Animated Version Here.

A lot (OK, a few) people have asked me why I haven’t been shading Katrina’s midsection in these pages. There’s two answers: 1. Kat’s a rather muscular girl. She’s not a bodybuilder, but she would at least have visible abs – but I have no idea how to draw muscles. I’ve tried, and it always ends up looking off, so I don’t draw them. Second reason: I prefer not to draw Katrina overly muscular as a style choice. The comic’s characters are rather smoothed out, without visible lines on their skin, and I feel a visible musculature would look distracting and out of style for the comic. But yes, Katrina (and Violet, to a lesser extent) realistically would have more muscular arms and legs – I just choose to keep them simpler.

While on the topic of questions about my comic, I’ve also been asked why, despite the fact a large amount of my characters are LGBT, I mainly focus on Theo and Kat’s heterosexual relationship. Here’s why: it’s not that I feel that heterosexual relationships are more valid or more important than other kinds of relationships, it’s just that they’re the only ones I can realistically write. I’m a male who likes women, so I don’t know what a relationship between two men (or two women) is like, and I’d rather only write one type of relationship, but write it correctly, than write a bunch of types of relationships wrong. The above is also partly the reason the more…. *ahem*, tantalizing… bits of the comic apply to a heterosexually male audience: I don’t know what gay men, straight women or even gay women find attractive, so I don’t really have much to put in. I’d love to make my comic enjoyable for people of all orientations and genders, but I just don’t know what other kinds of people like.

One last thing. I was asked why only Katrina and Akila are dressed in costumes, while everybody else is normally clothed. I was going to have Davis and Ezra dressed as well, but I couldn’t find anyone who accurately resembles them. The only reason Katrina and Akila are dressed is because I found two characters they looked like. I had found one for Theo (his name escapes me at the moment), but logically Theo wouldn’t have time to make a costume.

Oh yeah, and I finished that suit of female armor, and the animation is coming along well.

See you next week.