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Monday, October 25 2010 - 8:26 PM
By: Neoriceisgood

The great escape #5

Here's this week's update, hope you guys like it.

For those wondering, I've buffered up 2 pages so far, hope to get at least one page done each day of this calm week before intern leaving me with around 9, exactly what I'd need in case I find myself so busy during intern that I can't even make a single page.

Obviously I'm hoping that won't be the case, but I'd be prepared.

Otherwise, vote, comment and post on the forums.

I love you guys.

- Neorice

1833: Bisected - Monday, October 25 2010 - 11:25 PM

Update buffers are good. :D

1834: giovanni - Tuesday, October 26 2010 - 12:15 AM

something weird is afoot

1835: Someguy - Tuesday, October 26 2010 - 5:11 PM

Oh, goodness. So many glorious questions, so much silliness, and the only question we need to know is: Where is Burke?

1836: Tom - Tuesday, October 26 2010 - 7:59 PM

¨Your Majesty¨? Gosh darn it, more mysteries! xD

Nice update, things got settled down. And now the question is if the focus will change to a certain pant-less fellah...

1837: Morpholomew Bark - Tuesday, October 26 2010 - 8:25 PM

While the new speech bubbles give a more unified look to the comic as a whole, the text is pretty hard to read, especially when italicized. Are you really sure you're going to continue using it rather than going back to the old speech bubbles? I would hate to give up on a great comic art- and story-wise because it's become unreadable. D:

1838: Neoriceisgood - Tuesday, October 26 2010 - 10:40 PM

I'm definitely not going back to the -old- speech bubbles, but if I can find a pixel-like font that's more readable than this one, I wouldn't object changing.

The only big reason I'm using this font right now is the fact that it's the only font I know that's small enough for it to be shown at 2x the size, like the rest of the comic.

1839: Bisected - Tuesday, October 26 2010 - 11:56 PM

Maybe you could try creating a custom font?

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-custom-fonts/

1845: glo - Sunday, October 31 2010 - 12:09 AM

I like the idea of regular updates! The story seems to move quicker again. I also think the font can be improved and the black line around the speech bubbles is much better! I have the fear though that dialogues will become much shorter with any pixel font. The dialogues so far have always been great and I wonder whether with the new font this is still possible. If less text fits on a page, this may also slow down the story and with different strands this may lead to a very slow pace. But in general: awesome work!

1846: Neoriceisgood - Sunday, October 31 2010 - 1:13 AM

@Glo

I've tried the font on more text heavy pages, the only "big change" is that it means feet not showing from time to time.

I want to avoid pages becoming text attacks in a negative sense either way, sometimes comics cram so much text on a single page that I just can't handle it, this just means I literally can't make that mistake, in some ways. :)


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