Uh oh… Ship is determined to get Alan’s attention! Is this canon or fun? Either way, it’s impossible for anything to go wrong! AMIRITE?!
~Mace
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Keeping my mind dirty since 1977. *Salutes*
We now return you to cheesecake already in progress!
~Mace
That’s right, kids. A little more naughty Ship comin’ your way from the talented tira-chan. Starting next month, we’ll be rotating the donation image duties so that way we can get a steady stream of variety going here, as well as making sure Nat has plenty of time to keep the comic itself rolling. This month, for the low, low price of $2 (or more. More is always nice. ^_^), some lucky guy or gal can get a lovely high res shot themed after our little “detour” from the main story. And yes, I did totally phone in the background. But I also know nobody gives a shit about the background when you have Ship’s… woah… is that her Va Jay Jay showing there? “Honey! Hide the kids!” Sheesh. they’ll put anything up on the Interwebs these days. š
All I can say is, I sure wish she was cleaning *my* floors, if ye know what I mean. She can polish my banister any day she wants. AMIRITE? XD
~Mace
Well, Ship’s apron is gone. Show of hands: who didn’t see that coming? Yep. You two who raised your hands? See me after class. We’ll discuss this later. *stern look*
That’s it for our cutesy first omake. I hope you enjoyed it. A little background: when I approached tira-chan about doing the comic originally, she had no prior experience doing a comic at all. So I suggested she “get her feet wet” by taking this silly little idea I had and running with it for two pages. The first and last are the actual results of that. When I decided to use these “test” pages as an actual filler between chapters, tira actually redrew many key elements of the pages, and then I got the brilliant idea that there needed to be some evidence of REAL magic, so we cobbled together page 2. The rest… is history. And I think it came out beautifully. As always, I hope you think so, too.
Anywho! Next week, I will be providing the Chapter 2 cover so tira-chan has some time to work on the opening of Chapter 2 and hopefully get ahead. There’s some much crazier stuff afoot in chapter 2. Classrooms and giant robots and lesbian super geniuses… oh my!
~Mace
so, here it is: the episode 2 cover!
And yes, that is two versions of Ship, side-by-side.
Also: Alan is still a dunce.
Carry on!
~Mace
That’s right, mah chickadees. April is here, and we have some scrumpdiddlyicious Ship comin’ atcha. this month’s incentive is (against someone’s suggestion… sorry, bro…) Goth Ship from the Ch. 2 cover. Full color and all sparkly with magic stuff! Now, as per usual, with a $2 or greater donation, this little lovely can be yours in all her hi-rez glory. And actually, this is a quite sexy piece in that it hints and teases the viewer just a little, forcing them to use their imaginations a little. I know, I know… “Imajuhnashunz?! Wut u tink we iz heres?” I know exactly what you are: my beloved readers. Now… try and tell me you don’t want to buy her some candy. Go on… I dare ya. ;3
~Mace
Ship looks absolutely fabulous, doesn’t she? what’s she cookin’ up this time, if you’ll pardon the bad kitchen parlance. I’d bet Alan is going to find out, pretty quick.
~Mace
Did anyone notice the keywords on these pages? Now, some folks use them exclusively for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), but I also like to use them to give the readers subtle hints as to what just happened and what is to come. So keep an eye on them. Also, some of them are just loltastic.
So, Ship has quickly come to terms with Alan’s request… or has she? And Alan is pleased as punch. But if any of you are thinking that this is it for the unrequited lovebirds or the Green Eyed Monster, well folks, all I can say is: down that road lies madness. I mean, it would be a pretty shit story if I broke it off like that and everything was hunky dory ever after, right?
RIGHT?!
*cough*
~Mace
So, Ship tells Alan what’s what and with that settled, Alan asks the much larger question of the arc so far: Just who IS your tailor? I must have her number!
~Mace
So… after roughly six or seven weeks of voting, it seems that 25% of our readership is female (obviously allowing a margin of error for folks who voted for what they wanted, as opposed to what they are. lol). I am honestly unable to articulate exactly WHAT I think about that. When I developed this series, I really had no idea where I was going with it. When I proposed the idea to tira-chan, I had nothing but a bunch of random little “episodes” snapped out of the lives of the characters, but no story, no plot and I hadn’t even considered making it an “extremely R-rated not-quite-porn” series. I just knew I wanted to do something with a genie girl and a hapless guy and do all kinds of crazy shit a la Urusei Yatsura/Those Annoying Aliens in true Rumiko Takahashi style. Maybe it’s the touching on that, the blatant homage to that work and the immortal appeal of I Dream of Jeannie and the other 60’s classic Bewitched that brings in the women. Granted, it’s not half or more, but a lot more than I expected. And to each one of you ladies keeping an eye on us, whatever your motivation, I hope you continue to enjoy our screwing around here. It’s very much appreciated. And it pleases me to no end. I like to think it means I am on the right track here and made the right decision to go the way I did and chose the artist I chose.
Thanks for taking the time to check out my rambling.
~Mace
