Digimon Academy

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Episode 1 Page 9

P13volution

on April 8, 2010

SURPRISE! UPDATES!

I know I said the next update would be the rest of Episode 1, but I wanted to do something special for the anniversary of Digimon Academy's online debut. The first page may not have been posted until the 25th, but the placeholder promo and website came online one year ago today. This is worth celebrating!

I guess I should say this first of all, the hiatus is not over. There will be updates here and there, but I can't force myself into a new update schedule just yet. I just can't say how things are going to turn out tomorrow or next week or even the week after that.

Under perfect circumstances I will add pages 10-22 on the 25th for the 1st anniversary of the comic. After that I'll update with some bonus stuff here and there that I think people will enjoy. Hopefully if all that works out, by the time I can't put off the next episode any longer I'll be able to decide on a fixed update schedule I can work with.

Working on all those pages marathon-style has really taught me a lot of tricks to help me churn these things out and still have them look pretty nice. That was always the plan. This page was an early attempt at the manga style I wanted which I spruced up the other day so it would at least be presentable. Even though it is merely "presentable" by my current standards, it looks pretty good compared to past pages. I can't say for sure that by the end of this hiatus that I'll be where I wanted to be, but maybe TV Tropes will replace their "Art Evolution" page with a link to the first Episode of my comic! Unlikely, but that would be cool nonetheless!

So right, back to today's page… I'm very happy with how the backround came out. Even though there is no logical reason for it, it looks like the DNA Charge from Digimon Data Squad (Digisoul, Savers… Blah, we use Dub terms in this comic!). I'll have to remember how I did that when I'm actually portraying that kind of thing happening, although that will just make this page even more anomalous. My coloring is flat and bleeding into my lineart here, but I've already figured out how to fix that for future pages.

Heres a fun thing to note! If you think the symbol that signifies the Divine Digimon looks familiar, you have good taste in web-comics my friend!

My rough draft for this page just had a block of text for the third panel, so I got creative. By "got creative" I of course mean, used it as an excuse to draw stick figures! Of course, if I had animated it any less vaguely it might have given too much away. I still might have given too much away, I don't know. Don't read too much into those stick figures! *Wags finger*

There's no point hiding the identity of Mr. "GRRRH" since all you have to do is look at my deviantART page to see what happens next. You may be able to hide from our heroes, but we can see you just fine!

It seems like just yesterday the potential of a new Digimon anime made me worry about my comic's future, but now that looks all but an inevitability… I'm just too excited to worry. Maybe the new anime will step on the toes of my comic a little. I just don't care now! It's just too awesome news to be concerned about silly things like that now!

Who knows? The popularity of the new anime might even get me some more readers. I get the feeling everything will work out just fine…

I believe I have said more than enough for today. See you all on the 25th!