At Least The Vikings Were Poets
This is something of a recycled strip from the days before the website was up. I know some of you have seen it and I apologize for that. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to write a new top-quality strip with all the things going on before I move tomorrow. Instead of not creating a strip, I decided to take the script from a strip I really loved that I couldn’t include on the site due to poor formatting and create some new art and fix the pacing.
There are web comics that will post and print the first ideas that come to their heads and use the first run through on the art and you can, typically, tell which ones those are. I try very hard to create comics that just about anyone can understand, that are funny, and that often have some kind of deeper meaning if you look hard enough. Writing strips by yourself can be a nerve-wracking and soul-destroying process at times, but I never use the first ideas I have or the first sketches I do for a panel.
That said, I felt the formatting and art on the original version was very weird overall and that the pacing felt wrong. I have redone it so that it can be posted here on the website and printed in the first issue Happle Tea book next year. I hope that you like it if you have not seen it before, and that you enjoy the new pacing and art if you already have.
Have I mentioned that I am completely obsessed with owls?
Also: Thanks to everyone telling friends about the comic, I have had over twice as many visitors this month as last which is incredible. As always I appreciate the emails, promotions, and word of mouth advertising <3 You are all magnificent!
Discussion (9) ¬
Much better pacing and formatting than the first! So glad you kept a similar style and color scheme though 😀
Are they burying the treasure or going to dig it up?
<3 for you as well for giving us a great comic!
That’s the saddest owl I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen some sad owls.
Yay Corsair Owl! I am afraid to admit this but I want to make man-babies with your artistic talent… *cough*
Honestly, I thought you had a Windwaker Vibe and this just makes it more appropriate
because it seems kind of relevant in accordance to your “artists comments” : my friend sent me this and i am pissed at him.
im not going to be able to get anything done tonight.
actually made me a bit sorry for the owl…