Clara Bottle: Half-Genie Hero
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Clara Bottle – Full Genie Form

Apr09
by on April 9, 2026 at 7:32 pm
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As you saw on the cover (with sketch layer by Krios-Ol), Cleara looks a little different. We alluded to a secret she was carrying in Chapter 4 that will be revealed in full in Chapter 5.5 as the final pieces of the plot come into play. A couple years ago, I was making new character illustrations for some of the characters in Peppermint Saga and Ship in a Bottle on-stream. At the time, it was a Patreon exclusive, but I am sharing it today because I need to make a plea: I’m in dire, dire straits financially. I may lose my ability to drive, and I am also severely struggling to keep up with rent. So if folks could bump the Patreon another $300 in-total ASAP, you are literally saving my life. Rent is overdue, I have $100 currently, and need $1300 by Wednesday. I feel confident in my ability to get to $1000 by Monday, but here’s the rub… Monday my Express Drive through Lyft kicks in, and all my earnings go to pay that and none go to my account. The extra money pledged today will hit immediately, and then if you stay, it will rebill on the 1st of each month. Our ultimate goal is a tiered system starting at $1200 (which covers my regular rent), and then eventually get it to $3600. And that is across all my comics (Pep Saga, Ship, KND, BGR, Frilly Pink, Etc.) to allow me time to update and scale back my driving so I can be a full-time content creator. It’s just that my Executive Dysfunction is paralyzing my ability to hustle, and last week I was killing myself to clean and prepare the apartment for re-inspection while trying (and failing) to work. It’s a mess, I know, but I am prioritizing this and The Lavenders, so if you can please help, you won’t be sorry.

Long ago, everyone LOVED tira-chan’s artwork. Hopefully you will embrace mine as well. ^_~

~Mace

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AI Extra #6 – Final

Dec19
by on December 19, 2024 at 9:42 pm
Posted In: Blog

I wanted to have something on site just to entertain you all while I was “rebooting” myself (not the comic), but I decided that I will only use AI for limited reference as originally planned. It’s not worth antagonizing a segment of the audience who are adamantly against it. But here is one last piece I in the generator that I thought came out cute. Thanks for indulging me for a short while 😉

Say farewell to “AI Ship”. It was fun for like, a minute

~Mace

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AI Extra #5

Oct16
by on October 16, 2024 at 4:07 am
Posted In: Blog

Just more boot goofin’ with AI and seeing what the model scraps together 😉

~Mace

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A Little “Extra” #2

Oct11
by on October 11, 2024 at 10:29 pm
Posted In: Blog

Here’s a little something extra from the AI vault to get you through the weekend. We’ll resume posting on Monday. Hopefully, I will have some of the financials sorted out by then. *sigh*

Remember: Ship loves you all 😉

~Mace

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Some Daily AI “Junk” While You Wait…

Oct10
by on October 10, 2024 at 11:48 pm
Posted In: Blog
Shiphrah as generated by PixAI
AI Art of Shiphrah

I don’t have time or the money at the moment to produce more comics, but to assure you that I do indeed care and want to give you stuff to look at, here’s some AI scrapping, also known as “AI Art”.

The Disclaimer:

I’m very Picky about this stuff as I am staunchly against AI as a “human replacement”, so I wanted to clarify that up front. About a year ago, I discovered PixAI, which uses a modified Stable Diffusion trained using models they purchased from actual artists (as far as I know. It would be a bad look if they lied on their website, but, for example, I could NOT get the prompt to directly sample art on this website or even have a CLUE what “webcomic ‘Ship in a Bottle’ even means, so there’s that. Nor could I detect pulling specific art off of the Web, so it seems they’re on the up-and-up unlike Adobe, for example ;p). Normally, I use this platform to generate “inspiration” pieces: basically references that help me solidify an idea I have and then I draw actual pictures (often on-stream) eyeballing the reference AI.

Anyway, what we have here is an unlimited series of images (hopefully daily, if I can remember) where I prompted the generator using very specific information to try and get pictures that resemble your favorite porny genie. These pictures will go along with progress updates and other useful information in the blog. I’m a very fast writer, so these are just some quick-and-dirty posts to keep everyone appraised as to the current situation and give you some fap– er, nice pictures to look at. Obviously, if the AI butchers the image or gives her 46 fingers, I will reject it. And they will always be tagged as AI and they always come from the same source. Obviously, if you’d like more ORIGINAL works involving the actual comics and such, if we can keep nudging the Patreon into the $600-1200 range, it will ease some burden and allow me to take some time off and rehire our old friends and do the necessary finishes. 😉

But, for now, I hope you enjoy these cute pictures. I think the generator managed a surprisingly nice likeness ^_^

~Mace

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