Real newts can regrow limbs that have been cut off… so scientists kept cutting larger and larger portions of newts off until they reached a threshold of what the animal could regenerate. Unfortunately, Odetto is well beyond that threshold of regrowth. Goodbye nobel warrior Odetto. These are sad times, and that’s part of life too I suppose.
In about a month or so we have to take a hiatus due to some other projects I’m working on… including the Nnewts graphic novel! I’m just firing the first warning shot!
Oh, and I’ll be at CTNX in Burbank this weekend! I’ll be selling books at table # T39, and here’s a list of my lectures and art demos:
Friday Nov. 16th:
DEVELOPING AND PITCHING YOUR IDEAS: from tip to tail. 1:30 – 2:15 room: Sunset A+B
LIVE DEMONSTRATION: COMIC DESIGN – 6-6:45pm Main Stage classic demo
Saturday Nov 17th, 2012
BREAKFAST WITH THE PROS at Daily Grille 9am-10am
DESIGNING CHARACTERS FOR GAMES: What makes them Tick! 2pm- 2:45 PM City Ballroom
It’s sad to see Odetto go, but it’s good to realize that Gullimar still has a chance. I thought for sure he was a goner, and for that I was ready to come to a con and kick you in the shin, Doug
there sure are a number of characters dying off in a hurry. Shame to see Odetto go, was hoping to see more of him in action. Also, I never noticed this before, but the gloves are great on these newts. Awesome work Doug!
Any chance of getting the Developing and Pitching lecture into an ebook?
If you have it typed up, I can do the production to get it for sale on Amazon for the Kindle.
I’d love to check that out.
Joe, I don’t control the lecture I give at CTNX. I think they’re going to post them and make them public, however.
Agree with what Joe said, it would be nice to be able to hear or see some of the lectures that you are doing as not all of us live on the west coast and can access these events.
Geez, this got super dark in like…5 strips.
that is one efficient killing machine.. lions have like a 10 percent success rate at hunting, but this beasty is nightmarish :V
We’ll never forgetto Odetto!
Not Odetto! What is that Odetto is wearing?
Cool! Wish I lived in California, I’d be going to all those conventions.
You should go on tour. Lol.
Hey Doug, loving Nnewts so far. Big fan of your work, hope I get to meet you at CTNx.
Junk just got real!
You’re one of the few people that kill off charterers in there stories. Me and a friend have a saying about story telling. “The puppies have to die.”
You just killed the puppies.
@ColdFusion – lions aren’t also dealing with prey that are trying to kill them back.
Doug said something a few pages back about fairy tales, and this page really brings it back – fairy tales aren’t the white-washed Disney stories that a lot of kids know; traditionally they’re violent, or full of fart jokes, and people die unfairly. But so many fairy tales are also Bildungsroman, or “coming of age” stories, and Nnewts is going to be that (I think). Herk, deprived of parents, dealing with weak legs, strong of will and (maybe) pure of heart, will come of age in a wonderful way, and I look forward to it.
I do not, on the other hand, look forward to hiatus. T_T I understand it, and I even accept it, but I don’t look forward to it.
@Katrina. I have nothing really against their films, but they have set the tone as far as to what children can or can’t handle in their tales. Ever read the novel Bambi, by Felix Salten? The story can be very brutal and dark, and the ending is not happy. But in 1923 it was not only deemed to be fine for young children, but was considered a modern masterpiece. Nowadays, a lot of parents would consider it to be far too harsh for tender minds to handle.
See that third panel? I goofed and didn’t put in the weretoad’s extra eyes. I’ll fix it in the graphic novel.
I know it’s supposed to be tragic and all… But for some reason I just want to laugh at panel 3.
maybe the extra eyes are just closed?
I’m looking back and not seeing a ton of eye consistency, I don’t think it’s a big deal
@Cece – I’ve read most of the stories that Disney has used for the basis of their movies – The Fox and the Hound, for instance, is equally grim, and both the fox and the hound die at the end; The Jungle Books is not as light-hearted as the Disney version, either. One version of Cinderella has the stepsisters cutting off a toe or a heel in order to attempt to fit into the glass slipper, and then the stepmother and stepsisters dancing on hot irons until they die once the Prince realises their actions. Disney’s white-washing them may have set some sort of bar for what kids can handle, but Disney’s a corporation, and shouldn’t be raising children