She’s just being friendly… In the D&D cosmology, demons are agents of chaos. And of course there is a lot of voerlap between Kickman theology and Dungeons & Dragons. Well, 1st through 3rd editions anyway. So maybe there is no demonic taint yet, but there does appear to be some chaos sifting through the ranks at Kick HQ. Or maybe it’s just men being men.
As you can see they have repurposed a high school basketball gym into a training facility. Yellow belts spar, Green belts learn to fight with weapons. It says “Kaiser High Cougars” on that poster in panel 1 because I went to Henry J. Kaiser high school on Oahu, and we were the cougars. The real life friend that Kickman was based off of, was the place kicker for the Cougars football team, and also the sweeper for the Cougars soccer team. Go, Cougars!
I already posted this announcement on Hive yesterday, but wanted to repeat it here on Kickman’s home page. I am shelving a bunch of side projects, and using November to finish writing a novel that I started wayyyy too long ago. NaNoWriMo used to be a thing, but I saw that apparently there was some controversy going on with it. Whatever, I hate politics, I’m just going to try to write my novel in the month of November. Hopefully get it published just before Christmas. As of right now, I am at 21,783 words (The Hobbit was like 95,000).
That’s all, for now. Although… 4 Kick Points to whoever can spot this week’s Easter Egg!!
Def. run them through an upscaler first. (Mediafire link for the first ~2 chapters): https://app.mediafire.com/icycjg2zvmpqq
Personally; the frame-by-frame format doesn’t let people do the “magic of comics” stuff, where you put a character slightly out of frame to make them bigger or any of the really majestic stuff that puts comics above normal art in terms of beauty, impact, or style. Brain’s waning so here’s some of DC’s best run (objectively).
https://insidepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Hal-Jordan-and-the-Green-Lantern-Corps-40-DC-Comics-spoilers-3.jpg
https://comic-watch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/hal3706-1400×1076.jpg
(I’ll update the mediafire folder when my tokens recharge)
Upscaler didn’t transfer text very well (at all!), will dig a bit into alternatives
Wow that was a haughty tone. Sorry about that
Nah, I appreciate the advice. I didn’t know that upscalers were a thing. It doesn’t help that when I first started publishing Kickman online, there was a “how to” web comic book by some guys that recommended an image resolution of 72 dpi. Because at the time the book was published, computer speeds were probably still using dial up modems.
I don’t know if I’ll try going to print anytime soon with a Kickman book. Not sure if there is real demand, since all the strips are available online, except for the few that are hidden behind the Patreon pay wall. But it is something I’d like to see. Prefereably ithout having to re-draw all the early strips like I ended up doing with Java Jaguar.