right now so lets dive right in.

Episode 6 - Literary Criticism

The T-rex on the title page is inteded to be the same one that appears in both episode 2 and 3.  There really can't be that many T-rexes just wandering around, after all.  Also, why does that one guy have a snorkel?  He just does and reappears throughout the episode (along with most of the extras on the title page.)

The computer that The Word Smith uses inside the Word Cave is a Commodore PET, with an extra cooling tower.  The text that appears on the screen is various random things from a natural language processing text book that I have - it's not just gibberish!  It just has no particular meaning when mashed all together like that.

The first exterior shot on page 4 is based off of a branch of the Waterloo Public Library.  I leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which one, exactly.

The whole Dielight thing (page 5) is, of course, meant to be a spoof of Twilight.  The text on the book may be a bit hard to read so here it is in full:
Dielight
- A Tale Of -
Sparkly Zombies
And Other Things
With Sparkles!

And beside the zombie:
Can't See!
Too Many
Damn Sparkles!

For the record, I'm not really a fan of zombies, I think they're kind of boring.

The reveal on page 6 where the villain of the day is actually The Pen's mother was something that just happened whilst I was working out the details of the episode 6 script (it wasn't in the overall outline.)  I don't recall why I went that route, I think it was just an idea that popped in my head whilst I was working out dialogue.  Fun-ish fact:  I briefly considered making The Word Smith The Pen's father, but decided against it.

Of course page 8 has a Sailor Moon-ish transformation sequence (with sparkles!)  I based The Author's outfit on actual 80s workout clothes (according to a google image search) and there's actually more garish/ridiculous looking stuff than what I went with.

I believe I mentioned it in the page 9 blog post/comments, but it bears repeating:  drawing crowd scenes is annoying.  Coming up with a relatively unique look for that many people can take a bit.  And me being me, things sneak in like ducks on peoples' heads.  Also, if one looks in the lower right corner of the last panel (ie, the one with the crowd scene), one may notice a couple of cameos of characters from previous episodes.

The pose that The Author gets stuck in is based on a real gymnastics pose, though I've probably not rendered it entirely correctly.  Gymnists are freakishly flexible.

And this episode also starts to hint at the overall plot of the comic (yes, there is one!)  Dun dun dun!

Whelp, that is all for this volume of the unfaq.  The script for episode 7 is basically written (minus some dialogue and editing) so I'll be looking to resume the comic in the next week or two so stay tuned!

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Dun, dun, dun!

And with the latest page of The Word Smith in the usual haunt, episode 6 now comes to a close.  The comic will be on its usual between episode hiatus for the next month or so as I finalize the details for episode 7 and possibly do some other stuff.

I may post some other stuff here in the interim depending on motivation and whatnot.  So until next time...

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Hadanaginuffzort! (Troz)

Hello Word Smith tolerators!  The penultimate page of episode 6 is up in the same place it always is.  I'm  going to see if I can get the last page of the episode up a bit quicker than I've been posting pages of late, but no promises.

In other news:  nothing!  At least, nothing I feel sufficiently motivated to say anything about at the moment.  Stuff is really rather routine 'round here right now.

Freak out,
-TFitC

A Post Rises From the Grave

The next page of the Word Smith has snuck unto the interwebs at the usual location.  Notes from this page:  drawing action sequences is hard and gymnasts are freakishly flexible.  Very much so.

In other things, here is a picture from a recent hike:

And that is all for the nonce.  Tune in next time for the continuing, exciting and somewhat odd adventures of THE WORD SMITH!!!  (dun, dun, dun)

Freak Out,
-TFitC

The Post Attacks! The Post misses, no damage!

Right.  So.  New page of The Word Smith.  Same Wordy place.  Same Wordy chanel.

Short post today because stuff, not that I am really given to long, drawn-out posts these days.  If The Word Smith continues on its current every other week schedule I may try to do something different here on the off-weeks.  No promises.

It seems rather windy out today.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

A Page Approaches!

So...  the next page of the Word Smith can now be found in the usual place.  The page was actually finished back in the middle of next week, but I kept forgetting to copy it over to my laptop so I could upload it.  Not that I necessarily need to upload it from my laptop, it's just habit 'n stuff.  Also, it's looking like the posting schedule for The Word Smith is likely going to be every 1.5-2 weeks which means it's going to take longer to finish the whole thing, but may be more doable overall on my end.  We'll see how things go.

And because I haven't posted anything from the sketchbook in a while, here's a thing I don't think I've posted yet:

Other than that, everything is fine.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

Delayed Delay Was Delayed

So the latest page either just took longer than expected or I was more distracted than usual (or both), but the next page of the Word Smith is now online.

And that's about all there is to say about that!  Exciting times, I know.  Tune in next time when I shall endeavour to say something.  Nothing of any real importance or anything (heaven forbid that I should actually say anything of substance) but something!

Freak Out,
-TFitC

A Short Post

Just a brief post today to inform the internets that the next page of The Word Smith is now available.

That is all.

Freak Out,
-TFitC

And We're Back!

We now resume the regularly scheduled episode of The Word Smith!  New page found here.  Of course, when I say "regularly" I most likely mean "sporadically", but what can you do?  Whilst I'm going to try to get back into the once-per-week update schedule, it may be a more "it's done when it's done" type of thing.  Not, I'm sure, that there's anyone waiting with bated breath for the next page, but whatever.

In other things, FASS is over again for the year.  I had to wear a suit and tie as my costume this year which was quite traumatic, considering I haven't worn a tie in six or seven years and it's been even longer since I've worn a full-on suit.  As a result, I felt the need to draw the following, warning of some of the many perils of wearing a tie:

It was quite cathartic.

Whelp, until next time,
Freak Out

-TFitC

Recap Episode

As part of gearing up to resume The Word Smith, I put together a short "recap" of episode 6 so far which at the typical place.  Of course, one could just go and reread the previous episode pages, but whatever.

Since this week is FASS week, there probably won't be any new pages for The Word Smith for another week or two yet as I get back into the swing of this whole semi-regular comic update thing, but things should be resuming in the near future.  And there was much rejoicing...

Anywho, here is the pencil version of today's recap:

And here is the pencil version of the previous interlude:

And with that,
Freak Out
-TFitC