It’s been a busy week. I’ve done some contracting with Disney, and pitching to Dreamworks. Those are normal interruptions to my comic life. The comic book work never ends, but studio work is on and off.
Then there are the real life adventures of selling our house. At some point this month we have to move… and the Nnewts story is strewn all over my studio, so I can relate to Sayer Nok. How can I keep all of those different manuscripts and versions of the comic straight?
In case you didn’t know, I’m having a big, honkin’ Kickstarter campaign for my sketchbooks collected down into one book. It’s a lot of work running a Kickstarter campaign, if for no other reason than I keep checking it every 20 minutes! If you haven’t got the book, you should right here:
Doug TenNapel Sketchbook Archives
Our story is coming to an interesting point. Poor Gullimar got the bite-of-bites and now Urch and Odetto have to fight that purple hairy beast without their magician! What will happen? Come back next week to find out!
I’m torn between the tragedy of the inevitable heroic death and the sort of metahumor being a gamer and knowing how spell-chanters always get interrupted..
So I’m just going to focus on how beautiful the coloring is
Bitten by a were-toad? Not necessarily fatal, but it might have its downside…
…always fatal to non-toads.
Well that’s upsetting. I LIKED Gullimar.
But with that tragic event I’m pretty sure who’s going to be the main character from here on out… mumble rotten plot twists killing off cool characters mumble…
I love the were toad’s eyes.
“Weretoad bites are nearly always fatal, with one exception.”
And the exception was not Nnewts. It will be tough to wait a week to see if Gullimar survives.
I feel a “Wizard Needs Food Badly” scenario in the near future.
I sit corrected.
Lizzark: I think I feel a song coming on! Hit it, boys!
-drums start up-
-piano player begins to bang keys-
Gully’s dead and we wanna celebrate it
He’s pushin’ up dasies, he’s former and belated
We’re Lizzarks, that’s why we’re elated
Cuz Gully’s dead.
FOLLOW THE BOUNCING WERETOAD
(I’m sorry. Just trying to get over the death of my favorite character right now. And on the day before my birthday, too.)
I’m missing Gullimar already.
And anticipating great things from the DTNSA Kickstarter. Glad that it’s been going so well!
Maybe he will produce some spell or potion to help him? Or he will have to spend his life drinking buffotoxin, the thing toads have that makes them not die when bitten by a weretoad? You are saying goodbye too fast to Gullimar, people! Have faith!
Ack!
Does this mean Gullimer is going to become a weretoad now?
Also, there is something silly about that panel where he is bitten. It somehow looks comedic.
Judging from Ratfist Doug has no problem killing off characters. Kind of like Joss Whedon that way. This is only the story of the beginning of the Nnewts, if you go back to the first few pages; one story of many that make up the tapestry of Nnewtonian history.
Alas, I believe poor Gullimar is no more. His lineage, though, I feel there is much potential for great works in his descendants.
It’s a “WERE-toad”, I assume the “WERE-” is like a WEREwolf, so Gullimar could, if he survives the bite, come back as a Weretoadnnewt.
Maybe we’ll find out that the Nnewt that raised Gullimar is not his real father, and that our plucky magician is actually half toad! Which means he’ll become a half weretoad kind of thing who comes to the rescue… oh, forget it. He’s cooked.
Cast the spell, then quip, Gully! Not the other way around!
Welp, that’s it for Gully.
And it doesn’t look like his wife is faring too well back home, either. I fear for the child’s future.