Dead Winter Minicomics Batch #6 (Patreon)

Here we are, another week in, another batch of minicomics to share.  I'm still having a lot of fun making these, just throwing whatever silly idea I have onto a strip and then following through and letting it ride.  I got another three strips done this week, which I think is a sustainable amount to balance with the rest of my workload.  Since I'm posting two a week on Tuesday and Friday I'm on a pace to maintain a net-positive buffer.  It's actually been kinda fun to be posting the strips I made weeks ago publicly for the first time while I'm drawing up ideas 20 strips into the future.  But for now let's jump in and get the three new strips up for you to enjoy!

#024: This one's a pretty simple joke but it's got a few strings connected to the game behind it.  In the game one of Lou's dash attack animations is a football tackle, since he's kind of a classic Guys Being Dudes guy I figured he'd have some football experience but it doesn't come up in the main comic, so here he throws a perfect spiral.  Game-Lizzie's fighting style involves a lot of overdoing things and landing on her head, so she's the one who ends up taking the bumps in these jokes.  She's very tough, though, so she keeps on trucking regardless.  It makes sense she's the one with all the bandages.  This strip is also the first minicomic appearance of Maria, the former editor-in-chief of the city newspaper.  She's like the one figure in town Lizzie really wants to impress and she can be quietly intimidating, needless to say it's a fine time to fail to catch a touchdown pass.

#025: Monday-centric strips are the hardest to write, I've found.  I think I've said this before but when he's good at what he's good at he's just turning bodies cold, so in the minicomic meta he's usually a comedic foil to some goofball antics.  This strip is a moment where he's on the job doing what he does, but he's still the foil to some goofy themed crime dude.  Today's friend is Errol, a capo in a criminal syndicate.  Capo Errol does capoeira- it made me think about fighting a capoeira-style fighter in basically any fighting game, but particularly the 3D ones where they're extra slippery, and that just made me laugh.  I've been trying to keep track of which of the four core characters show up in how many strips to balance them out, so this one is another solo number for Monday.  When people play the game I'd like them to have a bunch of representation for their favorite character, if they happen to pick one.

#026: A lot of these strips have taken place in the traditional Dead Winter setting of an anonymous stretch of city road so I wanted to post some variety, which is why today the gang is hanging out in a graveyard.  As I mentioned above Monday is usually the foil for the goofy minicomic jokes, but for this strip he gets to be in on the goofy humor and Lou is left out of the loop.  For this strip I mostly wanted to draw a lot of subtle body language and character acting between frames, so each character responds to the joke with their own language.  It's a subtle one but there is actually a joke in there, I promise.

I'm working on the main comic this week but I'm gonna try to do at least three more minis for next Friday.  This week's public posts are going to be strips #9 and #10, so if I can get to #30 before then I'll be officially at the 20-page buffer mark, which is where I want to be.  Thank you for the feedback on these, it's been fun to hear peoples' responses to this silly side-project.  Until next week, take care and be well out there.