OK, so I had a setback with the new comic. I'm using a new environment (The buildings and scenery around the characters) and my normal light settings were casing all the shadows generated by the characters to look like bloodstains on the ground. (Like in the pics above) With some experimenting and the help of another 3D artist I finally got the problem figured out. I reworked one of the pictures last night and I have two more images that I need to re-render to get everything where I want it to be quality-wise. On the plus side, the lighting fix reduced the render time by a few hours so I SHOULD be able to start posting the comic this weekend. That way I'll have a buffer of finished images to post while continuing to work on new pages.