I forgot to mention on the Strip 10 commentary that we've begun a new method of lining our comics. For Strips 1-9, Evan drew each panel out, and Alex scanned or photographed the pages, then retraced the pencil lines in Adobe Illustrator. Naturally, this was extremely time consuming and draining on Alex's sanity, so from strip 10 on, Alex is tracing over the pencils in pen and using Illustrator's Livetrace function to automatically vector the penned lines (Illustrator doesn't like Livetracing pencil lines, otherwise we'd really be in business). While this is still a lot of work, it's at least a greater variety of work, and Alex doesn't have to spend all his time on the comic in front of a computer screen.
What this means for you readers is that the lines could potentially be a bit rougher, at least at the start. This effect is most noticeable in the first and last panels of strip 10, and it'll get cleaned up as Alex gets used to the new style. I think the change is already less noticeable in this strip, and it should only continue to improve with time.
Steel Salvation is a sci-fi adventure starring Dy-Gar, slayer of humans and liberator of machines. Or so he says. Living alone on the dead planet of Cykta, there is no one left to question his self-appointed status as the savior of robotkind, although he does seem to be a bit small for a genocidal war machine. Dy-Gar longs to be free of his prison, and his increasingly desperate schemes have culminated in one last attempt to escape the blasted hellscape that used to be his homeworld. Haunted by a digital phantom and armed with a mysterious artifact from the Robot Revolution, Dy-Gar combs the wasteland, dreaming of the day when he can resume his rampage across the galaxy at large…
...and then, one day, he discovers Roger, a living prosthetic arm trapped under a mountain of rubble. Roger doesn’t know anything about the Robot Revolution, but he does know how to deactivate Dy-Gar’s range limiters, allowing him to leave Maka City and explore the nearby spaceport. Roger is proud of his symbiotic nature, and he doesn’t want any part of Dy-Gar’s murderous plans. However, he does want to escape Cykta, and circumstances have forced these two diminutive robots into an uneasy alliance.
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