Hey guys! Here’s the first page of Track 2! The next page is a cover. I’m always really frustrated when coming up with designs for futuristic technology, since I know they’ll look outdated within a couple years XD Like the constantly updated Enterprise designs and the ever-changing Rockman.exe PETs D: But Ben has a computer comprised mostly of hand-me-down parts that he’s horded, which is also why he has more screens than he actually uses.
Meanwhile, I’m headed to Savannah this weekend to check out my prospective college! For those not in the know, I’m planning to attend SCAD to major in Sequential Art, aka comicking. So hopefully what I’m doing here will be more than a silly freetime activity someday! On a tangential note, I’m already hating the really early pages. I was really still figuring out how to work the whole not-pointy-ass-chins-not-chibi style and everyone’s kinda.. squashed and odd. I might start a new segment where I… go back and redraw a panel every week. Mostly headshot panels. I can’t abide it!! And It’s only one panel a week so it doesn’t count as a thing-you-shouldn’t-do-because-it’ll-waste-all-your-time-and-is-a-horrible-idea! I saw you thinking that!
OH! And I guess I better make an archive page now ‘A’; I’ll probably just code it all by hand since the default wordpress ones aren’t great and I’m not good with the language. That’ll be up sometime in the next day or two.
…And yes in the future people say things like BRB and ATM. Indisputable fact!
I know people who say things like BRB and ATM -now-
What on earth is Ben eating? o_o It looks like a bug.
Ben is eating, if I’m not mistaken, a kiwiblitz donut.
*wants to steal the donut XD*
Oh, I forgot to mention that! He is indeed eating a slightly modified version of the coincidentally-named “Kiwi Blitz” donut, which a store called Big Apple Donuts sells.
Love the fourth panel. ^_^ Ben’s pose looks so cool!
Sweet, nice new page, 8D
Also, I’m jealous. I wish I had a Kiwi Blitz Donut!
First page of KB not going up on DA! KB is probably one of the only webcomics I’m reading that has a really congruent story.
Chapter 02 begins with some pseudo-action, Nice…
Irrefutable proof that, even in the far future, Sinistar will still be played and remembered. Or is it a remake?
random thought: i was listening to the beatles earlier, and it reminded me of Ben. weird.
and WHAT was in that train. The stuff in it’s…floating. In midair. O_o
I see things on Ben’s computer screen that should not be on that screen, especially since Ben is guy…O_o
*a guy
I want to try that donut…
..o.o *looks up the songs on Ben’s playlist*
Do I see some Ben/Steffi hints there? x]
I take it Ben’s an MA fan?
Wait, guys aren’t allowed to listen to Massive Attack now (that alone is surely a huge clue? (i’m reading from the start without having read further already)) …??? Do I have to burn my CDs?
holy crap i’m the raccoon, wtf
I know it’s a Kiwi Blitz donut, but with the green lines of kiwi in it, it looks more like a Futuristic Laserdonut.
…I want a laserdonut…
Am I the only one not getting any of these donut / music references?
Anyway… if you want your sci-fi elements not to ever seem outdated (or at least not as swiftly)… think in terms of functional efficiency rather than in terms of art. In other words, things that would work better rather than just looking futurey… because art-styles are but brief flickers, while efficiency is pretty much a linear deal (you can see where it is going).
OR … there is always the option of taking routes that real technology quite simply would not ever take… including the Zeerust approach (i.e. make it look deliberately retro-futurey).