Things are winding up… we’re coming into a scene that is so much work to draw that I haven’t actually drawn most of it yet. So pray, or think happy thoughts, for my time and skills to rise to the call because even at a page a week this is gonna be tough. I’m just glad to have Kailey coloring, this scene needs it.
Someone in the comments on the last page mentioned how Joel’s look has changed since the first pages of the comic. I was re-reading the whole comic the other day and noticed how drastically his design evolves as well. It’s pretty crazy. He doesn’t really hit a consistent design until around 20 pages in. I thought I really had his design figured out when I started the comic too. It’s interesting how these things work themselves out as you keep drawing the characters.
Anyway, see you next week!
Ethan
Ethan – your skills are way more than up to whatever you decide to draw. I’m eagerly looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.
Comment on today’s installment: If I saw a giant bear paw breaking through the floor, I’d have to be checking my pants.
I wouldn’t have to check my pants…I’d already know. 0.o
Ohgodohgodohgod… IT’S THE BEARMOLE!!!
Oh goodie, we got bearmoles!
YESSS!!!
Interesting how Gogs still looks the same from the beginning of the comic, tho…
For Gogs, the most consistent change I could find was that his namesake goggles used to be flatter. The Gogs of the first few pages would not have been able to cast such a “bear ear hat” shadow.
But yeah, with Joel, it’s a little hilarious to speed through the archives and watch his head stretch into a tall rectangle and his mess of short hair morph together into giant spears for bangs. The changes Ethan made also drew attention away from Joel’s monkey-mouth somehow. Are we sure he’s not the star of Penny Arcade?
I just hope Andrea’s face hasn’t stopped forming a Valentine heart.
Are we sure it’s Bearmoles? Maybe it’s Bearmites instead? Always good to see new bearcritters!
But if it’s Bearmoles, my money is on star-nosed moles. Those things are creepy enough without being 1500 pounds of grizzly as well.
Personally, I think it’s molebears (bearmoles would be a type of mole). I’m also hoping for a star-nosed mole/bear hybrid.
I too am on the star-nosed molebear train
I am loving the new colorist’s work. I liked the b&w with red accents that was used as a stop-gap, but this is really working for me.
I agree!
Yeah Kailey rocks.
KRACK!!! – Adrenalin shot
Missed the e, in excitement ! * Adrenaline
Molebear! Molebear! Molebear! (Surrounded by bearmoles, they’re just like the molebears but they’re tiny so they can climb up your pants. Not that they’d want to after this scene.)
BUAHAHAHA! Nice.
Will this be the first live mutant bear seen in the present by the main cast? I cannot actually remember. Wasn’t there a flying squirrel bear or something a long while ago?
Yeah they encountered a couple flying squirrel bears (recently for them, a long time ago for readers). Also, they did see an Octo-bear on the news.
“Everybody back away!”
Y’know what? If you’re not already backing away, you may not be smart enough to stay in the group. Survival of the fittest and all.
I just read that Polar bears, due to their insulation, are “nearly invisible under infrared photography”*. Should at any point the gang manage to loot some IR googles and then hole up for the night with someone on watch, I hope to find them coming under attack from a stealth polar bear assault squadron.
* Stirling, Ian (1988). Polar Bears. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-10100-5.
Hmmm interesting….
Oh my gosh!!! That is a brilliant idea!
Holy shit guy! I’ve discoverd this 3 days ago and I have been super-glued to the madness! Awesome stuff. *New Fan Accuired*
Wouldn’t have found Octo-ear if it werent for the Appocalypse. Muthafuckin Munchkin fo’ liiiiiife.
DANGIT!!!! Of course I discover this right when the latest page is a cliffhanger!!! *sits and mutters until next post*
You know what would be really weird?
Nightcrawlerbears.
You can dig them up and go fishing with them so long as you watch their teeth. They’re nippy little guys.
Watch as it is either his dad or his little brother who got trapped underground with a bear claw the dad cut of and is now using to break free