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06/12/10 19:08
Hello you.
Long time no see.
I wondered if we could have a little chat. You see I’ve been thinking this week, about this:
Page 17, which I uploaded on Thursday. Now I know for a fact most people have not even seen this yet, but that’s not what’s bothering me. No, what bothers me is how it ends or more to the point how it doesn’t.
I thought to myself “what if I came here to read some super awesome Otherworld action, and I got this page?” I came to the conclusion that I’d feel a bit cheated. While the page is important, it seems irrelevant without the following pages it is like someone switching off the tv episode at a random point.
Now I’ve been pretty busy since Thursday, I’ve done four pages which is double my pace for November. (I found a really good strategy to increase my efficiency.) Those four pages make up the first half of a really cool backstory scene. I want you to see it, but I don’t want to leave people hanging like page 17 does.
So I am proposing that instead of updating twice a week, I will update in scene sized batches that will give you something meaningful to chew on; 2-6 pages at a time.
I will post right here when a new batch goes up, and it will include a link that will take you directly to the page before the new batch. This way you can look down the posts here until you see a page you recognize, hit the link and read from there.
There is an RSS button on the sidebar (right there -> above “who I am”) that you can use to keep track of updates since they will be irregular (but hopefully approximately weekly.) Alternatively if you go to the Otherworld Comic Facebook page (also in the sidebar) and hit the ‘like’ button then you will get Facebook status updates informing you of new chunks of comic to read.
Please let me know what you think in the comments below. Love comments, I do.
I am hoping to get the next scene to you by Thursday where you will see something of Katlyn’s origins.
Long time no see.
I wondered if we could have a little chat. You see I’ve been thinking this week, about this:
I thought to myself “what if I came here to read some super awesome Otherworld action, and I got this page?” I came to the conclusion that I’d feel a bit cheated. While the page is important, it seems irrelevant without the following pages it is like someone switching off the tv episode at a random point.
Now I’ve been pretty busy since Thursday, I’ve done four pages which is double my pace for November. (I found a really good strategy to increase my efficiency.) Those four pages make up the first half of a really cool backstory scene. I want you to see it, but I don’t want to leave people hanging like page 17 does.
So I am proposing that instead of updating twice a week, I will update in scene sized batches that will give you something meaningful to chew on; 2-6 pages at a time.
I will post right here when a new batch goes up, and it will include a link that will take you directly to the page before the new batch. This way you can look down the posts here until you see a page you recognize, hit the link and read from there.
There is an RSS button on the sidebar (right there -> above “who I am”) that you can use to keep track of updates since they will be irregular (but hopefully approximately weekly.) Alternatively if you go to the Otherworld Comic Facebook page (also in the sidebar) and hit the ‘like’ button then you will get Facebook status updates informing you of new chunks of comic to read.
Please let me know what you think in the comments below. Love comments, I do.
I am hoping to get the next scene to you by Thursday where you will see something of Katlyn’s origins.
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A big thanks!
01/12/10 12:12
Hey!
Thanks to all of you for checking out my comic!
So the schedule is going to be one new page every Tuesday and Thursday if I cannot update for whatever reason, I’ll post up some excuses right here and you can call me a lame-o.
I have re-jiggered the site slightly. Now there are only two navigation tabs at the top of the site, and those old silly comics have migrated over to the oddly names articles section in the sidebar.
Over there you will find the Otherworld facebook page weblet thingimijig. If you like the comic, go there, give it the thumbs up and share it with your friends. My comic will be sad and lonely if no one reads it :)
Cheers!!
Thanks to all of you for checking out my comic!
So the schedule is going to be one new page every Tuesday and Thursday if I cannot update for whatever reason, I’ll post up some excuses right here and you can call me a lame-o.
I have re-jiggered the site slightly. Now there are only two navigation tabs at the top of the site, and those old silly comics have migrated over to the oddly names articles section in the sidebar.
Over there you will find the Otherworld facebook page weblet thingimijig. If you like the comic, go there, give it the thumbs up and share it with your friends. My comic will be sad and lonely if no one reads it :)
Cheers!!
It's ALIVE!
