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Post by Huntress on Oct 18, 2019 9:22:42 GMT -5
Ghost Town: Part 3(Fraze, reading part 2: "Knowing you, I'm just waiting to see when this turns wacky." Me: "Oh, no worries.")  He did not think this through. For the uninitiated, the Ghost Town is a pub for ghosts, run by a certain murderess/arsonist/venture capitalist with a shanghaied crew of dead teenagers. It's kind of known among the living, but is more of a hipster joint with funky craft brew and vegan food by necessity (the necessity being that Ene is only able to shift plant matter over to the world of the living, and thinks that the afterlife is too short for boring booze.)
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Post by Liou on Oct 18, 2019 14:34:56 GMT -5
Ghost Town: Part 3(Fraze, reading part 2: "Knowing you, I'm just waiting to see when this turns wacky." Me: "Oh, no worries.") He did not think this through. For the uninitiated, the Ghost Town is a pub for ghosts, run by a certain murderess/arsonist/venture capitalist with a shanghaied crew of dead teenagers. It's kind of known among the living, but is more of a hipster joint with funky craft brew and vegan food by necessity (the necessity being that Ene is only able to shift plant matter over to the world of the living, and thinks that the afterlife is too short for boring booze.) YeeEEEEsss Exactly what I was hoping for. 8D Oh and I love how the little mini-panels included in the second panel add clinkety sounds, I can practically hear them. |
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Post by Huntress on Oct 27, 2019 5:10:59 GMT -5
Ghost Town: Part 4(now with production delays because turns out I can consistently draw about one panel per day and skipped a few days on account of an increasing workload. This is how my projects drag out.)  The question reasonably posed in this household was whether Ene recognized him right off the bat and is just messing with him, or genuinely needed her memory jogged. Your guess is as good as mine.
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Post by Liou on Oct 27, 2019 16:43:17 GMT -5
Ene is giving off so many younger, punk-er Morticia Addams vibes in here, I'm not sure my little heart can take it ;u;
I'm liking all the different arm poses in this one. (Should refer to this comic when I don't know what to do with my arms >.>)
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Post by Huntress on Oct 28, 2019 7:44:11 GMT -5
Ene is giving off so many younger, punk-er Morticia Addams vibes in here, I'm not sure my little heart can take it ;u; I'm liking all the different arm poses in this one. (Should refer to this comic when I don't know what to do with my arms >.>) When in doubt, bring in a whiskey glass? (overall good life advice right there.) ...but in all seriousness, generally I draw arms very nearly last - it's hands that we actually lift around so they get drawn first, and then arms are just pivoting bits filling the space inbetween so that the hand placement works out. Not gonna lie, returning to Ene and the entire rest of the wacky post-Town corpse-bride-underworldy pub setting is proving to be a sort of weird comfort food for the soul. Maybe it's just the right season for it or something, but goshdangit turns out I'd missed this. |
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Post by Huntress on Nov 7, 2019 4:55:21 GMT -5
Ghost Town: Part 5(aka the part where cameos start to sneak in.)  Ene is usually an exceedingly chill character who only ever takes issue with things such as oppressive totalitarian regimes, gods, and her own unlawful hanging (she'll never shut up about that) but here she's mostly taking umbrage because these two are pretty much the same age. Ene was 43 when she died; in a different world they might've more or less grown up together, except he was living whatever low-options life you live to end up an executioner and she was already married and having kids by the time she was 18-19 so they most likely never crossed paths. Point about the flashback: the gallows are set up in the heart of the town, on the sorta-elongated square between the Town Hall and the former clocktower. In this flashback, the convicts are being hanged facing the Town Hall, so the very last thing they ever see is the seat of power. In Part 1 of this comic set in the present day, the convicts are now being hanged facing the other way - the blackened ruin of the clocktower, as a reminder of the price of the overhauled mode of justice. I don't try profound visual metaphorical wiggles very often, but when I do, by golly I heap it on (which is also why I'm doing what I'm doing with the backgrounds, gonna get into that sometime later.)
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Post by Moni on Nov 7, 2019 7:24:29 GMT -5
listen i have never read the town nor do i ever plan to but this comic is really funny. ene is great. and i like how the executioner guy is just. the most awkward and relatable fellow in town. he starts off with this DARK MONOLOGUE but then chills out. i love him.
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Post by Thorn on Nov 7, 2019 7:44:18 GMT -5
Oh man, the angle and expressions in the shot where Ene is getting hanged are so. Good!
