CCCXII: Shifting Perspectives
on November 22, 2021
at 3:00 pm
Production Code: UTC312
Writing Cass’ bleat-filled dialogue was fun, but trying to fit the drawn-out speech into good-looking word balloons was not so much.
Hi folks,
I’m pleased to announce that the first issue of my new transformation-themed anthology, Flux Visage, is out now!
Longtime readers may remember “Let Your Hair Down,” a stand-alone comic I put up on this site in 2015 to ride out the hiatus between UTC Phases Two and Three. That was the pilot project for this anthology.
The full 16-page “Let Your Hair Down” comic is now packaged as the main story in Flux Visage #1, in higher resolution than you’ve seen before, and it comes with a few other goodies as well!
The issue is available as a pay-what-you-want download on itch.io. Future issues of Flux Visage will be coming eventually, and those will have brand new comics made exclusively for the series.
You can download it here, or view the listing on itch.io for more details.
RedKnight33, a longtime fan, proposed an art trade, where we’d both draw each others’ characters. Here’s his cool drawing of Cass. Click here to see my drawing of Red’s toon character, Silly Road.
This pic has been added to the Fanart section. Thank you, Red!
In lieu of a new comic this week, I’ve uploaded a new commentary video to YouTube. This one is for the previous chapter, “The Mother Trilogy.”
I say at the start of the video that this won’t contain any spoilers for future chapters, but at one point, I accidentally mention the premise for Chapter 13. It’s not a major spoiler, but if you really don’t want to have any idea what Chapter 13 is about (if you somehow don’t know already), you should make sure to read at least the first few pages of that before watching this.
Moving forward, I’ve come up with a way to give myself consistent, scheduled weeks off (as opposed to trying to put a page out every week and only delaying it when I crash). I’m going to try sticking to the once-per-Monday schedule, BUT for months that have 5 Mondays, the comic will skip the last one.
That starts now, which means there won’t be a comic the week of May 31.
There are four such months per year, so that rounds out to a week off each quarter.
That will allow me either a break if I need one, or I can try to get ahead on the comic. It’ll depend on how I feel at the time. Since it’s pre-planned, there’s no guilt attached. And the comic will still consistently update 4 times every month.
Plus, if I can stick to that schedule (barring unforeseen circumstances that would force another hiatus), Phase Three will be finished by late 2022! Going by page count, we just hit the halfway mark. “Double Date” closes out in June, and Chapter 14 will roll out over the second half of this year.
A couple weeks ago, a fan named Etienne sent me this drawing of Noah. It’s the first piece of unsolicited art I’ve received for UTC in a very long time, and suffice to say, I’m thrilled to bits!
This pic has been added to the Fanart section. Thank you, Etienne!
