YESAUL redesign (Patreon)

Welp, Dagger Dagger is definitely going to be our Slavic Nihilism tier "content" for the months of September and October! The story and world itself are 100% in the vein of stuff me and Artyom Doomov have been meaning to do together in one form or another for ages, and before Dagger Dagger came around, my plan for it was "put it in Slavic Nihilism #6 or #7, I dunno man, please finish Chernobyl first".

If you remember my previous character sheet for the story, you may be surprised by the redesign above. Basically, before finally diving into the actual comic pages, Artyom proposed another face for the titular Yesaul of our story. The one I made was... too much of a slavic nihilist? You know what I mean - the Little Soldier or Master Lefty type. A lanky hapless blond dude, because of course. Basically, a Hugo Pratt character.

Here's Artyom's take on the character we used to move forward with:

And by the way - my guy is still going to appear in background of the story, sporting a gnarly fucking horse: