Dead Winter Minicomics Batch #28

Hello again!  This weekend I spent a bit of time laying down not doing anything, but I also spent the rest of the week working on small tasks and minicomics; I'll have more main-comic progress this week now that I'm through the vaccine hangover, but for now I've got a couple little strips to share.  

This week I tried something fun, I asked members of the Dead Winter Discord community (which you can join here: discord.com/invite/y3A7aHm) to name some characters from the comic and I wrote some minis based around those suggestions.  So without further ado, here's this week's strips:

#076: One of the things that is just extremely funny to me is the idea of TV show bits- like commercial break bumpers or opening title cards- being used in comic strips.  For this one I wanted to do like how a TV show ends, with the freezeframe and the end credit music cueing up.  I'd thought about which names I wanted to use for the credits and opted for most of the Omni-mart crew, like Melody is roping people into acting out a prime time episode.  I definitely crammed more people into these panels than I have in any other mini to date, which is an accomplishment.  

#077:  This strip serves a couple purposes.  I've been drawing Lizzie consistently with a bunch of bandages despite her injuries healing up for a while and I wanted to give context to that.  She got thrown out of Chantelle's place because her scars were mistaken for infections, so she's conscious of how other people perceive her visible injuries in the context of the new world, which is why she keeps them bandaged up and covered.  The other thing I wanted to do with this strip is pull a sharp left turn in the middle of it and go in a completely unexpected direction.  You can see that Hamish also has an X-shaped pair of scars on his chest.  Anyways, all the minis are 100% canon.

#078: Sixgun Johnny Rhythm was one of the suggested characters so I thought about what to do with him, and drawing some fun action poses came to mind.  Action is always my favorite thing to draw in comics and Mr. Rhythm is a great opportunity to draw some.  The kid in the panel isn't any existing character in particular, I just needed someone to set up his closing line.

#079: Another suggestion was the old welcome wagon ladies, particularly the one with the cat butt sweaters.  Writing a strip about them meant I needed to bring someone else back into Tombstone, which means we get to formally meet Chantelle's apartment gang again.  I had been saving them for a while- I wanted to try to write rescuing them into the game lore, but since the minis are comics about a game about comics I can fudge the timeline and slot them in early.  There's a lot of very fun implications here given the status of particular residents of Tombstone so I will leave it at that for now.  Chantelle would make a very good property manager coordinating resident housing.

That's it for this week's new stuff.  I'm only 21 minis away from my target of 100 minis in a first season before I can take a break from this and focus my efforts elsewhere.  Thank you, as always, for your patient support of my work.  I'll have a more substantial update for you next week.  Until then, take care!