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Post by Huntress on Nov 18, 2019 16:09:44 GMT -5
Ghost Town: Part 6(I'm not in fact slacking on them, they're just getting both more complex with the backgrounds and also longer with panel count so this one is basically a two-for-the-price-of-one from the technical standpoint.)  This is like, one of the precious few places in the multiverse that can produce beverages he can actually drink. Death did in fact make an appearance in the Town, but he's only sticking around for the mojitos. And can you blame him, really? Yeah, so the thing with backgrounds. The Ghost Town pub is a sort of thinner spot between realities that is in fact thinning and fraying even more as it continues to exist in this constant intermingle of the living and dead, and Death would probably have some pointed observations on the matter if he wasn't there to take some time off and get schnockered. So when Ludwig first showed up, he was too caught up in the world of the living to properly grasp the surroundings. The more he talks to Ene, the more she pulls him into the reality that is actually there. Or maybe it's a big ol' ongoing metaphor about him finding his bearings. It can be more than one thing.
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Post by Celestial on Nov 18, 2019 16:14:07 GMT -5
That...that was amazing. I have been following this since the first one but this is the first one where I laughed out loud. Did not expect that. Also, how are you so good with facial expressions even on things that have no face?
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Post by Huntress on Nov 30, 2019 14:29:24 GMT -5
Ghost Town: Part 7(The entire comic was originally going to have eight parts, but this part would've ended up way too long so I chopped it in half. Whether I'll manage to finish it in nine parts or ten remains to be seen >_>)  Back when the Ghost Town pub was first conceived, I toyed with the idea of giving it the tagline 'Heaven is a Place on Earth'. Nothing much came of it, but Ranumgen, resident pianist and god, most probably knows how to play it. The catch with him is that he could make the piano sound like any instrument at all, so it's really anyone's guess whether he played the original song or a heavy metal cover (why yes that exists, guess what I listened to when drawing.) ...of course, seeing how the isolated population of Melville would have precisely zero familiarity with our pop culture, that also gives me a mental image of Ranumgen painstakingly teaching the pub crew how to sing the classics off hours, because why should he have to do all the work?
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Post by Huntress on Dec 11, 2019 16:47:47 GMT -5
Ghost Town: Part 8(reasonably sure I can now wrap this up in just one more part. Maybe.)  Gotta build up gallows humor on that job. Briefly looping back to medieval executioners again - the whole business with forgiveness was in fact part of the pre-execution process, including a formal confirmation of the convicted that they bear no ill will against the executioner (who had his eternal soul to worry about and was just doing his job) and that nobody should attempt to avenge their death, and overall clear lines drawn between a proper functioning justice system and some dude lopping heads off at other dudes' orders. This town's justice system was, of course, a tad slipshod on the matter. In the same vein, he's probably had to deal with the occasional avenger in the course of his job - notice he's built like a brick house and can carry impressive amounts of booze to the point of still being this lucid after a night of no sleep in a ghost pub with a bottle of don't-even-ask-me-what in his system. Doing more sneaky things with backgrounds; up until now, the view was pointing inside the pub. Now it's going outwards again.
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Post by Huntress on Dec 29, 2019 16:10:24 GMT -5
Ghost Town: Part 9(actually-actually the last part, for real!)  And thus commences the devaluation of capital punishment in the Melvillean municipality. Ene is normally a very strongly corporeal ghost of the sort disappearing hitchhiker stories are made of, but holding it takes some amount of effort and in broad morning daylight, on the outer borders of her realm of comfort and at the end of a long shift, she'll slip. That, and I never wanted to bother with much transparency for her because it's an absolute pain to draw with any kind of consistency. Back when I came up with the idea for this comic (pretty shortly after the Town ended in 2015 if memory serves), it was mostly in the form of a collection of simple gags, many of which ended up being drawn as well, but then an actual deeper story went and snuck its way in like it frequently tends to in my case, and it ended up much bigger, longer and in more depth than I'd originally planned. Which I should've been able to expect after Wrighton, in any case >> Whoops. It ended up taking up 13 pages of my 40-page sketchbook, so I might actually need a new one soon. Also, if you've been following along, commenting or liking or really just reading quietly: seriously, thank you. I know I keep trying to give myself occasional peptalks on the general topic of "I should be able to just draw for myself" ...but fact of the matter is that I've been drawing entirely for some audience or other for yeeears, and so knowing that people out there appreciate this wacky brainchild of mine still inevitably makes me all happy-fuzzy.
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Post by Moni on Dec 30, 2019 0:25:14 GMT -5
the last panel killed me. i am dead. this is the height of comedy.
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Post by Thorn on Jan 17, 2020 17:35:17 GMT -5
*finally comments after reading this like eight times wow so organised.*
Trying to say things that haven't been covered already, but of course as always your art style is lovely and dialogue is lovely, you're always so excellent at that stuff!
Love the little frying pan attack that snuck in! Trying to identify background figures was a lot of fun, and that little frying pan really made it a lot easier. xD
Moni is right though. The last panel is THE BEST. Better than two other panels I didn't think it was possible to be better than!
Anyway the Town will always hold a very special place in my heart, and I am so happy you finally managed to do this comic. It is wonderful. <3
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