Author notes

099 - "Gordon Bennett!"

El Cid

on Aug. 12, 2016

Sorry, I botched this animation. You barely have time to read the “Penis Canon” message, and the countdown is all kinds of jacked up. I was in such a hurry to get this put together, that I really didn't have time for much quality control, and I had to pretty much go with whatever I got on the “first take!”





Damn, what do I have against necks?!

This (deleted) page continues my longstanding trend of brutally uncomfortable neck yanking in sex scenes. Where did all these subconscious anti-neck urges come from? Was I bullied in elementary school by a gang of kids with neck braces?

Yes, this is a so-called deleted page… which apparently wasn't “deleted” enough for me not to post it anyway. I ended up cutting this and the next two pages from the comic, because the sequence was problematic and really doesn't work, for a number of reasons. This page, I decided to go ahead and post, because I figured at least some of you would appreciate the art… but the other two I'll probably just include links to in the author's notes on one of next week's updates. I'm still debating whether it's worthwhile to bother adding the dialogue and finishing them up or if I should just post them as they are, in their current skeletal form.

On Monday, we'll pick back up on page 102, which by all rights should have been the page to immediately follow page 98. We'll just pretend none of this ugliness ever happened.

And speaking of ugliness that never happened… Eventually I plan on making a Deleted Scenes and Bonus Materials area in the Links section off on the side, where you can view all of the stuff that didn't make the final cut, as well as some sketchbook material and research type stuff. Also, I may post the elusive long-lost failed original version of this comic, the 22-page Spruce Goose which I've lovingly named the “Cyanide Version,” for two reasons. First, it starts off in orbit around fictional Ixion's “cyanide moon” Caenis, so-called because it's a captured comet made largely of frozen cyanide… and secondly, because it was so toxic-awful that no life form could ingest it and live to tell the tale. So yes, there are projects so pitiful that even I won't see them through!