Underling Comic

Page One Hundred Ninety Four: Second Thoughts

David — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:00:00 +0000

I have gotten so much sleeping done this spring break! It’s basically wonderful.

SPRING BREAK

David — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:20:26 +0000

It starts later today. The first thing I’m planning on doing is sleeping for 48 hours. Then I’ll get the photoshop gears a’grinding again.

Page One Hundred Ninety Three: Call Me, Maybe

David — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Yes, another dumb pop culture reference page title.

I need to get back to homework now =\

Next page…

David — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:17:16 +0000

Shooould be up by Monday. Decided to restart it halfway through <<'

Page One Hundred Ninety Two: Bluffing

David — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Oh snap.

Page One Hundred Ninety One: Piercing the Veil

David — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Oh come on he was just getting to the good part >=[

Page One Hundred Ninety: Breaking Point

David — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Uh oh!

This comic brought to you by the smoldering remains of my laptop. RIP.

Delayed already!

David — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:49:12 +0000

Funny story, the gpu on my laptop literally fried. I’m going to have to wait till I get back home tomorrow before I can even finish inking

Page One Hundred Eighty Nine: Dissonance

David — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:00:00 +0000

The end of the world shall now continue as scheduled.

A New Update Schedule

David — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:49:21 +0000

I am going to be moving to yet another new update schedule. I like to call this one the ‘Dresden Codak’ schedule – I simply will not post new pages until I am happy with them. For the immediate future, at least, this is going to mean that updates will be infrequent and irregular. This is frustrating if you like the comic and want more, I know. But this is the only way Underling is going to make it to the finish line.

While this comic is a great excuse to tell a fun story with a bunch of my favorite mythological characters, its true exigence was to get myself to draw regularly and thus improve my art. It definitely worked. The first title page of Underling seriously represented the pinnacle of my artistic ability when I started this comic. The artwork I’ve been doing since I started has just been getting better and better and better. But that isn’t really reflected in the comic itself. At all. In fact, this page that’s up right now is kind of terrible, at least relative to what I’m capable of. It’s been that way for a while. Doing the comic has kind of been a chore to me recently and I’ve really been dropping the ball on expressing the story for a while now. This segment was supposed to be a bad trip for Laz and I’m not really doing it justice at all.

My old motivation for doing this comic is dead. It’s obsolete. I don’t need to force myself to draw anymore. It’s a habit now. It’s locked in. Underling can no longer function a means of just putting something out there. It now has to be a means of putting something out there that I’m proud of.

So help me God, I am going to find a way to work on this comic that makes me happy again or I am just going to give you guys the rest of it as it currently exists in notepad. I never thought I’d have the thousands of readers that I do today, and I want to thank you guys for coming here at all. I also want to apologize to the donors and commentators and everyone who has invested in the comic monetarily, emotionally, or otherwise. I hope you guys bare with me through the midlife crisis of my very first comic, and I’ll see you on the other side.