why are these two still here
i told them to leave 4 days ago and they're still talking
Me: you know there's a reason I haven't done actual word balloons
Also me: shut up
Me: they're so much more fiddly than they look, huh
Also me: shut. up.
dear author: "you don't have to draw the character you enjoy drawing, just the ones you're sick of" is not the win you think it is
at least Luian's leaving finally
... i hope
... we better not be following her outside
I have a list of "22 ways to draw two characters talking for when the writer won't let anything more interesting happen" (thanks @XyzzySqrl !)
still running out of ways to draw this conversation tho
artist not artsy enough for many of them o_o;;;;
i was only willing to draw them all because writer promised this is the end of the arc and they're leaving now
_finally_
Strip number 50!
New arc starts tomorrow!
I need to make a second page for it on the website. And link to it from the top level. Which means naming it.
Sigh.
Maybe "The Cat's Warlock".
I'd go with "Moon and Her Warlock" but it feels like false advertising since Moon doesn't show up that much. Zhenshay is very much the main character.
New arc time!
Look, new characters!
You can check the alt text to learn their names or you can wait until the author gets around to it in the dialogue, which she presumably will at some point in the next month or two.
oh hey the author named the new characters in the dialogue already. who would've expected.
tho the man's full name is Valor. only Victory calls him Val
In honor of exceeding 50 comics, I have given the comic a name: "The Cat's Warlock".
I renamed the webpage it's on to match the new title, and moved the 0-50 comics to an archive page so that it's not an infinite scroll to get to the newest.
Also updated my site so you can actually navigate to the comics page from the rest of ladyrowyn.com .
The old page redirects to the new 'most recent comics' page, also: https://ladyrowyn.com/thecatswarlock.html
Zhenshay has been talking to these people for three (3) panels and is already So Done.
a mere five panels later, Zhenshay has convinced V&V to address him properly
this is going great
the author assures me that *at some point* she will get to the point of this scene
probably even this month
@rowyn Oh dear. I have a bad feeling what Victory was going to say before she corrected herself. o.o Love potions are such a terrible idea. x.x (in the sense that they tend to create havoc, they make perfect sense in the story context)
Guessing: Zhenshay and Kelezi were both given love potions back when they were betrothed, which ... depending on whether they had the choice to accept or not, and how love potions work, might be a viable way to nudge a political marriage toward also being a good relationship. Or it might be terrible.
@rowyn @kelkyag @Satsuma @Tuftears *blinks a few times* Okay... I don't recall the contact information for the support group. So I'll just put you in touch with, hmm, maybe Zuko? Maybe Fate? I think both of them are assistant facilitators these days. And both should be able to handle things if talking about it gets messy.
@Tuftears @rowyn @kelkyag @Satsuma I mean that brings in the son of a father who thought burning a face and sending your kids into exile was good parenting and the daughter of a woman who cloned her sick child and then hated the kid for not being a perfectly identical duplicate (utter unthinking love and loyalty not apparently counting for anything). So they won't simply be sympathetic, they'll have some understanding.
@Satsuma @Tuftears Victory: "Yeah, I was going to say 'your highness' because it's really rude to call royalty 'you'. Except if course THIS royal who will yell if I do that. But it's still hard to get used to."