29/11/10 20:51
In the end I got 16 pages done. I wish I’d got through the first issue, which would be about 35 pages I suppose, because I think it would start making a lot more sense by then, and things have only just started kicking off by page 14.
Yeah, 16 pages isn’t all that much. It took a month to make, and only 2 minutes to read! Still, that’s the point of a long form comic, it’s takes a while to build up.
So, there are no comments enabled on the comic pages themselves, but feel free to comment on this post.
Alternatively, I started a Face Book page called Otherworld Comic. If you dig what I’ve done so far and want to give me some encouragement to keep going, there is a discussion page and a wall and all that jaz over on Facebook. I will also be having a sort of launch party on the facebook page between 12pm and 3pm PST today, Tuesday 30th November. Come on by to see some extra preliminary sketches and have a chat!
The main link to the Otherworld comic is on the menu at the top of the page ^ Up there.
Thanks for checking it out. Things are only going to get more interesting from here.
Nearly there
22/11/10 14:19
Last update before launch day.
As promised, a small selection of concept sketches. Generally I never finish off my sketches, they tend to be just a few wobbly lines that only I can understand. Consequently there were not a lot that seemed worth including. So instead I selected just a few rough concepts that try to express something of what you might expect from the comic, mostly focusing on the creatures.
Clicking on it will give you a larger version.
As always, hit me up with a comment or link to this site if you think it’s looking like it’s going to be cool.
See you next Tuesday.
Toby
As promised, a small selection of concept sketches. Generally I never finish off my sketches, they tend to be just a few wobbly lines that only I can understand. Consequently there were not a lot that seemed worth including. So instead I selected just a few rough concepts that try to express something of what you might expect from the comic, mostly focusing on the creatures.
Clicking on it will give you a larger version.
As always, hit me up with a comment or link to this site if you think it’s looking like it’s going to be cool.
See you next Tuesday.
Toby
More Otherworld
16/11/10 00:10
Alright!
I decided that updating last thing at night PST on Tuesdays isn’t really a Tuesday update almost the whole world. Sooo, I’m going to post updates at or around 12am Tuesday mornings from now on.
This week, meet Eden McCrea.
By day Eden is an IT student at Wakefield college but in the evenings, she and her two best friends visit the city’s abandoned places and prcatice witchcraft. A week ago Eden discovered that she can manifest convincing illusions whenever she is in one specific building. What the friends don’t know is that they have stumbled across a secret that The Order has been supressing for almost five hundred years. One that they will kill to protect.
Just one more update to go before launch day and that will probably be a bunch of concept sketches.
I hope you come back to check it out next week! As usual, if it looks sweet or hot, tell your friends.
I decided that updating last thing at night PST on Tuesdays isn’t really a Tuesday update almost the whole world. Sooo, I’m going to post updates at or around 12am Tuesday mornings from now on.
This week, meet Eden McCrea.
By day Eden is an IT student at Wakefield college but in the evenings, she and her two best friends visit the city’s abandoned places and prcatice witchcraft. A week ago Eden discovered that she can manifest convincing illusions whenever she is in one specific building. What the friends don’t know is that they have stumbled across a secret that The Order has been supressing for almost five hundred years. One that they will kill to protect.
Just one more update to go before launch day and that will probably be a bunch of concept sketches.
I hope you come back to check it out next week! As usual, if it looks sweet or hot, tell your friends.
Announcing Otherworld
09/11/10 21:24
No more teasing.
Otherworld is a manga-style, twice weekly, long-form web comic based on celtic myth.
It follows the lives of two English girls, thrown together by circumstances beyond their control who find themselves trapped in a brutal parallel world inhabited by mythical creatures and powerful, treacherous beings.
This week, meet 17 year old Katlyn Liu.
Katlyn was raised by the very man who killed her mother and father when she was just five years old. Under his brutal training regime, within an occult organization, Katlyn is about to beecome the youngest full Knight of the Order in over six hundred years. But before that, she must face a test that will threaten to overturn twelve years of planning and change her life forever.
The comic is based on a book that I wrote a year ago but that I never published. I’d love to make a game or a movie out of this idea, since I’ve been obsessing over it for years, but without a spare hundred million dollars that seems unlikely. So while the comic format is not my first choice of medium to release this, (mainly because my art is a bit embarrassingly rusty, apologies in advance) it is going to be fun writing and drawing the whole thing. It just might take a while to get through it all.
