Thistledown page 55
August 19th, 2009
No really, magic is useful. Right?
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August 19th, 2009 at 4:25 am
Poor Thistle, its magic is underestimated
Beautiful work on lights and compositing, as usual ^^
August 19th, 2009 at 7:58 am
lol, I feel sorry for the little guy
August 19th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
I like how the comic is evolving, and the characters too. The squirrel has a lot of potential, and it’s nice to start seeing that.
And there’s something about the way you’ve drawn Ara that’s almost hypnotic. Is she based on anyone real?
August 19th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
+1 on Ara. she’s a beauty.
August 22nd, 2009 at 3:05 am
Thank you for creating female characters who are practically clothed for travel and sanely proportioned. I get so tired of other strips whose females have antigravity basketball breasts of DOOM, and are clad in two shreds of fur and enough chainmail to make a bracelet - absurd! No female with a grain of common sense would try to travel anywhere like that.
You, on the other hand, clothe your characters in a way that can actually work. I appreciate that.
August 22nd, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Naki, Xade: Yup, poor Thistle can’t catch a break.
Joe: Thanks! One of my main goals is to effectively grow the characters and world over time, instead of just laying it all out in a narration or “about” page. (though I should probably put something in the about page)
No one in the comic is based on anyone real, but I did spend a bit of time putting together the main characters, not just exporting them from the stock characters of the 3d program.
Lee: I think she’s the reason people click the ads I have sprinkled around on other webcomics. Though maybe people see the squirrel and go, “squee! a squirrel!” clickclickclick.
Murrday: I wanted to avoid the “woman fighter = busty chainmail bikini” cliché. Even some comics that parody the cliché rely on it far too much.
I am also trying to keep a sense of “reality” in this fantasy world (not the only reason for my ban on chainmail bikinis). Sometimes I slip up, or it doesn’t really affect things too much (we’ll say that Thom and Joss’s chainmail is lined, so it doesn’t rub their skin raw). See, I even gave them backpacks! (page 54)