Comics manage to entirely circumvent the ratings system, but I warn you that this story is not for children. It is likely to include: extreme violence, gore, partial nudity, sexual situations, drug references, strong language, gay and lesbian themes, and pretty much anything else necessary to tell the story without compromise. By Uk ratings standards it’s probably a 15 rather than an 18, though.
So if you like action packed, morally ambiguous modern fantasy, where myths are woven together with conspiracy theories, then Otherworld might be right up your street.
So tell your friends, 30th November I hope to drop the first 15-20 pages or so.
I look forward to your comments and I hope to see you again next Tuesday!
Toby
Otherworld is a manga-style, twice weekly, long-form web comic based on celtic myth.
It follows the lives of two English girls, thrown together by circumstances beyond their control who find themselves trapped in a brutal parallel world inhabited by mythical creatures and powerful, treacherous beings.
This week, meet 17 year old Katlyn Liu.
Katlyn was raised by the very man who killed her mother and father when she was just five years old. Under his brutal training regime, within an occult organization, Katlyn is about to beecome the youngest full Knight of the Order in over six hundred years. But before that, she must face a test that will threaten to overturn twelve years of planning and change her life forever.
The comic is based on a book that I wrote a year ago but that I never published. I’d love to make a game or a movie out of this idea, since I’ve been obsessing over it for years, but without a spare hundred million dollars that seems unlikely. So while the comic format is not my first choice of medium to release this, (mainly because my art is a bit embarrassingly rusty, apologies in advance) it is going to be fun writing and drawing the whole thing. It just might take a while to get through it all.
Comics manage to entirely circumvent the ratings system, but I warn you that this story is not for children. It is likely to include: extreme violence, gore, partial nudity, sexual situations, drug references, strong language, gay and lesbian themes, and pretty much anything else necessary to tell the story without compromise. By Uk ratings standards it’s probably a 15 rather than an 18, though.
So if you like action packed, morally ambiguous modern fantasy, where myths are woven together with conspiracy theories, then Otherworld might be right up your street.
So tell your friends, 30th November I hope to drop the first 15-20 pages or so.
I look forward to your comments and I hope to see you again next Tuesday!
Toby
Alt-o-holic
16/03/10 19:01
It would have been more relevant if I had made it about Dragon Age, what with Awakenings just having been released, but then I’d have to change it and I just don’t have time right now. I have to go and play Dragon Age :)
Bioware is so hot right now.
By the way, previous comics can be viewed in the new comic archive over there on the side bar ->
Numbers
09/03/10 09:25
I didn’t want to learn maths, I wanted to learn magic. Not the pulling rabbits out of hats kind, but the real thing with the beard and the staff and the robe and hat.
As a wee boy reading fantasy novels, I always wondered about the people who didn’t learn magic. I mean, if magic worked and it let you do whatever you liked, what kind of idiot wouldn’t want to learn that? Disregarding the fantasy worlds where only a special few have the ’talent’ for magic, there are plenty of fantasy worlds where magic is just a secret knowledge that only the select few know. It’s the guys in those worlds who still use tools to plow fields instead of by snapping their fingers that I don’t get.
Seriously, if you saw someone doing real magic, you’d make some effort to work out how, right? I know I would. In fact, I’d drop everything for the chance to learn a few god-like powers. You’d be mad not to!
It was only when I was much older that I realised that this world does have a kind of magic and I didn’t want to learn it because I thought it was the root of all evil; money.
The people adept at wielding the real magic wear suits not robes. They work in towers looming over the centers of our cities like modern day Saurons. The bankers and financiers don’t make anything. They deal purely in money, applying their arcane knowledge to grow enormous pools of that green magic. With it, they can have whatever they want.
If I had really understood it in those terms when I was younger I may have listened better in maths class. I still think that greedily going after money for money’s sake is an empty pursuit, but on the other hand, not learning magic when it exists does seem pretty foolish.
(By the way, hope you like the new posting format. I’ll try to upload a new comic every week. Fingers crossed.)
